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Bill· HRH.R. 4508 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1994
Legal Services Reauthorization Act of 1994 - Amends the Legal Services Corporation Act to authorize appropriations for the Legal Services Corporation. (Sec. 4) Applies to the Corporation: (1) Federal criminal laws against theft, fraud, and embezzlement to Corporation funds; (2) the Federal criminal statute against obstructing a Federal audit; and (3) certain provisions of the False Claims Act. Requires the Corporation to make available to the appropriate legal authority any evidence of criminal conduct by an awardee or an employee of an awardee. (Sec. 5) Prohibits use of Corporation funds by any awardee to pay for any personal service, advertisement, telegram, telephone communication, letter, printed or written matter, or other device, or for publicity or propaganda intended or designed to influence any: (1) decision by a Federal, State, or local agency; or (2) Member of Congress or other Federal, State, or local elected official to favor or oppose any legislation, referendum, initiative, constitutional amendment, or similar procedure of the Congress, State legislature, local council, or similar governing body. (Sec. 6) Grants the Corporation the authority to ensure the compliance of awardees and their employees with the Act. Requires the Corporation to conduct monitoring and investigations into allegations of violations. 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. 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, an adequate opportunity to respond to the allegations concerning failures, and, at the awardee's request, a timely and fair hearing. (Sec. 7) Sets forth Corporation monitoring requirements. Requires the Corporation to: (1) provide for independent evaluations to determine whether such awardees are providing economical and effective, high quality legal assistance to eligible clients and to assist them in providing such assistance; and (2) develop comprehensive criteria for use evaluating the capability and performance of awardees. (Sec. 8.) Places restrictions on: (1) the bringing of a class action suit by an awardee against the Federal Government or any State or local government (and requires awardees to adopt policies to attempt to negotiate settlements and to use alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, where appropriate, before filing suit); (2) the use of Corporation funds for legal assistance for aliens; and (3) the activities of governing bodies of awardees. (Sec. 12) Specifies that neither the Corporation nor the Comptroller General shall have access to any reports or records protected from disclosure by the applicable laws or rules of ethics or professional responsibility. (Sec. 13) Prohibits: (1) awardees from soliciting professional employment from a prospective client if the client has made known a desire not to be solicited, the solicitation involves coercion, duress, or harassment, or the solicitation is made to urge the client to initiate litigation without a proper factual basis for the complaint; (2) 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; and (3) with respect to a claim or controversy 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, except when necessary to respond to an emergency situation. (Sec. 16) Requires the Corporation to study the feasibility of a system of competition in the delivery legal assistance. (Sec. 17) Revises provisions of the Act regarding: (1) attorney's and other fees; (2) restricted activities, staff attorney hiring, and labor law violations; and (3) recordkeeping, audits, and non-corporation funds. (Sec. 20) Prohibits the use of an "alternative corporation" (a group which has a single identity of interest with an awardee) to evade the provisions of this Act. (Sec. 21) Revises provisions concerning harassment and abuse of the legal process to authorize (currently, require) any court to award reasonable costs and attorney's fees to a defendant if the Corporation commenced an action for purposes of harassment or retaliation or maliciously abused the legal process, or if its actions were frivolous, unreasonable, or without foundation and not warranted by existing law or non-frivolous argument for the extension, modification or reversal of existing law or the establishment of new law. Authorizes the Corporation to recover such costs from the awardee against whom the award was made by offsetting the amount against future grant awards. (Sec. 22) Revises provisions of the Act regarding: (1) Corporation Board composition and control over policy; (2) reprogramming of funds; (3) grant authority; and (4) the establishment of local priorities and periodic analysis of the legal needs of clients in the area served by each such awardee. (Sec. 27) Directs the Corporation to conduct studies on: (1) legal assistance to older Americans; and (2) recruitment and retention by awardees of legal services attorneys and other personnel.
Bill· SS. 2148 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1994
CVN-76 Procurement Termination and Deficit Reduction Act of 1994 - Prohibits entering into any contract for the procurement of a CVN-76 aircraft carrier before October 1, 1999. Terminates all such contracts entered into before the date of enactment of this Act.
Bill· SS. 2154 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1994
Allows payments to members of the armed forces under the Special Separation Benefits program or the Voluntary Separation Incentive program of the Department of Defense without a concurrent pro rata reduction of veterans' disability compensation paid to such members through the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Bill· SS. 2157 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1994
Defense Counterproliferation Act of 1994 - Directs the United States to establish an integrated program in the Department of Defense (DOD) to counter potential threats to U.S. interests that arise from the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, as well as their associated components, facilities, and delivery systems). Directs the Secretary of Defense to designate the Deputy Secretary of Defense as program manager. Authorizes funds from DOD's FY 1995 appropriations for the program. Establishes a Counterproliferation Program Review Committee to: (1) optimize funding for, and ensure the development and deployment of, highly effective technologies and capabilities for the counterproliferation of such weapons; and (2) identify and eliminate undesirable redundancies or uncoordinated efforts in the development and deployment of such technologies and capabilities. Provides for Committee access to all appropriate information.
Bill· SS. 2149 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1994
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance): (1) a special enrollment period without a late payment penalty for certain military retirees and their dependents living near closed military medical facilities who wish to enroll in Medicare part B; and (2) payment by the Department of Defense for increases in premiums due to such special enrollment period.
Law· SJRESS.J.Res. 196 (103rd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1994
Designates September 16, 1994, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Requires the display of the National League of Families POW/MIA flag at: (1) all national cemeteries and the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial on May 30, 1994 (Memorial Day), September 16, 1994 (National POW/MIA Recognition Day), and November 11, 1994 (Veterans Day); and (2) the White House, the Capitol Building, and the buildings containing the primary offices of the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Veterans Affairs and the Director of the Selective Service System on September 16, 1994 (National POW/MIA Recognition Day).
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 369 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1994
Designates September 16, 1994, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Requires the display of the National League of Families POW/MIA flag at: (1) all national cemeteries and the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial on May 30, 1994 (Memorial Day), September 16, 1994 (National POW/MIA Recognition Day), and November 11, 1994 (Veterans Day); and (2) the White House and the buildings containing the primary offices of the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Veterans Affairs and the Director of the Selective Service System on September 16, 1994 (National POW/MIA Recognition Day).
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 433 (103rd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1994
Waives points of order against the consideration of H.R. 4453 (making FY 1995 military construction appropriations) with respect to noncompliance with provisions of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives.
Bill· HRH.R. 4469 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Establishment of State Multicare Programs; Tax Changes Subtitle A: Establishment of State Multicare Programs Subtitle B: Federal Contribution Toward Multicare Plan Premiums; Tax Law Changes Title II: Requirements for Multicare Plans Subtitle A: General Requirements Subtitle B: Multiple Employer Health Benefits Protections Subtitle C: Repeal of COBRA Continuation Requirements Title III: States Without State Multicare Programs; Federal Health Care Programs; National Reinsurance Pool Subtitle A: Multicare Plans in States Without State Multicare Programs Subtitle B: Federal Health Care Programs Subtitle C: National Reinsurance Mechanism Title IV: Medical Malpractice Liability Reform Subtitle A: Medical Malpractice Liability Reform Subtitle B: Other Requirements and Programs Title V: Administrative Cost Savings Subtitle A: Standardization of Claims Processing Subtitle B: Electronic Medical Data Standards Title VI: Removing Restrictions on Managed Care Title VII: Modification of the Operation of the Antitrust Laws to Hospitals Multiple Choice Health Care Act of 1994 - Multicare Act of 1994 - Title I: Establishment of State Multicare Programs; Tax Changes - Subtitle A: Establishment of State Multicare Programs - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide grants to each State to establish a State multicare program for the offering of competing multicare plans in the State. (Sec. 101) Requires supplemental increases in grant amounts to States in proportion to a reduction in Federal payments for Medicaid acute care services and programs under title IV (Aid and Services to Needy Families with Children and for Child-Welfare Services) and title XVI (Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled) of the Social Security Act, the Food Stamp Act, and other Federal welfare law. Restricts use of such supplemental increases to: (1) financing the State reinsurance mechanism; or (2) providing additional subsidies for poor and near poor individuals. (Sec. 102) Requires each State multicare program to provide a mechanism for certifying, according to specified criteria, at least two competing open enrollment multicare plans in all areas of the State. (Sec. 103) Requires each State multicare program to provide a mechanism for open season enrollment of State residents (with certain exceptions) in multicare plans. Authorizes a State to require: (1) each eligible individual in the State to be enrolled in such a plan; and (2) such a plan to be a multicare plan operated directly by the program. Prohibits a State from denying approval of a plan as a multicare plan because it does not have open enrollment and limits enrollment to individuals associated with an employer or association. Requires each State multicare program to provide for distribution to eligible individuals of comparative value information. (Sec. 104) Requires: (1) the HHS Secretary to develop a national list of services a multicare plan may cover, and publish treatment practice guidelines; and (2) each State multicare program to establish a State-specific list of covered health care services, which may or may not include services on the national list. Authorizes a State multicare program to decrease, for catastrophic protection, the amount of the cost-sharing limit otherwise permitted for multicare plans. (Sec. 105) Requires each State multicare program to establish procedures to ensure continuity of coverage for eligible individuals residing in each State. (Sec. 106) Requires each State multicare program to: (1) provide for a contribution, determined according to specified formulae, toward the premium cost of the enrollment of each eligible non-exempt individual enrolled in a multicare plan; and (2) include a mechanism for providing additional financial assistance to poor and near poor individuals to help them purchase multicare coverage. (Sec. 108) Requires each State multicare program to include a reinsurance mechanism, governed by a commission appointed by the State chief executive and meeting specified criteria, for high risk individuals enrolled or enrolling in plans offered in the State. Specifies options for such a mechanism, including additional payments from the common fund to plans for individuals whose costs exceed a particular threshold. (Sec. 109) Requires each State multicare program to establish procedures for consumer education and assistance, especially for individuals eligible for State health care subsidies. (Sec. 110) Requires each State multicare program to assure plan compliance with consumer rights under title II of this Act. (Sec. 111) Requires each State multicare program to provide for assurances that any State income tax laws treat employer payments for health care premiums and employee or dependent expenses as wage payments. (Sec. 112) Requires each State multicare program to provide for distribution on State and local levels of information on the average prices of common health care services. Subtitle B: Federal Contribution Toward Multicare Plan Premiums; Tax Law Changes - Sets forth formulae for determination of an annual Federal contribution toward multicare plan premiums. (Sec. 122) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate: (1) the exclusion from gross income of employer-provided health care coverage; and (2) the deductions for medical care and for the health insurance costs of the self-employed. Title II: Requirements for Multicare Plans - Subtitle A: General Requirements - Sets forth general multicare plan requirements for enrollment and continuity of coverage, covered services, premiums and cost-sharing, catastrophic protection, participation in a reinsurance system, data collection, medical malpractice reform and administrative cost savings, and specified consumer rights. Subtitle B: Multiple Employer Health Benefits Protections - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide a limited exemption under preemption rules for multiple employer plans providing health benefits subject to certain Federal standards. Relieves such exempted multiple employer plans providing medical care benefits of certain restrictions on preemption of State law. Treats such plans as employee welfare benefits plans. Sets forth exemption procedures, eligibility requirements (including rules for franchise networks), and additional requirements applicable to such exempted plan arrangements (including notice, reporting, filing, and actuarial requirements). Requires certain disclosures by such arrangements to participating employers. Requires such arrangements to maintain certain reserves. Sets forth procedures for corrective actions, expiration, suspension, or revocation of exemption, and review of actions by the Secretary of Labor. (Sec. 212) Revises ERISA provisions relating to scope of preemption rules, treatment of single employer arrangements, and treatment of certain collectively bargained arrangements. (Sec. 215) Treats employee leasing health care arrangements as multiple employer welfare arrangements, except for those employee leasing arrangements which are multiple employer health plans. Sets forth special rules for employee leasing health care arrangements which are multiple employer welfare arrangements. (Sec. 218) Provides for Federal-State cooperation in responsibility for multiple employer welfare arrangements. Allows delegation of enforcement authority to States, authorizing the Secretary to maintain concurrent authority. Directs the Secretary to provide certain enforcement assistance and ensure that only one State will be recognized as the primary domicile State which authority has been delegated pursuant to an agreement with respect to any particular multiple employer welfare arrangement. Subtitle C: Repeal of COBRA Continuation Requirements -Amends ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, and the Public Health Service Act (with respect to certain State and local employees) to repeal COBRA (Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act) continuation coverage requirements for employee-related group health plans. Makes such repeals applicable to health plans offered in a State by an employer as of the first date that a State multicare program is in effect in that State. Title III: States Without State Multicare Programs; Federal Health Care Programs; National Reinsurance Pool - Subtitle A: Multicare Plans in States Without State Multicare Programs - Authorizes the HHS Secretary, in the case of a State without an approved State multicare program, to provide for: (1) operation through the Department of HHS of such a program in the State; and (2) the approval and offering of multistate plans in the State. Subtitle B: Federal Health Care Programs - Authorizes the HHS Secretary to negotiate an agreement (containing specified terms) with a State multicare program to provide Medicare-eligible persons with access to multicare plans. (Sec. 322) Entitles Federal employees eligible for the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP), instead of enrolling in the FEHBP, to elect to have the Federal Government contribution toward the FEHBP applied toward enrollment under a multicare plan. Allows the HHS Secretary to approve as a multicare plan a FEHBP plan which participates in a multicare reinsurance mechanism and meets the other requirements for an approved multicare plan. (Sec. 323) Requires the HHS Secretary to report to the Congress his or her recommendations on how (and the extent to which) the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS), the health care programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Indian Health Service may be integrated with the multicare program established under this Act. (Sec. 324) Specifies consumer rights for individuals in Federal health care programs. Subtitle C: National Reinsurance Mechanism - Directs the HHS Secretary to establish a national reinsurance mechanism, governed by a commission appointed by the Secretary, for use by self-insured closed multicare plans operating in three or more States that have not elected to participate in State reinsurance mechanisms. Allows such plans a one-time election between the national reinsurance mechanism and a State mechanism. Title IV: Medical Malpractice Liability Reform - Subtitle A: Medical Malpractice Liability Reform - Applies this title to any medical malpractice liability claim or action brought in any State or Federal court, except a claim or action: (1) arising from a vaccine- related injury or death already covered by the Public Health Service Act; or (2) in which the plaintiff's sole allegation is of an injury arising from the use of a medical product. Preempts State law to the extent it differs from this subtitle. Declares that nothing in this subtitle shall be construed as establishing any Federal question jurisdiction over medical malpractice liability actions. (Sec. 411) Sets a statue of limitations for medical malpractice liability claims of two years after an alleged injury should reasonably have been discovered, but in no event more than four years after the alleged injury occurred (or in the case of a minor, no later than the tenth birthday). (Sec. 412) Declares that no medical malpractice liability action may be brought in any State court unless the underlying claim has been initially resolved under an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) system certified by the HHS Secretary. Limits the scope of judicial review of such an ADR decision. Mandates application of Federal ADR in malpractice claims against the United States. Requires Federal agencies to report regularly to the Administrator for Health Care Policy and Research (Administrator) on issues in controversy consisting of medical malpractice claims resolved under agency ADR proceedings. Requires pre-trial settlement conferences on any medical malpractice liability actions which reach court. (Sec. 415) Limits to $250,000 the total amount of noneconomic damages awardable to a plaintiff and family for losses resulting from the injury which is the subject of a medical malpractice liability action. Limits punitive damages to twice the total compensatory damages. Requires periodic payments of any award of more than $100,000 in damages for expenses in the future, unless the court determines that periodic payments are not in the plaintiff's best interests. Sets forth specified mandatory offsets to damages for any payments made under Federal, State, or private programs. Limits attorney's contingency fees, but allows award of such fees and other specified costs to the prevailing party. (Sec. 417) Declares that: (1) the liability of each defendant in such an action shall be several only and not joint, and limited to the defendant's percentage of responsibility; and (2) a defendant may not be found to have acted negligently unless his or her conduct was not reasonable. Makes it an affirmative defense to any allegation of negligence that the defendant followed the appropriate practice guideline sanctioned by the HHS Secretary. (Sec. 420) Declares that, in the case of a medical malpractice liability action relating to obstetric services, if the defendant health care professional did not previously treat the plaintiff for the pregnancy, the trier of fact may not find that the defendant committed malpractice and may not assess damages against him or her unless the malpractice is proven by clear and convincing evidence. States that a health care professional shall be considered to have previously treated an individual for a pregnancy if the professional: (1) is a member of a group practice whose members previously treated the individual for the pregnancy; or (2) is providing services during labor or the delivery of the baby pursuant to an agreement with another professional. (Sec. 421) Specifies the extent to which this subtitle preempts State law. (Sec. 431) Sets forth basic requirements for a State's ADR system. Requires the HHS Secretary to certify a State system if it meets such requirements. (Sec. 433) Requires the HHS Secretary to report to Congress on the State ADR systems operated according to this subtitle. Subtitle B: Other Requirements and Programs - Amends title XI (General Provisions and Peer Review) of the Social Security Act to authorize appropriations for sanctioning practice guidelines for purposes of an affirmative defense in medical malpractice liability actions. Directs the HHS Secretary to: (1) develop a standard reporting form for State ADR systems to use in transmitting information to the Administrator; and (2) study and report to Congress on the effect of the use of medical practice guidelines on the incidence of and the costs associated with medical malpractice. (Sec. 442) Declares that a State agency responsible for the conduct of disciplinary actions for a type of health care practitioner may enter into agreements (meeting specified requirements) to permit State or county professional societies of such type of practitioner: (1) to participate in practitioner licensing; and (2) to review any health care malpractice claim or allegation, or other information concerning the practice patterns of any such practitioner. Title V: Administrative Cost Savings - Subtitle A: Standardization of Claims Processing - Directs the HHS Secretary to adopt (taking into account the recommendations of specified task forces) standards relating to: (1) data elements for use in paper and electronic claims processing; (2) uniform claims forms; and (3) uniform electronic transmission of the data elements. Sets forth requirements for application of such standards, and their periodic review and revision. Subtitle B: Electronic Medical Data Standards - Directs the HHS Secretary to promulgate electronic medical data standards meeting specified criteria for hospitals and other providers. Sets a deadline for each hospital with a Medicare participation agreement to meet such standards. (Sec. 513) Authorizes the heads of appropriate Federal agencies, as of January 1, 2000, to require health care providers to present and transmit data elements electronically according to such standards. (Sec. 515) Directs the HHS Secretary to establish an advisory commission to monitor and advise about the standards established under this subtitle and operational concerns about their implementation. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: Removing Restrictions on Managed Care - Preempts provisions of State law restricting: (1) reimbursement rates or selective contracting; (2) differential financial incentives; and (3) utilization review methods. (Sec. 601) Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the benefits and cost effectiveness of the use of managed care in the delivery of health services. Title VII: Modification of the Operation of the Antitrust Laws to Hospitals - Declares that it shall not be unlawful under the antitrust laws for two or more hospitals to engage in conduct solely for the purpose of negotiating a proposed agreement to share expensive medical services or high technology equipment. (Sec. 702) Requires the HHS Secretary to issue waivers to exempt from the operation of the antitrust laws conduct engaged in by hospitals to carry out any such agreements which meet specified criteria.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 431 (103rd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1994
Sets forth the rule for the further consideration of H.R. 4301 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995).
Bill· SS. 2135 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1994
VA State Health-Care Reform Pilot Programs Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct pilot programs in up to five States that have reformed health-care systems (a statutorily established system to assure residents access to health-care services) under which the Department of Veterans Affairs may provide, directly or by contract, health-care services on the same or a similar basis as the State plan mandates for residents. Makes eligible for such services veterans, survivors and dependents of disabled veterans or veterans who died in active service, and members of the family of any veteran participating in the pilot program. Outlines pilot program conditions, including a 30-day waiting period after notifying specified congressional committees of the intention to establish the program. Requires the payment of all applicable premiums, copayments, deductibles, and coinsurance payments by program participants. Terminates the authority to conduct the pilot programs as of December 31, 1990. Establishes a revolving fund and authorizes appropriations to the fund for FY 1995 through 1997 for pilot program purposes. Provides for the collection of funds from program participants. Allows any required administrative reorganization necessary to carry out a pilot program without the required congressional notification and waiting period. Provides for: (1) marketing activities to promote the pilot programs; and (2) required reports.
Law· HRH.R. 4455 (103rd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1994
Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to allow the Export-Import Bank to finance export sales of nonlethal defense articles or services whose primary end use will be for civilian purposes.
Law· HRH.R. 4453 (103rd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1994
Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1995 - Appropriates funds for FY 1995 for military construction functions administered by the Department of Defense (DOD) in specified amounts for: (1) military construction for the Army, Navy, and Air Force; (2) military construction, DOD (including a transfer of funds); (3) military construction for the Army and Air National Guards; (4) military construction for the Army, Navy, and Air Force Reserves; (5) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure; (6) family housing for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force; (7) family housing, DOD; and (8) the Base Realignment and Closure Accounts, Parts I through III (including a transfer of funds). (Sec. 101) Specifies prohibited uses of funds appropriated by this Act. (Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide certain congressional notification 30 days in advance of the plans and scope of any proposed military exercise involving U.S. personnel if construction amounts for such exercise are expected to exceed $100,000. (Sec. 114) Provides for the transfer of certain funds from the Military Family Housing Management Account to the appropriations for family housing. (Sec. 119) Provides for the transfer of lapsed unobligated military construction and family housing funds into the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Construction, Defense account. (Sec. 120) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on actions proposed by DOD 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. (Sec. 121) Authorizes a specified transfer of funds from the DOD Base Closure Account. (Sec. 122) Includes damage from the 1993 Guam earthquake within authorized uses of FY 1993 appropriations for family housing, Navy and Marine Corps. (Sec. 123) Cancels a specified amount of funding for DOD's military construction and family housing accounts during FY 1995. Directs the Secretary to allocate such amounts for procurement and procurement-related expenses. (Sec. 124) Requires compliance with the Buy American Act for all uses of funds appropriated under this Act. (Sec. 126) Makes ineligible for the receipt of funds appropriated under this Act any person who intentionally affixes a "Made in America" label to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that was not made in the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 4456 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1994
Requires nonlethal excess supplies of the Department of Defense to be made available to States before being made available for humanitarian relief purposes.
Bill· HRH.R. 4459 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1994
Directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide for the retroactive award of the Navy Combat Ribbon with respect to participation in ground or surface combat during any period after July 4, 1943, and before March 1, 1961.
Bill· SS. 2131 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1994
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out two medical facility construction projects at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Sepulveda, California, in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations. Provides limitations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out an administrative reorganization at the Sepulveda site, as necessitated by a January 1994 earthquake, without regard to a congressional notification requirement.
Bill· SS. 2119 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1994
Prohibits imposing any charge or fee, except those already in effect at the time of enactment of this Act, for tuition, room, or board for U.S. citizens attending the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 429 (103rd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1994
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 4301 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995).
Law· HRH.R. 4426 (103rd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: International Sustainable Development Programs Title II: Building Democracy Title III: Promoting Peace Title IV: Humanitarian Assistance Title V: Promoting Growth Through Trade and Investment Title VI: Program Administration Title I: International Sustainable Development Programs - Makes appropriations for FY 1995 for the U.S. contribution to the: (1) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; (2) International Development Association; (3) International Finance Corporation; (4) Inter-American Development Bank; (5) Asian Development Fund; (6) African Development Fund; (7) African Development Bank; (8) European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; (9) Multilateral Investment Fund; (10) specified replenishments of certain international financial institutions; and (11) Interest Subsidy Account of the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility of the International Monetary Fund. Limits certain callable capital subscriptions. Makes appropriations for FY 1995 for: (1) sustainable development programs; (2) direct loans and loan guarantees for microenterprise and other credit programs; (3) modification (debt reduction) of direct loans and loan guarantees; (4) the Peace Corps; (5) the Inter-American Foundation; and (6) the African Development Foundation. Title II: Building Democracy - Makes appropriations for FY 1995 for: (1) assistance for countries in transition to democracy, that have recently emerged or are emerging as democratic societies or from civil strife, or whose democratic progress is threatened; (2) assistance to the new independent states of the former Soviet Union; and (3) assistance to Eastern Europe and the Baltic States. Title III: Promoting Peace - Makes appropriations for FY 1995 for: (1) peacekeeping programs; (2) a Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (permits such Fund to be used for countries other than the new independent states of the former Soviet Union); (3) regional peace, security, and defense cooperation; and (4) international narcotics trafficking, terrorism, and crime prevention. Title IV: Humanitarian Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 1995 for: (1) a contribution to the International Committee of the Red Cross and other refugee assistance; and (2) international disaster relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction assistance. Title V: Promoting Growth Through Trade and Investment - Makes appropriations for FY 1995 for: (1) Overseas Private Investment Corporation direct and guaranteed loan programs; (2) the Trade and Development Agency; and (3) Export-Import Bank programs, including direct loans, loan guarantees, and tied aid grants, and administrative expenses. Title VI: Program Administration - Makes appropriations for FY 1995 for: (1) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (2) operating expenses of the Agency for International Development (AID); and (3) the AID Office of the Inspector General.
Bill· HRH.R. 4428 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1994
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that the Department of Veterans Affairs maintains its current capacity to provide for the specialized treatment and rehabilitative needs of disabled veterans in a manner that affords those veterans reasonable access to such care and services. Requires the Secretary to ensure that the current Department capacity to provide such services is not reduced. Allows the Secretary to expand such facilities beyond their current level.
Bill· HRH.R. 4425 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Construction Authorization Title II: Health Care Planning and Programs Title III: Medical Facilities Acquisition Title IV: State Home Program Title V: Miscellaneous Title I: Construction Authorization - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out the major medical facility (MMF) projects and leases for the Department of Veterans Affairs for which funds are requested in the President's budget for FY 1995, with the exception of the construction of research additions at Huntington, West Virginia, and Portland, Oregon. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out additional MMF projects, in specified amounts, and additional MMF projects for which funds were appropriated in the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1994. Authorizes FY 1995 appropriations for such purposes. Title II: Health Care Planning and Programs - Directs the Secretary to: (1) prescribe a specific, detailed statement of the mission of, and the clinical programs to be operated at, each Department health care facility; (2) review current Department health care missions; and (3) report on mission implementation timetables. (Sec. 202) Extends through FY 1997 (currently FY 1994) the pilot program for determining noninstitutional alternatives to nursing home care. Extends eligibility for such pilot program to all veterans eligible for nursing home care. (Currently, there are further requirements of being treated for, or having a certain degree of, a service-connected disability.) Extends certain report deadlines under the Department of Veterans Affairs Nurse Pay Act of 1990. Title III: Medical Facilities Acquisition - Specifies additional information to be included within a prospectus of a proposed medical facility to be acquired by the Department for use in providing veterans' medical care. (Sec. 302) Directs the Secretary to review the Department methodology for establishing the priority for major construction projects under consideration. Requires such methodology to be revised to give additional weight to projects intended to expand long-term care and ambulatory care programs. Requires a report. (Sec. 303) Directs the Secretary to submit semiannually to the veterans' committees a report showing the current Department priorities for major medical construction projects, with the highest 20 projects specifically identified. (Sec. 304) Includes within the definition of a major medical facility project a project for providing additional ambulatory care involving a total expenditure of more than $5 million. Title IV: State Home Program - Directs the Secretary to pay to each State a per diem amount for each veteran receiving adult day health care in a State home if the veteran is eligible to receive such care in a Department facility. Provides the rate for such care and increases the per diem rate for domiciliary, nursing home, and hospital care (currently authorized). (Sec. 402) Includes the construction of adult day health care facilities in the provision by the Department of financial assistance to States for the construction of medical facilities for veterans. Title V: Miscellaneous - Designates specified veterans' research advisory committees that the Secretary may not terminate unless determined to be no longer needed, with a 120-day prior notification of such a finding to the veterans' committees by way of a report. (Sec. 502) Authorizes the Secretary to provide for the operation of child care centers at Department facilities. Provides a priority for such services to employees of the Department, followed by employees of other Federal departments and agencies. Allows the Secretary to provide child care services to members of the public when necessary to assure the center's financial success. Directs the Secretary to establish reasonable charges for such services with the proceeds to be used by such centers for staffing and other expenses. Outlines related authority of the Secretary with respect to establishing and operating such centers. (Sec. 503) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into contracts for the provision of utilities to the Audie L. Murphy Memorial Hospital in San Antonio, Texas; (2) during the period from February 28 through June 1, 1994, contract with facilities in the Republic of the Philippines other than the Veterans Memorial Medical Center to furnish hospital care and medical services to veterans for nonservice-connected disabilities if such veterans are unable to defray the cost of such care; and (3) undertake an administrative reorganization of the Department medical center in Sepulveda, California, without regard to a required waiting period.
Bill· SS. 2114 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1994
Directs the Secretary to pay to the appropriate State or local political entity a $150 burial plot or interment allowance for the burial of any veteran who is: (1) eligible for burial in a national cemetery; and (2) buried in a cemetery that is used solely for the interment of persons so eligible and that is owned by such State or political entity.
Bill· SS. 2113 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1994
Prohibits the President or any other member of the executive branch from interfering with the transfer of conventional arms appropriate to the self-defense needs of the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Requires the President to terminate the U.S. arms embargo of such government upon receipt from such government of a request for assistance in exercising its right of self-defense under the United Nations Charter.
Bill· SS. 2112 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1994
Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to: (1) postpone until 1997 (currently 1995) scheduled military base closures and realignments announced by the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission; and (2) postpone certain reports required in connection with such closures and realignments.
Bill· HRH.R. 4422 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Authorizations Title II: Personnel Management Improvement Title III: Navigation Safety and Waterway Services Management Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1994 - Title I: Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for the Coast Guard for FY 1995 for: (1) operation and maintenance; (2) acquisition, construction, rebuilding, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore and offshore facilities, vessels, and aircraft; (3) research, development, test, and evaluation of technologies, materials, and human factors relating to improving the performance of the Coast Guard's mission in support of specified activities; (4) retired pay, payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection and Survivor Benefit Plans, and payments for medical care of retired personnel and their dependents; (5) alteration or removal of bridges over navigable waters of the United States constituting obstructions to navigation, and personnel and administrative costs associated with the Bridge Alteration Program; and (6) environmental compliance and restoration at Coast Guard facilities. (Sec. 102) Authorizes: (1) an end-of-year strength for active duty personnel of 39,000 as of September 30, 1995; (2) specified military training student loads for FY 1995; and (3) appropriations to the Secretary of Transportation for operation and maintenance expenses of Coast Guard drug interdiction activities for FY 1995. Title II: Personnel Management Improvement - Makes provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 1993 regarding homeowners assistance for certain individuals affected by Hurricane Andrew applicable to the military personnel of the Coast Guard who were assigned to, or employed at or in connection with, any Federal facility or installation in the vicinity of Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, subject to specified limitations. (Sec. 202) Repeals a requirement that, upon approval by the President, the names of officers selected by a board for continuation on active duty shall be promptly disseminated to the Coast Guard at large. (Sec. 203) Specifies that reserve members ordered to active duty for emergency augmentation of regular forces shall not be counted in computing the authorized strength of members on active duty or members in grade under any law. (Sec. 204) Authorizes the head of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating (Secretary) to conduct informal investigations of marine casualties, but does not require the Secretary to hold an informal investigation open to the public. (Sec. 205) Authorizes the Commandant of the Coast Guard to: (1) make child development services available to members and civilian employees of the Coast Guard, and, as remaining space is available, to members of the armed forces and Federal civilian employees; (2) require that fees for such services at Coast Guard child development centers be used only for compensation of center employees directly involved in providing child care, with exceptions; (3) use Department of Defense or other training programs to insure that all child development services providers meet minimum standards; and (4) provide assistance to members and civilian employees of the Coast Guard for obtaining services of qualified family home child development services providers. Title III: Navigation Safety and Waterway Services Management - Repeals a provision requiring the Secretary to collect and pay to the Treasury the same fees for the inspection of foreign vessels carrying passengers from the United States that a foreign country charges U.S. vessels trading to the ports of that country. (Sec. 302) Increases civil penalties for violations of provisions regarding documentation of vessels. Revises Federal provisions to make a vessel and its equipment liable to seizure by, and forfeiture to, the U.S. Government if: (1) the owner of the vessel or a representative or agent of the owner knowingly falsifies or conceals a material fact or makes a false statement or representation about the documentation or in applying for documentation of the vessel; (2) a certificate of documentation is knowingly and fraudulently used for the vessel; (3) the vessel is operated after its endorsement has been denied or revoked; (4) the vessel is employed in a trade without an appropriate trade endorsement; or (5) in the case of a documented vessel with only a recreational endorsement, the vessel is operated other than for pleasure. Removes specified limitations on the operation of recreational vessels. (Sec. 304) Directs the Commandant to operate a rescue and patrol vessel on the Mississippi River in the vicinity of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to support Coast Guard rescue, law enforcement, marine safety, marine environmental protection, and port security missions. (Sec. 305) Directs the Secretary, for purposes of altering the Florida Avenue Bridge in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, to treat the drainage siphon that is adjacent to the bridge as an appurtenance of the bridge. (Sec. 306) Amends the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1991 to terminate the Houston-Galveston Navigation Safety Advisory Committee and the Lower Mississippi River Waterway Advisory Committee on October 1, 1999. (Sec. 307) Prohibits the Secretary of Transportation from consolidating the Coast Guard Marine Safety Offices in Galveston and Houston, Texas. (Sec. 308) Directs the Coast Guard to: (1) transfer to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy $500,000 to continue the oil spill simulator activities at the Academy; and (2) designate the Center for Marine Environmental Protection and Safety at the Massachusetts Marine Academy as a regional facility for the conduct and evaluation of annual response area management team exercises for two response areas in the East Coast.
Bill· HRH.R. 4411 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: National Environmental Response Training Program Subtitle A: Certification, Training, and Accreditation Program Subtitle B: Health and Safety Program Title II: National Environmental Response Employment Program Title III: Federal Environmental Coordination Committee and Related Provisions Title IV: Administration and Enforcement National Environmental Training and Employment Act of 1994 - Provides for training, health and safety, employment opportunities, and certification for environmental response employees and employers, emergency responders, and environmental training providers. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the various titles of this Act. Allows other funds to be used to carry out this Act from appropriations for programs, projects, or activities administered by the Departments of Defense, of Energy, of Housing and Urban Development, of the Interior, of Labor, and of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Environmental Protection Agency. Title I: National Environmental Response Training Program - Subtitle A: Certification, Training, and Accreditation Program - Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to establish a National Environmental Training Program to: (1) certify environmental response employers (through a National Certification Program in the Department of Labor); (2) train and certify environmental response employees and emergency responders; and (3) accredit environmental training providers. Subtitle B: Health and Safety Program - Directs the Secretary to establish a national safety and health program covering environmental response employees and emergency responders. Allows such program to be implemented and managed, at the Secretary's discretion, by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Requires such program to include minimum standard medical examination protocols, a medical surveillance program, and a national injury/illness/fatality surveillance system. Title II: National Environmental Response Employment Program - Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a program to ensure employment of minorities and women in activities covered by this Act; and (2) in cooperation with the Secretary of Defense, a program to ensure availability of training and employment in activities covered by this Act for displaced military personnel. Directs the Secretary to provide grants to: (1) public agencies and nonprofit employee organizations qualifying as accredited providers to train environmental emergency responders; (2) joint labor-managed training trust funds and labor organizations accredited as providers for training and related activities for environmental workers subject to this Act; (3) nonprofit veterans' organizations for recruitment and counseling services for recently separated members of the military and other veterans, in connection with environmental response training; and (4) nonprofit minority and women's organizations for recruitment and counseling services for minority and female applicants, in connection with environmental response training. Title III: Federal Environmental Coordination Committee and Related Provisions - Establishes the Federal Environmental Coordination Committee, including the heads of the aforementioned Federal departments and agencies. Provides for: (1) enforcement of this Act through Federal contracting procedures; (2) cooperation with States; (3) accreditation and certification/licensure fees; and (4) environmental workforce research and studies. Title IV: Administration and Enforcement - Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations to carry out this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to seek judicial relief and civil penalties for failure to comply with this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4407 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Federal Responsibilities Subtitle A: Federal Workforce Preparation and Development Council Subtitle B: National Commission for Employment Policy Subtitle C: Federal Waiver Authority for Provisions of Workforce Preparation and Development Programs Subtitle D: Implementation Grants and Technical Assistance Title II: State Responsibilities Subtitle A: State Human Resource Investment Council Subtitle B: Unified Single State Plan Subtitle C: Unified Service Areas Subtitle D: Local Workforce Development Boards Subtitle E: Community Job Resource Centers Title III: Consolidation of Federal Workforce Preparation and Development Programs Subtitle A: Adult Education and Literacy State Block Grant Programs Subtitle B: Vocational and Technical Education State Block Grant Program Subtitle C: State Vocational Rehabilitation Block Grant Program Subtitle D: Adult Employment and Training System Subtitle E: Youth Employment and Training Block Grant Program Subtitle F: Native Americans' Employment, Training, and Education Block Grant Program Subtitle G: Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Employment, Training, and Education Block Grant Program Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions Title V: Effective Dates and Transition Consolidated and Reformed Education, Employment, and Retraining Systems Act (CAREERS Act) - Establishes a comprehensive workforce preparation and development (WPD) system. Title I: Federal Responsibilities - Subtitle A: Federal Workforce Preparation and Development Council - Establishes the Federal Workforce Preparation and Development Council, consisting of the Secretaries of Labor, Education, Health and Human Services, and Commerce, the Director of the Office of Management and the Budget, and any other Federal agency heads the President may designate. Requires the Federal Council to develop a strategic WPD plan for the United States and report to the President and the Congress. Subtitle B: National Commission for Employment Policy - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to establish a National Commission for Employment Policy. Directs the Commission to study existing WPD programs and develop recommendations on reforms necessary for a comprehensive WPD system for the President, the Congress, and the Federal Council. Subtitle C: Federal Waiver Authority for Provisions of Workforce Preparation and Development Programs - Authorizes the Federal Council to waive provisions of law or regulations relating to State planning and reporting, performance standards, or other provisions with respect to WPD programs under unified State plans. Sets forth provisions for waiver applications, review, approval or disapproval, and revocation. Subtitle D: Implementation Grants and Technical Assistance - Authorizes the Federal Council to provide grants and technical assistance to States that have an approved application to carry out the single State plan. Requires a State to provide at least 70 percent of such a grant to the Local Boards. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: State Responsibilities - Subtitle A: State Human Resource Investment Council - Requires any participant State to establish a State human resource investment council to assist the Governor in developing a coordinated State strategy for WPD programs, including school-to-work transition and lifelong learning programs. Subtitle B: Unified Single State Plan - Requires any participant State to: (1) establish a unified single State plan to coordinate services under WPD programs; and (2) report annually to the Federal Council on progress in achieving plan goals. Expresses the sense of the Congress that States and unified service areas should use cost-effective methods for collecting data for post-program follow-up of participants of WPD programs. Subtitle C: Unified Service Areas - Requires any participant State to ensure establishment of unified service areas throughout the State to provide community-wide WPD services. Subtitle D: Local Workforce Development Boards - Requires any participant State to ensure establishment of a Local Workforce Development Board in each unified service area. Requires a participant Local Board, in partnership with local governments, to submit an annual unified local plan to the State Council for approval. Subtitle E: Community Job Resource Centers - Requires any participant State to ensure that each Local Board designates or establishes a network of community job resource centers in its unified service area, to be composed of specified entities. Title III: Consolidation of Federal Workforce Preparation and Development Programs - Subtitle A: Adult Education and Literacy State Block Grant Programs - Amends the Adult Education Act (AEA) to authorize appropriations for FY 1995 and 1996 for: (1) the State Block Grant program authorized under the State Adult Education and Literacy Program, with a limited portion for certain additional State activities; and (2) national activities, including the National Institute for Literacy. (Sec. 302) Allows a portion of such block grants to States to also be used for the following additional programs: correctional education, State literacy resource centers, workplace literacy, English literacy, and training of literacy teachers and volunteers. (Sec. 303) Revises four-year State plan provisions to require description of steps to be taken in continuing programs for correctional education, State literacy resource centers, workforce literacy, and the homeless. Focuses on use and training of adult and elderly volunteers. (Sec. 304) Repeals specified AEA provisions, including: (1) a reservation of funds for national activities; (2) mandatory reserved funds for programs for corrections education and education of other institutionalized individuals; (3) mandatory reserved funds for special experimental demonstration projects and teacher training; (4) grants for State literacy resource centers; (5) grants for adult literacy volunteer training from certain reserved funds; and (6) workplace literacy and English literacy grants. (Sec. 306) Repeals provisions of the: (1) National Literacy Act relating to literacy for incarcerated individuals; (2) Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 relating to the Vista Literacy Corps; and (3) Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act relating to literacy initiatives for adult homeless individuals. Subtitle B: Vocational and Technical Education State Block Grant Program - Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1995 and 1996 for: (1) the State Block Grant program, with certain amounts for territories and for employment and training block grant programs for Native Americans under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA); and (2) national activities, with a certain amount for the National Council on Vocational Education. (Sec. 312) Revises provisions for State allotments and within-State allocation. Repeals provisions relating to State administration and for authorization of appropriations for State councils on vocational education. (Sec. 313) Requires State plans to describe the extent to which the State Vocational Education Block Grant provides for programs for single parents, displaced homemakers, single pregnant women, sex equity, and tech prep. Adds to authorized activities under State programs: business-labor-education partnerships, corrections education, and support for consumer and homemaking education. Includes under authorized activities for other State-administered programs: comprehensive career guidance and counseling and consumer and homemaking education. (Sec. 314) Revises provisions for mandatory use of funds for programs for single parents, displaced homemakers, and single pregnant women, and for sex equity. Repeals provisions for programs for criminal offenders. (Sec. 315) Eliminates a special rule for minimal allocation. Establishes a tech-prep education program. Directs State Boards to award grants for four-year tech-prep education programs to consortia of specified secondary and higher education entities. (Sec. 316) Repeals provisions for various Special Programs. (Sec. 317) Revises provisions for demonstration programs to authorize the Secretary of Education to make demonstration grants to improve vocational education programs. (Currently requires such grants to be made for specific types of programs.) Repeals provisions for Bilingual Vocational Training. Subtitle C: State Vocational Rehabilitation Block Grant Program - Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (RA) to consolidate certain employment-related programs, including supported employment for individuals with most severe disabilities, special recreation activities and services, and projects with industry. Reserves certain RA funds for Native American employment and training block grant programs under JTPA. Subtitle D: Adult Employment and Training System - Allows a State or eligible unified service area to combine funds received under one or more programs described in this subtitle or the Wagner-Peyser Act to develop and implement an integrated adult employment and training system. Requires a single application and State plan to combine such funds. Allows an eligible unified service area to combine such funds, with State approval and consistent with the State plan approved by the Secretary of Labor, if it has adopted a one-stop delivery system. Chapter 1: Disadvantaged Adult Employment and Training Block Grant Program - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to revise allocation and allotment provisions, including State reservations of funds, limitations, and State activities. (Sec. 342) Requires each service delivery area to ensure equitable provision of training and placement opportunities for older individuals in private sector jobs. (Sec 343) Renames JTPA title II part A as the Disadvantaged Adult Employment and Training Block Grant Program. Authorizes appropriations. Repeals: (1) incentive grants for certain JTPA title II programs that exceed performance standards; and (2) certain program design provisions for services for older individuals. Repeals specified provisions for job training for the homeless under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (except homeless veterans' reintegration projects). Chapter 2: Dislocated Worker Employment and Training Block Grant Program - Amends JTPA title III dislocated worker provisions to include skills upgrading under authorized retraining services. (Sec. 352) Requires that special consideration for eligibility for needs-related payments be given to workers dislocated due to Federal policies, including trade policy, in particular the North American Free-Trade Agreement, or reductions of defense spending or closures of military facilities. (Sec. 353) Authorizes appropriations for the JTPA title III Dislocated Worker Employment and Training Block Grant Program for FY 1995 and thereafter. Repeals JTPA provisions relating to programs for: (1) defense conversion adjustment; (2) defense diversification; and (3) clean air employment transition assistance. Repeals the program of adjustment assistance for workers under the Trade Act of 1974. Renames JTPA title III as the Dislocated Worker Employment and Training Block Grant Program. (Sec. 354) Makes funds from such aforementioned repealed programs under JTPA and the Trade Act of 1974 available for JTPA title III. Chapter 3: Veterans' Employment and Training Block Grant Program - Renames and revises JTPA title IV part C veterans' employment programs provisions as the Veterans' Employment and Training Block Grant Program. (Sec. 362) Makes available for such JTPA program any unobligated or unexpended funds under the Service Members Occupational Conversion and Training Act of 1992 and specified provisions of Federal laws relating to: (1) disabled veterans outreach; (2) local veterans employment representatives; (3) homeless veterans' reintegration projects; (4) veterans' vocational rehabilitation; and (5) job counseling, training and placement service for veterans. (Sec. 363) Directs the Secretary of Labor, through the Assistant Secretary of Veterans Employment and Training and in cooperation with the Secretary of Defense, to provide for orderly implementation of the Veterans' Employment and Training Block Grant Program under JTPA. (Sec. 364) Repeals, after a transition period, the Service Members Occupational Conversion and Training Act of 1992 and specified provisions of Federal law relating to: (1) veterans' employment and training opportunities and employment assistance; (2) disabled veterans outreach, local veterans employment representatives, and their performance; and (3) homeless veterans' reintegration projects. (Sec. 365) Authorizes appropriations. Chapter 4: Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Act - Amends the Social Security Act to transfer authority over the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program to the Secretary of Labor. Directs the Secretary to develop performance standards for such program and issue regulations to coordinate administration of such program at Federal, State, and local levels with JTPA programs. Subtitle E: Youth Employment and Training Block Grant Program - Amends JTPA title II part C youth training program provisions to provide for a comprehensive range of integrated education, training, employment and social services to disadvantaged and at risk disadvantaged youth not currently served, or underserved, by existing Federal education and training programs particularly in areas of high poverty or crime. (Sec. 373) Sets age 14 through 21 as part of eligibility criteria. (Sec. 374) Includes under authorized services specified outreach and recruitment efforts. Requires use of strategies and practices based on comprehensive and integrated service delivery, innovative approaches to serving hardest-to-serve youths, and programs with community support that make use of various resources and entities. Allows a portion of youth training funds to be used for specified summer youth employment and training activities. (Sec. 375) Adds to JTPA youth training program linkages the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994. (Sec. 376) Renames JTPA title II part C youth training programs provisions as the Disadvantaged Youth Employment and Training Block Grant Program. Authorizes appropriations. Repeals JTPA title II part B summer youth employment and training program and title IV part H Youth Fair Chance program. Subtitle F: Native Americans' Employment, Training, and Education Block Grant Program - Amends JTPA title IV part A Native American programs to include tribally controlled postsecondary vocational institutions among program providers. (Sec. 383) Adds to comprehensive plan requirements, including strategic overviews and coordination with similar programs. (Sec 384) Directs the Native American Employment and Training Council to advise the Secretaries of Education and of the Interior, as well as the Secretary of Labor, and to recommend ways of consolidating other Native American employment and training programs into the JTPA program. (Sec 385) Makes available for the JTPA Native American Block Grant program unobligated or unexpended funds under the specified Act and portions of Acts which are repealed in the following section. (Sec. 386) Repeals the Indian Employment, Training, and Related Services Act of 1992 and specified provisions under the Indian Education Act, the Social Security Act, the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. (Sec. 387) Renames the JTPA program as the Native American Block Grant program. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle G: Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Employment, Training, and Education Block Grant Program - Amends JTPA title IV part A migrant and seasonal farmworker programs to require their being designed to help such farmworkers complete a secondary education and begin and successfully complete the first year of postsecondary education. (Sec. 392) Makes available for the JTPA farmworker block grant program unobligated or unexpended funds under the specified provisions repealed under other Acts in the following section. (Sec. 393) Repeals: (1) special programs for students whose families are engaged in migrant and seasonal farmwork, under the Higher Education Act of 1965; and (2) the adult migrant farmworker and immigrant education program, under the Adult Education Act. (Sec. 394) Renames the JTPA program as the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Block Grant program. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends JTPA to revise and rename State education coordination and grants provisions as State workforce preparation and development coordination and innovation grants. Requires program coordination and linkages with specified other JTPA programs and with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Adult Education Act, JOBS program, Goals 2000: Educate America Act, School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994, and National and Community Service Act of 1990. (Sec. 402) Amends the Wagner-Peyser Act to require the local employment service office to participate in the operation of the community job resource centers established under this Act based on the plan developed by the Local Board. Allows such offices to apply to be designated as such centers. Repeals specified provisions under the Food Stamp Act of 1977, Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, Internal Revenue Code, Higher Education Act of 1965, and Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965. Title V: Effective Dates and Transition - Sets forth effective dates and transition provisions.
Bill· SS. 2105 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Interdiction Title II: Alien Smuggling Title III: INS Investigators Title IV: Government Benefits Title V: Criminal Aliens Title VI: Terrorist Aliens Title VII: Inspections Title VIII: Asylum Title IX: Funding Illegal Immigration Control Act of 1994 - Title I:Interdiction - Directs the Attorney General to install additional physical barriers in high illegal-entry border areas. (Sec. 102) Authorizes appropriations for additional Border Patrol personnel. (Sec. 103) Directs the Attorney General and the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to: (1) implement an interior repatriation program for illegal aliens who have been deported at least three times; and (2) increase border detention facilities. (Sec. 104) Authorizes the transfer of closed military bases to be used as Federal incarceration facilities for illegal aliens. (Sec. 105) Authorizes the Attorney General to require vessels to provide INS with port of entry notification. Title II: Alien Smuggling - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (the Act) to expand INS forfeiture authority for smuggling or harboring illegal aliens. (Sec. 202) Brings alien smuggling operations under the purview of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) provisions. (Sec. 203) Amends the Act to increase penalties for certain alien smuggling offenses. (Sec. 204) Amends Federal law to authorize INS wiretaps for alien smuggling investigations. Title III: INS Investigators - Authorizes additional appropriations for additional INS investigators. Title IV: Government Benefits - Prohibits direct Federal benefits (except for emergency medical care) or housing assistance to an alien who is not a permanent resident, a refugee, an asylee, or a parolee. (Sec. 402) Prohibits unemployment benefits to an alien who has not been granted INS work authorization. (Sec. 404) Authorizes appropriations for the Save System. (Sec. 405) Reduces Federal assistance by 20 percent to any locality that refuses to cooperate in the arrest and deportation of illegal aliens. (Sec. 406) Establishes a uniform vital statistics pilot program for three States with high numbers of undocumented aliens. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Criminal Aliens - Amends the Act to include aliens on criminal probation or criminal parole among the categories of aliens subject to special registration. (Sec. 502) Expands the definition of "aggravated felony." (Sec. 503) Expedites deportation proceedings for specified criminal aliens. (Sec. 504) Provides for judicial deportation of aliens convicted of an aggravated felony. (Sec. 505) Restricts specified deportation defenses. (Sec. 508) Directs the Commissioner to operate a criminal alien tracking center. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 509) Directs the Secretary of State and the Attorney General to study the use and effectiveness of the Prisoner Transfer Treaty with Mexico to remove convicted aliens from the United States. (Sec. 511) Directs the Attorney General, upon State or local request, to: (1) incarcerate convicted alien felons; or (2) compensate States or localities for such incarceration costs. Title VI: Terrorist Aliens - Amends the Act to establish procedures for the removal of alien terrorists, including a special court to hear such cases. (Sec. 602) Makes membership in a terrorist organization a basis for U.S. exclusion. Title VII: Inspections - Directs the Attorney General to establish: (1) specified numbers of preinspection stations at foreign airports identified as last departure points for the greatest numbers of U.S.-arriving passengers and at those with the greatest numbers of U.S.-arriving undocumented aliens; and (2) an air carrier consultant program. (Sec. 702) Provides for the training of airline personnel in fraudulent document detection. (Sec. 703) Amends Federal law to increase specified passport and visa penalties. Title VIII: Asylum - Amends the Act to revise asylum procedures. (Sec. 802) Sets forth mandatory and discretionary conditions for granting provisional asylum. Title IX: Funding - Provides overhead cost reductions incurred in federally sponsored research.
Bill· SS. 2108 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1994
NATO Revitalization Act - Declares that it should be U.S. policy to: (1) continue the commitment to and an active leadership role in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); (2) join with NATO allies to redefine the role of the alliance in the post-Cold War world, taking into account specified factors; (3) urge NATO to extend membership to European countries that meet appropriate standards and establish benchmarks and a timetable for eventual membership for selected countries in transition; and (4) affirm that NATO military planning should include joint military operations beyond the geographic bounds of the alliance under the North Atlantic Treaty when the shared interests of the United States and other member countries require such action to defend vital interests.
Bill· HRH.R. 4386 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1994
Veterans' Persian Gulf War Benefits Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) develop and expeditiously implement a uniform case assessment protocol that will ensure thorough assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of all Persian Gulf War veterans suffering from illnesses attributed to service in the Persian Gulf theater of operations during the Persian Gulf War; (2) expedite efforts to develop case definitions or diagnoses for illnesses associated with such service; and (3) develop and implement a comprehensive outreach program to inform such veterans and their families of health-care services, including comprehensive medical evaluations, that may be available through the Department of Veterans Affairs or the Department of Defense. Directs the Secretary to pay compensation to Persian Gulf War veterans suffering from a chronic disability resulting from an undiagnosed illness that became manifest to a degree of ten percent or more within one year after completion of active duty in the Gulf War, with exceptions. Terminates compensation payments three years after the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Veterans Affairs for: (1) FY 1995 through 1997 for conducting research of the health risk and effects of service during the Gulf War and the treatment of such effects; and (2) FY 1995 for a survey of Persian Gulf veterans as to the incidence and nature of health problems occurring in such veterans and their families.
Bill· HRH.R. 4385 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: National Highway System Designation and Other Provisions Title II: Technical Corrections to ISTEA and Related Laws National Highway System Designation Act of 1994 - Title I: National Highway System Designation and Other Provisions - Designates the National Highway System (NHS) as submitted by the Secretary of Transportation. Authorizes the Secretary to submit for approval to specified congressional committees proposed modifications to the NHS. Specifies that a modification may only take effect if a law has been enacted approving such modification. Requires the Secretary to submit proposed modifications, including a list and description of additions to the NHS consisting of: (1) connections to major ports, airports, international border crossings, public transportation and transit facilities, interstate bus terminals, rail, and other intermodal transportation facilities; and (2) any Congressional High Priority Corridor established by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) which was not identified on the designated NHS, subject to the completion of feasibility studies. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a proposal for a comprehensive National Transportation System using the NHS as the backbone for establishing such System. (Sec. 102) Freezes funding allocations under the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program at the FY 1994 levels for the remaining three years of ISTEA. Authorizes a State to obligate funds apportioned to it for such programs only for specified transportation projects or programs determined by the Secretary to be likely to contribute to the attainment of a national ambient air quality standard (as under current law) or maintenance, subject to specified requirements. (Sec. 103) Directs the Secretary to establish a program to require States to conduct an analysis of the life-cycle costs of, and carry out a value engineering analysis for, all projects on the NHS. Requires all Federal aid contracts to contain provisions that require the contractor to guarantee and warrant his or her obligations under the contract. (Sec. 104) Requires that: (1) contracts or subcontracts for engineering and design services be performed and audited in compliance with cost principles contained in Federal acquisition regulations; and (2) the recipients of Federal funds accept indirect cost rates established in accordance with such regulations for one year applicable accounting periods by a Government agency or independent certified public accountant if such rates are not currently under dispute. Makes such provisions inapplicable if a State adopts by statute an alternative process intended to promote engineering and design quality and ensure maximum competition by professional companies of all sizes providing engineering and design services. (Sec. 105) Directs the Secretary to carry out education, research, development, and technology transfer activities to promote the safe operation and maintenance of commercial motor vehicles in interstate commerce, by making grants to and entering cooperative agreements with: (1) a not-for-profit membership organization that has been engaged exclusively in truck-related research and education since 1985; and (2) not-for-profit organizations engaged in commercial motor vehicle safety research. (Sec. 106) Repeals a provision of the Federal-Aid-Highway Act of 1956 prohibiting the amount of certain costs from including the portion of the project between High Street and Causeway Street (thus making such section of the Boston Central Artery eligible for Interstate Construction funds). (Sec. 107) Revises ISTEA provisions regarding the Wisconsin substitute project to provide that, upon approval of a substitute project or projects (project): (1) the costs of construction of the eligible transitway project for which such project is substituted shall not be eligible for specified authorized funds under the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956; and (2) a sum equal to the amount that would have been apportioned to the State of Wisconsin on October 1, 1994, under Federal highway provisions if the Secretary had not approved such project shall be available to the Secretary from the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) to incur obligations for the Federal share of the costs of such substitute project. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 to reduce the interstate construction authorization by a specified amount made available under ISTEA for the FY ending September 30, 1996. (Sec. 108) Amends ISTEA to require that: (1) technology transfer activities and training programs with respect to the use of recycled paving material be initiated without delay and include all eligible uses of recycled rubber, alternative applications, and other materials, focusing on achieving the best performance results for all eligible uses; and (2) each State annually certify its progress in its waste tire abatement program. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) placing apportionments withheld from a State by the Secretary in escrow pending satisfaction of minimum utilization requirements; (2) a sunset provision for availability of such apportionments; and (3) exemption from certain requirements where a State has implemented a documented waste tire abatement program that will result in the elimination of tire stockpiles by 1997. Authorizes a State for any year to meet up to half of the minimum utilization requirement by using an equivalent amount of recycled rubber for alternative applications, other than making asphalt pavement, if the State certifies that such alternative application does not present a threat to safety, human health, or the environment and it is demonstrated that such applications provide equal or enhanced engineering benefits. Directs the Secretary to issue guidelines regarding compliance with alternative applications. (Sec. 109) Directs the Secretary to: (1) annually review, and provide to State and local governments, information and recommendations concerning safety practices that can enhance safety at highway construction sites; and (2) develop within the program a process for assuring that for each project there will be a person trained and certified with responsibility and authority for assuring that the provisions of the traffic control plan and other safety aspects of the work zone are effectively administered. (Sec. 110) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out specified construction and reconstruction projects in Minnesota and Pennsylvania. Authorizes specified sums to be appropriated out of the HTF for FY 1995 for such projects. Sets forth provisions regarding the Federal share of project costs, delegation of responsibility for construction to States, and advance construction. (Sec. 111) Rescinds specified unobligated balances on September 30, 1994. (Sec. 112) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out, and authorizes sums to be appropriated for FY 1995 through 1997 for, 268 specified listed projects in various States. Sets forth provisions regarding allocation percentages for HTF funds, an appropriations cap, the Federal share of costs, delegation of construction responsibility to the States, and advance construction. (Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary to conduct a research study to develop and evaluate radio and microwave technology for furtherance of safety in commercial and other motor vehicles, including development of equipment directed toward warning drivers of highway obstructions or limited visibility conditions caused by snow, rain, fog, or dust. (Sec. 114) Authorizes appropriations for the Secretary to enter into an agreement to make a line of credit available to the public entity or entities with the statutory authority to construct public toll roads in Orange County, California, subject to specified limitations. (Sec. 115) Makes specified funds available for costs of a project to reduce rail-highway conflicts on M-59 near Pontiac, Michigan, and a project on Bristol Road near Flint, Michigan, and to improve and upgrade Maple Road at Bishop Airport, Michigan. (Sec. 116) Directs the Secretary to: (1) require, as a matter of the highest priority, completion of all remaining studies associated with a project authorized by the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987, to construct the New River Parkway, West Virginia; and (2) make grants to the Secretary of the Interior for the planning, design, and construction of a visitors center and related facilities to facilities visitor understanding and enjoyment of resources accessible by such parkway. Makes specified sums available for such purposes. (Sec. 117) Revises the National Recreational Trails Program. Makes a State eligible to receive moneys under the program only if the State agrees to provide 20 percent of program costs in the sixth year of the program. Prohibits the use of more than three percent of the expenditures annually from the National Recreational Trails Trust Fund to pay to the Secretary certain administrative costs, including the cost of contracting for services with other land management agencies, except with respect to the cost of conducting a one-time national survey. Permits a State to apply to the Secretary for an exemption from requirements for distribution of Federal Trails Program funds between motorized and non-motorized uses. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 118) Directs the Secretary to make grants to the State of West Virginia for the purpose of erecting signs or other information devices along public roads relating to the coal heritage of southern West Virginia. (Sec. 119) Amends the Federal Transit Act to provide that transit operators providing service in urbanized areas with populations under 200,000 shall not be subject to a limitation on their formula apportionment which may be used for operating assistance. (Sec. 120) Revises provisions regarding amounts that States must expend on intercity bus transportation. Permits the purchase of accessibility devices. Requires the Secretary to make to operators of intercity bus transportation systems specified capital grants to support such systems, including the purchase of accessibility devices. Specifies that the Federal grant for the project shall be 80 percent of the net project cost, but 90 percent for accessibility devices. (Sec. 121) Repeals previous authorizations for the Long Beach Metro Link Fixed Rail Project and the Honolulu Rapid Transit Project. (Sec. 122) Converts previous ISTEA transit authorizations to lump-sum, no-year authorizations. Authorizes funding for various listed projects around the country under ISTEA and the Federal Transit Act. Title II: Technical Corrections to ISTEA and Related Laws - Amends title 23 of the United States Code and ISTEA to revise and make technical corrections to provisions regarding: (1) changing the name of the Interstate and Defense Highway System to the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways; (2) Federal aid-highway systems; (3) State highway apportionments; (4) rights-of-way; (5) the Federal share of costs for transportation planning; (6) waiver of axle weight limitations for certain vehicles using the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways and certain State highways; (7) toll roads and rail-highway crossings; (8) metropolitan planning organizations; (9) the discretionary highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program; (10) penalties for non-use of safety belts and motorcycle helmets; (11) national maximum speed limit requirements with respect to highway fund apportionments; (12) a national minimum drinking age; (13) revocation of drivers' licenses of individuals convicted of drug offenses; (14) the Federal lands highway program; (15) bicycle transportation and pedestrian walkways; (16) State highway research and planning; (17) the international highway transportation outreach program; (18) highway safety programs; (19) State alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures; (20) certain high cost bridge, congestion relief, high priority corridor, rural access, urban access and mobility, innovative, and intermodal projects; (21) the disadvantaged business enterprise program; (22) freeway service patrols; and (23) the Pan American highway. (Sec. 263) Amends the Federal Transit Act with respect to various Federal transit programs, including: (1) metropolitan planning; (2) transit security systems; (3) contracting for engineering and design services; (4) planning and research programs; and (5) an increased Federal share of costs for transportation construction projects in States with large areas of Indian and public domain lands and national forests. (Sec. 282) Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements and contracts with non-Federal entities for operational tests relating to intelligent vehicle-highway systems.
Bill· HRH.R. 4393 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1994
Grant's Tomb National Memorial Act of 1994 - Redesignates General Grant National Memorial, located at Riverside Drive and West 122d Street, New York, New York, as Grant's Tomb National Memorial. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) design and construct a visitors center at the Memorial to aid in its interpretation and to maintain its historical significance; and (2) acquire from the city of New York non-Federal lands located within the boundaries of the Memorial. Authorizes the Secretary to lease such lands or enter into a cooperative agreement for the management of them. Requires the Secretary to establish a study commission to review security and maintenance at the Memorial as well as plan for interpretive programs and for the complete restoration of it and to submit a written report regarding such study to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to: (1) submit a final plan for such projects consistent with such report to the Congress; and (2) in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, acting through the Secretary of the Army, to provide at least three military guards to protect the Memorial and the Site on a 24-hour basis every day in perpetuity. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 4387 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1994
Amends the Federal judicial code to provide that, in any appeal of a person convicted of a felony for which such person previously has been determined to be capable of aiding in his or her own defense, no other person may present an application for a writ of habeas corpus without the convicted person's consent or without showing that such convicted person is mentally incompetent.
Bill· SS. 2094 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1994
Repeals a Federal provision which prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from approving the use of veterans' basic educational assistance for a course of flight training that commences on or after October 1, 1994.
Bill· SS. 2098 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1994
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from income military moving and storage expense reimbursements without regard to the deductibility of such expenses.
Bill· SS. 2082 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Intelligence Activities Title II: Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Title III: General Provisions Title IV: Central Intelligence Agency Title V: Department of Defense Title VI: Federal Bureau of Investigation Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 - Title I: Intelligence Activities - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1995 for the conduct of the intelligence activities of the: (1) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); (2) Department of Defense (DOD); (3) Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA); (4) National Security Agency (NSA); (5) National Reconnaissance Office; (6) Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force; (7) Department of State; (8) Department of the Treasury; (9) Department of Energy; (10) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and (11) Central Imagery Office (established under this Act). (Sec. 102) Specifies that the amounts authorized to be appropriated and the authorized personnel ceilings as of September 30, 1995, for such conduct are those specified in the classified Schedule of Authorizations prepared by the conference committee to accompany S. 2082 of the 103d Congress. (Sec. 103) Permits the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) to authorize the employment of civilian personnel in excess of the number authorized for FY 1995 if such action is necessary to the performance of important intelligence functions, subject to specified limitations. Directs the DCI to promptly notify the House and Senate intelligence committees whenever the DCI exercises such authority. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for the Community Management Account of the DCI for FY 1995, with funds for the Advanced Research and Development Committee and the Environmental Task Force remaining available until September 30, 1996. Authorizes 221 full-time personnel for the Account as of September 30, 1995. Requires any officer or employee of the United States or a member of the armed forces who is detailed to the Account from another element of the Government during FY 1995 to be detailed on a reimbursable basis, with exceptions. Title II: Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System - Authorizes appropriations for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund for FY 1995. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes amounts to be appropriated in addition to sums authorized for salary, pay, retirement, and other benefits of Federal employees as necessary to cover increases in those benefits authorized by law for FY 1995. (Sec. 302) Specifies that the authorizations of appropriations contained in this Act do not constitute authority for the conduct of any intelligence activity which is not otherwise authorized by the Constitution or laws of the United States. (Sec. 303) Repeals a provision of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 1987 restricting intelligence cooperation with South Africa. (Sec. 304) Requires the DCI to submit to the intelligence committees a report setting forth a legislative proposal, coordinated as appropriate with elements of the intelligence community, which would provide for mandatory retirement for expiration of time in class comparable to provisions of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 for all civilian employees of the CIA, NSA, DIA, and the intelligence elements of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Title IV: Central Intelligence Agency - Amends the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 to repeal a limitation on the payment of travel expenses and the cost of treatment of illness or injury requiring hospitalization of an officer or full time employee of the CIA where such illness or injury is the result of vicious habits, intemperance, or misconduct. (Sec. 402) Provides for the appointment by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, of a General Counsel of the CIA from civilian life to be the chief legal officer of the CIA. Title V: Department of Defense - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to provide for a Central Imagery Office (Office) (currently, central imagery authority). Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to exercise certain authorities pertaining to civilian officers and employees in DIA with respect to such officers and employees of the Office. Specifies that: (1) civilian personnel administrative support for officers and employees of the Office shall remain a responsibility of DIA; and (2) certain authority provided regarding civilian officers and employees of the Office may be delegated by the Secretary of Defense only to the Deputy Secretary of Defense. (Sec. 502) Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to withhold from public disclosure any geodetic product in the possession or under the control of DOD that contains information that the Director of the Defense Mapping Agency has determined in writing would, if disclosed, jeopardize or interfere with ongoing military or intelligence operations. (Sec. 503) Authorizes the Secretary to expend specified funds to establish a National Public Information Center to: (1) survey, collect, store, distribute, and present unclassified information; (2) provide support for training in decisionmaking and for professional education in DOD and the intelligence community; and (3) inform more broadly the American public. Title VI: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require a consumer reporting agency to furnish a consumer report to the FBI when presented with a written request signed by the Director of the FBI which certifies compliance with this title. Authorizes the Director to make such a certification only upon determining in writing that: (1) such records are necessary for the conduct of an authorized foreign counterintelligence investigation; and (2) there are specific and articulable facts giving reason to believe that the consumer is a foreign power or agent. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) identifying information; (2) confidentiality; (3) payment of fees; (4) limits on dissemination; and (5) reporting requirements. Provides for damages and disciplinary actions for any Government agency or department obtaining or disclosing consumer information in violation of this Act. Makes remedies and sanctions under this title the only judicial remedies and sanctions for such violations. Authorizes injunctive relief. Authorizes recovery of costs in the event of a successful action.
Bill· HRH.R. 4358 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1994
NATO Revitalization Act - Declares that it should be U.S. policy to: (1) continue the commitment to and an active leadership role in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); (2) join with NATO allies to redefine the role of the alliance in the post-Cold War world, taking into account specified factors; (3) urge NATO to extend membership to European countries that meet appropriate standards and establish benchmarks and a timetable for eventual membership for selected countries in transition; and (4) affirm that NATO military planning should include joint military operations beyond the geographic bounds of the alliance under the North Atlantic Treaty when the shared interests of the United States and other member countries require such action to defend vital interests.
Bill· HRH.R. 4359 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1994
Directs the Secretary of Energy to conduct, and report to the Congress on, a study to determine the total cost of environmental restoration activities needed at the Nevada Test Site as a result of nuclear weapons testing.
Bill· HRH.R. 4343 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1994
Expresses the sense of the Congress that any U.S. national conducting a commercial cooperation project in Vietnam should adhere to specified principles regarding: (1) nondiscrimination in employment; (2) worker and environmental safety; (3) partnerships with businesses not controlled by the Vietnamese Government; (4) prohibitions on a military presence and political indoctrination programs on project premises; (5) freedoms of association and expression; and (6) the promotion of a full accounting of all Americans missing in action from the Vietnam conflict. Directs the Secretary of State to encourage member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to promote similar principles. Requires U.S. nationals conducting commercial cooperation projects in Vietnam to: (1) register with the Secretary and indicate whether they agree to implement such principles; and (2) report annually to the Department of State on adherence to such principles. Permits Federal agencies to intercede with a foreign government or national on behalf of such a U.S. national regarding export marketing activities in Vietnam only if such individual adheres to the principles.
Bill· HRH.R. 4346 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1994
Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from transporting across State lines any chemical munition that is part of the chemical weapons stockpile. Directs the Secretary to transport to the nearest chemical munitions stockpile facility any chemical munitions discovered or that otherwise come under the Secretary's control and that do not constitute part of the stockpile.
Bill· HRH.R. 4349 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1994
Theater Missile Defense Act of 1994 - Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from conducting flight testing of theater missile defense interceptors and sensors if the anticipated result of a missile launch under such testing would be the release of debris in a U.S. land area outside of a designated Department of Defense test range.
Bill· SS. 2058 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title XXI (sic): Army Title XXII: Navy Title XXIII: Air Force Title XXIV: Defense Agencies Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 - Title XXI (sic): Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units, to carry out architectural planning and design activities, and to improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after 1994 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Army. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXII: Navy - Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under the previous title. Title XXIII: Air Force - Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units, and to improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out certain energy conservation projects. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for fiscal years after 1994 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program and authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1994 for such contributions. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1994 for the Guard and Reserve forces for acquisition, architectural planning and design activities, and construction of facilities. Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in the preceding titles of this Act on October 1, 1997, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1998, whichever is later. Extends certain FY 1991 and 1992 military construction projects.
Bill· SS. 2063 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1994
National Counterintelligence Reform Act - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to establish the National Counterintelligence Center comprised of staff from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of Defense. Requires the Center to: (1) administer a national program to analyze and counteract foreign intelligence efforts against the United States; (2) develop a Government-wide foreign counterintelligence policy; (3) prepare and maintain a listing of counterintelligence threats directed against the United States; and (4) provide staff and support services to the National Counterintelligence Review Board established to approve U.S. counterintelligence policies and programs.
Bill· SS. 2059 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Procurement Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations Subtitle B: Other Matters Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Title III: Operation and Maintenance Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations Subtitle B: Other Matters Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations Subtitle A: Active Forces Subtitle B: Reserve Forces Subtitle C: Military Training Student Loads Title V: Military Personnel Policy Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy Subtitle B: Reserve Component Matters Subtitle C: Other Matters Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances Subtitle B: Retired Pay and Survivor Benefits Title VII: Health Care Provisions Subtitle A: Health Care Management Subtitle B: Personnel Matters Subtitle C: Other Matters Title VIII: Department of Defense Organization and Management Subtitle A: Department of Defense Subtitle B: Professional Military Education Subtitle C: Education Matters Subtitle D: Other Matters Title IX: General Provisions Subtitle A: Financial Matters Subtitle B: Civilian Employee Pay Matters Subtitle C: Other Matters Title X: Matters Relating to Allies, Other Nations, and International Organizations Title XI: Peacekeeping and Related Matters Title XII: Counterproliferation Title XIII: Acquisition Reform National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1995 to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and for other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1995 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the Defense Health Program; and (4) the chemical demilitarization program. Subtitle B: Other Matters - Repeals the current requirement for a separate budget request for the procurement of reserve equipment. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1995 for the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D). Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1995 for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of the Department of Defense (DOD) for operation and maintenance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1995 for DOD working capital and revolving funds. Repeals Federal provisions: (1) expressing certain limitations on the use of the Defense Business Operations Fund (Fund); and (2) relating to charges for goods and services provided through the Fund. Allows funds collected from the operation of the Naval Academy laundry to be used for expenses of such operation. Subtitle B: Other Matters - Revises the required date for submission to the Congress of a future-years mission budget of DOD from the date of submission of the President's budget to within 60 days of such date. (Sec. 312) Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to waive the live-fire survivability testing of F-22 aircraft if such testing would be unreasonably expensive or impractical, as long as he certifies such to the Congress. (Sec. 313) Deletes certain information required with respect to a report on the ballistic missile defense mission. (Sec. 314) Repeals provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 concerning advance review and approval of developmental tests of limited defense systems and the independent monitoring of such tests. Adds certain methods of test and evaluation with respect to theater missile defense interceptors. (Sec. 316) Authorizes the President to provide global disaster relief in response to manmade or natural disasters. (Sec. 317) Removes a $400,000 fiscal year limit on funds authorized to be used by the Defense Inspector General for emergency and extraordinary expenses. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorization - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Provides for the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of FY 1995. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for reserve personnel as of FY 1995 and for certain reserves on active duty in support of the reserves. Subtitle C: Military Training Student Loads - Sets forth the authorized FY 1995 military training student loads. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to approve officers serving on certain successive selection boards. (Sec. 503) Provides that when the Senate has confirmed some officers on a promotion list but not others: (1) the confirmed appointments may be made; and (2) the Secretary may make appropriate adjustments in the date of rank and effective date of pay for those appointments confirmed later. Revises provisions relating to the enlistment of certain limited duty Navy and Marine Corps officers and to the retention of such officers who are within two years of qualification for retirement pay. Makes permanent (currently terminates as of the end of FY 1995) the authority for the temporary promotion of certain Navy lieutenants. Subtitle B: Reserve Component Matters - Revises the composition of the Reserve Forces Policy Board. (Sec. 512) Provides certain additional and expanded reserve personnel call-up authority for the Secretary and the Secretary of Transportation when the Coast Guard is not under the jurisdiction of the Navy. (Sec. 514) Limits the duration of force reduction transition period annual payments to between one and five years as specified by the Secretary concerned (currently, five years). Subtitle C: Other Matters - Repeals a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 requiring a specified reduction, by the end of FY 1996, in the number of U.S. military personnel assigned to permanent duty outside the United States. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 1995 military pay increase tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases by 1.6 percent, effective on January 1, 1995, the rates of basic pay, basic allowance for subsistence, and basic allowance for quarters for members of the armed forces. (Sec. 602) Revises the calculation of retired pay of commissioned officers who did not serve satisfactorily in the grade held at retirement. (Sec. 603) Extends specified expiring authorities for certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces. Subtitle B: Retired Pay and Survivor Benefits - Removes the 60-day limit on the amount of unused accrued military leave that may be paid to survivors of military personnel killed while on active duty or dying after retirement from military service. (Sec. 612) Provides disability coverage for certain officer candidates who are granted excess leave. (Sec. 613) Requires forfeiture of any military annuity or retired pay in the case of former or current military personnel convicted of espionage. (Sec. 614) Provides for the crediting of certain reserve service in the computation of retired pay of former military personnel. Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Subtitle A: Health Care Management - Amends the Social Security Act to allow the Secretary and the Coast Guard to receive from the Secretary of Health and Human Services information from the Medicare and Medicaid coverage data bank concerning responsibility for the payment of health care items and services furnished to beneficiaries of military personnel. (Sec. 702) Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse military health personnel for any professional license required for performing duty at a civilian health care facility as part of a resources exchange program. Subtitle B: Personnel Matters - Increases from $6,000 to $15,000 the incentive special pay for certain registered nurse anesthetists. Extends through FY 1998 the authority for certain nurse bonuses. Reduces from five to three the maximum years for a military member to be maintained on the temporary disability retired list. Subtitle C: Other Matters - Allows a person placed in the home of a member or former member of the armed forces for adoption to be considered a dependent for purposes of eligibility for certain health benefits. (Sec. 722) Repeals a Federal provision prohibiting DOD funds from being used to perform abortions unless the life of the mother is in danger. (Sec. 723) Authorizes medical and dental care for abused dependents of military personnel who are discharged from service. Title VIII: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Subtitle A: Department of Defense - Revises provisions concerning the order of succession in the military departments. (Sec. 802) Directs the Secretary of Defense (currently, the Secretary of the Army) to prepare mileage tables used for transportation allowance purposes. (Sec. 803) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 to: (1) extend through FY 1996 the authority of the Secretary to commemorate World War II; and (2) make permanent the authority for DOD to share equitably the costs of claims under international armaments programs. (Sec. 805) Redesignates the: (1) Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology as the Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology; and (2) Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy as the Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. (Sec. 807) Repeals the requirement that the DOD Comptroller be the Chief Financial Officer of DOD. Redesignates the Comptroller as the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). Subtitle B: Professional Military Education - Authorizes the Secretary to hire civilian faculty members for the Information Resources Management College of the National Defense University. Subtitle C: Education Matters - Makes general revisions to the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act. (Sec. 823) Authorizes the Secretary to provide for the elementary and secondary education of dependents of federally employed personnel and military personnel when the appropriate educational programs are not available through local education agencies in the United States. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Expands DOD authority to receive voluntary services. Repeals a Federal provision prohibiting the use of DOD appropriations to contract for fire fighting or security guard functions at any military facility. (Sec. 833) Provides a two-year statute of limitations with respect to claims for unpaid minimum wages, overtime, or liquidated damages under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Title IX: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters - Exempts routine administrative adjustments to Federal pay from certain employee due process requirements (such as 30 days' prior notification). (Sec. 902) Amends the Contract Disputes Act of 1978 to revise the method of the payment of interest on contractor claims. Subtitle B: Civilian Employee Pay Matters - Extends specified expiring authorities with respect to: (1) reduction in force notification requirements under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993; and (2) Federal employee provisions relating to separation pay, the restoration of certain accumulated leave, and the continuation of health benefits for DOD employees involuntarily separated due to a reduction in force. (Sec. 912) Provides travel, transportation, and relocation expenses for DOD employees who are separated from employment and selected for service with the Postal Service. (Sec. 913) Limits severance pay for certain civilian employees who move from an appropriated to a nonappropriated fund position. Subtitle C: Other Matters - Authorizes members and units of the National Guard to provide transportation and other support services to certain youth organizations, including the Boy and Girl Scouts, Boys and Girls Clubs, YMCA, and YWCA. (Sec. 922) Prohibits anyone from using the words "Defense Mapping Agency" or its initials, seal, or other imitation except with the written permission of the Secretary. Provides for enforcement. Prohibits claims or actions against the United States based upon the preparation or dissemination by such Agency of any navigational aid. (Sec. 924) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to reimburse the Civil Air Patrol for the cost of maintaining a staff at its national headquarters. Provides for the employment of retired Air Force officers with the Patrol, with continuation of all retired pay benefits. (Sec. 925) Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD from being used for research involving humans as experimental subjects, unless conducted within regulations prescribed by the Secretary. (Sec. 926) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct military-to-military contacts and comparable activities designed to promote the democratic orientation of the defense establishments and military forces of other countries. (Sec. 927) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1995 for the purchase of sealift vessels for the Ready Reserve. Allows for the transfer of funds for such purposes. Title X: Matters Relating to Allies, Other Nations, and International Organizations - Authorizes the Secretary to acquire, from the United Nations or other such organizations of which the United States is a member, logistic support for forces deployed outside the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cross servicing agreements with such organizations for the provision of logistic support, supplies, and services. Includes such organizations within current methods of payment for acquisitions and transfers, as well as limitations on amounts that may be obligated or accrued by the United States for the acquisition of supplies. Title XI: Peacekeeping and Related Matters - Authorizes the President to provide appropriate assistance to international peacekeeping and peace enforcement activities, and to make contributions on behalf of the United States for operations conducted by the United Nations. Requires reimbursement. Establishes in the Treasury the Contributions for International Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement Activities Fund for deposit of reimbursed amounts, as well as appropriated amounts. Provides an annual reporting requirement. Authorizes appropriations. Title XII: Counterproliferation - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 to: (1) extend through FY 1995 the authority of the Secretary to provide assistance to support international nonproliferation activities; (2) extend through FY 1995 required quarterly reports concerning such assistance; (3) replace the On-Site Inspection Agency with DOD with regard to activities in support of the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq; (4) include among such financially assisted activities the dismantlement and destruction of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, as well as their delivery systems and related technologies; and (5) repeal fiscal year and funding limitations with regard to such assistance. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 to: (1) repeal certain reporting requirements and funding limitations; and (2) extend permanently the authority for studies relating to U.S. counterproliferation policy. Authorizes FY 1995 appropriations for conducting counterproliferation activities. Title XIII: Acquisition Reform - Authorizes the Secretary to enter into transactions other than contracts and agreements to carry out basic, applied, and advanced research projects through the Advanced Research Projects Agency. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 to: (1) allow the Secretaries of the military departments (currently, only the Secretary of Defense) to maintain lists of plants equipped to manufacture arms or ammunition; (2) ensure the Government's rights in technical data when providing the services of Government laboratories and equipment; and (3) allow the President to order through the Secretaries of the military departments (currently, only the Secretary of Defense) products or materials to be used for industrial mobilization purposes. Provides for the public sale of vessels stricken by the Secretary of the Navy from the Naval Vessel Registry due to being unfit for service. Allows such vessels to be transferred to a State or local government or other entity or used for experimental purposes.
Bill· HRH.R. 4328 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Contract Formation Subtitle A: Competition Statutes Subtitle B: Truth in Negotiations Subtitle C: Procurement Protests Subtitle D: Definitions and Other Matters Title II: Contract Administration Subtitle A: Contract Payment Subtitle B: Cost Principles Subtitle C: Audit and Access to Records Subtitle D: Cost Accounting Standards Title III: Simplified Acquisition Threshold and Socioeconomic, Small Business, and Miscellaneous Laws Subtitle A: Simplified Acquisition Threshold Subtitle B: Socioeconomic and Small Business Laws Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Acquisition Laws Title IV: Standards of Conduct Title V: Commercial Items Title VI: Miscellaneous Provisions Title VII: Effective Dates and Regulations Federal Acquisition Reform Act of 1994 - Title I: Contract Formation - Subtitle A: Competition Statutes - Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to require executive agencies, in conducting property or services procurement, to obtain full and open competition through the use of specified competitive procedures. Allows such procedures, in certain circumstances, to exclude particular sources. Sets forth requirements for justifying use of noncompetitive procedures. (Sec. 1061) Specifies solicitation, evaluation, and award requirements, including those for evaluation of purchase options, prompt notice of award, post-award debriefings, protest files, award of costs and fees in agency settlement of protests, and award of multiple contracts. (Sec. 1071) Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (FPASA) to repeal the requirement that an agency head determine that a cost, cost-plus-a-fixed-fee, or an incentive-type contract is likely to be less costly than other contracting methods, or that it is impractical to use other methods, before such a method may be used. (Sec. 1072) Authorizes agency heads to enter into: (1) multiyear contracts meeting specified criteria for acquisition of property or services; and (2) severable contracts for procurement of services for a twelve-month period beginning in one fiscal year and ending in the next. (Sec. 1074) Requires revision of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to include regulations governing the exercise authority under the Economy Act for Federal agencies to purchase goods and services under contracts entered into or administered by other Federal agencies. (Sec. 1091) Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (OFPPA) to require the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy (FPP Administrator) to prescribe for executive agencies guidance regarding consideration of the past contract performance of offerors in awarding contracts. (Sec. 1092) Repeals the requirement for annual agency reports to Congress on competition. (Sec. 1093) Directs the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FARC) to promulgate regulations to discourage the use of nonstandard contract clauses on a repetitive basis. Subtitle B: Truth in Negotiations - Amends the OFPPA to require agency heads to require offerors, contractors, and subcontractors to make cost or pricing data available according to specified procedures. Subtitle C: Procurement Protests - Amends Federal law to revise the periods for specified actions with respect to review of protests. Revises requirements for Federal agency suspension of performance of a contract which is the subject (or likely subject) of a protest. (Sec. 1403) Requires the head of the procuring activity of a Federal agency responsible for a particular contract to report within 60 days after receiving notices of the agency's failure to implement fully the Comptroller General's recommendations with respect to a protested solicitation for or a proposed or actual award of a contract. Revises requirements for agency payment of protest costs to an interested party when the agency has not complied with a statute or regulation. Requires a prompt Comptroller General (CG) report to certain congressional committees of any case in which a Federal agency fails to implement CG recommendations with respect to a protest. (Sec. 1404) Authorizes the CG to prescribe procedures for the electronic filing and dissemination of documents and information required with respect to awards and protests. (Sec. 1431) Amends the FPASA to authorize the Administrator of General Services (GSA Administrator) to revoke a delegation of authority with respect to a particular contract before or after its award, except that the GSA Administrator may revoke a delegation after the contract is awarded only where there is a finding of a violation of law or regulation in connection with the contract award. (Sec 1432) Authorizes the General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals, upon an interested party's request, to review any contracting officer's decision alleged to violate the conditions of a delegation of procurement authority. (Sec. 1433) Revises requirements with respect to: (1) periods for processing contract award protest actions; (2) dismissal of protests; (3) award to prevailing party of consultant and expert witness fees; (4) dismissal agreements; and (5) matters to be covered in regulations governing the expeditious disposition of protests. (Sec. 1439) Directs the GSA Administrator to collect and compile data regarding the procurement of automatic data processing equipment by Federal agencies. Requires the GSA Administrator to review such information periodically, using it to determine agency compliance with requirements. Authorizes the GSA Administrator to suspend the delegation to a Federal agency of authority to lease or purchase automatic data processing equipment upon any failure of the agency head to report required information. Subtitle D: Definitions and Other Matters - Amends specified definitions in the FPASA. (Sec. 1552) Amends the OFPPA to authorize agency heads to delegate procurement functions to any other agency officer or official. (Sec. 1553) States that procurement determinations and decisions required to be made by an agency head may be made for an individual purchase or contract or for a class of purchases or contracts. (Sec. 1554) Declares that letters of offer for the sale of defense articles or services shall not include any charge for the proportionate amount of any nonrecurring costs of research, development, and production of major defense equipment. (Sec. 1555) Repeals specified Federal law requiring Federal agencies, when purchasing toner cartridges for laser printers, photocopiers, or microphotographic printers to give preference to recycled toner cartridges and to remanufactured toner cartridges made in the United States by small businesses. (Sec. 1556) Amends the FPASA to provide, upon request, for the use (but not purchase from Federal stock or inventory) of Federal supply schedules or other contracts by State, local, and tribal governments, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Title II: Contract Administration - Subtitle A: Contract Payment - Amends the OFPPA, with respect to contract financing, to authorize executive agencies to: (1) make advance, partial, progress or other payments under property or services contracts; and (2) insert in bid solicitations for property or services procurement a provision limiting to small business concerns advance or progress payments. Subtitle B: Cost Principles - Requires executive agency heads to require that a covered contract provide that, if the contractor submits a proposal for settlement of indirect cost incurred for any period after such costs have been accrued, and if that proposal includes the submission of a cost unallowable because it violates a cost principle in the FAR (or an agency's supplement to the FAR), the cost shall be disallowed. Formulates penalties for violation of cost principles (including submission of costs known not to be allowable), with provision for waiver of penalty. Specifies unallowable costs, including costs of criminal, civil, and administrative proceedings relating to violations of Federal or State law or regulation. Requires the FAR to contain provisions on the allowability of contractor costs, clarifying the cost principles applicable to specified contractor costs. (Sec. 2152) Limits reasonable and allowable costs for the travel expenses of Government contractors only to those contracts requiring submission of cost or pricing data or the negotiation of final indirect costs. Subtitle C: Audit and Access to Records - Specifies an executive agency head's authority to examine the plant and audit records of contractors and subcontracts. Subtitle D: Cost Accounting Standards - Repeals a specified obsolete deadline regarding procedural regulations for the Cost Accounting Standards Board. Title III: Simplified Acquisition Threshold and Socioeconomic, Small Business, and Miscellaneous Laws - Subtitle A: Simplified Acquisition Threshold - Amends the OFPPA to set a simplified acquisition threshold (SAT) of $25,000 ($100,000 for agencies with a FACNET system), adjusted periodically according to a specified formula. (Sec. 3002) Directs the Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Polich (FPP Administrator) to establish a program for the development and implementation of a Federal acquisition computer network (FACNET) system to provide widespread electronic public notice of agency orders and solicitations for contract opportunities. Specifies the functions, with respect to the FACNET system, of the GSA Administrator and the the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. (Sec. 3003) Requires each executive agency head to implement the FACNET system. (Sec. 3011) Requires the FAR to provide for special simplified acquisition procedures. (Sec. 3013) Requires executive agency heads to ensure that procuring activities, in awarding contracts with a price exceeding the micro-purchase threshold ($2,500, adjusted annually), comply with certain requirements of the Small Business Act. States that specified authority under the FAR to make purchases without securing competitive quotations does not apply to purchases exceeding the micro-purchase threshold. (Sec. 3015) Reserves exclusively for small business concerns each procurement contract with an anticipated value of $100,000 or less unless the contracting officer cannot obtain offers from two or more small businesses that are competitive: (1) with market prices; and (2) with regard to the quality and delivery of the goods or services being procured. (Sec. 3016) Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to specified congressional committees on: (1) the effects of the SAT on the participation of small business concerns (including those owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals) in procurement awards of under $100,000; and (2) any benefits and detriments to the procuring activities of the various executive agencies. (Sec. 3021) States that no future enacted procurement law shall be construed as applying to contracts that do not exceed the SAT unless it specifically addresses the pertinent provisions of this Act. (Sec. 3022) Authories the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FARC) to waive procurement laws, in certain circumstances, for contracts not exceeding the SAT. (Sec. 3081) Requires FARC to review the FAR: (1) to identify regulations applicable to acquisitions exceeding a specified amount less than $100,000; and (2) amend them to provide that they do not apply to acquisitions that do not exceed the SAT. Subtitle B: Socioeconomic and Small Business Laws - Directs the FPP Administrator to prescribe procedures relating to prime contractor compliance with payment terms with respect to subcontractors and suppliers. (Sec. 3102) Establishes a Small Business Procurement Advisory Council to serve as a discussion forum, provide information to other Federal agencies, and issue advisory reports to the Small Business Administration and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy on small business procurement matters. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Acquisition Laws - Amends the OFPPA to declare that no provision of Federal law may be construed as requiring an executive agency procurement to be made (by use of noncompetitive procedures) from a specified non-Federal source unless that provision specifically: (1) refers to this restriction; (2) identifies the non-Federal source; and (3) states that the procurement is necessary in contravention of this policy. Title IV: Standards of Conduct - Amends the OFPPA to state that only Federal employees may be paid for services to conduct evaluations or analyses of an acquisition proposal (thus prohibiting outside contracting) unless none are readily available to perform such functions. (Sec. 4003) Amends Federal law to declare that no Member of Congress shall be admitted to any share of any contract or agreement made by or on behalf of the United States, or to any benefit to arise thereupon. (Sec. 4004) Amends the OFPPA to lengthen from 30 days to 60 days the waiting period after publication before the effective date of significant changes proposed for acquisition regulations. Permits an earlier effective date in compelling circmstances, but no earlier than 30 days after publication. Title V: Commercial Items - Amends the OFPPA to require executive agency head to ensure preference for supplies and services and acquisition is given to commercial items and nondevelopmental items (prevously developed commercial items in use by Federal, State, local, or certain foreign governments which require only minor modification of the type normally available in the commercial marketplace to meet procurement requirements). (Sec. 5003) Requires the FAR to provide regulations containing specified terms and conditions for contracts for acquisition of commercial items. (Sec. 5004) Declares that no future law may be construed as applying to agency purchases of commercial items without specific reference to and modification of this section. (Sec. 5005) Authorizes FARC to waive certain procurement laws for contracts for commercial items in specified circumstances. (Sec. 5006) Exempts the submission of offers of commercial items from specified deadlines, and requires the FPP Administrator to prescribe in the FAR appropriate limits on the applicability of any required deadline. (Sec. 5007) Makes advocates for competition for each procuring activity responsible for promoting acquisition of commercial items and other nondevelopmental items. (Sec. 5008) Declares certain provisions of specified Federal law unaffected by this Act. (Sec. 5009) Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on Federal government use of market research. Title VI: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the FPP Administrator to: (1) test alternative and innovative procurement procedures, limited to no more than two specific contracting activities in designated agencies; and (2) delegate to the Secretary of Defense authority to conduct seven pilot programs of such procedures. Prescribes test requirements. (Sec. 6002) Directs the FPP Administrator to study and report to the Congress on participation by certain small businesses in Federal procurement. (Sec. 6003) Amends the OFPPA to specify goals for FY 1994 through 2000 for government-wide contracting with small disadvantaged businesses and certain minority institutions of higher education. (Sec. 6004) Requires the FPP Administrator to devise policies and procedures for the establishment of education and training programs authorizes by such Act, including a sensitivity training course for critical procurement personnel designed to increase the participation in agency procurement activities of small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, women, and other minorities. (Sec. 6005) Declares the sense of Congress that FARC should consider using negotiated rulemaking procedures or similar techniques intended to achieve specified administrative benefits. (Sec. 6006) Requires the FPP Administrator to provide for a Government-wide awards to recognize and promote vendor and procurement-related officer and employee excellence. Title VII: Effective Dates and Regulations - Sets forth effective dates of this Act. (Sec. 7002) Requires revision of the FAR by a certain deadline to implement this Act. (Sec. 7004) Requires modification of the Federal Procurement Data System to collect from contracts exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold certain data pertinent to solicitation offers, contract awards, awards to businesses owned and controlled by women, and other related matters.
Bill· HRH.R. 4334 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1994
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to establish a restoration advisory board in connection with any military installation at which environmental remediation activities are planned. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to facilitate the participation of private individuals on technical review committees and restoration advisory boards in order to ensure public input into the planning and implementation of environmental remediation activities at installations where such committees and boards are in operation. Limits total grant amounts. Requires the Secretary to consult with, and seek the advice of, such committees and boards on specified issues related to such remediation activities.
Bill· HRH.R. 4331 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1994
Directs the Secretary of Defense to terminate the C-17 aircraft acquisition program with those aircraft for which funds are appropriated for FY 1995. Prohibits the obligation of funds appropriated: (1) for FY 1995 for procurement of long-lead items for such aircraft; or (2) after FY 1995 for procurement of such items or such aircraft. Requires the Secretary to develop, and report to the Congress on, a program to meet the remaining strategic airlift requirements of the Air Force through the acquisition of nondevelopmental airlift aircraft.
Bill· SS. 2056 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1994
Counterintelligence and Security Enhancements Act of 1994 - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to add a new title VIII concerning access to classified information. States that the provisions of such title shall not apply to the President and Vice President, Members of Congress, Supreme Court Justices, and Federal judges appointed by the President. Requires the President to provide regulations governing access to classified information which shall be binding on all executive departments, agencies, and offices. Prohibits providing any person access to classified information unless, based upon an appropriate background investigation, such access is determined to be consistent with national security interests. Allows any authorized investigative agency to request from any financial institution or credit reporting agency such financial information as necessary to conduct law enforcement investigations, counterintelligence inquiries, or security determinations. Allows such investigative agencies to request travel records with respect to travel outside the United States. Outlines request conditions and limitations. Provides for the confidentiality of information received. Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide for the disclosure to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of consumer credit reports (CRs) for counterintelligence purposes if the FBI Director certifies that such records are necessary for an investigation and there is reason to believe that the person for whom the CR is sought is a foreign power or agent. Sets forth provisions governing, with respect to such disclosures by a credit reporting agency: (1) the disclosure of identifying information to the FBI; (2) confidentiality requirements concerning such disclosure; (3) the payment of fees by the FBI for such disclosures; (4) limits on the dissemination of information contained in the CRs; (5) disciplinary actions for disclosure violations (with an exception for a good faith disclosure); and (6) remedies (including injunctive relief). Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize the Attorney General to award individuals who provide information which leads to an arrest or conviction with respect to an act of espionage. Provides U.S. court jurisdiction to try cases involving acts of espionage by a U.S. citizen outside the United States. Provides for: (1) the forfeiture of property for violation of certain espionage laws; and (2) the denial of Federal annuities or retired pay to persons convicted in foreign courts of espionage involving U.S. information.
Bill· HRH.R. 4311 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1994
Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to postpone until 1997 (currently 1995) scheduled military base closures and realignments announced by the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Bill· HRH.R. 4309 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1994
Requires each contract or subcontract entered into by the Department of Defense during FY 1995 for construction services to be performed in whole or in part in, or within 30 miles of, a labor surplus area and within 30 miles of a military installation approved for closure or realignment to include provisions requiring the contractor or subcontractor to employ individuals who: (1) are residents of such labor surplus area or the county in which such area is located; and (2) possess or would be able to acquire promptly the necessary skills for any craft or trade needed to perform the contract or subcontract. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to: (1) waive such requirement if it would be inconsistent with the national security objectives of the United States; and (2) allow a contractor to make an exception in the case of a particular craft or trade if there is no individual residing or available for hire in the labor surplus area or county who possesses the skills for that craft or trade.