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Bill· SS. 1159 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1993
Women in the Armed Forces Commemorative Coins Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) mint and issue coins to commemorate the women who have served in the armed forces of the United States; and (2) transfer the surcharges received from coin sales to the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation to be used to create, endow, and dedicate the Women in the Armed Forces Memorial.
Bill· SS. 1163 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Agriculture and Related Programs Title II: Commerce, Science, and Transportation Title III: Energy and Natural Resources Title IV: Finance Title V: National Defense Title VI: General Provisions Budget Deficit Reduction Act of 1993 - Title I: Agriculture and Related Programs - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to eliminate the wool and mohair price support program. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to eliminate: (1) the cotton price support and production adjustment programs; and (2) the rice price support and production adjustment programs. Title II: Commerce, Science, and Transportation - Terminates funding for the Advanced Solid Rocket Motor and the Space Exploration Initiative programs. Requires the Federal Communications Commission to initiate an auction process for licenses for the radio spectrum. Title III: Energy and Natural Resources - Eliminates funds for the Superconducting Super Collider. Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to require the establishment of annual domestic livestock grazing fees equal to fair market value. Abolishes grazing advisory boards. Requires the payment of annual holding fees or royalties for hardrock mining on Federal lands. Title IV: Finance - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require premiums to cover 100 percent of the costs for certain higher-income individuals. Increases the premium payments for such individuals. Title V: National Defense - Limits funding for: (1) Navy ballistic missile submarines and crews on patrol at sea concurrently; (2) Navy attack submarines; (3) Navy antisubmarine warfare weapons; (4) Army light infantry divisions; (5) Air Force tactical fighter wings; (6) weapons research and development and testing activities; and (7) the Strategic Defense Initiative and the Theater Missile Defense Initiative. Terminates: (1) the Navy MHC(V) coastal mine-hunting ship program; and (2) the Army Kinetic Energy Anti-Satellite Attack (ASAT) program. Requires the military departments to exercise early retirement authority to retire at least 60,000 members of the Armed Forces before October 1, 1994. Title VI: General Provisions - Transfers savings from this Act to the General fund of the Treasury.
Bill· HRH.R. 2528 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Countervailing and Antidumping Duty Amendments Title II: Market Access Provisions Title III: International Trade Negotiations Title IV: Other Miscellaneous Amendments Title V: Private Right of Action for Relief From Certain Forms of Anticompetitive Pricing Practices Title VI: Foreign Capital and Securities Markets Trade Equity and Fairness Act of 1993 - Title I: Countervailing and Antidumping Duty Amendments - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to direct the United States Customs Service, pursuant to the administering authority's direction, to assess an antidumping duty or countervailing duty for each entry of merchandise from the first U.S. purchaser that is independent of the exporter, manufacturer, producer, and certain other persons defined as an exporter. Prohibits such exporter, manufacturer, producer, or other person from absorbing or reimbursing duties to the first unrelated U.S. purchaser. (Sec. 102) Requires the administering authority to report annually to specified congressional committees on the number of administrative reviews commenced in the prior year, completed during the calendar year within 18 months of initiation, completed during the calendar year in longer than 18 months after initiation, and for each review that remains incomplete at the end of the calendar year more than 18 months after initiation, an estimated schedule for completion, including dates for preliminary and final determinations. (Sec. 103) Authorizes the International Trade Commission (ITC), in evaluating volume and price effects of imports with regard to determinations of material injury to a domestic market, to disregard, in its discretion, developments after the filing of an antidumping duty or countervailing duty petition. (Sec. 104) Prohibits the ITC from making an inference that there is no material injury if the volume of imports has decreased after the initiation of an antidumping duty or countervailing duty investigation. Directs the ITC to compare the price at which imported merchandise is sold to the ultimate consumer with the price at which like U.S. products are sold when evaluating the effect of such imports on prices of like U.S. products. (Sec. 105) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary) to report annually on certain liquidated and unliquidated imported merchandise. (Sec. 106) Requires the ITC, when determining whether a U.S. industry is threatened with material injury by reason of imports of merchandise, to consider among other relevant economic factors: (1) the actual and potential decline in order backlog of the domestic industry; and (2) monthly or quarterly trend information through the month of the filing of a petition. (Sec. 108) Requires the administering authority, with respect to the determination of foreign market value of imported merchandise under investigation, to determine whether sales in the home market of the country of exportation were made at less than the cost of producing such merchandise for all producers or exporters being investigated or reviewed. (Sec. 109) Requires the ITC, for purposes of determining material injury or its threat in antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations, to consider any previous injurious dumping or subsidization ("look-back") as an important factor in determining the domestic industry's vulnerability to continued or renewed material injury in cases where a petition has been previously filed with respect to a product or like product which was the basis of a final affirmative determination during the three years preceding the filing of such petition. Declares that concentration of subsidized or dumped imports exists with respect to a market if the percentage of subsidized or dumped imports to consumption and domestically produced like products in such market is clearly higher than the percentage is in the rest of the United States. (Sec. 110) Prohibits, for purposes of determining foreign market value of imported merchandise in antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations, any allowance to account for differences in input costs that are based on whether the end product made from the input is sold in the home market or exported. Prohibits any adjustment from being made to foreign market value because of adjustments made to the United States price. (Sec. 112) Requires all merchandise entered after an antidumping duty finding under bond and remaining unliquidated to be assessed interest from the date of entry to the date of liquidation. (Sec. 113) Requires the ITC to set forth procedures for the compensation of domestic producers who have been injured by foreign dumping. (Sec. 114) Declares diversionary input dumping to occur when: (1) a manufacturer incorporates into merchandise under an antidumping duty investigation a component which is the product of another country and which is the subject of an antidumping duty order or an international agreement to eliminate the effect of injurious imports (if entered into after an affirmative preliminary determination); and (2) the manufacturer under investigation purchased such component at a price which is less than the foreign market value. Requires the administering authority to investigate whether such dumping is occurring whenever it has reasonable grounds to believe that: (1) it is occurring; (2) it has a significant effect on the cost of producing the merchandise under investigation; and (3) official Government or other reliable trade statistics indicate that subsequent to the imposition of an antidumping duty order or implementation of an international agreement regarding such imports, shipments of such imports to the United States have increased either in quantity or market share. (Sec. 115) Sets forth, for purposes of determining the comparative benefit that has been bestowed upon a product used in the manufacture of merchandise which is the subject of a countervailing duty, specified factors that must be used as a basis for determining the price a manufacturer would otherwise pay for a product in obtaining it from an unsubsized seller. (Sec. 116) Directs the administering authority, if imported merchandise under investigation is produced in a nonmarket economy country, resold by a reseller in an intermediate country, and resold by such reseller at prices less than the cost of producing such merchandise, including costs of production for the nonmarket economy country, to determine the foreign market value of the merchandise on the basis of the value factors of production utilized in producing the merchandise in the country of production, plus an amount for general expenses and profit of the producer and reseller and the cost of containers, covering, and other expenses. (Sec. 117) Authorizes the disclosure of proprietary information that has been submitted to the administering authority or the ITC pursuant to an antidumping duty or countervailing duty proceeding to persons who are reviewing the propriety of the customs valuation on which customs duties were calculated for a deduction from the United States Price pursuant to a request from the administering authority. Requires the administering authority to refer to the Customs Service any claims that import duties required to be deducted from the United States Price are understated by reason of possible understatement of customs valuation. Requires the administering authority, in cases of undervaluation, to deduct such duties identified as properly owed for purposes of making its final determination. (Sec. 118) Directs the Secretary of Commerce and the ITC to transmit to the Congress a study, including recommendations, regarding the modification of standards with respect to making petitioning for countervailing and antidumping duty action less costly and more accessible for domestic petitioners. (Sec. 119) Requires the administering authority, whenever the cost of manufactuing merchandise which is the subject of a countervailing duty petition is significantly of U.S. origin (at least two percent of the manufacturing cost) and approximates or exceeds the U.S. content of the petitioner's product, to determine whether such petition is filed on behalf of a domestic industry. (Sec. 120) Requires, for purposes of determining the U.S. price of imported merchandise, that: (1) the purchase price and the exporter's sales price of such merchandise be adjusted by reducing the amount of any antidumping duty which the producer, exporter, or reseller pays on behalf of the importer, or reimburses to the importer either before or after assessment, including but not limited to transferring merchandise to a related importer at prices below cost of production plus normal profit; and (2) the exporter's sales price be adjusted by reducing, among other things, the amount of any reasonable profits from selling in the United States. (Sec. 122) Requires the appropriate customs officer, among other things, to reliquidate any entries that should have been subject to an antidumping or countervailing duty order but which were erroneously liquidated either by action of a foreign producer, exporter or importer, or by action of the Customs Service. Requires the Secretary, upon the request of an interested party to the petition, to provide access to the record of identified importers protected under an order with respect to all paper entries during the 12 months prior to a request or as to all documents connected with liquidations made during the same period. Requires an interested person to notify the Secretary of any discovered information that raises questions as to the proper administration of an antidumping or countervailing duty order. Authorizes such party to commence a civil action in the United States Court of International Trade for a review of a determination made by the Secretary or administering authority. (Sec. 123) Requires the administering authority to review any foreign producer identified by a domestic interested party, or where such party does not know the identity of the producers, the foreign producers supplying identified importers or purchaser of the imported product. (Sec. 124) Allows information released under protective order during an antidumping or countervailing duty investigation or administrative review by the administering authority to be maintained under such order during the pendency of such proceeding for purposes of identifying factual discrepancies between periods investigated or to allege relevant issues in subsequent administrative reviews, including the existence of a fictitious market or sales below cost of production. (Sec. 126) Prohibits, absent a finding of a fictitious market or compliance with certain requirements, the use of constructed value to determine foreign market value where the home market or third country markets account for at least ten percent by volume of exports to the United States. (Sec. 127) Makes unlawful the importation, the sale for importation, or the sale within the United States after importation by the owner, importer, or consignee of articles that: (1) have been grown, produced, processed, or mined pursuant to a valid patent where patent royalties paid are lower than those paid by agricultural, horticultural, or manufacturing operations in the United States; or (2) have been grown or treated with pesticides or other substances banned for use in the United States. (Sec. 128) Sets forth a timetable according to which the administering authority must initiate antidumping or countervailing duty investigations or issue preliminary or final determinations. Title II: Market Access Provisions - Directs the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to initiate a "Super 301" investigation of all acts, policies, and practices of Japan that affect the access of U.S. motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts to its market, including but not limited to: (1) acts, policies, and practices utilized in the Japanese automotive distribution system; (2) anticompetitie activities by private Japanese firms (including "Keiretsus"); (3) exclusionary business practices; and (4) testing requirements and other government regulations. (Sec. 201) Requires the USTR to negotiate with Japan for a trade agreement that: (1) eliminates such acts, policies, and practices; (2) provides enforcement of Japan's commitments under the Structural Impediments Initiative, the Market-Oriented Sector Specific agreements, and the Action Plan announced at the Tokyo Summit in January 1992 with respect to trade in, and purchase of, motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts; (3) establishes long term goals for the purchase of Japanese motor vehicle manufacturers of motor vehicle parts and accessories; (4) establishes procedures for the exchange of information between the United States and Japan that will permit the accurate assessment of the bilateral trade in motor vehicle parts; and (5) establishes private sector or government-sponsored review boards to resolve challenges to purchasing decisions by Japanese motor vehicle manufacturers with respect to compliance with identified specifications or competitiveness on price or other terms. Requires the USTR to report to the Congress if such negotiations prove unsuccessful. (Sec. 202) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to extend, through 1998, the "Super 301" program which identifies certain trade liberalization priority practices. Title III: International Trade Negotiations - Amends the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to prohibit certain dispute settlement procedures with respect to the review of countervailing duty and antidumping actions taken by signatories to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) from allowing: (1) the review of issues not properly presented to the investigating authorities for resolution during the administrative proceedings; (2) the review of issues before the conclusion of the administrative proceedings; (3) the conducting of an independent de novo investigation of the circumstances leading to such actions; and (4) in cases where a signatory provides for the administrative or judicial review of factual issues with respect to countervailing duty and antidumping actions, the extension of the review beyond whether the laws and regulations of that signatory, and the interpretation of such laws and regulations, are consistent with GATT. (Sec. 302) Declares as one of the principal negotiating objectives of the United States the negotiation of multilateral rules to permit rapid realignment of capacity to demand in situations of global structural excess capacity. (Sec. 303) Declares that the amendments made by this Act apply with respect to goods imported into the United States from Mexico and Canada. (Sec. 304) Prohibits the President from entering into any trade agreement that requires changes in U.S. antidumping laws which would reduce their effectiveness as a remedy against injurious dumped imports. Prohibits the Government from condoning the use by foreign governments of trade distorting subsidies, including development subsidies, that cause material injury to U.S. industries. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President review the provisions on antidumping contained in the Draft Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations proposed by the Director-General of the GATT on December 21, 1991, and seek changes in such provisions that are necessary to strengthen the effectiveness of U.S. antidumping laws, including, but not limited to, changes proposed by the United States in December 1992 and any changes needed to clarify the continuing right to cumulate and cross-cumulate imports under investigation. Title IV: Other Miscellaneous Amendments - Amends the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvement Act of 1982, as amended, to declare that specified sections of it concerning restraint of trade shall apply to export trade or export commerce with a foreign country, whether or not there is direct harm to consumers by reducing output or raising prices, if such conduct restrains U.S. export trade or export commerce with such foreign country, or any other foreign country. (Sec. 402) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize the President to impose tariffs on imported merchandise that is the product of any country that receives U.S. defense assistance so as to offset in whole or in part the cost of such assistance if such country: (1) has refused to contribute to its defense; (2) is a party to an agreement with the United States providing for such defense assistance; and (3) has had "Super 301" action taken against it within the last four years. (Sec. 403) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to change the time limits the ITC has to conclude and make a final determination with respect to any unfair trade practices investigation to the earliest practicable time after the publication of a notice to investigate. Requires the ITC within 30 days of the initiation of an investigation to establish a target date for its final determination. (Currently, not later than one year, 18 months in more complicated cases, after the date of publication.) Prohibits articles from being excluded from entry into the United States where the ITC determines that the owner, importer, or consignee of such an article has established a sufficient counterclaim to a determination by the ITC that an unfair trade practice exists. Authorizes the ITC to forfeit to the respondent any posted bond if it later determines that such respondent has not committed an unfair trade practice violation. Prohibits the ITC from issuing a permanent cease and desist if it determines that an owner, importer, or consignee of an article has established a sufficient counterclaim to a determination by the ITC that an unfair trade practice exists. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) the exclusion of articles from entry into the United States; and (2) the entry of articles under bond after ITC referral of violations to the President. Authorizes the ITC, upon the filing of a complaint for declaratory relief by the owner, importer, or consignee of an imported article in any case of actual controversy as to the existence of unfair trade practices, to declare the rights of parties, whether or not further relief is or could be sought. (Sec. 404) Amends the Federal judicial code to authorize a district court, in any civil action involving parties that are also parties in an unfair trade practices proceeding before the ITC, to stay, until the ITC determination becomes final, the civil action with respect to any claim that involves the same issues involved in the ITC proceeding. (Sec. 405) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the USTR, among other things, to identify those foreign countries that deny adequate substantive standards with respect to the protection of intellectual property rights. Declares that a foreign country denies adequate substantive standards if it enforces procedures under its patent approval system that result, among other practices in: (1) patent applications being subject to pre-grant opposition; (2) extended deferral (beyond three years) of patent examination; (3) an inordinately long period of time for patent application approval; (4) an inordinately short patent term measured either from the date of grant or from the date of filing; (5) an inordinate delay in obtaining judicial review of unavailability of judicial review for patent applications that are denied; or (6) unnecessarily narrow interpretations of patent claims by the authorities which determine patent validity and infringement. Requires a certain publication by the USTR to include information with respect to any act, policy, or practice of a foreign country that denies adequate protection of intellectual property rights and any information on action taken to eliminate such act, policy, or practice. (Sec. 406) Amends the National Cooperative Reserch Act of 1984 to change the term "joint research and development venture" to "joint research, development, or production venture." Adds to the definition of such new term any group of activities by two or more persons for the purpose of the production of any product, process, or service in a jointly owned or operated facility. Excludes certain activities from such definition. Declares that the worldwide capacity of suppliers to provide a product, process, or service shall be considered for purposes of determining a properly defined, relevant market with respect to the determination of the reasonableness of joint research, development, or production venture contracts in an antitrust action. Requires parties involved in a venture for the production of any product, process, or service to file by a certain deadline, certain identifying information with regard to the venture. (Sec. 407) Amends Federal law to make it an unfair method of competition for a wholesaler or retailer to sell a product by telephone, facsimile, or means where the purchaser does not see the article to be purchased without: (1) identifying the country of origin of such article; and (2) if such article is of foreign origin, indicating whether a domestic article is also available. (Sec. 408) Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to revise a specified subheading relating to nonalloy iron and steel pipes and tubes to include nongalvanized forms of such products. Increases the duty on certain other iron and steel pipes and tubes. Imposes a duty on galvanized nonalloy iron and steel pipes and tubes having a specified thickness. Increases the duty on certain stainless steel pipes and tubes. Authorizes the USTR to negotiate compensation for claims made pursuant to the GATT, or any other trade agreement to which the United States is a party, as a result of the amendments made by this section. Declares that any staged reduction in the rate of duty that is proclaimed pursuant to the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement shall apply to such products. (Sec. 409) Requires the USTR, together with the Secretaries of Agriculture, of Labor, and of Transportation to report to the Congress on the horticultural industry with respect to: (1) the nature of patent protection, enforcement mechanisms, and royalty collection procedures; (2) the use on imports of pesticides banned from use on U.S. horticultural products; (3) worker rights in the countries of the major foreign suppliers of such products to the United States; and (4) the extent to which air fares between such countries and the United States, Europe, and Japan influence the direction of flower shipments from Central and South American countries. (Sec. 410) Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to permanently apply the most favored nation rate to Mexican: (1) non-portable stoves or ranges; (2) refrigerators and combined refrigerator freezers; (3) household or laundry washing machines; and (4) drying machines. (Sec. 411) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to declare that concentration of subsidized or dumped imports exists with respect to a market if the percentage of such imports to consumption of imports and domestically produced like products in such market is clearly higher than the percentage in the rest of the United States. Title V: Private Actions For Relief From Certain Forms of Anticompetitive Pricing Practices - Amends Federal antitrust law to prohibit a person from selling a product for export to the United States, or selling it within the United States, at a price which does not permit the recovery of all costs (fixed and variable) in the production and sale of such product within a reasonable period of time, where such pricing practices cause material injury to another manufacturer the majority of whose sales occur in the United States. Authorizes an interested party whose business is materially injured by such imports to bring a civil action in any U.S. court having jurisdiction over the parties. Title VI: Foreign Capital and Securities Markets - Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the structure, operation, practice, and regulation of Japan's capital securities markets, including their implications for the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 2524 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1993
Cut Spending First Act of 1993 - Prohibits funding for the superconducting super collider project and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Advanced Solid Rocket Motor program. Repeals provisions of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 concerning the market promotion program. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to eliminate the tobacco price support program. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to eliminate parity payments and specified tobacco marketing quotas and quota adjustment programs. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to require: (1) the orderly disposition of tobacco stocks; and (2) the repayment of all outstanding tobacco price support loans within one year of this Act's enactment date. Repeals the National Wool Act of 1954. Eliminates the honey and peanut price support programs. Repeals peanut marketing quota and quota adjustment provisions. Subjects production of locatable minerals from a claim located on lands open to mineral entry under the Mining Law of 1872 to an annual royalty of at least five percent of the gross income from production. Voids claims for failures to pay royalties and prohibits a claimant from locating a new claim on lands included in the abandoned claim for one year. Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to direct the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to establish an annual domestic livestock grazing fee for national forest and public lands. Makes fees available for restoration and enhancement of fish and wildlife habitat, restoration and management of riparian areas, and implementation of grazing plans and regulations. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to publish a final timber sale policy to eliminate below-cost timber sales in units of the National Forest System. Repeals the Federal Crop Insurance Act. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 to require the President to enter into revised host-nation defense burdensharing agreements. Requires such countries to assume at least 75 percent (currently, an increased share) of the costs of U.S. military installations, excluding the costs of military and civilian personnel. Removes an exemption from defense burdensharing requirements for countries that receive specified assistance under the Arms Export Control Act and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
Bill· HRH.R. 2522 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1993
Hypersonic Research Airplane Authorization Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to submit jointly to the Congress a plan for the National Aerospace Plane Program, including development plans (and capped costs) for a hypersonic research airplane. Authorizes specified appropriations.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 219 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1993
Designates September 17, 1993, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Requires the display of the National League of Families POW/MIA flag at: (1) all national cemeteries and the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial on May 31, 1993 (Memorial Day), September 17, 1993 (National POW/MIA Recognition Day), and November 11, 1993 (Veterans Day); and (2) the White House and the buildings containing the primary offices of the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Veterans Affairs and the Director of the Selective Service Commission (sic) on September 17, 1993 (National POW/MIA Recognition Day).
Bill· SS. 1150 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: National Education Goals Title II: National Education Reform Leadership, Standards, and Assessments Part A: National Education Goals Panel Part B: National Education Standards and Improvement Council Part C: Authorization of Appropriations Title III: State and Local Education Systemic Improvement Title IV: Schools Title V: National Skill Standards Board Goals 2000: Educate America Act - Title I: National Education Goals - (Sec. 102) Sets forth national goals for education, to be achieved by the year 2000, in the following categories: (1) school readiness; (2) school completion; (3) student achievement and citizenship; (4) mathematics and science; (5) adult literacy and lifelong learning; and (6) safe, disciplined, and drug-free schools. Sets forth specific objectives for each goal. Title II: National Education Reform Leadership Standards, and Assessments - Part A: National Education Goals Panel - (Sec. 202) Establishes the National Education Goals Panel in the executive branch. (Sec. 203) Requires the Panel to issue an annual national report card on progress toward achieving the national education goals and on actions that Federal, State, and local governments should take to enhance such progress. Part B: National Education Standards and Improvement Council - (Sec. 212) Establishes the National Education Standards and Improvement Council in the executive branch. (Sec. 213) Requires the Council to develop and certify (subject to Panel review and approval) voluntary national standards for content areas, student performance, and fair opportunity-to-learn. Authorizes the Council to certify any such standards presented by a State, if these are consistent with the national standards. Directs the Council to certify a system of assessments voluntarily presented by a State if such system meets certain criteria, including coverage of all students, especially those with disabilities or limited English proficiency. Prohibits such a system from being used to make decisions regarding graduation, grade promotion, or retention of students for five years after enactment of this Act. (Sec. 218) Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make a competitive grant or grants to a consortium of various individuals and organizations to develop voluntary national opportunity-to-learn standards. Part C: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 221) Authorizes appropriations for the Panel, the Council, and the opportunity-to-learn development grants. Title III: State and Local Education Systemic Improvement - Establishes a five-year grant program for State and local education systemic improvement. (Sec. 303) Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 306) Sets forth requirements for State improvement plans, including strategies for: (1) improving teaching and learning (including standards for content, student performance, and opportunity-to-learn); (2) system governance and management; (3) parental and community support and involvement; (4) State system-wide improvement; and (5) promoting bottom-up reform. (Sec. 309) Requires State education agencies (SEAs) to make competitive subgrants for: (1) local reform, to LEAs; and (2) preservice teacher education and professional development activities, to consortia of LEAs, higher education institutions, private nonprofit organizations, or combinations of these, through a peer-review process. Requires that at least: (1) 65 percent of local reform subgrants be awarded to LEAs with a greater percentage or number of disadvantaged children than the statewide average; and (2) 50 percent of subgrant funds be made available by an LEA to schools with a special need for assistance. (Sec. 310) Provides for availability of information and training to private elementary and secondary schools. (Sec. 311) Authorizes the Secretary to waive requirements and related regulations of specified Federal laws relating to education upon request of SEAs, LEAs, and schools if such requirements impede their ability to carry out the State or local education improvement plans, and if other conditions are met. (Sec. 313) Authorizes the Secretary to provide for national leadership activities, including technical assistance, data-gathering, research, evaluation, and information-dissemination. Reserves funds for grants to urban and rural LEAs with large numbers of concentrations of students economically disadvantaged or with limited English proficiency, to assist in school improvement plans development and implementation. Requires data gathering, research, evaluation, and information dissemination. (Sec. 314) Provides for assistance under this title for outlying areas, Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, and Department of Defense schools. (Sec. 315) Provides that standards, assessments, and systems of assessments described in a State improvement plan submitted in accordance with specified provisions of this title shall not be required to be certified by the Council. Title IV: Schools - Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize the use of funds under title III to directly or indirectly benefit any school other than a public school, except as provided in specified provisions for availability of information and training. Title V: National Skill Standards Board - National Skill Standards Act of 1993 - (Sec. 503) Establishes a National Skill Standards Board. (Sec. 504) Directs the Board to identify broad clusters of major occupations (except certain construction industry occupations or trades with recognized labor-management-developed apprenticeship standards) that involve one or more industries in the United States and, with respect to each cluster, promote and assist in voluntary development and adoption by specified representative groups of industries, employees, and educational institutions of: (1) skill standards; (2) assessment and certification systems; (3) evaluation systems; (4) information dissemination systems; and (5) revision and updating of systems. Provides for Board endorsement of standards systems that: (1) meet certain requirements; (2) are submitted by entities that meet specified requirements; and (3) meet additional objective criteria published by the Board. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make grants and contracts to carry out purposes of this title. (Sec. 507) Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 2498 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Improved Defense Conversion, Reinvestment, and Transition Assistance Activities Title II: Improvements to the Defense Diversification Program Under the Job Training Partnership Act Defense Diversification and Community Adjustment Act of 1993 - Title I: Improved Defense Conversion, Reinvestment, and Transition Assistance Activities - Establishes as one of the Assistant Secretaries of Defense the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Economic Adjustment who shall be responsible for the U.S. economic conversion program. Directs the Assistant Secretary to facilitate the development by community leaders of community adjustment plans to reduce the effects of defense downsizing in substantially and seriously affected communities. Requires the Director of Community Assistance Grants to aid in the formation of community adjustment committees which shall develop such plans. Makes grants and technical assistance available to such committees. Makes communities that have been determined by the Economic Development Administration to be substantially and seriously affected communities eligible for economic adjustment assistance under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, subject to the availability of appropriations. Amends the Defense Economic Adjustment, Diversification, Conversion, and Stabilization Act of 1990 to make the Assistant Secretary responsible for dislocated worker notification requirements imposed by such Act. Requires the Assistant Secretary to be responsible for assessment and conversion possibilities for defense contractors, subcontractors, and qualified small businesses in a substantially and seriously affected community. Provides grants through the Assistant Secretary to qualified small businesses for aid in conversion to nondefense activities. Requires the Assistant Secretary to cooperate with the Administrator of the Small Business Administration with regard to such assistance. Directs the Assistant Secretary to develop and maintain a list of all Federal programs concerned with defense conversion, reinvestment, and transition programs and to coordinate activities and provide information with regard to such programs. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to provide a one-year moratorium on payment of rent for the use of certain defense property by certain defense contractors for nondefense purposes. Authorizes appropriations for programs under this and related Acts. Title II: Improvements to the Defense Diversification Program Under the Job Training Partnership Act - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to: (1) transfer from the Secretary of Defense to the Secretary of Labor the authority to carry out the defense conversion adjustment program; and (2) authorize FY 1994 appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 2513 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1993
Repeals the Military Selective Service Act. Bars the reestablishment of the Office of Selective Service Records. Requires: (1) the transfer to the Administrator of General Services of the assets, property, and records held by, and the unexpended balances of any appropriations available to, the Selective Service System (SSS); and (2) the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to assist SSS officers and employees in transferring to other positions in the executive branch. Amends the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Act to bar the use of LSC funds to provide legal assistance with respect to any proceeding or litigation arising out of desertion from the armed forces.
Bill· HRH.R. 2504 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1993
Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe procedures and implement a centralized system for providing notice of the status of offenders confined in military correctional facilities to witnesses and victims.
Bill· HRH.R. 2503 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1993
Requires a military law enforcement official at the scene of domestic violence to apprehend a person upon reasonable belief that such person has either inflicted physical injury or used a deadly or dangerous weapon or instrument.
Bill· SS. 1134 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Subtitle A: Commodity Programs Subtitle B: Restructuring of Loan Programs Subtitle C: Food Stamp Program Subtitle D: Agricultural Trade Subtitle E: Miscellaneous Title II: Committee on Armed Services Title III: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Title IV: Communications and Transportation Title V: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subtitle A: Recreation and Commercial Use Fees Subtitle B: Hardrock Mining Claim Maintenance Fee Subtitle C: Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Agreement Subtitle D: Mineral Receipts Title VI: Committee on Environment and Public Works Title VII: Finance Committee Reconciliation Provisions Relating to Medicare, Medicaid, and Other Programs Subtitle A: Medicare Subtitle B: Medicaid Program Subtitle C: Income Security Programs Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Provisions Title VIII: Finance Committee Revenue Provisions Subtitle A: Training and Investment Incentives Subtitle B: Revenue Increases Title IX: Committee on Foreign Relations Title X: Committee on Governmental Affairs Subtitle A: Civil Service Subtitle B: Postal Service Title XI: Judiciary Title XII: Committee on Labor and Human Resources Subtitle A: Student Loan Provisions Subtitle B: Public Health Service Act Provisions Subtitle C: Improved Immunization Delivery and Monitoring Subtitle D: ERISA Amendments Title XIII: Veterans' Programs Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Title I: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry - Agricultural Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Subtitle A: Commodity Programs - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to reduce, with specified exceptions, the acreage eligible for deficiency payments from 92 percent to 85 percent for wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice. (Sec. 1105) Extends the dairy support program. Sets forth purchase price ceilings for butter and nonfat dry milk. Reduces milk prices by ten cents per hundredweight for 1996. Prohibits the sale of bovine growth hormone during a specified time period. (Sec. 1106) Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to require domestic cigarette manufacturers to certify the amount of U.S.-produced tobacco in their products. Establishes a domestic marketing assessment. Requires domestic cigarette manufacturers to purchase specified amounts of Burley and Flue-cured tobacco from producer-owned cooperatives. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to require importers of foreign tobacco to pay: (1) specified marketing assessments; and (2) specified assessments to the No Net Cost Tobacco Fund. Amends the Tobacco Adjustment Act of 1983 to subject imported tobacco to inspection fees on the same basis as domestic tobacco. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to extend quota reduction floor authority (with waiver authority to avoid excess inventories) for Burley and Flue-cured tobacco. (Sec. 1107) Increases 1995 and 1996 sugarcane and sugarbeet marketing assessment rates. (Sec. 1108) Reduces 1994 and 1995 loan levels for soybeans and oilseeds. Revises loan maturation provisions. Eliminates loan origination fees for post-1993 crop years. (Sec. 1109) Increases 1994 and 1995 peanut marketing assessment and first purchaser-producer assessment rates. (Sec. 1110) Reduces 1994 through 1997 honey price support levels and individual payment ceilings. (Sec. 1111) Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to reduce 1995 through 1997 wool and mohair individual payment ceilings. Maintains the 1993 support price for shorn wool through 1997. Eliminates specified marketing assessments. Subtitle B: Restructuring of Loan Programs - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to restructure Rural Electrification Administration electric and telephone loan programs, including the establishment of: (1) electric hardship loans and cost-of-money loans; and (2) telephone hardship loans and cost-of-money loans. Revises the definition of "rural area" for purposes of rural electrification and telephone service. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit electric and telephone borrowers to qualify for: (1) water and waste disposal loans; and (2) rural economic development assistance. Subtitle C: Food Stamp Program - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to reduce to 50 percent Federal cost-sharing expenses for: (1) food stamp investigations and prosecutions; and (2) immigration status verifications under the Social Security Act. Includes automated data processing and information retrieval systems among eligible cost-sharing activities. Subtitle D: Agricultural Trade - Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to eliminate required FY 1994 and 1995 additional funding levels for the market promotion program and obligate certain sums for specified categories of exporters. (Sec. 1402) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to: (1) remove specified acreage reduction requirements for grain sorghum and barley; and (2) eliminate certain support level adjustment provisions. (Sec. 1403) Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to prohibit the entry into or the withdrawal from a warehouse of any imported wheat or barley that it is not covered by an end-use certificate. (Sec. 1404) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture should aggressively promote the export of vegetable oil. Subtitle E: Miscellaneous - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to direct the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to take specified actions to improve the actuarial soundness of Federal crop insurance coverage. (Sec. 1502) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 with regard to the conservation reserve program to: (1) make the current discretionary enrollment provision mandatory; and (2) reduce acreage requirements. Extends the wetlands reserve program and revises acreage enrollment provisions. (Sec. 1503) Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to charge admission, entrance, and recreation fees at appropriate sites, and public or recreation areas. (Sec. 1504) Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) farmers should pay no more than their fair share of any budget reduction necessary to achieve deficit reduction; and (2) the level of budget reduction should take into account taxes, interest rates, and user fees. Title II: Committee on Armed Services - Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a limited increase in the military retired pay of former military personnel who became members of the armed forces before August 1, 1986. Specifies the month for which such increases becoming effective on December 1 of FY 1994 through 1998 shall be payable as part of retired pay. Title III: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDICA) to prescribe an order of priority for the distribution of amounts realized from the resolution of any insured depository institution. (Sec. 3002) Amends the Federal Reserve Act to mandate for FY 1997 and FY 1998 the transfer into the Treasury of specified percentages of the surplus fund of any Federal reserve bank. Prohibits a Federal reserve bank from replenishing its surplus fund by the amount of such transfer. (Sec. 3003) Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 to: (1) include certain Indian housing programs within the parameters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development program; (2) require submission of certain income disclosure consent forms to verify applicant eligibility for benefits; and (3) revise applicant, participant, and public housing agency protections. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to declare that adjustments to a public housing agency's operating subsidy shall reflect actual changes in rental income collections resulting from application of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988. (Sec. 3004) Amends the National Housing Act to direct the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) to: (1) charge fees in connection with its multiclass securities guarantee program (the program); (2) take steps to assure that a certain portion of the benefit resulting from the program accrues to mortgagors who execute eligible mortgages; (3) summarize program activities in its annual report; and (4) report to certain congressional committees on specified risk minimization aspects of the program. (Sec. 3005) Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to increase the rate at which the Secretary earns the single premium payment collected at the time of insurance of a mortgage that is an obligation of the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund. Title IV: Communications and Transportation - Subtitle A: Spectrum Allocation and Auction - Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Act of 1993 - Directs the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to meet at least biannually to conduct joint spectrum planning with respect to: (1) future spectrum requirements for public and private uses and the allocation actions to accommodate those uses; and (2) actions to promote the efficient use of the spectrum. Directs the Assistant Secretary and the Chairman to report jointly to specialized congressional committees on their recommendations. Requires the FCC to develop procedures to ensure that minority-owned businesses and small businesses are given the opportunity to provide spectrum-based services. Directs the FCC to report to the Congress a study of current and future spectrum needs of State and local government public safety agencies through the year 2010. (Sec. 404) Directs the Secretary of Commerce to identify radio band frequencies that are allocated on a primary basis for Federal use, are not currently required for Federal needs, can easily be made available for other uses, and have the greatest potential for productive uses and public benefits. Directs the Secretary to recommend to the President and the Congress the immediate reallocation of no less than 30 megahertz of such frequencies. Requires a preliminary and final report on other reallocable frequencies, with an opportunity for public comment. (Sec. 405) Directs the President, after receipt of the Secretary's recommendation, to: (1) withdraw the assignment of appropriate frequencies no longer needed by the Government; (2) assign other frequencies to Federal stations; (3) reallocate for public or mixed use appropriate frequencies; and (4) provide notice of his actions to the FCC and the Congress. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 406) Directs the FCC to issue rules for the allocation of all frequencies made available for immediate reallocation under this Act. Authorizes the President to reclaim reassigned frequencies for reassignment to Federal stations. (Sec. 408) Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the FCC, during FY 1994 through 1998, to use competitive bidding procedures to grant all radio spectrum licenses for which two or more mutually exclusive applications have been filed. Requires a report on such procedures. Provides rural program license procedures. Provides for the State and local tax treatment of radio licenses and permits. (Sec. 409) Revises the FCC's regulatory authority in the management of mobile communications services. Considers a person engaged in the provision of commercial mobile services to be a common carrier and, therefore, required to establish physical connections with such service as required under the Communications Act. Prohibits a person engaged in private land mobile service from being considered to be a common carrier for such purposes. Prohibits any State or local government from imposing any rate or entry regulation upon any commercial or private land mobile service, but allows a State to regulate other terms and conditions of commercial mobile service, under certain conditions. Provides certain FCC deadlines with respect to rules, licenses, and permits for personal communications services. Subtitle B: Vessel Tonnage Duties - Amends Federal law relating to shipping to extend the years during which certain tonnage duties are imposed. Title V: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - Subtitle A: Recreation and Commercial Use Fees - Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to: (1) authorize the charging of admission fees for FY 1994 through 1998 at Bureau of Land Management (BLM) national monuments and scenic areas and areas of concentrated public use; (2) strike a provision prohibiting a recreation fee for the use of visitors' centers, picnic tables, or boat ramps; (3) authorize the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to withhold from a special account made up of user fees an amount determined to be equal to the additional fee collection costs for each fiscal year; (4) direct the Secretary of the Interior, for FY 1994 through 1998, to establish and collect fees on commercial tour vehicles entering units of the National Park System in which fees are authorized; and (5) authorize the Secretaries to allow businesses and other organizations to sell and collect fees for the Golden Eagle Passport (an admission passport valid for an entire year). (Sec. 5003) Directs the Secretaries to assess and collect charges for utilization of radio and television communication sites located on Federal lands administered by the Forest Service or BLM. Requires such users to provide the Forest Service or BLM with a list identifying all additional site users and all revenues received from such users. Requires the Secretaries to establish a broad based advisory group to determine the market value for radio and television communication site users. Requires a report to specified congressional committees. Subtitle B: Hardrock Mining Claim Maintenance Fee - Mandates payment for maintenance fees of $100 per claim by each claimant of an unpatented mining claim, mill or tunnel site on federally-owned lands in order to hold such claims for the assessment year. Declares that such fee is in lieu of assessment work and related filing requirements contained in certain Federal laws. Waives such fees under certain conditions. (Sec. 5102) Mandates the payment of a location fee for every unpatented mining claim, mill or tunnel site located after the date of enactment of this Act and before September 30, 1998. Replaces certain assessment requirements and expenditures with the annual maintenance fee. Subtitle C: Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Agreement - Limits the payments to the Northern Mariana Islands for FY 1994 through 1998 to the amounts and for the purposes set forth in the Agreement of the Special Representatives on Future Financial Assistance of the Northern Mariana Islands of December 1992. Continues funding after 1998 at a specified annual amount. Subtitle D: Mineral Receipts - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to provide that in calculating the amount to be paid to States of revenues derived from Federal onshore mineral and geothermal steam leasing receipts, 50 percent of the portion of the appropriation allocable for administration and enforcement shall be deducted from those receipts in approximately equal amounts each month before their division and distribution between the States and the United States. Title VI: Committee on Environment and Public Works - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconcilitation Act of 1990 to extend from 1995 to 1998 the authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to assess and collect annual charges. (Sec. 6002) Amends the Flood Control Act of 1968 to authorize the Secretary of the Army to charge fees for the use of developed recreation sites and facilities with specified exceptions. Mandates deposit of such fees into a certain account established for the Army Corps of Engineers. Title VII: Finance Committee Reconciliation Provisions Relating to Medicare, Medicaid, and Other Programs - Subtitle A: Medicare - Part I: Provisions Relating to Part A - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) provide for a reduction in payment updates for inpatient hospital services; (2) provide for a reduction in payment for the indirect costs of medical education; (3) extend payments for Medicare-dependent, small rural hospitals; (4) repeal the requirement for a return on equity for proprietary skilled nursing facilities; (5) extend the ten percent reduction in payments for capital-related costs of inpatient hospital services; (6) lower the per diem limits with respect to payments for routine service costs of extended care services; and (7) change the update formula for hospice care payment starting in 1994. (Sec. 7103) Provides for continuation of the other urban payment rate through 1994. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) permit hospitals that fail to qualify as rural referral centers due to their urban reclassification to decline their reclassification and retain their former status; and (2) make lump-sum retroactive payments to such hospitals. Part II: Provisions Relating to Part B: Subpart A - Physician Services - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) reduce the default update for the conversion factor otherwise applicable to surgical and non-surgical services (except primary care services) in 1994; (2) increase the performance standard factor starting in 1994; (3) double the maximum reduction in the default update allowed for 1994 starting in 1995; (4) provide for classification of primary care services as a separate category of services for purposes related to the application of volume performance standards and updates in conversion factors for physicians' services; (5) directs the Secretary to phase-in reductions to the practice expense relative value units for certain services; (6) revise the payment policy for anesthesia care teams; (7) repeal the prohibition on separate billing for the interpretation of electrocardiograms (EKGs); (8) repeal payment reductions for new physicians and practitioners; (9) require adjustments in the relative value units for services provided by physicians and other practitioners in order to ensure budget neutrality; (10) revise the application of the limiting charge policy with respect to claims submitted on a nonassignment basis; (11) add payment and billing rules for services furnished by certain practitioners; (12) set forth requirements for Medicare carriers to provide limiting charge information on the explanation of benefits form furnished to Medicare beneficiaries and screen unassigned claims by service providers before making payment to determine whether the amount billed exceeds the applicable limiting charge; and (13) require the Secretary's report to the Congress on changes in expenditures for physician services to reflect information on charges in excess of the applicable limiting charge. Subpart B: Outpatient Hospital Services and Ambulatory Surgical Services - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) extend the ten percent reduction in payments for capital-related costs of outpatient hospital services; (2) extend the reduction in payments for other costs of outpatient hospital services; and (3) make changes to payment formulae for outpatient hospital services. (Sec. 7224) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OMBRA '90) to reduce payments for intraocular lenses. Subpart C: Durable Medical Equipment - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) revise the payment rules for durable medical equipment (DME); (2) provide for the treatment of nebulizers and aspirators and payment for accessories relating to such items; (3) provide a method for determining payment for surgical dressings; and (4) reduce payments for TENS devices. Subpart D: Part B Premium - Amends SSA title XVIII to revise current law establishing the monthly part B premium for Medicare beneficiaries. Subpart E: Other Provisions - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) provide for a freeze, then reduction, in updates for certain items and services covered under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance), including DME and ambulatory surgical center services; and (2) lower the cap on payments for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests performed after December 31, 1993. Part III: Provisions Relating to Parts A and B - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) revise weighting factors and other criteria used in determining payments for direct graduate medical education costs; (2) include preventive care services as part of the initial residency period; (3) include successor exams in the definition of an FMGEMS examination; (4) modify home health agency cost limits; (5) extend the ban on certain referrals by physicians to cover additional specified health services and include new exceptions as well as modified ones related to its application; and (6) reduce payments for erythropoietin. (Sec. 7303) Amends SSA title XVIII and the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to make numerous changes with respect to Medicare as secondary payer. Subtitle B: Medicaid Program - Part I: Program Savings Provisions - Subpart A: Repeal of Mandate - Amends SSA title XIX to: (1) repeal the mandate that States cover personal care services under their Medicaid programs for all individuals entitled to nursing facility benefits; and (2) give States the option of covering personal care services furnished in a home or other location. Subpart B: Outpatient Prescription Drugs - Amends SSA title XIX to: (1) allow States, under certain conditions, to establish formularies limiting coverage of prescription drugs under their Medicaid programs; (2) eliminate the prohibition on a State's subjecting covered outpatient drugs to prior authorization during the first six months after the drug is approved by the Food and Drug Administration; and (3) make modifications to the Medicaid prescription drug program. Subpart C: Restrictions on Divestiture of Assets and Estate Recovery - Amends SSA title XIX to: (1) revise provisions regarding adjustments and recoveries and transfers of assets; and (2) set forth rules for the treatment of trusts for purposes of determining an individual's eligibility for, and amount of, benefits under a State's Medicaid plan. Subpart D: Improvement in Identification and Collection of Third Party Payments - Amends SSA title XIX to: (1) address the liability of third parties to pay for care and services under Medicaid; and (2) require States to have in effect certain specified laws relating to medical child support. (Sec. 7433) Amends IRC and SSA title XIX to provide for collection of payment obligations relating to medical assistance from State and Federal tax refunds. Subpart E: Assuring Proper Payments to Disproportionate Share Hospitals - Amends SSA title XIX to make changes with regard to payments for disproportionate share hospitals. Subpart F: Anti-Fraud and Abuse Provisions - Amends SSA title XIX to prohibit payment with respect to any amount expended for an item or service for which payment would be denied under the Medicare ban on certain physician referrals if the item or service were furnished to an individual entitled to benefits under Medicare. Part II: Other Medicaid Provisions - Amends OMBRA '90 to revise : (1) the limits on expenditures and funding for demonstration projects to study the effect of allowing States to extend Medicaid coverage to certain low-income families not otherwise qualified to receive Medicaid benefits; and (2) project reporting requirements. Subtitle C: Income Security Programs - Amends SSA title IV part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC) to make changes with regard to Federal matching of State AFDC administrative expenditures. Amends SSA titles I (Old Age Assistance), X (Aid to the Blind), XIV (Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled), and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) to revise the formula for determining Federal payments to the States for expenses incurred in administering their State plans under such SSA titles. Amends SSA title XI to change the requirements for attesting to citizenship status. (Sec. 7602) Amends SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to: (1) modify performance standards for State paternity establishment programs; and (2) modify existing, and require certain additional, procedures under State law with respect to child support enforcement. (Sec. 7603) Amends SSA title XVI (SSI) and other Federal law to: (1) require the Social Security Administration to charge States fees for the Federal cost of administering State supplemental SSI payments; and (2) require the Secretary to charge fees for additional services requested by the State that are beyond the level customarily provided in administering a State's supplemental SSI payments. Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Provisions - Part I: Trade Provisions - Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to extend authority for levying customs user fees. (Sec. 7702) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to provide for an extension of, and authorization of appropriations for, the trade adjustment assistance program. Part II: Improved Access to Childhood Immunizations - Amends SSA title XIX to direct the Secretary to promulgate a list of vaccines that provide immunization against naturally occurring infectious diseases and are recommended for universal use in children. Provides for immunization outreach through the EPSDT (Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Services) Program. Requires Medicaid managed care plans to comply with specified requirements relating to EPSDT. Allows State plans to make payments directly to the manufacturer of the vaccine under a voluntary replacement program. Requires the Secretary to provide for demonstration projects designed to improve the rate and timeliness of immunization against childhood diseases in the case of any Medicaid-eligible child up to age two who is part of a family eligible for AFDC. (Sec. 7803) Amends SSA to add a new title XXI entitled "Central Bulk Purchasing Program For Pediatric Vaccines" under which the Secretary shall provide for the purchase and delivery on behalf of the applicant State of such quantities of pediatric vaccines as may be necessary for the immunization of each eligible child in the State. Part III: Disclosure Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the authority to disclose return information for the administration of certain veterans programs. (Sec. 7902) Authorizes the disclosure of such information: (1) in the administration of repayments of certain student loans; and (2) for income verification under certain housing assistance programs. (Sec. 7904) Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to provide for the establishment of a Third Party Liability Clearinghouse to identify third parties responsible for payment for health care items and services furnished to beneficiaries of Medicare and Medicaid. Authorizes the disclosure of certain taxpayer return information for purposes of identifying health insurance coverage of certain individuals and spouses. Requires employers to report whether a group health plan is available to an employee on wage statements. Part IV: Other Provisions - Expands the 45-day interest-free period for refunding tax overpayments to all returns, as well as to amended returns and claims for refunds. Provides that if interest is not refunded within 45 days after the taxpayer files an amended return or claim for refund, interest will be paid only for periods after the date on which the return or claim is filed. (Sec. 7951) Requires the establishment of a program requiring the payment of user fees for the processing of applications for certificates of alcohol label approval and exemption, formula reviews, and statements of process (including laboratory tests and analyses). (Sec. 7952) Removes authority to use the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for administrative expenses of certain customs fee collections. (Sec. 7953) Increases the amount that individuals may designate to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund on their tax returns. (Sec. 7954) Increases the public debt limit and repeals the temporary limit on such increases. Title VIII: Revenue Provisions - Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Subtitle A: Training and Investment Incentives - Extends until June 30, 1994, the tax exclusion for employer-provided educational assistance and the targeted jobs credit. (Sec. 8111) Suspends the credit for increasing research activities from July 1, 1992, through June 30, 1993, and any period after June 30, 1994. Modifies the fixed base percentage of such credit for startup companies for taxable years after 1993. (Sec. 8115) Eliminates the depreciation adjustment for computing adjusted current earnings for such property placed in service after December 31, 1993. (Sec. 8119) Increases the dollar limitation on the election to expense certain depreciable small business assets. (Sec. 8121) Extends until June 30, 1994, the authority to issue qualified small issue bonds to finance manufacturing facilities and farm property. (Sec. 8131) Repeals certain interaction rules of the earned income credit with respect to the medical expense deduction, the deduction for health insurance, and the dependent care credit. Revises credit and phaseout percentages for 1994. (Sec. 8141) Extends the authority to issue qualified mortgage bonds and qualified mortgage credit certificates until June 30, 1994. Makes permanent the low-income housing credit. (Sec. 8143) Provides for the treatment of rental real estate activities under the limitations on losses from passive activities. (Sec. 8144) 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. (Sec. 8145) Repeals the special rule for publicly traded partnerships with respect to the treatment of unrelated business taxable income. (Sec. 8146) Permits a tax-exempt title-holding company to receive unrelated business taxable income if the unrelated income is incidentally derived from the holding of real property. (Sec. 8147) Excludes from unrelated business taxable income: (1) gains from the sale, exchange or other disposition of real property acquired from financial institutions that are in conservatorship or receivership; and (2) loan commitment fees and certain option premiums. Provides for the tax treatment of pension fund investments in real estate investment trusts. (Sec. 8151) Increases the depreciation recovery period for nonresidential real property. (Sec. 8161) Repeals the luxury excise tax on boats, aircraft, jewelry, and furs. Modifies the luxury excise tax on automobiles to index the threshold for inflation occurring after 1990 and make such tax applicable to the first retail sale. (Sec. 8162) Exempts from the luxury excise tax parts or accessories installed for use of passenger vehicles by disabled individuals. (Sec. 8163) Extends the current diesel fuel excise tax to diesel fuel used by noncommercial motorboats. Retains such taxes in the General Fund of the Treasury. (Sec. 8171) Repeals the tax preference for the appreciated property charitable deduction. Disallows an adjustment related to the earnings and profits effects of any charitable contribution from being made in computing adjusted current earnings. (Sec. 8172) Establishes substantiation requirements for charitable contributions of $250 or more. (Sec. 8173) Sets forth disclosure requirements for an organization that receives a quid pro quo contribution (payment made partly as a contribution and partly in consideration for goods or services provided to the payor by the donee organization). Imposes a penalty for failure to make such disclosure. (Sec. 8174) Amends the Railroad Retirement Solvency Act of 1983 to make permanent the treatment of certain railroad retirement benefits as received under employer plans. (Sec. 8175) Provides for the temporary extension of the deduction of health insurance costs of self-employed individuals. Subtitle B: Revenue Increases - Lowers the tax rates for certain taxpayers and increases the tax rate for certain higher incomes. Imposes a surtax on certain higher incomes. (Sec. 8203) Increases the tentative minimum tax for taxpayers other than corporations. (Sec. 8204) Makes permanent the overall limitation on itemized deductions and the phaseout of personal exemptions for high-income taxpayers. (Sec. 8206) Sets forth provisions to prevent the conversion of ordinary income to capital gain in certain financial transactions. Repeals certain exceptions to market discount rules. Provides for the treatment of purchases of stripped preferred stock after April 30, 1993. Revises the methods of : (1) computing the limitation on the deductibility of investment interest; and (2) determining substantial appreciation of partnership inventory items. (Sec. 8207) Repeals the limitation on the amount of wages subject to the health insurance employment tax. (Sec. 8208) Increases and makes permanent the highest estate and gift tax rate. (Sec. 8209) Reduces the deduction for business meals and entertainment expenses. (Sec. 8210) Disallows a tax deduction for social membership dues, except for employee recreational expenses. (Sec. 8211) Disallows a deduction as a trade or business expense for remuneration to certain employees in excess of $1 million. (Sec. 8212) Reduces the compensation taken into account in determining contributions and benefits under qualified retirement plans. (Sec. 8213) Removes qualified residence sales, purchases, or leases and meals from the deduction for moving expenses. Places a dollar limitation on the deduction for moving expenses. (Sec. 8214) Revises the limitation on using the preceding year's tax to calculate an individual's estimated tax payments. (Sec. 8215) Increases the amount of social security and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits to be included in the gross income of certain taxpayers. (Sec. 8221) Increases the tax rate for corporate income in excess of $10 million and the tax rate on personal service corporations. (Sec. 8222) Denies a tax deduction for lobbying expenses. Subjects lobbying organizations to special reporting requirements. (Sec. 8223) Requires any security which is inventory in the hands of the dealer to be included in inventory at its fair market value. Requires any dealer in securities that holds any security which is not in inventory at the close of any taxable year to: (1) recognize gain or loss as if the security were sold on the last business day of the taxable year; and (2) take into account any such gain or loss for such year (the mark-to-market requirement). (Sec. 8224) Requires taking into account: (1) certain Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) assistance as compensation for loss; and (2) any FSLIC assistance for any debt for determining whether such debt is worthless and in determining the amount of any addition to a reserve for bad debts arising from such worthlessness or partial worthlessness. (Sec. 8225) Increases the required annual payment for corporations that fail to pay estimated income tax. Modifies the periods for applying such annualization. (Sec. 8226) Repeals the stock for debt exception in determining income from discharge of indebtedness. (Sec. 8227) Limits the Puerto Rico and possession tax credit to 40 percent of the possession corporation's qualified possession wages by 1998 and thereafter. (Sec. 8228) Modifies the limitation on corporate deductions for interest paid to related persons to take into account disqualified guarantees of indebtedness and the imposition of a gross basis tax. (Sec. 8231) Requires U.S. shareholders of controlled foreign corporations to include in gross income a pro rata share of the corporations' excess passive assets. Sets forth rules for determining such amounts. Modifies the rule on taxation of investment in United States property and takes into account excessive passive assets. (Sec. 8233) Excepts from foreign personal holding income dividends attributable to earnings and profits of the distributing corporation accumulated during any period during which the person receiving such dividend did not hold such stock. Requires the establishment of an excess limitation account by taxpayers who receive foreign tax credits in a year they receive previously taxed earnings and profits. (Sec. 8234) Reduces the amount allowed as allocation and apportionment of research and experimental expenditures from sources within the United States. (Sec. 8235) Excludes passive dividends or interest income from foreign oil and gas income. (Sec. 8236) Modifies accuracy-related penalties for tax underpayments. (Sec. 8237) Denies the inclusion of certain contingent interest in the exemption for portfolio interest for nonresident aliens. (Sec. 8238) Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations recharacterizing any multiple-party financing transaction as a transaction directly among any two or more such parties where appropriate to prevent any tax avoidance. (Sec. 8239) Provides that export property eligible for certain tax incentives does not include any unprocessed softwood timber for purposes of: (1) taxation of foreign sales corporations (FSCs); and (2) taxation of domestic international sales corporations (DISCs). Requires any income from the sale of such unprocessed timber which was cut from an area in the United States to be sourced in the United States. Repeals the deferral for income of the controlled foreign corporation from sales or milling (outside the United States) of unprocessed softwood timber to the extent that any controlled foreign corporation is owned by ten percent or more U.S. shareholders. (Sec. 8241) Increases the excise tax on gasoline, diesel fuel, aviation fuel, and other transportation fuels. (Sec. 8242) Imposes an excise tax on fuel (separate from the gasoline tax and the tax on aviation). Exempts from such tax diesel fuel: (1) used by trains and intercity, local, or school buses; and (2) which is dyed or marked in accordance within regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Provides that the Airport and Airway Trust Fund financing rate does not apply to aviation fuel sold by a producer or importer for use by the purchaser in a nontaxable use. Imposes a civil penalty on persons who use reduced-rate fuel for a taxable use. (Sec. 8243) Imposes a floor stocks tax on any person holding diesel fuel on April 1, 1994. (Sec. 8224) Increases the tax on gasoline and diesel fuels for purposes of the Highway Trust Fund financing rate. Increases the amount to be transferred to the Mass Transit Account from such Fund. (Sec. 8251) Requires information reporting on payments to corporations for services. (Sec. 8252) Modifies provisions concerning substantial understatement and return-preparer penalties to allow reasonable cause exceptions. (Sec. 8253) Requires certain financial entities (including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Resolution Trust Corporation, and the National Credit Union Administration, and their successors or subunits) to file information returns regarding discharges of indebtedness of $600 or more. (Sec. 8261) Allows an amortization deduction with respect to certain intangible property, including goodwill, that is acquired and held by a taxpayer in connection with the conduct of a trade or business or an activity engaged in for the production of income. (Sec. 8271) Denies the business travel expense deduction for spouses, dependents, or others. (Sec. 8272) Increases the withholding rate for supplemental wage payments. (Sec. 8273) Makes permanent the excise tax on certain vaccines. Title IX: Committee on Foreign Relations - Delays cost-of-living adjustments in Foreign Service retirement benefits during FY 1994 through 1996. (Sec. 9002) Eliminates the lump sum retirement option for certain Foreign Service employees. Title X: Committee on Governmental Affairs - Subtitle A: Civil Service - Delays cost-of-living adjustments in Federal employee retirement benefits during FY 1994 through 1996. (Sec. 1002) Eliminates permanently the lump sum retirement option for certain Federal employees. (Sec. 1003) Amends Federal law to make changes regarding District of Columbia government contributions for specified periods for certain employee and annuitant health benefits. Subtitle B: Postal Service - Directs the United States Postal Service to make a specified additional payment into the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund and the Employee Health Benefits Fund to cover increases due to retirement cost-of-living adjustments and increases in health benefits costs. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous - Makes changes under the Civil Service and Federal Employees Retirement Systems regarding survivor annuities. Title XI: Judiciary - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to extend through FY 1998 the surcharge fees for Patent and Trademark Office users. Title XII: Committee on Labor and Human Resources - Subtitle A: Student Loan Provisions - Student Loan Reform Act of 1993 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to replace the Federal Family Education Loan Program, under which loans made by private lenders are guaranteed by the Government, with a Federal Direct Student Loan Program, over a four-year transition period. Chapter 1: Federal Direct Student Loan Program - Amends HEA to change the Federal Direct Loan Demonstration Program to the Federal Direct Student Loan Program (FDSL). (Sec. 12011) Sets forth program authority for making necessary sums available to make FDSL loans to all eligible students (and parents) at participating higher education institutions selected by the Secretary of Education (Secretary), for the period beginning July 1, 1994. Requires such loans to be made by participating institutions that also have agreements with the Secretary to originate loans, or by alternative originators designated by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to provide funds for such student and parent loans either directly to a participating institution that also has an origination agreement or to a designated alternative originator, on the basis of need and eligibility of students and parents at each participating institution. Requires the Secretary to pay fees to assist in meeting costs of loan origination to participating institutions or alternative originators. Declares that no institution shall have a right to participate in FDSL programs. Provides for phase-in of the program, and application of the requirements of the Cash Management Improvement Act of 1990 on a transition schedule. Sets forth selection criteria for an institution's participation in the FDSL program and in origination agreements. Allows consortia of eligible participating institutions to apply to originate FDSL loans as consortia. Sets forth FDSL program participation and origination agreement requirements for institutions. Sets forth terms and conditions for FDSL loans, including certain parallels with Stafford, supplemental, parent, and unsubsidized Stafford loans under the FFEL program. Sets interest rates according to different formulas for loans made before rather than on or after July 1, 1997. Sets minimum and maximum loan fees to be charged to borrowers. Provides for standard, extended, graduated, and income contingent repayment plan options. Sets forth deferment and forbearance possibilities (including national service). Sets forth provisions for consolidation, borrower defenses, optically imaged records, and nondischargeability in bankruptcy. Authorizes the Secretary to award contracts under the FDSL program for: (1) alternative origination of loans; (2) servicing and collection of loans; (3) data systems for records maintenance; and (4) services to assist in orderly transition from FFEL to FDSL programs. Authorizes the Secretary to use funds for research on, or demonstration or evaluation of, any FDSL program aspects, including flexible repayment plans. Provides funds for specified administrative expenses of the FDSL program and the transition from the FFEL program, including certain transition expenses of guaranty agencies. Establishes a bipartisan National Student Loan Reform Commission to study the advisability of replacing the FFEL program with direct lending. Authorizes appropriations. Chapter 2: Student Loan Savings - (Sec. 12022) Revises interest rates for new student loans after July 1, 1994. (Sec. 12023) Reduces student loan origination fees paid by students. Requires lenders to pay fees. (Sec. 12024) Requires the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) to pay an offset fee to the Secretary. (Sec. 12025) Reduces the amount of the tax exemption granted to holders of certain student loans. (Sec. 12026) Reduces the interest rate for consolidation loans. Requires holders of consolidation loans to pay a rebate fee to the Secretary. (Sec. 12027) Reduces certain maximum interest premiums and eliminates certain reinsurance fees. (Sec. 12028) Requires the transferee to pay the Secretary a loan transfer fee. (Sec. 12030) Establishes a $10,000 annual limit on PLUS loans, still subject to the limitation based on need. Requires multiple disbursement. Chapter 3: Conforming Amendments - Subchapter A: Conforming Amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Amends HEA to provide for access to FFEL program student and parent loans during the transition to the FDSL program. Provides for advances to guaranty agencies for lender-of-last-resort services. Requires Sallie Mae or its designated agent to begin making FFEL loans as lender-of-last-resort, subject to certain limitations, upon the Secretary's request, and to cease such lending when the triggering conditions have ceased. (Sec. 12043) Modifies terms of loans under the FFEL program. Authorizes requiring a defaulted borrower to make income contingent repayments. Subchapter B: Amendments to Other Laws - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to add or revise provisions relating to disclosure of tax return information with respect to income contingent repayment of student loans, individuals who owe on overpayment of Federal Pell Grants, and collection of payments on Federal Direct Student Loans. Chapter 4: Cost Sharing by States - Amends HEA to require any State in which there are higher education institutions with cohort default rates exceeding 20 percent to pay the Secretary specified portions of costs related to such loan defaults. Allows States to charge institutions fees based on their cohort default rate and the State's risk of loss. Chapter 5: General Effective Date - Sets forth the effective dates of subtitle A. Subtitle B: Public Health Service Act Provisons - Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to create a new title establishing the Health Coverage Clearinghouse to identify third parties which may be liable for payment for health care items and services furnished by a covered health program (defined as certain entities under the PHSA, a non-Federal entity under the Indian Self-Determination Act, or any other federally funded program providing payments for medical services that may be covered under a private health insurance policy). Requires: (1) the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish tax information to the Clearinghouse on the identity and employer of the spouse or parents; and (2) employers to furnish information on group health plan coverage of the individual, spouse, or parents. Requires the Clearinghouse to maintain a data bank containing such information. Authorizes disclosure of any information in the data bank to: (1) the Secretary, administrators of covered health programs (CHPs), employers, insurers; and (2) Federal and State law enforcement officials in connection with proceedings relating to a CHP. Mandates service fees to cover Clearinghouse costs. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require the administrator of each employee benefit plan to comply with the amendments made by these provisions. (Sec. 12102) Mandates a study on referral of a patient by a health care provider to an entity in which the provider has a financial interest or from which the provider receives a financial benefit for the referral. (Sec. 12103) Delays, during specified fiscal years, cost-of-living increases for National Health Service Corps retiree annuitants. (Sec. 12104) Allows a members of the Corps who is covered by provisions of Federal law relating to retirement or the Federal Employees' Retirement System and has a critical medical condition to elect annuity benefits under specified provisions. (Sec. 12105) Amends the PHSA to allow malpractice coverage, in certain circumstances, for officers, employees, and contractors of entities that are migrant or community health centers or that provide health services for the homeless or for residents of public housing when they provide services to individuals who are not patients of the entities. Subtitle C: Improved Immunization Delivery and Monitoring - Comprehensive Child Immunization Act of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to mandate establishment of a list of the vaccines that the Secretary of Health and Human Services recommends for administration to all children and a recommended administration schedule. Requires that the list and schedule be subordinate to State law. Mandates allotments to States. Provides for the establishment of State registries to monitor the immunization status of all children. Requires States to monitor and enforce compliance with these provisions by health care providers. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a national immunization surveillance program to assess the effects of these provisions, provide technical assistance to States, and receive aggregate epidemiologic data collected by States. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for the distribution, without charge, of pediatric vaccines purchased by the Secretary to health care providers who are: (1) members of a uniformed service; (2) U.S. officers or employees; (3) federally qualified health centers; (4) migrant or community health centers; (5) entities providing health services for the homeless or for residents of public housing; or (6) public or nonprofit entities receiving funds under provisions of the Social Security Act relating to special projects of regional and national significance. Prohibits a provider receiving the vaccine from imposing a charge for the vaccine but allows a charge for the actual costs of the administration of the vaccine. Mandates activities to improve Federal, State, and local vaccine delivery systems and immunization outreach and education efforts, including a National Immunization Public Awareness Campaign and incorporation of immunization status assessment and referral in the application process for various types of Federal assistance. Authorizes grants to States to develop, revise, and implement immunization improvement plans. Requires States to establish child immunization rate goals. Authorizes appropriations. Mandates: (1) a biennial report on the costs, efficiency, and effectiveness of procedures established to deliver vaccine to health care providers; and (2) a report by the National Academy of Sciences on the role of the National Vaccine Program established under this title in achieving progress toward the established immunization goals for the year 2000. (Sec. 12203) Requires that the Vaccine Injury Table of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program include any vaccine on the list established under this subtitle. Allows a special master to award reasonable attorney's fees whether or not an election has been made to file a civil action regarding a vaccine injury compensation petition. Requires that compensation under the Program be used as determined by the special master to be in the best interests of the petitioner. (Current law requires that the compensation be used, with the consent of the petitioner, as determined by the special master to be in the best interests of the petitioner.) Sets time limits regarding applications for attorney's fees and costs. Authorizes appropriations for payment of compensation under the Program regarding vaccines administered before the effective date of the Program. Revises requirements regarding: (1) time limits on actions when the Table is revised; and (2) extensions of time limits for decisions. Mandates an annual report on amounts collected under provisions regarding subrogation of petitioners' rights. Requires the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines to monitor the balance of the Vaccine Injury Trust Fund and recommend changes in the tax per dose. Revises requirements regarding vaccine information materials. Authorizes appropriations from the Trust Fund for administering the National Vaccine Program. (Sec. 12204) Removes provisions authorizing grants for research on the prevention and control of diseases through vaccination and related demonstration projects, public information programs, and health professionals training and clinical skills improvement. Subtitle D: ERISA Amendments - Chapter 1: Group Health Amendments - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to modify requirements regarding supersedure of State laws in connection with title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act requirements. (Sec. 12302) Prohibits a group health plan from reducing its coverage of pediatric vaccine costs below the coverage it provided on a specified date. Chapter 2: Liabilities and Penalties - Mandates joint and several liability for any person who participates in an act or omission of a fiduciary, knowing that the act or omission was a breach of fiduciary responsibility. (Sec. 12312) Changes requirements regarding civil enforcement actions brought by a participant, beneficiary, or fiduciary or by the Secretary of Labor and requires amounts recovered to be subject to a civil penalty. Limits awards of punitive damages and monetary relief. Modifies civil penalty requirements. Allows waiving or reducing penalties if the person will not be able to restore all losses to the plan, participants, or beneficiaries (currently, to the plan) without severe financial hardship. Requires reduction of penalties by the amount of any penalty or tax imposed by provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to minimum funding standards and prohibited transactions. Chapter 3: Public Health Service Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit any health insurance policy in effect before a specified date from reducing coverage for pediatric vaccine costs below the coverage on the date of enactment of this provision. Mandates civil money penalties for violations. Title XIII: Veterans' Programs - Extends permanently (currently, ends September 30, 1997) the $90 monthly pension limitation for veterans having neither spouse nor child and being furnished domiciliary care by the Department of Veterans Affairs. (Sec. 13002) States that the FY 1994 cost of living increases in veterans' disability compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation shall be no more than the percentage increases under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. (Sec. 13003) Requires an increased reduction in the monthly basic pay of active duty and reserve personnel entering into service after FY 1993 for participation in the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program. Provides similar increases for those enrolled in such program before either voluntary or involuntary separation from the armed forces. (Sec. 13004) Extends permanently (currently terminated as of December 31, 1992) certain procedures applicable to liquidation sales on defaulted home loans to veterans which were guaranteed by the Department. Increases the home loan fees charged to such veterans for such guarantee loans. (Sec. 13006) Extends permanently: (1) the authority of the United States to recover from third party insurers the cost of certain care and services provided to veterans through the Department; (2) a required minimum copayment for medication received by certain veterans on an outpatient basis; and (3) the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to obtain, and the Secretary of the Treasury to provide, certain financial information of veterans for income verification purposes.
Bill· SS. 1141 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1993
Veterans' Hospice Services Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a pilot program to: (1) assess the feasibility and desirability of furnishing hospice care to terminally ill veterans; and (2) determine the most efficient and effective means of providing such care. Directs the Secretary to designate 15 to 30 Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities for hospice care demonstration projects. Allows such hospice care to be provided by Department medical facilities and personnel or by contract with a non-Department medical facility. Limits the amount paid for such care to amounts paid for hospice care programs under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Directs the Secretary, during the pilot program period of October 1, 1993, through December 31, 1998, to designate not fewer than ten Department medical facilities at which hospice care is being provided to furnish palliative care to such veterans. Provides for: (1) informing terminally ill veterans of their eligibility for hospice and palliative care; and (2) hospice program evaluation, assessment, and congressional reports by the Secretary and the Director of the Health Services Research and Development Service of the hospice care pilot program.
Law· HRH.R. 2491 (103rd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Department of Veterans Affairs Title II: Department of Housing and Urban Development Title III: Independent Agencies Title IV: Corporations Title V: General Provisions Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994 - Title I: Department of Veterans Affairs - Makes appropriations for FY 1994 to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Provides for the use of such appropriations. Title II: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Makes appropriations for FY 1994 for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Title III: Independent Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 1994 to the: (1) American Battle Monuments Commission; (2) Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board; (3) Commission on National and Community Service; (4) Consumer Product Safety Commission; (5) Court of Veterans Appeals; (6) Department of Defense-Civil for cemeterial expenses, Army; (7) Environmental Protection Agency; (8) Executive Office of the President for the Office of Science and Technology Policy; (9) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); (10) General Services Administration for the Consumer Information Center; (11) Department of Health and Human Services for the Office of Consumer Affairs; (12) Interagency Council on the Homeless National Aeronautics and Space Administration; (13) National Credit Union Administration for the obligations of the Central Liquidity Facility; (14) National Science Foundation; (15) Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; and (16) Selective Service System. Title IV: Corporations - Authorizes certain corporations and agencies of HUD to make commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as necessary to carry out provisions under the Government Corporation Control Act. Allows any collections by such corporations and agencies to be used for new loan or mortgage purchase commitments to the extent provided under this Act, with specified exceptions. Makes funds available to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of Inspector General of the Resolution Trust Corporation. Title V: General Provisions - Specifies certain uses, limitations, and prohibitions on uses of funds appropriated by this Act. Requires FY 1994 pay raises to be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2474 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1993
Community Security Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a program to assist members of the armed forces who are involuntarily separated from active duty after six or more years of continuous active duty to obtain training and employment as local government law enforcement officers. Directs the Secretary to enter into agreements under which a local government offers a member employment as a law enforcement officer and the Secretary pays the local government a specified portion of the officer's salary. Provides: (1) a priority for violent crime areas; (2) a training stipend to each participant; (3) reimbursement to the Secretary by a local government for nonperformance of duty; and (4) notification requirements.
Bill· HRH.R. 2482 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1993
Prohibits funds appropriated or otherwise made available for military functions of the Department of Defense from being made available to any other Federal department or agency unless the Secretary certifies to the Congress at least 30 days in advance that such transfer is in the national security interest. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition during a period of national emergency.
Bill· HRH.R. 2476 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1993
American Shipyard Worker Protection Act - Prohibits the Secretary of the Navy from contracting with a foreign nation or firm for the overhaul, repair, or maintenance of vessels unless the Secretary of Defense certifies to specifid congressional committees that: (1) the work was unplanned and of an emergency nature; or (2) there is a compelling national security or economic reason for the work to be done by the foreign nation or firm.
Bill· HRH.R. 2481 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1993
Persian Gulf War Radiation Research Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to make a specified grant annually for FY 1994 through 1998 to an institution selected through established acquisition procedures to study the possible health effects of battlefield exposure to depleted uranium, including exposure through ingestion, inhalation, or bodily injury. Provides grant funding through Department of Defense research, development, test, and evaluation appropriations. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on such research activities.
Bill· HRH.R. 2475 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1993
Directs the Secretary of the Navy to submit to the Congress a 20-year plan for the safe life-cycle maintenance and decommissioning of the Navy's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Requires the plan to include sites and methods for the safe disposal of spent nuclear fuel and the ships' hulls, structures, machinery, and equipment. Prohibits the appropriation of any funds for construction of the next nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (CVN-76) until such a plan has been approved by law. Directs the Secretary of Energy to report to the Congress detailing the likelihood and environmental impact of a reactor accident aboard a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Directs the Comptroller General to report to the Congress detailing the costs and benefits of the construction of another nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 204 (103rd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1993
Waives points of order against the consideration of H.R. 2446 (military construction appropriations).
Bill· HRH.R. 2467 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1993
Vietnam Women's Memorial Coin Act of 1994 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue silver coins emblematic of the Vietnam Women's Memorial sculpture. Requires all surcharges received from the sale of such coins to be used for: (1) an endowment for the Memorial; (2) education and research concerning veterans and their families; and (3) the identification and documentation of women who served in the armed forces during the Vietnam era. Expresses the sense of the Congress that this coin program shall be self-sustaining and administered to result in no net cost to the Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund.
Bill· SS. 1122 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993
Department of Veterans Affairs Health Professionals Education Debt Reduction Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out the Department of Veterans Affairs Education Debt Reduction Program to assist Department health-care personnel serving in the Veterans Health Administration in reducing the amount of debt incurred in completing educational programs that qualify such personnel for such service. Makes eligible for such Program any individual other than a physician or dentist serving in a Department health care position and having an outstanding health education loan from a qualified educational institution. Provides certain assistance preferences. Limits the assistance to $4,000 for each full year served in a Department health-care position, up to a $12,000 maximum. Authorizes appropriations for the Program for FY 1994 through 1998.
Bill· SS. 1128 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993
Extends eligibility for burial in a national cemetery to any member or former member of the armed forces (and his or her dependents) who has performed at least 20 years of service under honorable conditions and who is eligible for retired pay.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 104 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993
Designates September 17, 1993, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Requires the display of the National League of Families POW/MIA flag at: (1) all national cemeteries and the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial on May 31, 1993 (Memorial Day), September 17, 1993 (National POW/MIA Recognition Day), and November 11, 1993 (Veterans Day); and (2) the White House and the buildings containing the primary offices of the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Veterans Affairs and the Director of the Selective Service System on September 17, 1993 (National POW/MIA Recognition Day).
Law· HRH.R. 2445 (103rd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Department of Defense-Civil Title II: Department of the Interior Title III: Department of Energy Title IV: Independent Agencies Title V: General Provision Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1994 - Title I: Department of Defense-Civil - Makes appropriations for FY 1994 for: (1) authorized civil functions of the Department of the Army relating to rivers and harbors, flood control, beach erosion, and related purposes; (2) expenses necessary for the collection and study of information related to such purposes; (3) the prosecution of authorized water development and related projects; (4) certain flood control projects on the Mississippi River and its tributaries; (5) water development projects operation and maintenance; (6) regulatory programs; (7) flood control and coastal emergencies; (8) oil spill research; and (9) general expenses. Specifies prohibited uses of funds appropriated by this Act. Title II: Department of the Interior - Makes appropriations for FY 1994 for: (1) carrying out the Central Utah Project Completion Act; (2) the Bureau of Reclamation; (3) general investigation of proposed Federal reclamation projects; (4) project construction and rehabilitation; (5) project operation and maintenance; (6) the Central Valley Project Restoration Fund; and (7) general, special, and emergency funds. Title III: Department of Energy - Makes appropriations for FY 1994 to the Department of Energy (DOE) for: (1) energy supply, research and development activities; (2) uranium program expenses; (3) the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund; (4) general DOE science and research activities; (5) the Nuclear Waste Disposal Fund; (6) the Isotope Production and Distribution Program Fund; (7) atomic energy defense weapons activities; (8) defense environmental restoration and waste management; (9) DOE materials support and other DOE defense programs; (10) defense nuclear waste disposal; (11) DOE administration expenses; (12) operation, maintenance, construction, rehabilitation, and funding expenses of the various geographical power administrations of DOE; and (13) salaries and expenses of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Title IV: Independent Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 1994 for: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; (3) the Delaware River Basin Commission; (4) the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin; (5) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; (6) the Office of the Inspector General; (7) the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board and the Nuclear Waste Negotiator; (8) the Susquehanna River Basin Commission; (9) the Tennessee Valley Authority; and (10) the United States Enrichment Corporation Fund. Title V: General Provision - Amends the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1993, to make eligible for participation in the Superconducting Super Collider Project small business concerns owned or controlled by women. Requires small businesses participating in the Project to meet certain certification requirements. Requires the Secretary of Energy to maintain certain records, make reports, and conduct audits in connection with such Project.
Law· HRH.R. 2446 (103rd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993
Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1994 - Appropriates funds for FY 1994 for military construction functions administered by the Department of Defense (DOD) in specified amounts for: (1) military construction for the Army, Navy, and Air Force; (2) military construction, DOD (including a transfer of funds); (3) military construction for the Army and Air National Guards; (4) military construction for the Army, Navy, and Air Force Reserves; (5) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure; (6) family housing for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force; (7) family housing, DOD; (8) the homeowners assistance fund, defense; and (9) the Base Realignment and Closure Accounts, Parts I through III. Specifies prohibited uses of funds appropriated by this Act. Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide certain congressional notification 30 days in advance of the plans and scope of any proposed military exercise involving U.S. personnel if construction amounts for such exercise are expected to exceed $100,000. Provides for the transfer of certain funds from the Military Family Housing Management Account to the appropriations for family housing. Provides for the transfer of lapsed unobligated military construction and family housing funds into the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Construction, Defense account. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on actions proposed by DOD to encourage other member nations of NATO, Japan, and Korea to assume a greater share of the common defense burden of such nations and the United States. Directs the Secretary of the Army to transfer to the Architect of the Capitol a portion of the Army Research Laboratory, Woodbridge, Virginia.
Bill· HRH.R. 2451 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993
Persian Gulf War Environmental Hazards Study Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to make a grant to a medical research institution selected through established acquisition procedures for constructing and equipping a specialized environmental medical facility to study the possible health effects of exposure to volatile chemicals and the susceptibility of humans to such exposure under environmentally controlled conditions. Requires such grant funds to be obtained from FY 1994 Department of Defense research, development, test, and evaluation funds. Provides research institution selection criteria. Requires such research to focus on persons who may have been exposed to environmental hazards or chemical substances while serving on active duty on Southwest Asia during the Persian Gulf War. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on the research activities.
Bill· HRH.R. 2453 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993
Allows the use of the targeted jobs credit for hiring a long-term unemployed defense or shipbuilding industry worker. Describes such worker as an individual certified by the designated local agency as having been unemployed in such industry who: (1) has been receiving unemployment compensation at all times during the six-month period prior to the hiring date; or (2) has been receiving unemployment compensation but has exhausted all rights to such compensation and has remained unemployed beginning on the date such rights were exhausted and ending on the date before the hiring date. Requires the individual to be employed by the employer for at least 120 days and the employer to certify that: (1) the individual was hired after the employer took reasonable actions to specifically recruit such workers; and (2) the individual was not hired to replace an employee who was involuntarily separated from employment by the employer without cause. Makes such credit permanent law. Allows an investment tax credit for nondefense production and manufacturing equipment of ten percent of the aggregate bases of such properties placed in service during the taxable year.
Bill· SS. 1107 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
Provides for the inclusion of health care personnel appointed to positions in the Veterans Health Administration within the Office of the Under Secretary for Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Bill· HRH.R. 2414 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to: (1) require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide hospital care, and authorize such Secretary to provide nursing home care, to veterans exposed to environmental hazards during their military service; (2) make eligible for hospital and nursing home care for any disability of a Persian Gulf War veteran who was exposed to environmental hazards; (3) extend the authority for all such care through FY 2003; and (4) provide priority outpatient care for any disability of a Persian Gulf War veteran exposed during such service to environmental hazards.
Bill· HRH.R. 2413 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide hospital care, and authorizes the Secretary to provide nursing home care, to a veteran exposed to an environmental hazard. Makes a veteran exposed to a toxic substance or an environmental hazard during the Persian Gulf War eligible for hospital and nursing home care for any disability for which a need for treatment is determined by the Secretary before October 1, 1994, notwithstanding whether it is medically evident that such disability is associated with such exposure. Extends the provision of such care through FY 1996. Makes such veterans eligible through such period for outpatient care for any disability for which a need for treatment is determined before October 1, 1994.
Bill· HRH.R. 2402 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Army Title II: Navy Title III: Air Force Title IV: Defense Agencies Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure Title VI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities Title VII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations Title VIII: General Provisions Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes Subtitle B: Defense Base Closure and Realignment Subtitle C: Land Transactions Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 - 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 family housing units, to carry out architectural planning and design activities, and to improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for FY 1994 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Army. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title II: Navy - Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under Title I. Title III: Air Force - Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under Title I. 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 the Secretary to carry out certain energy conservation projects. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for FY 1994 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program and authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1993 for such contributions. Title VI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1993 for the Guard and Reserve forces for acquisition, architectural planning and design activities, and construction of facilities. Title VII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles I through VI of this Act on October 1, 1996, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1997, whichever is later. Extends certain FY 1991 military construction projects. Title VIII: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes - Makes miscellaneous changes with respect to military construction and family housing programs. Subtitle B: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Amends the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act and the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to authorize the Secretary to: (1) contract with local governments for the provision of community services at military installations to be closed; and (2) receive further funding for environmental restoration activities at such installations. Subtitle C: Land Transactions - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to: (1) Washington Gas Company, Virginia, the natural gas distribution system at Fort Belvoir, Virginia; (2) American Water Company, Virginia, the water distribution system at Fort Lee, Virginia; and (3) Blackstone, Virginia, the waste water treatment facility at Fort Pickett, Virginia.
Bill· HRH.R. 2404 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Reform of Foreign Assistance Programs Title II: Authorizations for Foreign Assistance Programs Title III: Regional Provisions Title IV: Provisions Relating to Arms Transfers Title V: Other Foreign Assistance Provisions Title VI: Bosnia-Hercegovina Foreign Assistance Authorization Act of 1993 - Title I: Reform of Foreign Assistance Programs - (Sec. 101) Requires the President to submit to the Congress a plan for comprehensive reform of U.S. foreign assistance programs and of the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance. (Sec. 102) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require the President to establish a program performance, monitoring, and evaluation capacity with respect to such agency and to report annually to the Congress on: (1) the progress of the agency in achieving sustainable development objectives; and (2) the impact on economic development of U.S. economic assistance on a country-by-country basis. Title II: Authorizations for Foreign Assistance Programs - (Sec. 201) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for: (1) specified development assistance; (2) international disaster assistance; (3) American schools, libraries, and hospitals abroad; (4) assistance for the Philippines; (5) economic assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States; (6) assistance for the independent states of the former Soviet Union; (7) the Inter-American Foundation; (8) the African Development Foundation; (9) the International Fund for Ireland; (10) foreign military financing and international military education and training; (11) economic support fund (ESF) assistance; (12) anti-terrorism assistance; (13) a nonproliferation and disarmament fund; and (14) the Peace Corps. Reduces the amount previously authorized for international narcotics control for FY 1994. (Sec. 202) Declares that the Congress expects that certain amounts of assistance will be allocated for child survival activities and the Vitamin A deficiency program and related activities. (Sec. 203) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for worldwide housing guarantees and raises the ceiling on the amount of loans available under such program. (Sec. 204) Raises the ceiling on insurance and guarantees issued by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and extends OPIC programs through FY 1995. (Sec. 205) Authorizes the President to reduce the debt owed by an eligible country as a result of housing guarantees or credits or guarantees extended under the Arms Export Control Act. Defines an "eligible country" as a country with a heavy debt burden that is eligible to borrow from the International Development Association but not from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Title III: Regional Provisions - (Sec. 302) Amends the African Development Foundation Act to authorize the African Development Foundation to employ persons who are not U.S. citizens. (Sec. 303) Allocates assistance for establishing conflict resolution capabilities within specified African organizations and for facilitating reductions in the size of armed forces of Subsaharan African countries. (Sec. 305) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to remove restrictions on assistance to nongovernmental organizations financed or controlled by the South African Government if they meet certain conditions relating to promotion of democracy and assistance to disadvantaged South Africans. (Secs. 306 and 307) Bars specified economic and military assistance for Sudan and Zaire. (Sec. 308) Makes humanitarian assistance available to Afghanistan. (Sec. 311) Directs the President to report to the Congress on progress towards the withdrawal of personnel of any independent state of the former Soviet Union from the Cienfuegos nuclear facility in Cuba. Makes ineligible for assistance any independent state that: (1) is providing assistance for, or engaging in nonmarket based trade with Cuba; or (2) knowingly transfers sophisticated conventional weapons to Iran in numbers and types that are destabilizing. Directs the President to study and report to the Congress on: (1) the possible use of barter or exchange of resources as methods of reimbursement for assistance provided to the independent states; and (2) the collateralization of loans and investment guarantees provided by the U.S. Government for project financing in such states using resources or prospective revenues. (Sec. 312) Authorizes the President to use funds for the independent states to provide assistance to Mongolia. (Sec. 313) Bars international military education and training assistance for Malta. (Sec. 314) Extends the administration of justice assistance program. Makes such assistance available for Panama. (Sec. 317) Earmarks ESF and foreign military financing assistance for Israel and Egypt and ESF assistance for Middle East cooperative programs. Title IV: Provisions Relating to Arms Transfers - (Sec. 402) Amends the Arms Export Control Act to increase the aggregate ceiling on excess defense articles for delivery to foreign countries or international organizations. (Sec. 403) Makes East European countries eligible to receive excess defense articles. (Sec. 406) Establishes limits on additions to stockpiles in South Korea, Israel, and Thailand. (Sec. 407) Prohibits the sale or lease of defense articles or services to any country or international organization which is known to have sent letters to U.S. firms requesting, or soliciting information about, compliance with the secondary or tertiary Arab boycott. Provides for presidential waivers, subject to certain conditions. Title V: Other Foreign Assistance Provisions - (Sec. 503) Provides that certain restrictions with respect to foreign assistance shall not restrict assistance in support of a nongovernmental organization's programs (with exceptions). (Sec. 504) Prohibits the use of funds authorized for foreign assistance programs for FY 1994 for: (1) financial incentives to businesses for inducing them to relocate outside the United States if it will reduce the number of individuals employed in the United States; (2) establishing any export processing zone or designated area in which the tax, tariff, labor, environment, and safety laws of a country do not apply to activities in such area, unless the President certifies that such assistance is not likely to cause a loss of jobs within the United States; or (3) assistance for a project that contributes to the violation of workers' rights. (Sec. 505) Requires the Director of the Trade and Development Agency to carry out a capital projects pilot program in developing countries and countries making the transition from a nonmarket to a market economy. (Sec. 506) Provides for the establishment of a Microenterprise Development Fund within the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance. (Sec. 507) Requires the administrator of such agency to report to the Congress on the incorporation of the Agenda 21 principles of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development into foreign assistance activities. (Sec. 509) Requires the annual deobligation of specified unexpended foreign assistance funds that have been obligated for more than four years. Title VI: Bosnia-Hercegovina - Bosnia-Hercegovina Self-Defense Act of 1993 - (Sec. 603) Authorizes the President to terminate the arms embargo of Bosnia-Hercegovina upon receipt of a request for assistance in exercising its right of self-defense under the United Nations Charter. (Sec. 604) Authorizes the President, if such request is made, to direct the drawdown of defense articles and services and military education and training to provide assistance. Bars members of the armed forces who provide such assistance abroad from performing combatant duties.
Law· HRH.R. 2401 (103rd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Procurement Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations Subtitle B: Other Matters Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Title III: Operation and Maintenance Subtitle A: Authorization Appropriations Subtitle B: Other Matters Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations Subtitle A: Active Forces Subtitle B: Reserve Forces Subtitle C: Military Training Student Loads Title V: Military Personnel Policy Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy Subtitle B: Reserve Component Matters Subtitle C: Service Academies Subtitle D: Education and Training Subtitle E: Other Matters Title VI: Compensation and Other Peronnel Benefits Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances Subtitle B: Retired Pay and Survivor Benefits Subtitle C: Other Matters Title VII: Health Care Provisions Subtitle A: Health Care Management Subtitle B: Other Matters Title VIII: Department of Defense Organization and Management Subtitle A: Office of the Secretary of Defense Subtitle B: Professional Military Education Subtitle C: Other Matters Title IX: General Provisions Title X: Matters Relating to Allies and Other Nations National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for FY 1994 for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and for other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the Defense Health Program; and (4) the chemical demilitarization program. Repeals a separate budget account requirement for the chemical demilitarization program. Subtitle B: Other Matters - Repeals the current requirement for a separate budget request for the procurement of reserve equipment. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D). Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of the Department of Defense (DOD) for operation and maintenance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for DOD working capital and revolving funds. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to include within the funding provided by the Defense Business Operations Fund the activities of the Defense Contract Audit Agency and the Defense Contract Management Command. Authorizes the obligation during FY 1994 of a specified amount from the National Security Education Trust Fund. Subtitle B: Other Matters - Repeals a current limitation on the number of military and civilian employees assigned or detailed to headquarters and non-management headquarters and headquarters support activities. Limits the authorized FY 1994 sale of stockpiled materials in the National Defense Stockpile (NDS). Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to impose a moratorium on new material acquisition in order to reduce existing excess NDS materials. Authorizes the Commandant of the Marine Corps to provide minor maintenance and repairs to Pacific battle monuments with specified operation and maintenance funds. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Provides for the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of FY 1994. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Provides the authorized end strengths for reserve personnel as of FY 1994 and for certain reserves on active duty in support of the reserves. Subtitle C: Military Training Student Loads - Provides the authorized FY 1994 military training student loads. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to delete from certain reports and promotion lists the names of officers erroneously considered for promotion by promotion selection boards. Provides for the involuntary separation of certain regular warrant officers. Subtitle B: Reserve Component Matters - Provides certain reserve personnel call-up authority for the Secretary and the Secretary of Transportation when the Coast Guard is not under the jurisdiction of the Navy. Repeals the current requirement for physical examinations in the Army and Air National Guard. Requires each member of the Ready Reserve to be examined every five years (currently four). Subtitle C: Service Academies - Revises provisions concerning the procedure for nominating candidates for admission to the service academies. Subtitle D: Education and Training - Revises the eligibility requirements for advanced training in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Repeals the statutory restriction on the assignment of women in the Navy and Marine Corps. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, in times of war, hostilities, or national emergency, to limit the direct pay to military personnel serving in prescribed areas. Makes permanent the authority for certain bonuses and special pay for nurse officer candidates, registered nurses, and nurse anesthetists serving in the armed forces. Extends specified expiring authorities for certain other special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces. Subtitle B: Retired Pay and Survivor Benefits - Provides disability coverage for certain officer candidates granted excess leave. Subtitle C: Other Matters - Provides permanent authority for former prisoners of war to claim payments because of violation of the Geneva Conventions (inhumane treatment). Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Subtitle A: Health Care Management - Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to: (1) revise, and extend until October 1, 1995, the authority to provide nonemergency inpatient hospital care to certain spouses and dependents of military personnel who reside outside of a 40-mile radius of a military medical facility; (2) revise and codify changes to the CHAMPUS physician payment program; (3) award constructive service credit for certain advanced health degrees obtained by defense health personnel; and (4) authorize the Secretary to obtain additional distinguished pathologists and scientists (currently limited to six) if determined to be in the best interests of DOD. Subtitle B: Other Matters - Repeals the statutory restriction on the use of DOD funds for abortions. Title VIII: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Subtitle A: Office of the Secretary of Defense - Authorizes certain organizational and administrative changes within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, including establishing the position of Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness and renaming the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition as the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology. Subtitle B: Professional Military Education - Authorizes the President of the National Defense University to confer master of science degrees in national security strategy and national resource strategy. Subtitle C: Other Matters - Authorizes payment of escort and flag expenses incident to the death of a civilian employee who dies while serving with an armed force in a contingency operation. Title IX: General Provisions - Authorizes the award of gold star lapel buttons to survivors of service members killed by terrorist acts. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to establish and maintain an Aviation Leadership Program to provide undergraduate pilot and related training to selected air force personnel of friendly, less-developed foreign countries. Title X: Matters Relating to Allies and Other Nations - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to exchange U.S. military and civilian defense personnel with the defense departments or ministries of allied and friendly foreign governments. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to the Republic of Korea certain excess or obsolete defense articles. Authorizes the Secretary to accept cash or other contributions from Japan, Kuwait, and the Republic of Korea as defense burdensharing payments.
Bill· SS. 1094 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Extends through December 31, 2003, the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide priority health care to veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange or ionizing radiation during military service.
Bill· SS. 1090 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Agriculture Appropriations Title II: Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subtitle A: Department of Commerce Subtitle B: Related Agencies Subtitle C: Department of State Title III: Defense Appropriations Subtitle A: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Subtitle B: Other Department of Defense Programs Subtitle C: Operations and Maintenance Title IV: Energy and Water Appropriations Subtitle A: Corps of Engineers Subtitle B: Department of Energy Title V: Interior Appropriations Title VI: Transportation Appropriations Title VII: Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Title VIII: Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Subtitle A: Department of Veterans Affairs Subtitle B: Independent Agencies Subtitle C: Department of Housing and Urban Development Title IX: Blue Smoke and Mirrors Spending Priority Reform Act of 1993 - Expresses the sense of the Congress that any money returned to the Treasury as a result of this Act should be deposited in the General Fund to be applied against the Federal budget deficit. Title I: Agriculture Appropriations - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the Department of Agriculture for certain special research grants and for the construction of buildings and facilities of the Cooperative State Research Service which were not authorized, not awarded on a competitive basis, or not subjected to congressional hearings ("unauthorized"). Title II: Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations - Subtitle A: Department of Commerce - Rescinds FY 1993 specified appropriations to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the International Trade Administration. Subtitle B: Related Agencies - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the Small Business Administration for unauthorized grants for specified miscellaneous projects. Subtitle C: Department of State - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the Department of State for an unauthorized grant for the North/South Center at the University of Miami, Miami, Florida, and certain educational and cultural exchange programs. Title III: Defense Appropriations - Subtitle A: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation - Rescinds unauthorized FY 1993 appropriations made to the Department of Defense for: (1) university grants; (2) electrical vehicle demonstration projects; (3) Army industrial preparedness and manufacturing technology development programs; (4) medical research; (5) naval research, development, testing, and evaluation; and (5) the Space Surveillance Network Improvement Program. Subtitle B: Other Department of Defense Programs - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations for efforts to prevent brown tree snakes from entering Hawaii from Guam. Subtitle C: Operations and Maintenance - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations for the following projects: (1) self-powered locks; (2) grants for World University and 1996 Summer Olympics games and World Cup 1994; (3) Army procurement of extended cold weather clothing systems; (4) study of nuclear disposal by the former Soviet Union and for Project Peace; and (5) the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Title IV: Energy and Water Appropriations - Subtitle A: Corps of Engineers - Rescinds unauthorized FY 1993 appropriations for funding of surveys and planning activities and construction of water resource projects. Subtitle B: Department of Energy - Rescinds unauthorized FY 1993 appropriations made under the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1993, for funding certain energy supply, research, and development activities. Title V: Interior Appropriations - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations for unauthorized funding of: (1) certain National Park System projects; (2) certain construction projects of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and (3) certain National Forest Service projects. Title VI: Transportation Appropriations - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the Department of Transportation for unauthorized funding of: (1) certain airway science programs; (2) a certain highway research, development, and technology project; (3) certain construction and maintenance projects; (4) certain Federal Highway Administration demonstration projects; and (5) transit planning and research. Title VII: Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the General Services Administration for certain unauthorized grants for projects funded through the Federal Buildings Fund. Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the Office of Personnel Management for the establishment of health promotion and disease prevention programs. Title VIII: Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations - Subtitle A: Department of Veterans Affairs - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to be Department of Veterans Affairs for unauthorized construction projects. Subtitle B: Independent Agencies - Rescinds 1993 appropriations to: (1) the Environmental Protection Agency for certain unauthorized projects; (2) the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network; and (3) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for certain unauthorized research and development projects and construction projects. Subtitle C: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the Department of Housing and Urban Development for unauthorized funding of certain housing projects and assistance programs. Title IX: Blue Smoke and Mirrors - Expresses the sense of the Congress that, with regard to the appropriations process, "forward funding" tactics should no longer be utilized and Congress should operate within the funding limits prescribed for each fiscal year.
Bill· SS. 1093 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the special rule that limits the amount of foreign trade income derived from the disposition of military property which a foreign service corporation ]may treat as exempt foreign trade income to 50 percent of the amount which would otherwise be treated as such income.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 101 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Designates July 25 through 31, 1993, as National Week of Recognition and Remembrance for Those Who Served in the Korean War. Authorizes the President to urge U.S. departments and agencies, interested organizations, groups, and individuals to fly the American flag at half-staff on July 27, 1993, in honor of the Americans who died as a result of their service in Korea.
Bill· HRH.R. 2379 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
California Desert and Employment Preservation Act of 1993 - Designates as additions to the National Wilderness Preservation System certain public lands located in California within the Bakersfield District, the Susanville District, the Ukiah District, the California Desert District, the Yuma, Arizona, District, and the Carson City, Nevada, District of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Incorporates certain public lands in the California Desert District into the Death Valley National Monument and the Joshua Tree National Monument and makes such lands part of the National Park System. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to prepare plans to manage designated wilderness areas. Withdraws such areas from exploitation under the public lands laws. Provides for the continuation of demilitarization activities and the overflight of military aircraft in such areas. Directs the Secretary to assure access to such areas for traditional Indian cultural and religious purposes. Permits the Secretary, upon the request of an Indian tribe or religious community, to temporarily close an area to protect the privacy of religious or cultural activities. States that lands administered by the BLM in California that have not been designated as wilderness areas have been adequately studied for wilderness designation and releases them from certain requirements. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 2375 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Extends through December 31, 2003, the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide priority health care to veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange or ionizing radiation during military service.
Bill· HRH.R. 2392 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Investment Tax Credit Title II: Capital Gains Tax Reduction Title III: Incentives For Redevelopment of Closed Military Bases Title IV: Use of Transferred Defense Funds For Provision of Services to Certain Dislocated Defense Workers Under Job Training Partnership Act Economic Resurgence and Jobs for America Act - Title I: Investment Tax Credit - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate a five-percent investment tax credit for property placed in service after December 31, 1992. Repeals provisions of the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1990 concerning the elimination of expired or obsolete investment tax credit provisions. Title II: Capital Gains Tax Reduction - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the individual and corporate capital gains rate from 34 percent to 15 percent. Reduces such tax to 7.5 percent for low- and middle-income taxpayers. Provides for the phaseout of personal exemptions and the overall limitation on itemized deductions to take into account adjusted gross income which has been reduced by net capital gain. Requires indexing, based on the gross national product deflator, of the adjusted basis of certain assets (corporate stock and tangible property that is a capital asset of property used in a trade or business) that have been held for more than one year at the time of sale or other transfer, solely for the purpose of determining gain or loss. Provides for indexing the limitation on capital losses of noncorporate taxpayers. Title III: Incentives for Redevelopment of Closed Military Bases - Excludes from gross income 100 percent of any qualified capital gain recognized on the sale or exchange of a qualified closed base asset held for more than five years. Excludes property acquired after November 30, 1997. Excludes rental real estate activity near a closed base from passive loss rules. Increases the deduction for expensing depreciable business assets in the case of a closed base business. Treats loss on a closed base asset as an ordinary loss. Provides special rules for redevelopment bonds that provide financing for closed military bases. Imposes penalties in cases of loans made to businesses that cease to be closed based businesses. Title IV: Use of Transferred Defense Funds for Provision of Services to Certain Dislocated Defense Workers Under Job Training Partnership Act - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to require the use of defense funds in the program for employment and training assistance to individuals who have been terminated, laid off, or so notified, due to a closure of a military base. Provides for the transfer of defense reinvestment and economic growth funds for such program.
Bill· HRH.R. 2389 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Excludes from the determination of income, for purposes of the payment of pension by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, any future increases made by the State of New York in the monthly amount paid to blind and totally disabled veterans.
Bill· HRH.R. 2377 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Excludes from the determination of income, for purposes of the payment of pension by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, any future increases made by the State of New York in the monthly amount paid to blind and totally disabled veterans.
Bill· HRH.R. 2373 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Provides that a Federal provision authorizing an additional amount of Servicemen's Group Life Insurance of up to $100,000 at the option of the member shall be considered to have become effective on November 30, 1992, for the benefit of 13 Air Force personnel killed in an airplane collision on such date.
Bill· HRH.R. 2391 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Establishes in the Department of Veterans Affairs a Women's Bureau to foster and promote standards and policies of the Department concerning the welfare of veterans who are women. Authorizes the Director of such Bureau to: (1) assist in the development of policies providing benefits and services to such veterans and their beneficiaries; and (2) investigate and report to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on all matters pertaining to the welfare of women veterans. Requires the Director to appoint an Assistant Director.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 212 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Designates the week beginning November 7, 1993, as National Women Veterans Recognition Week.
Bill· SS. 1087 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1993
Youth Handgun Safety Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit: (1) the sale, delivery, or transfer to a juvenile of a handgun or ammunition that is suitable for use only in a handgun; and (2) the possession by a juvenile of a handgun or such ammunition. Makes exceptions with respect to a temporary transfer to, or possession by, a juvenile: (1) when the handgun is used in target practice under adult supervision, under specified conditions; or (2) who is a member of the U.S. armed forces or the National Guard who possesses or is armed with a handgun in the line of duty. Sets penalties for violations of this Act.
Bill· SS. 1085 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1993
Economy in Arms Control Act - Abolishes the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA). Repeals the Arms Control and Disarmament Act. Transfers: (1) ACDA policy formulation functions concerning arms control and disarmament to the Secretary of State; and (2) nonproliferation, evaluation, and verification functions to the Secretary of Defense. Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to empower the National Security Council to serve as the principal adviser to the President for the interagency coordination of U.S. arms control and disarmament policy and for monitoring international arms control and disarmament agreements. Bars actions from being taken under this or any law that will obligate the United States to disarm or reduce or limit the armed forces or armaments, except pursuant to the treaty-making power of the President or unless authorized by further affirmative legislation. Creates an Assistant Secretary of Defense for Non-Proliferation Affairs. Sets forth administrative provisions concerning transfers of functions, personnel, and continuance of proceedings.
Bill· HRH.R. 2363 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1993
Amends the Federal judicial code to make an exception to: (1) sovereign immunity for certain cases involving torture or extrajudicial killing in, or a war crime committed by the military of, a foreign state, subject to specified limitations; and (2) immunity from attachment or execution relating to judgments of claims for which the foreign state is not immune by virtue of such provision.
Bill· HRH.R. 2358 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Reporting on Nuclear Exports Title II: Sanctions for Nuclear Proliferation Title III: International Atomic Energy Agency Omnibus Nuclear Proliferation Control Act of 1993 - Title I: Reporting on Nuclear Exports - (Sec. 101) Amends the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 to revise requirements of the President's annual report on Government efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation. Title II: Sanctions for Nuclear Proliferation - (Sec. 201) Requires the President to prohibit the procurement of goods or services from any foreign or U.S. person who has materially and with requisite knowledge contributed, through the exports of goods or technology, to the efforts by any individual, group, or non-nuclear weapon state to acquire unsafeguarded special nuclear material or to use, develop, stockpile, or acquire any nuclear explosive device. Requires the President to impose sanctions unless he certifies to the Congress that a government has taken actions to terminate the involvement of a foreign person in such activities. Exempts certain products or services from sanctions, including essential defense articles and services, products and services provided under existing contracts, essential technology or information, and humanitarian items. Applies sanctions for at least 12 months and terminates sanctions only if the President certifies to the Congress that a person has ceased to, and will not in the future, aid in such prohibited activities. Grants the President waiver authority with respect to such sanctions. (Sec. 202) Amends the Arms Export Control Act to prohibit sales or leases of defense articles or services to any country that is in breach of its commitments to the United States under international agreements concerning nuclear nonproliferation. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to waive a prohibition on assistance to countries engaging in certain nuclear enrichment transfers with respect to Pakistan if to do so is in the national interest. (Sec. 203) Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of specified international institutions to oppose any use of funds to promote the acquisition of unsafeguarded special nuclear material or the development, stockpiling, or use of nuclear explosive devices by non-nuclear weapon states. (Sec. 205) Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 to impose specified prohibitions on financial institutions that the President has determined have materially and with requisite knowledge contributed to the efforts by any individual, group, or non-nuclear weapon state to acquire unsafeguarded nuclear material or to use, develop, stockpile, or acquire any nuclear explosive device. Authorizes the President to waive a prohibition under certain circumstances. (Sec. 206) Amends the Export-Import Bank Act to prohibit Export-Import Bank assistance to any country that has aided or abetted a non-nuclear weapon state in acquiring a nuclear explosive device or unsafeguarded nuclear material. (Sec. 207) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to include within the list of activities that makes a country subject to sanctions the transfer or receipt (by a non-nuclear weapon state) of design information or components important for the development of a nuclear explosive device. Lists such sanctions. Title III: International Atomic Energy Agency - (Sec. 301) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should negotiate with other nations to achieve specified nuclear nonproliferation and safeguard objectives to enhance confidence in International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards and halt nuclear proliferation. (Sec. 302) Urges the President to negotiate with other nations to promote the early adoption of reforms in the implementation of IAEA safeguards.