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United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1992
Designates December 7 of each year as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1992
Prohibits a veteran's participation in an approved program of rehabilitative services provided as part of such veteran's care furnished in a State home, or the receipt of compensation by the veteran for such participation, from being considered as a basis for the denial or discontinuance of a total disability rating for purposes of compensation or pension based on a veteran's inability to secure gainful employment as a result of a disability. Considers such payment as a donation from a public or private relief or welfare organization.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1992
Makes specified lands assigned to the Secretary of Health and Human Services under the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1986 and conveyed to Tucson, Arizona, for public health use available to the city for use as a park or recreational area.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1992
New Careers in Education Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a program to make monthly stipends available to assist certain members of the armed forces who are discharged or released from active duty with living expenses while they obtain certification as elementary or secondary school teachers. Makes eligible for such stipends members who served on active duty for at least 180 days and who: (1) have received a baccalaureate or advanced degree from an accredited State higher education institution; (2) agree to seek certification as an elementary or secondary school teacher; and (3) satisfy such other criteria as the Secretary may prescribe. Requires the member to apply for such stipend within one year after discharge or release from active duty. Requires all stipend applicants to have been released from such duty under honorable conditions. Requires information concerning such stipend availability to be included in a member's preseparation counseling. Requires the Secretary to maintain and provide to the Congress annually information on the number of stipends awarded for each year and the number of recipients successfully obtaining certification as teachers. Directs the stipend to be paid to recipients over a 12-month period. Requires a recipient to enter into a contract with the Secretary, agreeing to accept such assistance in order to obtain certification and to teach for at least two school years afterwards in a State elementary or secondary school. Requires a recipient who fails to comply with the contract to repay the United States 100 percent of the stipend amount, with specified exceptions. Forgives repayment if the recipient becomes permanently and totally disabled. Directs the Secretary to make implementation and progress reports to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1995.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1992
Revises the date for the beginning of the Vietnam era, for purposes of eligibility for veterans' benefits, from August 5, 1964, to December 22, 1961.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1992
Reclassifies the pay and benefits for members of the Board of Veterans Appeals other than the Chairman and Vice Chairman to equal those payable to a Federal administrative law judge. Prohibits the reduction of basic pay of a member of the Board below the rate payable on the day before the effective date of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1992
Extends eligibility for the homeowners assistance program under the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to employees of certain local educational agencies operating schools that suffer enrollment reductions due to a military installation closure.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1992
Makes eligible for the award of the Purple Heart those persons wounded in action on or after December 7, 1941, by weapon fire while engaged in armed conflict, regardless of the origin of the weapon fire.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1992
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, in order to assist the United States Space Camp, the United States Space Academy, or the Aviation Challenge in achieving their educational goals, to sell, lease, lend, or give aircraft, vehicles, communications, training, or other equipment, supplies, or other materials to such entities and to permit such entities to use, on a reimbursable basis, Department of Defense facilities and, without reimbursement, the services of Department members or employees.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1992
Reserve Officer Personnel Management Act - Title I: Reserve Officer Personnel Management - Part A: Revised and Standardized Reserve Officer Personnel System - Amends Federal armed forces provisions to codify provisions relating to the organization, administration, promotion, and retention of officers in the armed forces reserves. Provides that new provisions concerning reserve officers as added by this Act shall apply to all reserve officers in all branches of the military service except to warrant officers. Directs the Secretary of each military department to maintain a single list, to be known as the reserve active-status list, for each branch of the armed forces. Requires such list to include the names of all reserve officers of that armed force who are in an active status other than officers serving on active duty or warrant officers. Requires officers to be carried on such list in order of seniority of the grade in which they are serving in an active status. Provides that such an officer's position on the active-status list shall not be affected by reason of a temporary appointment or assignment. Requires an officer to be on such list in order to be eligible for consideration for selection for promotion or for promotion. Requires each officer whose name appears on the active-status list to be placed in a competitive category to be specified by the Secretary of the military department concerned under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. Provides that officers in the same competitive category shall compete among themselves for promotion. Provides for the convening of selection boards by the Secretary of the military department concerned whenever the needs of that branch of the service require such. Provides that selection boards convened to fill position vacancies shall be known as vacancy promotion boards, while all other selection boards shall be known as mandatory promotion boards. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to convene a selection board to recommend officers of that armed force for: (1) continuation on the reserve active-status list; (2) selective early removal from such list; or (3) selective early retirement. Provides for the appointment and composition of such selection boards. Requires each such board to include at least one officer from each competitive category of officers to be considered by the board, with a specified exception. Prohibits an officer to be a member of two successive promotion boards convened for the consideration of officers of the same competitive category and grade. Requires each member of a selection board to take an oath of performance. Requires confidentiality of board proceedings. Requires at least 30 days' prior notice to eligible reserve officers of the convening of a promotion selection board. Authorizes an officer eligible for promotion to send to the selection board within his or her promotion zone a written communication to the board calling attention to any matter which the officer considers important to the officer's case. Requires the Secretary concerned to send specified information to the promotion board convened for that branch of the armed forces, including promotion limits, names of eligible officers and their service records, and special needs of that armed force to be considered when determining such promotions. Limits the modification of any information furnished by the Secretary concerned. Requires a promotion board to recommend for promotion to the next higher grade those considered best qualified for promotion within each competitive category considered by the board or among those officers being considered for a vacant position by a vacancy promotion board. Requires a majority of the selection board to recommend an officer for promotion and a majority to find that the officer is fully qualified for promotion. Requires each selection board convened to report to the Secretary of the military department concerned a list of the names of the officers recommended by the board for promotion. Requires each such report to include a certification that the officers selected were fully considered and are the best qualified for promotion at such time. Requires each such board to also include in such report the name of each officer considered for promotion whose record indicates, to the majority of the board, that the officer should be required to show cause for retention on the promotion list. Requires the Secretary concerned, after receiving each such report from the selection board, to review such report to determine whether the board has acted contrary to law or regulations. Requires that, if the Secretary finds that the board has acted inconsistently with law or regulation, to return the report for further proceedings by the board. Requires the Secretary concerned, if a selection board report is found to be consistent with law and regulation, to transmit such report, together with recommendations, to the Secretary of Defense for transmittal to the President for approval or disapproval. Allows the name of an officer recommended for promotion by a selection board to be removed from the report only by the President. Provides that, upon approval by the President of the report, the names of the officers recommended for promotion may be disseminated to the armed forces concerned. Outlines general rules concerning eligibility for consideration for promotion for reserve officers in the armed forces. Requires officers to have been on the active-status list at least one year prior to promotion. Requires each officer in a promotion zone, and each officer above the promotion zone, for that grade and competitive category to be considered for promotion. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to prescribe procedures to limit the officers to be considered by a selection board from below the promotion zone to those officers who are determined to be exceptionally well-qualified for promotion. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to consider only those determined to be exceptionally well-qualified for promotion when filling vacancies in the reserve grades of major general or brigadier general. Prohibits certain high-ranking reserve officers from being eligible for promotion by a mandatory promotion board convened under this Act. Provides for non-consideration for promotion of officers scheduled for removal from the reserve active-status list no more than 90 days after the date on which the selection board for which the officer would otherwise be eligible is to be convened. Defines a promotion zone as an eligibility category for the consideration of officers by a mandatory promotion board, consisting of those officers on the reserve active-status list who are in the same grade and competitive category and who meet certain eligibility requirements, including not having failed of selection for promotion to the next higher grade and not having been removed from a list of officers recommended for promotion to that grade. Defines officers above and below the promotion zone as having the same eligibility as officers within the promotion zone, but being either higher or lower in seniority than the senior or junior officer in such zone. Outlines eligibility requirements, by pay grade, for reserve officers being considered for promotion, requiring a specified minimum period of service in each grade before obtaining eligibility for such promotions. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to lengthen such minimum periods of service in certain cases, or to waive such minimum requirements to ensure that certain officers have at least two opportunities for consideration for promotion to the next higher grade. Allows an officer to be placed in a promotion zone and considered for promotion far enough in advance of completing the years-of-service requirements so that, if the officer is recommended for promotion, the promotion may be effective on or before the date on which the officer will complete those years of service. Provides the effective promotion date for officers holding a permanent grade and recommended for promotion as the date on which the officer completes the maximum years of service in the service grade as required under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to waive the minimum-service requirements for officers of the reserve active-status list of the Navy or Marine Corps Reserve with a running mate system. Requires the Secretary concerned, before convening a mandatory promotion board, to establish a promotion zone for officers serving in each grade and competitive category to be considered by the board. Provides for the determination of the number of officers to be included in each promotion zone. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to require that the promotion zone for consideration of reserve officers in the Navy or Marine Corps Reserve on the active-status list for promotion be determined in accordance with a running mate system. Describes such running mate system as the assignment to an officer in a promotion zone of another officer as a running mate who is of the same grade and competitive category on the active-duty list of the same armed force. Makes an officer on the reserve active-status list eligible for promotion when that officer's running mate on the active-duty list is eligible for promotion. Provides for the consideration of officers below the promotion zone under such a running mate system in certain cases as determined appropriate to meet the needs of the Navy or Marine Corps Reserves. Requires the Secretary concerned, before convening a promotion board, to determine, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, the maximum number of officers in that grade and competitive category that the board may recommend for promotion. Requires the Secretary concerned to make such determination with a view to having on the reserve active-status list a sufficient number of officers in each grade and competitive category to meet the needs of the armed forces concerned for officers on that list. Outlines factors to be considered by the Secretary concerned in making such determination. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to consider from below the promotion zone officers for promotion to the next higher grade in certain cases, requiring the Secretary concerned in such case to establish the number of officers from below the promotion zone to be considered for promotion. Limits the number to be considered from below the promotion zone to ten percent of all officers in the promotion zone, except that the Secretary may increase such percentage to 15 percent if determined necessary to meet the needs of the armed force concerned. Provides that, when the report of a selection board is approved by the President, the Secretary concerned shall place the names of all officers selected for promotion on a single list for each competitive category in the order of seniority of those officers on the reserve active-status list. Provides that officers on a promotion list shall be promoted in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned. Provides that a reserve in the Navy or Marine Corps with a running mate shall be promoted when the running mate becomes eligible for promotion on the active-duty list. Provides the promotional order for officers of the Army and Air Force Reserves, and for Army and Air Force general officer promotions which are the result of selections by vacancy promotion boards. Provides for the acceptance of promotion by the officer concerned and the taking of an oath of office (necessary only if the officer has not served continuously since taking his or her original oath). Authorizes the President to remove the name of any officer from a promotion list at any time before the date on which the officer is promoted. Removes an officer from a promotion list if the Senate does not give consent to such promotion after approval by the President. Provides that any officer whose name is removed from the promotion for either of the above reasons shall continue to be eligible for consideration for promotion. Allows for a delay in the appointment of an officer to the next higher grade if certain involuntary actions and proceedings are taking place concerning such officer, such as disciplinary actions or criminal proceedings. Requires such an officer to be retained on a promotion list and promoted if such disciplinary actions or criminal proceedings are dismissed or withdrawn. Authorizes the appointment of a promoted officer to be delayed if there is cause to believe that the officer is mentally, physically, morally, or professionally unqualified to perform the duties of the grade to which he or she is selected. Provides for reinstatement if it is later determined that such officer is so qualified. Requires any officer whose appointment is delayed for any of the above reasons to be given written notice of the reasons for such delay as soon as practicable. Provides a maximum length of delay for officers whose appointments have been delayed. Provides procedures for officers whose appointments are delayed for reasons of officer strength limitations in the grade or duties to which they are assigned. Allows for a delay in the appointment of an officer to the next higher grade at the request of the officer concerned (voluntary delay). Requires the officer's name to remain on the promotion list during the authorized period of delay. Requires an officer's name to be removed from the promotion list and to be considered to have failed for promotion if: (1) the Secretary concerned has not authorized a voluntary delay for such officer; (2) the Secretary concerned denies the request of an officer for a delay and the officer then declines to accept the appointment to the next higher grade; or (3) the Secretary concerned approves a delay, but at the end of the delay period, the officer declines to accept the promotion appointment. Authorizes the President to vacate the appointment of a reserve officer to the grade of brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half) if the period of time during which the officer served in that grade after promotion is less than 18 months. Provides the grade to which such an officer will be considered to be following such vacation of appointment. Requires the Secretary concerned to transfer or discharge (depending on the officer's qualifications) a reserve officer of the Army or Air Force serving as a general grade officer who ceases to serve in such capacity. Requires such transfer or discharge within 30 days after the officer no longer serves in such position. Provides similar transfer-or-discharge procedures for a reserve officer who is federally-recognized in the Air National Guard solely because of that officer's appointment as an adjutant general or assistant adjutant general of a State. Outlines vacancy promotion eligibility requirements for officers in the Army or Air Force Reserve for grades below brigadier general and for brigadier general or major general. Provides that an officer who has previously failed in promotion to the next higher grade may be considered or promoted to such higher grade only if the Secretary concerned determines that such officer is the only qualified officer available to fill the vacancy position. Authorizes the opportunity for promotion for officers of the Army or Air National Guard to fill a vacancy in the Army or Air National Guard in the jurisdiction of the vacancy. Provides that such an officer who is on a promotion list and who is appointed before the date of the promotion to fill a vacancy in the Army or Air National Guard shall be extended automatic Federal recognition in the higher grade to which such officer is promoted. Provides for Federal recognition of an officer who fails in the selection for promotion to higher grade in the Army or Air National Guard only if the Secretary concerned determines that such officer is the only qualified officer available to fill such vacancy. Provides that if an officer on the reserve active-status list is transferred to an inactive status after having been recommended for promotion or after having been found qualified for Federal recognition but before being promoted, such officer shall be treated as not having been considered and recommended for promotion by a selection board, and may not be placed on a promotion list after returning to an active status unless he or she is recommended anew for promotion by a selection board or chosen for Federal recognition. Provides that an officer on a reserve active-status list who is placed on the active-duty list before being promoted shall be placed on the appropriate promotion list for such officer on the active-duty list. Provides similar placement on the reserve active-status list for an officer who was recommended for promotion from an active-duty list but was placed on the reserve active-status list before such promotion occurred. Provides similar procedures for reserve officers ordered to active duty or full-time National Guard duty after being recommended for promotion to fill a vacancy position or examined for Federal recognition and before being promoted to fill such vacancy. Provides that reserve officers on the reserve active-status list who: (1) are considered but not recommended for promotion; or (2) decline to accept a promotion for which selected shall be considered to have failed for promotion. Defines situations under which an officer shall be considered to have twice failed for promotion. Directs the Secretary concerned to convene a special selection board when the Secretary determines that an eligible officer was not considered for promotion by a mandatory promotion board due to administrative error. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to convene a special selection board if the Secretary determines that an officer may have been considered but not selected for promotion due to a material error or lack of material information before the mandatory selection board. Provides that, in any case in which a special selection board is convened and such board does not recommend the officer in question for promotion, such officer shall be considered to have failed for promotion. Requires each special selection board to report to the Secretary concerned containing information on the officer and the results of the board's findings. Requires an officer whose name is placed on a promotion list as the result of recommendation for promotion by a special selection board to be appointed to the next higher grade as soon as practicable. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to prescribe by regulation the circumstances under which special selection board procedures are to take place and time constraints for an officer to apply for such an examination. Prohibits any official or court of the United States from having jurisdiction or power over any claim based on the failure of an officer or former officer of the armed forces to be selected for promotion until the claim has either been referred to a special selection board or rejected by the Secretary concerned without consideration by a special selection board. Provides for judicial review by a court of the United States of a determination by the Secretary concerned to reject a special selection board or the determination of a special selection board to fail to recommend an officer for promotion. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to discharge any reserve officer who: (1) has less than five years of service in an active status as a commissioned officer; or (2) is serving in the grade of second lieutenant or ensign and has been found not qualified for promotion to the grade of first lieutenant or lieutenant junior grade. Requires the Secretary of Defense to regulate such discharges. Requires the following officers to be separated from the service after failure of selection for promotion to the next higher grade for the second time: reserve first lieutenants of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps and reserve lieutenants junior grade of the Navy. Provides mobilization-requirements exceptions to such separations as determined by the Secretary concerned. Requires separation from service for the following other officers who fail for promotion to the next higher grade the second time: (1) reserve captains of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, and reserve lieutenants of the Navy; and (2) reserve majors of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, and reserve lieutenant commanders of the Navy. Requires removal from the reserve active-status list, unless continued under a specified exception, for the following officers: (1) lieutenant colonels and commanders, on the first day after completion of 28 years of commissioned service; and (2) colonels and Navy captains, on the first day after completion of 30 years of commissioned service. Requires separation from service for each reserve officer in the grade of brigadier general who has not been promoted for five years, requiring such separation 30 days after completion of 30 years of commissioned service. Requires separation from service for reserve officers of the grade of major general who have not been promoted for five years, requiring such separation 30 days after completion of 35 years of commissioned service. Provides for the retention of a limited number of brigadier generals and major generals as exceptions to the above separation requirements in the discretion of the Secretary concerned. Exempts State adjutant generals from such separation requirements. Requires the following separations from service as a reserve officer on the active-status list: (1) separation at age 60 for officers below brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half); (2) separation at age 60 for brigadier generals and rear admirals (lower half); (3) separation at age 62 for major generals and rear admirals; and (4) separation at age 64 for reserve officers holding certain specified offices. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to retain until age 64 a reserve officer above captain in the Navy or above colonel in the Marine Corps. Limits the number of such officers authorized to be retained. Provides for separation from service for reserve officers following failure of selection for promotion, requiring such officers to be transferred to an inactive status, transferred to the Retired Reserve, or discharged. Provides for discharge or retirement for years of service or after selection for early removal from the active status list, requiring such officers to be transferred to the Retired Reserve or discharged. Provides for transfer to the Retired Reserve or discharge for those reserve officers who have reached mandatory retirement age and are not chosen under an exception to such mandatory retirement or otherwise retained by the Secretary concerned. Provides that all separations under the above provisions shall be considered to be involuntary separations. Entitles all reserve officers so discharged to separation pay. Outlines provisions for the continuation of reserve officers in the armed forces on the reserve active-status list after the time in which such officers would normally be required to be retired or discharged. Limits the period for which certain reserve officers may be so continued on the active-status list. Requires such continuation to be the result of the convening of a selection board convened for such purpose. Provides for the separation from service of reserve officers who are continued on the active-status list but who either decline to continue or are not subsequently promoted or continued on such list. Requires that any such continuation on the reserve active-status list is subject to the approval of the Secretary concerned, who shall provide instruction and direction to the continuation boards on their selections. Authorizes the Secretary concerned, with the officer's consent, to retain on the active-status list certain officers of the Army National Guard or Army or Air Force Reserve who are assigned to headquarters or technician positions. Requires mandatory separation of such retained officers at age 60. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to retain until age 67 (60 in the case of Army or Air Force chaplains) chaplains and officers in the medical specialties (Medical Corps, Dental Corps, Veterinary Corps). Authorizes the Secretary concerned, whenever that Secretary determines that there are too many reserve officers in that grade and competitive category having a specified number of years of service, to convene a selection board for selective early removal from the active-status list of the required number of reserve officers from such grade and competitive category. Provides for selective early retirement, through the action of a selection board, for reserve general and flag officers of the Navy and Marine Corps whenever the Secretary of the Navy determines such action to be necessary. Provides for: (1) separation of military chaplains for loss of professional qualifications; and (2) separation of reserve officers for substandard performance, misconduct in office, or certain other reasons. Directs the Secretary concerned to convene a board of inquiry to receive evidence and review the case of any officer who has been required to show cause for retention in an active-status. Requires such board to give a fair hearing for each officer involved. Outlines action to be taken when such a board finds either that the officer has failed to establish that such officer should be retained in an active status or that the cause for retention on such status has been established by such officer. Outlines rights and procedures governing such boards of inquiry. Authorizes the Secretary concerned, at any time during such procedures, to grant an officer's request for voluntary retirement or discharge. Outlines qualifications for officers serving on such boards of inquiry. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army or the Air Force, as appropriate, to: (1) terminate the reserve appointment; or (2) withdraw the Federal recognition as an officer of the National Guard for officers in the Army or Air National Guard who have been absent without leave for three months or more. Part B: Conforming Amendments - Defines the term "reserve active-status list" as a single list for all the armed forces that contains the names of all officers of that armed force except warrant officers who are in an active status in a reserve component and are not on an active-duty list. Revises the authority of the President to suspend the operation of any provision of law relating to the promotion, involuntary retirement, or separation of commissioned reserve officers in time of war or national emergency as declared by the Congress or the President. Terminates such a suspension two years after it takes effect. Requires active-duty list promotion boards to have the authority to recommend that reserve officers considered for promotion be required to show cause for retention on active duty. Authorizes a reserve officer ordered to active duty during a war or national emergency and who would otherwise be placed on the active-duty list to be excluded from such list by the Secretary concerned. Authorizes discharge before completion of the required period of service in the case of officers having twice failed for promotion to the grade of captain or lieutenant. Makes amendments to conform with changes made in this Act for officers in the Naval or Marine Corps Reserve relating to elimination from active status and the computation of total commissioned service. Revises Federal provisions concerning Federal recognition for officer promotions within the Army National Guard to withdraw such recognition for officers who are subject to involuntary transfer to the Retired Reserve or are discharged. Title II: Other Personnel Policy Amendments - Part A: Appointments - Repeals the separate authority for women to be either enlisted or appointed as officers in the reserves. Provides for the appointment of former active-duty commissioned officers as reserve officers in the armed forces on the reserve active-status list. Requires a person to be credited, for purposes of determining the grade and rank of a person receiving an original appointment as a reserve officer, with any commissioned service performed before such appointment as a regular officer or reserve officer in an active status in any armed force, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or the Public Health Service. Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations limiting the amount of such prior commissioned service credit. Outlines factors for the determination of the amount of credit to be given for persons receiving an original appointment as a reserve commissioned officer in which advanced education or training is required and where such person has prior health professional or educational experience to be considered as constructive credit for such position. Limits the amount of constructive credit so awarded. Authorizes the awarding of constructive credit for those persons receiving original appointments into the armed forces with a view toward positions as judge advocate generals when the Secretary of Defense determines that the number of qualified judge advocates on the active-duty list is critically below the number needed. Redefines the computation of the years of service for the transfer of Army officers to the Retired Reserve in light of changes made by this Act. Repeals certain provisions concerning appointment authority made obsolete by the changes made under this Act. Part B: Separation and Retirement - Provides that, upon retirement, a person shall be credited with satisfactory service in the highest grade in which that person satisfactorily served at any time in the armed forces, as determined by the Secretary concerned. Provides certain minimum lengths of service within a grade above or below the lieutenant commander or colonel grade level in order to be considered to have satisfactorily served at such level for retirement computation purposes. Part C: Other Amendments - Provides that the Chief of the National Guard Bureau may not be removed from the reserve active-status list or from active status due to completion of a specified number of years of service while holding such office. Prohibits a former enlisted member who became an officer from reenlisting after service as an officer if such officer was discharged for poor performance, misconduct, or for reasons of national security. Prohibits a former enlisted member from reenlisting if that person's status and grade as an enlisted member were only held during, and solely as a result of, participation in a precommissioning program after the effective date of this Act. Title III: Reorganization and Consolidation of Laws Relating to Reserve Components - Reorganizes and consolidates certain laws relating to the reserve components of the armed forces. States the basic purpose of the reserves. Provides for the National Guard to be pressed into active duty whenever the needs of the United States so require. Outlines composition and administrative provisions relating to the Army Reserve, the Army National Guard, the Naval Reserve, the Marine Corps Reserve, the Air Force Reserve, the Air National Guard, and the Coast Guard Reserve, all of which shall be considered components of the reserve forces of the United States. Provides that in each armed force there shall be a Ready Reserve, a Standby Reserve, and a Retired Reserve, and requires each reserve to be placed into one of these categories. Provides that all reserves who are on an inactive status list, as well as members of the Retired Reserve, are in an inactive status, while all other reserves are in an active status. Requires each reserve component except the Army or Air National Guard to be divided into training categories according to degrees of training. Gives the authorized strength of the Ready Reserve. Defines the Selected Reserve as a division of the Ready Reserve. Defines the Individual Ready Reserve as another division of the Ready Reserve consisting of those members who are not in the Selected Reserve or the inactive National Guard. Requires each member of the reserves to be placed in his or her unit of the Ready Reserve for the prescribed period of service, unless transferred to the Standby Reserve. Provides that members of the Army and Air National Guard are members of the Ready Reserve. Allows any members except members of the Retired Reserve to be placed in the Ready Reserve. Authorizes a member of the Ready Reserve to be transferred to the Standby Reserve or the Retired Reserve as conditions warrant. Prohibits a member of the Army or Air National Guard to be transferred to the Standby Reserve without the consent of the governor of the State where such member is serving. Outlines training requirements for members of the Ready Reserve, including participation in a minimum number of drills or training periods during each year or service on active duty for training for not more than 30 days during each year. Provides that a member of the Ready Reserve who fails to perform such prescribed training may be ordered to perform an additional period of active duty for training for not more than 45 days. Provides the same additional-duty requirement for members of the Army or Air National Guard who fail to perform such minimum training. Directs the Secretary concerned to provide a system of continuous screening of units and members of the Ready Reserve to assure a proper balance of personnel for national security purposes. Requires a member who is designated not to be retained in the Ready Reserve to be transferred to the Standby Reserve, discharged, or transferred to the Retired Reserve. Provides for transfer back to the Ready Reserve from the Standby Reserve when the reason for the transfer to the Standby Reserve no longer exists. Provides for the composition of the Standby Reserve and requires an inactive status list to be maintained in such Reserve. Authorizes a member of the Standby Reserve who is not required to remain a Reserve and who cannot participate in the prescribed training to be transferred to such inactive status list under regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned. Provides that while in an inactive status as a member of the Standby Reserve, a reserve is not eligible for pay or promotion and does not accrue credit for years of service. Defines the composition of the Retired Reserve. Provides that the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs shall be the official in the Department of Defense (DOD) responsible for overall supervision of reserve component affairs of DOD. Directs the Secretary concerned, and the Secretary of Transportation when the Coast Guard is not operating as a service of the Navy, to prescribe such regulations as necessary to carry out provisions of law relating to the reserve components of that armed force. Authorizes the Secretary concerned or the Secretary of Transportation to designate a flag officer in each branch of the armed forces and the Coast Guard to be directly responsible to the Chief of Staff of that branch (or the Commandant of the Coast Guard) for reserve affairs of that branch. Requires the Secretary concerned to maintain adequate personnel records for each member of the reserve components under that Secretary's jurisdiction, including a record of the number of members of each class of reserve components who have participated satisfactorily in active duty for training and inactive duty training with pay. Requires members of the Individual Ready Reserve to notify the Secretary concerned of any change in status. Requires each member of the Ready Reserve not on active duty to undergo periodic physical examinations and execute a certificate of physical condition annually to the Secretary concerned. Requires the Secretary concerned to maintain full mobilization procedures for members of the reserves ordered to active duty. Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct at least one mobilization exercise each year and to periodically test and evaluate the adequacy of resource allocation and planning. Prohibits discrimination in the application of laws to regular and reserve members of the armed forces. Requires each armed force to have officers of its reserve components on active duty to participate in preparing and administering the policies and regulations affecting those reserve components. Prohibits a member from belonging to more than one reserve component at the same time. Allows officers of the Air or Army National Guard who are not on active duty to: (1) order members of the Air or Army National Guard to active duty for training; (2) enlist, reenlist, or extend their enlistments; and (3) promote or discharge persons enlisted or reenlisted as Reserves of the Army or Air Force. Repeals specified provisions of current Federal law made inconsistent by the changes under this Act. Establishes in the Office of the Secretary of Defense a Reserve Forces Policy Board (the Board) to act as the principal policy adviser to the Secretary on matters relating to the reserve components. Requires a Naval Reserve Policy Board and a Marine Corps Reserve Policy Board to be convened at least once annually to report to the Secretary on reserve policy matters within their branch of the armed forces. Establishes in the Office of the Secretary of the Army an Army Reserve Forces Policy Committee. Establishes in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force an Air Force Reserve Forces Policy Committee. Establishes a National Guard Bureau as a joint bureau of the Departments of the Army and Air Force. Directs the President to assign to duty in the National Guard Bureau as many regular and reserve officers of the Army and Air Force as he considers necessary. Directs the Secretary of Defense to submit to the Congress, no later than February 15 annually, a written report concerning the equipment of the National Guard and the reserve components of the armed forces for each of the three succeeding fiscal years. Adds to Federal law new provisions relating to reserve component personnel policy. Provides that whenever the authorized strength of a reserve component is not prescribed by law, it shall be prescribed by the President. Requires authorized strengths in members in each grade to be that determined by the Secretary concerned as necessary to provide for mobilization requirements. Provides the authorized strengths for the following: (1) Army and Air Force reserve components, exclusive of members on active duty; (2) reserve commissioned officers in an active status; and (3) reserve general and flag officers of the reserve forces in an active status. Outlines certain limitations within such authorized strengths. Provides the maximum authorized strength in grade for reserve commissioned officers in grades below brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half) who are in an active status. Authorizes the President, in time of war or national emergency as declared by the Congress or the President, to suspend the operation of any authorized strength limitations described above. Limits the length of any such suspension of strength limitations. Directs the Secretary of the Army to distribute the number of reserve commissioned officers authorized in each commissioned grade between those assigned to reserve units organized to serve as reserve units and those not assigned to such units. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army and Air Force to prescribe the authorized strength of their reserve component in warrant officers. Provides for the temporary increase in the authorized strength of any reserve grade when temporary appointments of reserve officers are made. Provides the authorized strength for senior enlisted members on active duty or on full-time National Guard duty for administrative support of the reserves or the National Guard. Reorganizes and revises provisions relating to enlisted personnel. Authorizes the transfer of enlisted members of the Army or Air National Guard to the Army or Air Force Reserve, with the consent of the governor or other appropriate authority of the State concerned. Provides that an enlisted member of the Army or Air National Guard who ceases to be such a member becomes a member of the Army or Air Force Reserve unless he or she is also discharged from enlistment as a reserve. Outlines requirements for enlistment of a person into the Army or Air National Guard. Provides that a person who so enlists shall be concurrently enlisted as a member of the Army or Air Force Reserve. Provides that a member of the Army or Air Force Reserve who enlists in the Army or Air National Guard and is a member of a federally-recognized unit of the Guard becomes a member of the Guard and ceases to be a member of the Reserve. Authorizes an adjutant general or assistant adjutant general of the Army or Air National Guard to be appointed as a reserve commissioned officer in the armed forces. Reorganizes Federal provisions relating to warrant officers, appointments as reserve officers, and active duty for members of the reserves. Sets forth new provisions concerning National Guard members in the Federal service. Provides that members of the Army and Air National Guard are not in active Federal service except when ordered thereto. Authorizes the President, with their consent, to order officers of the Army and Air National Guard to active duty in the National Guard Bureau. Limits the number of officers in grades below brigadier general who may be ordered to active duty in the Bureau. Requires such officers ordered to active duty to be considered members of the Army or Air Force Reserve, and to be subject to the laws governing such armed force while serving on active duty. Authorizes the President to call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State whenever: (1) there is an invasion or danger of invasion upon the United States or its possessions; (2) there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the Government; or (3) the President is unable to execute the laws of the United States with the regular forces. Authorizes the President to specify the period of such service. Requires each member of the National Guard called into Federal service to undergo a physical examination to ensure fitness for duty. Directs the Secretary concerned to detail such members of the regular and reserve components as necessary to develop, train, instruct, and administer those reserve components. Authorizes the President to detail a regular or reserve officer of the Army or Air Force as chief of staff or assistant chief of staff of any division of the Army or Air National Guard that is in the Federal service. Permits any reserve who, before being ordered to active duty, was receiving compensation from any person to continue to receive compensation from such person while serving on active duty. Provides credit for all service (active duty, military training, and the like) as members of the National Guard for members of the Army or Air National Guard completing such service (for purposes of benefits to military members and their dependents and beneficiaries). Reorganizes and transfers Federal provisions relating to standards and procedures for the retention and promotion of reserve commissioned officers. Sets forth provisions relating to the discharge or separation of members of the reserves. Permits reserve commissioned officers to be discharged at the pleasure of the President. Authorizes a reserve who becomes a regular or ordained minister of religion to be discharged from his reserve enlistment or appointment. Prohibits a reserve officer having at least five years of service as a commissioned officer to be separated from that component without his or her consent except under specified limited conditions. Authorizes the President or the Secretary concerned to separate any reserve who is: (1) absent without authority for at least three months; or (2) sentenced to confinement after a guilty finding. Authorizes a member of the reserves to be discharged under honorable conditions unless officially discharged under other-than-honorable conditions or the member consents to a discharge under conditions other than honorable and waives proceedings under a court martial or board. Prohibits a reserve on active duty and within two years of eligibility for retirement from being involuntarily released, unless approved by the Secretary concerned. Sets forth provisions concerning retired pay for non-regular (reserve) service. Outlines age and years-of-service requirements for eligibility of reserve members for retired pay. Requires the Secretary concerned to notify each person who has completed such requirements of their eligibility. Outlines the computation for the determination of the years of service requirement. Specifies those types of service (active-duty, service while on a retired list, service in the inactive National Guard) which cannot be counted toward the computation of the years of service requirement. Provides the computation for the amount of retired pay, which is based upon the years of service performed as a reserve member. Prohibits service in an inactive status from being counted when determining the amount of retired pay. Authorizes a member who would be otherwise eligible for retired pay but for the fact that such member is under 60 years of age to be transferred, at his or her request, to such inactive status list as may be established for such purpose. Entitles the Secretary concerned to recall to an active status at any time any person on the inactive status list for such purpose. Prohibits service credited for determining retired pay benefits from being excluded in determining eligibility for other benefits, such as pension, annuity, or old-age benefits. Prohibits a member of the armed forces from being ordered to active duty solely for the purpose of qualifying such member for retired pay. Prohibits a person's entitlement to retired pay from being revoked after notice of eligibility for such pay, unless it resulted directly from the fraud or misrepresentation of the person involved. Authorizes the number of years of creditable service to be adjusted to correct any errors or miscalculations in the amount of retired pay to which a member is eligible. Revises other provisions concerning the computation of retired pay by determining the retired pay base for reserve officer retirement, disability, warrant officer, and nonregular service retirement. Provides that a reserve commissioned officer, unless entitled to a higher grade under another provision of law, when transferred to the Retired Reserve is entitled to be placed on the retired list in the highest grade in which he served satisfactorily as determined by the Secretary concerned. Provides the grade on transfer for commissioned officers who have served as attending physicians to the Congress. Requires retired lists to be maintained containing the names of the reserves under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned who are in the Retired Reserve. Reorganizes and transfers provisions relating to training for reserve components and educational assistance programs for members of the Selected Reserve, for the health professions stipend program, and the armed forces health professions scholarship program. Sets forth new provisions concerning the education loan repayment program for members of the Selected Reserve. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to repay any loans made to members of the Selected Reserve under various provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Provides for repayment of such loans on the basis of each complete year of service performed by the borrower. Authorizes the Secretary to repay such loans in the case of members of the Selected Reserve with critically-needed specialties of expertise. Outlines administrative provisions concerning such loan repayments. Reorganizes and transfers provisions relating to education loan repayments for health professions officers serving in the Selected Reserve with wartime critical medical skill shortages. Reorganizes and transfers provisions relating to facilities for Reserve components. States that the Secretary concerned is responsible for providing the personnel, equipment, facilities, and other general logistic support necessary to enable units and members of the Ready Reserve under his jurisdiction to satisfy the training and mobilization readiness requirements as recommended by the Secretary concerned and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and approved by the Secretary of Defense. Directs the Secretary concerned to make available to the reserves the supplies, services, and facilities necessary to support and develop those components, including supplies of the regular armed forces when deemed necessary. Authorizes issuance of supplies of the regular armed forces to the Army or Air National Guard when deemed necessary. Repeals certain reserve officer personnel policy provisions made inconsistent by the changes made under this Act. Outlines legislative construction and general savings provisions. Title IV: Technical and Clerical Amendments - Makes general and technical amendments, to conform with reorganizational changes made under this Act, to subtitles A through E of title 10, United States Code, and to certain other specified laws and provisions. Title V: Transition Provisions - Continues on the current reserve active-status list certain Army and Air Force colonels who either hold the reserve grade of colonel or are on the list of officers recommended for promotion to the reserve grade of colonel. Exempts certain reserve colonels from such continuation provision. Provides that reserve officers of the Army and Air Force who, on the day before the effective date of this Act, are recommended for a regular promotion or a promotion to fill a vacancy shall be considered to have been recommended for promotion in accordance with the provisions concerning such promotions as added by this Act. Provides similar transition provisions for the following: (1) officers found qualified for promotion to first lieutenant; (2) officers who have once failed of selection for promotion to the next higher grade or are considered deferred officers; (3) officers in an active status who have been removed from the promotion list or declined by the President for appointment to the next higher grade or declined because of lack of Senate consent to such appointment; (4) officers having twice failed of selection for promotion; and (5) officers who have declined promotions. Provides that the above transition provisions apply to reserve officers of the Army and Air Force who: (1) on the day before the effective date of this Act are in an active status; and (2) on the effective date of this Act are subject to placement on the reserve active status list of the Army or the Air Force. Provides identical transition provisions for reserve officers of the Navy and Marine Corps, including officers found qualified for promotion to lieutenant (junior grade) or first lieutenant, and officers whose names have been omitted from a list furnished to a selection board. Provides that delays in promotions in effect before the effective date of this Act shall continue to remain in effect as if the promotion had been delayed under the provisions of this Act. Provides similar recognition to actions taken to remove the name of an officer from a promotion list before the effective date of this Act. Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army and the Air Force, during the five-year period after enactment of this Act, to waive provisions added by this Act concerning minimum service qualifications for promotion for reserve officers. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned, within six months after the enactment of this Act, to ensure that: (1) all officers required to be placed on the reserve active-status list are placed on such list; and (2) the relative seniority of those officers on each such list is established. Directs the Secretary concerned to prescribe regulations for the establishment of such seniority. Preserves the relative seniority so determined after the establishment of the initial reserve active-status list for those officers who were in an active status but not on the active-duty list on the date of establishment of the reserve active-status list. Outlines factors for the determination of the highest grade satisfactorily held by a reserve officer when such officer is transferred to the Retired Reserve. Prohibits discharge of an officer who was on the active status list before the enactment of this Act and who was subject to placement on the reserve active-status list on the effective date of this Act, if such officer has completed three years of continuous service as a reserve commissioned officer. Outlines savings provisions for certain officers required to be separated before the effective date of this Act for age or years of service, allowing such officers to be separated at the later date of the separation date determined before the effective date of this Act and after. Title VI: Effective Dates and General Savings Provisions - Gives the effective date for changes made under this Act and sets forth savings and transition provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1992
Higher Education Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise and reauthorize its various programs. Title I: Partnerships for Educational Excellence - Revises HEA title I and renames it Partnerships for Educational Excellence. Authorizes appropriations for the following programs: (1) Urban Community Service; (2) Urban and Rural College, University, and School Partnerships; (3) Articulation Agreements; and (4) Access and Equity to Education for All Americans through Telecommunications. Establishes an Urban Community Service program to provide incentives to urban institutions to work together on the most pressing and severe problems in their communities. Establishes an Urban and Rural College, University, and School Partnerships program to improve school retention and graduation rates, student academic skills, opportunities to continue education beyond high school, and prospects for productive employment. Sets forth administrative provisions to provide for: (1) peer review panels for grant applications; and (2) multiyear disbursement of Urban Community Service program grant funds. Establishes an Articulation Agreements program of grants for articulation agreements and planning between partnerships of two-year and four-year institutions of higher education. (Current provisions for the Student Literacy Corps are revised and transferred to title XI.) Directs the Secretary to make such grants to States to make awards to articulation partnerships between qualified institutions, on the basis of either a competition or a formula determined by the State. Provides for allocation of such grant funds to States: (1) by a formula based the relative total amount of student assistance received under HEA title IV by students attending institutions in the State, if the authorization of appropriations for such grants program equals or exceeds a specified amount; or (2) if such authorized amount is less than the specified amount, by competitive grants which the Secretary is authorized to make to States. Sets forth requirements for State and local applications, articulation agreements, and State administrative costs limitation. Includes, among various authorized uses of funds to an articulation partnership, development of agreements with LEAs for vocational course equivalency approval procedures for purposes of satisfying entrance requirements to qualified institutions. Requires States to give priority to grant applications for programs which: (1) encourage teacher education; (2) have, as one partner participating in the agreement, an entity meeting a specified requirement for the tech-prep education program consortia (i.e. a local or intermediate educational agency or area vocational education school serving secondary school students, or a secondary school funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs) under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act; (3) contribute their own institutional resources; (4) are not subject to a student loan default reduction agreement under title IV (Student Assistance) of HEA; or (5) encourage articulation in subject areas of national importance as determined by the Secretary. Sets forth requirements for annual State program reports and for program evaluation by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to: (1) report to the Congress by January 31, 1996, on the results of such evaluation; and (2) disseminate findings relating to the most successful programs. Reserves limited amounts for such purposes. Adds a program for Access and Equity to Education for All Americans through Telecommunications. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to eligible partnerships to enable such partnerships to pay the Federal share (50 percent) of the cost of the education telecommunications activities and services which will benefit nontraditional postsecondary education students, including special services for individuals with disabilities (such as captioned films, television, and descriptive video and education media). Title II: Academic Library and Information Technology Enhancement - Revises HEA title II and renames it Academic Libraries in an Electronic Networked Environment (currently Academic Library and Information Technology Enhancement). Authorizes appropriations for: (1) College Library Technology and Cooperation Grants; (2) Library Education, Research, and Development; (3) Improving Access to Research Library Resources; and (4) Strengthening Library and Information Science Programs in Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Directs the Secretary to ensure that title II programs are administered by appropriate library experts. Eliminates provisions for College Library Resources. Revises the College Library Technology and Cooperation Grants program to add provisions emphasizing the accessing and sharing of library and information resources through technology. Requires the Secretary to give priority, in awarding certain such grants, to institutions of higher education seeking assistance for projects which assist developing institutions of higher education in linking one or more institutions of higher education to resource sharing networks. Increases the required minimum grant amount and sets a maximum amount for certain grants. Requires the Secretary to consult with appropriate library and information science professional organizations to determine: (1) critical needs under provisions for grants and contracts for library education and human resources development, and (2) priorities for awarding grants for research and demonstrations. Revises provisions for library education and human resource development to include assistance for training for library and information science, particularly in areas of critical needs such as recruitment and retention of minorities. Requires that stipends for certain fellowships and traineeships be for those who demonstrate need and are working toward a graduate degree. Revises provisions for research and demonstration projects to include those related to education in library and information science and to enhancement of library services through use of new technology. Revises the grants program for improving access to research library resources to eliminate provisions which precluded such grant recipients from receiving certain other title II grants. Adds a program for Strengthening Library and Information Science Programs in Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Directs the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, historically black colleges and universities and library organizations or agencies which have nationally approved programs in library and information science to educate and train African Americans and other ethnic minorities, particularly in areas of critical needs. Requires that at least 75 percent of such funds be used to establish or maintain graduate fellowships or traineeships. Allows the remainder to be used for: (1) costs of courses of study or staff development, including short-term or regular session institutes; and (2) establishing, developing, or expanding programs of library and information science, including new techniques of information transfer and communication technology. Prohibits funding in FY 1993 through 1997 for new programs or expanded programs under this Act, unless and until Congress enacts appropriatiions for HEA title II programs enacted prior to this Act at a level no less than the FY 1992 funding level for such preexisting programs. Title III: Institutional Aid - Revises and reauthorizes HEA title III (Institutional Aid). Revises part A Strengthening Institutions provisions relating to award of grants, eligible institutions, and duration of grants. Requires part A grant applications to describe measurable goals for the institution's financial management and academic program and include a plan for achieving such goals. Requires continuation applications to demonstrate progress made toward achievement of such goals. Revises part B (Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to add to authorized uses of part B grants: (1) development offices to improve contributions from alumni and the private sector; (2) programs of teacher education, including preparation for certification, to qualify students to teach in public elementary or secondary schools in the State; and (3) community outreach programs to encourage elementary and secondary students to develop the academic skills and interest to pursue postsecondary education. Increases the minimum allotment for each part B institution. Requires part B grant applications to describe measurable goals for the institution's financial management and academic programs and include a plan for achieving such goals. Includes as eligible for part B grants specified independent professional and graduate institutions, as well as any other part B institutions offering a professional or doctoral degree program that the Secretary determines is deserving of such a grant. Provides that only certain of such specified institutions shall receive such funding if the total funding does not exceed a specified amount. Revises part C and renames it Endowment Challenge Grants for Institutions Eligible for Assistance under Part A or Part B (currently Challenge Grants, etc.). Repeals the Challenge Grant Program, but reauthorizes the Endowment Challenge Grant Program. Defines eligible institutions for purposes of such program. Revises conditions under which the Secretary may make an endowment challenge grant to an eligible institution. Revises selection criteria. Requires part C grant applications to include a description of the long- and short-term plans for raising and using the funds under part C. Requires a set-aside of 30 percent of part C funds for challenge grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, under specified conditions. Revises title III part D general provisions relating to application for assistance. Repeals provisions for special payments rules and for challenge grant program applications. Extends the authorization of appropriations for Institutional Aid programs under: (1) part A, Strengthening Institutions; (2) part B, Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities; and (3) part C, Endowment Challenge Grants. Requires that 25 percent of specified excess funds under part A be allocated among eligible institutions at which at least 60 percent of the students are Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, or Pacific Islanders, or any combination thereof. Title IV: Student Assistance - Part A: Grants to Students in Attendance at Institutions of Higher Education - Subpart 1: Federal Pell Grants - Revises and reauthorizes programs under HEA title IV (Student Assistance). Revises and renames the Pell Grants program under title IV part A subpart 1 as the Federal Pell Grants program (later redesignates the provisions as subpart 2). Extends such program authority through FY 1998. Increases the maximum award amount for Pell Grants to $4,500 in academic year 1992-1993, with further increases based on the Consumer Price Index for academic years 1992-1994 through 1998-1999. Revises the formula for determining the amount of a Pell Grant award to a student. Sets forth payment schedules based on the expected family contribution and tuition costs, for various types of students. Limits awards of Pell Grants to less-than-half time students to not more than two and one-half academic years. Revises provisions relating to the period of eligibility for Pell Grants. Includes as eligible for Pell Grants students in programs of study abroad that are approved for credit by the institution. Revises provisions relating to the eligibility index. Provides that Pell Grant recipients shall not be considered to be individual grantees for purposes of specified Federal law. Repeals specified provisions for a separate need analysis formula for Pell Grants. (Later in this Act, a single new need analysis formula and system is established for all title IV student aid programs, including Pell Grants.) Subpart 2: Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants - Revises and renames the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants program as the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants program (supplemental grants). Extends the authorization of appropriations for the supplemental grants program. Includes students in programs of study abroad that are approved for credit by the institution among those eligible for supplemental grants. Requires institutions in the supplemental grants program to agree that the Federal share of awards will not exceed 75 percent, unless the Secretary determines that a larger Federal share is required to further the purpose of the program. Requires institutions to assure that selection procedures will be designed to award supplemental grants, first, to students with exceptional need (i.e. the greatest financial need). Requires that a reasonable proportion of an institution's supplemental grants allocation be made available to certain nontraditional students (i.e. less than full-time, age 24 or older, single parents, or independent students), if such allocation is directly or indirectly based in part on the financial need of such students. Revises provisions relating to transfer of funds. Requires reduction of an institution's allocation for the next fiscal year by the amount returned, if this is more than ten percent of its allocation. Authorizes waiver of such reduction if it is contrary to the interest of the supplemental grants program. Subpart 3: State Student Incentive Grants - Revises provisions for the program of Grants to States for Student Incentives (State student incentive grants program). Extends the authorization of appropriations for such program. Includes, as eligible for grants from States under such program, eligible students participating in programs of study abroad approved for credit by the institutions. Increases to $5,000 (currently $2,500) the maximum amount for any such grants for full-time attendance at an institution of higher education and for campus-based community service work learning study jobs. Revises conditions for State allotments and expenditures under such program. Adds to the requirement for a reasonable proportion of an institution's allocation being made available to less than full-time students under such program, similar requirements with respect to students who are: (1) age 24 or older; (2) single parents; or (3) independent students. Subpart 4: Federal Early Outreach and Student Services Programs - Revises and renames as Federal Early Outreach Services Programs (the current subpart 4, Special Programs for Students from Disadvantaged Background, is repealed in name, but reauthorized and revised under subpart 4 Chapter 1 provisions for Trio Programs). (Also transfer such subpart 4 to subpart 1 of part A of title IV and then redesignates subparts 1, 2, 3 as 2, 3, 4). Sets forth as chapter 1, TRIO Programs, i.e. the revised and reauthorized Special Programs for Students for Disadvantaged Backgrounds. Extends the authorization of appropriations for such programs. Adds to program goals motivation and preparation of such students for doctoral programs. Adds requirements for: (1) a peer review application process; (2) inflation adjustments; (3) minimum grant levels for specified programs; (4) duration of grants and contracts; (5) notice of application status; (6) early notification and technical training for potential providers of special programs and projects; (7) unlimited number of applications by an entity; and (8) coordination with other programs for disadvantaged students. Directs the Secretary to ensure that: (1) members of groups underrepresented in higher education are represented as readers of TRIO programs applications; and (2) each such application is read by at least three reviewers not employed at the Department of Education. Sets forth requirements for documentation of status as a low-income individual, for purposes of TRIO programs eligibility. Revises provisions for the Talent Search program (one of the TRIO programs). Sets forth an expanded list of permissible services which talent search projects may offer, in addition to tutoring, including counseling, mentoring, and parent workshops. Lowers the minimum age and elementary education completion levels for participant eligibility to 11 years of age and five years of school completed (currently 12 and six, respectively, while retaining the maximum age level of 27 years). Revises provisions for the Upward Bound program (one of the TRIO programs). Adds to the list of permissible services. Requires any assisted upward bound project which has received two or more years of program funding to include in its core curriculum: (1) instruction in mathematics through precalculus; (2) at least one laboratory science; (3) at least one foreign language; and (4) instruction in composition and literature. Revises provisions for Student Support Services (one of the TRIO programs). Adds requirements for design goals of support services projects, including increased rates of college retention, graduation, and transfers from two- to four-year institutions, and institutional climates supportive of low-income and first-generation college students and individuals with disabilities. Adds to permissible services for such projects mentoring programs involving school teachers, college faculty, and/or students. Revises provisions for the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement (under TRIO programs provisions). Adds to permissible services. Allows costs for summer room and board, summer tuition, and transportation to summer programs to be paid in addition to the maximum annual amount for a student stipend. Eliminates provisions which: (1) conditioned program funding on specified minimum funding for other programs; and (2) set program funding limits. Revises provisions for Educational Opportunity Centers (under TRIO programs provisions). Expands the list of permissible services which such centers may offer. Revises provisions for Staff Development Activities (for training for staff and leadership personnel for projects under TRIO Programs). Authorizes the Secretary to make Outreach Grants to provide outreach information to potential providers of programs and projects authorized under Federal Early Outreach and Student Services Programs that could serve underrepresented groups. Authorizes the Secretary to make Project Evaluation grants and contracts to: (1) evaluate the effectiveness of the various programs authorized under TRIO programs provisions (chapter 1); and (2) disseminate results of ongoing evaluations to similar programs as well as to other individuals concerned with the postsecondary access and retention of low-income, first-generation students. Establishes National Liberty Scholarships and Partnerships Programs. Authorizes the Secretary to establish such programs through matching payments to States for: (1) State financial aid programs that award grants to low-income students who attain a high school diploma or its equivalent to guarantee them the financial assistance necessary to attend an institution of higher education; and (2) a partnership program (provided by States in cooperation with local educational agencies, postsecondary institutions, and community organizations) of additional counseling, outreach, and supportive services for elementary, middle, and secondary students at risk of dropping out of school and for students and their parents regarding college financing options. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes the Model Program Community Partnership Counseling Grants program. Directs the Secretary to award grants to develop model programs for: (1) counseling students, at an early age, about college opportunities, precollege requirements, college admissions procedures, and financial aid opportunities, in ways designed or customized for use in specific geographic, social, and cultural environments; or (2) stimulating community partnerships with schools by providing tutoring, mentoring, work experiences, and other support services to make postsecondary education a realistic goal for all students. Gives priority to model programs directed at areas with a high proportion of minority, economically disadvantaged, or at-risk students. Authorizes the Secretary, through the National Center for Education Statistics, to make an interagency agreement with the National Science Foundation to provide for supplemental questions relating to education to support an existing panel study of income dynamics to include supplementary information on the educational and other developmental behavior of Hispanic, black, and non-Hispanic white children. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to collect, and disseminate through the National Diffusion Network, information on: (1) successful programs for counseling students about college and for early intervention to help them stay in school and pursue postsecondary education; and (2) model programs for counseling students in specific environments and for community partnership support services to make postsecondary education a realistic goal. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes the Honors Awards program to award Presidential Honors scholarships to Pell Grants recipients who: (1) have participated in a preparatory program for postsecondary education; and (2) demonstrate academic achievement. Allows receipt of such a scholarship for each year the student receives a Pell Grant and meets specified requirements for eligibility. Sets such scholarship amount at 25 percent of the student's Pell Grant amount (with reductions for the amount by which the scholarship combined with any other assistance exceeds the cost of attendance). Establishes a program of Technical Assistance for Teachers and Counselors. Directs the Secretary to award two-year technical assistance grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to obtain specialized training for guidance counselors, teachers, and principals to counsel students about college opportunities, precollege requirements, college admissions procedures, and financial aid opportunities. Gives priority to LEAs serving school districts with significantly high proportions of students who do not continue on to higher education and who are educationally disadvantaged. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a National Student Savings Demonstration Program to: (1) test the feasibility of a national program to encourage families to save for their children's college education, and thereby reduce the loan indebtedness of college students; and (2) help determine the most effective means of achieving such purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to award a demonstration grant to not more than five States to conduct such a student savings program. Provides for a Federal match of not more than $50 per child. Gives priority to States proposing programs that establish accounts for a child prior to the age of compulsory school attendance in that State. Gives special consideration to States that: (1) permit employers to use pretax income in making contributions to a child's account; and (2) provide assurances that interest earned in such accounts shall be exempt from State taxes. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997 for such program. Sets forth provisions for Public Information (as chapter 7 of the new subpart 1), including a database, information lines, and public advertising. Directs the Secretary to award a contract to establish and maintain: (1) a computerized database of all public and private financial assistance programs, to be accessible to schools and libraries through modems or toll-free telephone lines; and (2) a toll-free information line, including access by telecommunications devices for the deaf, to provide individualized financial assistance information to parents, students, and others, including referrals to a postsecondary clearinghouse for individuals with disabilities. Directs the Secretary to encourage private nonprofit organizations to work with video producers to develop and deliver public service announcements and paid advertising messages that encourage economically disadvantaged, minority, or at-risk individuals to seek higher education and financial assistance counseling at public schools and libraries. Allows such announcements and messages to be specially designed for students of limited English proficiency. Requires the Secretary to keep the Congress informed of such advertising efforts and recommended any additional legislative authority that will serve such purposes. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1998 for such Public Information programs. Establishes a Congressional Achievement Scholarship Program. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out such program to award scholarships to students who are Pell Grant recipients and demonstrate high levels of academic achievement. Provides that such scholarships will be awarded for one academic year of full-time undergraduate study, at a time, up to four (or five, if required) undergraduate program years. Requires, for eligibility for such a scholarship, that a student receive a Pell Grant for that academic year and that: (1) first-year students have ranked in the top ten percent of their high school graduating class, and have achieved at least an announced minimum national test score; and (2) students in other years be enrolled in at least a two-year academic program leading to a degree, and rank in the top 20 percent of their postsecondary class as of the last year of study completed. Sets the scholarship amount at up to $500 for any academic year. Provides for adjustments in case of insufficient appropriations. Establishes an Advanced Placement Fee Payment Program. Directs the Secretary to carry out, by contract, a program designed to provide payments, to cover the cost of advanced placement test fees, to low-income individuals who are enrolled in an advanced placement class and plan to take an advanced placement test. Requires the Secretary to disseminate information on the availability of test fee payments under such program to eligible individuals through secondary school teachers and guidance counselors. Authorizes appropriations. Subpart 5: Amendments to Subparts 5 through 8 of Part A - Revises provisions for Special Programs for Students Whose Families Are Engaged in Migrant and Seasonal Farmwork (Migrant Programs) including the high school equivalency program (HEP) and the college assistance migrant program (CAMP). Extends the authorization of appropriations for Migrant Programs. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program. Repeals provisions for Assistance to Institutions of Higher Education, including: (1) certain cost-of-education payments to institutions of higher education based on numbers of students receiving Pell Grants; and (2) a veterans education outreach program. Extends the authorization of appropriations for Special Child Care Services for Disadvantaged College Students. Part B: Federal Family Education Loans - Revises and renames HEA title IV part B as the Federal Family Education Loan Program (currently the Robert T. Stafford Student Loan Program). Refers to the program under this part as the Federal Stafford Student Loan Program (currently known as the Stafford or Guaranteed Student Loan- GSL-program) and to loans made under this part as Federal Stafford Loans. Limits the authorization to guarantee new loans under the part B (Stafford Loan) program, by making such guarantee authority contingent on timely rulemaking. Prohibits issuance of any such new loan guarantees after June 30, 1994, if the Secretary does not issue final regulations implementing the changes made by this Act. Revises Stafford or GSL program provisions to add provisions relating to guaranty agency funding, including requirements for corrections for errors under reduction of excess cash reserves requirements, through reimbursement to guaranty agencies for certain claims for which payment was withheld or cancelled due to erroneous information. Revises payment rules for the GSL (and the FISL or federally-insured student loan) programs to require lenders to offer borrowers the option of repaying the loan in accordance with a graduated or income-sensitive repayment schedule. Requires such schedule to be established by the lender and approved by the Secretary. Requires such option to be offered to the borrower not more than six months prior to the date on which the first repayment is due. Requires that the GSL borrower receive monthly statements that designate the principal and interest that has been repaid, for the first two years of repayment. Adds special rules to cover approved study abroad, for purposes of student loan disbursement and amounts. Revises provisions relating to applicable interest rates. Limits to ten percent the maximum interest rate on PLUS loans (to parents of dependent students) disbursed on or after July 1, 1993. Revises the formula for determining interest rates for new borrowers (after July 1, 1988) of Stafford program student loans (other than supplemental, parent, or consolidation loans) to begin the period for the eight-percent rate on the date on which the repayment period begins (rather than the date of loan disbursement). Revises provisions for treatment of excess interest payments to lenders on new borrower accounts resulting from decline in Treasury bill rates. Adds the lender option of reducing the final payment on the loan with respect to specified types of adjustments. Revises provisions for agreements for Federal payments to reduce student interest rates. Prohibits lenders from charging interest or receiving interest subsidies for loans that have not been consummated (loans for which the disbursement checks have not been cashed). Provides for proration of GSL loan program amounts eligibility to course load. Requires a minimum payment of at least the interest due and payable. Eliminates the special minimum payment rule for married couples. Revises provisions for deferments. Revises provisions relating to exclusion of forebearance from repayment period calculation. Revises provisions relating to consequences of institutional eligibility limitation, suspension, and termination actions. Requires annual independent compliance audits of lenders. Eliminates certain requirements for: (1) credit checks of certain borrowers (for which lenders may charge up to $25) under the GSL and FISL student loan programs; and (2) a confession of judgment, whereby the borrower authorizes entry of judgment in the event of default. (These requirements were added to HEA by the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991, Public law 102-164.) Requires participation agreements between the guaranty agency and each eligible institution. Requires annual audits of guaranty agencies (currently requires biennial audits). Requires notice to borrowers of any sale or other transfer of the loan to another holder, including specified information about the transferor and transferee. Eliminates the teacher deferment rule for targeted shortage areas. Allows requests for GSL program student loan repayment deferments by students engaged in graduate or postgraduate fellowship-supported study abroad (such as Fulbright grant recipients) to be approved until completion of the fellowship period. Adds requirements for conflict-of-interest procedures for restrictions on guaranty agency officers and employees. Authorizes guaranty agencies to enter into agreements under which State licensing boards will, upon request, furnish guaranty agencies with the addresses of student borrowers. Revises provisions relating to repayment periods for various types of student loans under part B. Revises the time period during which a guaranty agency may file a claim for reimbursement. Limits additional review claims by exceptional performance lenders and loan servicers to cases of fraud or other purposeful misconduct in obtaining such designation. Requires guaranty agencies to submit lists of defaulted borrowers to institutions of higher education to check on the lists' accuracy, prior to filing reinsurance claims. Revises forbearance provisions. Provides for references to third party servicers. Revises provisions relating to subrogation. Sets forth special rules for exceptional performance in loans collection by eligible lenders and guaranty agencies. Revises provisions for cost of lender participation promotion to refer to eligible (rather than commercial) lenders. Renames the Supplemental Loans for Students (SLS) program the Federal Supplemental Loans for Students program (Supplemental loans). Provides for coordination of repayment of Stafford loans and Supplemental loans. Revises provisions relating to capitalization of interest. Renames the Parent Loans for Undergraduate Students (PLUS) program the Federal PLUS loans program (parent loans). Revises provisions for parent (PLUS) loans with respect to: (1) copayable checks; (2) disbursement; (3) limitation of deferral; and (4) capitalization of interest. Renames the Consolidation Loans program the Federal Consolidation Loans program (consolidation loans). Revises provisions for consolidation loans with respect to: (1) use of consolidation to avoid default; (2) extension of the consolidation eligibility period; (3) consolidation of loans of married borrowers; (4) interest during deferral; and (5) repayment schedules. Revises loan proceeds disbursement rules to: (1) allow weekly or monthly disbursement, with the borrower's permission; and (2) exclude certain overawards under work-study programs from overaward adjustment requirements. Adds provisions for unsubsidized Stafford loans for middle-income borrowers. Authorizes insured loans under the part B program for borrowers who do not qualify for Federal interest subsidy payments. Entitles any student meeting the definition of student eligibility under title IV general provisions to borrow an unsubsidized Stafford loan. Sets forth provisions for: (1) determination of loan amount; (2) loan limits; (3) payment of principal and interest without subsidy payments to reduce interest costs; (4) insurance premium; and (5) single application form. Establishes an extended collection demonstration program. Directs the Secretary to enter into agreements with guaranty agencies to establish up to nine demonstration programs designed to reduce defaults through extended efforts on delinquent student loans originally guaranteed by such agencies. Terminates such demonstration program on September 30, 1995. Revises part B administrative provisions relating to: (1) authority to regulate services; and (2) limitation, suspension, and termination. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations for: (1) standardization and simplification of student loan forms and procedures; and (2) standardization of data reporting. Directs the Secretary to: (1) undertake a program to encourage private and public employers to assist borrowers in repaying student loans under title IV, including options for payroll deduction and loan repayment matching under employee benefit packages; (2) publicize repayment models deserving recognition; and (3) make recommendations to appropriate congressional committees on changes to statutes that could encourage such efforts. Adds provisions for default reduction management. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to use such funds for default reduction activities, including training and management improvement activities. Adds provisions relating to the consequences of guaranty agency insolvency, whereby the Secretary shall pay to the holder of loans insured by such an insolvent guaranty agency the full insurance obligation of that guaranty agency, until an adequate transfer occurs. Adds provisions for evaluation of guaranty agency solvency, including requirements relating to: (1) information collection; (2) standards for determining which guaranty agencies are in need of corrective measures and shall be subject to management plans; (3) agency failure to submit an acceptable plan or to improve under a plan; (4) reports to specified congressional committees on the Secretary's assessment of the fiscal soundness of the guaranty agency system, with recommendations for any necessary legislative changes to maintain such system; and (5) confidential treatment of information. Authorizes the Secretary to make emergency advances to a guaranty agency to assist it in meeting its immediate cash needs and to ensure the uninterrupted payment of default claims by lenders. Requires, under student loan insurance program agreements, provision of specified information relating to solvency and maintenance of reserve funds sufficient in relation to an agency's guarantee obligations. Revises requirements for student loan information by eligible lenders to include statements that the loan must be repaid and that the borrower's loan repayment obligation is distinct from the school's obligation to the borrower. Revises definitions under the student loan insurance program. Repeals the separate definition of institution of higher education and the definition of vocational school. Requires use of proceeds from special allowance payments and interest payments from borrowers for need-based grant programs, except for reasonable reimbursement for direct administrative expenses. Prohibits purchase from the original lender of loans that have not been consummated (loans for which the disbursement checks have not been cashed). Revises the definition of cohort default rate for fiscal years in which less than 30 of the institution's current and former students enter repayment. Revises provisions for the Secretary's repayment of loans of bankrupt, deceased, or disabled borrowers to extend such treatment to borrowers: (1) who are unable to complete the program due to the closure of the institution; or (2) whose eligibility to borrow under part B GSL programs was fraudulently certified by the eligible institution. Provides that the Secretary shall pursue any claim available to such borrower against the institution (as well as discharge their liability by repaying the amount owed). Provides that the period of attendance at the institution which closed and at which the student was unable to complete the course of study shall not count against the student's period of eligibility for additional title IV assistance. Provides that borrowers whose loans have been discharged under these repayment provisions shall not be precluded from receiving additional title IV assistance. Directs the Secretary to report to credit bureaus on such repaid loans. Reduces the rate of the special allowance which the Government pays to lenders when student loan rates do not match market rates. Permits such special allowance to also be given on unsubsidized Stafford loans. Provides that an eligible loan, for purposes of such special allowance provisions, includes all loans subject to special rules for exceptional performance in collection by eligible lenders and guaranty agencies. Phases out certain origination fees. Eliminates provisions relating to discounting of student loans purchased from participating lenders. Revises provisions for the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) (the Association). Revises restrictions on facility financing by the Association. Requires the Association to furnish promptly the Secretary and Secretary of the Treasury with copies of all: (1) periodic financial reports it publicly distributes; and (2) reports on it prepared by nationally recognized statistical rating organizations. Grants the Secretary of the Treasury discretionary authority to appoint auditors to audit the Association from time to time. Requires the Association to provide such Secretary with full and prompt access to its books, records, and other requested information. Establishes standards for minimum capital ratios for the Association. Requires capital plans to remedy failures to meet such standards. Revises HEA provisions relating to the Association's stock to provide for a single class of voting common stock (converting all previously authorized shares of voting and nonvoting common stock). Revises HEA provisions relating to the Association's Board of Directors. Set forth qualification requirements for affiliated members. Part C: Federal Work-Study Programs - Revises and renames HEA title IV part C as Federal Work-Study Programs (currently Work-Study Programs). Extends the authorization of appropriations for work-study programs. Provides for reallocation of a portion of excess allocations as a consequence of failure to award work-study program funds. Includes mentoring among authorized work-study activities. Increases from $200 to $300 the amount of work-study program compensation in excess of need that a student may receive. Includes students who are age 24 or older, single parents, or independent students (as well as less-than-full-time students) among those for whom a reasonable proportion of an institution's work-study program funds must be available. Revises Federal share provisions. Adds provisions for approved study abroad eligibility for work-study programs. Requires work-study program grant agreements to provide assurances that employment made available from such program funds may be used to support programs for supportive services to students with disabilities. Sets forth provisions for carry-back authority. Increases the maximum amount of its work-study grant allotment which an institution may use for a job location and development program for its students. Establishes a work colleges program. (Transfers to part D of title XI current provisions for: (1) work study for community service-learning on behalf of low-income individuals and families; and (2) student community service job location and development.) Authorizes appropriations for the work colleges program. Requires such funds to be allocated to qualifying institutions, in lieu of allocations under other specified work-study program provisions, upon application, for eligible students as defined under student aid provisions. Requires an institution receiving such a work colleges program allocation to expend an equal amount of matching funds from non-Federal sources for such program. Authorizes institutions to use such work colleges program funds for: (1) supporting qualified students' educational costs through self-help payments or credits provided under the institution's work-learning program within the limits of student aid program provisions; (2) promoting work-learning-service experience as a tool of postsecondary education, financial self-help, and community service-learning opportunities; (3) administering, developing, and assessing comprehensive college work-learning programs, including community based work-learning alternatives that expand opportunities for community service and career-related work; and (4) developing programs that develop sound citizenship and personal values, encourage student persistence, and make optimum use of college work-study dollars in HEA title IV aid in education and student development. Allows funds allocated to the institution under HEA title IV provisions for supplemental educational opportunity grants, work-study programs, and direct student loans to be transferred for use under the work colleges program to provide flexibility in strengthening the self-help-through-work element in financial aid packaging. Requires postsecondary institutions, in order to be eligible to participate in the work colleges program, to: (1) be public or private nonprofit institutions with stated commitments to service; (2) have a comprehensive work-learning-service program for at least two years; (3) require service by all resident students through a comprehensive work-learning program as an integral part of the institution's educational philosophy; and (4) provide through the institutional work program an opportunity for the students to contribute to the overall educational program and the welfare of the community as a whole. Part D: Federal Direct Loans - Establishes a Federal Direct Loan Demonstration Program as part D of title IV of HEA. (Eliminates the current part D, Income Contingent Direct Loans Demonstration Project.) Directs the Secretary to carry out such Federal direct loan demonstration program (the program) for qualified students and parents at selected institutions of higher education during the period beginning on July 1, 1994, and ending on June 30, 1998. Directs the Secretary to make program payments for any fiscal year to: (1) each institution of higher education having a program agreement; and (2) the designated lending agent if such an institution designates one. Requires such payments to be made on the basis of the estimated needs of the institution's students and parents, considering their demand and eligibility for loans under the program. Declares that an institution with an approved application and agreement with the Secretary shall be deemed to have a contractual obligation (entitlement) from the United States for making the program payments specified in that application. Sets forth program payment rules. Sets forth requirements for selection of institutions by the Secretary to participate in such loan demonstration program. Directs the Secretary to enter into loan demonstration program agreements with institutions of higher education at which the total loan volume under the Stafford, supplemental, and parent loan programs was $500,000,000 in the most recent year. Provides that under such agreements such institutions will make loans for the period beginning with the academic year beginning on July 1, 1994, and ending with loans made before June 30, 1998. Requires such agreements to be concluded by January 1, 1994. Requires that such institutions represent a cross-section of all institutions of higher education participating in part B of title IV, in terms of control of the institution, length of academic program, highest degree offered, size of student enrollment, percentage of students borrowing under part B, geographic location, annual loan volume, default experience, and composition of the student body. Requires the Secretary, as much as possible consistent with requirements for such a cross-section, to first enter into agreements with institutions which apply to participate in such program. Requires the Secretary to designate additional institutions, from eligible part B participants, to participate in the demonstration program, if necessary to satify the total loan volume and cross-section requirements. Allows an institution so designated to decline to participate in the loan demonstration program for good cause. Requires the Secretary to assure that the annual loan volume under the Stafford, supplemental, and parent loan programs at the institutions with which the Secretary enters into loan demonstration program participation agreements is not more than 15 percent of the loan guarantees under these programs of any guaranty agency. Sets forth requirements for such loan demonstration program agreements with institutions of higher education. Prohibits such institutions from charging any administrative fees to students or parents for originating such loans. Directs the Secretary to establish procedures for withdrawal or termination of institutions from the loan demonstration program. Requires loans under such demonstration program to have the same terms, conditions, and benefits as Stafford, supplemental, and parent loans, and to be eligible for consolidation. Sets forth provisions for such demonstration program loan collection functions under competitive procurement contracts. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress six annual reports on the progress and status of the loan demonstration program. Directs the Comptroller General to submit to the Congress an interim and a final evaluation of the loan demonstration program experience of the Department of Education, the participating institutions, students, and parents. Directs the Secretary to select a control group of institutions comparable to the cross-section of participating institutions, to assist the Comptroller General in preparing such reports. Sets forth requirements for treatment of specified types of costs for purposes of such reports. Sets forth a schedule of regulatory activities by the Secretary with respect to such loan demonstration program. Authorizes appropriations to enable the Secretary to make payments for the Federal Direct Loans Demonstration Program. Authorizes appropriations for administrative expenses necessary for carrying out title IV student aid programs, including expenses for staff personnel and compliance activities. Part E: Federal Perkins Loans - Revises and renames part E of title IV of HEA as Federal Perkins Loans (currently named Direct Loans to Students in Institutions of Higher Education or Perkins Loans). Extends the authorization of appropriations for contributions by the Secretary to Perkins Loans program student loan funds. Adds provisions for eligibility for study abroad. Revises provisions for default penalties, and definitions of default rate and cohort default rate. Requires institutions with cohort default rates of 15 percent or more to establish default reduction plans. Provides for reduction of allocation as a consequence of failure to award funds. Revises Perkins loan program provisions for capital contributions by institutions. Requires an institution to match the Federal capital contribution if the institution is granted permission to participate in an Expanded Lending Option and has a default rate of not more than seven and one-half percent. Requires all other institutions to contribute an amount at least one-third of the Federal amount. Adds requirements for institutions to disclose certain information to any credit bureau with which the Secretary has a specified agreement. Revises loan limits under the Perkins Loan program. Provides for a reasonable proportion of an institution's Perkins Loans to be made to nontraditional students, including less-than-full-time, age 24 or older, single parents, or independent students. Revises minimum monthly payments for loans made after a specified date. Provides for adjustment of excessive loan awards. Eliminates a defense based on the borrower's being a minor. Adds a deferment of Perkins loan repayment for family service agency employees who provide or supervise services to high-risk children from low-income communities and their families. Revises the repayment period for Perkins loans. Allows requests for deferment of Perkins loan repayment by students in graduate or post-graduate fellowship-supported study abroad (such as Fulbright grant recipients) until completion of the fellowship period. Authorizes the Secretary to grant an institution special repayment authority to compromise, within specified limits, on the repayment of defaulted Perkins loans, under specified conditions, to encourage repayment and protect U.S. interests. Revises provisions for cancellation of Perkins loans for certain public service. Adds special rules for determining the list of schools with specified percentages of educationally disadvantaged students at which full-time teaching service in any subject may qualify for such cancellation, and for continuing eligibility even if the school is no longer on such list. Adds provisions for such cancellation for full-time service as: (1) a teacher of infants, toddlers, children or youth with disabilities in a public or other nonprofit elementary or secondary school system, or as a professional provider of early intervention services; (2) a nurse or medical technician providing health care services; or (3) a family service agency employee providing or supervising services to high-risk children from low-income communities and their families. Revises an excess capital rule. Establishes the Perkins Loan Revolving Fund, to be available to the Secretary to make payments under part E. Provides that specified funds be deposited in such Fund. Sets forth definitions of low-income communities, high-risk children, and infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities. Part F: Need Analysis - Revises HEA title IV part F provisions for Need Analysis. Establishes a new single need analysis formula to be used in the calculation of financial need for all title IV Student Assistance programs (thus replacing the current separate formulas for Pell Grants and for other title IV programs). Bases such new formula on the current formula used for the Stafford (GSL) and the "campus-based" aid programs including supplemental grants and work-study programs. Revises provisions for amount of need. Eliminates provisions for a minimum student contribution. Revises provisions for cost of attendance. Revises provisions for expected family contribution: (1) in general; (2) for dependent students; (3) for independent students without dependent children; and (4) for independent students with dependent children. Revises provisions relating to the Secretary's authority to prescribe specified updated need analysis tables and to propose modifications in the need analysis methodology. Revises provisions for the simplified needs test to provide for a by-pass and consideration as having a zero family contribution for those with family adjusted gross incomes less than or equal to the earned income tax credit. Retains provisions relating to: (1) the discretion of student financial aid administrators; (2) disregard of student aid in other Federal programs; and (3) Native American students. Revises definitions for need analysis provisions under title IV. Includes, under the definition of independent student, one who is 24 years of age or older by December 31 of the award year. Part G: General Provisions - Revises definitions for title IV (Student Assistance) in general. Excludes from the definition of institution of higher education, for purposes of title IV program eligibility, any institution which: (1) enrolls 50 percent or more of its students in correspondence courses; or (2) has filed for bankruptcy, if there is a judicial determination of fraud involving Federal funds. Revises the definition of proprietary institution of higher education for purposes of title IV eligibility. Allows an institution which provides less than a 600, but more than a 300, clock hour program of training to prepare students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation to be eligible for loans under part B or part D of title IV if: (1) the owner of the institution or a prospective employer cosigns the loan with the students; and (2) the loan amount is not more than half of the tuition and fees. Revises the definition of academic and award years. Sets forth certain eligible program standards for length of time of specified types of programs. Sets forth provisions for: (1) time limitations on, and renewal of, eligibility; (2) provisional certification of institutional eligibility; (3) branches; and (4) changes of ownership. Defines third party servicer. Revises provisions relating to a master calendar. Revises provisions for forms and regulations for title IV student aid programs. Requires the common financial reporting form to be produced, distributed, and processed by the Secretary. Prohibits charging any parent or student a fee for the collection, processing, or delivery of financial aid through use of such a form. Requires institutions to pay the costs of other forms and their processing if they require or encourage students to use any form other than one approved by the Secretary. Requires use of the approved common form for purposes of title IV programs. Makes all data collected for the multiple data entry process the exclusive property of the Secretary. Prohibits such data from being transferred to a third party by an approved contractor without the Secretary's expressed written approval. Directs the Secretary to develop a streamlined reapplication process. Revises provisions for toll-free student aid information to include: (1) accessiblity for telecommunication devices for the deaf; and (2) referrals to a postsecondary clearinghouse for individuals with disabilities. Revises provisions for student eligibility for title IV student aid programs. Includes programs of study abroad approved for credit by the eligible institution among programs in which a student may receive such aid. Prohibits a student who is incarcerated from being eligible to receive a loan under title IV. Revises provisions for ability-to-benefit programs to include a State-prescribed determination process approved by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to verify all applications for aid through the use of any means available, including exchange of information with other Federal agencies. Revises provisions for loss of student eligibility for violation of loan limits to allow students who inadvertently exceed such borrowing limit to repay the excess amount prior to being certified for further title IV assistance. Sets forth provisions for the Secretary's verification of social security numbers provided by students to eligible institutions. Sets forth provisions for data base matching with the Selective Service. Provides for eligibility for title IV assistance for students in study abroad programs approved for credit by their home institutions. Provides that students enrolled in courses of instruction at eligible institutions of higher education that are offered in whole or part through visual telecommunications devices or mediums and lead to recognized associate, bachelor, or graduate degrees shall not: (1) be considered to be enrolled in correspondence courses (which are not eligible for student assistance); and (2) have their eligibility to participate in HEA title IV student assistance programs restricted or reduced solely on the basis of their enrollment in such courses offered through visual telecommunications. Prohibits the Secretary, for award years prior to enactment of this Act, to take any action against a student or eligible institution arising out of a prior award of student assistance if the institution demonstrates that its course of instruction would have been in conformance with such provisions. Provides for suspension of title IV student aid eligibility, for specified intervals based on type of offense and number of convictions for students convicted of certain drug-related offenses. Allows earlier resumption of such eligibility if: (1) the student satisfactorily completes a drug rehabilitation program; or (2) in the case of first convictions, if the student demonstrates enrollment or acceptance in such a program. Revises statute of limitations provisions to provide that, with respect to any loan made under part B GSL programs, a lender, holder, guaranty agency, or the Secretary shall not be subject to any claim or defense asserted by a borrower which is attributable to an act or failure to act by an educational institution attended by the borrower (unless the lender is an eligible institution). Provides that, in collecting any obligation arising from a loan made under title IV, an institution (as well as a guaranty agency or the Secretary) shall not be subject to a defense raised by any borrower based on a claim of infancy. Establishes requirements for institutional refunds, refund policies, and disclosures of policy. Revises provisions for information dissemination activities. Requires the institution to inform prospective student borrowers that study abroad programs approved for credit by the institution are eligible for student aid. Requires that exit counseling for borrowers include the terms and conditions under which the student may obtain partial cancellation or defer repayment of the interest and principal pursuant to specified provisions. Requires borrowers to provide certain information during the exit interview, regarding their expected permanent address, employer, next of kin, and corrections in the institution's records relating to their identification and location. Requires the institution to forward such information to the lender and guaranty agency. Establishes requirements for institutional information to students and prospective students regarding campus security policy and crime statistics. Sets forth provisions for campus security policy development. Revises provisions for a National Student Loan Data System to include requirements for: (1) common identifiers; and (2) integration of databases. Directs the Secretary to establish a centralized Student Loan Data System for use by schools, borrowers, holders, and guarantors in: (1) confirming borrower, internship, and residency status; and (2) identifying the current holder and servicer of a loan. Sets forth requirements for information in such system and restricted access, and deadlines for planning and implementation. Revises provisions for training in financial aid and student supportive services. Sets forth grant limitations. Extends the authorization of appropriations for such training programs. Revises provisions for title IV program participation agreements. Requires institutions to disclose to prospective students relevant State licensing requirements for any job for which the course of instruction is designed. Prohibits institutions from: (1) making incentive payments to persons or entities engaged in student recruiting or admission or awarding of assistance; (2) employing or using any individual or organization that has committed fraud involving Federal funds; or (3) denying Federal aid to any eligible student because of participation in approved study abroad. Requires institutions to: (1) acknowledge specified entities' information-sharing authority; (2) develop Default Management Plans under specified conditions; (3) complete specified surveys and collect and transmit specified information; and (4) perform annual audits and reports on total revenues and expenditures of the institution as a whole and of its athletic departments and intercollegiate athletic activities, if the institution offers athletically related student aid. Prohibits institutions from imposing any penalty (including assessment of late fees, denial of access to classes, libraries, or other institutional facilities, or requiring the student to borrow additional funds) on students because of their inability to meet financial obligations to the institution as a result of delayed disbursement of the proceeds of a loan due to compliance with title IV provisions or delays attributable to the institution. Revises provisions relating to hearings and availability of records. Provides for annual financial audits and compliance audits of each institution eligible under title IV. Requires compliance audits of third party servicers and of secondary markets. Authorizes emergency actions by the Secretary against any or all institutions under the substantial control of any individual or entity that is determined to have committed violations of any title IV program requirements or has been suspended or debarred by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to provide specified audit information to any appropriate Federal or State agency with responsibilities with respect to student assistance. Adds provisions for institutional financial responsibility standards. Requires independent annual financial audits and third-party financial guarantees in specified cases. Establishes a Quality Assurance Program. Authorizes the Secretary to select institutions for voluntary participation in such program based on criteria including demonstrated institutional performance and considering current quality assurance goals. Allows participating institutions to develop and implement their own systems to verify student financial aid application data. Exempts participating institutions from title IV reporting or verification requirements, and allows them to substitute such quality assurance reporting as the Secretary deems necessary. Sets forth conditions for removal from the program. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) select institutions for voluntary participation as experimental sites to provide recommendations on the impact and effectiveness of proposed regulations or new management initiatives; and (2) exempt such institutions from any title IV requirements or regulations that would bias experimental results. Directs the Secretary to assign to each participant (including institutions, lenders, and guaranty agencies) in title IV programs a single identification number. Increases the percentage of specified program funds which may be involved in certain inter-program transfers, including package-type aid offers that include institutional and State aid to best fit the needs of individual students. Revises provisions for administrative expenses payments to require a reasonable proportion of an institution's funds to be available for financial aid services during times and in places to accommodate specified types of nontraditional students. Revises title IV provisions for criminal penalties. Increase the amount of fines for specified violations. Adds provisions relating to extent of liability for financial losses to the Federal Government, student aid recipients, and other program participants and civil and criminal penalties, arising from material inaccuracy of information submitted by the institution to the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to require: (1) financial guarantees from an institution participating or seeking to participate in a title IV program, and/or from one or more individuals exercising substantial control over such institution; and (2) the assumption of personal liability by one or more such individuals, in accordance with specified provisions. Revises provisions for the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance relating to: (1) independent control; (2) membership; (3) functions; and (4) availability of funds. Reauthorizes the Advisory Committee and renews its charter for a period of five years or until such time as HEA is reauthorized or rescinded. Directs the Advisory Committee to conduct a study of means of simplifying all aspects of the Federal Family Education Loan Program (the Guaranteed Student Loan program). Directs the Advisory Committee to consult with specified congressional committees and report to them on such study within one year. Establishes procedures for performance based regulatory relief for institutions of higher education that satisfy specified criteria in title IV program participation. Requires regional meetings and negotiated rulemaking in developing regulations implementing amendments made to HEA title IV by this Act. Part H: Program Integrity - Establishes a new part H of title IV of HEA Program Integrity. Sets forth requirements for State postsecondary review agency programs for conduct or coordination of review of institutions of higher education for purposes of title IV eligibility. Sets forth requirements for: (1) agreements with such State agencies; (2) Federal reimbursement of such State agency costs; (3) State agency functions, including criteria for review; (4) State review standards, subject to disapproval by the Secretary, with differential standards under specified conditions; (5) disapproval authority and procedures; (6) consumer complaints; and (7) enforcement mechanisms. Authorizes appropriations for Federal reimbursement of State review agency costs for such program integrity review functions, in an amount not to exceed one percent of the amount appropriated for the fiscal year for title IV student financial assistance programs. Part I: Conforming Amendments - Makes conforming amendments to specified provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 and the Higher Education Technical Amendments of 1991. Title V: Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Development - Revises HEA title V (Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Development). Authorizes appropriations for: (1) State and Local Programs for Teacher Excellence; (2) Teacher Scholarships and Fellowships, including Paul Douglas Teacher Corps-Scholarships and Christa McAuliffe Fellowship Program; (3) National Programs, including National Mini Corps Program, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, Partnerships for Innovative Teacher Education, Teacher Opportunity Corps, National Job Bank for Teacher Recruitment, Midcareer Teacher Training for Nontraditional Students, Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification and Licensure, Training for Teachers of Drug-Exposed Children, Teacher Recruitment and Placement, Partnerships for Encouraging Minority Students to Become Teachers, and Veterans Teacher Corps; and (4) Foreign Language Instruction, including Demonstration Grants for Critical Language and Area Studies and Development of Foreign Language and Culture Instructional Materials. Establishes State and Local Programs for Teacher Excellence. Provides for: (1) funds to State educational agencies (SEAs), local educational agencies (LEAs), and institutions of higher education to update and improve the skills of classroom teachers and school administrators; and (2) a comprehensive examination of State requirements for teacher preservice and certification. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to SEAs to improve the quality of teaching, including early childhood education. Provides for allotment to States based on school-age population (age five through 17). Provides for allotment to States based on school-age population. Requires the SEA to allocate at least 50 percent of the State allotment to LEAs based on relative enrollments in their public schools (and requiring any LEA receiving less than a specified minimum to form a consortium with other LEAs). Allows the SEA to reserve up to 25 percent of the State allotment for specified grants to institutions of higher education for teacher training programs. Directs the SEA to reserve not more than 25 percent of the State allotment to distribute to institutions of higher education for purposes of specified State uses of funds including assessment of teacher education programs, establishment of State Academies for Teachers and for School Administrators, and other teaching improvement activities. Limits State administrative expense reimbursement to not more than three percent of program funds. Requires the State to distribute such allotment funds to LEAs on a competitive basis if the appropriation for such programs is less than a specified minimum amount. Sets forth requirements for State and local applications. Requires LEAs to use such funds for inservice training of teachers and preschool and early childhood educaton specialists (including conflict-resolution, violence counseling, and cultural diversity training, as well as activities to assist teacher participation in a Tech-Prep program under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act). Allows LEAs to use such funds for: (1) programs to recruit individuals into teaching and into early childhood education; (2) business partnerships for employee-teacher exchange and internship programs and student visits and technical training; and (3) other teaching improvement activities. Requires SEAs to use such funds to conduct an assessment of teacher education programs within the State. Allows SEAs to use such funds for: (1) establishing State Academies for Teachers; (2) establishing State Academies for School Leaders; and (3) other teaching improvement activities, including efforts to improve the quality and number of preschool and early childhood education specialists. Requires each SEA receiving such funds to undertake a study of teacher education programs (including training programs for preschool and early childhood education specialist) and State laws and regulatons relating to such programs, including standards or requirements for teacher certification and licensure. Sets forth deadlines for study results and reports. Permits waivers of such requirement if the State has completed a comparable study within the previous three years, (with study funds to be used instead to implement program and policy changes or, if such changes have already been implemented, other specified activities). Sets forth provisions for competitive awards for, and authorized activities of, State Academies for Teachers and State Academies for School Administrators (including required core academic disciplines, as well as vocational and technology education and training in violence counseling and conflict resolution). Allows each SEA to also use program funds to establish an academy for early childhood education training (with priority for recruiting candidates from underrepresented groups, and with provision for intensive childhood training in violence counseling). Allows each SEA to also use program funds to establish a Tech-Prep academy to assist educators in secondary schools and community colleges to: (1) more effectively understand organizational structures and organizational change strategies; (2) learn effective peer leadership strategies; (3) identify knowledge and skills required in highly technical industries and workplaces; (4) apply creative strategies to developing interdisciplinary curricula; and (5) integrating academic and vocational education. Allows a State to establish a separate academy for each of the five core academic subjects (English, mathematics, science, history, and geography) as well as vocational and technology education, or to establish multi-subject academies. Allows the SEA to establish an early childhood education academy or a tech-prep academy either in addition to or in lieu of a core academic subject area. Sets forth provisions for applications by institutions of higher education for such grants by SEAs. Requires SEAs to award such grants on a competitive basis to such institutions having departments, schools, or colleges of education, for: (1) institutional technical assistance to LEAs for inservice training; (2) innovations and improvements in teacher education programs within the institution to better meet LEAs needs for well-prepared teachers; (3) integrating the instruction of academic and vocational teacher education programs; (4) activities to encourage individuals, especially from minority groups, to pursue careers in education; (5) implementing new requirements for teacher education programs, when the State study of such programs is completed; and (6) improving training for preschool and early childhood education specialists, including those providing preschool and early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities. Requires such funds to supplement, not supplant, regular non-Federal funds. Requires any SEA which receives funding under the Neighborhood Schools Improvement Act to ensure that activities conducted under HEA title V part A are consistent with the goals and objectives of the State plan under such Act. Revises, and transfers to part B of title V of HEA, provisions for Teacher Scholarships and Fellowships (currently part D). Revises, and extends, the Paul Douglas Teacher Corps Scholarships program (currently Paul Douglas, or Congressional, Teacher Scholarships program). Bases allocation among States on school-age population. Includes among various application requirements, description of how the State will inform award recipients of current and projected teacher shortages and surpluses within the State. Requires State agencies to make particular efforts to attract, and give priority consideration to, ethnic and racial minority students, students with disabilities, or other individuals historically underrepresented in teaching (as well as students from low-income disadvantaged backgrounds). Requires special consideration, in selecting teacher corps members, to be given to individuals who intend to teach: (1) students with disabilities (or provide related services for them); (2) limited English proficient students; (3) preschool age children; (4) in curricular or geographic areas where there is a demonstrated shortage of qualified teachers; or (5) in schools servicing inner city or rural or geographically isolated areas. Requires statewide panels, in selecting teacher corps members to afford special consideration to women and minorities who are underrepresented in the fields of science and mathematics and are seeking to enter the teaching profession in these fields. Limits such scholarships to not more than $5,000 for each academic year for up to four years of postsecondary education to prepare for becoming a preschool, special education, elementary, or secondary teacher. (Provides that such awards shall be considered in other title IV aid programs, and shall not exceed need or cost of attendance.) Sets forth provisions for selection of scholarship recipients by statewide panels. Sets forth scholarship conditions. Requires recipients to perform specified teaching of two years for every one year of assistance, within the ten-year period after completing the postsecondary education for which the Scholarship was awarded, or else repay the scholarship, with specified exceptions. Sets forth provisions for Federal administration of State programs, with procedures for disapproval hearings, suspension of eligibility, and judicial review. Sets forth provisions for designation of "shortage areas." Revises and extends the Christa McAuliffe Fellowship Program, a national fellowship program for outstanding teachers. Increases (to three percent from two and one-half percent) the portion of program funds which may be used for administration. Directs the Secretary to establish a clearinghouse or otherwise provide for collection and dissemination of information on exemplary projects by teacher fellows receiving funds under such program. Establishes provisions for National Programs. Establishes the National Mini Corps Program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education to establish program partnerships with LEAs. Provides for program services for individuals who are: (1) first-generation college students or low-income individuals as defined under TRIO special programs for students from disadvantaged backgrounds; or (2) migrant or seasonal farmworkers, or the children of such farmworkers, who meet qualifications for attendance at a college or university. Provides for certain program services, also, for children who are: (1) migrant children; or (2) eligible to receive services for educationally disadvantaged children with special needs under chapter 1 of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA chapter 1). Requires the program to provide: (1) such individuals enrolled or planning to enroll in institutions of higher education with advice, training, and instructional services to help in being role models for such children; (2) such children with outreach and recruitment services to encourage them to enroll in teacher education programs; (3) such individuals enrolled in such an institution with support and instructional services to enable them to provide direct instructional services to such children, in coordination with SEA or LEA goals; (4) designation of college coordinators at participating institutions to train, supervise, and assign such individuals in cooperation with SEAs and LEAs in which such children have been identified; and (5) support for other activities related to encouraging such individuals to enter the teaching profession and provide a link to the community. Sets forth requirements for institutional applications, grant awards, and uses of funds. Establishes provisions for a National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (the Board). Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance to the Board from specified appropriations. Sets forth terms and conditions for such funding. Prohibits any funds from being made available to the Board after FY 1995 (except as authorized for FY 1993 through 1997). Requires the Board to consult at least twice annually with the Committee (i.e. the Fund for Improvement and Reform of Schools and Teaching Board) on design and execution of its overall research and development strategy, including compliance with merit review and open competition requirements. Requires funds for the Board under this Act to be used only for research and development of teacher assessment and certification procedures for elementary and secondary school teachers. Requires that priority be given to such activities relating to teaching: (1) the subject areas of mathematics, the sciences, foreign languages, and literacy (including reading, writing, and analytical ability); and (2) special educational populations, including limited English proficient children, gifted and talented children, children with disabilities, and economically and educationally disadvantaged children. Sets the Federal share of the cost of such Board activities at 50 percent. Requires the Board to report annually to the appropriate committees of the Congress. Requires the Secretary of Education, the Director of the National Science Foundation, and the National Research Council to review and comment on the Board's report and to report to such congressional committees on the Board's compliance with these provisions. Provides for auditing and for independent, ongoing evaluation. Establishes provisions for a new Partnerships for Innovative Teacher Education program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and contracts with State and local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and consortia of such institutions and agencies to plan, establish, and operate teaching schools to develop and put into practice the best knowledge about teaching. Provides that planning and implementation grant awards shall be for a term of one year, with a total of five years of implementation grants under specified conditions. Provides for applications, priorities, uses of funds by award recipients, and authorized activities of such teaching schools. Sets the Federal share at 50 percent for planning grants and implementation grants. Establishes provisions for a Teacher Opportunity Corps (TOC), to encourage institutions of higher education to offer educational programs and financial assistance to enable paraprofessionals working in shortage area schools serving disadvantaged students to become certified or licensed public school teachers (including preschool and early childhood education specialists). Directs the Secretary to allocate TOC program grant funds to States according to the same formula under which States receive ESEA chapter 1 funding for education of disadvantaged children. Requires TOC grant program agreements to include provisions for administration and recordkeeping by the State education or higher education agency. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States to support TOC programs at institutions of higher education. Sets forth State grant application requirements and general criteria for State grants, including: (1) involvement of institutions of higher education and shortage area schools or school districts; (2) full creditability to a baccalaurate program leading to teacher certification; (3) a program evaluation system; and (4) appropriate credit for paraprofessional classroom experience as practice or student teaching. Requires any paraprofessional who receives student financial assistance under the TOC program to agree to act as a paraprofessional in a shortage area school for at least one year for each year of such assistance, within ten years after completing postsecondary education. Requires repayment of all or part of such assistance, plus interest and reasonable collection costs, if the recipient fails to comply with this service requirements, except in specified circumstances. Requires that such student financial assistance supplement, but not supplant, other Federal or State assistance for which the student would otherwise qualify. Requires TOC program grants to be for a term of at least five years, subject to availability of appropriations. Allows States to use TOC program funds for: (1) student financial assistance to paraprofessionals to pay part or all of the costs of attendance in postsecondary education programs required for teacher certification; (2) instructional and supportive services for such paraprofessionals during participation in such programs; and (3) payment of child care expenses to attend postsecondary classes required for teacher certification. Establishes a National Job Bank for Teacher Recruitment. Directs the Secretary, through the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), to study the feasibility of establishing: (1) a clearinghouse to operate a national teacher job bank; and (2) regional clearinghouses. Directs the Secretary, through OERI, to contract with one or more State entities, nonprofit organizations, or higher education institutions to pay the Federal share of costs of establishing a Teacher Job Bank Clearinghouse to help: (1) public and private education agencies locate qualified applicants for teaching-related positions; and (2) individuals locate teaching-related jobs or training necessary to enter the teaching profession. Sets forth requirements for applications and authorized uses of funds. Includes under such teacher job bank provisions elementary and secondary school classroom teachers and preschool and early childhood education specialists. Retains and extends provisions for Midcareer Teacher Training for Nontraditional Students. Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification and Licensure Act of 1991 - Establishes a program of assistance for alternative routes to teacher certification or licensure, to improve the supply of qualified elementary and secondary school teachers and principals by assisting State programs to help talented professionals who have demonstrated high competence in a subject area and wish to pursue education careers to meet State certification licensing requirements, with special emphasis on minority group member participation. Sets forth requirements for allotments, State applications, and uses of funds. Repeals such program as of July 1, 1995. Establishes a program for Training for Teachers of Drug-Exposed Children. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to schools of education at institutions of higher education to support development, and instruction in use, of curricula and institutional materials that provide teachers and other education personnel with effective strategies for educating drug-exposed children. Gives priority to schools of education located in or near communities with a large number or rate of: (1) arrests for, or while under the influence of, drugs; (2) infants born perinatally exposed to drugs; (3) drug-exposed children of preschool or school age; or (4) other appropriate data indicating a significant drug problem. Requires grant recipients to disseminate curricula and materials developed with grant funds by: (1) instruction of teachers and other education personnel within their State; and/or (2) designation of their personnel as consultants to such schools for such dissemination. Directs the Secretary to establish a clearinghouse to compile and make available such curricula plans for educational personnel and for schools of education, and other relevant information. Requires the Secretary to consult with the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) concerning the curricula, materials, and information to be made available through the clearinghouse, and notify SEAs and LEAs of its availability. Establishes a program for Teacher Recruitment and Placement. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education with schools and departments of education to pay the Federal share of developing and carrying out programs to: (1) recruit, prepare, and train students to become elementary and secondary school teachers; and (2) place students as teachers in urban and rural public and private nonprofit elementary or secondary schools where at least 50 percent of students enrolled are minority groups. Allows special consideration, in awarding of such grants, to be given to historically Black colleges and universities. Sets forth authorized uses of grant funds and application requirements. Sets the Federal share at 75 percent, but authorizes an increase to 85 percent as a performance incentive for demonstrated success in program operation. Establishes a program for Partnerships for Encouraging Minority Students to Become Teachers. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to partnerships of institutions of higher education and LEAs to develop and carry out programs to identify and encourage minority students in the 7th through 12th grades to aspire to and prepare for careers in elementary and secondary school teaching. Authorizes consortia grants for such institutions with special expertise that have entered into partnership agreements with LEAs. Sets forth grant selection criteria, partnership agreement requirements, and application requirements. Title VI: International Education Programs - Revises title VI of HEA, International Education Programs. Revises provisions for International and Foreign Language Studies. Revises provisions for graduate and undergraduate language and area studies, to add to authorized uses of program grants the establishing and maintaining of linkages with overseas institutions of higher education and other organizations that may contribute to specified educational objectives of the program or center. Authorizes the Secretary to make additional grants to comprehensive language and area centers for programs of linkage or outreach: (1) between foreign language, area studies, and other international fields and professional schools and colleges; (2) with two- and four-year colleges and universities; (3) with departments or agencies of State and Federal governments; (4) with the news media, business, professional, or trade associations; and (5) carried out by summer institutes in foreign area and other international fields. Revises provisions for stipends. Revises provisions for language resource centers. Revises provisions for undergraduate international studies and foreign language programs. Limits program grants to not more than 50 percent of project costs. Replaces model grant provisions with provisions for grants to strengthen programs of demonstrated excellence to ensure their self-sustaining maintenance and growth and enhance their capacity-building and dissemination functions. Authorizes the Secretary to also make grants for programs of national significance for undergraduate international studies and foreign language education purposes. Retains and extends provisions for intensive summer language institutes. Revises provisions for research, studies, and annual reports. Revises provisions for assistance in acquiring and making available periodicals published outside the United States to add provisions for other research materials published outside the United States. Authorizes additional appropriations. Requires the Secretary, in awarding grants for International and Foreign Language Studies, to ensure that an appropriate portion of such funds are used to support undergraduate education. Extends the authorization of appropriations for International and Foreign Language Studies. Revises provisions for Business and International Education Programs. Revises provisions both for centers for international business education and for education and training programs to add to authorized uses of such center and program grants: (1) establishment of linkages overseas with institutions of higher education and other organizations that contribute to such centers' and programs' educational objectives; and (2) summer institutes in international business, foreign area studies, and other international studies designed to carry out specified purposes. Sets forth provisions for joint venturing agreements. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the Centers for International Business Education and Research in consortia with an institution or institutions of higher education which have specialized expertise in area studies, foreign language studies, international studies, or global business education. Provides that, of funds allocated for such joint venturing agreements, not more than one-fourth may be allotted to participating centers, and the remainder shall be allotted to partnership institutions. Requires the partnership institution to provide 50 percent matching funds, in cash or in kind, from its own resources or from the business community. Extends the authorization of appropriations for Business and International Education Programs, including Centers for International Business Education and Education and Training Programs. Revises general provisions to eliminate provisions for an Advisory Board. Adds a definition of critical languages. Allows institutions of higher education not located in the United States which meet specified eligibility requirements to apply for title VI International Education assistance in consortia with eligible U.S. institutions of higher education. Provides that amendments to title VI establishing new programs or expanding existing programs pursuant to this Act shall not be funded in FY 1993 through 1997 unless and until the Congress enacts appropriations for pre-1992 title VI programs enacted prior to this Act at a level no less than their FY 1992 funding. Establishes the Institute for International Public Policy (the Institute), which shall conduct a program to significantly increase the numbers of African Americans and other minorities in the foreign service of the United States. Authorizes the Institute to be established through grant or contract between the Secretary and an eligible recipient (a consortia of institutions eligible for title III part B assistance for historically Black colleges and universities, other institutions of higher education serving substantial numbers of African American and other minority students, and institutions of higher education with nationally recognized programs in training foreign service professionals). Requires each consortia to designate a host institution for the Institute. Sets forth the components of the academic program of the Institute, including a junior year abroad, academic year and summer internships, a masters degree program, and fellowships for full-time study for students who agree to enter the foreign service. Requires appointment of a Board of Visitors for the Institute. Sets forth matching requirements and provisions for gifts and donations. Authorizes appropriations for the Institute. Title VII: Construction, Reconstruction and Renovation of Academic Facilities - Revises title VII of HEA, Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Academic Facilities. Revises title VII program purposes, and makes a priority on renovation optional rather than mandatory. Extends the authorization of appropriations for: (1) Grants for the Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Undergraduate Academic Facilities; (2) Grants for Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Graduate Academic Facilities; (3) Loans for Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Academic, Housing, and Other Educational Facilities; and (4) Grants to Pay Interest on Debt. Revises provisions for Grants for the Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Undergraduate Academic Facilities. Limits the total payment of such grants for any fiscal year to institutions of higher education in any State to not move than 12 1/2 percent of the total appropriations. Directs the Secretary to use a national peer review panel in making such grants to institutions. Retains provisions for cost limitations and use for maintenance. Retains provisions for Grants for Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Graduate Academic Facilities. Consolidates certain current loan programs into Loans for Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Academic, Housing, and Other Educational Facilities. Sets forth provisions for such Federal assistance in the form of loans, use of funds, and a revolving loan fund. Limits to not more than 12 1/2 percent of such funds in the form of loans the amount which may be made available to educational institutions within any one State. Directs the Secretary, in awarding such loans, to give priority to loans for renovation or reconstruction of: (1) graduate or undergraduate academic facilities; and (2) older graduate or undergraduate academic facilities that have gone without major renovation or reconstruction for an extended period. Deletes provisions relating to revolving loan fund. Provides for a portion of funds obtained pursuant to specified provisions under title IV of the Housing Act of 1950 to be available for such purposes. Retains provisions for Grants to Pay Interest on Debt. Revises provisions for the College Construction Loan Insurance Association. Eliminates provisions for Special Programs. Establishes a new program for Historically Black College and University Capital Financing. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into insurance agreements to provide financial insurance to guarantee full payment of principal and interest on qualified bonds to facilitate capital financing for historically Black colleges and universities (eligible institutions). Requires the Secretary to designate a qualified bonding authority that agrees to assume specified responsibilities, including using bond proceeds to make loans to eligible institutions for capital projects. Limits the aggregate principal amount of outstanding bonds insured under this Act together with any accrued unpaid interest thereon. Limits the specified portions of such aggregate amount which may be used for loans to eligible institutions that are, respectively, private or public. (Provides, for such purposes, that Lincoln University of Pennsylvania and Howard University in Washington, D.C., are public institutions.) Sets forth duties and powers of the Secretary, including procedures for designation of the bonding authority. Establishes, within the Department of Education, the Historically Black College and University Capital Financing Advisory Board. Provides for minority business enterprise utilization under this part F. Adds provisions for forgiveness of certain loans. Repeals provisions for the Agriculture, Strategic Metals, Minerals, Forestry, and Oceans College and University Research Facilities and Instrumentation Modernization Program. Title VIII: Cooperative Education - Revises title VIII of HEA, Cooperative Education. Extends the authorization of appropriations for cooperative education programs. Revises provisions for reservations of funds. Limits eligibility to apply for new administration grants to those institutions of higher education which have not received funds for the administration of the cooperative education program for the preceding ten years. Revises provisions for: (1) applications for existing programs; (2) duration of grants; (3) Federal share; and (4) consideration of applications. Adds to design requirements for the functioning of training and resource centers the encouragement of model and cooperative education in the fields of science and mathematics for women and minorities who are underrepresented in these fields. Title IX: Graduate Programs - Revises title IX of HEA, Graduate Programs. Directs the Secretary to provide for coordinated administration and regulation of assisted graduate programs to ensure that they are carried out in a manner most compatible with academic practices. Directs the Secretary to appoint administrative and technical employees with the appropriate educational background to assist in program administration. Revises provisions for Grants to Institutions to Encourage Women and Minority Participation in Graduate Education (currently, Grants to Institutions to Encourage Minority Participation in Graduate Education). Adds provisions for women (as well as for individuals from minority groups underrepresented in graduate education, including the field of science and mathematics) under such part A program. Adds provisions for information collection under such program. Revises provisions for Postbaccalaureate Opportunity and Harris Fellowship Programs (currently Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowships). Provides for a program of postbaccalaureate masters and professional education of women and minorities underrepresented in such education. Provides for individual stipends comparable with the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships. Provides for a Patricia Roberts Harris Graduate Fellowship Program, to provide, through institutions of higher education, grants to assist the doctoral education for women and individuals from underrepresented groups. Provides for individual stipends comparable with National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships. Revises provisions for the Jacob K. Javits Fellows Program. Authorizes up to 600 new fellowships per year (currently limited to 450 per year). Revises provisions for individual stipends (to be comparable with National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships). Sets the institutional assistance payment at $10,000, to be adjusted annually for inflation (does so also for the institutional payments program). Revises provisions for Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need. Provides for institutional commitments to provide stipends to complete graduate study to include students pursuing a doctoral degree after having completed a masters degree program. Provides for individual stipends comparable to National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships. Provides for an added institutional assistance payment of $10,000, to be adjusted for inflation. Revises provisions for Assistance for Training in the Legal Profession. Requires such assistance to be for minority, low-income, or educationally disadvantaged college graduates to sucessfully pursue a law degree and service in the legal profession. Requires such assistance to be through an annual grant or contract with the Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO). Sets forth authorized services for part E legal training projects. Requires the Secretary, by grant or contract on a biennial basis, with CLEO, to cover all or part of costs of specified activities. Revises provisions for Law School Clinical Experience Programs. Authorizes grant use to cover costs of continuing (as well as establishing or expanding) such programs. Increases the maximum amount any law school may receive under part F in any fiscal year (from $100,000 to $250,000). Establishes a program of Grants to Institutions to Encourage Minorities to Enter the Higher Education Professorate. Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education (or to nonprofit organizations associated with such institutions with a demonstrated record of enhancing minority access to graduate education), in consortia with historically black colleges and universities and other institutions with significant enrollments of African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders,and Native Americans. States that such grants shall enable such institutions to: (1) identify talented candidates for and recipients of baccalaureate degrees and faculty who wish to enter or continue in the higher education professorate; and (2) provide such students and faculty with stipends and fellowships to assist them in obtaining a doctoral degree and returning to an institution of higher education to teach. Designates such fellowships as the Faculty Development Fellowships. Sets forth application and selection requirements. Requires each institution of higher education or consortium receiving such a grant to award such fellowships in an amount based on the recipient's need (up to $15,000). Requires each Faculty Development Fellowship recipient to agree to teach at an institution of higher education for two years for every one year of fellowship assistance, or else repay the fellowship. Sets forth repayment procedures and exceptions. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the following title IX programs: (1) Grants to Institutions to Encourage Women and Minority Participation in Graduate Education; (2) Postbaccalaureate Opportunity Fellowships; (3) Patricia Roberts Harris Graduate Fellowship Program; (4) Jacob K. Javits Fellows Program; (5) Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need; (6) Law School Clinical Experience Programs; and (7) Grants to Institutions to Encourage Minorities to Enter the Higher Education Professorate. Authorizes appropriations for Assistance for Training in the Legal Profession. Title X: Postsecondary Improvement Program - Revises title X of HEA, Postsecondary Improvement Program. Authorizes the Secretary to make planning grants to institutions of higher education for the development and testing of innovative techniques in postsecondary education. Authorizes appropriations for such planning grants. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (the Fund) (to which such planning grant provisions are added). Extends the authorization of appropriations for Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Programs. Retains the current division of such funds as follows: (1) 50 percent for the Minority Science Improvement Program; (2) 33 1/3 percent for Science and Engineering Access Programs; and (3) 16 2/3 percent for the Special Services Projects progam. Provides for special emphasis on minority women under such programs. Redesignates the current part C of title X of HEA, Innovative Projects for Community Services and Student Financial Assistance, as part C of a new title XI of HEA (Student Community Service). Establishes a program for Special Projects in Areas of National Need. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education, consortia thereof, and other public agencies and nonprofit institutions for innovative projects concerning one or more areas of particular national need in postsecondary education identified by the Secretary and the Director of the Fund. Sets forth application requirements. Requires areas of national need to initially include, but not be limited to: (1) international exchanges; (2) campus climate and culture; and (3) evaluation and dissemination. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997 for such grants. Establishes a Women and Minorities Science and Engineering Outreach Demonstration Program. Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education for programs and initiatives to identify and encourage female and minority elementary and secondary students to pursue higher education in preparation for careers in science and engineering. Sets forth requirements for eligibility of institutions, including: (1) significantly higher than average female and minority enrollment; (2) use of advanced telecommunications equipment; and (3) partnership agreement with LEAs and local businesses or industries. Requires that at least 40 percent of total grant funds be awarded to eligible institutions in the Nation's ten largest metropolitan statistical areas, where minority elementary and secondary school student populations exceed the national average. Requires that each grant be at least $500,000 in a single fiscal year, and continued for not more than five fiscal years. Sets forth authorized uses of funds, and application, evaluation, and reporting requirements. Requires the Secretary to report on the program to the Congress by September 30, 1997. Sets the Federal share of program costs at 90 percent in the first year, to be reduced by ten percent in each subsequent year, down to 50 percent in the fifth year. Requires supplementation, not supplanting, of other funds. Authorizes appropriations for such program (with no more than three percent of such funds to be used for evaluations). Title XI: Student Community Service - Establishes a new title XI of HEA, Student Community Service, which consolidates current and new HEA community service programs. (Some elements of the current title XI, Partnerships for Economic Development and Urban Community Service, are contained in revised forms under the new title I of HEA, as amended by this Act.) Establishes Higher Education Innovative Projects for Community Service, to support innovative projects to encourage students to participate in community service activities while attending institutions of higher education (such provisions are revised and transferred from the National and Community Service Act of 1990). (The current part A of title XI of HEA is Partnerships for Community Development.) Authorizes the Secretary, after consultation with the Commission on National Service to insure coordination of activities, to make part A grants to and contracts with institutions of higher education (including consortia of such institutions) working in partnership with other public agencies and nonprofit organizations, to: (1) enable institutions to create or expand community service activities to their students; (2) encourage community service projects designed and initiated by students; (3) encourage student participation in community service activities that engender social responsibility and commitment to the community; (4) encourage students to assist in teaching individuals with limited basic skills or an inability to read and write; and (5) provide for training teachers, prospective teachers, related education personnel, and community leaders in the skills necessary to develop community service acitivites. Requires, with respect to proposed community service activities, consideration of: (1) the particular needs of a community; (2) the grantee's ability to actively involve a major part of the community; and (3) whether the community will benefit substantially. Sets the Federal share at not more than 50 percent. Sets forth application requirements. Authorizes appropriations for such program. Establishes a Student Literacy Corps and Student Mentoring Corps (the current part D of title I of HEA provides for a Student Literacy Corps). Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education for up to four years to carry out literacy corps programs and/or mentoring corps programs in public community agencies in the communities in which the institutions are located. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such grant funds. Sets forth requirements for such programs. Sets forth provisions for: (1) technical assistance and coordination arrangements; (2) renewal of grants; (3) Federal share; and (4) limitations. Authorizes appropriations for such programs. Sets forth provisions for Innovative Projects for Community Services and Student Financial Independence (currently such provisions are under part C of title X). Extends the authorization of appropriations for such projects. Sets forth provisions for Community Service-Learning. Transfers and revises such provisions, which are currently under title IV part C, for: (1) work-study for community service-learning on behalf of low-income individuals and families; and (2) community service job location and development programs for students at institutions of higher education. Establishes a program for Grants for Sexual Offenses Education and Prevention. Authorizes the Secretary to make such program grants to and contracts with institutions of higher education, on a competitive basis. Requires program grants, in general, to be used to educate and provide support services to student sexual offense victims. Sets forth authorized activities. Requires that at least 25 percent of program funds be available for grants for model demonstration programs, to be coordinated with local rape crisis centers, for: (1) development and implementation of quality rape prevention and education curricula; and (2) local programs to provide services to student sexual offense victims. Requires, under conditions for institutional eligibility for such grants, written policies that: (1) prohibit all forms of sexual offenses; and (2) require disclosure to the victim of any sexual offense the outcome of any campus police investigation or campus disciplinary proceedings brought pursuant to the victim's complaint against the alleged perpetrator. Gives priority to grant applicants who do not have an established campus education program regarding sexual offenses. Sets forth requirements for such grant applications and grantee performance reports. Directs the Secretary to: (1) promulgate regulations for such program; and (2) report on such program to congressional committees responsible for issues relating to higher education and crime. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for sexual offenses education and prevention programs. Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership Development Act of 1992 - Establishes the Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership Program. Requires such program to be established in conjunction with institutions of higher education specifically prepared to undertake development of new generations of leaders in national and international affairs. Includes among program functions: (1) developing leadership skills among college students; (2) directing a national program to recruit and educate outstanding young people regarding leadership roles in public and private sectors; (3) offering opportunities for young, needy American leaders (with priority for those qualifying for title IV assistance) for internship in national and international organizations (especially in developing countries); (4) developing secondary and postsecondary curricula; (5) developing prototypes for teaching leadership skills and encouraging similar leadership programs in higher education nationwide and worldwide; and (6) stimulating theoretical and practical study of leadership and leadership development. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to or enter into contracts, cooperative arrangements, or leases with such institutions of higher education or with nonprofit private organizations in consortia with such institutions to operate such program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997 for such program. Repeals provisions of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 relating to Higher Education Innovative Projects for Innovative Eduction (such provisions are transferred in a revised form to part A of title XI of HEA by this Act, as described above). Title XII: General Provisions - Revises title XII of HEA, General Provisions. Revises HEA definitions, including that of institution of higher education, and adds definitions with cross-reference to other laws. Revises antidiscrimination provisions to declare that nothing in HEA shall be construed to limit any individual's rights or responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, or any other law. Extends the existence of the National Advisory Committee on Accreditation and Institutional Eligibility until September 30, 1997. Sets forth new provisions for approval of an accrediting agency or association. Sets forth requirements for such approval including: (1) standards; (2) separate and independent status of such agency or association; (3) operating procedures; (4) length of approval; (5) initial arbitration rule; (6) limitation of the scope of standards established by the Secretary; (7) accreditation rule; (8) dual accreditation rule; (9) impact of loss of accreditation; (10) suspension of approval; (11) limitation on the Secretary's authority; (12) independent evaluation; and (13) regulations. Adds requirements for institutional disclosures of foreign gifts. Requires such disclosure reports to be made to the Secretary and to be open to public inspection. Provides for court orders to enforce such disclosure requirements. Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding the admission of minority students as follows: (1) institutions of higher education should review their admissions policies and, if necessary, revise them to ensure that applicants are not illegally excluded from admissions; ( 2) the Attorney General should investigate allegations of illegal racial discrimination in such admissions policies and pursue legal action against those schools which have violated title IV or VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, relating to desegregation of public education and nondiscrimination in federally assisted programs, respectively; and (3) the Secretary should conclude, as soon as possible, the compliance reviews on admissions policies of certain institutions of higher education being conducted by the Department of Education, and should initiate additional reviews of admissions policies of schools alleged to have illegally discriminated on the basis of race. Title XIII: Indian Higher Education Programs - Part A: Tribally Controlled Community Colleges - Amends the Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act of 1978 to extend the authorization of appropriations for: (1) technical assistance contracts; (2) grants to tribally controlled community colleges; (3) a renovation program; (4) construction of new facilities; (5) the tribally controlled community college endowment program grants; and (6) an economic development program. Amends the Navajo Community College Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for construction grants. Part B: Higher Education Tribal Grant Authorization Act - Higher Education Tribal Grant Authorization Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary, for purposes of this part B of title XIII) to make grants to Indian tribes (tribes) to permit them to provide financial assistance to individual Indian students for the cost of attendance at institutions of higher education. Provides that such grants shall come from appropriations for supporting higher education grants for Indian students under the authority of the Snyder Act. Prohibits the Secretary from placing any restrictions not expressly authorized by this part on the use of funds provided to an Indian tribe under this part. Provides that this Act shall not affect any Federal trust responsibilities. Prohibits any termination, modification, suspension, or reduction of grants under this part which is only for the convenience of the administering agency. Allows any tribe to qualify for such a grant by filing: (1) a notice of intent to administer such a student assistance program, if such tribe obtains funds for educational purposes similar to those authorized in this part pursuant to a contract under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (ISDEAA) (contracting tribe); or (2) an application for such a grant, if the tribe does not have such an ISDEAA contract (noncontracting tribe), under guidelines for programs under ISDEAA. Presumes an Indian tribe which has qualified for such a grant to continue to be eligible for such a grant for each succeeding fiscal year, unless the Secretary revokes such eligibility for a specified cause, involving failure to submit annual financial statements and program descriptions to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) or biennial financial audits to the Secretary, or independently evaluated failure to comply with standards relating to eligible students, programs, or institutions of higher education, satisfactory progress, or allowable administrative costs. Sets forth procedural safeguards relating to such revocations, including written notice, opportunity and technical assistance to make corrections, and hearing and appeals applicable under ISDEAA. Directs the Secretary to continue to determine the amount of program funds to be received by each grantee under this part by the same method used for determining such distribution in FY 1991 for tribally-administered and BIA-administered programs of grants to individual Indians to defray postsecondary expenses. Provides for additional amounts to cover program administrative costs, determined for: (1) contracting tribes, by the method used by the grantee during the preceding ISDEAA contract period; and (2) noncontracting tribes, by the ISDEAA regulations governing such determinations, as in effect at the time of the grant application. Provides for a single grant to each grantee during any fiscal year, combining such program and administrative funds. Requires the grant to be maintained in a separate account. Requires the tribes to use such grants to make grants to individual Indian students to meet, on the basis of need, any educational expense of attendance in a postsecondary education program (as determined under ISDEAA contracts), to the extent such expense is not met through other sources or cannot be defrayed through the action of any State, Federal, or municipal Act (except that nothing in these provisions is to be interpreted as requiring any priority in consideration of resources). Allows use of such grants also for program administrative costs, within the specified limits. Bars use of grant funds for study at a divinity school or department or for any religious worship or sectarian activity. Sets forth provisions for grant payments. Requires that interest or any other income on grant funds: (1) be used only for the same purposes as the grants; (2) be the property of the tribe or tribal organization; and (3) not be taken into account by Federal officers or employees in determining whether to provide assistance, or the amount of assistance, under any Federal law. Sets forth requirements relating to investments and deposits of such funds. Provides that such funds shall not be considered for purposes of underrecovery or overrecovery determinations by any Federal agency for any other funds. Directs the Secretary to report biennially to the Congress on the programs established under this part, including specified items. Requires that: (1) grant applications, and application modifications, be reviewed and approved by personnel under the direction and control of the Director of the Office of Indian Education Programs; and (2) required reports be submitted to such personnel. Requires that specified provisions of the ISDEAA be applicable to grants provided under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations relating to discharge of duties specifically assigned to the Secretary by this part. Prohibits the Secretary from issuing regulations in all other matters relating to the details of planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of grants under this part. Provides that regulations issued under these provisions shall not have the standing of a Federal statute for purposes of judicial review. Sets forth procedures for retrocession of programs assisted under this part. Makes any such retrocession requested by a tribe effective on a date specified by the Secretary not more than 120 days after such request, or such later date as may be mutually agreed upon by the Secretary and the tribe. Requires the Secretary, if such program is retroceded, to provide any tribe served by such program at least the same quantity and quality of services. Requires the tribal governing body requesting the retrocession to specify whether the retrocession shall be to: (1) a contract administered by the tribe, or a tribal entity, under the authority of the ISDEAA; or (2) a BIA-administered program. Part C: Critical Needs for Tribal Development Act - Critical Needs for Tribal Development Act - Authorizes an eligible Indian tribe or tribal organization to require any applicant for federally funded higher education assistance to enter into a critical area service agreement, as a condition of receipt of such assistance. Requires such tribe or tribal organization that implements such critical area service agreements to designate particular occupational areas as critical areas for the economic or human development needs of the tribe or its members, and to so notify the Secretary of the Interior. Establishes guidelines and procedures to implement such critical area service agreements. Part D: Institute of American Indian Native Culture and Arts Development - Amends the Higher Education Amendments of 1986 (of which title XV is the American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Culture and Art Development Act is referred to as the Act for purposes of this part) to revise provisions relating to the Institute of American Indian Native Culture and Arts Development (the Institute) and its Board of Directors (the Board). Requires that Board members represent diverse fields of expertise, including finance, law, and fine arts higher education administration. Directs the President to carry out through the Board the publication of announcements of expiration of terms and the solicitation of nominations from Indian tribes and organizations to fill vacancies. Authorizes the Board to: (1) make recommendations based on nominations received; (2) make recommendations of its own; and (3) review and make comments on individuals being considered by the President for whom no nominations have been received. Grants the Board the power to recommend the continuation of Board members, in order to maintain stability and continuation, in accordance with specified procedures. Revises general powers of the Board. Authorizes the Board to: (1) enter into joint development ventures with public or private commercial or noncommercial entities for development of facilities to meet a specified required plan (provided that such ventures are related to and further the Institute's mission); and (2) designate annually a portion (up to ten percent) of specified appropriated funds for investment on a short-term basis to maximize yield and liquidity. Requires that interest and earnings on specified amounts received and invested by the Institute be expended to carry out the Act. Revises provisions for basic compensation rates for Institute staff to require these to be set at rates comparable to those of similar institutions of higher education (or, as at present, at civil service rates for individuals with comparable qualifications). Revises Institute functions to eliminate certain requirements relating to a Center for Culture and Art Studies, Center for Research and Cultural Exchange, and Museum of American Indian and Alaska Native Arts. Makes the Board responsible for establishing the policies and administrative organization relating to the administrative control and monitoring responsibilities for all Institute subdivisions, administrative entities, and departments, with the specific responsibilities of each to lie solely within the discretion of the Board or its designee. Requires the Board to establish, within the Institute, departments for the study of culture and arts and for research and exchange, and a museum. Directs the Board to establish areas of competency for such departments. Authorizes the Institute to develop a policy or policies to extend preference to Indians in its program admissions and enrollment, employment, and contracts, fellowships, and grants. (Currently authorizes the Institute to simply extend such preference.) Revises provisions relating to transfer of functions, including certain provisions for forgiveness of amounts owed and hold-harmless provisions. Eliminates requirements for an annual report by the Institute President. Revises provisions relating to the Institute's headquarters to refer to the Board, rather than the Secretary of the Interior. Provides that the Institute shall not be subject to any requirement for non-Federal matching funds as a condition for Federal assistance. Revises provisions for the Institute's endowment program. Allows the Institute to use funds from any non-Federal governmental source (as well as from any private or tribal source) to comply with a contribution requirement. Directs the Board to prepare a master plan on the short- and long-term facilities needs of the Institute, including specified types of evaluations, impact projections, periodic reviews, and needs prioritization. Requires transmittal of such plan to the Congress within 18 months after enactment of this part. Part E: Tribal Development Student Assistance Revolving Loan Program - Tribal Development Student Assistance Act - Establishes a student assistance revolving loan program for Native Americans, to be administered by tribes or tribal organizations. Requires that funds received under a grant under this part or recovered under specified provisions of this part be identified and accounted for separately from any other tribal or Federal funds received from the Federal Government. Requires that all funds in such account be used for the purposes of this Act. Makes the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary, for purposes of this part) responsible for establishing requirements for receipt, investment, and accounting of such funds to safeguard any financial interests of the Federal Government. Requires such funds to be: (1) invested by the tribe or tribal organization only in obligations of the United States or in obligations or securities guaranteed or insured by the United States; or (2) deposited only in accounts that are insured by an agency or instrumentality of the United States. Provide that any interest or investment income that accrues to any of such funds after they have been distributed to a tribe or tribal organization to make loans under this part shall be: (1) the property of the tribe or tribal organization; and (2) not taken into account by any Federal officer or employee in determining whether to provide assistance, or the amount of assistance, under any provision of Federal law. Directs the Secretary to make grants under this part to: (1) tribes or multitribal organizations not serviced by current federally funded postsecondary institutions authorized for economic development grants; and (2) tribes or multitribal organizations which lack sufficient numbers of professionally trained tribal members to support established or ongoing economic development activities. Requires any tribe or tribal organization which receives such grant funds to make such funds available by loan to Native American students who have successfully completed 30 hours of postsecondary education and who are eligible for readmission to a postsecondary institution. Sets forth terms of such student loans, including: (1) being subject to repayment over a period of not more than five years; (2) not bearing interest; and (3) being subject to forgiveness for services to the tribe under specified provisions. Requires that calculation of the student's cost of attendance include all costs as determined by the tribe for purposes of fulfilling the policy of this part. Requires any student seeking such a loan to apply for and accept the maximum financial aid available from other sources. Prohibits such loans from being considered in needs analysis under any other Federal law, and from penalizing students in determining eligibility for other funds. Sets forth requirements for a written agreement between the tribe or tribal organization and the eligible recipient for service fulfillment or loan repayment. Requires the recipient to commit to: (1) perform, for each academic year of assistance under this part, one calendar year of service to the tribe or tribal organization in an occupation related to the course of study pursued and an economic or social tribal development plan (commencing not later than six months after the student ceases to carry at least one-half the normal full-time academic workload); or (2) repay to the tribe or tribal organization the full amount of the loan, in monthly or quarterly installments within five years (with such recovered funds to be reported annually to the Secretary and invested in the account). Sets forth provisions for: (1) limitations and conditions on such service; (2) waivers or suspensions of such service agreements; (3) pro rata reductions for partial service; and (4) annual certification of individuals' service by the tribe to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish an application process for making grants to eligible entities; (2) take into account in reviewing applications the number of students with partial completion identified by the applicant, relative to the total number of tribal members who would be benefitted by the provision of services; and (3) attempt to achieve geographic and demographic diversity in such grants. Directs the Secretary, subject to the availability of funds and acceptable applications, to make five four-year grants to tribes or tribal organizations. Requires that the amount of administrative costs associated with such grants be negotiated by the Secretary with successful applicants and made a part of the grant agreement. Authorizes appropriations for such program. Title XIV: Miscellaneous - Part A: Studies -Directs the Secretary to conduct, through the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), a two-year study of programs to increase the accessibility of postsecondary education for nontraditional students. Requires an interim and final report on such study to specified congressional committees. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study to evaluate the coordination of Federal student assistance programs with other benefit programs funded in whole or part with Federal funds. Requires particular attention to: (1) the effect of receipt of student aid on reduction or denial of other program benefits to such students; and (2) the attendance cost elements funded in whole or part by Federal student assistance programs for students eligible for other Federal programs, and the inclusion of room and/or board costs in such attendance costs. Requires a report to the appropriate congressional committees within three years. Directs the Secretary to conduct an annual special purpose survey of factors associated with participation of low-income, disadvantaged, non-English language backgrounds, and minority students in various types of postsecondary education. Requires such survey data to permit comparisons with other groups that have characteristically participated at higher rates than at-risk students. Requires consultation with the Congress and the elementary, secondary, and higher education community in developing such annual survey. Sets forth required inclusions in such survey. Requires the Secretary, in the event of significant findings related to underparticipation rates of at-risk and other students, to submit a plan containing policies and program modifications for ensuring the participation of at-risk students. Directs the Secretary, through OERI, to evaluate the effectiveness of postsecondary assistance guaranty programs for disadvantaged children that, in exchange for the child's commitment to achieving a satisfactory elementary and secondary education, promise the child the financial resources needed to pursue a postsecondary education. Requires such study to sample the types of such guarantee programs available, which may include supportive services, mentoring, study skills, and counseling for student participants. Requires dissemination of study findings. Requires an interim and a final report to specified congressional committees. Directs OERI to conduct a two-year study to: (1) assess information currently collected on graduate education; and (2) identify what additional information should be generated to guide the Department of Education in supporting graduate education. Requires inclusion of specified assessments and determinations. Requires consultation with other agencies and organizations involved in graduate education policies and programs. Directs the Comptroller General to evaluate staffing requirements of the U.S. Department of Education's Center for International Education, including specified considerations. Requires consultation with institutions of higher education which have participated in specified international education programs under HEA and the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act, and with national organizations of such institutions. Requires a report to the Congress within one year on such evaluation results. Authorizes the Secretary, in cooperation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to conduct a study of environmental health hazards (lead in drinking water, asbestos, radon gas) to students and employees of institutions of higher education. Requires such study to include a representative sample of such institutions to assess how widespread such hazards are. Requires consultation with associations representing such institutions, faculty, and other employees. Requires a report to the Congress by July 1, 1995, with the results of such study assessment and recommendations for actions the Congress and the Administration should take to eliminate any such environmental health hazards. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 to carry out such assessment. Directs the Secretary to enter into arrangements with the National Academy of Sciences Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education to study civilian education training programs needed to satisfy the workforce requirements of the commercial aviation industry in the year 2000 and beyond. Requires inclusion of specified concerns to be addressed by such study. Directs the Secretary to request such Commission to submit an interim report within one year to the Secretary and the Congress. Requires the study to be completed within two years of the enactment of this Act. Amends the General Education Provisions Act to revise provisions relating to access to data provided by the National Center for Education Statistics. Provides that nothing in specified provisions relating to confidentiality and other standards for access to such data shall restrict the right of the Librarian of Congress (as well as, currently, the Comptroller General) to gain access to any reports or other records, including information identifying individuals, in such Center's possession, except that the same restrictions on disclosure that apply to the Center shall apply to the Library of Congress (as well as, currently, the General Accounting Office). Amends the General Education Provisions Act to exclude from the definition of education records, under requirements relating to family educational and privacy rights, any records maintained by a law enforcement unit of the educational agency or institution, that were created by that law enforcement unit for the purpose of law enforcement. Provides for training and technical assistance for a school-based decisionmakers demonstration program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for such programs to local education agencies (LEAs) implementing system-wide reform, jointly with one or more institutions of higher education. Sets forth application requirements. Authorizes appropriations for such program. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a report on the use of Pell Grants by prisoners, including specified types of information, within six months after enactment of this Act. Part B: National Clearinghouse for Postsecondary Education Materials - Authorizes the Secretary to award a three-year grant or contract to establish a National Clearinghouse for Postsecondary Education Materials to coordinate production and distribution of educational materials, in accessible form, including audio and digital for students with disabilities. Sets forth authorized uses of such grant or contract funds. Sets forth a declining Federal share of program cost for each year of the award. Authorizes appropriations for such clearinghouse. Part C: National Center for the Workplace - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor, through grant or contract to an eligible consortium, to establish the National Center for the Workplace, to join together workplace experts from institutions of higher education with experts from the public and private sectors to conduct research, share information, and propose remedies. Allows grant funds to be used to: (1) establish and operate such Center and carry out specified authorized activities; and (2) provide graduate assistantships and fellowships at the Center for study in industrial and labor relations and for research in areas critical to national competiveness. Provides for appointment of a Board of Advisors to the Center. Authorizes receipt of gifts and donations, to be accounted for in the annual report of the Board to the Secretaries of Education and Labor. Authorizes appropriations for such Center.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1992
Veterans Readjustment Appointment Amendments of 1992 - Expands eligibility for veterans' readjustment appointments (Federal employment positions for veterans) to include: (1) all veterans of the Vietnam era (currently, only Vietnam era veterans having a service-connected disability or having served on active duty for which a campaign badge has been authorized); and (2) a veteran who served on active duty after the Vietnam era for more than 180 days and was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable or because of a service-connected disability. Extends through December 31, 1995, the authorized period for such appointments.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1992
Deficit Reduction and Control Act of 1992 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to reduce maximum deficit amounts. Revises discretionary spending limits for FY 1992 and 1993 to reduce new budget authority and outlays for the defense category. Reduces such limits for the discretionary categories for FY 1994 and 1995. Requires the concurrent resolution on the budget to include discretionary spending limits for defense and nondefense categories for FY 1994 and 1995 as provided for in FY 1991, 1992, and 1993. Sets forth congressional requirements for enacting a joint resolution incorporating such spending limits. Requires enforcement through the sequestration provisions of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Amends such Act to provide that for FY 1994 and 1995, the nondefense category shall consist of all discretionary appropriations other than those in the defense category.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1992
Amends the Sherman Act to create a civil cause of action by an injured party against a person who obtains benefits from anticompetitive market protection (i.e., conduct that violates the laws of a foreign jurisdiction prohibiting unreasonable restraints of trade and that inhibits competition by U.S. persons in such jurisdiction) and employs such benefits in interstate or import commerce of the United States, thereby causing injury to the business or property of another party engaged in such commerce. Makes such person liable for actual damages and the cost of the suit, including attorney fees. Authorizes the court to award simple interest on actual damages for the period beginning on the date of service of the complaint and ending on the date of judgment, or for any shorter period, if the court finds that such award is just under the circumstances (based on whether the plaintiff or defendant made motions or asserted a claim or defense so lacking in merit as to show that the party acted in bad faith; violated any rule, statute, or court order providing for sanctions for dilatory behavior or otherwise providing for expeditious proceedings; or engaged in conduct primarily for the purpose of delay or increasing the cost of litigation).
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1992
Designates August 15, 1992, as 82d Airborne Division 50th Anniversary Recognition Day.
United States · United States Senate · 12 March 1992
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1992
Directs the Secretary of the Navy to establish a second homeport on the east coast of the United States for nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Outlines the development work to be performed at the site selected for such homeport.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1992
Includes bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma in the list of diseases presumed to be service-connected, in the case of exposure to ionizing radiation, and therefore compensable for purposes of veterans' disability compensation and medical care.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1992
Defense Industrial Stabilization and Community Transition Act of 1991 - Title I: Presidential Council on Economic Diversification and Adjustment - Establishes the Presidential Council on Economic Diversification and Adjustment within the Executive Office to: (1) determine the projected future reductions in defense spending and the sectors in which significant reductions will occur; (2) identify communities and businesses that will be adversely affected by such reductions and assist them in diversifying into nondefense commercial activities before such reductions adversely affect them; (3) assist defense-dependent industries in seeking new markets and workers adversely affected by spending reductions; (4) serve as a liaison among Federal Government programs to ensure that all resources are utilized to minimize adverse effects; (5) maintain the integrity of the U.S. defense industrial base during periods of significant defense spending reductions; (6) ensure that the U.S. technological base is not unduly impaired by such reductions; (7) maintain a clearinghouse of information on State and local initiatives on diversification of businesses and communities; (8) assist State economic development offices in the planning of meetings on diversification; (9) ensure that communities, businesses, and workers likely to be adversely affected by reductions are given advanced notice; and (10) allocate funds in the Defense Economic Adjustment Trust Fund (Fund) to relevant programs. Establishes Council working groups on technology, marketing, small business, and job training to carry out this Act. Title II: Grant Assistance for Alternative Use Committees - Authorizes the Council to make a grant to any eligible alternative use committee at a defense business facility to provide for: (1) a marketing expert to determine the potential market needs in the region of the facility that provide diversification and conversion opportunities; (2) a suitable office for such committee; and (3) experts in relevant technologies to determine the feasibility of diversification and conversion alternatives for such facility. Defines an alternative use committee at a defense business as a committee established for the purpose of planning for the diversification of a facility into nondefense commercial activities. Title III: Displaced Workers - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to authorize certain funds made available under the Defense Saving Investment Act of 1991 to be made available for the defense conversion adjustment program. Permits the Council to transfer funds made available by the Fund for providing assistance to eligible employees under such Act. Title IV: Export Opportunities - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to require the Export-Import Bank to include in an annual report to the Congress a description of actions taken to support the commercial diversification of industries that are dependent on Federal defense spending. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to authorize the President to extend guarantees to U.S. businesses in connection with the sale of defense articles and services to NATO countries, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Israel. Limits the aggregate amount of such guarantees. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Defense Production Act - Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to authorize the President to permit specified Federal agencies engaged in defense procurement to guarantee any financing institution against losses on any loan or other commitment for financing the conversion of businesses from defense-related production to other commercial production. Permits the President to provide such authority only with respect to businesses critical to the U.S. defense industrial base that are likely to be closed as a result of projected reductions in Federal defense spending. Authorizes the President to enter into joint ventures to carry out such guarantees and loans. Limits the total U.S. investment in any joint venture to 40 percent. Title VI: Small Business - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to take actions to increase: (1) the number of small business development centers established in defense-dependent regions; and (2) the assistance and services provided by such centers to defense-dependent small business concerns in such regions. Amends the Small Business Act to increase the amount required to be allocated by certain Federal agencies for small business innovation research programs. Title VII: Economic Development Assistance - Makes communities that will be adversely affected by defense spending reductions eligible for special economic development and adjustment assistance under the Public Works and Economic Development of 1965. Authorizes the Council to transfer funds under this Act for providing assistance under such Act to such communities. Title VIII: Defense Economic Adjustment Trust Fund - Establishes the Defense Economic Adjustment Trust Fund to be available for activities under this and other specified Acts. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1992
Department of Defense Civilian Employee Management Reform Act of 1992 - Revises guidelines for reductions of civilian personnel within the Department of Defense (DOD). Requires the Secretary of Defense (currently, each agency or component of DOD that employs persons who are or may be furloughed) to include annually in budget materials submitted to the Congress a master plan (currently, a five-year master plan) for DOD as a whole, and for each military department, defense agency, or other employing component of DOD. Requires each master plan to include civilian DOD employment information with respect to the previous two, the current, and the upcoming two fiscal years. Outlines information to be provided in each master plan, including a profile of civilian employment levels sufficient to establish and maintain a baseline for tracking annual accessions and losses of DOD civilian personnel and to provide for the analysis of trends in civilian employment levels within DOD as a whole and within its related departments, agencies, and components. Requires annual trends in employment workloads for industrial- and commercial-type activities of DOD that are funded through the Defense Business Operating Fund to also be included in each such master plan. Permits deviation from the guidelines in the master plans when critical to the national security of the United States, requiring congressional notification of such determination by the Secretary, together with the reasons therefor. Prohibits a DOD military department, defense agency, or component from implementing any involuntary reductions or furloughs of civilian DOD personnel until 45 days after notification to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1992
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the veterans' health care system administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs should be maintained within that Department uniquely for providing health care for veterans; and (2) eligibility for health care services provided by such health care system should not be expanded to non-veterans other than to provide care for veterans' dependents or to enter into sharing arrangements with other health-care providers.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1992
Veterans Health Care Amendments Act of 1992 - Title I: Mental Health - Part A: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - Veterans Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment Act of 1992 - Directs that a veteran diagnosed by the Department of Veterans Affairs as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) be furnished care and services for such disorder by the Department, even if such disorder has not been determined to be service-connected. Makes eligible for such care and services a veteran who served on active duty in a theater of combat operations during World War II, the Korean conflict, the Vietnam era, the Persian Gulf War, or in any other area during a period in which hostilities occurred in such area. Requires a veteran who is referred by a Vet Center to a Department general health-care facility for a determination regarding such veteran's eligibility for PTSD care and services to be evaluated for diagnostic purposes within seven days of such referral. Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, upon request of any eligible veteran, to furnish counseling to assist the veteran in overcoming any psychological problems associated with such service. Directs the Secretary, no later than June 1, 1992, to devise and initiate a plan to: (1) increase the availability of treatment of veterans suffering from PTSD to levels commensurate with their needs; and (2) enhance outreach activities to inform combat veterans (and their families) of the availability of such treatment and to encourage such veterans to participate in such treatment. Directs the Secretary to report to the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees on the description and implementation of such plan. Directs the Secretary, in preparing such report, to consult with the Special Committee on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Advisory Committee on Readjustment of Vietnam and other War Veterans. Directs the Special Committee on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Special Committee) to report concurrently to the Secretary and the veterans' committees setting forth its evaluation of a study required under prior law of postwar psychological problems of Vietnam veterans. Requires the Special Committee in 1993 and 1994 to update certain reports required under prior law relating to PTSD and its treatment. Directs the Secretary, in the budgetary documents submitted to the Congress in conjunction with the President's budget submission for FY 1994 and 1995, to identify amounts in the appropriations requests for Department accounts that are estimated to be obligated for various purposes relating to the provision of treatment for PTSD. Directs the Secretary to ensure that there are PTSD units in locations that are readily accessible to veterans residing in rural areas. Part B: Mental Illness Research and Education - Directs the Secretary, upon the recommendation of the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the Department, to designate not more than five health-care facilities of the Department as locations for centers of mental illness research, education and clinical activities (especially for service-related conditions) and to establish and operate such centers at such locations. Requires the first such facility to be designated no later than January 1, 1993. Requires the Secretary to ensure the appropriate geographical distribution of such facilities. Prohibits the Secretary from designating any such facility as a mental illness research, education, and clinical center (MIC) unless such facility has an arrangement with an accredited medical school, graduate school of psychology, or nursing school which: (1) provides appropriate education and training in such matters; (2) has the ability to attract appropriate personnel for such research; (3) has a policy-making advisory committee; and (4) has the capability to conduct effective evaluations of the activities at such center. Authorizes appropriations for the operation of the MICs for FY 1993 through 1996. Requires such research to include an appropriate emphasis on the psychosocial dimension of mental illness and on proposals for furnishing care and treatment to veterans suffering from mental illness. Requires the CMD to ensure that useful information produced by MICs is disseminated through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Requires reports during 1993 through 1995 from the Secretary to the veterans' committees on experiences under the MIC program. Part C: Program of Marriage and Family Counseling for Certain Veterans - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a program for furnishing marriage and family counseling services to veterans who were awarded a campaign medal for active-duty service during the Persian Gulf War, reservists who were called or ordered to active duty during such War, and their spouses, dependents, and parents. Authorizes the Secretary to provide marriage and family counseling services that the Secretary determines, based on an assessment by a mental-health professional, is necessary for the amelioration of psychological, marital, or familial difficulties resulting from such active-duty service. Outlines provisions concerning the manner in which such services will be furnished, as well as qualifications required of the marriage and family counselors performing such services. Outlines provisions concerning counseling services provided by mental health professionals pursuant to Department of Veterans Affairs contracts, including the length of marriage and counseling services to be performed under the program. Prohibits the same person who performs the counseling needs assessment from furnishing the marriage and counseling services under the program, with a waiver of such prohibition under specified circumstances. Directs the Secretary to reimburse the mental health professionals for the reasonable costs of such counseling services. Provides cost recovery provisions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 and 1994. Requires the Secretary to report an interim and final report to the Congress on such program, with recommendations. Title II: General Health Care - Part A: General Health - Authorizes the furnishing of prosthetic devices and certain other medical items as part of outpatient care when necessary either to obviate the need for hospital admission or in preparation for such. Requires the Secretary, in order for such authority to become effective, to determine that its implementation would not result in a substantial delay in furnishing such items in connection with the treatment of service-connected disabilities or in the denial of such items in connection with such treatment. Increases the amount authorized to be expended per veteran for improvements and structural alterations necessary to assure the continuation of treatment for a disability or to provide access to the home or to lavatory and sanitary facilities. Directs the Secretary to require the directors of Department medical centers or regional benefits offices to assess the needs of homeless veterans living within their service areas, including the needs of such veterans with respect to health care, education and training, employment, shelter, counseling, and outreach services. Requires each assessment to indicate the extent to which such needs are being adequately met by programs of the Department and other Federal, State, and local governments and agencies, as well as nongovernmental organizations. Requires each such director to develop a plan for each of fiscal years 1993 through 1995 for the provision of outreach and other services to meet veterans needs. Requires the coordination of such plans with other Federal, non-Federal, and private plans and programs with respect to the provision of services to homeless persons. Requires each director to carry out such plan and to disseminate to all other appropriate entities information regarding the services provided to homeless veterans by the medical facility or benefits office. Directs the Secretary to conduct a pilot program to determine the effectiveness of providing, through existing community-based organizations, domiciliary care to homeless veterans eligible for such care from the Department under other provisions of law. Requires the pilot program to be conducted at not more than 15 locations throughout the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with community-based organizations to provide services under such program, giving preference to those that offer the most comprehensive care and services to homeless individuals and those not being adequately met by existing programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 through 1995. Authorizes the transfer of certain other funds for continuing pilot programs, with certain transfer limitations. Authorizes the Secretary to accept donations of funds and services for providing one-stop, nonresidential services and mobile support teams and for expanding the medical services available to eligible homeless veterans. Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 to extend the authorization of appropriations and the provision of certain programs for homeless veterans provided under such Act through FY 1993. Amends the Veterans' Benefits and Services Act of 1988 to extend through FY 1994 a program under such Act with regard to certain services for mentally ill homeless veterans. Requires the Secretary to report to the veterans' committees containing an evaluation of: (1) assessments and plans by medical center and benefits office directors with respect to homeless veterans; (2) the pilot program for the provision of domiciliary care to homeless veterans; and (3) the acceptance of gifts and services to provide nonresidential services and mobile support teams for expanding the medical services available to homeless veterans. Amends the Veterans' Benefits and Services Act of 1988 to extend through FY 1993 the authorization of appropriations for a pilot program which provides mobile health-care clinics for veterans residing in isolated rural areas. Directs the Secretary to establish the Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities Programs to advise the Secretary on: (1) all matters related to prosthetics and special-disabilities programs of the Department; (2) coordination of programs which develop and test prosthetic devices; and (3) the adequacy of funding for such programs within the Department. Requires the Advisory Committee to report to the Secretary and the veterans' committees annually in 1993 through 1995 on the effectiveness of the prosthetics and special-disabilities programs administered by the Secretary during the preceding fiscal year. Expands the definition of "medical services," for purposes of veterans' benefits provisions, to include services to overcome a service-connected disability impairing a veteran's ability to achieve procreation. Directs the CMD to appoint an advisory committee to advise the CMD on the exercise of authority to furnish such procreative-assistive services. Directs the Secretary, through FY 1996, to: (1) furnish annually at least two preventive health-care services that the Secretary determines are feasible and appropriate for any veteran being furnished hospital, nursing home, or domiciliary care or medical treatment under current veterans' benefits provisions; and (2) implement annually at each Department health-care facility a major preventive health-care and health-promotion initiative for such veterans. Limits the yearly expenditures for such activities. Requires the CMD to designate an official in the VHA to act as the Director of Preventive Health-Care and Health-Promotion Programs. Requires the Secretary to report on February 1 of 1994 and 1996 on interim and final experiences under the programs. Authorizes the Secretary to provide: (1) a service dog to a quadriplegic veteran who has a service-connected disability; and (2) a signal dog to a veteran who has a service-connected hearing impairment. Authorizes the payment of travel and incidental expenses to veterans for travel incurred in becoming adjusted to such service or signal dog. Directs the Secretary to report to the veterans' committees concerning the backlog that occurred in the procurement of prosthetic appliances in FY 1989 and on actions to be taken to prevent a recurrence of backlogs and failures to furnish appliances on a priority basis. Repeals the authority of the Department to furnish tobacco products to veterans receiving hospital or domiciliary care through the Department. Directs the Secretary to establish a task force to recommend policies and legislation for the elimination of inconsistencies among provisions of law relating to veterans' eligibility for certain health-care benefits. Requires the Secretary to review the report of the task force and either approve of its recommendations, make recommendations in lieu of such recommendations, or a combination of both and report thereon to the veterans' committees. Makes former prisoners of war eligible for outpatient medical services through the Department for any disability. Directs the Secretary, during FY 1992 through 1995, to conduct a pilot program to furnish assistive monkeys to quadriplegic veterans who have a service-connected disability rated at 50 percent or more. Directs the Secretary to: (1) consider the extent to which the veteran needs and can benefit from the assistance of the monkey; and (2) provide a preference for veterans who have service-connected quadriplegia. Requires a receiving veteran to be well-suited for caring for such monkey and for effectively using the monkey for the provision of assistance in performing daily living tasks. Provides administrative matters, including the making of contracts for the furnishing of such assistive monkeys. Requires the Secretary to evaluate and report to the veterans' committees on the pilot program. Requires the CMD, before furnishing such assistive monkeys under the pilot program, to provide for the conduct of an independent evaluation of the way that assistive monkeys would be treated during training and placement under the pilot program. Requires consultation with appropriate animal welfare organizations. Part B: Health-Care Personnel - Authorizes the provision of increased pay to any Department health-care personnel furnishing direct care to patients or providing incidental services on the same basis as pay is currently provided for nurses within the Department. Prohibits such added pay from exceeding by two times (currently, only exceeding) the amount by which the maximum for such pay grade exceeds the minimum for such grade. Directs the Secretary to increase the rates of pay for clinical or counseling psychologists who hold diplomas in psychology from an accredited authority recognized by the Secretary, unless the CMD determines that such psychologists are not needed to furnish the appropriate quality of psychological services for veterans. Makes such increase an amount needed to make their pay competitive with the pay of psychologists in comparable positions in a non-Department facility. Directs the Secretary to require the director of each Department medical facility and regional office to: (1) assess the needs of employees of such facility or office for child-care services; and (2) report annually to the Secretary on their findings, including a proposal to meet such needs. Includes board certification pay within certain other categories of special pay under Federal provisions guaranteeing that full and part-time physicians and dentists receiving special pay will continue to receive special pay of at least such amount after changes made to special pay provisions under the Department of Veterans Affairs Health-Care Personnel Act of 1991. Authorizes the Department to appoint and pay nonphysician directors of clinical support services within the VHA of the Department, as opposed to payment under a Federal employees' schedule. Title III: Minority Affairs - Reestablishes the Advisory Committee on Native-American Veterans as established under the Veterans' Health-Care Amendments of 1986. Requires the Advisory Committee to report to the Secretary, who in turn shall report to the veterans' committees, on findings and recommendations with respect to the needs of Native American veterans, including American Indians and Alaska Natives. Terminates such Advisory Committee 90 days after its second report. Title IV: Miscellaneous - States that the prohibition on the payment of attorneys' fees in connection with VA benefits proceedings applies only where the individual is applying for such benefits, and not when the Government is proceeding against a person to collect an indebtedness or in cases in which other attorneys' fees statutes apply. Authorizes the director of each national cemetery to display a prisoner of war/missing in action flag on a flagstaff at that cemetery. Prohibits any officer or employee of the Government from obligating appropriated funds for the purchase of such a flag at a national cemetery.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1992
Criminal Alien and Prison Overcrowding Act - Transfers certain closed military installations to the Department of Justice. Authorizes appropriations for related construction and renovation. Provides for transfer of certain aliens in State prisons to such installations. Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide grants to States relating to the incarceration of certain aliens. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1992
Designates May 31 through June 6, 1992, as a Week for the National Observance of the 50th Anniversary of World War II.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1992
Freedom from Government Competition Act of 1992 - Requires Federal agencies to obtain all goods and services necessary for or beneficial to the accomplishment of their authorized functions by procurement from private sources unless: (1) the goods or services are required by law to be produced or performed, respectively, by the agency; (2) or the head of the agency determines and certifies to the Congress that Government production, manufacture, or provision of a good or service is necessary for national defense, that a good or service is so inherently governmental in nature that it is in the public interest to require production or performance by a Government employee, or that there is no private source capable of providing the good or service. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to study and report to the Congress on: (1) agency activities which are inconsistent with such requirements; and (2) a schedule for transferring such activities to the private sector.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1992
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a urology center at the Department of Veterans Affairs satellite outpatient clinic in Youngstown, Ohio.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1992
Criminal Alien and Prison Overcrowding Act - Transfers certain closed military installations to the Department of Justice. Authorizes appropriations for related construction and renovation. Provides for transfer of certain aliens in State prisons to such installations. Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide grants to States relating to the incarceration of certain aliens. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Senate · 10 March 1992
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1992
Comprehensive Base Closure Reform and Recovery Act of 1992 - Title I: Environmental Restoration At Military Installations To Be Closed - Requires, with respect to each military installation which is on the National Priorities List (for substantial environmental cleanup) under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 and which is to be closed under Federal base closure Acts or otherwise by the Department of Defense (DOD): (1) that at least 75 percent of the environmental remedial action required under Federal law be completed before the installation is closed or substantial reductions in its operations have occurred; and (2) that all of the required remedial action be occurred no later than two years after such installation is closed or substantially reduced. Defines a "substantial reduction" as the reassignment of more than 50 percent of its personnel. Title II: Tax Incentives Relating to Federal Military Base Closures and Realignments - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat any former employee of a Federal military installation whose job was terminated by reason of its closing or realignment as a member of a targeted group for purposes of the targeted jobs credit allowed to employers. Reduces the depreciation recapture rate for businesses that acquire buildings on such bases. Increases the amount which may be expensed for the cost of new equipment placed in service. Provides for the treatment of amounts paid as compensation for losses which may be or have been sustained in a private sale of a residence as part of the amount realized on the sale of the residence. Title III: Economic Adjustment and Conversion Assistance - Amends the Defense Economic Adjustment, Diversification, Conversion, and Stabilization Act of 1990 (the Act, for purposes of this title) to direct the Economic Development Administration, in making economic adjustment assistance available under this Act, to ensure that funds are reserved for communities identified as the most substantially and seriously affected by the closure or realignment of a military installation or the curtailment, completion, elimination, or realignment of a major defense contract or subcontract. Extends through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations under the Act for such economic adjustment assistance. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a program to guarantee loans made by approved lenders to civilian DOD employees employed at or in connection with a U.S. military installation to be closed or realigned pursuant to Federal law. Limits to $10,000 per employee the total amount of loans to be guaranteed. Outlines provisions concerning loan guaranty applications and certificates, approved lenders, and guaranteed loan default procedures. Requires the average amount of assistance authorized to be made available by the Secretary to a State or local government directly and adversely affected by the closure of a military installation for planning community adjustments and economic diversification to be at least $250,000 per year during the course of such closure. Amends the Act to extend through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for the provision of training, adjustment assistance, and employment services to employees adversely affected by Federal closures of U.S. military installations. Directs the Secretary to convey to an eligible political subdivision of a State or to the State all right, title, and interest of the United States in a military installation closed in such area pursuant to a base closure law. Directs the Secretary, as soon as practicable after an installation has been identified for closure, but in no event later than the date on which the installation is closed, to transmit to the appropriate State and political subdivisions, communities, and counties advance notification of the Secretary's intention to make a conveyance of the property of the installation. Provides the order of priority for the conveyance of property. Directs the Secretary, in addition to real property conveyed, to convey any related personal property appropriate for use by the recipient in connection with use of the real property. Prohibits the payment of any consideration for conveyances under this title. Authorizes the President to waive property conveyance requirements for national security reasons or if the value of the installation is so high that a conveyance would constitute an undue windfall to the community and would not be necessary for its economic recovery. Directs the President to certify such determinations to the Congress with respect to each waiver. Limits the total amounts of waivers authorized. Specifies time periods for such waiver determinations and certifications. Directs the Secretary, prior to and after the conveyance of any real property pursuant to this title, to provide economic adjustment and community planning assistance to communities near the closed military installation until such time as the economic stability of such communities is achieved. Provides funding sources for such assistance from base closure accounts. Authorizes the Secretary and the head of any other Federal department or agency to continue, on or after the date on which the closure of an installation is approved by the President, to obligate funds for making improvements to the property that will facilitate its conveyance and that are consistent with the use to be made of the property by its recipient. Directs the Secretary, in entering into contracts with private entities as part of the closure or realignment of a military installation under a base closure law, including environmental restoration contracts, to give preference to local businesses and small business concerns.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1992
Dire Emergency Job Creation Appropriations Act, 1992 - Makes dire emergency appropriations for FY 1992 to stimulate the economy and to create and retain productive jobs. Title I: Immediate Job Creation Through Vital Public Investments - Appropriates funds for the following investments in transportation to: (1) accelerate the resurfacing, restoration, and rehabilitation of the nation's interstate highway system; (2) accelerate the construction, reconstruction, restoration, and rehabilitation of highways and transit systems; (3) accelerate the construction, alteration, and rehabilitation of runways, taxiways, aprons, and roads within airport boundaries; and (4) accelerate the construction and rehabilitation of National Park Service roads and parkways and the completion of the Appalachian Development Highway System. Declares the Federal share payable for highway projects to be 95 percent. Provides for the apportionment to the States of such funds and exempts such funds from specified limitations. Makes additional funds available for: (1) community development grants; (2) community services block grants to encourage the creation of business and employment opportunities; and (3) child care and development block grants to improve the availability and quality of child care services. Makes additional funds available for investments in: (1) wastewater treatment facilities; (2) water resource, hydroelectric power, irrigation, and reclamation projects; (3) natural resource protection and enhancement; (4) urban forest maintenance; and (5) park and recreation area improvements. Appropriates additional funds for investments in: (1) public housing modernization; (2) rural housing improvements; (3) energy conservation home improvements for low-income households; and (4) military family housing improvements in the United States. Appropriates an additional amount to restore the prior level of Federal support for economic development purposes as in effect immediately before September 30, 1982. Appropriates additional amounts to create jobs and promote economic development in the Appalachian and Tennessee Valley regions. Makes additional new and direct guaranteed loan authority available to increase small business opportunities. Makes available additional loan authority and additional funding for investments in: (1) rural electrification and telephone system upgrades; (2) watershed and conservation development; and (3) rural water and sewer improvements. Appropriates additional funds for: (1) maintaining and protecting public investment in Federal buildings; (2) improving facilities for veterans; (3) expanding and modernizing correctional facilities; (4) improving Indian health/reservation facilities; (5) constructing Federal biomedical research facilities; and (6) accelerating library construction. Appropriates funds to the Department of Labor to establish the emergency job creation program to provide productive jobs in an expeditious manner. Sets forth administrative provisions for such program. Requires the use of such funds to provide unemployed individuals with temporary employment for not more than six months for the repair, maintenance, and rehabilitation of publicly-owned facilities or for the conservation, rehabilitation, and improvement of public lands. Provides for allocating such funds to the territories, native Americans, and the States. Title II: Short-Term Assistance for Those Adversely Affected by the Economic Downturn - Makes additional funds available for: (1) the emergency food and shelter program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; (2) retraining displaced workers who have been adversely affected by the recession; (3) the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC); and (4) the emergency food assistance program. Title III: Investments for Long-Term Economic Expansion - Appropriates additional funds for certain research and development and advanced technology programs concerning: (1) high energy physics; (2) advanced technology and technology transfer; (3) research facility upgrades; and (4) oceanic and atmospheric research. Appropriates additional funds for investments in education through: (1) the Head Start program; (2) vocational skills improvement; (3) construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of academic and residential facilities; and (4) science and engineering education and human resources programs. Title IV: General Provisions - Prohibits appropriations contained in this Act from remaining available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided. Designates all funds in this Act as emergency requirements for purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1992
Increases the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents of certain disabled veterans, the clothing allowance for certain service-disabled veterans, dependency and indemnity compensation, and supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for children. Increases each such rate by the same percentage as the increase in benefit amounts under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to adjust administratively the rates of disability compensation payable to persons who are not in receipt of compensation for service-connected disability or death. Requires the Secretary to publish such increases in the Federal Register at the same time that percentage increases under title II of the Social Security Act are required to be published.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1992
Veterans' Survivors' Benefits Improvement Act of 1992 - Revises the rate of monthly dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) payable to the surviving spouses of service-disabled veterans whose deaths occur before October 1, 1992. Makes such monthly amount $650 plus ten percent of the average monthly compensation paid to the veteran during the five years before the veteran's death, plus an additional amount which varies depending on the veteran's length of active military service. Provides a transitional rule for the payment of DIC for the first full month following the veteran's death. Provides payment of a full month's disability compensation for the month during which the veteran died. (Current law terminates such compensation at the beginning of the month during which the veteran died.) Increases, for each of FY 1993, 1994, and thereafter, the amount of additional DIC paid to a surviving spouse with dependent children. Provides eligibility for up to $15,000 in additional Service Disabled Veterans' Insurance (SDVI) for totally disabled veterans who qualify for a waiver of premiums for coverage under SDVI due to the total disability rating. Requires eligible veterans to apply for such additional coverage within one year after: (1) enactment of this Act; or (2) being notified by the Department of Veterans Affairs of their eligibility for a waiver of premiums. Prohibits the waiver of premiums for any supplemental insurance granted to such veterans. Limits to $90 the monthly pension payable to Medicaid-eligible veterans or their survivors while in nursing homes participating in Medicaid if such veterans have neither spouse nor child or if such survivor has no child. Makes such limitations permanent (currently terminate at the end of FY 1992). Extends through September 30, 1993, the authority of the Department to obtain data from the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service in order to verify the income of those applying for or receiving veterans' pensions on a needs basis. Makes an identical extension under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1992
Fort Carson-Pinon Canyon Military Lands Withdrawal Act - Withdraws from appropriation under public land, mining, mineral, and geothermal leasing laws, and reserves for military use by the Army, specified lands at the Fort Carson Military Reservation and Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site (both in Colorado). Requires the Secretary of the Army (Secretary), during the period of withdrawal, to manage such lands for military purposes covered by this Act and to authorize their use by other U.S. military departments and agencies. Directs the Secretary, with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Interior, to develop a management plan for such reserved and withdrawn lands. Requires the Secretaries to enter into a memorandum of understanding to implement such management plan for the 25-year period of the reserved and withdrawn lands established by this Act. Authorizes the Secretaries, every five years, to determine which such lands are suitable for opening to the operation of the mining, mineral, geothermal leasing, and mineral material disposal laws. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to use mineral resources for construction needs of the Fort Carson Reservation or Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to manage all withdrawn and acquired mineral resources contained within the boundaries of such areas. Provides that land identified as suitable for operation of mining, mineral, geothermal leasing, and the mineral material disposal laws shall open automatically without further action by either the Secretary of the Interior or the Congress on a day specified by such Secretary in the Federal Register. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, at the request of the Secretary of the Army, to close such lands in the event of a national emergency or for national defense or security purposes. Provides that patents issued for locatable minerals shall convey title to such minerals only and shall reserve to the United States the surface of all patented lands and all nonlocatable minerals. Terminates such land withdrawals and reservations 25 years after enactment of this Act. Requires the Secretary of the Army to notify the Secretary of the Interior, at least three years before termination of the withdrawal and reservation, whether an extension is going to be requested and, if not, to what extent such lands are contaminated with hazardous materials. Requires the Secretary of the Army to decontaminate relinquished lands; but if such decontamination is not practicable or economically feasible, authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to refuse to accept them. Requires the Secretary of the Army to then: (1) warn the public of risks of entry; (2) conduct only decontamination activities on such lands after the expiration of the withdrawal; and (3) make a status report to the Secretary of the Interior and to the Congress. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to revoke withdrawal and reservation of such lands and accept jurisdiction over them if, after their decontamination, it is in the public interest to do so. Requires notice of such decision in the Federal Register. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1992
Prohibits U.S. military and economic assistance to Turkey until the President certifies to the Congress that: (1) the Turkish Government has released or accounted for the five Americans abducted by the Turkish invasion forces in 1974 and the 1,614 Greek Cypriots who have been missing since the Turkish invasion; (2) the churches in the occupied parts of Cyprus that were converted to mosques in violation of the Geneva Conventions have been restored to their original condition for Christian worship; (3) all Turkish military forces in excess of those permitted by the 1960 Treaty of Alliance and all illegal Turkish colonists have been withdrawn from Cyprus; (4) the Turkish Government has returned the area of Famagusta/Varosha to the Government of Cyprus; (5) negotiations have resulted in progress towards establishing a democracy in Cyprus; and (6) the Turkish Government is in compliance with the United Nations Charter, specified United Nations resolutions, and the North Atlantic Treaty and is not engaged in human rights violations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1992
Directs the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the military department concerned in selecting a military medical facility to be closed or to provide reduced services, to give equal weight to the needs and number of: (1) active duty military personnel who receive treatment at such facility; and (2) members and former members of the armed forces and certain dependents of such members who are eligible for care at the facility under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). Requires decisions to close or reduce the care provided at each such facility to be made on a case-by-case basis. Directs such Secretaries to reconsider the selection of such facilities made before the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the environmental cleanup of military installations should be a priority use of savings resulting from reductions in defense spending so that such installations can be made available for civilian use in the future.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1992
Designates March 17, 1992, as Irish Brigade Day.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1992
Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to donate excess military clothing, medical supplies, and sundry articles to State and local governments for distribution to homeless individuals. Directs each Secretary to conduct an annual survey of each logistical depot used under his jurisdiction to determine the types and amounts of such excess material and food likely to be available for disposal.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1992
Crime Control Act of 1992 - Title I: Death Penalty - Federal Death Penalty Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish criteria for the imposition of the death penalty for Federal crimes. Requires the Government, for any offense punishable by death, to serve notice upon the defendant a reasonable time before trial or acceptance of a plea, or at such time thereafter as the court may permit upon a showing of good cause, that it intends to seek the death penalty and the aggravating factors upon which it will rely. Requires a separate sentencing hearing before a jury, or the court upon motion by the defendant, when the defendant is found guilty or pleads guilty to an offense punishable by death. Allows the defendant and the Government to present any information relevant to sentencing, without regard to the rules of evidence, but permits evidence to be excluded where its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of creating unfair prejudice, confusing the issues, or misleading the jury. Permits the Government to present information concerning the effect of the offense on the victim and the victim's family, including oral testimony, a victim impact statement, and other relevant information. Specifies mitigating factors which the defendant must establish by a preponderance of the information and aggravating factors which the Government must provide beyond a reasonable doubt. Sets forth special aggravating factors for: (1) treason, espionage, homicide, and the attempted murder of the President; and (2) drug offenses punishable by the death penalty (such factors include previous serious drug felony convictions, use of a firearm in committing or furthering certain continuing criminal enterprises, use of minors in trafficking, and lethal adulteration of controlled substances). Directs the court, or the jury by unanimous vote, to recommend the death penalty upon a finding of at least one aggravating factor and no mitigating factor, or one or more aggravating factors which outweigh any mitigating factors. States that no person who was under 18 years of age at the time of the offense or who is mentally retarded may be sentenced to death. Requires the court to instruct the jury not to consider the race, color, religion, national origin, or sex of the defendant or victim in its consideration of the sentence. Establishes procedures for appeal from a death sentence. Requires the court of appeals, upon consideration of the record and the information and procedures of the sentencing hearing, to affirm the decision if: (1) the sentence was not imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor; (2) the information supports the finding of aggravating factors; and (3) the proceedings did not involve any other prejudicial error requiring reversal of the sentence that was properly preserved for and raised on appeal. Specifies that the court of appeals, in a case in which the sentence is not affirmed, shall remand the case for reconsideration or for imposition of another authorized sentence as appropriate, subject to specified requirements. Requires the court to provide a written explanation of its determination. Sets forth procedures for the implementation of a sentence of death. Prohibits a sentence of death from being carried out upon a person who lacks the mental capacity to understand the death penalty and why it was imposed on that person, or upon a woman while she is pregnant. Prohibits requiring any employee of any State department of corrections, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), the U.S. Marshals Service, or any employee providing services to that department, bureau, or service under contract to be in attendance or to participate in any execution if such participation is contrary to such employee's moral or religious convictions. Provides for the appointment of counsel in Federal cases where a defendant against whom a sentence of death is sought, or on whom such sentence has been imposed, for an offense against the United States, is or becomes financially unable to obtain adequate representation. Sets forth additional provisions with respect to: (1) representation before and after review of judgment; (2) standards for competence of counsel; and (3) claims of ineffectiveness of counsel. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) deadlines for collateral attacks on judgments imposing a sentence of death; and (2) stays of execution. Limits the circumstances under which a person subject to the criminal jurisdiction of an Indian tribal government may be executed under this Act. Provides for the imposition of the death penalty for specified Federal crimes, including: (1) treason; (2) delivering defense information to aid a foreign government; (3) specified Controlled Substances Act (CSA) offenses committed as part of a continuing criminal enterprise; (4) certain felony violations of the CSA, the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act (CSIEA), or the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act; (5) murders committed by prisoners in Federal correctional institutions; (6) certain offenses relating to drive-by shootings; (7) kidnappings which result in the death of any person; (8) attempting to kill the President of the United States (if such attempt results in bodily injury or comes dangerously close to causing the President's death); (9) murder in the aid of a racketeering activity; (10) civil rights murders and certain murders involving damage to religious property or obstruction of persons in the free exercise of religious belief; (11) genocide; (12) murder of Federal law enforcement officers, or of State or local law enforcement officers assisting Federal officers; (13) torture, if death results; (14) murder of Federal witnesses in the Witness Protection Program; (15) gun murders during Federal crimes of violence and drug trafficking crimes; (16) rape and child molestation murders; (17) causing death in the sexual exploitation of children; (18) specified offenses under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (FAA); (19) using, or attempting or conspiring to use, a weapon of mass destruction, if death results; (20) first-degree murders involving the use of a firearm or other dangerous weapon in a Federal facility; (21) murder by escaped prisoners; and (22) murders in the District of Columbia. Increases penalties for obstruction of justice offenses against court officers and jurors, and for retaliatory killings of witnesses, victims, and informants. Sets forth penalties for: (1) performing or attempting an act of violence against a person at an airport serving international civil aviation which causes or is likely to cause serious injury or death; (2) destroying or seriously damaging the facilities of, or a civil aircraft not in service at, such airport; or (3) disrupting the services of such airport, if such an act endangers or is likely to endanger safety. Amends the FAA to delete a limitation on the applicability of aircraft piracy provisions to situations where the place of takeoff or of actual landing of the aircraft on board which the offense is committed is situated outside the territory of the State of registration of such aircraft. Establishes penalties for acts of violence against maritime navigation, such as seizing control of a ship by force, threat, or intimidation, and performing acts of violence against persons on board a ship that are likely to endanger safe navigation. Sets forth analogous provisions with respect to maritime fixed platforms. Sets forth provisions with respect to U.S. jurisdiction over the territorial sea and over crimes against U.S. nationals on foreign vessels. Title II: Habeas Corpus Reform - Subtitle A: General Habeas Corpus Reform - Habeas Corpus Reform Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal judicial code to establish a one-year statute of limitations for habeas corpus actions brought by State prisoners. Vests authority to issue certificates for probable cause for appeal of habeas corpus orders exclusively in the courts of appeals. Permits denial on the merits of habeas corpus writs notwithstanding the failure to exhaust State remedies. Prohibits the granting of a petition for habeas corpus with respect to any claim which has been fully and fairly adjudicated in State proceedings. Sets forth provisions with respect to the appointment of counsel. Subtitle B: Death Penalty Litigation Procedures - Death Penalty Litigation Procedures Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal judicial code to set forth special habeas corpus procedures in capital cases. Applies such procedures to Federal habeas corpus cases brought by prisoners in State custody who are subject to a capital sentence. Makes the applicability of such procedures contingent upon a State establishing a mechanism for the appointment, compensation, and payment of reasonable litigation expenses of competent counsel in State post-conviction proceedings brought by indigent prisoners whose capital convictions and sentences have been upheld on direct appeal to the court of last resort in the State or have otherwise become final for State law purposes. States that the rule of court on statutes establishing such mechanism must provide standards of competency for the appointment of such counsel. Specifies that any such mechanism must offer counsel to all State prisoners under capital sentence and must provide for the entry of an order by a court of record: (1) appointing counsel to represent the prisoner upon a specified finding; (2) finding that the prisoner has rejected the offer of counsel and made the decision with an understanding of its legal consequences; or (3) denying the appointment of counsel upon a finding that the prisoner is not indigent. Provides for a mandatory stay of execution during the post-conviction review initiated pursuant to this Act. Details conditions which will cause such stay to expire. Prohibits a Federal court, if one of such conditions has occurred, from entering a stay of execution or granting relief in a capital case unless: (1) the basis for the stay and request for relief is a claim not previously presented in the State or Federal courts; (2) the failure to raise the claim was the result of State action in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States, was the result of a recognition by the Supreme Court of a new Federal right that is retroactively applicable, or is due to the fact that the claim is based on facts that could not have been discovered through the exercise of reasonable diligence in time to present the claim for State or Federal post-conviction review; and (3) the facts underlying the claim would be sufficient, if proven, to undermine the court's confidence in the jury's determination of guilt of the offense for which the death penalty was imposed. Imposes time limits on filing for habeas corpus relief. Requires such time limits to be tolled under specified conditions. Requires the district court, upon the development of a complete evidentiary record, to rule on the merits of the claims properly before it. Makes the requirement for a certificate of probable cause inapplicable, with exceptions, where: (1) a second or successive petition is filed; and (2) certain requirements under a unitary review procedure (i.e., a State procedure that authorizes a person under sentence of death to raise, in the course of direct review of judgment, such claims as could be raised on collateral attack) are met. Sets forth time limits for determining petitions. Specifies that the adjudication of petitions or motions involving habeas corpus in capital cases shall be granted priority by the district court and court of appeals over all noncapital matters. Directs the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts to report annually to the Congress on court compliance with the time limits established under this subtitle. Subtitle C: Equalization of Capital Habeas Corpus Litigation Funding - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Omnibus Act) to require the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to provide grants to the States to support litigation pertaining to Federal habeas corpus petitions in capital cases. Specifies that the total funding available for such grants within any fiscal year shall be equal to the funding provided to capital resource centers, pursuant to Federal appropriation, in the same fiscal year. Title III: Exclusionary Rule - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide that evidence obtained as a result of a search or seizure shall not be excluded in a court of the United States as being in violation of the fourth amendment to the U.S. Constitution if such search or seizure was carried out in circumstances justifying an objectively reasonable belief that it was in conformity with the fourth amendment. Makes the fact that evidence was obtained pursuant to and within the scope of a warrant prima facie evidence of the existence of such circumstances. Bars the exclusion of evidence in such a proceeding on the ground that it was obtained in violation of a statute, administrative rule or regulation, or rule of procedure unless exclusion is expressly authorized by statute or by rule prescribed by the Supreme Court pursuant to statutory authority. Title IV: Firearms and Related Amendments - Revises firearms-related provisions to establish the following penalties, in addition to the punishment provided for the underlying crime, for engaging in specified activities during and in relation to a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime for which the perpetrator may be prosecuted in a State court. Provides that whoever: (1) knowingly uses, carries, or otherwise possesses a firearm shall be sentenced to imprisonment for ten years; (2) discharges a firearm with intent to injure another person shall be sentenced to imprisonment for 20 years; or (3) knowingly uses, carries, or otherwise possesses a firearm that is a machine gun or destructive device or is equipped with a firearm silencer or muffler shall be sentenced to imprisonment for 30 years. Sets penalties for second, third, and subsequent convictions. Specifies that a term of imprisonment under such provision shall run concurrently with any other term of imprisonment imposed for the underlying crime. Sets forth penalties for smuggling firearms in aid of drug trafficking and for theft of firearms and explosives. Increases penalties for making knowingly false, material statements in connection with the acquisition of a firearm from a licensed dealer. Authorizes the summary destruction of explosives subject to forfeiture under specified circumstances. Sets forth requirements for reimbursement of the value of destroyed property. Makes persons sentenced under enhanced penalty provisions related to the use of firearms or destructive devices during and in relation to a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime ineligible for parole during the term of imprisonment imposed under such provisions. Provides enhanced penalties for the use of a firearm in the commission of counterfeiting or forgery. Provides for a mandatory five-year penalty for firearms possession by violent felons and serious drug offenders, and a ten- to twenty-year penalty (or fine, or both) in cases of two previous convictions for a violent felony or a serious drug offense committed on different occasions. Bars the court from suspending the sentence of, or granting a probationary sentence to, such persons with two prior convictions. Prohibits the transfer of firearms to non-residents of the State in which the transferor resides, unless such receipt is for lawful sporting purposes. Subjects individuals who conspire to commit a firearms or explosives offense to the same penalties as those prescribed for the underlying offense. Provides for a fine or up to ten years imprisonment, or both, for stealing a firearm or explosive from specified individuals, such as a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer. Makes it unlawful for any person (current law specifies licensee) to distribute explosive materials to specified classes of individuals. Increases penalties for interstate gun trafficking. Prohibits: (1) the possession of explosives by felons and specified others; and (2) transactions involving stolen firearms which have moved in interstate or foreign commerce. Establishes penalties for possessing (current law covers only using and carrying) an explosive during the commission of a felony. Provides for 20 years imprisonment for using, carrying, or possessing an explosive, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction. Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 regarding the disposition of forfeited firearms. Revises the definition of: (1) "serious drug offense" under the Federal criminal code (to include an offense under State law that, if it had been prosecuted as a CSA violation as that Act provided at the time of the offense, would have been punishable by a maximum term of ten years or more); and (2) "burglary" under the Armed Career Criminal Statute (to mean a crime that consists of entering or remaining surreptitiously within a building that is the property of another person with intent to engage in conduct constituting a Federal or State offense and that is punishable by one year's imprisonment). Title V: Juveniles and Gangs - Subtitle A: Increased Penalties for Employing Children to Distribute Drugs Near Schools and Playgrounds - Amends the CSA to increase the penalty for employing, using, inducing, or coercing individuals under age 18 to violate provisions of such Act, or to assist in avoiding detection or apprehension for certain offenses under such Act by Federal, State, or local law enforcement officials. Subtitle B: Antigang Provisions - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to authorize the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to make grants to States and units of local government to assist them in planning, coordinating, and evaluating projects to reduce the formation or continuation of juvenile gangs and the use and sale of illegal drugs by juveniles. Specifies the allocation (50-50) of funds available to each State for juvenile drug supply and drug demand reduction programs. Directs the Administrator to give priority to programs aimed at juvenile involvement in organized gang- and drug-related activities. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants if the beneficiaries are juveniles residing at or near international border communities. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth provisions with respect to application, and review and approval, procedures. Establishes penalties, in addition to the punishment otherwise provided for a crime, for the commission of a felony crime of violence, felony involving a controlled substance, felony violation of the CSA, the CSIEA, or the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, and a conspiracy to commit such offenses, in, for, or in association with any criminal street gang, subject to specified conditions. Specifies that any term of imprisonment imposed under this provision shall run consecutively to any other sentence imposed for the underlying crime. Subtitle C: Juvenile Penalties - Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) add certain firearms offenses to the offenses over which the United States has juvenile delinquency jurisdiction; and (2) provide for the treatment of violent juveniles who commit firearms offenses as adults under certain circumstances. Specifies factors to be considered in transferring a juvenile to adult status. Classifies as serious drug offenses for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984 serious drug offenses committed by juveniles. Amends the Omnibus Act to require the Director of the BJA to make grants to States, for use by States and units of local governments, to develop alternatives to incarceration and probation for young offenders which promote reduced recidivism, crime prevention, and victim assistance, including boot camp prison programs, community service programs, and demonstration restitution projects. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) State and local applications; (2) application review; (3) the allocation and distribution of funds to State and local governmental units; (4) evaluation; and (5) limitations on administrative costs. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: Other Provisions - Includes among permissible uses of drug control and system improvement grants (under the Omnibus Act) programs that address the need for effective bindover systems for the prosecution of violent 16- and 17-year-olds in courts with jurisdiction over adults for first- and second-degree murder, attempted murder, specified crimes when armed with a firearm, and drive-by shootings. Directs the Attorney General to: (1) develop a national strategy to coordinate gang-related investigations by Federal law enforcement agencies (LEAs); and (2) prepare a report on national gang violence to be submitted to the President and the Congress. Requires the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to acquire and collect information on incidents of gang violence for inclusion in an annual uniform crime report. Authorizes appropriations. Specifies that a juvenile shall not be transferred to adult prosecution nor shall a hearing be held under section 5037 (disposition after a finding of juvenile delinquency) until any prior juvenile court records have been received by the court or other specified conditions are met. (Current law states that "any proceedings against a juvenile under this chapter or as an adult shall not be commenced" until such conditions are met.) Title VI: Terrorism and International Matters - Repeals the Antiterrorism Act of 1990. Amends the Federal criminal code to define the term "international terrorism" to include activities that: (1) involve violent acts that are a violation of Federal or State laws, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State; (2) appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a government by assassination or kidnapping; and (3) occur primarily outside U.S. territorial jurisdiction or transcend national boundaries. Authorizes any U.S. national injured in his or her person, property, or business by reason of an act of international terrorism to bring a civil action in U.S. district court and recover treble damages and the cost of the suit, including attorney's fees. Specifies that a final judgment or decree rendered in favor of the United States in certain classes of criminal proceedings (such as those involving the murder of a foreign official, kidnapping, hostage taking, killing of a U.S. national, or an aircraft piracy-related offense), or in favor of any foreign state in a criminal proceeding to the extent that such judgment or decree may be accorded full faith and credit under U.S. law, shall estop the defendant from denying the essential allegations of the criminal offense in a subsequent civil proceeding under this title. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) jurisdiction and venue for, and limitation of, such civil actions; (2) limitations on discovery; (3) stays of action for civil remedies (where such action will substantially interfere with a criminal prosecution which involves the same subject matter and in which an indictment has been returned, or with national security operations related to the terrorist incident that is the subject of the civil action); and (4) prohibitions on suits against U.S. Government and foreign officials. Makes it a Federal criminal offense for an individual, within the United States and acting as an agent of a foreign power, to provide material support or resources (including currency, securities, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, personnel, and other physical assets), or to conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, or ownership of such support or resources, knowing that such resources or support are intended to be used to commit a terrorist act. Provides for the civil and criminal seizure and forfeiture of any real or personal property used or intended for use for, or constituting or derived from the gross profits or other proceeds obtained from, specified violations related to terrorist acts, or to facilitate the concealment or an escape from the commission of such violations. Authorizes the Attorney General to waive immigration admission, and other legal, requirements and grant permanent resident status for alien witnesses who cooperate with the Government in Federal or State prosecutions. Bars the granting of such status to an alien who would be excluded because of felony convictions unless the Attorney General determines that the granting of such status to such alien is necessary in the interests of justice and comports with the safety of the community. Limits the number of aliens and members of their immediate families entering the United States under such authority to 200 persons in any single fiscal year. Makes the decision to grant or deny permanent resident status under this Act at the discretion of the Attorney General and not subject to judicial review. Declares that all the territorial sea of the United States, as defined by Presidential Proclamation 5928 of December 27, 1988: (1) is part of the United States, subject to its sovereignty; and (2) for purposes of Federal criminal jurisdiction, is within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States. Sets forth additional provisions with respect to U.S. jurisdiction over the territorial sea and over crimes against U.S. nationals on foreign vessels. Increases penalties for manslaughter and aggravated assault committed abroad by terrorists against U.S. nationals. Authorizes appropriations for counter-terrorist operations and programs. Amends: (1) the International Economic Emergency Powers Act to increase penalties for violations of such Act; and (2) the Federal criminal code to increase penalties regarding the issuance and verification of a passport without lawful authority, false statements in the application for and use of a passport, and forgery, false use, or misuse of a passport. Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend its sentencing guidelines to provide an increase of not less than three levels in the base offense level for any felony, whether committed within or outside the United States, that involves or is intended to promote international terrorism, unless such involvement or intent is itself an element of the crime. Extends the statute of limitations for specified terrorism offenses, including airport and maritime violence, hostage taking, use of weapons of mass destruction, and torture, to ten years after the commission of the offense. Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for removing a child from, or retaining a child outside, the United States with intent to obstruct the lawful exercise of parental rights. Authorizes appropriations to carry out (under the State Justice Institute Act of 1984) national, regional, and in-State training and educational programs dealing with criminal and civil aspects of interstate and international parental child abduction. Amends the Federal criminal code to provide for the prosecution of individuals who murder U.S. nationals abroad. Bars such a prosecution: (1) if prosecution has been previously undertaken by a foreign country for the same act or omission; and (2) unless the Attorney General determines that the act or omission took place in a country in which the person is no longer present and the country lacks the ability to lawfully secure the person's return. Specifies that the Attorney General's determination is not subject to judicial review. Authorizes the Attorney General, in the course of enforcement of such provision, to request assistance from any Federal, State, local, or foreign agency. Permits in the exercise of comity, the surrender of persons who have committed crimes of violence against U.S. nationals in foreign countries without regard to the existence of any extradition treaty with such foreign government if the Attorney General certifies that: (1) evidence has been presented by such foreign government which indicates that had the offenses been committed in the United States they would constitute crimes of violence; and (2) the offense charged are not of a political nature. Amends Federal law (commonly referred to as the Johnson Act) to modify the circumstances under which a gambling device may be repaired, transported, used, or possessed on a vessel. Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize the Director of the FBI or his designee in a position not lower than Deputy Assistant Director (Director) to request: (1) the name, address, length of service, and toll billing records of a person or entity (person) if the Director certifies in writing to the wire or electronic communication service provider to which the request is made (provider) that such records are relevant to an authorized foreign counterintelligence investigation and there are specific and articulable facts giving reason to believe that the person to whom the information pertains is a foreign power or a foreign agent; and (2) the name, address, and length of service of a person if the Director certifies in writing to such provider that the information is relevant to such an investigation and there are specific and articulable facts giving reason to believe that communication facilities registered in the name of the person have been used, through the services of such provider, in communication with an individual who is engaging in or has engaged in international terrorism or clandestine activities that involve or may involve a violation of U.S. criminal statutes, or a foreign power or foreign agent under circumstances giving reason to believe that the communication concerned international terrorism or such clandestine activities. Requires that the House and Senate Judiciary Committees be informed regarding all such requests for certification. (Current law authorizes the Director or his designee to request telephone toll and transactional records upon written certification to the provider that the information sought is relevant to an authorized foreign counterintelligence investigation and there are specific and articulable facts giving reason to believe that the person is a foreign power or foreign agent.) Title VII: Sexual Violence, Child Abuse, and Victims' Rights - Subtitle A: Sexual Violence and Child Abuse - Amends the Federal criminal code to include within the definition of "sexual act" the intentional touching, not through the clothing, of the genitalia of another person who has not attained the age of 16 with intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade, or arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person. Increases penalties for recidivist sex offenses. Authorizes the court to order a defendant convicted of a sex offense to pay restitution to the victim. Requires a judicial officer, at the time of the pretrial release determination, to include in any order a requirement that the defendant be tested for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and that follow-up tests for the virus be performed six and 12 months thereafter, unless the judicial officer determines that the defendant's conduct created no risk of transmission of the virus to the victim. Sets forth additional requirements with respect to HIV testing and disclosure of test results. Directs the Sentencing Commission to amend the sentencing guidelines to enhance the sentence of a sex offender if such offender knew or had reason to know that the offender was infected with HIV, except where the offender did not engage or attempt to engage in conduct creating a risk of transmission of the virus to the victim. Amends the Victims' Rights and Restitution Act of 1990 to require the Attorney General or the head of another department or agency that conducts an investigation of a sexual assault to pay the cost of up to two tests of the victim for HIV during the 12 months following the assault. Subtitle B: Victims' Rights - Authorizes the court to: (1) order that the defendant reimburse the victim for necessary child care, transportation, and other expenses related to participation in the investigation or prosecution of, or attendance at proceedings related to, the offense; and (2) suspend the defendant's eligibility for all Federal benefits (after a hearing, if the defendant is delinquent in making restitution) until such time as the defendant demonstrates to the court good-faith efforts to return to any required schedule of payments or requirement of immediate payment. Amends the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to authorize the court: (1) before imposing sentence for a crime of violence or sexual abuse, to address the victim personally if the victim is present at the sentencing hearing and determine if the victim wishes to make a statement and present any information in relation to the sentence; and (2) upon a motion that is filed jointly by the defendant and the attorney for the Government, to hear in camera such a statement by the victim. Amends the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to entitle each side to six (currently, the Government is entitled to six and the defendant or defendants jointly to ten) peremptory challenges if the offense charged is punishable by imprisonment for more than one year. Requires (current law authorizes) the court to order restitution payments for specified violations of the Federal criminal code and the FAA. Authorizes the court, in addition to ordering restitution of the victim for the offense of which a defendant is convicted, to order restitution of persons harmed physically, emotionally, or pecuniarily by the defendant's unlawful conduct during which the offense occurred or during the course of a scheme, conspiracy, or pattern of unlawful activity related to the offense. Sets forth additional provisions with respect to determination of amounts owed to the victim, set-offs, enforcement of restitution orders, and procedures for issuing such orders. Subtitle C: Crime Victims Fund - Repeals: (1) the current $150,000,000 cap on the Crime Victims Fund under the Victims of Crime Act of 1984; and (2) sunset provisions under such Act. Modifies the formula for the distribution of sums deposited into the Fund to provide that: (1) the first $10,000,000 of the total funds deposited in a fiscal year shall be available for child abuse prevention and treatment grants; (2) the next sums deposited, up to the reserved portion (specified below), shall be made available to the judicial branch for administrative costs to carry out the functions of the branch; (3) of the sums remaining, four percent shall be available for training and technical services to victim assistance programs and for financial support of services to victims of crime by victim assistance programs, and 96 percent be available for crime victim compensation and victim assistance programs. (Current law provides a complex formula for the distribution of funds depending on the amount deposited in the Fund.) Authorizes the Director of the Office for Victims of Crime to retain any amount in excess of 110 percent of the total deposited in the previous fiscal year as a reserve for those years in which there is a shortfall in the Fund, provided that the reserve does not exceed $20,000,000. Specifies that: (1) the reserved portion shall be $6,200,000 in each of FY 1992 through 1995 and $3,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter; and (2) sums awarded as part of a grant under this Act that remain unspent at the end of a fiscal year in which such grant is made may be expended for the purpose for which such grant is made at any time during the two succeeding fiscal years (under current law, during the succeeding fiscal year). Increases the Federal share of victim compensation programs from 40 to 45 percent of the amounts awarded by each program during the preceding fiscal year. Specifies that if the compensation paid by an eligible crime victim compensation program would cover costs that a Federal program, or a federally financed State or local program would otherwise pay: (1) such victim compensation program shall not pay such compensation; and (2) the other program shall make its payments without regard to the existence of the crime victim compensation program. Authorizes the Director to use unspent compensation funds for assistance programs in either the year such funds are not spent or in the following year. Requires crime victim assistance chief executives to give particular attention to children who are victims of violent street crime. Authorizes the use of grants under this Act for demonstration projects. Allows the Director to permit up to five percent of a victim assistance program grant to be used by the chief executive of each State for administrative costs. Makes biannual reports under such Act due on May 31 (currently, such reports are due December 31). Requires grantees to certify that no grant funds will be used to supplant State and local funds, but rather will supplement those otherwise available funds. Delays the effective date for specified provisions to make the allocations required by such provisions without reducing the funding levels of programs supported by the Victim Assistance Fund and the Victims Compensation Fund. Subtitle D: National Child Protection Act - National Child Protection Act of 1992 - Establishes a national criminal background check system to which a designated agency in each State is required to report child abuse crime information, for purposes of background checks of child care providers. Directs the Attorney General to establish: (1) guidelines for the reporting of such information; and (2) timetables for each State to report such information to such system (with a three-year deadline for all States to be reporting at a specified level of currency). Requires State agencies to maintain close liaison for information exchange and technical assistance in cases of child abuse with the National Centers: (1) on Child Abuse and Neglect; (2) for Missing and Exploited Children; and (3) for the Prosecution of Child Abuse. Directs the Attorney General to publish annually: (1) a statistical summary of the child abuse crime information reported under this Act; and (2) a summary of each State's progress in reporting child abuse crime information to the national criminal background check system. Requires the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to conduct a study to determine various factors relating to potential child abuse crimes and offenders, based on a statistically significant sample of convicted child abuse offenders and other relevant information. Requires a report on such study to be submitted to specified congressional committee officials. Provides for background check procedures. Allows entities that provide child care or child care placement services (including businesses or organizations that license or certify others to provide such services) may request State agencies to review State and Federal records through the national system, and other criminal justice recordkeeping systems, to determine if a child care provider is under indictment for, or has been convicted of, a background check crime. (Defines provider as one who is now or seeks to be: (1) employed by or a volunteer with a qualified entity; (2) an owner or operator of a qualified entity; or (3) having unsupervised access to any child to whom the qualified entity provides child care.) Directs the Attorney General to establish guidelines for such State background check procedures, permitting equivalent procedures under specified conditions. Authorizes the Attorney General to: (1) exchange FBI identification records with authorized agencies for purposes of such background checks; and (2) authorize by regulation further dissemination of such records by authorized agencies for such purposes. Directs the Attorney General to: (1) prescribe by regulation any other measures necessary to carry out this Act; and (2) encourage use of the best technology available in conducting background checks. Amends the Omnibus Act to provide for the use of certain formula grants to improve State record systems and the sharing of records of child abuse crime information to implement this Act. Directs the Attorney General to make additional grants to States to improve specified aspects of the child abuse crime information system, subject to appropriations and with preference to States having the lowest percent currency of case dispositions in computerized criminal history files. Authorizes appropriations for such additional grants. Authorizes the Attorney General, beginning one year after enactment of this Act, to reduce by up to ten percent the allocation to a State for a fiscal year under title I of the Omnibus Act if the State is not in compliance with the child abuse crime information timetable established for it under this Act. Subtitle E: Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children Registration Act - Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children Registration Act - Directs the Attorney General to establish a State program and guidelines requiring persons convicted of a criminal offense against a minor to register a current address with a designated State LEA for ten years after release from prison, or being placed on parole or supervised release. Sets forth requirements for an approved State registration program, including: (1) requirements that a State prison officer inform a released person of the duty to register and provide a designated State LEA with any new address in writing within ten days, obtain a fingerprint card and photograph if not already obtained, require the person to read and sign a form stating that the duty to register has been explained, and forward such information to a designated State LEA (which shall immediately enter the information into the appropriate State law enforcement record system, notify the appropriate LEA having jurisdiction where the person expects to live, and transmit the conviction data and fingerprints to the Identification Division of the FBI); (2) annual address verification by the designated State LEA; and (3) notification of LEAs having jurisdiction over a released person's new address. Provides that: (1) a person required to register who violates any requirement of a State program established by this Act shall be subject to criminal penalties in such State (recommends at least six months' imprisonment); and (2) the information provided under this Act is private and may be used for law enforcement purposes and confidential background checks conducted with fingerprints for child care services providers. Specifies that the allocation of BJA grant funds (under the Omnibus Act) received by a State not complying with the provisions of this Act three years after its enactment shall be reduced by 25 percent. Requires such unallocated funds to be reallocated to the States in compliance with this Act. Subtitle F: Domestic Violence - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the Director of the BJA to make grants to ten States to assist in implementing a civil and criminal response to domestic violence. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) use of grant funds; (2) application requirements; (3) limitations on grants and grant renewal; (4) criteria in awarding grants; and (5) reporting requirements. Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to report to the Congress on the medical and psychological basis of "battered women's syndrome" and the extent to which evidence of the syndrome has been held to be admissible as evidence of guilt or as a defense in a criminal trial. Subtitle G: Other Provisions - Amends the Federal criminal code to make it unlawful to induce a minor to commit an offense against the United States, subject to specified limitations. Directs the court to consider as an aggravating circumstance the severity of the offense sought by the adult. Amends the General Education Provisions Act to exclude from the definition of "education records" records maintained by a law enforcement unit of the education agency or institution that were created by such unit for law enforcement purposes. Directs the Attorney General, by contract with an appropriate entity with expertise in college campus security, to provide for a baseline study of the effectiveness of campus sexual assault policies for institutions of postsecondary education. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Expresses the sense of the Congress that, in determining child custody and visitation rights, the courts should take into consideration the history of drunk driving of any person involved in the determination. Title VIII: Equal Justice Act - Equal Justice Act - Requires that: (1) the death penalty and all other penalties be administered by the United States and by every State without regard to the race or color of the defendant or victim; and (2) neither the United States nor any State prescribe any racial quota or statistical test for the imposition or execution of the death penalty or any other penalty. Directs that, in a criminal trial in any Federal or State court, on motion of the defense attorney or prosecutor: (1) the risk of racial prejudice or bias be examined on voir dire if there is a substantial likelihood in the circumstances of the case that such prejudice or bias will affect the jury either against or in favor of the defendant; and (2) a change of venue be granted if an impartial jury cannot be obtained in the original venue because of racial prejudice or bias. Bars the prosecutor or the defense attorney from making any appeal to racial prejudice or bias in statements before the jury. Requires: (1) the judge in a Federal capital case before a jury to instruct the jury not to be influenced by prejudice or bias relating to the race or color of the defendant or victim in considering whether a sentence of death is justified, and that the jury is not to recommend the imposition of such sentence unless it has concluded that it would recommend the same sentence for such crime regardless of the race or color of the defendant or victim; and (2) the jury, upon the return of a recommendation of a sentence of death, to also return a certificate, signed by each juror, that the juror's individual decision was not affected by prejudice or bias relating to the race or color of the defendant or victim and that the individual juror would have made the same recommendation regardless of the race or color of the defendant or victim. Makes the fact that the killing of a victim was motivated by racial prejudice or bias an aggravating factor whose existence permits consideration of the death penalty, in a prosecution for an offense against the United States for which a sentence of death is authorized. Amends specified civil rights provisions to cover conspiracy against rights, and deprivation of rights under color of law, of any person (currently, inhabitant of) in a State, territory, or district. Title IX: Funding, Grant Programs, and Studies - Subtitle A: Safer Streets and Neighborhoods - Safer Streets and Neighborhoods Act of 1992 - Amends the Omnibus Act to: (1) authorize appropriations ($1,000,000,000 for FY 1992 and such sums as necessary in FY 1993 and 1994) for grants to State and local LEAs; (2) continue the Federal-State funding formula for such agencies for FY 1992; and (3) permit the use of grants to State and local governments for participation in multi-jurisdictional drug task forces. Subtitle B: Retired Public Safety Officer Death Benefit - Amends the Omnibus Act to provide death benefits to retired public safety officers who become permanently and totally disabled as the direct result of a catastrophic injury sustained while responding to a fire, rescue, or police emergency. Designates the program under such Act pertaining to the payment of death benefits to retired public safety officers as the Irwin Rutman Retired Safety Officer's Benefit Program. Subtitle C: Study on Police Officers' Rights - Directs the Attorney General to conduct a study of the procedures followed in internal, noncriminal investigations of State and local law enforcement officers to determine if such investigations are conducted fairly and effectively. Sets forth reporting requirements. Subtitle D: Community Policing - Chapter 1: Police Corps and Law Enforcement Training and Education Act - Police Corps and Law Enforcement Training and Education Act - Establishes within the Department of Justice (DOJ) an Office of the Police Corps and Law Enforcement Education, to be headed by a Director. Requires a State that desires to participate in the Police Corps Program or the Law Enforcement Scholarship Program to designate a lead agency and submit a State plan containing assurances with respect to: (1) lead agency cooperation with other State and local agencies; (2) the State advertising of the assistance available; (3) State screening and selection of law enforcement personnel for participation in the program; and (4) compliance with other specified requirements. Subchapter A: Police Corps Program - Authorizes the Director to award scholarships (including direct payments to institutions and reimbursement of educational costs) to participants who agree to work for four years in a State or local police force after completion of an educational course of study and receipt of a baccalaureate degree (in the case of undergraduate study) or the reward of credit to the participant for having completed one or more graduate courses (in the case of graduate study) and police corps training, subject to specified conditions. Specifies that scholarships shall only be used to pay educational expenses incurred while in attendance at an institution of higher education in a course of education leading to the award of a baccalaureate degree and for graduate and professional study. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) scholarship assistance for dependent children of law enforcement officers; (2) the selection of participants; (3) minority recruitment (which requires each State to seek and recruit among members of all racial, ethnic, or gender groups); and (4) leaves of absence (including a provision allowing the granting of a leave of absence from study or training for a participant requesting leave for up to 30 months to serve on an official church mission). Requires the Director to establish up to three training centers to provide basic law enforcement training to State Police Corps Program participants. Requires participants to attend two eight-week training sessions at such training centers and to meet certain performance standards in order to remain in the program. Requires the Director to pay participants a weekly stipend during training. Requires a State, in order to participate in the Police Corps Program, to submit a plan for implementing such program to the Director for approval. Requires such plan to: (1) include assurances that participants will receive additional State or local training after completing Federal training which shall count toward the four-year service obligation; and (2) provide that program participants shall be assigned to community and preventive patrol in geographic areas with the greatest need for additional law enforcement personnel. Provides for the swearing in of participants as members of the police force to which they are assigned after completing Federal training and meeting the requirements of that police force. Specifies that, if the police force of which the participant is a member lays off the participant in a manner that would preclude the participant from completing four years of service and result in the denial of educational assistance under this subchapter, the Director may permit the participant to complete the service obligation in an equivalent alternative law enforcement service without requiring the participant to repay the scholarship or interest. Authorizes appropriations. Subchapter B: Law Enforcement Scholarship Program - Law Enforcement Scholarships and Recruitment Act - Directs each State to pay from funds under this Act the Federal share (not more than 60 percent) of the cost of awarding scholarships to in-service law enforcement personnel for further education providing full-time employment in the summer or part-time employment for up to one year. Specifies that such employment shall: (1) be provided by State and local LEAs for students who are juniors or seniors in high school or are enrolled in an accredited institution of higher education and who demonstrate an interest in undertaking a career in law enforcement; (2) not be in a law enforcement position; and (3) consist of performing meaningful tasks that inform such students of the nature of the tasks performed by LEAs. Sets forth requirements with respect to: (1) the designation of a lead agency; (2) administrative expenses; and (3) ineligibility for student employment (by an individual who has been employed as a law enforcement officer). Sets forth State and local application requirements. Grants priority in awarding scholarships to members of underrepresented groups, to those pursuing an undergraduate degree, and to those not receiving financial assistance under the Higher Education Act of 1965. Requires each individual awarded a scholarship to work in a law enforcement position in the State which made the award for a period of one month for each credit hour for which funds are received under such scholarship (with a six-month minimum and two-year maximum). Authorizes appropriations. Specifies that 75 percent of funds appropriated under this subchapter shall be available to provide scholarships and 25 percent to provide employment. Subchapter C: Reports - Sets forth provisions requiring: (1) annual reports by the Director to the Attorney General, the President, and specified Members of Congress; and (2) a special report by the Attorney General to the Congress on a plan to expand scholarship assistance to eligible Federal law enforcement officers. Chapter 2: Cop-On-The Beat Grants - The Cop-on-the-Beat Act of 1992 - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the Director of the BJA to make grants to units of general local government and community groups to establish or expand cooperative efforts between police and the community to increase the police presence in the community. Requires the Director to develop a written model that informs community members regarding: (1) how to identify the existence of a drug or gang house; (2) what civil remedies are available; and (3) what mediation techniques are available between community members and individuals who have established a drug or gang house in such community. Sets forth application requirements. Requires each application to include a comprehensive plan containing: (1) a description of the crime problems within the areas targeted for assistance, the projects to be developed, community resources and gaps in the plan that cannot be filled with existing resources, and the system the applicant will establish to prevent and reduce crime; (2) an explanation of how the requested grant will be used to fill such gaps; and (3) an evaluation component. Requires the Director to allocate not less than 75 percent of the funds available to units of local government or combinations of such units and not more than 20 percent to community groups. Provides for grant renewal. Limits: (1) costs of administration, technical assistance, and evaluation to five percent of available funds; and (2) the Federal share to 75 percent of total project costs. Requires the Director, in awarding grants, to consider: (1) demonstrated need and ability to provide the services described in the plan; (2) evidence of the ability to coordinate a community-wide response to crime; (3) ability to maintain the program after funding is no longer available; and (4) geographic distribution of grant awards. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle E: Rural Crime Prevention Strategy - Requires the Director of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to conduct a national assessment of the nature and extent of rural crime in the United States, the needs of law enforcement and criminal justice professionals in rural States and communities, and promising strategies to respond effectively to those challenges, including: (1) the problem of clandestine drug laboratories; (2) other environmental crimes, such as the dumping of toxic waste; (3) the cultivation of illegal crops, such as marihuana; (4) the problems of drug and alcohol abuse in rural communities; (5) the problems of family violence and child abuse; (6) the problems of juvenile delinquency and vandalism; (7) the access of law enforcement and criminal justice professionals in rural communities to the services of crime laboratories, the Automated Fingerprint Identification System, and other technological support, and to professional training and development; and (8) the special problems of drug abuse in jurisdictions with populations of 50,000 or less. Requires the Director to: (1) submit the national assessment to the President and the Congress within 12 months; and (2) disseminate the results through programs of training and technical assistance, as well as through reports, publications, and clearinghouse services. Authorizes the Director to make grants to local LEAs for pilot programs and field tests of particularly promising strategies and models, which could then serve as the basis for demonstration and educational programs under the BJA discretionary grant program, such as programs to develop and demonstrate new or improved approaches or techniques for rural criminal justice systems. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle F: National Commission to Support Law Enforcement - National Commission to Support Law Enforcement Act - Establishes the National Commission to Support Law Enforcement to study and recommend changes regarding LEAs and law enforcement issues on the Federal, State, and local levels. Repeals provisions of the Crime Control Act of 1990 and the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991, with respect to the establishment of such a Commission. Subtitle G: Other Provisions - Directs the Attorney General to award a grant to an eligible organization in paying for the costs of a Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program. Sets forth application and related requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes appropriations for BJA discretionary grants under the Omnibus Act. Amends the Omnibus Act to require the Director of the BJA to: (1) establish guidelines and oversee the implementation of family-friendly policies within law enforcement-related offices and divisions of DOJ; (2) study the effects of stress on law enforcement personnel and family well-being, and disseminate the findings of such studies to Federal, State, and local LEAs, related organizations, and other interested parties; (3) identify and evaluate model programs that provide support services to law enforcement personnel and families; (4) provide technical assistance and training programs to State and local LEAs to develop stress reduction and family support; (5) collect and disseminate information regarding family support, stress reduction, and psychological services to Federal, State, and local LEAs, law enforcement-related organizations, and other interested entities; and (6) determine issues to be researched by the BJA and by grant recipients. Authorizes the Director to make grants to States and local LEAs to provide family support services to law enforcement personnel. Directs State or local law enforcement grant recipients to use sums provided to establish or improve training and support programs for law enforcement personnel, including providing at least one of the following services: (1) counseling for law enforcement family members; (2) child care on a 24-hour basis; (3) marital and adolescent support groups; (4) stress reduction programs; and (5) stress education for law enforcement recruits and families. Authorizes such recipients to provide services such as: (1) post-shooting debriefings for officers and their spouses; (2) group therapy; (3) hypertension clinics; (4) counseling for families of personnel killed in the line of duty; and (5) seminars regarding alcohol, drug abuse, gambling, and overeating. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) application requirements; (2) geographic distribution of assistance among the States; (3) duration of the grant (not to exceed five years); and (4) limitations on the use of grant funds (not more than ten percent) for administrative purposes. Authorizes the Director to reserve ten percent of appropriated funds for discretionary research grants. Sets forth reporting requirements (by grant recipients and by the Director). Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the chief correctional officer of each State correctional system to establish a demonstration or system-wide functional literacy program. Sets forth program and reporting requirements. Directs the Attorney General to make grants to State correctional agencies which elect to establish such programs. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Attorney General to make grants to State and local correctional agencies to assist them in establishing and operating programs designed to reduce recidivism through the development and improvement of life skills necessary for reintegration into society. Sets forth application and reporting requirements. Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to authorize the Secretary of HHS to make grants for the operating expenses of trauma-care centers with substantial uncompensated costs in areas with significant violence arising from drug abuse. Gives priority to centers: (1) receiving State or political subdivision support not connected to any Federal program; or (2) in areas where a trauma center has ceased participation, or because of uncompensated costs will be unable to participate, in the trauma care system. Limits: (1) support for a center to three fiscal years, subject to extension by the Secretary for one additional year; and (2) the grant amount to any single center to $2,000,000,000 in any fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Director of NIJ to conduct: (1) a study comparing the recidivism rates of individuals under the influence of alcohol or alcohol in combination with other drugs at the time of their offense who participated in a residential treatment program while in the custody of the State with those who did not participate; and (2) a nationwide assessment regarding the use of alcohol and alcohol in combination with other drugs as a factor in violent, domestic, and general criminal activity. Requires the BOP, at least five days prior to the release of a prisoner convicted of a drug trafficking crime or crime of violence on supervised release (or, in the case of a prisoner on supervised release, at least five days prior to the date on which the prisoner changes residence to a new jurisdiction), to provide written notice of the release (or change of residence) to the chief law enforcement officer of the State and of the local jurisdiction in which the prisoner will reside, with exceptions. Specifies that, in the case of a prisoner convicted of an offense committed prior to November 1, 1987, the reference to supervised release in such provision shall be deemed to be a reference to probation or parole. Title X: Illegal Drugs - Subtitle A: Drug Testing - Requires: (1) the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to establish a program of drug testing (including such standards and guidelines as the Director determines necessary to ensure reliability and accuracy of the drug testing programs) of criminal defendants on post-conviction release; and (2) the chief probation officer in each district (where feasible) to arrange for the drug testing of such defendants. Requires, as an explicit condition of probation, parole, or supervised release of a defendant involving a felony or a specified violent or drug offense, that the defendant refrain from any unlawful use of a controlled substance and submit to periodic drug tests. Permits the court to decline to impose such condition for probation if the defendant's presentence report or other reliable sentencing information indicates a low risk of future substance abuse by the defendant. Specifies that a defendant who tests positive may be detained pending verification of a drug test result. Requires the revocation of parole if a prisoner unlawfully uses a controlled substance or refuses to cooperate in drug testing imposed as a condition of parole. Amends the Omnibus Act to condition State eligibility for justice system improvement grants on State implementation of a drug testing program for targeted classes of persons confined in, or subject to supervision in, the criminal justice systems of such State. Specifies that: (1) such program must meet criteria specified by the Attorney General; and (2) no State shall be required to expend an amount for drug testing in excess of ten percent of the minimum amount that the State is eligible to receive under such Act. Directs the Attorney General to promulgate regulations to implement such requirements which: (1) ensure reliability and accuracy of drug test results; and (2) include such other guidelines for drug testing programs in State criminal justice systems as the Attorney General determines are appropriate, as well as provisions by which a State may apply for a waiver of such requirements on the grounds that compliance would impose excessive financial or other burdens on such State or would otherwise be impractical or contrary to State policy. Subtitle B: Precursor Chemicals - Chemical Control and Environmental Responsibility Act of 1992 - Amends the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 (Comprehensive Act) to: (1) replace references to "listed precursor chemicals" with "list I chemicals" and "listed essential chemicals" with "list II chemicals"; and (2) revise the definition of "regulated person" to include individuals who act as brokers or traders for international transactions involving a listed chemical, tableting machine, or encapsulating machine. Redefines "regulated transaction" to: (1) include international transactions which do not involve the importation or exportation of a listed chemical into or out of the United States if a broker or trader located in the United States participates in the transaction; (2) include, in the case of a listed chemical that is contained in a drug that may be marketed or distributed lawfully in the United States under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, transactions involving ephedrine or any other listed chemical which the Attorney General may designate as not subject to exemption after finding that such action would prevent diversion and the total quantity of such chemical included in the transaction equals or exceeds the threshold established for that chemical by the Attorney General; and (3) exclude any transaction in a chemical mixture (current law) which the Attorney General has designated as exempt based on a finding that the mixture is formulated in such a way that it cannot be easily used in the illicit production of a controlled substance and that the listed chemical or chemicals contained in the mixture cannot be readily recovered. Requires every person who manufactures or distributes, or who proposes to engage in the manufacture or distribution of, a list I chemical to obtain annually a registration issued by the Attorney General. Authorizes and directs the Attorney General to register an applicant to distribute a list I chemical unless he determines that the issuance of such registration is inconsistent with the public interest, taking into consideration the following factors: (1) maintenance of effective controls against diversion of listed chemicals into other than legitimate channels; (2) compliance with applicable Federal, State, and local law; (3) prior conviction record of the applicant under Federal or State laws relating to controlled substances or chemicals; (4) past experience in the manufacture and distribution of chemicals; and (5) such other factors as may be relevant to and consistent with the public health and safety. Makes provisions with respect to the denial, revocation, and suspension of registration relating to the manufacture, distribution, or dispensation of controlled substances explicitly applicable to list I chemicals. Directs the Attorney General to register an applicant to import or export a list I chemical unless he determines that the issuance of such registration is inconsistent with the public interest. Makes it unlawful for a regulated person to distribute, import, or export a list I chemical without the registration required under the Comprehensive Act. Requires each regulated person who manufactures a listed chemical to report annually to the Attorney General information concerning listed chemicals manufactured by such regulated person. Makes any person located in the United States who is a broker or trader for an international transaction in a listed chemical which is a regulated transaction solely because of that person's involvement as a broker or trader, with respect to that transaction, subject to all of the notification, reporting, record-keeping, and other requirements placed upon exporters of listed chemicals by the Comprehensive Act. Authorizes the Attorney General to: (1) require that the 15 day advance notice requirement with respect to the importation and exportation of listed chemicals apply to all exports of specific listed chemicals to specified nations, regardless of the status of certain customers in such country as "regular customers," if he finds that such action is necessary to support effective diversion control programs or is required by treaty or other international agreement to which the United States is a party; and (2) waive the 15 day advance notice requirement for exports of specific listed chemicals to specified countries, and for the importation of specific listed chemicals, if he determines that such advance notice is not required for effective chemical control, subject to specified requirements. Establishes penalties for: (1) exporting, or serving as a broker or trader for an international transaction involving, a listed chemical, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the chemical will be used to manufacture a controlled substance in violation of the laws of the country to which the chemical is exported; and (2) importing or exporting a listed chemical with intent to evade reporting or record-keeping requirements under the Comprehensive Act by falsely representing to the Attorney General that the importation or exportation qualifies for a waiver of the advance notice requirement by misrepresenting either the actual country of final destination of the listed chemical or the actual listed chemical being imported or exported, or both. Amends list I to add benzaldehyde and nitroethane, and delete D-lysergic acid, N-ethylephedrine, and N-ethylpseudoephedrine. Eliminates "regular supplier" status and creates "regular importer" status. Modifies the definition of "controller premises" to include places where listed chemicals or records relating to the manufacture, distribution, or disposition of listed chemicals are maintained. Makes it a felony for a person who possesses a listed chemical with intent that it be used in the illegal manufacture of a controlled substance to manage the listed chemical or waste from such manufacture other than as required under the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Specifies that, in addition to any penalty that may be imposed for the illegal manufacture, possession, or distribution of a listed chemical or toxic residue of a clandestine laboratory, a person who violates such prohibition shall be assessed costs of the initial cleanup and disposal of the listed chemical and contaminated property and the cost of restoring property damaged by exposure to such chemical. Expresses the sense of the Congress that guidelines issued by the Sentencing Commission should recommend that the term of imprisonment for such a violation be not less than five (or in the case of a willful violation, not less than ten) years. Authorizes: (1) the court to order that all or a portion of the earnings from work performed by a defendant in prison be withheld for payment of such costs; and (2) the Attorney General to direct that assets forfeited in connection with a prosecution under this Act be shared with State agencies that participated in the seizure or cleanup of the contaminated site. Specifies that a discharge in bankruptcy does not discharge an individual debtor from any debt for costs assessed with respect to the management of listed chemicals under the Comprehensive Act. Amends the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 to provide for access by the Attorney General to information in the National Practitioner Data Bank. Subtitle C: Interdiction - Amends the Federal criminal code to make it unlawful for the pilot, operator, or person in charge (pilot) of any aircraft which has crossed the border of the United States, or any aircraft subject to U.S. jurisdiction operating outside the United States, to refuse to obey the order of an authorized Federal law enforcement officer to land (in enforcing controlled substances or money laundering provisions). Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Commissioner of Customs to prescribe regulations governing the means by which an order to land may be communicated to the pilot by Federal law enforcement officers. Makes it unlawful for any master, operator, or person in charge (master) of a U.S. vessel or vessel under U.S. jurisdiction to fail to bring to upon being ordered to do so by a Federal law enforcement officer authorized to issue such an order. Specifies that consent or waiver of objection by a foreign nation to the enforcement of U.S. law by the United States under this Act may be obtained by radio, telephone, or similar oral or electronic means and may be proved by certification of the Secretary of State or the Secretary's designee. Sets forth penalties for violation of this subtitle. Authorizes the seizure and forfeiture of any vessel or aircraft that is used in violation of this subtitle. Allows the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Transportation to delegate Federal law enforcement officer seizure and forfeiture responsibilities under these provisions to other law enforcement officers. Provides for the immediate revocation of the registration of an aircraft upon the failure of the operator to follow the order of a Federal law enforcement officer to land the aircraft. Directs the Administrator to: (1) notify the owner of the aircraft that such person no longer holds U.S. registration for such aircraft; and (2) establish procedures for the owner of the aircraft to show cause why the registration was not revoked as a matter of law by operation of such provision, or why circumstances existed pursuant to which the Administrator should determine that it would be in the public interest to issue a new certificate of registration to the owner, effective concurrent with the revocation. Amends the FAA to require the Administrator to issue an order revoking the airman certificate of any person that the Administrator finds, while acting as the operator of an aircraft, knowingly failed to follow the order of a law enforcement officer to land, with exceptions. Authorizes the Coast Guard to issue orders and make inquiries, searches, seizures, and arrests with respect to violations of U.S. laws occurring aboard any aircraft subject to U.S. jurisdiction over the high seas and waters over which the U.S. has jurisdiction. Establishes a civil penalty of up to $25,000 for any master of a vessel or pilot or operator of an aircraft who intentionally fails to comply with an order of a Coast Guard commissioned officer, warrant officer, or petty officer relating to the boarding of a vessel or landing of an aircraft for specified purposes (and up to $5,000 for negligently failing to comply with such order), as well as in rem liability with respect to the vessel or aircraft. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to establish analogous civil penalties with respect to intentional and negligent failures to obey an order to land or bring to. Authorizes the Coast Guard: (1) to exchange information with international organizations (currently limited to foreign governments); (2) to suggest to the Secretary of State international collaboration and conferences on all matters dealing with maritime law enforcement and maritime environmental protection (currently limited to safety of life and property at sea); and (3) when so requested by the Secretary, to utilize its personnel and facilities to assist any foreign government or international organization to perform any activity for which such personnel and facilities are especially qualified. Authorizes the President, upon application from foreign governments or international organizations (current law excludes the latter) to utilize officers and enlisted members (under current law, to detail members) of the Coast Guard to assist such governments or organizations in matters concerning which the Coast Guard may be of assistance. Amends the Mansfield Amendment to permit maritime law enforcement operations in archipelagic waters. Subtitle D: Rural Drug Crime - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize appropriations, and increase the base allocation, for rural drug enforcement assistance. Directs the Attorney General to establish a Rural Drug Enforcement Task Force in each of the Federal judicial districts which encompass significant rural lands. Specifies the membership of such task forces. Authorizes the Attorney General to cross-designate up to 100 Federal officers with jurisdiction to enforce CSA provisions on non-Federal lands to the extent necessary to effect the purposes of this subtitle. Requires the Director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center to develop a specialized course of instruction devoted to training law enforcement officers from rural agencies in the investigation of drug trafficking and related crimes. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the PHSA to require the Director of the Office for Treatment Improvement to establish a program to provide grants to hospitals, community health centers, and other appropriate entities that serve nonmetropolitan areas to assist in developing and implementing projects that provide, or expand the availability of, substance abuse treatment services. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the alcohol and drug abuse information clearinghouse (required to be established under the PHSA) to: (1) gather information pertaining to Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration and other rural drug treatment and education projects operating throughout the United States; and (2) disseminate information to rural hospitals, community health centers, community mental health centers, treatment facilities, community organizations, and other interested individuals. Subtitle E: Grant Programs - Amends the National Narcotics Leadership Act of 1988 to authorize the President to declare a State or part of a State to be a drug emergency area. Requires requests for such a declaration to be made, in writing, by the Governor or chief executive officer (CEO) of any affected State or local government and forwarded to the President through the Director of Policy. Allows cities, counties, or States to submit a joint request. Requires requests to be based on a written finding that the emergency is of such severity and magnitude that Federal assistance is necessary to ensure an effective response. Prohibits the President from limiting declarations made under this Act to highly-populated centers of drug trafficking, drug use, or drug-related violence. Requires the President to consider applications from governments of less populated areas where the magnitude and severity of such activities are beyond the capability of the State or local government to respond. Requires Governors or CEOs, as part of such requests and as a prerequisite to such assistance, to: (1) take appropriate action under State or local law to respond to the crisis and furnish information on the nature and amount of State and local resources which have been or will be committed to alleviating the emergency; (2) certify that State and local government obligations and expenditures will comply with all applicable cost-sharing requirements; and (3) submit a detailed plan outlining the State or local government's short- and long-term plans to respond to the emergency. Requires the Director to review requests submitted and forward the application to the President, along with a recommendation. Authorizes the President to make grants to State or local governments of up to $50,000,000 for any single emergency. Limits the Federal share to 75 percent of the costs necessary to implement the short- and long-term plans. Limits the duration of assistance to a drug disaster area to one year, except that the President, on application of a Governor of a State or CEO of a local government, may extend Federal assistance for up to 180 days. Requires a State or local government receiving Federal assistance to balance the allocation of such assistance evenly between drug supply and demand reduction efforts, unless State or local conditions dictate otherwise. Authorizes the President to: (1) direct any Federal agency to utilize its authorities and resources to support State and local efforts; and (2) provide technical and advisory assistance. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct an audit of any Federal assistance beyond a specified amount. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Omnibus Act to require the Attorney General to make grants to eligible community coalitions to implement comprehensive long-term strategies for substance abuse prevention, assess existing programs, identify and solicit funding sources, develop priorities, and coordinate substance abuse services and activities. Requires coalitions to encourage voluntary participation and community involvement and submit reports to the Attorney General and the appropriate State agency. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Director of the BJA to make grants for use by States in developing and implementing residential substance abuse treatment programs within State correctional facilities. Sets forth application requirements, including: (1) assurances that Federal funds received will be used to supplement, not supplant, non-Federal funds for funded activities; (2) that the application coordinate the design and implementation of treatment programs between State correctional representatives and the State Alcohol and Drug Abuse agency; (3) agreement by the State to implement or continue to require urinalysis or similar testing of individuals in correctional residential substance abuse programs, including testing of individuals released from such programs who remain in State custody; and (4) provisions regarding aftercare services. Sets forth requirements with respect to: (1) duties of the designated State office under the Omnibus Act (application preparation and grant administration); (2) the review of State applications by the BJA; (3) the allocation and distribution of funds; and (4) evaluation. Limits the Federal share to 75 percent of total project costs. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Director of the BJA to make grants to States, for use by States and units of local government, to develop, implement, or continue drug testing projects when individuals are arrested and during the pretrial period. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) State applications, including a requirement that the State agree to develop or maintain programs of urinalysis or similar drug testing of individuals upon arrest and on a regular basis pending trial for the purpose of making pretrial detention decisions; (2) local applications; (3) the allocation and distribution of funds to State and local governmental units; and (4) reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle F: Other Provisions - Amends the CSA to: (1) increase penalties for specified offenses involving crystalline methamphetamine; and (2) prohibit any published advertisement knowing that it has the purpose of seeking or offering illegally to receive, buy, or distribute a schedule I controlled substance. Amends the CSA to impose mandatory minimum criminal penalties for the unlawful distribution or possession of controlled substances within 1,000 feet of a truck stop or safety rest area. Prohibits the granting of probation for any person who violates this provision after a prior conviction under such provision has become final. Requires the Sentencing Commission to promulgate specified sentencing guidelines for violation of such provisions. Bars multiple enhancements. Provides for enhanced penalties for drug trafficking in prisons. Amends the Anti-Smuggling Act to provide that prima facie evidence that a vessel, vehicle, or other conveyance is being, has been, or is attempted to be employed in smuggling or to defraud the revenue of the United States shall be that a vessel fails to display lights under specified circumstances and that, in the case of a vehicle or other conveyance, the fact that it has a compartment or equipment that is built or fitted for smuggling. (Current law specifies only "a vessel", employed in "smuggling", and excludes the provision regarding compartments or equipment found in a vehicle or other conveyance.) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to make the penalty for failure to declare a controlled substance 1,000 percent of the value of the article (as under current law) or $500, whichever is greater. Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act to make amendments with respect to certain Internal Revenue Service (IRS) undercover operations effective from the date of the enactment of this Act through December 31, 1994. Amends the CSA to authorize the Attorney General to bring a civil action against any person who violates drug paraphernalia provisions of such Act and to assess a civil penalty of up to $100,000 and grant other appropriate (including injunctive) relief. Specifies that if a defendant is found by the court to be in possession of a controlled substance, thereby violating such defendant's probation, the court shall resentence such person to a sentence that includes a term of imprisonment (under current law, to not less than one-third of the original sentence). Amends the CSIEA: (1) and the CSA to make penalties applicable to offenses involving less than 50 kilograms of marihuana applicable with respect to less than 50 kilograms of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of marihuana; and (2) to reduce from 100 to 50 the number of marihuana plants needed to qualify for specified penalties. Adds certain drug offenses as requiring fingerprinting and records for recidivist juveniles under the CSA and CSIEA. Amends the CSA and CSIEA to require that persons violating specified CSA provisions after two or more prior convictions for a felony drug offense have become final be sentenced to a mandatory term of life imprisonment without release and be fined under such Act. Increases penalties for a second offense of distributing drugs to a minor. Provides for life imprisonment without release for criminals convicted of a third felony drug offense, crime of violence, or combination thereof. Increases prison sentences and bars release for individuals who: (1) sell illegal drugs to persons under age 18; and (2) employ persons under age 18 in drug trafficking activities. Amends the CSA to expand the definition of "drug paraphernalia" (such as to include scales and balances designed for measuring, and containers intended for storing and concealing, controlled substances, and hypodermic syringes and needles). Declares that it is Government policy that the use or distribution of illegal drugs in the nation's Federal prisons shall not be tolerated and that such crimes shall be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Amends the CSA to: (1) provide mandatory penalties for illegal drug use in Federal prisons; and (2) provide for enhanced penalties for drug distribution to pregnant women. Amends the Assimilative Crimes Statute to require the imposition of a Federal penalty (if not already imposed by a State) of one year imprisonment and a $1,000 fine, or both, in addition to any term of imprisonment under State law, for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, if a minor (other than the offender) was present in the vehicle at the time of the offense. Amends the common carrier provisions of the Federal criminal code to increase the penalty for operating a common carrier under the influence of drugs or alcohol if a minor (other than the offender) is present in the vehicle by up to one year's imprisonment (or if serious bodily injury of a minor is caused, five years; or if death of a minor is caused, ten years) and an additional $1,000 fine, or both. Defines "minor" as a person less than 18 years of age. Amends the CSA to: (1) provide penalties for the distribution of controlled substances in public housing authority facilities; (2) authorize the Attorney General to bring a civil action against violators of prohibitions against maintaining places for the manufacture, distribution, or use of controlled substances, (and the court to assess a civil penalty of up to $100,000 and grant such other relief, including injunctions and evictions, as appropriate); (3) increase penalties for drug dealing in "drug-free" zones; and (4) establish penalties for any physical trainer or adviser who persuades or induces an individual to possess or use anabolic steroids in violation of such Act. Directs the Attorney General to implement a program of national awareness of specified provisions of law that condition portions of a State's Federal highway funding on such State's enactment of legislation requiring the revocation of the driver's licenses of convicted drug abusers. Amends the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 to authorize the use of certain grant funds for drug abuse resistance education programs for local governments with the concurrence of local educational agencies (currently, limited to use for such agencies). Amends the Federal criminal code to provide penalties for misuse of the words "Drug Enforcement Administration" or the initials "DEA". Title XI: Public Corruption - Anti-Corruption Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prescribe criminal penalties to be imposed against anyone who uses any facility of, or affects, interstate or foreign commerce to deprive or defraud the inhabitants of a State or political subdivision of a State of: (1) the honest services of a government official or employee; or (2) a fair and impartially conducted election process through the use of fraudulent ballots or voter registration forms, paying or offering to pay any person for voting, or the filing of fraudulent campaign reports. Prescribes criminal penalties to be imposed against anyone who deprives or defrauds the inhabitants of the United States of the honest services of a public official. Prescribes criminal penalties to be imposed upon any official or person who has been selected to be a public official, in order to carry out or conceal any scheme or artifice to defraud, discriminate, harass, or take adverse action against any employee or official of the United States or any State or political subdivision. Authorizes such an adversely affected employee or official to obtain relief through a civil action, provided such person did not participate in the scheme or artifice. Amends mail fraud provisions to prohibit the use of any facility of interstate or foreign commerce in the execution of a scheme or artifice to defraud. Makes it a class B felony for: (1) a public official to corruptly demand, seek, receive, accept, or agree to receive or accept anything of value in return for being influenced in the performance or nonperformance of an official act, or to commit, aid in committing, collude in, or allow or make opportunity for the commission of any offense against the United States or any State; and (2) any person to corruptly give, or promise anything of value with intent to influence any official act, such official to commit, collude in, or allow or make opportunity for the commission of such offense, or such official to do or omit any act in violation of such official's lawful duty. Makes such provisions applicable with respect to any such offense which involves, is part of, or is intended to further or conceal the illegal possession, importation, manufacture, transportation, or distribution of any controlled substance or controlled substance analogue. Title XII: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Violent Crimes - Amends the Federal criminal code to set penalties for specified robbery, kidnapping, smuggling, and property damage offenses. Increases the maximum penalty for: (1) assaults against specified classes of individuals; (2) manslaughter; (3) interstate and foreign travel or transportation in aid of racketeering enterprises; and (4) conspiracy to commit murder for hire. Establishes a mandatory sentence for the commission of a felony against an individual age 65 or older. Sets limitations on the discretion of the court with respect to authorizing probation, allowing the defendant to serve consecutive sentences, and accepting plea agreements. Amends the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to: (1) preclude either the defendant or the court from waiving a presentence investigation and report unless there is sufficient information in the record for the court to determine whether a mandatory sentence must be imposed; (2) require such report to contain verified information as to whether any victim of the offense had attained age 65 on the date that the offense was committed; and (3) make an exception to the general rule authorizing plea bargain discussions in cases involving the commission of a felony against individuals age 65 and older. Subtitle B: Civil Right Offenses - Increases the maximum penalty for certain civil rights violations, including damage to religious property. Subtitle C: White Collar and Property Crimes - Establishes penalties for knowingly receiving the proceeds of: (1) a postal robbery; (2) extortion; and (3) a kidnapping. Sets forth penalties for obstructing a proceeding made under the civil investigative demand provisions of: (1) the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute; and (2) a specified Federal law relating to monetary transactions. Makes violations of provisions with respect to continuing financial crimes enterprises and obstructing examination of a financial institution predicate offenses to the financial institutions reward statute. Defines "savings and loan association" under bank robbery-related provisions of the Federal criminal code to mean: (1) any Federal or State savings association having accounts insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and (2) any corporation meeting specified requirements under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, which is operating under U.S. law. Makes it unlawful for a governmental entity, or a person acting in conjunction with such entity, to operate, sponsor, advertise, promote, license, or authorize a lottery sweepstakes, or other betting, gambling, or wagering scheme based, directly or indirectly, on one or more competitive games in which amateur or professional athletes participate, or intend to participate, or on one or more performances of such athletes in such games. Authorizes the commencement of a civil action in district court to enjoin violations. Amends the Federal criminal code to impose criminal sanctions for copyright violations involving the reproduction or distribution, during any 180-day period, of specified numbers of copies infringing the copyright in one or more computer programs. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to bar any exceptions from the ten-year ban on participation in specified activities with respect to insured depository institutions for individuals convicted of the following offenses: (1) obstructing examination of a financial institution; and (2) engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity. Amends the Federal Credit Union Act to prohibit, except with the prior consent of the Federal Credit Union Board: (1) any person who has been convicted of a criminal offense involving dishonesty or a breach of trust (as under current law) or has agreed to enter into a pretrial diversion or similar program in connection with a prosecution for such offense, from participating, directly or indirectly, in the conduct of the affairs of any insured credit union (as under current law), or becoming or continuing as an institution-affiliated party with respect to any insured credit union; and (2) any insured credit union from permitting any such person from engaging in any such conduct or continuing in any such relationship. Establishes a minimum ten-year ban on such participation for specified offenses, with exceptions. Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to encourage the Attorney General to submit a report to the Congress with respect to the financial institutions fraud task forces established under such Act as they relate to the collapse of private deposit insurance corporations. Establishes penalties or subjects to lawsuits individuals who intentionally disclose the contents of certain wire, oral, or electronic communications knowing that the information was obtained through the interception of such a communication in connection with a criminal investigation, having obtained or received the information in connection with a criminal investigation, with intent to improperly interfere with a duly authorized criminal investigation. Exempts from the prohibition on the use as evidence of intercepted wire or oral communications the admission into evidence of the contents of such a communication, or evidence derived therefrom, which has been disclosed in violation of such provision. Establishes penalties for: (1) the theft of major art works from museums; and (2) the exhibition or storage by a museum of any such stolen work. Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) delete the $250 cap on the maximum fine for the unauthorized wearing, manufacturing, or selling of military decorations or medals; and (2) include trades, barters, or exchanges for anything of value as sales. Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Act - Directs the Attorney General to develop a national voluntary motor vehicle theft prevention program under which: (1) the owner of a motor vehicle may voluntarily sign a consent form with a participating State or locality in which the motor vehicle owner states that the vehicle is normally operated under certain specified conditions and agrees to display program decals or devices on the owner's vehicle and permit law enforcement officials in any State to stop the vehicle and take reasonable steps to determine whether such vehicle is being operated by the owner or with the owner's permission, if the vehicle is being operated under such conditions; (2) participating States and localities authorize law enforcement officials in the State or locality to stop motor vehicles displaying program decals or devices under such conditions and take reasonable steps to determine whether the vehicle is being operated by or with the permission of the owner; and (3) Federal law enforcement officials are authorized to stop such vehicles under such conditions and make such determination. Requires such program to include a uniform design or designs for decals or other devices to be displayed by motor vehicles participating in the program which shall: (1) be highly visible; and (2) explicitly state that the motor vehicle to which it is affixed may be stopped under the specified conditions without additional grounds for establishing a reasonable suspicion that the vehicle is being operated unlawfully. Sets forth requirements with respect to the voluntary consent form. Directs the Attorney General to promulgate rules establishing the conditions under which participating motor vehicles may be authorized to be stopped under this Act, such as the operation of the vehicle during certain hours of the day or under circumstances which would provide a sufficient basis for establishing a reasonable suspicion that the vehicle was not being operated by, or with the consent of, the owner. Sets forth provisions with respect to the establishment of more than one set of conditions under which participating motor vehicles may be stopped. Requires the notification of lessees of motor vehicles for hire of participation in the program, as specified. Sets forth penalties for failure to comply with such notice provisions. Authorizes a State or locality to participate in the program by filing an agreement to comply with the terms and conditions of the program with the Attorney General. Specifies that, as a condition of participation, a State or locality must agree to take reasonable steps to ensure that law enforcement officials throughout the State or locality are familiar with the program and with the conditions under which motor vehicles may be stopped under the program. Authorizes appropriations. Includes within the scope of a provision setting penalties for the removal of or tampering with an identification number for a motor vehicle or motor vehicle part the removal of or tampering with a decal or device affixed pursuant to this Act, with exceptions. Sets forth penalties for the unauthorized application of a theft prevention decal or device, or a replica thereof. Amends the Federal criminal code to provide that, wherever it is an element of an offense that property was stolen or counterfeited and that the defendant knew that the property was of such character, such element may be established by proof that the defendant, after or as a result of an official representation as to the nature of the property, believed the property to be stolen or counterfeited. Includes within mail fraud provisions depositing specified matter to be sent by any private or commercial interstate carrier (current law applies only to matter sent by the Postal Service). Establishes penalties for knowingly and with intent to defraud: (1) affecting transactions with one or more access devices (ADs) issued to another person to receive any thing of value aggregating $1,000 or more during any one-year period; (2) without the authorization of the issuer of the AD, soliciting a person for the purpose of offering, or selling information regarding or an application to obtain, an AD; or (3) without the authorization of the credit card system member or its agent, causing or arranging for another person to present to the member or its agent for payment evidence or records of transactions made by an AD. Establishes penalties for persons engaged in the business of insurance whose activities affect commerce, who: (1) knowingly make a materially false statement or report or willfully overvalue land, property, or security in connection with reports or documents presented to an insurance regulatory official or agency, or to any agent or examiner (official) appointed to examine the affairs of such person for the purpose of influencing in any way the actions of such official; (2) embezzle or willfully misappropriate funds or property while acting as an officer, director, agent, or employee (officer) of such person; (3) knowingly make a false entry of material fact in any book, report, or statement of such person with intent to deceive any person about the financial condition or solvency of such business, or to deceive any officer of such person or any insurance regulatory official; and (4) by threats or force, corruptly influence, obstruct, or endeavor corruptly to influence or obstruct the proper administration of the law under which a proceeding (involving the business of insurance whose activities affect interstate commerce) is pending before an insurance regulatory official to examine the affairs of such person. Authorizes the Attorney General to seek civil penalties and injunctions for violations of such provisions. Sets forth penalties for obstructing criminal investigations with respect to the prosecution of cases of insurance fraud. Increases penalties for trafficking in counterfeit goods and services. Computer Abuse Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to make it a felony to knowingly transmit an unauthorized program or code that alters the information stored in a computer with the intent to damage the system or information contained within the affected computer or computer system, or to withhold or deny the use of such system or information, if the transmission: (1) occurred without the authorization of the person responsible for the computer system receiving the program; and (2) causes damage exceeding $1,000 in any one-year period or modifies or impairs the medical care of one or more individuals. Makes such offense punishable by a fine and up to five years in prison. Sets forth parallel provisions with respect to recklessly transmitting a destructive computer program or code. Makes such offense a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine and imprisonment for up to one year. Creates a civil cause of action for compensatory or injunctive relief for persons suffering damage or loss by virtue of a violation of this Act. Limits damages to economic damages, except for medical records violations. Sets a statute of limitation of two years from the date of the act complained of, or from the date of discovery of the damage. Requires the Attorney General to report to the Congress annually during the first three years following the date of enactment of this Act concerning prosecution under this Act. Repeals provisions which exclude automated typewriters and typesetters, portable hand held calculators, and similar devices from the definition of "computer." Modifies the prohibition against accessing a Government computer where such conduct affects the use of the Government's operation of such computer to cover only actions that "adversely" affect such use. Amends the FAA to direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to issue regulations requiring employees and agents to report to appropriate Federal and State law enforcement officers incidents in which the employee or agent, in the course of conducting screening procedures, discovers a controlled substance, or an amount of cash in excess of $10,000, the possession of which may be a violation of Federal or State law. Subtitle D: Sentencing and Procedure - Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) require the court, in sentencing a defendant for a violation of probation or supervised release, to consider applicable guidelines or policy statements issued by the U.S. Sentencing Commission; and (2) permit the court, if a defendant violates a condition of probation, to resentence the defendant (Under current law, the court may impose any other sentence that was available at the time of the initial sentencing.) Provides for the mandatory revocation of probation for possession of a controlled substance or firearm (currently, applies only to actual possession of a firearm). Requires the court, under such circumstances, to resentence the defendant to a sentence that includes a term of imprisonment. (Current law directs the court to impose any other sentence that was available at the time of the initial sentencing.) Directs the court to require, as an explicit condition of probation or supervised release, that the defendant not unlawfully possess a controlled substance. (Current law specifies that the defendant not possess illegal controlled substances.) Specifies that a defendant whose term of supervised release is revoked may not be required to serve more than five years in prison if the offense that resulted in the term of release is a class A felony, more than three years if such offense is a class B felony, more than two years for a class C or D felony, or more than one year in any other case. (Current law specifies only no more than three years for a class B felony or more than two years for a class C or D felony.) Requires the court to revoke the term of supervised release and require the defendant to serve a term of imprisonment not to exceed the maximum authorized if the defendant possesses a controlled substance in violation of a condition of supervised release, or possesses a firearm in violation of Federal law or otherwise violates a condition of supervised release prohibiting the defendant from possessing a firearm, or refuses to cooperate in drug testing imposed as a condition of supervised release. (Current law states that if the defendant is found to be in possession of a controlled substance, the court shall terminate the term of supervised release and require the defendant to serve in prison not less than one-third of the term of release.) Provides that: (1) when a term of supervised release is revoked and the defendant is required to serve a term of imprisonment less than the maximum authorized, the court may require that the defendant be placed on a term of supervised release after imprisonment (for a length of time not to exceed the term of release authorized by statute for the offense that resulted in the original term of supervised release, less any term of imprisonment imposed upon revocation of such release); and (2) the power of the court to revoke a term of supervised release for violation of a condition of such release and to order the defendant to serve a term of imprisonment and a further term of such release extends beyond the expiration of the term of such release for any period reasonably necessary for the adjudication of matters arising before its expiration, subject to specified conditions. Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) authorize probation for a petty offense if the defendant has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment at the same time for another such offense; (2) provide for trial by a magistrate in petty offense cases; (3) authorize a magistrate who has sentenced a person to a term of supervised release in a misdemeanor case to revoke or modify the term or conditions of such release; and (4) permit supervised release for juvenile offenders, subject to specified conditions. Permits a U.S. attorney to request an order requiring an individual to give testimony or provide other information which such individual refuses to give or provide based on the privilege against self-incrimination under specified circumstances with the approval of an officer or employee of the Criminal Division of DOJ designated by the Attorney General (currently, only with the approval of specified officials). Amends the Federal judicial code to authorize a voting member of the Sentencing Commission whose term has expired to continue to serve until the earlier of the date on which: (1) a successor has taken office; or (2) the Congress adjourns sine die to end the session of Congress that commences after the date on which the member's term expired. Subtitle E: Immigration-Related Offenses - Establishes civil penalties for: (1) inducing an alien to commit an aggravated felony; and (2) the commission of an aggravated felony by an alien. Directs the court to consider the severity of the offense sought or committed by the offender as a circumstance in aggravation. Sets forth provisions with respect to enforcement of such provision. Establishes in the Treasury the Criminal Alien Identification and Removal Fund. Specifies that: (1) 90 percent of the monies in the Fund in a fiscal year may be used by the Attorney General to assist the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to identify, investigate, detain, and deport aliens who have committed an aggravated felony and to fund specified additional immigration judge positions; and (2) ten percent of such monies may be distributed as grants to the States by the Attorney General to assist the States in implementing or expanding specified immigration-related provisions of the Omnibus Act. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the deportation of aliens convicted of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of, or impaired by, alcohol or a controlled substance arising in connection with a fatal traffic accident or traffic accident resulting in serious bodily injury to an innocent party. Subtitle F: United States Marshals - United States Marshals Association Establishment Act - Establishes the United States Marshals Association as a charitable, nonprofit corporation to strengthen public knowledge of law enforcement and of the U.S. Marshals Service, to promote the exchange of information among private and public institutions and individuals about, and research of, law enforcement and justice systems issues, and to promote an effective justice system and the general welfare of law enforcement. Authorizes the Director of the U.S. Marshals Service to provide personnel, facilities, and other administrative services to the Association and to accept voluntary services of the Association. Specifies that no part of the income or assets of the Association shall inure to any member or officer of the Association or Director of the Board or be distributed to any such person, with exceptions for reasonable compensation or reimbursement for actual necessary expenses. Bars the Association from making loans to any Director or officer or employee of the Association, or from issuing stock or declaring or paying dividends. Specifies that the Association and any agent of the Association shall be considered an employer for purposes of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 if the Association is engaged in an industry affecting commerce and meets the minimum employee requirements set forth in such Acts. Makes it unlawful for the Association, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability, to: (1) fail or refuse to accept an individual into membership; (2) expel such individual from membership; (3) suspend such individual's membership; or (4) discriminate against such individual with respect to any of the benefits or obligations of membership. Authorizes: (1) a right of action to enforce such prohibition; and (2) the court to grant injunctive or other equitable relief. Authorizes the Association to acquire the assets of the United States Marshals Association, a nonprofit organization organized under the laws of the State of Virginia before the enactment of this Act. Subtitle G: Other Provisions - Designates the venue for espionage and related offenses as the District of Columbia or any other district authorized by law. Defines "livestock" (under the Federal criminal code) to mean any domestic animals raised for home use, consumption, or profit. Amends the Federal judicial code to: (1) authorize court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to be held in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and (2) provide for the reimbursement of attorney's fees for current and former DOJ employees who were the subject of a criminal or disciplinary investigation related to such employee's discharge of official duties, where the investigation resulted in neither disciplinary action nor criminal indictment against such employee (but permits the Attorney General to make an inquiry into the reasonableness of the sum requested, based on specified guidelines). Authorizes appropriations for the construction of a U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Requires each clerk of a Federal or State criminal court to: (1) report to the IRS the name and taxpayer identification number of any individual charged with a criminal offense who posts cash bail, or on whose behalf cash bail is posted, in an amount exceeding $10,000, and any individual or entity (other than a licensed bail bonding individual or entity) posting such cash bail for or on behalf of such individual; and (2) submit a copy of each such report to the offices of the U.S. Attorney and the local prosecuting attorney. Amends the Federal judicial code to require the Attorney General to: (1) mandate that any State or local LEA receiving funds from the DOJ Assets Forfeiture Fund conduct an annual audit and report the results of the audit to the Attorney General; (2) include all such audit reports within the Attorney General's report to the Congress; and (3) report for each fiscal year a description of the administrative and contracting expenses paid from the Fund. Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the use of drug control and system improvement grants to develop or improve in a forensic laboratory a capability to analyze DNA for identification purposes. Requires State applications for grant funds to certify, if any part of such grant is to be used to develop or improve a DNA analysis capability in a forensic laboratory, that: (1) DNA analyses performed at such laboratory will satisfy or exceed then current standards for a quality assurance program for DNA analysis issued by the Director of the FBI; (2) DNA samples obtained by, and DNA analyses performed at, such laboratory will be accessible only to criminal justice agencies for law enforcement identification purposes, to a defendant for criminal defense purposes, who shall have access to samples and analyses in connection with the case in which the defendant is charged, and to others, if identifiable information is removed, for a population statistics database, for identification research and protocol development purposes, or for quality control purposes; and (3) such laboratory and each analyst performing DNA analyses at such laboratory will undergo, at regular intervals of not to exceed 180 days, external proficiency testing by a DNA proficiency testing program meeting the standards issued under this subtitle. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Director of the FBI: (1) within 180 days, to appoint an advisory board on DNA quality assurance methods (and appoint members of the board from among nominations proposed by the head of the National Academy of Sciences and professional societies of criminal laboratory directors) to develop, and if appropriate, periodically revise, recommended standards for quality assurance, including standards for testing the proficiency of forensic laboratories in conducting such analyses. Mandates that such standards: (1) specify criteria for quality assurance and proficiency tests to be applied to the various types of DNA analyses used by forensic laboratories; and (2) include a system for grading proficiency testing performance to determine whether a laboratory is performing acceptably. Authorizes the Director of the FBI to establish an index of DNA identification records of persons convicted of crimes, analyses of DNA samples recovered from crime scenes, and analyses of DNA samples recovered from unidentified human remains. Specifies that such index shall include only information on DNA identification records and analyses that are: (1) based on analyses performed in accordance with publicly available standards that satisfy or exceed specified guidelines for the quality assurance program for DNA analysis; (2) prepared by labs and DNA analysts that undergo regular external proficiency testing; and (3) maintained by Federal, State, and local criminal justice agencies pursuant to rules that restrict disclosure of stored DNA samples and analyses. Makes the exchange of DNA identification records subject to cancellation if the quality control and privacy requirements of this subtitle are not met. Requires: (1) FBI personnel who perform DNA analyses to undergo, at regular intervals of not exceeding 180 days, external proficiency testing by a DNA proficiency testing program meeting the standards issued pursuant to this Act; and (2) the Director of the FBI to submit an annual report on the results of such tests to House and Senate Judicial Committees for five years after the enactment of this Act and arrange for periodic blind external tests to determine the proficiency of DNA analysis performed at the FBI laboratory within one year. Restricts disclosure of DNA tests performed for a Federal LEA to: (1) criminal justice agencies for law enforcement identification purposes; or (2) for criminal defense purposes, a defendant, who shall have access to samples and analyses performed in connection with the case in which the defendant is charged. Authorizes disclosure of test results for a population statistics database, for identification research and protocol development purposes, or for quality control purposes if personally identifiable information is removed. Sets fines of up to $100,000 for individuals: (1) having access to individually identifiable DNA information indexed in a database created or maintained by a Federal LEA by virtue of employment or official position who willfully disclose such information to any person or agency not entitled to receive it; and (2) who, without authorization, willfully obtain DNA samples or such individually identifiable DNA information. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Omnibus Act to: (1) authorize the Director of the BJA to make grants to local educational agencies to provide assistance to such agencies most directly affected by crime and violence; and (2) require the Director to develop a written safe schools model (in English and in Spanish) in a timely fashion and make such model available to any such agency that requests such information. Earmarks such grants: (1) to fund anticrime and safety measures, and to develop education and training programs for the prevention of crime, violence, illegal drugs, and alcohol; and (2) for counseling programs for victims of crime within schools, crime prevention equipment, and the prevention and reduction of youth participation in organized crime and drug- and gang-related activities in schools. Sets forth application requirements, provisions with respect to limits on administrative costs and grant renewal, factors in the Director's consideration in awarding grants, and reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Title XIII: Technical Corrections - Makes technical corrections to the Omnibus Act, CSA, Federal criminal code, and other statutes. Title XIV: Federal Law Enforcement Agencies - Federal Law Enforcement Act of 1992 - Authorizes appropriations for the Drug Enforcement Agency, FBI, INS, U.S. attorneys, U.S. marshals, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, U.S. courts, and defender services. Title XV: Federal Prisons - Authorizes appropriations for new prison construction.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1992
Declares that the Congress: (1) commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1992; (2) salutes the vision and dedication of those Americans who planned and participated in this heroic battle; (3) reveres the memory, bravery, and spirit of those who fought and perished in it; and (4) honors the sacrifices and devotions of those gallant men who fought in such battle and who, in a single master stroke, reversed the tide of war in the Pacific.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1992
Provides eligibility for burial in national cemeteries for an individual who was entitled to retired pay as a member of the reserves (at least 20 years of service in the reserves) or would have been entitled to retired pay but for the fact that such person was under 60 years of age.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1992
Directs the Secretary of the Navy to establish a second homeport on the east coast of the United States for nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Outlines the development work to be performed at the site selected for such homeport.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1992
Selective Service Standby Act of 1992 - Amends the Military Selective Service Act to prohibit, after November 30, 1992: (1) requiring a person to submit to registration under the Selective Service System (SSS); (2) the President from appointing a person as a member of a civilian local board, civilian appeal board, or similar local agency of the SSS; and (3) any such board from meeting. Prohibits a person from being denied any right, privilege, benefit, or employment position under Federal law by reason of failure to so register after such date.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1992
Land Remote-Sensing Policy Act of 1992 - Title I: Declaration of Findings, Purposes, and Policies - Declares U.S. policy regarding remote sensing data, including: (1) preserving the right to acquire and disseminate unenhanced data; (2) perpetuating existing open skies and nondiscriminatory access policies; (3) retaining in the Federal Government remote sensing functions that are essentially a public service; and (4) maintaining a permanent, comprehensive data archive. Title II: Operation and Data Dissemination of Landsat System - Makes the Secretary of Commerce responsible for: (1) completing and launching Landsat 6; (2) arranging for the operation of Landsats 4 and 5 until Landsat 6 is operational; and (3) changing Federal contracts that would prevent full implementation of this Act. Makes the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Secretary of Defense jointly responsible for the operation of the Landsat system after Landsat 6 is operational. Directs the Administrator and the Secretary of Defense to implement a data dissemination policy that: (1) makes Landsat data available to scientists at costs that do not exceed the marginal cost of filling a specific user request; (2) considers the reasonable and legitimate requirements of all segments of the data user community; and (3) provides data to the Secretary of the Interior for permanent preservation. Requires honoring and renewal of existing agreements between the Federal Government and nations that operate foreign ground stations to provide data to those stations. Title III: Licensing of Private Remote Sensing Space Systems - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to license private parties to operate private remote sensing space systems. Prohibits operating such systems without a license. Sets forth license conditions, including operating the system so as to promote national security and implement U.S. international obligations and making data available to all users on a nondiscriminatory basis. Allows a private party to apply for a license to operate a private remote sensing space system which uses, on a space-available basis, a civilian Federal Government satellite or vehicle as a platform. Terminates the authority of this title if no private party has been licensed and continued in operation by December 31, 1999. Title IV: Research and Development - Directs the Administrator to continue to enhance NASA's programs of remote sensing research and development. Authorizes and encourages the Administrator, the Secretaries of Agriculture, the Interior, Defense, and Energy, and other Federal agencies to take certain remote sensing research and development actions. Title V: General Provisions - Requires any unenhanced data generated by the Landsat system or by any system operator under provisions of this Act to be made available to all users on a nondiscriminatory basis. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide for long-term storage, maintenance, and upgrading of a basic, global, land remote sensing data set. Allows unenhanced data distributed by any private system operator to be sold on the condition that the data not be reproduced or disseminated by the purchaser. Requires that radio spectra presently allocated to Government use be made available for nongovernmental use by commercial systems licenses under this Act. Makes, with regard to this Act: (1) the Secretary of Defense responsible for national security concerns; and (2) the Secretary of State responsible for international obligations and policies. Authorizes and encourages Federal agencies to provide remote data, technology, and training to developing nations as a component of programs of international aid. Title VI: Prohibition of Commercialization of Weather Satellites - Prohibits the President and any other official of the Federal Government from making any effort to commercialize or in any way dismantle any portion of the weather satellite systems operated by the Department of Commerce, regardless of future changed circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1992
Investment Growth and Anti-Recession Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1992 - Declares that any new budget authority or outlays provided for in this Act shall not be counted for purposes of determining any spending limits provided in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Makes emergency supplemental appropriations for FY 1992 to carry out this Act. Title I: Transportation - Makes supplemental appropriations to: (1) the Federal Highway Administration; (2) the Federal Aviation Administration; and (3) the Federal Transit Administration. Title II: Housing and Community Development - Makes supplemental appropriations for: (1) a community development grants program under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974; (2) the modernization of certain public housing projects; (3) certain direct and guaranteed loans and rental assistance agreements; and (4) the weatherization assistance program for low-income persons and the Institutional Conservation Program. Title III: Public Works - Makes supplemental appropriations for: (1) certain construction grants under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Water Quality Act of 1987; (2) direct and guaranteed loans under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act; and (3) Farmers Home Administration rural water and waste disposal grants. Title IV: Facilities Renovation - Makes supplemental appropriations to renovate: (1) National Science Foundation academic facilities; (2) Job Corps facilities; (3) Head Start facilities; (4) local educational agency facilities; and (5) certain library facilities. Title V: Worker Training - Makes supplemental appropriations for employment and training services under the Job Training Partnership Act. Title VI: Economic Conversion - Civilian and Military - Makes supplemental appropriations to the Economic Development Administration of the Department of Commerce to provide planning and adjustment assistance to communities that are affected by closures or reductions of major employers (including military and other government employers). Makes supplemental appropriations to the Small Business Administration for assistance to small businesses affected by such closures or reductions. Makes supplemental appropriations to the National Institute of Standards and Technology to assist scientists, engineers, and technicians in converting skills from the defense sector to the civilian sector. Makes supplemental appropriations to the Department of Labor to provide demonstration projects to encourage and promote innovative responses to workers dislocated by reductions in defense expenditures and military base closures. Title VII: Aid to Recession Victims - Makes supplemental appropriations to: (1) the Federal Emergency Management Agency for emergency assistance grants; and (2) support social services for low-income families under the Community Services Block Grant Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1992
Expands the eligibility for the veterans' readjustment appointment program (a program providing Federal employment opportunities for veterans) to include all Vietnam era veterans (currently includes Vietnam era veterans with service-connected disabilities or those having received campaign badges for active-duty service in a campaign or expedition). Expands the eligibility for the disabled veterans' outreach program to include disabled veterans of the Persian Gulf War.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1992
Title I: 1992 White House Commemorative Coins - 1992 Omnibus Commemorative Coin and Medal Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary) to issue one-dollar silver coins emblematic of the White House. Requires that the total surcharges received from the sale of such coins be paid promptly to the White House Endowment Fund to assist its efforts to raise an endowment as a permanent source of support for the White House Collection of fine art and historic furnishings, and for the maintenance of the Executive Mansion's historic public rooms. Title II: World Cup USA 1994 Commemorative Coins - World Cup USA 1994 Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary to issue a specified number of five-dollar gold coins, one-dollar silver coins, and half-dollar clad coins in commemoration of the 1994 World Cup (soccer). Sets forth certain features of such coins and provides for their design, issuance, and sale. Requires that all sales include a surcharge of $35 per coin for the five-dollar coins, $7 per coin for the one-dollar coins, and $1 per coin for the half-dollar coins. Requires that all surcharges be paid to the Organizing Committee for organizing and staging the 1994 World Cup. Requires that ten percent of such funds be made available through the U.S. Soccer Federation Foundation, Inc., for distribution to institutions for scholastic scholarships to qualified students. Title III: Silver Medals for Veterans of the Persian Gulf Conflict - Directs the Secretary to design and strike a silver commemorative medal for members of the U.S. armed forces who served in a combat zone in connection with the Persian Gulf conflict. Title IV: Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Coins and Fellowship Foundation - Subtitle A: Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Coins - Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Coin Act - Directs the Secretary to mint and issue not more than a specified number of five-dollar gold coins, one-dollar silver coins, and half-dollar clad coins emblematic of the quincentenary of the discovery of America, the gold coin bearing a likeness of Christopher Columbus. Sets forth certain features of such coins and provides for their design, issuance, and sale. Terminates the minting of such coins after June 30, 1993. Requires the Secretary to deposit surcharges from their sale in the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Fund (established by this Act) for use by the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation (also established by this Act). Requires the Secretary to report to certain congressional committees with respect to: (1) coin sales marketing activities; and (2) a detailed financial operating statement. Subtitle B: Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation - Christopher Columbus Fellowship Act - Establishes the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation to award fellowships to outstanding individuals to encourage new discoveries in all fields of endeavor for the benefit of mankind. Establishes the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Fund. Directs the Foundation to report to the President and the Congress annually on its operations. Title V: James Madison Coins - James Madison-Bill of Rights Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary to issue: (1) five-dollar gold coins emblematic of the Bill of Rights; (2) one-dollar silver coins emblematic of James Madison; and (3) half-dollar silver coins emblematic of the Bill of Rights. Sets forth guidelines for their sale and issuance and for financial assurances. Requires that the surcharges received by the Secretary be transmitted to the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Trust Fund to encourage teaching and graduate study of the Constitution of the United States. Requires the Secretary to submit monthly financial status reports to certain congressional committees. Authorizes audits by the Comptroller General. Requires the Chairman of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation to submit annual surcharge expenditure reports to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1992
Revises the date for the beginning of the Vietnam era, for purposes of eligibility for veterans' benefits, from August 5, 1964, to December 21, 1961.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1992
Designates March 17, 1992, as Irish Brigade Day.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1992
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that any future reduction in defense spending should be used for deficit reduction.