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Bill· SS. 2958 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Makes eligible for the veterans' housing loan program an individual not otherwise eligible for such loan who has completed at least six years of service in the Selected Reserve and who, after completion of such service, was: (1) discharged honorably; (2) placed on the retired list; or (3) transferred to an element of the Ready Reserve other than the Selected Reserve after honorable service. Requires such individuals to pay a housing loan origination fee of: (1) two percent of the total loan amount if no down payment is made; (2) 1.5 percent if a down payment of at least five percent of the total loan amount is made; and (3) 1.25 percent if a down payment of ten percent or more is made.
Bill· SS. 2962 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 and Federal law relating to the armed forces to provide for the consideration of certain contract-related Federal revenues in the determination of which contract bid or proposal contains the lowest price.
Bill· SS. 2946 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Small Business Defense Economic Transition Assistance Act of 1992 - Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make loans to a small business concern that has been detrimentally affected by: (1) the closure (or substantial reduction) of a Department of Defense (DOD) installation; or (2) the termination or substantial reduction of a DOD program under which the small business was a prime contractor or subcontractor (or supplier). Authorizes such loans also for a qualified individual seeking to establish or acquire and operate a small business. Requires loan amounts to be provided in advance in appropriation Acts for such purpose. Defines as a qualified individual seeking to establish or acquire a small business: (1) a member of the armed forces honorably discharged from active duty involuntarily or under a separation incentive program; (2) a civilian DOD employee involuntarily separated or retired pursuant to a program for early retirement; or (3) an employee of a prime contractor, subcontractor, or supplier at any tier of a DOD program whose employment is involuntarily terminated (or voluntarily terminated under a program encouraging voluntary separation or early retirement) due to the termination or substantial reduction of a DOD program. Revises Federal provisions relating to services offered by small business development centers (SBDCs) to: (1) repeal a provision requiring the SBDCs to assist small businesses in developing and implementing marketing and production strategies to enable them to better compete in the domestic market; and (2) add to SBDC services assistance to small businesses to develop and implement strategic business plans to respond to the planned closure or reduction of a DOD facility within the community or actual or projected reduction in the firms' business base due to the termination or reduction of a DOD program or of a contract in support of such a program.
Bill· SS. 2963 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Excludes from the determination of income, for purposes of the payment of pension by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, any future increases made by the State of New York in the monthly amount paid to blind and totally disabled veterans.
Bill· SS. 2947 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Directs the Secretary of Defense to transfer specified funds from the Defense Environmental Restoration Account to the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990.
Bill· SS. 2940 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, 1985 to reduce to 100,000 by the end of FY 1995 the number of U.S. military personnel assigned to permanent duty ashore in North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries of Europe.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 325 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Collective Security Participation Resolution - Urges the President to take steps to negotiate, under Article 43 of the United Nations Charter, a special agreement or agreements with equitable terms under which designated forces from various countries, including the United States, would be available to the Security Council for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security. Urges the President to consult with the foreign affairs and defense committees of the Congress in the course of negotiating such an agreement. Expresses the intent of the Congress to give prompt consideration to any such agreement negotiated. Affirms the principle that, upon congressional approval of such an agreement, the President shall be authorized to direct that the U.S. armed forces designated in the agreement be employed as necessary to support decisions of the Security Council.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 324 (102nd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should expeditiously issue an executive order requiring all executive departments and agencies to declassify and release to the public (without compromising U.S. national security) all documents, files, and other materials pertaining to prisoners of war and missing in action.
Bill· HRH.R. 5543 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Excludes from the determination of income, for purposes of the payment of pension by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, any future increases made by the State of New York in the monthly amount paid to blind and totally disabled veterans.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 344 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Denounces the sexual misconduct that occurred at the annual Navy Tailhook Association symposium in September 1991. Calls on the Secretary of Defense to ensure that the ongoing Department of Defense investigation of such misconduct is full and uncompromising. Urges the Secretary of the Navy to recommend and initiate full disciplinary procedures against any culpable individuals. Recognizes the importance of equality of opportunity for women and men in the armed forces to achieving mutual respect between the sexes. Urges the Secretary of Defense to make available to female military personnel the same opportunities available to male personnel, to the extent consistent with the protection and security of the United States.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 345 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Administration should expedite immediate declassification and release of all documents pertaining to reports or intelligence on U.S. military personnel and Americans involved in intelligence operations held against their will or listed as missing in action after the Vietnam War, Korean War, or World War II, unless such declassification would endanger national security or violate a commitment made to a missing individual or his or her family concerning the release of such information.
Bill· SS. 2933 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1992
Deficit Reduction Through Reduction of Strategic Defense Initiative Act of 1992 - Title I: Reductions in Expenditures - Prohibits funds authorized to be appropriated for FY 1993 to the defense agencies for activities of the Strategic Defense Initiative from exceeding $2,000,000,000.
Bill· SS. 2934 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1992
Deficit Reduction Through Intelligence Programs Reduction Act of 1992 - Requires a specified amount of funds appropriated for programs in support of the intelligence community to be available only for deficit reduction.
Bill· SS. 2932 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1992
Deficit Reduction and Trident II Termination Act of 1992 - Title I: Reductions in Expenditures - Prohibits funds appropriated to or for the use of the Department of Defense for procurement of the Trident II ballistic missile system from being expended for such purpose unless such funds were appropriated and made available before the date of enactment of this Act, with the exception of a specified sum to be used solely for program termination activities.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 323 (102nd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1992
Authorizes Senator John F. Kerry, former Senator Thomas F. Eagleton, Fred Ward and Daniel P. Finn (both Senate employees), and contract court reporters who reported testimony at proceedings of the Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition to testify in the case of United States of America v. Clair E. George, except concerning matters for which a privilege should be asserted. Authorizes the Senate Legal Counsel to represent the individuals in connection with their testimony.
Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 129 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1992
Expresses continuing support for the Taif Agreement (which ended Lebanon's 16-year civil war), signed in 1989. Urges: (1) Syria to withdraw its armed forces to the gateway of the Bekaa Valley in September 1992, as required under such Agreement, as a prelude to complete withdrawal from Lebanon; (2) immediate consideration of alternatives to ensuring security in Beirut following the Syrian withdrawal; and (3) the Government of Lebanon to hold elections if they can be free and fair, conducted after the Syrian withdrawal and without outside interference, and witnessed by international observers.
Bill· HRH.R. 5521 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1992
National Aeronautical Research and Competitiveness Act - Directs the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Secretary of Defense to: (1) establish a joint military and civilian aeronautical research and development program; (2) prepare and transmit to the Congress a five-year aeronautical research plan; and (3) establish an Aeronautical Research Advisory Committee.
Bill· HRH.R. 5528 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1992
Department of Defense Overseas Educators Act - Provides for the implementation of temporary measures to facilitate reemployment in Federal agencies of Federal employees separated from teaching positions in schools for overseas Department of Defense dependents (DoDDS teachers). Amends the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act to require that, in certain cases, DoDDS teachers recruited abroad be entitled to the same benefits as teachers recruited in the United States. Amends Federal law to provide for continued health benefits for DoDDS teachers involuntarily separated from service under a reduction in force.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 508 (102nd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1992
Waives points of order against the consideration of H.R. 5504 (defense appropriations).
Bill· SS. 2916 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1992
Provides that a veteran who is a former prisoner of war shall be deemed to have a total service-connected disability rating for purposes of eligibility for veterans' benefits.
Bill· SS. 2911 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1992
Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish within his Office an Office of Technology Transition to ensure that technology developed for national security purposes is integrated into the private sector in order to enhance the U.S. technology base. Requires the Office to: (1) monitor research and development (R&D) activities of the military departments and defense agencies with respect to advanced and nuclear weapons and programs; (2) identify all such R&D activities that use technologies having potential nondefense commercial applications; (3) serve as a clearinghouse for the transition of such technologies from the Departments of Defense or Energy to the private sector; and (4) provide private firms with assistance to resolve problems associated with security clearances, proprietary rights, and other legal considerations associated with the transition of such technology. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Senate and House Armed Services and Appropriations Committees on the establishment of the Office and on Office activities.
Bill· HRH.R. 5514 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1992
Health Choice Act of 1992 - Title I: Eligibility and Choice of Plan - Entitles each individual to benefits if they are: (1) a U.S. resident and either a citizen, national, or lawful resident alien; and (2) neither a beneficiary under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act nor an active armed forces member. Phases in benefits over six years, phase one for prenatal and delivery services and services for children under six, phase two for individuals under 22 and individuals between 60 and 65, and phase three for all eligible individuals. Requires: (1) residents of a State to choose benefits under any arrangement provided by their State's plan; and (2) nonresidents to choose either an employment-based, managed care, or fee-for-service plan. Allows collective bargaining agreements to specify the plan in which the individual must enroll. Mandates distribution of materials and a toll-free telephone number regarding plan choice. Title II: Benefits - Subtitle A: Services - Includes in "basic health services:" (1) clinical preventive services; (2) physicians' services, rural health clinic services, and Federally qualified health center services; (3) hospital services; (4) post-hospital skilled nursing facility services; (5) part-time or intermittent home health services; (6) hospice care; (7) covered outpatient drugs; and (8) other medical and health services as defined by the National Health Board established by this Act. Considers services reasonable and necessary only if they would be so considered under Medicare and requires review of any national coverage determination to be made as under Medicare. Applies certain Medicare exclusions to this title. Subtitle B: Cost-Sharing - Part 1: General Requirements - Mandates certain deductibles for general services, inpatient services, and prescription drugs. Allows a Health Choice plan to require copayments and limited coinsurance. Prohibits deductibles or coinsurance for clinical preventive services. Mandates cost-sharing rules for capitated plans and special payment methodologies. Allows certain cost-sharing for restricted provider managed care plans. Prohibits premiums for basic health services. Part 2: Reduction in Cost-Sharing for Low-Income Individuals - Reduces deductibles for certain low income individuals. Provides for advance and retroactive cost-sharing assistance and for help in completing assistance applications. Mandates reconciliation of advance assistance with actual income. Considers an individual or family that has been determined eligible for aid under specified provisions of parts A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) and E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV or Supplemental Security Income benefits of the Social Security Act to have an adjusted total income below the poverty line. Title III: Requirements for Health Choice Plans - Subtitle A: Qualified State Health Insurance Plans - Requires each qualified State health insurance plan to enroll each eligible State resident, except for an individual enrolled in a qualified multi-state employment-based health plan. Mandates health care fraud and abuse measures. Subtitle B: Qualified Employment-Based Health Plans - Requires that a qualified employment-based health plan (EBHP) specify its eligibility basis. Allows the plan to group individuals into classifications based on factors determined by the Board. Prohibits enrollment denial within a classification or on the basis of health status or use of health services. Declares that an EBHP is a multi-state plan if the percentage of individuals from one State does not exceed a level set by the Board. Subtitle C: Qualified Managed Care Plans - Specifies certain requirements for a restricted provider managed care plan, including a prohibition of expulsion on the basis of health status or use of health services, continuation of coverage if the plan terminates, and coverage of out-of-plan services. Subtitle D: Fee-for-Service Choice Plan - Requires the Board to operate a fee-for-service choice plan (Choice Plan) providing basic health services through any willing provider. Makes Medicare beneficiaries, notwithstanding other provisions of this Act, eligible for clinical preventive services under a Choice Plan. Applies certain provisions of the Social Security Act relating to: (1) withholding of payments for certain Medicaid providers to this subtitle; and (2) physician referrals to referrals for clinical laboratory services under the Choice Plan. Requires the determination of the amount, scope, and duration of Choice Plan benefits to be made by the Board. Subtitle E: Plan Requirements and Related Provisions - Part 1: Requirements Applicable to Health Choice Plans Generally - Requires each Health Choice plan to provide for at least all basic health services. Prohibits pre-existing condition exclusions. Requires that enrollment of an individual in a Health Choice include enrollment of that individual's family members. Provides for coordination and portability of coverage under qualified plans. Prohibits a Health Choice plan from paying for basic health services unless the provider is qualified to have payment made. Provides for the qualification of hospitals, physicians, other providers and suppliers, and Indian health service facilities, applying certain Medicare provisions. Requires risk management programs. Allows fee-for-service and capitated plans to restrict coverage through utilization review programs meeting standards set by the Board. Prohibits a Health Choice plan from operating a physician incentive plan (providing compensation or other financial arrangements that may reduce services) unless certain Medicare requirements are met. Protects individuals from liability to providers if a plan fails to make payments for basic health services. Requires each plan to coordinate benefits with low-income assistance under title II of this Act. Mandates quality assurance mechanisms, measures to control fraud and abuse, transmission of information regarding outcomes and expenditures, and the use of unique provider and individual identifiers and uniform plan cards. Applies certain Medicare provisions (relating to offset of payments to individuals to collect past-due obligations from a breach of scholarship and loan contracts) to this title. Requires, after complete phase-in of benefits, fee-for-service claims to be submitted electronically. Requires each plan to maintain written policies and procedures regarding advance directives, as defined in specified Medicare provisions. Part 2: Requirements and Other Applicable Provisions for Capitated Plans - Provides for the approval of State, employment-based, and managed care plans. Sets forth minimum enrollment levels for employment-related and managed care plans. Prohibits a capitated plan that has enrolled an individual from denying enrollment to the individual's family. Allows geographic limitations for State and managed care plans. Provides for the setting and calculation of payment amounts for capitated plans. Requires each capitated plan: (1) except for employment-based plans, to make certain disclosures, including regarding comparing benefits and cost-sharing to fee-for-service plans, describing pre-existing condition limitations, describing provider limits, and disclosing the availability of low-income assistance; (2) to provide grievance and appeals procedures; and (3) to establish insolvency protection. Provides for enforcement of capitated plan requirements through civil monetary penalties, suspension of enrollment, termination of approval, and intermediate sanctions. Requires capitated plans to disclose certain information to the Board. Part 3: Preemption of State Laws - Prohibits State laws and regulations: (1) requiring the offering, as part of a managed care plan or an employment-based plan, of any services; (2) specifying the individuals to be covered under such a plan or the duration of coverage; or (3) requiring a right of conversion from such a plan to an individual plan. Prohibits a State from prohibiting or regulating: (1) a managed care plan meeting the requirements of subtitle C from taking specified actions; or (2) utilization review programs meeting the requirements of specified provisions of this Act. Title IV: Cost Containment - Subtitle A: Basic Health Services - Part 1: Establishment of National Limits on Health Care Spending - Requires the Board to: (1) annually monitor nonmedicare and medicare expenditures and, if expenditures exceed allocations, reduce allocations for specified expenditures in the second succeeding year; (2) determine, according to a specified formula, overall nonmedicare and Medicare spending amounts; and (3) apportion nonmedicare spending among the States according to the number of eligible residents, adjusted to reflect certain risk factors, cost differences outside the control of providers, and other considerations the Board deems appropriate. Requires: (1) the Board to publish, for nonmedicare and Medicare spending, allocations among the classes of services; (2) the nonmedicare allocations to be reduced to account for individuals in capitated plans; and (3) a reduction in the allocation to that class for the second succeeding year after expenditures exceed the allocation. Allows the Congress, by enacting a law by a specified date in any year, to change the amounts, apportionments, allocations, or reductions set by the Board. Prohibits administrative or judicial review of: (1) the spending, apportionments, or allocations; (2) exceptions under specified provisions; or (3) payment amounts negotiated, payment methodologies used, or payment amounts established under parts 2 or 3. Part 2: Development of Negotiated Payment Amounts for Basic Health Services Under Fee-for-Service Choice Plan and the Medicare Program - Provides for negotiation of payment amounts, including Board approval of recommended negotiated amounts. Part 3: Establishment of Payment Amounts If Negotiated Amounts Not Approved - Provides, if there are no (or unsuccessful) negotiations, for establishment by the Board of the amounts. Specifies the basis for nonmedicare payment amounts. Part 4: Application of Payment Amounts - Makes the negotiated amounts (or the amounts established by the Board) in a State the payment amounts for the State under the fee-for-service plan. Makes the negotiated amounts, if approved by the Board, the basis for Medicare payments. Reduces Medicare payments, if the negotiated amounts are not approved by the Board, by a uniform factor as necessary to keep expenditures from exceeding allocations. Subtitle B: Promotion of Primary Care Services through Changes in Graduate Medical Education - Requires the Board to establish incentives for training needed personnel. Authorizes: (1) payment of additional amounts to particularly successful training programs; and (2) elimination or reduction of payments to hospitals and medical residency programs not meeting needs. Subtitle C: Administrative Savings - Mandates: (1) uniform claims forms; and (2) standards for electronic billing. Title V: Control Over Fraud and Abuse - Amends title XI (General Provisions and Professional Standards Review) of the Social Security Act to add references to Health Choice plans to specified provisions: (1) mandating or permitting exclusion of certain individuals from participation in Medicare; (2) mandating civil monetary penalties; and (3) mandating criminal penalties. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Inspector General, to establish a national data base containing information n health care fraud and abuse, including the identify of providers subjected to certain actions. Requires: (1) each Health Choice plan to report to and query the data base; and (2) coordination with a specified malpractice data base. Provides for confidentiality. Requires each State to maintain a health care fraud and abuse control unit. Allows a unit described in title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to meet this requirement. Provides for the structure, functions, and resources of the unit. Requires cooperative agreements between the unit and similar units in other States, the Inspector General, and the U.S. Attorney General. Mandates the assignment and use of unique provider identifiers and unique patient identifiers. Title VI: Administration of Health Choice Program; Health Choice Trust Fund; Quality Assessment - Subtitle A: Administration - Establishes: (1) as an independent agency in the Government, the National Health Board; and (2) the National Advisory Council on Health Policy. Authorizes appropriations from the Health Choice Trust Fund for the Board and the Council. Subtitle B: Health Choice Trust Fund - Creates in the Treasury the Health Choice Trust Fund (Fund), consisting of: (1) taxes resulting from the value added tax and the health excise tax on employers imposed by this title; and (2) State contributions under this title. Requires the Fund to be managed by the Board. Authorizes the issuance of public debt obligations for purchase by the Fund. Excludes Board receipts and disbursements from U.S. budget totals. Provides for the treatment of the Board with regard to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Transfers from the Fund to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund (Trust Funds) amounts equal to the benefits and administrative costs payable from such Trust Funds as a result of specified provisions of this Act. Provides for the treatment of amounts owed to the Board or the Fund in bankruptcy and reorganization proceedings. Mandates transfers from the Fund to the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research to carry out provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to that Agency. Requires that expenditures be made from the Fund for grants under title X of this Act relating to: (1) primary care centers and public health clinics serving medically underserved populations; and (2) specialized screening, diagnostic, and treatment services for children. Mandates expenditures from the Fund for demonstration projects under part 2 of subtitle D (relating to medical malpractice). Requires a set-asides of Fund expenditures to: (1) assure adequate support in the administration of the fee-for-service choice plan; and (2) expand the Inspector General's capacity to carry out title V (Control Over Fraud and Abuse). Subtitle C: Miscellaneous - Requires the Board to assess service quality under Health Choice plans, monitor the health status of individuals in the United States, and compile information regarding the appropriateness and quality of services under such plans to provide for a more informed choice in the selection among the plans. Amends provisions of the Social Security Act relating to outcomes research to require that the needs and priorities of the Health Choice program are reflected in the development and updating of treatment- or condition-specific practice guidelines in specified forms. Authorizes demonstration projects to improve service delivery and quality and to increase payment efficiency and effectiveness. Requires project funding to come from the Fund. Mandates reports on: (1) the impact of this Act in meeting goals in "Healthy People, 2000;" (2) consolidating Medicare and other Federal health benefit programs with the Health Choice program; and (3) the impact of this Act on facilities recognized as centers of medical excellence. Subtitle D: Resolution of Medical Malpractice Claims Relating to Health Choice Program - Part 1: Resolution of Claims - Applies this subtitle to any medical malpractice claim in any Federal or State court relating to Health Choice plan services except for a vaccine-related injury or death or to the extent that title XXI (Vaccines) of the Public Health Service Act applies. Preempts differing State laws. Mandates the development of practice guidelines for basic health services and requires that any such guideline serve as the standard of care for the resolution of medical malpractice claims. Requires regulations establishing: (1) factors commonly considered in calculating malpractice economic damages; and (2) a methodology for standardizing the costs or value associated with the factors. Makes the list and methodology admissible. Requires annual compilation of information on damage awards and categorization so as to assist triers of fact in calculating damages. Provides, when a damage award is over a specified amount, for periodic damage payments, imposes a limit on any single payment, and prohibits certain payments after the plaintiff's death. Reduces damages by the amount of collateral source payments, except for payments under title III or Medicare. Mandates development of a methodology for assisting parties in quantifying the dollar value of non-economic harm. Requires: (1) 50 percent of any punitive damages to be awarded to the State for activities to prevent medical injuries or to the State health professional licensing agency; and (2) a reduction in punitive damages by the amount of any plaintiff's attorney's fees owed. Limits the application of these requirements in States limiting malpractice award amounts. Limits attorney's fees. Part 2: Demonstration Projects, Studies, Etc. - Mandates grants for four-year demonstration projects for model administrative systems for the final resolution of all medical malpractice claims through a non-judicial process. Sets forth system requirements. Waives conflicting State laws. Requires designation of a list of medical procedures as generally preventable medical outcomes designated to be compensable in advance of the initiation of a medical malpractice claim (accelerated compensation events). Mandates research relating to the prevention of medical injuries. Requires each State to use all fees paid to the State for licensing, certification, or accreditation of health practitioners to conduct disciplinary and educational activities. Mandates a study on the impact of part 1 on specified matters. Requires an annual report on medical malpractice premiums, including geographic differences. Title VII: Medicare Benefit Improvement - Amends Medicare provisions to remove the limit on the number of inpatient hospital days covered. Revises requirements regarding inpatient hospital deductibles and eliminates references to inpatient hospital coinsurance. Modifies inpatient psychiatric hospital coverage and payments for emergency hospital services. Defines "covered outpatient drug" and specifies exclusions. Provides for determination of the payment amount for such drugs according to specified formulas. Declares that the deductible shall be the deductible under specified provisions of title II of this Act. Sets the coinsurance percentage, certain payment limits, and administrative allowances. Mandates a program to identify (and educate physicians and pharmacists concerning): (1) inappropriate prescribing and dispensing practices; (2) substandard care with respect to such drugs; and (3) potential adverse reactions. Requires related standards. Provides for the treatment of certain prepaid organizations with regard to prescription drugs, including with regard to drug buy-out plans. Requires development and annual updating and dissemination of an information guide for physicians comparing average wholesale prices of at least 500 of the most commonly prescribed covered outpatient drugs. Provides for participation agreements between pharmacies and the Secretary with specified minimum contents. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide such electronic equipment and technical assistance as necessary for electronic claims submission by pharmacies; and (2) a point-of-sale electronic system for use by carriers and participating pharmacies in the submission of information on covered drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. Allows payment for such drugs to be made on the basis of an assignment only to a participating pharmacy. Imposes civil monetary penalties for violation of a participation agreement, excessive charges, or failure to provide certain information. Provides for limits on the length of time covered by a prescription. Amends provisions relating to the use of carriers for administration of benefits to set forth requirements applicable to carriers that make determinations or payments regarding covered outpatient drugs. Allows payment for the operation of the electronic claims system. Mandates interest on late payments by the system. Sets forth special rules for health maintenance organizations and competitive medical plans. Regulates the amount a provider may charge. Requires the Director of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment to provide for the appointment of a Prescription Drug Payment Review Commission. Requires the Commission to report annually to the Congress on methods of determining payment for covered outpatient drugs under Medicare part B. Authorizes appropriations, payable from the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. Mandates studies on: (1) including experimental drugs and biological products as Medicare covered outpatient drugs; (2) use of mail pharmacies to reduce costs to Medicare and Medicare beneficiaries; (3) improving utilization review of covered outpatient drugs; (4) the use, studied on a longitudinal basis, of outpatient prescription drugs by Medicare beneficiaries regarding medical necessity, adverse interactions, cost, and patient stockpiling or wastage; (5) average wholesale prices as compared to actual pharmacy acquisition costs; (6) retail pharmacy overhead costs; and (7) discounts by pharmacies to other third-party insurers. Mandates a standard Medicare claims form. Adds tetanus-diphtheria boosters and their administration to the Medicare definition of "medical and other health services." Allows screening mammographies for women over 64 years old 11 (currently, 23) months after a previous screening. Modifies requirements regarding the frequency of screening pap smears. Eliminates certain Medicare cost-sharing requirements after out-of-pocket cost-sharing equals an amount specified under title II of this Act. Imposes other cost-sharing limits. Provides for the inpatient hospital deductible when phase two of this Act becomes effective. Removes provisions relating to: (1) the amount of premiums for individuals enrolled under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance); and (2) payment of such premiums. Modifies requirements regarding: (1) the determination of the amount of monthly premiums for certain individuals; and (2) appropriations to cover Government contributions to the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund and the associated contingency reserve. Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI)) provisions of the Social Security Act relating to entitlement to hospital insurance benefits to entitle every individual over age 64 to hospital insurance benefits under Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance). (Current law imposes certain conditions on such entitlement.) Removes provisions relating to the determination of certain monthly Medicare premiums to be paid by the State. Removes provisions allowing payment on the basis of an itemized bill. (Current law allows payment on the basis of an itemized bill or on the basis of an assignment.) Revises requirements regarding refunds of amounts billed on an unassigned basis. Subjects Medicare expenditures to reductions to assure that they do not exceed the allocation for the class of services involved under this Act. Allows a group health plan that is a qualified employment-based health plan under title III of this Act to take into account that an individual is eligible for Medicare benefits if the individual is: (1) a working aged individual, a disabled active individual in a large group health plan, or an individual with end stage renal disease; and (2) not an eligible individual under this Act. Appropriates to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund from the Health Choice Trust Fund amounts equal to the benefits and administrative expenses that result from the amendments made by subtitle A of title VIII of this Act. Title VIII: Medicaid - Amends Medicaid provisions to prohibit payments to States (and declare that a State is not required to make payments) for basic health services for which payment is made under Medicare or this Act. Title IX: Financing - Subtitle A: Value Added Tax - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on each taxable transaction, defined as being, in connection with a business, the sale of property in the United States, the performance of services in the United States, and the importing of property into the United States. Includes in the imposition of the tax any sale or leasing of real property and any importing of property, whether or not in connection with a business. Declares that the taxable amount is the price charged for the property or service or, in the case of exchanges, the fair market value. Sets a zero tax rate for: (1) food, housing (as a primary residence), and medical care, applying the zero rating to all transactions after such items become clearly identifiable as items to which the zero rating will apply; (2) sales to governmental entities; and (3) the providing by a governmental entity of property and services in connection with education. Taxes sales by a governmental entity only if there is a separate charge or fee. Sets a zero rate for transactions engaged in by certain charitable (section 501(c)(3)) organizations unless the organization imposes a charge or fee for the service. Allows a tax credit for the aggregate tax which has been paid by sellers to the taxpayer of property and services which the taxpayer uses in the business to which the transaction relates. Provides for the treatment of excess credit as an overpayment of tax. Makes the seller liable for the tax. Requires the seller to give the purchaser a tax invoice. Allows a person whose aggregate taxable transactions (except for transactions involving real property or importing) are under $20,000 to elect to be treated as a nontaxable person. Allows a tax credit for low income individuals. Subtitle B: Employer Contribution - Imposes an excise tax on every employer on a percentage of wages paid, specifying a higher percentage for those employers contributing to any employee medical care plan. Imposes a tax on self-employment income. Imposes similar taxes through provisions relating to railroads. Subtitle C: State Medicaid Contribution - Requires each State, as a requirement for receiving its Federal Medicaid payment, to pay to the Health Choice Trust Fund any excess of Medicaid payment to the State that would have been made (if this Act had not been in effect) for basic health services under subtitle A of title II of this Act over the Medicaid payment actually made for such service. Title X: Expansion of Primary Care and Public Health Delivery Capacity in Meeting Health Objectives - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for programs relating to: (1) vaccinations; (2) the prevention and control of tuberculosis, lead poisoning, or sexually transmitted diseases; (3) migrant and community health centers; (4) health services for the homeless and for residents of public housing; (5) family planning; and (6) early intervention services for individuals with HIV disease. Mandates grants (from Health Choice Trust Funds set aside under title VI of this Act) to plan and develop primary care centers and public health clinics for medically underserved populations, allowing grant funds to be used as under provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to community health centers. Defines a primary care center to mean a migrant or community health center or an entity qualified to receive a grant under provisions relating to health services for the homeless, health services for residents of public housing, family planning services, or early intervention services for individuals with HIV disease. Defines a public health clinic to mean an entity qualified to receive a grant under provisions relating to vaccinations or the prevention and control of tuberculosis, lead poisoning, or sexually transmitted diseases. Mandates grants (from Health Choice Trust Funds set aside under title VI of this Act) for specialized screening, diagnostic, and treatment services to children under 22 years old. Title XI: Reform of Health Insurance Market - Declares that Medicare provisions relating to the revision of National Association of Insurance Commissioners standards regarding Medicare supplemental policies apply in the case of the changes in Medicare benefits made by title VIII. Requires the Board to promulgate standards relating to health insurance policies offered to supplement the Health Choice program. Prohibits the sale or issue of any nonconforming policy, prescribing civil monetary penalties. Repeals specified provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Public Health Service Act relating to continuation coverage.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 341 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Federal Government should: (1) reduce by 60 percent, within two years, expenditures for foreign assistance; (2) enforce U.S. trade laws to restore employment and open foreign markets; (3) intitiate incentives to restore U.S. international competitiveness; (4) reduce Department of Defense spending and redirect the defense industrial structure to domestic needs; (5) rebuild U.S. infrastructure and develop new forms of transportation; (6) require host nations to assume the total costs of U.S. military presence; (7) recover uncollected taxes; (8) implement tax parity between domestic and foreign enterprises operating within the United States; (9) require full elimination of waste, fraud, abuse, and unnecessary spending in all branches of government within two years; (10) implement a program to protect U.S. natural resources from foreign exploitation by restricting ownership and limiting exportation; (11) establish a goal, by 2000, of providing comprehensive health care for all U.S. citizens; and (12) implement incentives for States to initiate training and work-fare programs for the unemployed and welfare recipients.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 342 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that, to assure that elections in the West Bank and Gaza take place in an environment that is as free and democratic as possible: (1) freedom of speech and assembly, freedom of political expression and political party affiliation, freedom for candidates to campaign and have unimpeded access to printed and broadcast media, freedom of movement, guarantees of the physical security of candidates, and mass suffrage should be guaranteed; (2) the Palestinian population of East Jerusalem should be eligible to participate fully in such elections, with all such rights; (3) all Palestinian political prisoners, including those now held without charge, should be allowed to participate in the elections and those prisoners duly charged should be guaranteed a fair, speedy, and public trial; (4) the holding of elections should not be subject to preconditions that would prejudge the outcome of the elections process or of the peace negotiations; and (5) the Israeli Defense Forces and other security personnel should be redeployed away from civic centers, municipalities, and voting stations during the campaign and elections, Israeli settlers should be disarmed and their noninterference in the electoral process guaranteed, and there should be international observation of such process.
Bill· SS. 2906 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1992
Defense Industrial Diversification and Adjustment Act of 1992 - Title I: Office of Defense Industrial Diversification and Adjustment - Establishes in the Executive Office of the President an Office of Defense Industrial Diversification and Adjustment (Office). Abolishes the Economic Adjustment Committee established under a specified executive order and transfers the duties of the Committee to the Office. Title II: Contractor Diversification - Directs each defense contractor with gross annual revenues exceeding $15 million in any fiscal year to set aside at least one tenth of one percent (but no more than $500,000) of such revenues to establish and maintain a corporate office of contractor diversification. Requires such offices to: (1) make continuing analyses of possible nondefense uses to which the contractors' defense industrial facilities could be devoted; and (2) submit an annual report to the Office Director which shall include a diversification plan, a schedule for plan implementation, and an estimate of the impact the plan will have on the labor force in the areas in which the defense facilities are located. Makes defense contractors who set aside funds for offices, submit diversification plans, and deposit funds in the Defense Economic Adjustment Trust Fund eligible for: (1) grants for training employees to engage in the production of nondefense goods and services; (2) exemptions from paying nonrecurring costs of research and development under the Arms Export Control Act if such research and development is subsequently used by a contractor for commercial and nondefense purposes; and (3) preferred standing in any procurement through competitive procedure undertaken by a Federal agency (other than the Department of Defense). Title III: Continuation of Health Insurance for Employees - Requires defense contractors that deposit amounts into the Defense Economic Adjustment Trust Fund to report to the Office Director the name and social security number of each contractor employee: (1) whose employment is terminated for reasons attributable to the termination or curtailment of a defense contract; and (2) who elects to continue health insurance coverage after such termination. Directs contractors who submit such reports to submit an application for subsidies of the insurance premiums that apply to continuation coverage to the Office of Director. Authorizes payments of subsidies in an amount equal to 50 percent of the premiums for continuation coverage. Requires terminated employees for whom subsidies are paid to pay contractors an amount equal to 52 percent of the premium. Title IV: Defense Economic Adjustment Trust Fund - Establishes the Defense Economic Adjustment Trust Fund. Prohibits Federal agencies from contracting with any person to furnish defense-related goods or services unless the contract requires the person to pay into the Fund an amount equal to one percent of the gross amount paid to the contractor in that fiscal year. Title V: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· SS. 2904 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1992
Military Separation Retirement Benefits Act of 1992 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow rollovers into individual retirement accounts of military separation pay.
Law· HRH.R. 5504 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1992
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1993 - Title I: Military Personnel - Appropriates funds for FY 1993 for military and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force. Title II: Operation and Maintenance - Appropriates funds for FY 1993 for the operation and maintenance of the Army, Navy (including a transfer of funds), Marine Corps, Air Force, the defense agencies, the respective reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guards. Appropriates funds for the Army's National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration (including a transfer of funds), humanitarian assistance, support and services for the World University Games, the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 1994 World Cup USA, and for real property maintenance, defense. Title III: Procurement - Appropriates funds for FY 1993 for the procurement by the Army of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, and ammunition and for other procurement. Appropriates funds to the Navy for the procurement of aircraft, weapons, and shipbuilding and conversion (including a transfer of funds) and for other procurement. Appropriates funds for Marine Corps procurement. Appropriates funds for procurement by the Air Force of aircraft and missiles and for other procurement. Appropriates funds for: (1) National Guard and Reserve equipment; (2) procurement by the defense agencies; and (3) Defense Production Act purchases. Title IV: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Appropriates funds for FY 1993 for research, development, test, and evaluation by the Army, Navy, Air Force, and defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Test and Evaluation) and the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation. Title V: Revolving and Management Funds - Appropriates funds for the Defense Business Operations Fund. Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) medical and health care programs of the Department of Defense (DOD); (2) the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions; (3) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense (including a transfer of funds); and (4) expenses and activities of the Office of the Inspector General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978. Title VII: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; and (2) the Edward R. Roybal Foundation (including a transfer of funds). Title VIII: Defense Reinvestment for Economic Growth - Earmarks funds appropriated in this Act for defense reinvestment programs as authorized by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993. Title IX: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of appropriations for unauthorized publicity or propaganda. Exempts during FY 1992 DOD personnel from provisions of law prohibiting the employment of non-U.S. citizens. Provides that no part of any appropriation contained in this Act may remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, unless expressly so provided. Prohibits the obligation of more than 20 percent of the funds appropriated by this Act during the last two months of the fiscal year, except as specified. Prohibits the use of appropriations for the procurement of any food, clothing, specified cloth (including cotton, silk, and wool) or synthetic fabrics, or specified metals not grown, produced, or processed within the United States, with specified exceptions. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, in the national interest and with the approval of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to transfer and merge specified working capital funds. Directs the Secretary to notify the Congress of all such transfers. Limits the cash balances which may be maintained in such funds. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to use any available funds to implement cost-effective agreements for required heating facility modernization in the Kaiserslautern Military Community in the Federal Republic of Germany, under certain conditions. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for: (1) the initiation of a special access program without prior notification to the Senate and House Appropriations (appropriations) and Armed Services (defense) Committees; (2) the preparation of a request to the appropriations committees for a reprogramming of funds, except as specified; (3) certain claims for physician or provider reimbursement for medical services provided under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) in excess of those allowed for FY 1992; (4) programs of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) beyond FY 1992, with a specified exception; (5) initiating a multiyear contract that employs economic order quantity procurement in excess of specified amounts, unless proper congressional notification is given; (6) any intelligence or special activity different from an activity previously justified to the Congress unless the Secretary has notified the appropriations committees of the intent to make such funds available; (7) converting certain military technician positions to positions to be held by persons in active Guard or Reserve status if such conversion would reduce the number of military technicians below a specified amount; or (8) including civilian military technicians in any administratively-imposed freeze on civilian positions. Requires governments of Indian tribes to be treated as State and local governments for purposes of the disposition of real property recommended for closure. Eliminates during FY 1993 the requirement that the Congress must authorize by law the end-strengths for civilian personnel in DOD. Prohibits setting any end-strength limitations for such personnel during FY 1993. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for: (1) congressional lobbying; (2) the pay of certain nonmilitary Army Reserve technicians; and (3) floating storage of petroleum or petroleum products in non-U.S. vessels. Permits the appropriation of funds for humanitarian and civic assistance costs incident to authorized operations of the armed forces. Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army and the Air Force to retain in active status until age 60 certain officers who need such status in order to maintain employment as a National Guard or Reserve technician. Permits the use of operation and maintenance funds provided under this Act for studies and demonstration projects relating to the delivery of military health and medical care. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to make contributions to the Department of Defense Education Benefits Fund for educational assistance for a member of the armed forces who enlists for less than three years or receives an enlistment bonus. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act for the basic pay and allowances of a member of the Army participating as a full-time student and receiving benefits through the Secretary of Veterans Affairs when time spent as a full-time student is credited toward completion of a service commitment. Limits the availability of appropriations to specified percentages of postsecondary educational costs for off-duty training of military personnel. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for conversion to contractor performance of an activity or function of DOD that is currently performed by more than ten civilian DOD employees until a cost-analysis on such performance is completed and certified to the appropriations committees. Prohibits funds available to DOD from being used to award a competitive procurement contract for any round of 120mm mortar ammunition unless such round has successfully passed certain testing and has a validated technical data package to support its procurement. Prohibits the obligation of funds appropriated in this Act to the Army for the procurement of such mortars or ammunition if manufactured outside the United States. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for the payment of salaries of any persons who authorize the transfer of unobligated or deobligated funds into the Reserve for Contingencies of the CIA. Requires funds appropriated under this Act for CIA construction projects to remain available until expended. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to use specified funds to charter ships for use as auxiliary minesweepers, under specified conditions. Directs DOD to competitively award contracts for the geographical expansion of the CHAMPUS Reform Initiative in Florida, Washington, Oregon, and Alexandria, Louisiana, under specified conditions. Permits the use of appropriated funds to fully utilize the facilities at the U.S. Army Engineer's Waterways Experiment Station, with a specified exception. Prohibits this Act's funds from being used by a military department to modify an aircraft, weapon, ship, or other item of equipment if such item is to be retired or otherwise disposed of within five years after completion of the modification, with specified exceptions. Specifies the definition of "program, project, and activity" for appropriations contained in this Act for purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Earmarks specified funds appropriated to the Army under this Act for the Reserve Component Automation System (RCAS), with certain expenditure limitations. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for fixed-price contracts exceeding $10,000,000 for the development of a major defense system or subsystem, unless the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and the Secretary of Defense take certain action. Provides that monetary limitations on the purchase price of passenger motor vehicles shall not apply to vehicles purchased for certain intelligence activities. Earmarks specified funds for the construction of classified military projects within the continental United States. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for the procurement of welded shipboard anchor and mooring chains manufactured outside the United States. Authorizes DOD to transfer prior-year unobligated balances to the operations and maintenance appropriations of the reserve components in order to provide military technician and DOD medical personnel pay and medical programs the same exemption from the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act as is currently granted to other military personnel accounts, with specified exceptions. Prohibits any funds available to the Department of the Navy from being used to enter into any contract for the overhaul, repair, or maintenance of any naval vessel on the west coast which includes interport differential charges as a factor for the award of such contract. Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act for CHAMPUS programs from being used to reimburse any health care provider for inpatient mental health services in excess of specified periods (depending on one's age), or for care received when a patient is referred to a provider of such care by a medical or health care professional having an economic interest in the facility to which the patient is referred, with specified exceptions. Requires the designs of specified military aircraft to incorporate certain standard avionics specifications by no later than 1998. Provides for the accounting treatment of expenses incurred by the United States in monitoring Soviet implementation of the INF Treaty. Provides funds from this Act for transportation to an annual meeting in the United States of the next-of-kin of individuals who have been prisoners of war or missing in action from the Vietnam era. Prohibits funds available to the Department of the Navy from being used to implement certain automated data processing or information technology facility consolidation plans or to make reductions or transfers of personnel in connection with such plans until a congressional notification requirement has been met by the Secretary. Prohibits funds from this Act from being obligated or expended to prepare, or to assist any defense contractor in preparing, any material with respect to economic or employment impact in a State of an acquisition program for which all research, development, testing and evaluation has not been completed. Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act from being available for a contract for studies, analyses, or consulting services entered into without competition on the basis of an unsolicited proposal unless the head of the activity responsible for the procurement makes certain determinations with respect to such contract. Prohibits the use of DOD funds under this Act to dispose of specified unserviceable M1 rifles and carbines. Prohibits this Act's funds from being used to pay more than 50 percent of a lump-sum reenlistment bonus. Prohibits this Act's funds from being used to assign a supervisor's title or grade when the number of people he or she supervises is considered as a basis for such determination. Prohibits Navy funds appropriated by this or any other Act from being used to carry out an electromagnetic pulse program in the Chesapeake Bay area in connection with the Electromagnetic Pulse Radiation Environment Simulator for Ships (EMPRESS) program until the Secretary has made certain certifications to the Congress concerning the importance of such program. Limits the funds available for a health care demonstration project regarding chiropractic care required by the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985. Prohibits this Act's funds from being used to pay health care providers under CHAMPUS for services determined to be not medically or psychologically necessary. Requires sums for FY 1993 pay raises for programs funded by this Act to be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act. Prohibits funds available in this Act from being used for: (1) payments under a DOD contract with the Louisiana State University Medical Center involving the use of cats for wound research; or (2) conducting bone trauma research at the Letterman Army Institute of Research until the Secretary of the Army makes certain certifications. Requires the Secretary to include in any base closure and realignment plan submitted to the Congress a complete review for FY 1992 through 1996 which includes specified information relating to force structures and cost savings after such closure or realignment. Limits the amount of funds to be used for any single relocation of an organization, unit, activity, or function of DOD into or within the National Capital Region. Provides for the waiver of such limitation in certain cases. Directs the Secretary to ensure that at least 50 percent of the Joint Service Missile Mission is in place at the Letterkenny Army Depot by the time that Systems Integration Management Activity and Depot Systems Command are scheduled to relocate to Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. Prohibits this Act's funds from being used for producing more than two-thirds of the liquid gas requirements in-house at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. Allows appropriated funds to be used for the pay, allowances, and benefits of Federal or District of Columbia employees who are members of the reserve or National Guard, who perform Federal or military service to enforce the law or provide assistance to civil authorities in the protection or saving of life or property, and who request and are granted leave. Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act from being used to: (1) initiate or continue any cost study pursuant to OMB Circular A-76; or (2) begin closing a military treatment facility unless the Secretary notifies the appropriations committees. Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act for the American Forces Information Service from being used for any national or international political or psychological activities. Prohibits any unobligated balances available during FY 1992 from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund from being obligated or expended to finance any grant or contract to conduct R&D activities for the development or production of advanced materials, unless amounts are specifically appropriated in a subsequent appropriations Act. States as the policy of the United States the opposition to restrictive trades or boycotts fostered or imposed by foreign countries against other countries friendly to the United States or against any other U.S. person. Prohibits any DOD prime contract in excess of the small purchase threshold from being awarded to a foreign person, company, or entity unless such entity certifies to the Secretary that it does not comply with the secondary Arab boycott of Israel. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such certification requirement when necessary in the national security interest, but to notify the Congress quarterly of any contract in which a waiver was granted. Outlines exceptions to the prohibition. Requires all DOD software to be written in the programming language Ada in the absence of a special exemption. Authorizes the Secretary to adjust the wage rates of certain civilian employees hired for certain health care occupations as authorized by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for the direct care of veterans in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Prohibits funds available to DOD from being used for the training or utilization of psychologists in the prescription of drugs, except upon the findings and recommendations of a specified Army Blue Ribbon Panel. Prohibits this Act's funds from being used to reduce the military or civilian medical and medical support personnel end strength at a base undergoing a partial closure or realignment, where more than one joint command is located, below the September 30, 1991, level. Earmarks funds made available in this Act for the Civil Air Patrol. Prohibits funds appropriated or made available in this Act from being used to reduce or disestablish the operation of the 815th Tactical Airlift Squadron of the Air Force Reserve if such action would reduce the WC-130 weather reconnaissance mission below the levels funded in this Act. Allows withdrawal credits to be made during FY 1992 by the Defense Business Operations Fund to the credit of current applicable appropriations of the DOD activity in connection with the acquisition of supplies that are repairable at a repair depot and that are capitalized into such Fund as the result of certain management changes. Requires, in the use of funds for the procurement of supplies or services appropriated by this Act, that qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind or other severely handicapped be afforded the maximum opportunity to participate as subcontractors and suppliers in the performance of DOD contracts. Provides that small business concerns participating in a subcontracting plan for the participation of small businesses with DOD under the Small Business Act shall be given credit toward meeting the subcontracting goal required under such Act for any purchases made from qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind or other severely handicapped. Establishes under the direction and control of the Attorney General the National Drug Intelligence Center, to coordinate and consolidate drug intelligence from all national security and law enforcement agencies, and produce information regarding the structure, membership, finances, communications, and activities of drug trafficking organizations. Provides funding for the Center from DOD drug interdiction and counter-drug activities appropriations. Authorizes the Navy, during FY 1992, to provide notice to exercise options under the LEASAT program for the next fiscal year. Earmarks specified Navy R&D funds for the V-22 aircraft program. Specifies the manner in which prior-year appropriations for the V-22 program shall be expended. Directs the Secretary to provide the Congress with the total funding plan and schedule to complete the Phase II V-22 full-scale engineering development program. Directs the Secretary to include sufficient funds to complete development, manufacture, and testing of six production representative aircraft under the development program and to produce sufficient V-22 aircraft to meet the operational requirements of the Marine Corps and other services in all DOD future year planning documents and budget estimates. Provides that, during FY 1992, third party payments for health care provided in a military medical facility shall be available for the use of such facility and shall be over and above the facility's direct budget amount. Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act from being used to: (1) procure a Multibeam Sonar Mapping System not manufactured in the United States; or (2) fill the commander's position at any military medical facility with a health care professional unless such candidate demonstrates professional administrative skills. Earmarks funds appropriated by this Act for the Defense Health Program to continue CHAMPUS benefits until age 65 for a former member of the armed forces who is entitled to retired or retainer pay (or a dependent of such member) and who becomes eligible for hospital insurance benefits under part A of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act solely on the grounds of physical disability. Provides limitations on the coverage of such expenses. Authorizes the Secretary to accept, during FY 1992, burdensharing contributions in the form of money from Japan, Korea, and Kuwait for the costs of local national employees, supplies, and services of DOD, to be credited to operation and maintenance appropriations and available for the same purposes and time period. Requires the Secretary to report quarterly to the Congress on contributions accepted. Prohibits obligations in excess of 70 percent of sales from DOD stock funds from being incurred against such stock funds during FY 1992. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated or made available in this Act to reduce or disestablish the operation of the Navy Reserve P-3 squadrons below the levels funded in this Act. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to obligate funds appropriated for FY 1991 through 1993 for the modernization of such aircraft that such Secretary intends to keep in the fleet for more than five years. Earmarks specified prior-year appropriated funds for payment of claims to U.S. military and civilian personnel for damages incurred as a result of the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act from being obligated or expended for any contract or grant with a university or other higher educational institution unless such grant or contract is audited under certain Federal Acquisition Regulation procedures. Requires any such institution to respond fully to any requests for financial information in connection with such grant or contract. Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act to finance activities of DOD federally-funded R&D centers from being obligated or expended for such center if a member of its board of directors or trustees simultaneously serves on the board or trustees of a profit-making company under contract to DOD unless such center has a DOD-approved conflict of interests policy for its members. Mandates that certain previously required reports be submitted to the appropriations committees before funds from this Act may be used for such centers. Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act from being used to: (1) comply with or implement any provision issued in compliance with a memorandum of the Deputy Secretary of Defense concerning debarment from defense contracts for felony criminal convictions; or (2) procure carbon, alloy or armor steel plate for use in any Government-owned facility or DOD property which was not melted and rolled in the United States or Canada (with a waiver allowed on a case-by-case basis). Prohibits more than 15 percent of the funds available to DOD for sealift from being used to acquire ships constructed in foreign shipyards. Authorizes the Secretary, during FY 1992, to acquire the modification, depot maintenance, and repair of aircraft, vehicles, and vessels as well as the production of components and other defense-related articles through competition between DOD depot maintenance activities and private firms. Requires the Secretary, if he finds after consultation with the U.S. Trade Representative that a foreign country has violated a reciprocal defense procurement agreement by discriminating against certain types of products produced in the United States, to rescind the Secretary's blanket waiver of the Buy American Act with respect to such types of products produced in that foreign country. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the amount of DOD purchases from foreign entities in FY 1993. Prohibits any funds appropriated or made available in this or any DOD appropriations Act during FY 1992 from being obligated for the procurement of ball or roller bearings other than in accordance with a specified Defense Federal Acquisition regulation. Transfers specified FY 1991 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds to Navy operations and maintenance for use in connection with the USS John F. Kennedy at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Directs the Air Force to use FY 1992 R&D funds to execute the cleanup of uncontrolled hazardous waste contamination affecting a sale parcel of land at Hamilton Air Force Base, California. Outlines procedures to be followed in the event that the purchaser of such sale parcel exercises its option to withdraw from such sale. Directs the Air Force to be reimbursed from the sale proceeds for cleanup expenses in excess of a specified amount. Provides for the conveyance by DOD of certain buildings and easements with respect to such parcel. Authorizes the Secretary, when considered to be in the best interest of the United States, to cancel up to $2,500 of a debt owed to the United States by a member or former member of the armed forces if it was incurred in connection with Operation Desert Shield/Storm. Transfers a specified cash balance in the Defense Business Operations Fund to DOD appropriations available for energy conservation improvement projects under the Department of Defense Energy Conservation Improvement Program. Allows appropriations contained in this Act that remain available at the end of the current fiscal year as a result of energy cost savings realized by DOD to remain available for obligation to the facilities responsible for such savings. Authorizes the Secretary to provide optional summer school programs authorized under the Defense Dependents Education Act of 1978 and to charge a fee for participation in such programs. Makes available through FY 1993 unobligated balances of the funds appropriated in the FY 1992 Department of Defense Appropriations Act for the World University Games and the 1992 Summer Olympics. Authorizes the Secretary during FY 1992 to transfer available funds from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to the appropriation for environmental restoration, defense. Allows after December 31, 1992, voluntary separation incentives to be paid in such amounts as necessary from assets of the Voluntary Separation Incentive Fund. Requires amounts deposited during FY 1992 and 1993 to special accounts established for the transfer or disposal of DOD real property and the leasing of non-excess DOD property to be appropriated and available for facility maintenance and repair and for environmental restoration at the military installation in which the property was sold, transferred, or leased. Prohibits any funds available to DOD in this Act from being used to award a contract for the procurement of four-ton dolly jacks manufactured outside of the United States. Authorizes DOD to transfer up to a specified amount of the funds appropriated under this Act for certain purposes authorized in the Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1992. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer up to a certain amount of DOD funds to the appropriate accounts within DOD for the transportation of humanitarian assistance to the former Soviet Union in order to address emergency conditions. Prohibits funds appropriated or made available in this Act from being used for the procurement of high purity quartz yarn or fiber, or related products or materials, not produced in the United States. Provides for the waiver of such prohibition on a case-by-case basis. Directs the Secretary to ensure that such yarn or fiber produced by domestic sources is tested for qualification for use or incorporation in the production of weapon systems and in weapons development programs. Provides a purchase preference to certain domestic producers of high carbon ferrochromium and ferromanganese from chromite and manganese ore authorized for disposal from the National Defense Stockpile. Prohibits funds available to DOD from being used to implement a specified defense management report decision pertaining to conventional ammunition which has the objective of financing such ammunition out of any funds other than those specifically appropriated or made available for the procurement of ammunition. Prohibits funds made available to DOD from being used: (1) for an Abrams tank upgrade program that does not first modify specified tank configurations; (2) in connection with any action within DOD which would support or lead to the purchase or acquisition of LTV Aerospace and Defense Company by any foreign person; and (3) to procure or acquire handguns or handgun ammunition except the 9mm DOD standard handgun and ammunition. Directs the Secretary, if he determines that a person has been convicted of intentionally affixing a "Made in America" label to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made in America, to debar such person from contracting with the Government for at least three and up to five years. Authorizes FY 1992 DOD appropriations to be used to reimburse a reserve member who is not otherwise entitled to travel and transportation allowances and who occupies transient government housing while performing active duty for training or inactive duty training. Allows such funds to also be used for the civilian pay, allowances, and benefits of a National Guard technician who serves on active duty for participation outside the United States in airlift or refueling operations and who requests and is granted leave. Provides other conditions for such payments. Directs the Secretary to negotiate with a military medical treatment facility to assume operation of the Silas B. Hays Army Community Hospital at Fort Ord, California, in a manner consistent with the managed-care delivery model required under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991. Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act or made available to DOD from being used to operate, maintain, and pay the salaries of the employees assigned or detailed to the Defense Printing Service Management Office. Earmarks specified funds appropriated by this Act for paying the Administrator of General Services charges established under the Federal Property Administrative Services Act of 1949 for space and services. States that, as of September 1, 1993, no funds appropriated by this Act or made available to DOD may be used for payment of compensation of members of the Senior Executive Service assigned to DOD in excess of 95 percent of such personnel assigned to or serving in DOD on September 30, 1992. Requires the issuance of specified amounts from the Defense Business Operations Fund for supplies, equipment, and material for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. Prohibits funds from this Act from being used by DOD or the Navy to consolidate the Naval Biodynamics Laboratory until 90 days after the General Accounting Office has submitted a report to the appropriations committees on plans to consolidate R&D laboratories. Directs the Comptroller General to issue a report on the Navy's accounting practices at its nuclear shipyards. Requires the Director of the Air National Guard, during FY 1992, to establish a command, control, communications, and intelligence planning office manned by three full-time Air Guard officers of specified rank. States that as of September 1, 1993, no funds appropriated by this Act shall be available for the payment of compensation of personnel assigned to or serving in the National Foreign Intelligence Program in excess of 98 percent of such personnel assigned to or serving in such Program on September 30, 1992. Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act or made available to DOD from being deposited into the Pentagon Reservation Maintenance Revolving Fund for renovation, construction, or any purposes other than the actual and necessary day-to-day operation of the Reservation or the performance of engineering studies and designs for renovation of the existing structure. Prohibits funds appropriated or otherwise made available in this Act from being used to promulgate or enforce a certain DOD policy prohibiting non-funded abortions in military medical treatment facilities outside the continental United States or any other policies having the same substance.
Bill· HRH.R. 5507 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1992
International Woman and Child Health Act of 1992 - Requires U.S. contributions to international organizations and nongovernmental organizations for programs to immunize people in high-mortality countries for diseases such as measles or polio to be at least $100,000,000 greater in each of FY 1993 through 1995 than the amount of such contributions for FY 1992. Provides additional funding for vitamin A supplementation and fortification programs and iodine and iron supplementation and fortification programs for pregnant women. Directs the Agency for International Development, during FY 1993 through 1995, to ensure that a specified amount in local currencies made available under foreign assistance programs is used to provide training, compensation, and other support for maternal and child health workers in developing countries. Authorizes appropriations. Reduces funding for military assistance programs during such fiscal years in order to provide funding for this Act without increasing the foreign assistance budget.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 339 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1992
Expresses continuing support for the Taif Agreement (which ended Lebanon's 16-year civil war) as signed in 1989. Urges: (1) Syria to withdraw its armed forces to the gateway of the Bekaa Valley in September 1992, as required under such Agreement, as a prelude to complete withdrawal from Lebanon; (2) immediate consideration of alternatives to ensuring security in Beirut following the Syrian withdrawal; and (3) the Government of Lebanon to hold elections if they can be free and fair, conducted after the Syrian withdrawal without outside interference, and witnessed by international observers.
Bill· SS. 2893 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1992
Establishes reemployment rights for Department of Defense (DOD) employees in reduction in force (RIF) actions. Requires DOD and each military department concerned to offer an employee who has been released under a RIF the right of first refusal to a job such entity restores within two years after the employee's release. Prohibits such entities from replacing within two years such an employee with a contract or temporary employee. Provides that if DOD or a military department seeks to staff some positions within two years after a RIF, it must offer reemployment to employees released under the RIF on the basis of seniority. Requires the Office of Personnel Management to keep a Government-wide list of vacant positions and establish a toll-free number which will enable the public to access information on the list. Requires Federal agencies to give qualified displaced DOD employees full consideration before hiring candidates from outside the agency. Codifies existing regulations requiring agencies to issue specific written notices to employees and their representatives at least 60 days prior to a RIF. Requires additionally that an agency also notify the appropriate State dislocated worker unit and chief elected official whenever a significant number of employees will be separated under a RIF. Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 and the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act to make civilian employees at military installations scheduled for closure or realignment eligible to receive assistance under the defense conversion adjustment program under the Job Training Partnership Act one year in advance of the closure or realignment. Provides that DOD or each military department concerned may offer certain employees the option of receiving a lump sum payment for unused sick leave. Provides that this option is in lieu of adding unused sick leave to length of service for purposes of calculating Federal retirement benefits. Allows DOD and each military department concerned to authorize payment of a lump sum separation benefit to certain civilian employees to encourage voluntary separations. Sets forth rules for determining the amount of such payment. Provides that civilian employees at military bases scheduled for closure between October 1, 1992, and December 31, 1997, will be allowed to have annual leave which was lost as a result of closure operations during such period restored. Provides for continued health benefit coverage for DOD employees involuntarily separated under a RIF. Requires such an employee to continue to pay his or her share of the premium under the health plan involved. Provides that an employee who is involuntarily separated under a RIF will be treated as if entitled to an immediate annuity under the Thrift Saving Plan.
Law· HRH.R. 5491 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1992
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Marlin, Texas, as the Thomas T. Connally Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Law· HRH.R. 5488 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1992
Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1993 - Title I: Department of the Treasury - Treasury Department Appropriations Act, 1993 - Makes appropriations to the Department of the Treasury for FY 1993 for: (1) departmental offices; (2) the Office of Inspector General; (3) the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; (4) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; (5) the Financial Management Service; (6) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; (7) the United States Customs Service; (8) the United States Mint; (9) the Bureau of the Public Debt; (10) the Internal Revenue Service (IRS); and (11) the United States Secret Service. Directs the IRS to institute and maintain a training program to insure that IRS employees are trained in taxpayers' rights, in dealing courteously with the taxpayers, and in cross-cultural relations. Requires appropriated funds attributable to efficiency savings for FY 1993 to be withheld from obligation unless the estimated savings are not achieved. Prohibits funds appropriated under this title from being used for the collection of any underpayment of tax, unless collected under specified procedures. Requires the IRS and the National Finance Center (NFC) to reimburse the Financial Management Service (FMS) for postage costs the FMS incurs to make check payments on behalf of the IRS and the NFC. Title II: Postal Service - Postal Service Appropriations Act, 1993 - Makes appropriations to the Postal Service Fund for FY 1993. Prohibits an increase in postage rates during FY 1993, except for reduced rate third-class pieces other than letter shape. Title III: Executive Office of the President - Executive Office Appropriations Act, 1993 - Makes appropriations for FY 1993 for the Executive Office of the President, for salaries and/or operating expenses of the following: (1) compensation of the President; (2) the executive residence at the White House; (3) the Office of Administration; (4) the White House Office; (5) the official residence of the Vice President; (6) the provision of special assistance to the President; (7) the Council of Economic Advisers; (8) the Office of Policy Development; (9) the National Security Council; (10) the Office of Management and Budget; (11) the Office of Federal Procurement Policy; (12) the Office of National Drug Control Policy; and (13) unanticipated needs. Title IV: Independent Agencies - Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993 - Makes appropriations for FY 1993 for the following independent agencies: (1) the Administrative Conference of the United States; (2) the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; (3) the Committee for Purchase from the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped; (4) the Federal Election Commission; and (5) the Citizens' Commission on Public Service and Compensation. Makes funds deposited in the Federal Buildings Fund available for specified purchases of the General Services Administration (GSA), limiting the availability of such funds for certain programs, construction projects, purchases, and repairs and alterations of GSA. Makes appropriations to GSA for FY 1993 for: (1) the Federal Supply Service; (2) the Federal Property Resources Service; (3) general management and administration; (4) the Information Resources Management Service; (5) the Office of Inspector General; (6) allowances and office staff for former Presidents; and (7) expenses to carry out any presidential transition. Limits the amount of funds that may be transferred between appropriations within the GSA, requiring such proposed transfers to be submitted to the Senate and House Appropriations Committees for approval. Authorizes agencies to make rent payments to GSA for lease space relating to expansion needs at commercial equivalent rates specified under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. Authorizes appropriations out of the Federal Buildings Fund. Requires the specific approval of the Congress before the obligation or expenditure of funds for the sale, excessing, surplusing, or disposal of lands in the vicinity of Norfolk Lake, Arkansas, and lands in the vicinity of Bull Shoals Lake, Arkansas, both administered by the Corps of Engineers. Authorizes the reimbursement of travel, transportation, and subsistence expenses incurred for training classes, conferences, or other meetings in connection with the provision of child care services by persons employed to provide such services for Federal agencies. Authorizes the fund for real property management to receive any revenues, collections, or other income during a fiscal year related to energy savings to remain available for Federal energy management improvement programs authorized by law or deemed appropriate by the Administrator of GSA. Authorizes an increase in office space of the Federal Office Building in San Francisco, California. Provides for a transfer of land from the United States to Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl University. Makes appropriations for FY 1993 for the following purposes: (1) the National Archives and Records Administration; (2) the Office of Government Ethics; and (3) the Office of Personnel Management. Makes appropriations for FY 1993 for the Merit Systems Protection Board, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the United States Tax Court, and the Office of Special Counsel. Title V: General Provisions (this Act) - Sets forth certain prohibitions and limitations on the use of appropriations made under this Act. Prohibits any of the funds made available under this Act from being used for any of the following: (1) for administrative expenses in closing the GSA Federal Information Center in Sacramento, California; (2) for the purpose of eliminating any existing requirements for sureties on customs bonds; (3) for the funding of any activity or the payment of any Government employee which would prohibit the enforcement of a specified provision of the 1930 Tariff Act; and (4) to transfer control over the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers in Glynco, Georgia, Marana, Arizona, and Artesia, New Mexico, out of the Treasury Department. Prohibits the use of any part of an appropriation made in this Act for the payment of the salary of any officer or employee of the U.S. Postal Service who in any way interferes with another employee's ability to communicate with any member or committee of the Congress in connection with any matter pertaining to the employment of such officers or employees with the Postal Service. Prohibits, with specified exceptions, the use of any funds appropriated under this Act to pay for an abortion, or to fund any Federal health plan which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions. Authorizes the Administrator of GSA to acquire space for the United States Courts in Tacoma, Washington, at the site of Union Station in that city. Provides for the payment of achievement awards. Prohibits the use of funds to contract out positions or downgrade the position classification of the United States Mint Police Force and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Police Force. Authorizes the United States Secret Service to accept donations of money to offset costs incurred while protecting former Presidents and their spouses when traveling for the purpose of making an appearance or speech for a payment of money or any thing of value. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act or any other Act: (1) to withdraw the designation of the Virginia Inland Port at Front Royal, Virginia, as a United States Customs Service port of entry; or (2) to transfer mail processing capabilities from the Las Cruces, New Mexico, postal facility. Requires the Postal Service to recognize the rapid rate of population growth in Las Cruces and to automate such facility. Prohibits the use of funds to reduce the rank or rate of pay of a career appointee in the Senior Executive Service upon reassignment or transfer. Prohibits the use of funds to award a Federal agency lease in the Omaha, Nebraska - Council Bluffs, Iowa, geographical area which does not meet specified criteria. Protects the employment rights of Federal employees who return to their civilian jobs after assignment with the Armed Forces. Prohibits the use of U.S. Customs Service funds to collect or impose any land border processing fee at ports of entry along the United States-Mexico border. Limits the expenditures of funds for travel expenses. Requires the Postal Service Fund to make residual payments into the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund and the Employees Health Benefits Fund. Amends Federal law concerning costs associated with the provision of child care services by Federal agencies. Amends Federal law to allow the IRS to procure the services of attorneys for use in litigating actions under the Internal Revenue Code to which a foreign-controlled corporation is a party. Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement, administer, enforce, or otherwise carry out any change in the terms or conditions governing Federal health benefits which would only affect Medicare beneficiaries in a certain manner. Provides for the conveyance of certain land to Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Allows the conveyance of certain land in the Shenandoah National Park to the Secretary of the Treasury for use as a United States Customs Service Canine Enforcement Training Center. Requires closed captioning for television commercials of presidential or vice presidential candidates who are eligible to receive amounts from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund. Amends Federal criminal provisions to increase the penalties for transporting, importing, and failing to mark goods made with forced labor. Amends the Federal Alcohol Administration Act to authorize the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to prohibit the use of the names of deceased individuals of public prominence if such use would degrade or disparage the reputation of such individuals. Prohibits the use of funds for the Council on Competitiveness or any successor organization. Title VI: General Provisions (Departments, Agencies, and Corporations) - Sets forth certain requirements for and prohibitions and limitations on the use of appropriations made by this Act. Allows the use of funds to pay travel to the United States for the immediate family of employees serving abroad in cases of death or life threatening illness of such employees. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of any FY 1993 appropriations by any Federal agency or instrumentality unless it has in place and administers in good faith a drug-free workplace policy. Requires Federal employing agencies to make deposits into the Federal Employees Compensation Account of the Unemployment Trust Fund not later than 30 days after the Department of Labor has billed such agencies. Authorizes the reimbursement of travel, transportation, and subsistence expenses incurred for training classes, conferences, or other meetings in connection with the provision of child care services for Federal employees. Prohibits any part of any funds appropriated in this or any other Act from being used to pay the salary of any officer or employee of the Government whose post of duty is in the continental United States, unless such person: (1) is a citizen of the United States; (2) has filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States; (3) is a person owing allegiance to the United States; (4) is a lawfully-admitted alien from Poland, Cuba, South Vietnam, or the Baltic countries; or (5) is a South Vietnamese, Cambodian, or Laotian refugee paroled in the United States after January 1, 1975. States exceptions and provides penalties for those persons submitting false affidavits under this provision. Prohibits funds from any appropriation in the current year from being paid to a person for filling a position for which he or she has been nominated after the Senate has voted not to approve such nomination. Authorizes the use of foreign credits owed to or owned by the United States for any purpose for which appropriations are made for the current year, only when the appropriate reimbursement is made to the Treasury from the agency concerned. Prohibits funds available pursuant to this Act from being used to implement any regulation which has been disapproved by a resolution duly adopted under the laws of the United States. Prohibits any funds made available under this Act from being used to plan, implement, or administer: (1) any reduction in the number of regions, districts, or entry processing locations of the U.S. Customs Service; or (2) any consolidation or centralization of duty assessment or appraisement functions of any offices of such Service. Requires the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations before an executive agency purchases, constructs, and/or leases any additional facilities, except within or contiguous to existing locations, for the purposes of conducting Federal law enforcement training. Sets forth the conditions under which Federal agencies may procure automatic data processing equipment other than through the procurement known as FTS2000. Sets forth conditions for the use of Federal grant money to finance the acquisition of goods or services with an aggregate value in excess of $500,000. Authorizes the use of funds for the interagency funding of national security and emergency preparedness telecommunications initiatives which benefit multiple government entities. Allows the use of funds by participants in the Federal Flexiplace Project to install telephone lines, necessary equipment, and pay monthly charges, in any private residence or apartment. Commends Representative Edward R. Roybal on his record of distinguished service.
Bill· HRH.R. 5498 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1992
National Commission on Arms Control Act - Establishes the National Commission on Arms Control to conduct a study of the factors which contribute to the global proliferation of strategic and conventional military weapons and related equipment and the technology necessary to produce such weapons and equipment. Directs the Commission to submit a report to the Congress which contains the conclusions of the study and recommendations to support and undertake initiatives to: (1) stop the proliferation of strategic and conventional military weapons and related equipment and technology; and (2) promote and implement the conversion of existing foreign and domestic defense industries to the production of non-military goods and services. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 5493 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1992
Enlisted Members Retirement Equity Act - Repeals Federal armed forces provisions which provide a different crediting system of the years of service of enlisted personnel as compared to officer personnel for purposes of the computation of retired and retainer pay. Provides that time required to be made up by an enlisted member of the Army or Air Force may not be counted in determining such years of service for retired or retainer pay purposes.
Bill· SS. 2889 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1992
Repeals a Federal prohibition on the payment of compensation to a veteran who has neither spouse, child, nor dependent parent, who is rated by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs as being incompetent, and whose estate exceeds $25,000, until the estate's value is reduced to less than $10,000.
Bill· SS. 2891 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1992
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) establish a program for qualified military and Department of Energy (DOE) personnel to enable such individuals to acquire career training in environmental engineering or environmental sciences in fields related to hazardous waste management and cleanup; and (2) implement, as part of such program, an academic program at institutions of higher education at undergraduate and graduate levels. Requires the Administrator to award grants to the hazardous substance research centers described under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) to pay the full cost of the academic program. Provides funding for the program, subject to certain limitations, from amounts allocated for: (1) the EPA under CERCLA; (2) the Defense Environmental Restoration Account; and (3) DOE environmental cleanup activities.
Bill· HRH.R. 5465 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1992
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (the Act) to authorize Federal departments and agencies to procure from the Secretary of Transportation insurance to cover risks (especially war risks) from: (1) the operation of an aircraft in domestic (interstate) or overseas air commerce; and (2) the provision of goods or services related to the operation of such aircraft (ground support) if it is in the performance of a contract for such a department or agency or is for the purpose of transporting U.S. military forces pursuant to an agreement between the United States and a foreign government. Extends the aviation insurance (war risk insurance) program under title XIII of the Act through September 30, 1997. Directs the Comptroller General to review and report to the Congress on the administration of such program during the Persian Gulf conflict in order to determine methods of improving its administration by reducing the paperwork and time period required for provision of insurance under such program.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 498 (102nd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1992
Waives certain points of order against H.R. 5428 (military construction funding).
Bill· SS. 2870 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1992
Legal Services Reauthorization Act of 1992 - Amends the Legal Services Corporation Act to authorize appropriations for the Legal Services Corporation for FY 1993 through 1997. Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) apply Federal criminal laws against theft, fraud, and embezzlement to Corporation funds; and (2) make the Federal criminal statute against obstructing a Federal audit applicable with regard to auditors employed or retained by the Corporation. Specifies that certain provisions of the False Claims Act apply to the Corporation, any financial assistance recipient and other grantee or contractor of the Corporation (awardee), subgrantee or subcontractor of any such entity, or employee thereof (thus, giving the Attorney General the authority to bring a civil action against any person employed by or contracting with a recipient, subrecipient, grantee, or contractor who perpetuates a fraud with Corporation funds, but excluding from application to the Corporation and its recipients provisions which permit a private person to initiate a false claims action). Revises prohibitions on the use of Corporation funds for lobbying purposes to prohibit such use by an awardee: (1) to pay for publicity or propaganda intended or designed to support or defeat legislation pending before the Congress or State or local legislative bodies, or to influence any decision by a Federal, State, or local agency; (2) to pay for any personal service, advertisement, telegram, telephone communication, letter, printed matter, or other device intended or designed to influence: any decision by a Federal, State, or local agency, except when legal assistance is provided by an employee of an awardee of the Corporation to an eligible client on a particular matter which directly involves the client's legal rights or responsibilities; any Member of Congress or other Federal, State, or local elected official to favor or oppose any referendum, initiative, constitutional amendment, or similar procedure of the Congress, State legislature, local council, or similar governing body; or any such Member or official to favor or oppose legislation (with exceptions); or (3) for adminstrative or related costs associated with such prohibited activities. Permits the use of such funds in connection with any communication: (1) made in response to a Federal, State, or local agency or elected official; or (2) to a Federal, State, or local elected official pertaining to the authorization or appropriation of funds or any other measure affecting the authority, functions, or funding of, or pertaining to oversight measures directly affecting, the awardee or the Corporation, if the project director or designee of the awardee has expressly determined that the legislative body involved is considering such authorization, appropriation, or other measure, or is conducting oversight of the awardee or the Corporation. Requires the Corporation to: (1) arrange for evaluations to determine whether awardees are providing comprehensive, economical, and effective legal assistance to eligible clients; and (2) conduct monitoring and investigations into allegations that an awardee has violated applicable requirements. Sets forth provisions concerning investigation procedures. Directs the Board of Directors of the Corporation to provide for the enforcement of requirements with respect to such awardees. Permits the Corporation to suspend, reduce, or terminate financial assistance (with such termination only after consideration of other remedial measures and only after the employee has been afforded reasonable notice and opportunity for a timely, full, and fair hearing, to be conducted by an independent hearing examiner when requested), or deny an application for refunding (after affording the awardee an opportunity to correct the failure) when: (1) there has been a substantial failure to comply with applicable requirements; or (2) evaluations demonstrate that an awardee has consistently failed to provide economical and effective legal assistance. Authorizes the Corporation to deny an application for refunding when the Corporation has identified an applicant for financial assistance that is better able to provide comprehensive, economical, and effective legal assistance for the geographic area served by such awardee. Revises provisions concerning notice to awardees prior to the suspension or termination of assistance or the denial of a refunding application. Prohibits the annual level of assistance from being reduced by more than five percent or $20,000, whichever is less, unless the awardee has been afforded notice and, at the awardee's request, a timely and fair hearing. Sets forth Corporation monitoring requirements. Directs that standards and procedures adopted pursuant to such provision take into account: (1) the responsibility of the Corporation to provide for independent evaluations; (2) that each awardee has the responsibility to manage its day-to-day operations and to assure that its employees comply with all applicable law and deliver high quality legal assistance in an effective and economical manner; (3) that the personal privacy of eligible clients could be adversely affected by the public disclosure of records or documents obtained in connection with monitoring or investigation (and bars the Corporation from requiring disclosure of such records to the extent that they can be expected to contain information directly pertinent and necessary to an audit, or to an investigation of a likely pattern of discrimination, lack of compliance with the law, or poor performance by an awardee which is indicated by other external evidence); (4) the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, the privacy protections of State law, and the principle that matters and records that are personal or private and that relate to an individual employee should be protected from examination by the Corporation; and (5) the rules of ethics and professional responsibility that are applicable in the jurisdiction where an awardee delivers legal assistance. Requires the Corporation to develop criteria for evaluating the capability and performance of awardees. Specifies that the Inspector General of the Corporation shall not, in carrying out his or her functions, be subject to any restriction that: (1) is contained in the standards and procedures adopted by the Corporation under this provision; and (2) limits access by the Corporation to documents or other information. Directs the Corporation to require each grantee, contractor, or person or entity receiving financial assistance to provide for an independent annual financial audit and to submit the report of the audit to the Corporation. Bars the Corporation from selecting the auditor employed by such entity. Permits the Corporation to conduct its own audit or hire an independent auditor when necessary, with the costs to be borne by the Corporation. (Current law directs the Corporation to conduct, or require each such grantee, contractor, or person or entity to provide for, an annual financial audit.) Places restrictions on the bringing of a class action suit by an awardee with funds provided by the Corporation against the Federal Government or any State or local government. Requires awardees to adopt policies to attempt to negotiate settlements and to use alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, where appropriate, before filing suit. Prohibits the use of Corporation funds to alter, revise, or reapportion a legislative, judicial, or elective district at any level of government. Places restrictions on the use of Corporation funds for legal assistance for aliens. Revises requirements for governing bodies of grant or contract recipients to require a recipient's governing body to be comprised of (in the majority) attorneys who are appointed by State, county, or local bar associations the memberships of which represent a majority of the attorneys practicing law in the locality in which the recipient is to provide legal assistance. Sets forth requirements for governing or policy bodies of recipients and other awardees. Allows the governing body of a bar association to appoint members of the governing or policy bodies of more than one awardee of the Corporation. Makes technical and conforming changes with respect to the professional responsibilities of the Corporation and attorney employees of the Corporation. Specifies that neither the Corporation nor the Comptroller General shall have access to any reports or records protected from disclosure by the laws or rules of ethics or professional responsibility that apply in the jurisdiction where such reports or records are maintained. Requires the Corporation (with specified exceptions) to ensure that attorneys employed full-time in providing legal assistance supported in major part by the Corporation refrain from any: (1) outside practice of law in which the attorneys seek or receive compensation; and (2) uncompensated outside practice of law. (Current law bars attorneys employed full-time in legal assistance activities supported in major part by the Corporation from any compensated outside practice, and any uncompensated outside practice except as authorized in guidelines promulgated by the Corporation.) Prohibits the use of Corporation funds for initiating the defense of a person in a proceeding to evict such person from a public housing project if the person has been convicted of the illegal sale or distribution of a controlled substance and the proceeding has been brought by a public housing project agency because such person threatens the health or safety of other tenants or employees of such agency. Prohibits awardees (or employees) from engaging in precomplaint settlement negotiations, filing a complaint, or pursuing litigation against a defendant unless a written retainer agreement which enumerates the facts on which the claim is based has been signed by the plaintiffs. Specifies that, unless authorized by a court of competent jurisdiction, no awardee (or employee) may file a complaint or petition in a court until all plaintiffs known to plaintiff's counsel at the time have been specifically identified in the complaint or petition. Requires the Corporation to study, through the use of demonstration projects and other appropriate methods, the feasibility of utilizing a system of competition to improve the delivery of legal assistance and related activities. Sets forth reporting requirements. Specifies that a general restriction on training activities of the Corporation should not be construed to prohibit training of attorneys or paralegals as necessary to prepare them to advise any eligible client as to the nature of the legislative process, or to inform any such client of his or her rights under any statute, order, or regulation. Repeals a limitation on the use of non-Federal funds received by the Corporation. Directs the Corporation to require each awardee to maintain a system of time and recordkeeping that discloses the types of activities supported by Corporation and non-Corporation funds and allocates appropriate costs, including overhead, to activities funded by non-Corporation funds. Sets forth additional requirements regarding the specific type of system to be employed. Prohibits the use of alternative corporations to evade the provisions of this Act. Defines an "alternative corporation" as a group which has a single identity of interest with an awardee. Requires any awardee which shares employees with any other entity to specify with particularity the use of any funds by such employees. Directs the Corporation to ensure that all attorneys engaged in legal assistance activities supported by the Corporation refrain, while so engaged, from any political activity (current law) associated with a political party or the campaign of any candidate for public or party office. Requires grants and contracts made for calendar years 1993 through 1997 to be made for at least 12 months, except for any grant to a new program commencing operations after the beginning of the applicable calendar year. Sets forth provisions with respect to the establishment of local priorities and periodic analysis of the legal needs of clients in the area served by each such awardee. Revises the defintion of "staff attorney" to mean an attorney who: (1) is employed by a recipient organized in whole or in part for the provision of legal assistance to eligible clients under the Act; and (2) receives more than half of his or her annual professional salary from the proceeds of a grant or contract from the Corporation to such recipient. (Current law specifies an attorney who receives more than half of his annual professional income from a recipient organized solely for the provisions of legal assistance to eligible clients.) Directs the Corporation to conduct a study on legal assistance to older Americans.
Bill· SS. 2874 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1992
Chemical Demilitarization Program Revisions Act of 1992 - Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to direct the Secretary of Defense to carry out the destruction of the stockpile of lethal chemical agents and munitions in accordance with a schedule prescribed by the Secretary, which shall be consistent with U.S. diplomatic and treaty obligations. (Current law sets a stockpile elimination deadline of July 31, 1999.) Establishes the Chemical Demilitarization Advisory Commission to determine, and report to the President and the Congress on, alternative technologies appropriate for use in the disposal of such agents and munitions. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress a revised stockpile elimination plan, taking into account the determinations of the Commission and other specified considerations, including: (1) a revised stockpile disposal schedule; (2) revised life-cycle cost estimates and schedules; and (3) a detailed description of the facilities, technology, and operating procedures to be used in carrying out such plan. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) develop and implement a program with any of the affected independent states of the former Soviet Union or any country that is a signatory of a treaty banning the possession of chemical weapons for the exchange of technical knowledge on the disposal of chemical weapons, to explore and develop safer, more cost-effective methods of such disposal; and (2) make grants to individuals in the private sector with expertise in the disposal of chemical agents to cover the costs incurred in exchange activities under such program. Authorizes appropriations.
Law· SJRESS.J.Res. 318 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1992
Designates November 13, 1992, as Vietnam Veterans Memorial 10th Anniversary Day.
Bill· HRH.R. 5442 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1992
Foreign Language Economic Enhancement Act - Title I: Foreign Language Teacher Recruitment - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a program of grants to State education agencies (SEAs) to recruit and train qualified individuals as elementary and secondary school foreign language teachers. Allots such funds to applicant States on the basis of periodic assessments of need for foreign language teachers in each State. Sets minimum and maximum grant limits. Sets forth application requirements. Requires SEAs, in selecting qualified individuals for such program from among those with competence in a foreign language consistent with certain standards, to include: (1) retired or returning Government employees who served abroad; (2) retired or returning business persons or professionals who served abroad; (3) foreign-born nationals with a degree from a domestic or overseas institution of higher education; and (4) individuals with a baccalaureate degree whose major or minor was in a foreign language or international studies. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Grants to Institutions of Higher Education for Translators and Interpreters - Requires the Department of State to establish a Translation and Interpretation Needs Assessment Council, to be composed of the following (or their designated representatives): (1) the Secretaries of State, of Education, of Defense, and of Commerce; (2) the Directors of the Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Information Agency, and National Security Council; and (3) six Presidentially-appointed experts in the fields of translation and interpretation, language and linguistics, international studies, business, and area studies education. Directs the Council to award institutional grants and individual fellowships for higher education degree or certificate programs in translation and interpretation. Requires determination of institutional and individual qualifications and selection for such awards after the Council has determined the translation and interpretation needs of the Government for purposes of economic competitiveness and cooperation, diplomacy, and national security. Requires higher education institutions or consortia (in conjunction with nonprofit or Federal agencies) to show they are developing such a program, in order to receive such a grant. Requires individual fellowship recipients to be enrolled in such a program and agree to enter government or public service for two years for each year of the fellowship. Sets forth authorized uses of such grants for institutional support and such fellowships. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Lesser Known and Studied Languages - Amends the Soviet-Eastern European Research and Training Act of 1983 to direct the Secretary of State to award institutional grants and individual fellowships for degree or certificate programs for teaching and study of lesser known and studied languages. Requires the Secretary to develop a list of such languages. Sets forth requirements for program development grants to higher education institutions or consortia (in conjunction with nonprofit or Federal agencies), and for individual fellowships for study in such programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Export Education - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to make grants to States to provide education and support services to domestic businesses to increase their basic knowledge of world markets, foreign cultures, and languages, or order to develop and expand into international export markets. Requires States to submit proposals indicating the qualifications of an appropriate State-based entity to carry out authorized activities under this title. Requires each State receiving such a grant to determine the eligibility of such an entity according to the needs of the State's primary trade and economic development agency and model programs. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 5434 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1992
Iran-Iraq Arms Non-Proliferation Act of 1992 - Declares that it is U.S. policy to oppose any transfer of goods or technology to Iraq or Iran whenever there is reason to believe that such transfer could contribute to that country's acquisition of chemical, biological, nuclear, or advanced conventional weapons. Provides that specified sanctions against Iraq under the Iraq Sanctions Act of 1990 shall apply to Iran in the same manner. Prohibits, for a period of two years, U.S. procurement of goods from, and approval of export licenses for, any person who transfers goods or technology so as to materially contribute to efforts by Iran or Iraq to acquire weapons described by this Act. Applies sanctions to successor entities and to parents, subsidiaries, or affiliates controlled by the sanctioned person if they assisted in the prohibited transfer. Authorizes the President, for any period of time, to prohibit the importation of articles from such persons. Imposes the following mandatory sanctions (for one year) on foreign countries that transfer goods or technology (including goods or technology knowingly transferred from the country's territory) so as to materially contribute to such efforts by Iran or Iraq: (1) suspension of U.S. assistance; (2) opposition to the extension of financial or technical assistance by international financial institutions; (3) suspension of U.S. obligations under any memorandum of understanding for the codevelopment or coproduction of items on the U.S. Munitions List; and (4) suspension of U.S. obligations under technical exchange agreements and a prohibition on the export of technology or items on the U.S. Munitions List to such countries. Makes sanctions concerning international financial institution assistance and technical exchange agreements inapplicable with respect to transfers relating to the acquisition of advanced military aircraft or submarines. Authorizes the President to impose the following discretionary sanctions with respect to such countries: (1) suspension of most-favored-nation status; and (2) exercise of authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Waives any mandatory sanction under this Act if the President reports to the Congress that a sanction would jeopardize national security interests.
Bill· HRH.R. 5437 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1992
Directs the National World War II Memorial Fund, Inc., to construct a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia or its environs to: (1) honor members of the armed forces who served in World War II; and (2) commemorate U.S. participation in that conflict. Directs the fund to plan, design, and oversee the construction of the Memorial. Establishes the World War II Memorial Advisory Board to: (1) promote and encourage the donation of private funds for the construction of the Memorial; and (2) recommend the site for and assist in the selection of the design of the Memorial. Terminates the Board within 30 days after completion of the Memorial or on the lapse of the authority provided by this Act. Authorizes the Fund to solicit and accept private contributions for construction of the Memorial. States that the requirements and authority of this Act shall lapse if: (1) construction of the Memorial is not commenced within seven years of its enactment; or (2) before such construction, the Secretary of the Interior certifies that funds are not available in an amount sufficient to ensure its completion.
Law· HRH.R. 5428 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1992
Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1993 - Appropriates funds for FY 1993 for military construction functions administered by the Department of Defense (DOD) in specified amounts for: (1) military construction, Army; (2) military construction, Navy; (3) military construction, Air Force; (4) military construction, defense agencies (including a transfer of funds); (5) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) infrastructure; (6) military construction, Army National Guard; (7) military construction, Air National Guard; (8) military construction, Army Reserve; (9) military construction, Naval Reserve; (10) military construction, Air Force Reserve; (11) family housing, Army; (12) family housing, Navy and Marine Corps; (13) family housing, Air Force; (14) family housing, defense agencies; (15) homeowners assistance fund, defense; and (16) the Department of Defense Base Closure Accounts (including a transfer of funds). Prohibits funds appropriated in military construction appropriation Acts from being expended for payments under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract for work in excess of $25,000 to be performed within the United States, except Alaska, without the specific approval of the Secretary of Defense. Allows DOD construction funds to be available for: (1) the hire of passenger motor vehicles; and (2) advances to the Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration for the construction of defense access roads when certified by the Secretary as important to the national defense. Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act from being used to begin construction of new bases inside the continental United States for which specific appropriations have not been made. Prohibits military construction appropriation Act funds from being used: (1) to purchase land or easements for an amount in excess of 100 percent of their appraised value, with exceptions; (2) to acquire land, prepare sites, or install utilities for military family housing, except housing for which funds have been made available in military construction appropriation Acts; (3) to transfer or relocate any activity from one base or installation to another, without prior notification to the Senate and House Appropriations Committees; and (4) for the procurement of steel for any construction project or activity for which American steel producers, fabricators, and manufacturers have been denied the opportunity to compete. Prohibits funds available to DOD for military construction or family housing during the current fiscal year from being used to pay real property taxes in any foreign country. Prohibits funds appropriated in military construction Acts: (1) from being used to initiate a new installation overseas without prior notification to the Appropriations Committees; (2) from being obligated for architect and engineer contracts estimated to exceed $500,000 for projects to be accomplished in Japan or any NATO-member country, unless such contracts are awarded to U.S. firms or U.S. firms in joint venture with host nation firms; and (3) for U.S. military construction projects in U.S. territories and possessions in the Pacific and on Kwajalein Atoll from being used to award any contract estimated to exceed $1,000,000 to a foreign contractor, with an exception. Directs the Secretary to inform the Appropriations Committees and the Senate and House Armed Services Committees of the plans and scope of any military exercise involving U.S. personnel 30 days prior to its occurrence if amounts expended for construction for such exercise are anticipated to exceed $100,000. Transfers certain funds of the Military Family Housing Management Account to the appropriations for family housing. Prohibits more than 20 percent of the funds appropriated in military construction appropriation Acts which are limited for obligation during the current fiscal year from being obligated during the last two months of the fiscal year. Makes certain prior year funds available for military construction authorized during the second session of the 102d Congress. Directs the Secretary to report by February 15 annually to the Appropriations Committees detailing specific actions proposed to be taken by DOD during that fiscal year to encourage other member-nations of NATO, Japan, and Korea to assume a greater share of the common defense burden of such nations and the United States. Permits certain expired or lapsed funds to be used to pay certain overhead and other costs associated with military construction or family housing projects. Allows funds appropriated for military construction projects to be obligated until the end of the fourth fiscal year after the fiscal year in which the funds were appropriated, with certain conditions. Limits the amount of funds that may be obligated for the contract cleaning of military family housing units. Authorizes the transfer of unobligated DOD military construction and family housing operation and maintenance and construction funds to the foreign currency fluctuations, construction, defense appropriation. Prohibits any funds appropriated in this Act from being available for study, planning, design, or architect and engineer services related to the relocation of the Yongsan Garrison, Korea. Requires funds necessary for annual pay raises for programs funded by military construction appropriations Acts to be absorbed within the levels appropriated in each such Act. Considers defense access roads for Camp McCain, Mississippi, as fully meeting the requirement of certification by the Secretary as important to the military or civilian defense. Reconvenes the environmental response task force established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 and requires such task force, until all military base closure and realignment activities are completed, to: (1) monitor the progress of relevant Federal and State agencies in implementing the recommendations of the task force with respect to ways to improve, consolidate, and streamline environmental response actions taken at such installations; and (2) report to the Congress on ways to expedite and improve such actions.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 335 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1992
Urges the President to express to the United Nations Security Council and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization the willingness of the United States to participate in any sanctioned joint military effort to end the aggression, terrorism, and transgression of human rights perpetrated on its neighbors by the communist Serbian regime in the former state of Yugoslavia.
Bill· HRH.R. 5417 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1992
Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) establish a program to facilitate the employment of eligible members of the armed forces by State and local law enforcement agencies (LEAs) upon their separation from active duty; and (2) periodically request information from States and local governments to identify areas in which there is a shortage of law enforcement officers. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) eligibility of members; and (2) selection of participants. Requires the Secretary to enter into agreements with State and local LEAs in shortage areas to arrange for placements. Specifies that under the agreement: (1) the LEA shall agree to employ a participant selected for the program on a full-time basis for at least a two-year period; and (2) the Secretary shall agree to pay to such LEA an amount equal to the basic salary to be paid to the participant during the required two-year employment period, and the cost of health and life insurance benefits provided to the participant during that period that are ordinarily provided to officers of the LEA. Permits such payments in installments. Directs the LEA to reimburse the Secretary on a prorated basis if a participant leaves its employment before the end of the two years. Prohibits the Secretary from making a grant under this Act to an LEA at terminates an employee in order to fill the vacancy with a participant. Directs the Secretary to give priority to those LEAs that offer to employ a participant as a full-time employee for longer than the required two-year period. Specifies that the two-year period of service shall be considered in the computation of years of service of a member of the armed forces under statutory provisions regarding eligibility for, and computation of, retired pay.
Bill· SS. 2857 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1992
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend from one year to two years the period of time to acquire a new residence for purposes of nonrecognition of gain on the sale of an old residence for members of the armed forces who are required to reside in Government quarters or are stationed outside the United States.
Law· HRH.R. 5400 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1992
Comprehensive Service Programs for Homeless Veterans Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and operate, through September 30, 1995, a pilot program to expand and improve the benefits and services to homeless veterans. Includes within such program: (1) the establishment of up to four additional demonstration programs to be centers for such veterans; and (2) the placement of veterans benefits counselors at a specified number of sites at which the Secretary furnishes services to homeless mentally ill veterans and domiciliary care to homeless veterans and at centers which provide readjustment counseling. Requires the Secretary to make grants to assist eligible entities in establishing new programs to furnish outreach, rehabilitative services, vocational counseling and training, and transitional housing assistance to homeless veterans. Sets forth grant award and application criteria. Prohibits grants from being used to support operational costs of a grantee, except as provided by this Act. Prohibits the making of a grant unless the applicant agrees to: (1) provide services for which the grant is furnished at locations accessible to homeless veterans; (2) maintain referral networks for, and aid such veterans in, establishing eligibility for assistance and obtaining services under available entitlement and assistance programs; (3) ensure the confidentiality of records maintained on homeless veterans receiving services under the grant; (4) establish procedures for accounting with respect to the grant; and (5) with respect to service centers, meet specified requirements concerning service hours, space for Federal agencies and other organizations, and necessary services. Requires the Secretary to provide per diem payments to a grant recipient for services furnished to any homeless veteran: (1) whom the Secretary has referred to the recipient; or (2) for whom the Secretary, within three working days, has authorized the provision of services. Authorizes the Secretary, in lieu of per diem payments, to provide a recipient with in-kind assistance. Permits the Secretary to inspect the facilities of any entity eligible for payments. Directs the Secretary to require the director of each medical center and regional benefits office of the Department of Veterans Affairs to: (1) assess the needs of homeless veterans living within the area served by the center or regional office; and (2) catalogue programs of the Department, agencies of the Federal, State, and local governments, and nongovernmental organizations which provide services to homeless persons in such area. Requires the Secretary to compile assessment information for use in program planning and to carry out laws relating to assistance to homeless veterans. Directs the Secretary to assign employees of the Veterans Benefits Administration to conduct outreach programs and services for homeless veterans. Amends the Veterans' Benefits and Services Act of 1988 to extend community-based residential care for homeless chronically mentally ill veterans through September 30, 1995. Extends through December 31, 1995, the authority of the Secretary to enter into agreements to make real properties acquired as a result of loan defaults available for housing assistance for homeless veterans. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 5403 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1992
Rescinds amounts set aside or otherwise made available for the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1992.