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United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1992
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain defense contractors a credit for expenses of retraining of employees. Expresses the sense of the Congress that any reduction in revenues by reason of such credit be offset by a reduction in defense spending.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1992
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that for FY 1993 through 1998 the budget authority for: (1) the defense of Europe and Japan should be decreased by $5,000,000,000; and (2) programs for the Nation's 100 largest cities should be increased by $5,000,000,000 to improve education, foster economic investment, and fight crime through prevention and suppression activities.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Directs the Secretary of Education (Secretary), for purposes of computing the amount which a local educational agency (LEA) is entitled to receive from the Government for military-connected children in each fiscal year, to determine: (1) for each LEA receiving assistance, the number of children who reside on military installations, have parents employed on such installations, and had a parent who was on active duty in the uniformed services; and (2) the total amount of payments all LEAs are entitled to receive. Requires the Secretary of Defense to transfer (from any amounts available to him) to the Secretary in each fiscal year the total amount of funds necessary for the Secretary to make all required payments to LEAs for such fiscal year, subject to specified limitations (including that funds distributed to such LEAs be consistent with shifting only the funding responsibility for such military-connected children from the Department of Education to the Department of Defense). Sets forth formulas for determining the amount of the entitlement of an LEA for a fiscal year with respect to: (1) children with disabilities (currently, and children with specific learning disabilities for whom a determination is made under provisions related to children who had a parent who was on active duty in the uniformed services); and (2) military-connected children with disabilities and for whom such LEA is providing a program designed to meet the special and related needs of such children.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Amends the veterans' educational assistance program to allow an individual who was on active duty on August 2, 1990, and who completes the requirements of a secondary school diploma (or equivalency certificate) before 12 months after the enactment of this Act to be considered to have completed such requirements within his or her initial obligated period of active duty, thus qualifying for such educational assistance after release or discharge from active duty. (Current law requires completion of school diploma requirements during the initial active duty period.) Provides a similar extension of such diploma completion requirements in the case of members of the Selected Reserve, except for requiring completion of such requirements within 11 months after the enactment of this Act. Requires the Secretary of each military department to notify individuals who have not met the diploma requirements of the extension of such periods under this Act. Credits an individual who becomes eligible for educational assistance subsequent to his or her initial period of service with the amount of basic pay reduced for participation in such educational assistance program. Applies such credit to an individual whose initial period of active duty began after June 30, 1985, and ended less than one year later with release without a bar to reenlistment. Makes such provision applicable to former members of the Selected Reserve, reducing such educational entitlement by any amount used in the earlier period of service. Bars the provision of armed forces educational assistance to individuals enrolled in education or training under the Government Employees Training Act. (Currently, such assistance is barred only if such individual is receiving such education or training and being paid full salary.) Requires apprenticeship or on-job training establishments to certify the hours completed by an individual under the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program for members of the Selected Reserve. Prohibits approval of a nonaccredited course of education pursued in whole or in part by independent study for participation in the veterans' educational assistance program. Disapproves for participation: (1) any bartending or personality development course; (2) sales or sales management courses which do not provide specialized training within a specific field; (3) any type of course found to be avocational or recreational in character unless justification is shown by the veteran; or (4) any independent study program other than an accredited program leading to a standard college degree. Prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from approving the enrollment of any eligible veteran in any course: (1) of flight training other than one given by a higher education institution and leading toward a standard college degree; (2) to be pursued by radio or open circuit television, with an exception; and (3) for any period in which the Secretary finds that more than 85 percent of the students so enrolled are having all or part of their tuition and fees paid by the educational institution or the Department under the veterans' or armed forces' educational assistance programs, unless the Secretary determines such a course to be in the best interest of the eligible veteran and the Government. Provides other exceptions to such prohibitions. Applies a savings provision to persons currently enrolled in a nonaccredited course of independent study. Reduces, for purposes of eligibility in the veterans' or survivors' and dependents' educational assistance programs, the number of clock hours of attendance required for institutional trade or technical courses not leading to a standard college degree to be considered a full-time course, and therefore eligible for participation in the programs. Provides that a course not leading to a standard college degree from an educational institution on a quarter- or semester-hour basis and offered by an entity that is not an institution of higher learning shall not be considered to be full-time if it requires less than the weekly minimum hours of full-time attendance required for institutional trade or technical courses measured on a clock hour basis. Repeals provisions providing for the computation of the monthly educational assistance allowance to be paid on behalf of an eligible individual pursuing: (1) an independent study program which leads to a standard college degree; and (2) a course in part by open circuit television. Provides a death benefit to the survivor of an individual entitled to basic education assistance who dies within one year after discharge or release from active duty (currently, who dies while on active duty) in the amount of unused educational assistance. Provides basic veterans' educational assistance entitlement for regular and Selected Reserve members who were on active duty at any time during the period between October 19, 1984, and July 1, 1985 (currently, continuous service within such period is required) and who meet certain other requirements after June 30, 1985. Makes such entitlement revision applicable as of October 28, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to establish and maintain at secondary schools a Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) unit if the number of students (currently, physically fit students) who are in a grade above the eighth grade (currently, at least 14 years of age) and are citizens or nationals of the United States or aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence (currently, only citizens and nationals) is not less than 100 or ten percent of the total amount enrolled in the institution. Allows such Secretary to provide additional resources, including transportation and billeting, as available to support activities of the JROTC program at such institution. Revises the pay formula for retired military personnel instructing JROTC students at such institutions.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Amends specified Federal law relating to impact aid to require that appropriations and expenditures under such law for payments to local educational agencies on behalf of children who are dependents of a parent or parents on active duty in the armed forces be considered national defense functions for budget purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Veterans In Transition Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide post-service training vouchers to eligible members of the armed forces who apply in order to finance employment retraining provided through programs established under the Job Training Partnership Act. Requires such vouchers to be provided to such members within 60 days of their separation from active duty. Defines as eligible those members serving on active duty or full-time National Guard duty on September 30, 1990, who were either involuntarily separated or separated under one of the military separation incentive programs, and who were not entitled to retired or retainer pay incident to such separation. Requires such a member to certify to the Secretary that the member is unemployed and does not have a firm commitment for employment upon separation. Directs the Secretary to provide such vouchers to certain unemployed members who did not receive such vouchers due to lack of the required certification. Authorizes the Secretary to provide such vouchers to other members discharged or released from active duty if they would benefit from the training provided. Directs the Secretary to provide appropriate notification to members eligible for such vouchers. Provides for the determination of voucher amounts, requiring such amounts to be generally equal to the cost of providing the training required to achieve the employment objective chosen by the member. Directs the Secretary of Labor to assist the Secretary in determining voucher amounts. Authorizes any member receiving such a voucher to exchange it for employment and training services provided under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to the same extent as other individuals eligible to receive such services. Requires such vouchers to be used within a two-year period after discharge, release, or separation. Directs the Secretary, after receiving a voucher, to reimburse the training provider for the actual cost of providing such training, not to exceed the face value of the voucher. Prohibits more than ten percent of the funds provided under this Act from being used for administrative costs. Prohibits the training providers, in accepting vouchers in exchange for employment and training services under the JTPA, from: (1) reducing the number of individuals who receive such services in the absence of the voucher program; or (2) denying such services to veterans who are eligible for such services but do not have a voucher. Directs the Secretary to notify the State agency administering the JTPA in which the member intends to reside and take up training. Amends the JTPA to include such separated members in the defense conversion adjustment program provided under such Act. Requires preseparation counseling of members about to be discharged or released from active duty to occur as soon as possible, but not later than 90 days before the date of discharge (currently, upon discharge). Includes as part of such counseling the creation of a transition plan for the member and spouse to achieve educational, training, and employment objectives. Directs the Secretary to consult with the Secretaries of Labor, Education, and Veterans Affairs and the Economic Adjustment Committee to improve the coordination of, and eliminate duplication between, specified job training and placement programs available to members who are discharged or released from active duty. Directs the Secretary to use ten percent of the amount authorized to be appropriated under this Act for the financing of specified coordination efforts. Directs the Secretary, as part of the preseparation counseling provided to discharged or released members, to insure that information is provided to interested members with respect to the establishment and operation of small businesses. Authorizes the Secretary to make a grant to a member eligible for a training voucher to assist such member in establishing a small business after such discharge or release. Authorizes the Secretary to make a grant to a business owned or operated by a veteran to assist the business to employ members eligible for training vouchers. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the head of a Federal agency under which the agency makes grants to States and local governments and nonprofit organizations to establish internships or other training programs for members eligible for training vouchers. Provides that all such grants will be made in lieu of providing the member with a training voucher. Authorizes the Secretary, in order to assist discharged or released members and their spouses in locating civilian employment, to conduct marketing and employer outreach activities to promote the creation of employment opportunities for such members and spouses. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Directs the Secretary of Defense to enter into an agreement with the Governor of Tennessee to carry out a pilot program during FY 1993 under which medical personnel of the Tennessee National Guard are used to provide health care to medically underserved individuals in Tennessee. Directs the Secretary to provide the funds for the pay, allowances, travel, and all necessary expenses of such National Guard personnel and for all medical supplies and equipment used in the pilot program. Provides an FY 1993 expenditure limit for such program. Counts such service by the Tennessee National Guard toward the annual training requirement imposed upon all members of the National Guard.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Amends the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program to allow certain individuals who are separated from active duty with an honorable discharge under one of the voluntary separation incentive programs to enroll in the educational assistance program before the date of such separation. Reduces the basic pay of such individuals for participation in the program.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Shipbuilding Promotion Act of 1992 - Requires the Secretary of Defense to direct that all sealift ships built under the fast sealift program be constructed and designed to commercial specifications. Directs the Secretary to establish an interagency working group to develop and implement a comprehensive plan to ensure the effective competition of U.S. shipyards in the international shipbuilding market. Directs the Secretary to submit the plan to the Congress at the time of the FY 1994 defense budget request. Provides that, if such plan is not submitted at such time, no funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for FY 1993 may be used for contracting for the construction, repair, or purchase of any product or service with any company located or with headquarters in any country that continues to provide a subsidy to a foreign shipyard for the construction or repair of vessels or that engages in ship dumping practices. Defines a subsidy as direct or indirect official operation support, or direct or indirect assistance, to the commercial shipbuilding and repair industry of a country.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Directs the Secretary of Defense to earmark specified funds currently available for FY 1993 for economic conversion or defense reinvestment for: (1) new employment assistance and training programs for recently separated veterans, to be administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs; (2) services under the armed forces transition assistance program; and (3) personnel expenses relating to such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to earmark specified funds made available under such Act for counter-drug activities for use by the Secretary of Defense to provide counter-drug training of civilian law enforcement personnel at the Military Police School at Fort McClellan, Alabama.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Designates November 13, 1992, as Vietnam Veterans Memorial 10th Anniversary Day.
United States · United States Senate · 5 May 1992
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1992
Title I: Authorization of Appropriations - Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1992 - Authorizes appropriations for the Coast Guard 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; (4) retirement pay and benefits; (5) alteration or removal of bridges; and (6) environmental compliance and restoration. Authorizes the Coast Guard end-of-year strength for active duty personnel and the average military training student loads. Earmarks funds for specified purposes relating to Group Cape Hatteras, North Carolina; Traverse City, Michigan; Houston, Texas; Galveston, Texas; and Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. Declares specified bridges in Louisiana and Massachusetts to be unreasonable obstructions to navigation. Title II: Boating Safety - Amends Federal law to create an increased civil penalty for subsequent offenses of operating a vessel while intoxicated. Mandates reports to specified congressional committees regarding: (1) a plan to increase the availability of voluntary safe boating education to individuals under 17 years old; and (2) ways to enlarge the mission of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and to increase Auxiliary participation in Coast Guard activities. Mandates a demonstration project in the Ninth Coast Guard District in conjunction with other appropriate Government agencies to increase coordination of enforcement of boating laws and regulations. Title III: Miscellaneous - Amends Federal law relating to Coast Guard user fees to prohibit a fee or charge for the inspection of training ships operated by State maritime academies. Subjects foreign vessels certified by countries with inspection laws similar to those of the United States to an inspection to ensure that the condition of the vessel is (currently, only the condition of the vessel's propulsion and lifesaving equipment are) as stated in its certificate. Prohibits a foreign vessel (currently, a foreign or domestic vessel of more than a specified size) from departing from a U.S. port with passengers who embarked at that port if the vessel does not comply with the standards stated in the Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea. Mandates submission to specified congressional committees of a report on the application of the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor technology to Coast Guard missions.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1992
Bars the Secretary of Defense from approving the full-scale engineering development, or the production and deployment, of a major defense acquisition program unless specified requirements are met (as under current law) and unless all the requirements specified in Department of Defense (DOD) regulations with respect to independent cost estimates and supporting documentation that are applicable to the program have been met. Specifies that: (1) an independent cost estimate prepared with respect to such program may not be prepared by, or with the assistance of, a contractor that is under the supervision, direction, or control of the military department or defense agency that is responsible for the program; (2) a highly sensitive classified program shall be considered to be a major defense acquisition program if it meets specified criteria; and (3) the office (or other entity) within the Office of the Secretary that has responsibility for the preparation of cost estimates for the Secretary may not be assigned any program analysis and evaluation functions. Establishes a $20,000 civil penalty for any DOD civilian officer or employee who provides the Secretary a cost estimate for purposes of such provisions that is not an independent cost estimate.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1992
Military Conscientious Objector Act of 1992 - Establishes procedures for the determination of whether members of the armed forces should be discharged from military service or reassigned to other duties as conscientious objectors. Makes this Act applicable to all members of the armed forces, including members in a retired status and those not on active duty. Provides that, upon application, a member of the armed forces who, on the basis of sincerely held moral, ethical, or religious beliefs is conscientiously opposed to: (1) any participation in war in any form or to any participation in a particular conflict, is entitled to be discharged from the armed forces; and (2) the performance of certain duties in the armed forces, is entitled to be reassigned to other duties that are identified by that member as not inconsistent with such beliefs. Specifies that, upon submission of an application stating the applicant's conscientious objection and requesting a discharge or reassignment: (1) the burden of proof that the applicant does not have have a sincerely held conscientious objection shall lie with the armed forces; and (2) the application may not be rejected unless the Secretary concerned demonstrates by clear and convincing evidence that the applicant does not have such a sincerely held conscientious objection. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) the availability of of information regarding application procedures and rights, protections, and obligations afforded to members applying for conscientious objector status; (2) the filing of a notice of intent to file a claim for such status; (3) the right to legal counsel; (4) the filing of the application; (5) appointment of an investigating officer; (6) the convening of an adjudication panel; and (7) judicial review of the panel's decision. Specifies that, in the case of a member who files such application and with respect to whom court martial proceedings are pending arising out of the member's objection to participation in war: (1) the member shall have the right to elect that all such court martial proceedings be held in abeyance pending final determination of the application; (2) if the application is approved, such charges shall be dismissed in conjunction with the discharge of the member; and (3) if the application is denied, the stay of the court martial proceedings shall be lifted. Prohibits: (1) a discharge under this Act from being made with a characterization of service other than that which the member would have received without reference to the conscientious objection claim; and (2) the separation document issued to the member from including any notation that would provide the basis for discrimination or which would otherwise differentiate that person from members discharged under other provisions of law. Specifies that the reenlistment code for such person shall be R-2 unless a lesser designation is warranted by the character of the member's service without regard to the conscientious objection application.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1992
Directs the Secretary of Defense to abolish the following entities of the Department of Defense by September 30, 1993: (1) the Army Cost and Economic Analysis Center; (2) the Naval Center for Cost Analysis; and (3) the Air Force Cost Center and Independent Cost Analysis Program.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1992
Designates September 18, 1992, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Requires the POW/MIA flag to be flown on a flagstaff of the White House, the Departments of State, Defense, and Veterans Affairs, the Selective Service Commission, each national cemetery, and the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial on such day. Requires the flag to be flown on a flagstaff of each national cemetery and the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial on May 30, 1992 (Memorial Day), and on November 11, 1992 (Veterans Day). States that the flag shall be displayed as a symbol of national concern and commitment to resolving the fates of Americans still prisoner, missing, and unaccounted for.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1992
Aviation Noise Improvement and Capacity Act of 1992 - Title I: Airport and Airway Improvement Act Amendments - Amends the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 to declare that: (1) it is in the public interest to recognize the effects of airport capacity expansion projects on airport noise; and (2) noncompatible land uses around airports must be reduced, and efforts to mitigate noise must be given a high priority. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1995 for: (1) airport development and planning projects; (2) air navigation facilities; (3) weather reporting services for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); (4) aviation research, engineering and development, and demonstration projects; and (5) enhancing airport capacity. Requires the Administrator of the FAA to assure that sufficient resources are available to develop improved technology for reduction in engine and airframe noise and aircraft emissions. Amends Federal law to authorize appropriations for FY 1993 through 1995 for FAA operations. Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to revise the minimum Federal appropriation levels which permit imposition of local airport passenger facility fees on airline passengers. Amends the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 to increase the apportionment of airport development and planning funds for: (1) airports which are served by aircraft providing only air cargo (including mail) transportation; and (2) primary airports. Repeals the limitation on the amount of such funds. Decreases the State apportionment of such funds. Limits to no more than 44 percent (currently, 49.5 percent) the apportionment of such funds for primary and cargo service airports in cases where such apportionment has been limited or reduced by an Act of the Congress. Extends the funding for the military airport set-aside program. Increases the noise set-aside apportionment for airport noise compatibility planning programs. Prohibits the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) from obligating funds for airport development projects for the construction or extension of a runway for large aircraft operations at an airport unless it has a noise compatibility program which takes into account such runway extension or construction. Authorizes the increase by a specified percentage of the maximum obligation of the United States for airport development and planning projects for FY 1993 and thereafter for an airport other than a primary airport. Includes as an "aircraft development" activity the: (1) relocation of an air traffic control tower if relocation is necessary to carry out an approved project; and (2) if funded by a grant under this title, construction, reconstruction, repair, or improvement of an airport (or any purchase of capital equipment for an airport) which is necessary for compliance with specified Federal laws, other than construction or purchase of capital equipment which would benefit a revenue-producing area of the airport used by a nonaeronautical business. Requires as a condition precedent to the approval of an airport development project grant application that the Secretary receive assurances that a report of the airport budget will be available to the public at reasonable times and places. Requires the Administrator of the FAA to increase the employment of aviation safety inspectors by a specified ratio percentage. Title II: Federal Aviation Act Amendments - Amends Federal law to limit the term of the Administrator of the FAA appointed after March 1, 1993, to one five-year term. Requires the Administrator of the FAA to require, by regulation, procedures to improve safety of aircraft operations during winter conditions. Requires the Administrator of the FAA to initiate a rulemaking to consider whether it is advisable to require enhanced training or education, especially on the use of autopilot and high altitude flight, for pilots operating high performance, single engine, propeller-driven aircraft. Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to authorize the Administrator of the FAA to enter into a contract with a State or political subdivision to permit it to operate a level I visual flight rules airport traffic control tower, provided certain safety and contract requirements are met. Requires all persons to give adequate public notice of the establishment or expansion, or the proposed establishment or expansion, of any structure or sanitary landfill where such notice will promote safety in air commerce and preserve the navigable airspace and airport traffic capacity at public-use airports. Title III: Airline Consumer Protection and Competition Emergency Commission - Airline Consumer Protection and Competition Emergency Commission Act of 1992 - Establishes the Emergency Commission on Airline Consumer Protection and Competition to: (1) assess and report to the President and the Congress on the state of the airline industry and the aircraft manufacturing industry, particularly the full implications of foreign ownership of U.S. carriers; and (2) recommend Government policies to improve the competitive environment for the U.S. airline industry and aircraft manufacturing industry, retard the flow of carrier bankruptcies and accompanying loss of jobs, assure continued ownership and control of U.S. carriers by U.S. citizens, promote adequate levels of competition and service with reasonable fares in all geographic areas of the Nation, and stabilize the work environment of airline industry employees.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1992
Veterans' Readjustment Benefits Improvement Act of 1992 - Title I: Educational Assistance Programs - Amends the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program to increase the monthly educational benefit paid to active-duty members of the armed forces pursuing a full-time educational program from $300 to $450, and to increase from $170 to $200 the benefit for members of the Selected Reserve pursuing full-time studies. Makes proportionate increases in the part-time educational benefit provided to both active duty and reserve members. Allows Selected Reserve members to use such educational benefit to pursue graduate programs (currently prohibited from pursuing courses beyond the baccalaureate level). Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to approve individualized tutorial assistance (tutoring) to any person entitled to regular educational assistance who: (1) is enrolled in and pursuing postsecondary education on a half-time or more basis; and (2) has a deficiency in a subject required for, prerequisite to, or indispensable to the program of education being pursued. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay a tutorial assistance allowance to persons receiving such tutoring at a rate not to exceed $100 per month or a maximum of $1,200. Provides that a person's entitlement to basic educational assistance shall be charged for such tutorial assistance only for that amount which exceeds $600. Provides that individuals who are discharged after less than 12 months of active duty and later reenlist or reenter active duty shall have such prior period of service count toward eligibility for the basic educational assistance program. Provides that any reduction in basic pay taken during such prior period shall count toward the total pay reduction required for participation in the program. Provides that active-duty personnel pursuing programs of education on a half-time or more basis shall receive educational assistance benefits at the same rate as provided to veterans. Provides that an individual who initially serves a continuous period of active duty of at least three years, even though his or her initial obligation was for less than three years, is eligible for the same amount of educational assistance provided to an individual whose initial period of obligated active duty was for three years or more. Repeals a provision requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs to pay work-study participants their work-study allowance in advance of their performance of required services under such program. Excludes elementary and secondary schools from a Federal provision requiring an educational institution to furnish a copy of its catalog when applying for approval of an accredited course by a State approving agency (SAA). Requires schools that have and enforce standards of attendance to submit such standards to the SAA for approval. Bars the payment of veterans' educational assistance for a course paid for under the Government Employees Training Act. (Currently, such payment is barred only if the person's full salary is being paid to him or her during such training education.) Waives the right of recovery of an advance payment made to a veteran for the receipt of educational assistance if the failure to enroll in or pursue a course of education under the program is due to the death of the veteran. Allows as a change of program for purposes of the veterans' educational assistance program: (1) a change of program after the veteran has successfully completed the first program; and (2) a second program which leads to a vocational, educational, or professional objective in the same general field as the first program. Prohibits the approval of a course of education which has not been approved by a SAA if such course is to be pursued in whole or in part by independent study. Prohibits approval of enrollment of a veteran in an independent study program except an accredited program leading to a standard college degree. Prohibits such approval also for survivors and dependents enrolling in a nonaccredited independent study program. Provides a savings provision for persons currently enrolled in such programs. Revises the measurement of courses, for purposes of payment of educational assistance benefits, for institutional trade or technical courses not leading to a standard college degree. Excludes programs of education beyond the baccalaureate level from the measurement of courses for an institutional undergraduate course offered by a college or university on a standard quarter- or semester-hour basis. Removes the in-residence requirement for the measurement of such courses. Prohibits an institutional course not leading to a standard college degree offered by an institution on such basis from being measured as full-time if such course requires less than the minimum weekly hours of attendance required for institutional trade or technical courses offered on a clock-hour basis. Allows a veteran's survivor or dependent up to six months of educational assistance for the pursuit of refresher training to permit the updating of knowledge or skills. Requires any allowance so paid to be charged against the person's basic educational assistance entitlement. Permits participation in the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program for an individual who, after September 30, 1992, receives a commission as an officer in the armed forces or reserves upon graduation from a military academy or upon completion of a senior ROTC program. Title II: Vocational Rehabilitation and Pension Programs - Makes permanent after January 31, 1985 (currently only for the period beginning February 1, 1985, and ending on January 31, 1992), a program of 12-month trial work periods and vocational rehabilitation outreach for veterans who have total disability ratings based on unemployability. Allows all veterans who have been awarded pension by the Department (currently, only pension-awarded veterans under the age of 45) to submit to the Secretary an application for vocational education and training. Revises provisions with respect to the manner in which the Secretary shall determine whether the veteran has potential for achieving employment after pursuing such vocational training. Makes permanent (currently ends three years after the end of the original program period) the three-year protection from reduction in Department health-care eligibility for veterans who lose their pension due to employment income after successful completion of vocational training. Provides eligibility for vocational rehabilitation for veterans with a service-connected disability rated at ten percent or more and who have a serious employment handicap (as determined by the Secretary). Provides that where a new application for veterans' pension or parents' dependency and indemnity compensation is filed within one year after the renouncement of the right to such benefit, the application shall not be considered an original application, and payment of such benefits shall be made as if the renouncement had not occurred. Title III: Job Counseling, Training, and Placement Services for Veterans - Requires funds to be made available to a State to support the appointment of a disabled veterans' outreach program specialist for veterans who first entered on active duty after May 7, 1975. (Currently, such specialists represent only Vietnam-era veterans and disabled veterans.) Repeals the December 31, 1994, delimiting date after which a veteran may not be considered a veteran of the Vietnam era for purposes of eligibility for Vietnam veterans' employment and training programs.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1992
Veterans' Educational Assistance Improvements Act of 1992 - Amends Federal provisions with respect to a temporary program for trial work periods and vocational rehabilitation for certain veterans with total disability ratings to: (1) reduce from 12 to six months the work period of a totally disabled veteran engaged in a work program during which the total disability rating will not be reduced due to such employment; and (2) make such trial work program permanent (currently ends January 31, 1992). Revises provisions concerning a temporary program of vocational training for veterans under age 45 who are awarded a veteran's pension to: (1) delete the current January 31, 1992, termination date of such program; (2) make voluntary between the veteran and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (currently, required) an evaluation as to whether such veteran could reasonably achieve a vocational goal; (3) make unnecessary (currently, required) a personal interview by a Department of Veterans Affairs counselor as part of such evaluation when such interview is not practical or necessary for the goal-achievement determination; and (4) protect for three years such veteran's health-care eligibility without regard to when the veteran's entitlement to pension is terminated due to income from work or training. Authorizes the Secretary, during the three-year period beginning on October 1, 1992, to conduct a pilot program for using any public or private entity or employer to provide on-job training as part of a veteran's vocational rehabilitation program. Requires on-site monitoring of such training to insure that it is in the best interest of the veteran and the Federal Government. Prohibits the Secretary from approving or entering into a contract, agreement, or cooperative arrangement for such an on-job training program which commences after the later of: (1) September 30, 1995; or (2) if a written vocational rehabilitation plan for such training is executed before such date, within a reasonable period of time, not to exceed six months, after the execution of such plan. Amends the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program to provide that active duty service shall not be considered broken, for purposes of educational assistance entitlement, by any period during which an individual is assigned by the armed forces to a civilian institution full time for a course of education which is substantially the same as established courses offered to civilians. Entitles to educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill program an individual who originally made an election not to participate in the program but who, before completing his or her obligated period of service, is discharged or released due to a physical or mental condition not characterized as a disability but which did not result from the individual's willful misconduct and did interfere with the performance of duty.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1992
Directs the Secretary of Energy (the Secretary) to develop and implement a plan for the restructuring of the employee work force of the Department of Energy (DOE) defense nuclear facilities. Outlines plan contents designed to minimize the economic impact of the restructuring upon affected employees and communities. Requires the Secretary to issue annual plan updates to specified congressional committees. Sets forth requirements relating to contracts for environmental restoration and waste management at DOE defense nuclear facilities. Requires the Secretary to establish and implement a program to monitor current and former DOE employees subject to significant health risks as a result of their exposure to hazardous or radioactive substances during the course of their employment. Delineates plan contents. Directs the Secretary to: (1) notify employees exposed to certain hazardous and radioactive substances of the results of their medical examinations regarding such exposure; (2) collect information regarding such tests and examinations; (3) enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement their respective activities under this Act; and (4) implement a health insurance program to cover the reasonable expenses of health care services incurred by such employees.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1992
Designates May 14, 1992, as 50th Anniversary of the Women's Army Corps Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1993 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for the defense agencies and the Defense Inspector General for procurement and for the destruction of lethal chemical weapons under the chemical demilitarization program. Repeals a provision requiring a separate budget request for the procurement of equipment for the reserves. Title II: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for the armed forces and the defense agencies for research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D). Earmarks funds authorized to the defense agencies for: (1) the Deputy Director, Defense Research and Engineering; (2) the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation; and (3) chemical agents and munitions destruction, defense. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for operation and maintenance for: (1) the armed forces; (2) the defense agencies; (3) the reserves; (4) medical programs, defense; (5) the National Guard; (6) the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice; (7) the Defense Inspector General; (8) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense; (9) the Court of Military Appeals; (10) environmental restoration, defense; (11) humanitarian assistance; and (12) chemical agents and munitions destruction, defense. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for working capital funds for the armed forces and the defense agencies. Empowers the Defense Inspector General with the authority to provide for any emergency or extraordinary expenses which cannot be anticipated or classified. Repeals the Federal ceiling on the number of employees in headquarters and nonmanagement headquarters activities and support activities. Repeals a Federal provision requiring the Secretary of Defense to reduce the number of civilian Department of Defense (DOD) employees employed by industrial- or commercial-type activities. Repeals specified provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 which: (1) limit the authority of the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager to dispose of materials in the NDS; and (2) require the Manager to obligate specified sums for the acquisition of materials in the NDS during FY 1992 and 1993. Provides that during FY 1992 and thereafter, sales of stockpiled material in the NDS Transaction Fund may not exceed $1,000,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a moratorium on the acquisition of new material for the NDS in order to reduce existing excess material in the stockpile. Prohibits, except to the extent authorized in appropriation Acts, the use of funds available in the NDS Transaction Fund from being obligated or expended to finance the conduct of R&D activities for the development or production of advanced materials. National Defense Sealift Improvement Act - Establishes in the Treasury the National Defense Sealift Fund. Requires the Secretary to administer the Fund, obligating and expending Fund sums for: (1) R&D relating to national defense sealift; (2) construction, purchase, lease, alteration, conversion, or operation and maintenance of sealift vessels for national defense purposes; and (3) such other purposes authorized by law relating to national defense sealift. Authorizes appropriations. States that proceeds from the sale or lease of certain vessels shall be deposited into the Fund. Transfers certain prior unobligated balances into the Fund from Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds. Title IV: Personnel Authorizations for Fiscal Year 1993 - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1993. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1993. Permits such end strengths to vary no more than two percent. Requires end strength reductions for the Selected Reserve for such fiscal year. Requires such end strength to be increased whenever members of the Selected Reserve are released from active duty. Authorizes end strengths for FY 1993 for members of the reserves on active duty in support of the reserves. Increases the number of certain enlisted and officer personnel authorized to be on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes and specifies the average military training student loads for FY 1993. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Title V: General Provisions - Increases from four to every five years the physical examination requirement for members of the Ready Reserve. National Guard Amendments of 1992 - Adds warrant officers and enlisted members of the National Guard to those females authorized to be in the U.S. militia. Repeals Federal provisions requiring each member of the Army or Air National Guard called into Federal service to undergo a physical examination. Requires all parts of a National Guard unit to be included in a drill and instruction within 90 consecutive days (currently, 30) in order to be credited as an assembly for drill and instruction for purposes of National Guard duty requirements. Waives a required 30-day prior notification of termination for a National Guard technician when such technician: (1) is serving under a temporary appointment; (2) is serving in a trial or probationary period; or (3) has voluntarily ceased to be a member of the National Guard when such membership is a condition of employment. Repeals a current ceiling on the number of such technicians who may be employed at any one time. Includes commissioned officers of the Army or Air National Guard with those officers empowered to declare National Guard property as unserviceable through fair wear and tear. Waives a required increase in the pay and allowances of member of the armed forces in conformity with annual GS-level increases. Provides, in lieu thereof, effective on January 1, 1993, an increase of 3.7 percent in the rates of basic pay, basic allowance for subsistence, and basis allowance for quarters. Repeals a provision of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 requiring the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on U.S. expenditures in support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Revises the annual date for the report of the Secretary to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (defense committees) with respect to special access programs. Provides lease terms and conditions to be followed by the Secretary when leasing defense property for display or demonstration at international shows or trade expositions or to foreign governments, when the lessee is the manufacturer of the defense equipment. Allows the Secretary to acquire from NATO and its subsidiary bodies logistic support, supplies, and services for elements of the armed forces (currently, only for elements of the armed forces deployed in Europe or adjacent waters). Provides that limitations on the amounts that may be obligated or accrued by the United States for the acquisition of defense supplies shall not apply to a period of active hostilities involving U.S. armed forces (currently, involving NATO). Amends the Arms Export Control Act and similar armed forces provisions to require participants in cooperative R&D projects with friendly foreign countries to share equitably the overhead and administrative costs as well as the costs of claims (currently, only the first two costs are shared). Extends through: (1) FY 1995 the aviation officer retention bonus; (2) FY 1994 the provision of special pay to enlisted members of the Selected Reserve assigned to certain high priority units; (3) FY 1995 provisions determining the computation of creditable service as commissioned officers before mandatory transfer to the Retired Reserve; (4) FY 1995 the grade determination authority for certain reserve medical officers; (5) FY 1995 the promotion authority for certain reserve officers serving on active duty; (6) FY 1995 the provision of education loans for certain health professionals who serve in the Selected Reserve; (7) FY 1994 the accession bonus for registered nurses serving in military medical facilities; (8) FY 1994 the special pay for nurse anesthetists; (9) FY 1997 the special pay for military enlistment and reenlistment bonuses for active duty forces; (10) FY 1995 the special pay for enlistment and reenlistment bonuses for reserve forces; (11) FY 1993 the provision of special pay for enlisted members of the Selected Reserve assigned to high priority units; (12) FY 1995 the authority for special pay for critically short wartime health specialists in the Selected Reserve; and (13) FY 2001 the major defense acquisition pilot program authorized under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991. Repeals the authority for the temporary promotion of certain critically-skilled Navy lieutenants. Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Revision Act of 1992 - Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act to state as a purpose of such Act the identification of stocks of certain strategic and critical materials. States that the quantity of materials to be stockpiled under the Act should be sufficient to meet the needs of the United States during a national emergency requiring significant (currently, total) mobilization of the economy. Removes a provision prohibiting the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) from being used for budgetary purposes. Requires the handling, storage, security, maintenance, and disposal of materials in the NDS to be done in an environmentally sound manner. Allows materials in the NDS to be replaced by better materials when necessary to prevent deterioration. Allows materials to be timely disposed when becoming obsolete. Removes a current requirement limiting the President's acquisition of interests in real or personal property for storage, security, and maintenance of materials in the NDS to a 20-year period. Authorizes the President to loan NDS materials to Federal agencies when in the interest of national defense. Removes a prohibition against the obligation or appropriation of funds for the acquisition of materials in the NDS unless such funds have been authorized by law. Allows a disposal from the NDS (other than certain excepted disposals) to be made only if it has been included in the materials plan report currently required under Federal law, or the Congress has been properly notified. Removes a requirement prohibiting any disposal the effect of which would be an unobligated balance in the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (NDS Fund) in excess of $100,000,000. Prohibits disposals from the NDS in any one fiscal year in excess of $1,000,000,000. Allows any proposed or new expenditures or disposals detailed in a materials plan for a fiscal year to be carried over to the materials plans for subsequent fiscal years. Allows money received from the sale and rotation of materials in the NDS to be used for general purposes of the NDS Fund. (Currently, moneys received from the sale of rotated materials may only be used for the acquisition of replacement material.) Adds to the authorized uses of the NDS Fund: (1) the contracting for materials development and research; (2) the purchase or purchase commitment of strategic and critical materials of domestic origin when needed for the NDS; and (3) the contracting or commitment to contract with domestic facilities for the upgrading, refining, or processing of materials in the NDS when necessary to convert such materials into a form more suitable for storage and subsequent disposition or use in a national emergency. Authorizes the President (currently, the NDS Manager) to barter materials in the stockpile in order to acquire, upgrade, refine, or process other materials. Repeals a Federal provision prohibiting the President from delegating his authority to dispose of stockpiled materials and to import strategic and critical materials from non-Communist countries. Adds the definition of "significant change" for purposes of a significant change proposed by the President to the Congress in the required annual materials plans. Repeals provisions of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1987 and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 which require the President, during FY 1987 through 1933, to award contracts for the conversion of chromium and manganese ores held in the NDS into high carbon ferrochromium and high carbon ferromanganese. Authorizes the NDS Manager to: (1) revise quantities of materials to be stockpiled; and (2) dispose of such materials as authorized by law or as determined by the Manager to be in excess of current stockpile requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Provides that, for veterans' benefits purposes, service performed by a named individual as a volunteer member of the Army for a specified period shall be deemed to be active military service qualifying such individual as a veteran. Prohibits the payment or provision of any benefits to such individual with respect to any period of service performed before the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 - Title I: 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 military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, repair of real property, architectural and engineering design services, military family housing functions within the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Extends certain FY 1990 military construction projects. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy 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 military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, repair of real property, architectural and engineering design services, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force 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 military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, repair of real property, architectural and engineering design services, and for military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title IV: 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 appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, conforming storage facilities, certain base closure and realignment activities, repair of real property, and military family housing functions within DOD. Authorizes prior-year unobligated funds to be made available for military construction projects authorized in this title. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for such contributions. Title VI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, repair of real property, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts. Title VII: Expiration of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles I through VI on October 1, 1995, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1996, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Title VIII: General Provisions - Expands authorized military construction activities to include alteration and repair with respect to a military installation. Requires a cost of over $15,000 which extends the useful life of a facility in order to be considered a military construction project. Includes repair activities within the definition of minor military construction. Requires any such repair within a minor military construction project to cost more than $15,000 and to extend the useful life of the facility. Provides that unspecified minor construction and repair projects funded by working capital funds may be so funded without being subject to the dollar limitations prescribed for such construction and repair activities. Repeals a Federal provision authorizing the Secretary of the military department concerned to carry out facility renovation projects that combine maintenance, repair, and minor construction projects for an entire single-purpose facility, or one or more areas of a multipurpose facility, using operation and maintenance funds. Authorizes a reserve forces facilities acquisition project costing $15,000 (currently, $300,000) or less to be carried out with operation and maintenance funds. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to carry out an emergency construction project five days (currently, 21) after notification to the Congress. Allows funds from the Department of Defense Base Closure Account or from the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990 to be used for base closure and realignment activities under either the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act or the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1991. Revises the funding limitations contained in each such Act to conform to such change. Defines further the base closure and realignment activities authorized under each such Act as the environmental restoration, community economic adjustment assistance, and disposal of property at bases selected for closure under such Acts. Revises the computation of the amount of proceeds obtained from the sale or transfer of property in connection with a base closure or realignment which are to be transferred to a reserve account and used for acquiring, constructing, or improving commissary stores and nonappropriated fund instrumentalities under the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act, the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey all U.S. rights and interest in real property consisting of the operations portion of the Marine Corps Air Station, Tustin, California, in exchange for the construction of replacement facilities at either the Tustin location, the Marine Corps Base at Camp Pendleton, California, or the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, or a combination of each such facility. Requires such conveyance authority to expire 12 months after enactment of this Act, unless the Secretary makes certain determinations with respect to such conveyance. Provides that, upon such expiration of authority, the closure of the Tustin facility shall proceed as a closure under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer available DOD funds to a fund established under the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 for persons eligible under such Act for homeowners assistance. Waives certain congressional reporting requirements with respect to real property acquisitions or leases by DOD in excess of specified amounts in the event of a declaration of war or national emergency, or for real property transactions required in connection with a contingency operation. Requires each military department Secretary who exercises such waiver to notify the Senate and House Armed Services Committees within 30 days after its exercise. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to direct the Secretary of Defense to ensure that the authorization requested by DOD for construction costs resulting from closing or realigning each installation (currently, for each military construction project) does not exceed the cost estimate provided by the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake (and to authorize the Secretaries of the military departments to undertake) military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law in the event of a declaration of a contingency operation by the Secretary. (Currently, this authority is permitted only in the declaration of war or national emergency.) Makes inapplicable to unspecified minor military construction or repair projects certain authorized cost variation limitations for a military construction project or for the construction, improvement, and acquisition of a military family housing project.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Adds the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center to those educational centers for which the Secretary of the Army is authorized to prescribe the compensation of civilian faculty members. (Currently, civilian faculty members of the Center are paid under the civil service general compensation schedule.) Makes such amended provision applicable also to persons employed at the Army War College or the United States Army Command and General Staff College on or after February 28, 1990. Allows individuals employed as professors, instructors, or lecturers at the Center before the enactment of this Act to choose whether to be paid under the former or revised compensation schedule.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Reform Act of 1992 - Title I: Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Reform - Revises the formula for the computation of the payment to surviving spouses of veterans of dependency and indemnity compensation to make such payment a flat monthly amount of $700, increased by $50 monthly in the case of: (1) the death of a veteran while performing active duty; or (2) the death of a veteran due to a service-connected disability if such disability was rated total either for the five years immediately preceding death or from the date of the veteran's discharge. Provides that, for the payment of such compensation to surviving spouses of veterans who died before October 1, 1992, the monthly rate shall be the higher amount between the current and revised formula. Increases the additional rate paid to a surviving spouse for each child of the deceased veteran under the age of 18. Title II: Life Insurance Programs - Increases the maximum amount of Servicemen's Group Life Insurance authorized to be carried by a veteran from $100,000 to $200,000 in additional increments of $10,000. Increases to $200,000 the authorized amount of Veterans' Group Life Insurance and makes it renewable on a five-year basis (currently, nonrenewable). Provides additional optional coverage of $10,000 in supplemental service disabled veterans' insurance (SSDI) for veterans currently carrying National Service Life Insurance who qualify for a waiver of premiums due to total disability. Outlines SSDI application requirements. Requires premiums to be paid for SSDI coverage. Increases the authorized amount of Veterans' Mortgage Life Insurance to the lesser of either $90,000 (currently, $40,000) or the amount of the loan outstanding on the home.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1993 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for the defense agencies and the Defense Inspector General for procurement and for the destruction of lethal chemical weapons under the chemical demilitarization program. Repeals a provision requiring a separate budget request for the procurement of equipment for the reserves. Title II: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for the armed forces and the defense agencies for research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D). Earmarks funds authorized to the defense agencies for: (1) the Deputy Director, Defense Research and Engineering; (2) the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation; and (3) chemical agents and munitions destruction, defense. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for operation and maintenance for: the armed forces; the defense agencies; the reserves; medical programs, defense; the National Guard; the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice; the Defense Inspector General; drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense; the Court of Military Appeals; environmental restoration, defense; humanitarian assistance; and chemical agents and munitions destruction, defense. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for working capital funds for the armed forces and the defense agencies. Empowers the Defense Inspector General with the authority to provide for any emergency or extraordinary expenses which cannot be anticipated or classified. Repeals the Federal ceiling on the number of employees in headquarters and nonmanagement headquarters activities and support activities. Repeals a Federal provision requiring the Secretary of Defense to reduce the number of civilian Department of Defense (DOD) employees employed by industrial- or commercial-type activities. Repeals specified provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 which: (1) limit the authority of the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager to dispose of materials in the NDS; and (2) require the Manager to obligate specified sums for the acquisition of materials in the NDS during FY 1992 and 1993. Provides that during FY 1992 and thereafter, sales of stockpiled material in the NDS Transaction Fund may not exceed $1,000,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a moratorium on the acquisition of new material for the NDS in order to reduce existing excess material in the stockpile. Prohibits, except to the extent authorized in appropriation Acts, the use of funds available in the NDS Transaction Fund from being obligated or expended to finance the conduct of R&D activities for the development or production of advanced materials. National Defense Sealift Improvement Act - Establishes in the Treasury the National Defense Sealift Fund. Requires the Secretary to administer the Fund, obligating and expending Fund sums for: (1) R&D relating to national defense sealift; (2) construction, purchase, lease, alteration, conversion, or operation and maintenance of sealift vessels for national defense purposes; and (3) such other purposes authorized by law relating to national defense sealift. Authorizes appropriations. States that proceeds from the sale or lease of certain vessels shall be deposited into the Fund. Transfers certain prior unobligated balances into the Fund from Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds. Title IV: Personnel Authorizations for Fiscal Year 1993 - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1993. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1993. Permits such end strengths to vary no more than two percent. Requires end strength reductions for the Selected Reserve for such fiscal year. Requires such end strength to be increased whenever members of the Selected Reserve are released from active duty. Authorizes end strengths for FY 1993 for members of the reserves on active duty in support of the reserves. Increases the number of certain enlisted and officer personnel authorized to be on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes and specifies the average military training student loads for FY 1993. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Title V: General Provisions - Increases from four to every five years the physical examination requirement for members of the Ready Reserve. National Guard Amendments of 1992 - Adds warrant officers and enlisted members of the National Guard to those females authorized to be in the U.S. militia. Repeals Federal provisions requiring each member of the Army or Air National Guard called into Federal service to undergo a physical examination. Requires all parts of a National Guard unit to be included in a drill and instruction within 90 consecutive days (currently, 30) in order to be credited as an assembly for drill and instruction for purposes of National Guard duty requirements. Waives a required 30-day prior notification of termination for a National Guard technician when such technician: (1) is serving under a temporary appointment; (2) is serving in a trial or probationary period; or (3) has voluntarily ceased to be a member of the National Guard when such membership is a condition of employment. Repeals a current ceiling on the number of such technicians who may be employed at any one time. Includes commissioned officers of the Army or Air National Guard with those officers empowered to declare National Guard property as unserviceable through fair wear and tear. Waives a required increase in the pay and allowances of member of the armed forces in conformity with annual GS-level increases. Provides, in lieu thereof, effective on January 1, 1993, an increase of 3.7 percent in the rates of basic pay, basic allowance for subsistence, and basic allowance for quarters. Repeals a provision of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 requiring the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on U.S. expenditures in support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Revises the annual date for the report of the Secretary to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (defense committees) with respect to special access programs. Provides lease terms and conditions to be followed by the Secretary when leasing defense property for display or demonstration at international shows or trade expositions or to foreign governments, when the lessee is the manufacturer of the defense equipment. Allows the Secretary to acquire from NATO and its subsidiary bodies logistic support, supplies, and services for elements of the armed forces (currently, only for elements of the armed forces deployed in Europe or adjacent waters). Provides that limitations on the amounts that may be obligated or accrued by the United States for the acquisition of defense supplies shall not apply to a period of active hostilities involving U.S. armed forces (currently, involving NATO). Amends the Arms Export Control Act and similar armed forces provisions to require participants in cooperative R&D projects with friendly foreign countries to share equitably the overhead and administrative costs as well as the costs of claims (currently, only the first two costs are shared). Extends through: (1) FY 1995 the aviation officer retention bonus; (2) FY 1994 the provision of special pay to enlisted members of the Selected Reserve assigned to certain high priority units; (3) FY 1995 provisions determining the computation of creditable service as commissioned officers before mandatory transfer to the Retired Reserve; (4) FY 1995 the grade determination authority for certain reserve medical officers; (5) FY 1995 the promotion authority for certain reserve officers serving on active duty; (6) FY 1995 the provision of education loans for certain health professionals who serve in the Selected Reserve; (7) FY 1994 the accession bonus for registered nurses serving in military medical facilities; (8) FY 1994 the special pay for nurse anesthetists; (9) FY 1997 the special pay for military enlistment and reenlistment bonuses for active duty forces; (10) FY 1995 the special pay for enlistment and reenlistment bonuses for reserve forces; (11) FY 1993 the provision of special pay for enlisted members of the Selected Reserve assigned to high priority units; (12) FY 1995 the authority for special pay for critically short wartime health specialists in the Selected Reserve; and (13) FY 2001 the major defense acquisition pilot program authorized under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991. Repeals the authority for the temporary promotion of certain critically-skilled Navy lieutenants. Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Revision Act of 1992 - Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act to state as a purpose of such Act the identification of stocks of certain strategic and critical materials. States that the quantity of materials to be stockpiled under the Act should be sufficient to meet the needs of the United States during a national emergency requiring significant (currently, total) mobilization of the economy. Removes a provision prohibiting the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) from being used for budgetary purposes. Requires the handling, storage, security, maintenance, and disposal of materials in the NDS to be done in an environmentally sound manner. Allows materials in the NDS to be replaced by better materials when necessary to prevent deterioration. Allows materials to be timely disposed when becoming obsolete. Removes a current requirement limiting the President's acquisition of interests in real or personal property for storage, security, and maintenance of materials in the NDS to a 20-year period. Authorizes the President to loan NDS materials to Federal agencies when in the interest of national defense. Removes a prohibition against the obligation or appropriation of funds for the acquisition of materials in the NDS unless such funds have been authorized by law. Allows a disposal from the NDS (other than certain excepted disposals) to be made only if it has been included in the materials plan report currently required under Federal law, or the Congress has been properly notified. Removes a requirement prohibiting any disposal the effect of which would be an unobligated balance in the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (NDS Fund) in excess of $100,000,000. Prohibits disposals from the NDS in any one fiscal year in excess of $1,000,000,000. Allows any proposed or new expenditures or disposals detailed in a materials plan for a fiscal year to be carried over to the materials plans for subsequent fiscal years. Allows money received from the sale and rotation of materials in the NDS to be used for general purposes of the NDS Fund. (Currently, moneys received from the sale of rotated materials may only be used for the acquisition of replacement material.) Adds to the authorized uses of the NDS Fund: (1) contracting for materials development and research; (2) purchase or purchase commitment of strategic and critical materials of domestic origin when needed for the NDS; and (3) contracting or commitment to contract with domestic facilities for the upgrading, refining, or processing of materials in the NDS when necessary to convert such materials into a form more suitable for storage and subsequent disposition or use in a national emergency. Authorizes the President (currently, the NDS Manager) to barter materials in the stockpile in order to acquire, upgrade, refine, or process other materials. Repeals a Federal provision prohibiting the President from delegating his authority to dispose of stockpiled materials and to import strategic and critical materials from non-Communist countries. Adds the definition of "significant change" for purposes of a significant change proposed by the President to the Congress in the required annual materials plans. Repeals provisions of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1987, and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 which require the President, during FY 1987 through 1933, to award contracts for the conversion of chromium and manganese ores held in the NDS into high carbon ferrochromium and high carbon ferromanganese. Authorizes the NDS Manager to: (1) revise quantities of materials to be stockpiled; and (2) dispose of such materials as authorized by law or as determined by the Manager to be in excess of current stockpile requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Defense Workers Bill of Rights Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide each person determined to be a displaced defense worker (a defense facility employee laid off or terminated due to the reduction or elimination of defense contracts) with written certification of such displaced status. Prohibits an eviction or distress from being made with respect to the premises of a displaced defense worker for which the rent does not exceed $1,200 per month for a period of one year after termination or layoff, or the date on which the displaced worker returns to that or comparable employment, except upon leave of court granted in an action affecting the right of possession. Provides for an automatic stay of such proceedings for up to three months, unless the court determines that the availability of the defense worker to pay the rent is not materially affected by being displaced. Provides penalties for violation of the eviction and distress prohibitions. Provides that, in the case of a displaced defense worker who has paid a deposit or an installment under a contract or lease, no person shall exercise any right or option to rescind or terminate the contract or resume possession of the property for nonpayment by the displaced defense worker, except by action of a court of competent jurisdiction. Provides penalties for violations and judicial remedies for breach of such installment contracts, including repayment of installment payments or a stay of proceedings. Provides that, in the case of an existing mortgage or trust deed for real or personal property owned by a displaced defense worker on the date of his or her termination or layoff, a court, in an action to enforce payment obligations, may stay the proceedings or make such other disposition of the case as may be equitable to conserve the interests of all parties. Provides penalties for violations and judicial remedies in such actions, including payment to the displaced defense worker of his or her equitable interest in the property before foreclosure. Prohibits an appropriate Federal banking agency from taking any action, or maintaining or enforcing any regulation, which causes an insured depository institution to: (1) violate provisions of the foreclosure protection requirements of this Act; or (2) enforce an obligation for which the displaced defense worker is entitled to protection. Provides that no sale of real or personal property and property owned for dwelling, business, or agricultural purposes shall be made until: (1) one year after the worker's termination or layoff; or (2) the date on which the displaced worker returns to his or her original or comparable employment, unless the court determines that the ability of the defense worker to pay such taxes or assessments is not materially affected by being displaced. Allows the court to stay a proceeding for the sale of property for collection of taxes or assessments for up to six months after the end of the required waiting period. Provides that when, by law, such property may be sold or forfeited for collection purposes, the displaced defense worker shall have the right to redeem such property for up to six months after the waiting period. Provides an interest limit of six percent on taxes or assessment allowed to remain unpaid during the required waiting period.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to expand the program of employment and training assistance for dislocated workers to include workers in substantially and seriously affected defense communities. Includes such workers under the defense conversion adjustment program under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Industrial Revitalization Act of 1992 - Title I: Domestic Loan Guarantee Fund for the Revitalization of American Industry - Creates an Economic Transition Assistance Board. Authorizes the Board to guarantee principal and interest on loans and, in certain circumstances, provide interest subsidies for the loans, giving priority to aerospace manufacturing loans. Sets forth assistance conditions, including that the applicant be: (1) affected by U.S. defense budget reductions or by assistance by foreign governments to foreign competitors; and (2) engaged in work critical to national security or economic security. Requires full collateralization. Prohibits, during the loan and without Board approval, certain borrower actions, including: (1) declaring an extraordinary dividend; (2) making payment on certain other indebtedness; or (3) shifting any significant part of its manufacturing activities outside the United States. Limits the aggregate amount of obligations of the Board and the maximum obligations to any single enterprise. Establishes in the Treasury an emergency loan guarantee fund to be administered by the Board to pay Board expenses and to fulfill the Board's obligations under this title. Authorizes the Board, if amounts in the fund are insufficient, to issue obligations to the Secretary of the Treasury. Requires any Federal Reserve bank which is requested to do so to act as fiscal agent for the Board. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Commercial Aircraft Agreement - Requires the U.S. Trade Representative to report on the operation of the Agreement Concerning the Application of the GATT Agreement in Civil Aircraft, including on: (1) subsidies to the aerospace industry by European Community nations; (2) any Agreement benefits to the U.S. aerospace industry; and (3) subsidies by the European Space Agency to Arianespace in commercial launch services. Title III: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Technology Development - Requires the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to: (1) modify procedures for the development, acquisition, and dissemination of technical aeronautics and space information; and (2) conduct technology projects with U.S. industry partners under agreements providing at least partially exclusive rights to participating companies. Title IV: Export-Import Bank Provisions - Requires the Export-Import Bank of the United States to report on: (1) the competitiveness of the bank's export finance services to the domestic commercial aerospace industry as compared to the services offered by foreign governments that finance the export of commercial aircraft; and (2) how the bank can more effectively assist U.S. commercial aircraft manufacturers to sell in the world market. Title V: Skills Conversion - Establishes the Skills Conversion Program to reeducate, retrain, and reorient scientific and technical personnel displaced or threatened with displacement by defense budget reductions to fill positions in existing or emerging industries. Authorizes grants for: (1) retraining services; and (2) assistance to employees during retraining. Mandates a fellowship, not to exceed a specified amount, for an employee while participating in the program.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 - Title I: 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 military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, repair of real property, architectural and engineering design services, military family housing functions within the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Extends certain FY 1990 military construction projects. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy 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 military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, repair of real property, architectural and engineering design services, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force 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 military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, repair of real property, architectural and engineering design services, and for military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title IV: 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 appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, conforming storage facilities, certain base closure and realignment activities, repair of real property, and military family housing functions within DOD. Authorizes prior-year unobligated funds to be made available for military construction projects authorized in this title. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for such contributions. Title VI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, repair of real property, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts. Title VII: Expiration of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles I through VI on October 1, 1995, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1996, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Title VIII: General Provisions - Expands authorized military construction activities to include alteration and repair with respect to a military installation. Requires a cost of over $15,000 which extends the useful life of a facility in order to be considered a military construction project. Includes repair activities within the definition of minor military construction. Requires any such repair within a minor military construction project to cost more than $15,000 and to extend the useful life of the facility. Provides that unspecified minor construction and repair projects funded by working capital funds may be so funded without being subject to the dollar limitations prescribed for such construction and repair activities. Repeals Federal provisions authorizing the Secretary of the military department concerned to carry out facility renovation projects that combine maintenance, repair, and minor construction projects for an entire single-purpose facility, or one or more areas of a multipurpose facility, using operation and maintenance funds. Authorizes a reserve forces facilities acquisition project costing $15,000 (currently, $300,000) or less to be carried out with operation and maintenance funds. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to carry out an emergency construction project five days (currently, 21) after notification to the Congress. Allows funds from the Department of Defense Base Closure Account or from the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990 to be used for base closure and realignment activities under either the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act or the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1991. Revises the funding limitations contained in each such Act to conform to such change. Defines further the base closure and realignment activities authorized under each such Act as the environmental restoration, community economic adjustment assistance, and disposal of property at bases selected for closure under such Acts. Revises the computation of the amount of proceeds obtained from the sale or transfer of property in connection with a base closure or realignment which are to be transferred to a reserve account and used for acquiring, constructing, or improving commissary stores and nonappropriated fund instrumentalities under the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act, the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey all U.S. rights and interest in real property consisting of the operations portion of the Marine Corps Air Station, Tustin, California, in exchange for the construction of replacement facilities at either the Tustin location, the Marine Corps Base at Camp Pendleton, California, or the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, or a combination of each such facility. Requires such conveyance authority to expire 12 months after enactment of this Act, unless the Secretary makes certain determinations with respect to such conveyance. Provides that, upon such expiration of authority, the closure of the Tustin facility shall proceed as a closure under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer available DOD funds to a fund established under the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 for persons eligible under such Act for homeowners assistance. Waives certain congressional reporting requirements with respect to real property acquisitions or leases by DOD in excess of specified amounts in the event of a declaration of war or national emergency, or for real property transactions required in connection with a contingency operation. Requires each military department Secretary who exercises such waiver to notify the Senate and House Armed Services Committees within 30 days after its exercise. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to direct the Secretary of Defense to ensure that the authorization requested by DOD for construction costs resulting from closing or realigning each installation (currently, for each military construction project) does not exceed the cost estimate provided by the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake (and to authorize the Secretaries of the military departments to undertake) military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law in the event of a declaration of a contingency operation by the Secretary. (Currently, this authority is permitted only in the declaration of war or national emergency.) Makes inapplicable to unspecified minor military construction or repair projects certain authorized cost variation limitations for a military construction project or for the construction, improvement, and acquisition of a military family housing project.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Designates August 7, 1992, as Battle of Guadalcanal Remembrance Day.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1992
Veterans' Compensation Rates and Pension Eligibility Reform Act of 1992 - Title I: Disability Compensation and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Rate Increases - Increases the rates of: (1) veterans' disability compensation; (2) additional compensation for veterans' dependents; (3) the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans; (4) dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children; and (5) supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for disabled adult children. Requires such increases to be the same percentage as the increase in benefit amounts payable under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make consistent adjustments administratively to the rates of disability compensation payable to certain persons who are not in receipt of compensation for service-connected disability or death. Requires the Secretary to publish such increases in the Federal Register at the same time that OASDI benefit increases are required to be published. Title II: Wartime Service Requirement for Pension - Increases the minimum service period required for a war veteran to qualify for a pension due to permanent and total disability that is not service-connected to 180 days or more (currently 90) during a period of war or for an aggregate of 180 days or more (currently 90) in two or more separate periods of service during more than one period of war. Makes such amendment applicable only to veterans who first enter into active military service after the end of the Persian Gulf conflict.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1992
Title I: Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies - Rescinds specified appropriations made available to the Department of Agriculture for: (1) the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (2) the Cooperative State Research Service; (3) the National Agricultural Library; and (4) the Farmers Home Administration. Title II: Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies - Rescinds certain appropriations made available to: (1) the Department of Commerce for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; and (2) the Board for International Broadcasting for the Israel Relay Station. Title III: Department of Defense - Military - Rescinds specified appropriations made available to the Department of Defense for: (1) military personnel, Army; (2) operation and maintenance; (3) procurement; (4) research, development, test and evaluation; (5) the Pentagon Reservation Maintenance Revolving Fund; and (6) the Intelligence Community Staff. Title IV: Energy and Water Development - Rescinds certain appropriations made available to: (1) the Department of the Army for the Civil Corps of Engineers; and (2) the Department of Energy for general science and research activities and departmental administration. Title V: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs - Rescinds specified appropriations made available to the President for multilateral economic assistance, bilateral economic assistance, and military assistance. Title VI: Department of the Interior and Related Agencies - Rescinds certain funds made available to the Department of the Interior for the National Park Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Title VII: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies - Rescinds one percent of the funds delayed for obligation until September 30, 1992, under the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992. Excepts payments to States for child care assistance from such rescission. Rescinds certain funds made available to the Department of Health and Human Services for the Public Health Service. Title VIII: Legislative Branch - Rescinds certain funds made available to the House of Representatives for salaries and expenses, and reduces funds for official mail costs. Title IX: Department of Defense - Military - Rescinds specified funds provided in Military Construction Appropriations Acts. Title X: Department of Transportation and Related Agencies - Rescinds funds made available to the Federal Highway Administration for bridges on dams and the Federal Railroad Administration for local rail freight assistance. Title XI: Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies - Rescinds specified funds made available to the Department of Housing and Urban Development for: (1) Homeownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere Grants (HOPE Grants); (2) the Home Investment Partnerships Program; (3) annual contributions for assisted housing; and (4) the Flexible Subsidy Fund. Rescinds specified funds made available to: (1) the Environmental Protection Agency for construction grants; and (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research and development.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1992
Displaced Federal Employees Assistance Act of 1992 - Establishes notification requirements for reductions in force (RIFs) affecting Federal employees. Requires: (1) at least 60 days' written notice to the employee and any such employee's exclusive representative for collective-bargaining purposes before such employee is so released; and (2) 60 days' notice, if the RIF would involve the separation of a significant number of employees, to the appropriate State dislocated worker units and the chief elected official of such units of local government as appropriate. Specifies that, with respect to certain RIFs involving the separation of a significant number of employees of the Department of Defense (DOD), the notice period shall be 120 days. Requires: (1) the Office of Personnel Management to establish and keep current a Government-wide list of vacant (or soon to be vacant) positions; and (2) specified executive agencies, in filling vacant positions for which qualified RIFed employees have applied, to give full consideration to the applications of such employees before selecting any candidate from outside the agency for the position, subject to specified limitations. Requires the Secretary to establish a program under which separation pay (equal to six months basic pay) may be offered to encourage eligible employees to take immediate or early retirement, subject to specified requirements. Allows RIFed employees to keep their Government health insurance for 18 months while paying only the employee share of the premium, with the cost paid out of DOD's salaries and expenses account.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1992
Amends the Arms Export Control Act to authorize the President to waive or reduce charges for certain sales of defense articles or services that would advance U.S. interests in standardization with other friendly European countries in furtherance of mutual defense treaties or foreign procurement in the United States under coproduction arrangements.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1992
Prohibits the proposed sale to Kuwait of an air defense system described in the certification submitted to the Congress pursuant to the Arms Export Control Act on March 31, 1992 (transmittal number 92-18, including PATRIOT and HAWK missiles).
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1992
Khmer Rouge Prosecution and Exclusion Act - Establishes an Office of Cambodian Genocide Investigation within the Department of State to: (1) investigate crimes against humanity committed by Khmer Rouge leaders between 1975 and 1979; (2) provide the people of Cambodia with access to evidence held as a result of such investigation; (3) submit relevant data to an international penal tribunal that may be convened to hear and judge the genocidal acts committed by the Khmer Rouge; and (4) develop the U.S. proposal for the establishment of an international criminal tribunal for the prosecution of those accused of genocide in Cambodia. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the President to report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee every six months on: (1) the activities of the Office and new facts learned about Khmer Rouge practices; and (2) the steps taken by the President to promote human rights, support efforts to bring to justice the leadership of the Khmer Rouge, and to prevent the recurrence of human rights abuses through actions that are unrelated to United Nations activities in Cambodia and are consistent with the Cambodian political settlement agreement signed in October 1991. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exclude from admission into the United States any alien who was a member of the national Khmer Rouge military or political leadership between April 17, 1975, and January 7, 1979. Lists specified individuals to be excluded. Urges the President to encourage foreign governments to exclude from their countries former and present Khmer Rouge leaders described by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Rescinds the budgetary resources specified in the rescission proposal (R92-130) (Research, development, test and evaluation, Defense Agencies) transmitted to the Congress by the President on April 9, 1992, pursuant to the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Department of Veterans Affairs Nurse Pay Amendments of 1992 - Revises the current pay grade schedule for nurses employed in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) of the Department of Veterans Affairs (Department), replacing the four-grade pay schedule with a five-grade schedule. Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1992) the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to waive certain restrictions with respect to the receipt of retirement pay by nurses in the VHA. Authorizes the Secretary to establish and adjust the basic pay rates for covered employees at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in the Philippines and at Department health-care facilities located outside of the United States in order to recruit and retain a sufficient number of health-care personnel. Authorizes the director of a Department health-care facility, in conducting a survey of the local labor market in order to determine competitive rates of pay for Department personnel, to conduct such survey in another labor market area when the size or composition of the local labor market area is insufficient to establish competitive salary rates. Provides similar provisions allowing certain alternate data to be used in determining any required adjustments to the pay rates of Department certified registered nurse anesthetists in a local labor market area when survey results are insufficient. Requires a director, when surveying for the "beginning rate of compensation" to be paid to a health-care employee, to survey the minimum rates actually paid to (currently, established for) corresponding personnel in non-Department health-care facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to establish, for a Department health-care employee who transfers at the request of the Secretary to another Department facility, a higher rate of pay than is otherwise paid at such facility when determined necessary to recruit the employee for such facility. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on the use of such pay increase authority. Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1992) the authority of the Secretary to furnish respite care to veterans eligible for Department hospital, nursing home, or domiciliary care. Extends through December 31, 1996 (currently, September 30, 1992) the authority to contract with the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in the Philippines to furnish medical care to U.S. veterans. Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1992) the authority of the Department to: (1) carry out the Department Health Professional Scholarship Program; and (2) make grants to States for the construction or renovation of veterans' nursing homes.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Requires, beginning with FY 1993, the cost of the "Contributions to International Peacekeeping Activities" account of the Department of State to be treated as a national defense cost and expense of the Department of Defense. Prohibits the Director of the Office of Management and Budget for FY 1993 from adjusting the discretionary spending limits for the defense and international categories under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 in order to conform with such reclassification. Declares that nothing in this Act alters the role of the Department of State with respect to international peacekeeping activities.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Designates the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Directs the Secretary of Defense, upon appropriate recommendation, to credit an officer as having completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment (for purposes of possible promotion after completing a joint duty assignment) if such officer, during the period after August 1, 1990, and before October 1, 1992, served in an assignment in the Persian Gulf that: (1) provided significant experience in joint matters; or (2) involved frequent professional interaction with units and members of any other U.S. armed force or of an allied force. Provides recommendation procedures. Makes certain reporting and policy requirements inapplicable to such joint duty crediting. Directs the Secretary to submit certain information with regard to the exercise of the joint duty credit authority as part of a required FY 1993 report to the Congress concerning defense capabilities and programs. Provides that the individual who began service on December 5, 1991, in the position of Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy for National Security Affairs shall continue to hold the grade of admiral while awaiting retirement from the Navy until a specified conditional date, notwithstanding a current Federal provision limiting the holding of such grade to 90 days after being relieved from such position.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Rescinds certain proposed budget authority for: (1) Army procurement of aircraft, weapons, and tracked combat vehicles; (2) Navy procurement, including aircraft and weapons; (3) Marine Corps procurement; (4) National Guard and Reserve equipment; and (5) research and development activities of the Army, Air Force, and defense agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Title I: Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act Amendments of 1992 - Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 to include within the definition of "airport development" certain projects to improve passenger and freight airport access. Extends: (1) airport improvement grant authority; (2) specified funds for airport noise reduction activities; and (3) authorization of appropriations for air navigation facilities. Authorizes appropriations to be available if the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) determines that its Capital Investment Plan is in need of substantial modification. Authorizes appropriations for research, engineering, and development demonstration projects. Requires that the total annual amounts appropriated from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund (Trust Fund) for airport and airway improvement programs shall equal 85 percent of the FAA's annual budget, except for liquidating aircraft loan guarantees. Extends weather services reimbursement authority. Increases the noise set-aside. Obligates such increases on a priority basis to sponsors of primary airports and to contiguous political jurisdictions where compatible land use control measures have been adopted. Amends the military airport program to: (1) increase funding set-asides; (2) increase the number of program airports; (3) repeal the airport designation deadline; and (4) set aside funds for construction and improvement of parking lots, fuel farms, and utilities. Sets aside funds for integrated urban transportation planning. Increases the scope of activities within the disadvantaged small business set-aside requirement. Authorizes up to 50 percent funding increases for certain nonprimary airports' land acquisition costs. Authorizes a State block grant program for projects at general aviation airports. Permits States which have successfully administered such block grants for at least one year to administer block grants for reliever and small commercial service airports. Title II: Federal Aviation Act of 1958 Amendments - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to permit: (1) sole source contracts with States or political subdivisions for certain air traffic control tower operations; and (2) limited source procurement on the same basis as certain other Federal agencies. Authorizes travel and per diem reimbursement for non-Federal personnel providing aviation security training. Military Air Traffic Controller Transition Act of 1992 - Authorizes the hiring of retired military air traffic controllers under the age of 46 as FAA controllers in auxiliary flight service stations and at specified terminal facilities. Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to apply FAA safety certification requirements to airports that serve aircraft designed for ten or more (currently 30) passenger seats. Amends the civil penalty assessment program to: (1) repeal the monetary assessment ceiling; (2) give deference to FAA rules interpretations in hearings before the National Transportation Safety Board; and (3) make the program permanent. Requires the FAA to be notified of adjacent sanitary landfill establishment or expansion. Extends aviation insurance authority. Authorizes the FAA to use certain aviation related fees collected outside the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
High Value Economic Growth Act of 1992 - Title I: Economic Growth Incentives - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a first-time homebuyer who purchases a principal residence a tax credit of ten percent of the purposes price of such residence. Limits the credit to $5,000. Requires married individuals filing jointly to both be first-time homebuyers. Makes this credit applicable to residences acquired after February 1, 1992, and before January 1, 1993, or for which a binding contract is entered into during such period. Allows an additional depreciation deduction of 15 percent of the adjusted basis of equipment: (1) for which the original use commences with the taxpayer on or after February 1, 1992; (2) which is acquired by the taxpayer on or after February 1, 1992, and before January 1, 1993; and (3) which is placed in service before July 1, 1993. Requires such deduction to be taken in the taxable year after the year property was placed in service. Allows the special deduction in computing the alternative minimum tax. Allows penalty free-withdrawals from qualified retirement plans during 1992 for: (1) the acquisition costs of a principal residence of a first-time homebuyer who is the taxpayer or the child or grandchild of the taxpayer; or (2) the purchase of a new passenger automobile. Excludes certain rental real estate activities from treatment as a passive activity for purposes of determining passive activity losses and credits. Modifies exceptions to the exclusion of real property acquired by a qualified organization from the meaning of acquisition indebtedness. Makes certain exceptions inapplicable to sales out of foreclosure by a financial institution. Applies the meaning of acquisition indebtedness to investments in certain large partnerships where the principal purpose of partnership allocations is not tax avoidance. Repeals the special rule for publicly traded partnerships with respect to the treatment of unrelated business taxable income. Title II: Revenue Offsets - Subtitle A: General Provisions - Amends the Higher Education Technical Amendments of 1991 to eliminate the statute of limitations on the collection of guaranteed student loans. Increases the base tax rate on ozone-depleting chemicals. Eliminates the different rates for initially listed chemicals and newly listed chemicals. Requires dealers in stock or securities to use the mark to market inventory accounting methods. Disallows interest on overpayments when certain refunds have been made. Subtitle B: Electromagnetic Spectrum Function - Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce and the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), at least semiannually, to conduct joint spectrum planning meetings with respect to: (1) future spectrum needs; (2) the spectrum allocations necessary to accommodate those needs; and (3) actions necessary to promote the efficient use of the spectrum. Directs the Secretary and the Chairman to report annually to the President on the joint spectrum planning meetings and any resulting recommendations. Directs the Secretary to submit to the President a report identifying bands of frequencies that: (1) are allocated on a primary basis for Federal Government use and eligible for licensing pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934 (the Act); (2) are not required for the present or identifiable future needs of the Government; (3) can feasibly be made available during the next fifteen years for use under the Act for non-Government users; (4) will not result in excessive losses to the Government in relations to benefits that may be obtained through non-Government users; and (5) are likely to have significant value for non-Government users under the Act. Sets forth criteria for identifying, and recommending for reassignment, such frequencies. Requires the Secretary to submit to the President a report which makes a preliminary identification of reallocable bands of frequencies. Directs the Secretary to convene a private sector advisory committee to: (1) revise the bands of frequencies identified in the preliminary report; (2) advise the Secretary with respect to the bands of frequencies which should be included in the final report; (3) receive public comment on the reports; and (4) prepare and submit such report. Directs the advisory committee to submit to the Secretary, the FCC, and specified congressional committees recommendations for the reform of the process of allocating the electromagnetic spectrum between Federal and non-Federal use. Directs the Secretary, as part of the final report, to include a time-table for the effective dates by which the President shall, within 15 years, withdraw or limit assignments on frequencies specified in the report. Directs the President, after receiving the final report from the Secretary, to: (1) withdraw or limit the assignment to a Government station of any frequency which such report recommends for reallocation; (2) withdraw or limit the assignment to a Government station of any frequency which such report recommends to be reallocated or made available for mixed use; (3) assign or reassign other frequencies to Government stations as necessary to adjust to such withdrawal or limitation of assignments; and (4) publish in the Federal Register a notice and description of all such actions taken. Authorizes the President to substitute alternative frequencies in the interest of national security, important Governmental needs, public health or safety, or Federal financial considerations. Provides for the reimbursement to non-Government licensees, or non-Government entities operating on behalf of a Government licensee, for the incremental costs directly attributable to the loss of the use of the frequency reassigned or otherwise limited under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to provide such reimbursements. Directs the FCC, at specified intervals, to: (1) complete a public notice and comment proceeding regarding the allocation of the initial spectrum to be reassigned, and to formulate a plan to assign such spectrum pursuant to competitive bidding procedures; and (2) complete a public notice and comment proceeding, and prepare and report to the President a plan for the distribution under the Act, of the frequency bands reallocated pursuant to this Act. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to officially authorize the FCC to assign the frequencies reallocated from Government to non-Government use under this Act. Makes certain frequency reassignments available only to the extent provided in appropriations Acts. Authorizes the President to reclaim reassigned frequencies for reassignment to Government stations. Sets forth procedures for reclaiming frequencies. Directs the FCC to use competitive bidding procedures during spectrum reallocation pursuant to this Act. Outlines other procedures to be followed by the FCC with regard to permits and licenses relating to such frequency reallocation awards. Outlines specified instances when competitive bidding procedures shall not be required. Subtitle C: Other Provisions - Amends Federal law to extend provisions regarding lump sum withdrawal of retirement contributions for civil service retirees from October 1995 to October 1996. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to extend the collection of Patent and Trademark Office user fees from 1995 to 1996. Establishes the amount to be collected in 1996. Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to provide an extension of customs user fees from 1995 to 1996. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the requirement for information returns on veterans benefits from September 30, 1992, until September 30, 1998. Revises military law with respect to housing loan default procedure to take into account losses sustained on the resale of property. Amends the Social Security Act and Federal law to apply certain Medicare limits to the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program for enrollees aged 65 or older.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Directs the Secretary of Defense, upon appropriate recommendation, to credit an officer as having completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment (for purposes of possible promotion after completing a joint duty assignment) if such officer, during the period after August 1, 1990, and before October 1, 1992, served in an assignment in the Persian Gulf that: (1) provided significant experience in joint matters; or (2) involved frequent professional interaction with units and members of any other U.S. armed force or of an allied force. Provides recommendation procedures. Makes certain reporting and policy requirements inapplicable to such joint duty crediting. Directs the Secretary to submit certain information with regard to the exercise of the joint duty credit authority as part of a required FY 1993 report to the Congress concerning defense capabilities and programs.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Designates the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.