Defence

Nuclear Export Reorganization Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Amendments to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 Title II: Initiatives to Strengthen Compliance Title III: Amendments to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 Title IV: Sanctions for Nuclear proliferation Title V: International Atomic Energy Agency Title VI: Review of Plutonium Use Policy Nuclear Export Reorganization Act of 1993 - Title I: Amendments to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 - (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. (Sec. 102) Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to require the President to establish a Subgroup on Nuclear Export Coordination within the National Security Council. Requires the Subgroup to: (1) serve as a forum for expressing the views of the constituent agencies with respect to the export of nuclear dual-use items; (2) review applications for the export of such items; (3) designate items for inclusion on the Nuclear Referral List; (4) facilitate the interagency process with respect to nuclear export licensing activities; and (5) undertake investigations with respect to such items. Directs the Chairman of the Subgroup to publish an export control bulletin for purposes of informing the public about the risks of proliferation and efforts to eliminate such risks. Requires the President to maintain a list of items whose export is controlled to be known as the Nuclear Referral List. Requires an individual validated license for the export of a listed item. Subjects unlisted items that require a validated export license for national security reasons and are intended for nuclear-related end-uses to procedures applicable to listed items. Requires an individual validated license for exports of any technical data or commodities where the exporter has reason to know that such data or commodities will be used in specified nuclear activities. Makes the Secretary of Commerce responsible for processing export license applications for nuclear dual-use items before export from the United States or reexport from other countries. Sets forth procedures for license approvals and denials. Bars the issuance of licenses without the concurrence of all Subgroup members. (Sec. 103) Urges the President to encourage the development of a non-nuclear energy technology industry in the United States and to assist developing countries in acquiring such technologies. Requires the President to review the adequacy of federally funded research and development activities in achieving objectives related to non-nuclear technologies. Title II: Initiatives to Strengthen Compliance - (Sec. 201) Authorizes any U.S. person who finds that a foreign person has engaged in an activity outside the United States that is inconsistent with guidelines adopted by the United States and members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group with respect to exports of nuclear dual-use items to petition the Subgroup to investigate such activities. Requires the Subgroup, if the claims are sustained through evidence, to make a recommendation to the President regarding sanctions. (Sec. 202) Directs the Subgroup to develop guidelines to serve as a basis for the adoption of voluntary codes of conduct by companies that engage in exports of dual-use items. Requires the Subgroup to undertake a review of the circumstances under which certain dual-use goods could be exported under licenses other than an individual validated license without jeopardizing national security or interest. Authorizes the Secretary to issue such licenses. Permits the Subgroup to issue advisory opinions to any person as to whether an activity would subject the person to sanctions under existing nuclear export control laws. Authorizes the Subgroup to implement procedures to expedite the approvals of licenses for dual-use items to be exported to countries that are unlikely to become engaged in nuclear proliferation activities. Title III: Amendments to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 - (Secs. 301 through 303) Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require the concurrence of the Department of Defense in certain activities involving nuclear exports, including approval of nuclear cooperation agreements and authorizations to produce nuclear material outside of the United States. Title IV: Sanctions for Nuclear Proliferation - (Sec. 401) 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. 402) 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. 403) 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. 405) 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. 406) 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. 407) 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 V: International Atomic Energy Agency - (Sec. 501) 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. 502) Urges the President to negotiate with other nations to promote the early adoption of reforms in the implementation of IAEA safeguards. Title VI: Review of Plutonium Use Policy - (Sec. 602) Directs the President to report to the Congress on modifying policy that currently provides that the United States will not inhibit plutonium use in nations where it does not constitute a proliferation risk.

Cold War Funds for Youth Summer Jobs Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1993

Cold War Funds for Youth Summer Jobs Act of 1993 - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY 1993 to training and employment services of the Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor, for the summer jobs program under summer youth training and employment provisions of the Job Training Partnership Act. Designates such resultant new budget authority and outlays as defense spending, for purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).

An original bill to authorize major medical facility projects and leases for the Department of Veterans' Affairs, to revise and extend the authority of the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs to enter into enhanced-use leases, to authorize the disposal of Pershing Hall, France, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1993

Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out the major medical facilities projects and leases of the Department of Veterans Affairs for which funds are requested in the FY 1994 budget submitted to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to make payments for Department use of space or services from funds appropriated to the Department for construction (other than grants for construction). Extends through December 31, 1996, the authority of the Department to enter into enhanced-use leases (leasing unused Department property to others). Amends the Veterans' Benefits Programs Improvement Act of 1991 to increase from 35 to 99 years the authorized period for leasing newly constructed or substantially rehabilitated areas of Pershing Hall in Paris, France. Authorizes the Secretary to sell or otherwise dispose of all rights and interest to Pershing Hall as long as: (1) such disposal is in the best interests of the United States; and (2) the sale consideration is acceptable. Requires upon such sale that proceeds be deposited into the Pershing Hall Revolving Fund, that liabilities be paid and the Fund be closed, and that all remaining amounts be transferred to the appropriation account of the Department for minor construction projects.

A bill to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to provide career training through the hazardous substance research center program of the Environmental Protection Agency to qualified military personnel and qualified Department of Energy personnel in order to enable such individuals to acquire proficiency in hazardous and radioactive waste management, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1993

Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) establish a program for qualified military and Department of Energy (DOE) personnel to enable such individuals to acquire career training in environmental engineering, environmental sciences, or environmental project management in fields related to hazardous waste management and cleanup; and (2) implement, as part of such program, an academic program at institutions of higher education at undergraduate and graduate levels. Requires the Administrator to award grants to the hazardous substance research centers described under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) to pay the full cost of the academic program. Provides funding for the program, subject to certain limitations, from amounts allocated for: (1) the EPA under CERCLA; (2) the Defense Environmental Restoration Account; and (3) DOE environmental cleanup activities.

Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995

United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Division A: State Department, USIA, and Related Agencies Title I: Department of State, USIA, and Related Agencies Title II: United States Informational, Educational, and Cultural Programs Title III: Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Division B: Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Title XI (sic): Reform of Foreign Assistance Programs Title XII: Authorizations for Foreign Assistance Programs Title XIII: Regional Provisions Title XIV: Provisions Relating to Arms Transfers Title XV: Other Foreign Assistance Provisions International Relations Act of 1993 - Division A: State Department, USIA, and Related Agencies - State Department, USIA, and Related Agencies Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 - Title I: Department of State and Related Agencies - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations for the Department of State for FY 1994 and 1995 for the administration of foreign affairs. (Secs. 102 through 107) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 and 1995 for: (1) the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; (2) international organizations, programs, and conferences; (3) international commissions; (4) offsetting adverse fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; (5) migration and refugee assistance; (6) U.S. bilateral science and technology agreements; (7) the Asia Foundation; and (8) carrying out the Arms Control and Disarmament Act. (Sec. 103) Earmarks funds for the United Nations Population Fund. Bars the use of such funds for programs in China and applies restrictions on funding for abortions and involuntary sterilization. Part B: Authorities and Activities - (Sec. 113) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize the Secretary of State to procure the services of experts for use in prosecuting a proceeding before an international tribunal or a claim by or against a foreign entity. Establishes an International Litigation Fund for meeting expenses related to such proceedings. (Sec. 115) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit certain reprogrammings of funds for the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance unless specified congressional committees are notified in advance. (Sec. 116) Prohibits the Department of State from contracting with: (1) any foreign person who complies with the Arab League boycott of Israel; or (2) any foreign or U.S. person who discriminates in the award of subcontracts on the basis of religion. Provides for waivers of such prohibition if in the national interest. Requires potential contractors to submit certain statements concerning Israel, the Arab boycott, and discriminatory actions. (Sec. 117) Establishes limits on the number of Foreign Service personnel in the Department of State, the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), and the Agency for International Development (AID). (Sec. 121) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit funds for the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance from being available for obligation or expenditure: (1) unless they are appropriated pursuant to an authorization of appropriations; or (2) in excess of the authorized level of appropriations. (Sec. 122) Requires the Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, together with other specified officials, to report to specified congressional committees on the feasibility of consolidating domestic administrative operations for the Department of State, AID, and USIA. (Sec. 124) Directs the Secretary to implement an upgrade of all overseas visa lookout operations to computerized systems with automated multiple-name search capabilities. Establishes procedures for the processing of visas for admission into the United States and provides for appropriate disciplinary action of consular officers in connection with the issuance of visas to excludable aliens. Part C: Department of State Organization - (Sec. 132) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to revise the organization of the Department of State and eliminate specified bureaus and official positions. Part D: Personnel - (Sec. 142) Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial incentives during FY 1994 and 1995 to certain members of the Foreign Service and Department of State who are eligible for retirement. (Sec. 143) Permits the Secretary, if exceptional circumstances so warrant, to waive a limitation on claims for losses incurred by Government personnel subject to a chief of mission in a foreign country in cases of emergency evacuation. Makes such waiver retroactive to claims made as of October 31, 1988. (Secs. 144 and 145) Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to make chiefs of mission salaries and performance pay subject to limitations on certain payments under Federal civil service provisions. Prohibits performance pay awards to Senior Foreign Service members by any agency subject to an agency-wide reduction in force for budgetary reasons. (Sec. 147) Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to conduct a classification audit of all Senior Foreign Service positions in Washington, D.C., assigned to the Department of State, AID, and USIA and to review the methods of classification of such positions. (Sec. 148) Limits the number of Senior Foreign Service personnel serving under career extensions. Part E: International Organizations - (Sec. 161) Requires the President to direct the U.S. representatives to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to work toward the early adoption of specified reforms in the implementation of the IAEA's safeguards responsibilities. (Sec. 162) Authorizes the President to bring into force the Agreement on State and Local Taxation of Foreign Employees of Public International Organizations. (Sec. 163) Permits the President to withhold 20 percent of the funds appropriated for the U.S. assessed contribution to the United Nations if the United Nations has failed to implement consensus-based decisionmaking procedures on budgetary matters which assure that sufficient attention is paid to the views of the United States and other member states who are major financial contributors. (Sec. 165) Authorizes the President to maintain membership in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation organization. Part F: Miscellaneous Provisions - (Sec. 181) Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to steps to be taken to address international women's human rights, including the creation of a position within the Department of State to promote such rights. (Sec. 183) Amends the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 to raise the ceiling on the amount of funds authorized to be appropriated for the Emergency Refugee Migration and Assistance Fund. (Sec. 186) Reduces the amount authorized to be appropriated annually for the Mexico-United States Interparliamentary Group. Increases the amount authorized for the Canada-United States Interparliamentary Group. (Sec. 187) Sets forth U.S. policy on providing assistance for, and protecting, refugee women and children. (Sec. 190) Expresses the sense of the Congress that U.S. citizens who were victims of crimes against humanity committed by the German Government from 1939 to 1945 should have remedies against Germany in U.S. courts for damages. Title II: United States Informational, Educational, and Cultural Programs - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 201) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 and 1995 to carry out specified international information activities and educational and cultural exchange programs. Part B: International Broadcasting Authorities and Activities - International Broadcasting Act of 1993 - (Sec. 213) Sets forth standards for Government-supported international broadcasting. (Secs. 215 and 216) Authorizes the President to: (1) assign responsibility for the functions of such broadcasting to any Federal agency; (2) make grants to carry out specified functions to any public or private entity; and (3) delegate specified USIA satellite and television authorities to any Federal agency. (Sec. 217) Repeals the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973. (Sec. 220) Sets the same obligation and expenditure restrictions on international broadcasting funds as are applicable to funds for the agency responsible for administering development assistance under title I. (Sec. 221) Directs Government agencies which carry out international broadcasting to report to the Congress on efforts to sell advertising. Part C: USIA and Related Agencies Authorities and Activities - (Sec. 233) Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to establish a Buying Power Maintenance Account for USIA to offset fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates or changes in overseas wages and prices. (Secs. 239 and 240) Permits the USIA Director to: (1) establish collections at university libraries abroad to further the study of the United States; and (2) provide for a South Pacific exchange program. (Sec. 244) Provides for USIA educational and cultural exchanges with Tibet. Part D: Mike Mansfield Fellowships - Mike Mansfield Fellowship Act - (Sec. 252) Establishes the Mike Mansfield Fellowship Program to provide for USIA grants to the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs to award fellowships to eligible Federal employees. Requires Mansfield Fellows to: (1) study the Japanese language and political economy; and (2) serve in an agency of the Government of Japan, or, subject to Center approval, a nongovernmental Japanese institution associated with their interests. Part E: Facilitation of Private Sector Initiatives - Free Trade in Ideas Act of 1993 - (Secs. 262 through 267) Amends specified Federal laws to permit the exchange of certain information, as well as cultural and educational exchanges, with citizens in countries subject to U.S. export restrictions or embargoes. Title III: Arms Control and Disarmament Agency - (Sec. 302) Amend the National Security Act of 1947 to grant the Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency membership on the National Security Council. (Sec. 304) Amends the Arms Control and Disarmament Act to grant the Director primary responsibility for the preparation and management of U.S. participation in all international negotiations and implementation forums in arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation. (Sec. 305) Amends the Arms Export Control Act to provide for the participation of the Director in specified arms export and licensing activities. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to provide for consideration of the Director's judgment in specified nuclear export activities. (Secs. 306 and 307) Applies the same requirements for congressional notification for reprogramming and restrictions on obligations and expenditures of Agency funds as are applicable to development assistance funds under this Act. Division B: Foreign Assistance and Related Programs - Foreign Assistance Authorization Act of 1993 - Title XI (sic): Reform of Foreign Assistance Programs - (Sec. 1101) 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. 1102) Requires the President to establish a program performance, monitoring, and evalation 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 XII: Authorizations for Foreign Assistance Programs - (Sec. 1201) 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. 1202) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for worldwide housing guarantees and raises the ceiling on the amount of loans available under such program. (Sec. 1203) Raises the ceiling on insurance and guarantees issued by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and extends OPIC programs through FY 1995. (Sec. 1204) Authorizes the President to reduce debt owed by eligible countries as a result of housing guarantees or credits or guarantees issued under the Arms Export Control Act. Title XIII: Regional Provisions - (Sec. 1302) Amends the African Development Foundation Act to authorize the African Development Foundation to employ persons who are not U.S. citizens. (Sec. 1303) Authorizes the President to provide assistance to establish a permanent conflict resolution capability within the Organization of African Unity, subject to certain conditions. Allocates funding for such purpose. Allocates specified assistance for establishing conflict resolution capabilities within subregional organizations in Subsaharan Africa and to facilitate reductions in the size of armed forces of Subsaharan African countries. (Sec. 1305) Removes certain restricitons on assistance to nongovernmental organizations financed or controlled by the South African Government if they meet certain conditions relating to promotion of a nonracial democracy and assistance to disadvantaged South Africans. (Secs. 1306 and 1307) Bars specified economic and military assistance for Sudan and Zaire. (Sec. 1308) Makes humanitarian assistance available to Afghanistan. (Sec. 1311) Makes ineligible for assistance any independent state of the former Soviet Union that knowingly transfers sophisticated or destabilizing conventional weapons to Iran. (Sec. 1312) Authorizes the President to use funds for the independent states for Mongolia. (Sec. 1313) Bars international military education and training assistance for Malta. (Sec. 1314) Extends the administration of justice assistance program. Makes such assistance available for Panama. (Sec. 1317) Earmarks ESF and foreign military financing assistance for Israel and Egypt and ESF assistance for Middle East regional cooperative programs. Title XIV: Provisions Relating to Arms Transfers - (Sec. 1402) Amends the Arms Export Control Act to increase the aggregate ceiling on excess defense articles for delivery to foreign countries or international organizations. (Sec. 1403) Makes East European countries eligible to receive excess defense articles. (Sec. 1406) Establishes limits on funding for stockpiles in South Korea, Israel, and Thailand. Title XV: Other Foreign Assistance Provisions - (Sec. 1503) Provides that certain restrictions with respect to foreign assistance shall not restrict assistance in support of a nongovernmental organization's programs (with exceptions). (Sec. 1504) Prohibits the use of funds authorized for foreign assistance programs for FY 1994 for: (1) financial incentives to businesses for purposes of 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. 1505) 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. Makes funds available for such program. (Sec. 1506) Provides for the establishment of a Microenterprise Development Fund within the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance. (Sec. 1507) 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.

Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994

United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Intelligence Activities Title II: Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Title III: General Provisions Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 - Title I: Intelligence Activities - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities in specified departments and agencies of the U.S. Government, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Declares that the authorized amounts and personnel ceilings for such intelligence activities are those specified in the classified schedule of authorizations. Authorizes the Director of Central Intelligence to employ civilian personnel in excess of the ceiling for such personnel when necessary to the performance of important intelligence functions. Title II: Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System - Authorizes appropriations for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund for FY 1994. Title III: General Provisions - Permits appropriations authorized by this Act for benefits for Federal employees to be increased as may be necessary for increases in compensation or benefits authorized by law. Prohibits the authorization of appropriations by this Act from constituting authority for the conduct of any intelligence activity not otherwise authorized by the Constitution or laws of the United States.

Veterans' Compensation Rates Amendments of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1993

Veterans' Compensation Rates Amendments of 1993 - Increases as of December 1, 1993, the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for veterans' dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans, dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) for surviving spouses and children, and supplemental DIC for disabled adult children.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the rights of veterans with regard to procedures for housing loans upon default, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1993

Revises provisions with respect to the loan default procedure for veterans' housing loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reimburse the holder of the loan obligation for such advances, costs, and attorney's fees properly and reasonably incurrred in connection with the default and to receive an assignment of the loan and security. Directs the Secretary to notify the mortgagor, within ten days after receiving a notice of default from the veteran, that the Secretary may purchase the loan from the holder. Outlines notification and loan purchase requirements. Directs the Secretary to obtain and hold a quitclaim deed from the mortgagor to the Secretary for the real property securing the loan after the loan is purchased from the loan holder and before the Secretary makes any modifications to the loan instruments or grants any forbearance. Allows such unrecorded quitclaim deed to be returned to the mortgagor if the mortgagor brings the loan current and keeps it current for 12 consecutive months. Makes permanent all such loan default procedures (currently terminated as of December 31, 1992).

Thomas J. Downey, of New York, to be a Member of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission for a term expiring at the end of the first session of the 103rd Congress, vice Arthur Levitt, Jr., resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 28 May 1993

Real Jobs for America Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Investment and Savings Incentives Subtitle A: Reductions in Cost of Capital and Tax Penalties on Investment Subtitle B: Investment in Business Subtitle C: Increased Savings Through Individual Retirement Accounts Subtitle D: Incentives for Private Businesses to Hire New Employees Title II: Deficit Reductions Subtitle A: Extension of the Caps on Discretionary Spending Subtitle B: Spending Cuts Real Jobs for America Act of 1993 - Title I: Investment and Savings Incentives - Subtitle A: Reductions in Cost of Capital and Tax Penalties on Investment - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require indexing of certain assets (corporate stock, certain tangible property, and a principal residence) that have been held for more than three years at the time of sale or other transfer, solely for the purpose of determining gain or loss. Modifies the method of determining the depreciation deduction for certain personal property placed in service after June 30, 1993. Eliminates the depreciation adjustment for computing adjusted current earnings for such property. Subtitle B: Investment in Small Business - Increases the dollar limitation, with an inflation adjustment, on the deduction for expensing depreciable business assets. Subtitle C: Increased Savings Through Individual Retirement Accounts - Removes the limitation on the retirement savings deduction for active participants in certain pension plans. Provides a cost-of-living adjustment for such deduction. Allows individuals to establish individual retirement plus accounts with tax treatment similar to that for individual retirement plans. Makes contributions to such accounts nondeductible. Allows distributions from certain retirement plans without penalty to purchase first homes, pay higher education expenses and financially devastating medical expenses, and assist certain unemployed individuals. Treats certain disaster victims as first-time homebuyers. Requires contributions to an individual retirement plan (other than an individual retirement plus account) to be held for five years prior to distribution. Subtitle D: Incentives for Private Businesses to Hire New Employees - Allows employers a refundable credit for the employment taxes paid on the qualified wages of new employees hired during July 1, 1993, and June 30, 1994. Repeals the luxury excise tax on passenger vehicles, boats, aircraft, jewelry, and furs. Exempts from such tax parts for accessories installed for use on passenger vehicles by disabled individuals. Provides for the treatment of rental and nonrental real estate activities under the limitation on losses from passive activities. Title II: Deficit Reductions - Subtitle A: Extension of the Caps on Discretionary Spending - Reduces discretionary spending limits for the defense, international, and domestic categories for FY 1993 through 1995. Establishes the level of such limits for FY 1996 through 1998. Subtitle B: Spending Cuts - Rescinds a specified amount of budgetary resources for Federal administrative expenses. Eliminates the lump sum retirement benefit for Federal employees unless such employees have a life-threatening affliction or other critical medical condition. Requires employers to report group health plan information on wage forms. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish a data bank for the collection of information on Medicare secondary payer situations and health insurance information. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the reductions in discretionary spending required by this Act be achieved by reducing, modifying, eliminating, closing, or terminating specified Federal programs.

A bill to provide that certain civil defense employees and employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency may be eligible for certain public safety officers death benefits, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1993

Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to make an employee of the Federal Emergency Management Agency or civil defense officer eligible for public safety officers death benefits.

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the Taif Agreement and urging Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1993

Commends Syria and Lebanon for participation in the Middle East peace process and encourages their continued cooperation in efforts to settle ongoing regional conflicts. Expresses congressional support for the sovereignty, political independence, and territorial integrity of Lebanon. Considers the Government of Syria in violation of the Taif Agreement of 1989 (calling for Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon). Urges: (1) Syria to withdraw its armed forces to the gateway of the Bekaa Valley; (2) Syria and Lebanon to agree upon a firm timetable for the complete withdrawal of Syrian forces; (3) the President to consider withholding U.S. assistance to Syria and the Secretary of the Treasury to consider directing the U.S. executive directors of all international financial institutions to vote against loans or assistance to Syria until such withdrawal occurs; (4) the Syrian Government to increase its cooperation with the Lebanese Government in efforts to disarm nongovernmental armed groups and militias in Lebanon; and (5) the President to consider methods of revitalizing the Taif Agreement and to encourage the negotiation of a firm timetable for complete withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon.

Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Authorizations Title II: Personnel Management Improvement Title III: Navigation Safety and Waterway Service Management Title IV: Engineering and Development Amendments Title V: Educational Research Title VI: Passenger Vessel Safety Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1993 - Title I: Authorizations - (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations for the Coast Guard for: (1) operation and maintenance; (2) acquisition, construction, rebuilding, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore and offshore facilities, vessels, and aircraft; (3) research, development, test, and evaluation; (4) retirement pay and benefits; (5) alteration or removal of bridges; and (6) environmental compliance and restoration. (Sec. 102) Authorizes the Coast Guard end-of-year strength for active duty personnel and the average military training student loads. Title II: Personnel Management Improvement - (Sec. 201) Eliminates the ceiling on the number of active duty commissioned officers in the Coast Guard. (Sec. 202) Authorizes the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, a Chief of Staff of the Coast Guard to rank next after area commanders and have the rank of vice admiral. Removes a requirement that the rear admiral serving as Chief of Staff be the senior rear admiral for all purposes other than pay. (Sec. 203) Requires that officers serving in the grade of admiral and Rear admiral (including the Commandant, Vice Commandant, and Area Commanders) continue to hold that grade while being processed for physical disability retirement and while awaiting retirement. Replaces, in retirement provisions, references to the Commanders of the Atlantic and Pacific Areas with references to vice admirals. Removes references to the Chief of Staff from provisions relating to continuation on active duty and involuntary retirement of rear admirals and rear admirals (lower half). (Sec. 204) Authorizes the acceptance of voluntary services for the maintenance and improvement of natural and historic resources, or to benefit natural and historic research, on Coast Guard facilities. (Sec. 205) Authorizes convening a retention board concerning Reserve officers who have 18 years or more of service. Title III: Navigation Safety and Waterway Service Management - (Sec. 301) Repeals provisions of the Act of June 25, 1936, requiring: (1) public notice of North Atlantic Ocean passenger vessel routes, adherence to the routes, and avoidance of fishing and ice regions; and (2) publication in the Federal Register of rules and regulations promulgated under provisions relating to ice and derelicts. (Sec. 302) Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to prohibit inclusion of amounts previously appropriated from the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund to carry out provisions of Federal law relating to allocations for State recreational boating safety programs, but not distributed, when calculating whether the Boat Safety Account exceeds certain IRC limits. (Sec. 303) Amends Federal law to declare that a seagoing barge is not subject to inspection under specified provisions if the barge is unmanned and does not carry oil in bulk or a reportable or harmful quantity of a hazardous material. Title IV: Engineering and Development Amendments - (Sec. 401) Authorizes: (1) acquisition of real property for use as Coast Guard family housing units and disposal of any such property; and (2) improvement of buildings at Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. (Sec. 402) Grants the Secretary long-term lease authority for aids-to-navigation sites, vessel traffic service sensor sites, or National Distress System high level antenna sites. Title V: Educational Research - (Sec. 501) Authorizes the Coast Guard to compete for and accept Federal, State, or other educational research grants, provided that no award is accepted for the acquisition or construction of facilities, or for the routine functions of the Academy. Title VI: Passenger Vessel Safety - (Sec. 601) Passenger Vessel Safety Act of 1993 - Amends Federal shipping law relating to vessels and seamen to: (1) modify the definitions of "passenger," "passenger vessel," "small passenger vessel," "uninspected passenger vessel," "offshore supply vessel," and "sailing school vessel"; and (2) define "passenger for hire," "consideration," and "submersible vessel." (Sec. 611) Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to exempt excursion vessels and oceanographic research vessels from requirements of provisions relating to inspection and regulation of vessels, load lines of vessels, manning of vessels, and merchant seamen protection and relief. (Sec. 612) Directs the Secretary to require additional equipment or establish construction standards or additional operating standards for uninspected passenger vessels.

Nuclear Export Reorganization Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Amendments to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 Title II: Initiatives to Strengthen Compliance Title III: Amendments to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 Title IV: Sanctions for Nuclear Proliferation Title V: International Atomic Energy Agency Title VI: Review of Plutonium Use Policy Nuclear Export Reorganization Act of 1993 - Title I: Amendments to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 - (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. (Sec. 102) Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to require the President to establish a Subgroup on Nuclear Export Coordination within the National Security Council. Requires the Subgroup to: (1) serve as a forum for expressing the views of the constituent agencies with respect to the export of nuclear dual-use items; (2) review applications for the export of such items; (3) designate items for inclusion on the Nuclear Referral List; (4) facilitate the interagency process with respect to nuclear export licensing activities; and (5) undertake investigations with respect to such items. Directs the Chairman of the Subgroup to publish an export control bulletin for purposes of informing the public about the risks of proliferation and efforts to eliminate such risks. Requires the President to maintain a list of items whose export is controlled to be known as the Nuclear Referral List. Requires an individual validated license for the export of a listed item. Subjects unlisted items that require a validated export license for national security reasons and are intended for nuclear-related end-uses to procedures applicable to listed items. Requires an individual validated license for exports of any technical data or commodities where the exporter has reason to know that such data or commodities will be used in specified nuclear activities. Makes the Secretary of Commerce responsible for processing export license applications for nuclear dual-use items before export from the United States or reexport from other countries. Sets forth procedures for license approvals and denials. Bars the issuance of licenses without the concurrence of all Subgroup members. (Sec. 103) Urges the President to encourage the development of a non-nuclear energy technology industry in the United States and to assist developing countries in acquiring such technologies. Requires the President to review the adequacy of federally funded research and development activities in achieving objectives related to non-nuclear technologies. Title II: Initiatives to Strengthen Compliance - (Sec. 201) Authorizes any U.S. person who finds that a foreign person has engaged in an activity outside the United States that is inconsistent with guidelines adopted by the United States and members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group with respect to exports of nuclear dual-use items to petition the Subgroup to investigate such activities. Requires the Subgroup, if the claims are sustained through evidence, to make a recommendation to the President regarding sanctions. (Sec. 202) Directs the Subgroup to develop guidelines to serve as a basis for the adoption of voluntary codes of conduct by companies that engage in exports of dual-use items. Requires the Subgroup to undertake a review of the circumstances under which certain dual-use goods could be exported under licenses other than an individual validated license without jeopardizing national security or interest. Authorizes the Secretary to issue such licenses. Permits the Subgroup to issue advisory opinions to any person as to whether an activity would subject the person to sanctions under existing nuclear export control laws. Authorizes the Subgroup to implement procedures to expedite the approvals of licenses for dual-use items to be exported to countries that are unlikely to become engaged in nuclear proliferation activities. Title III: Amendments to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 - (Secs. 301 through 303) Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require the concurrence of the Department of Defense in certain activities involving nuclear exports, including approval of nuclear cooperation agreements and authorizations to produce nuclear material outside of the United States. Title IV: Sanctions for Nuclear Proliferation - (Sec. 401) 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. 402) 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. 403) 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. 405) 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. 406) 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. 407) 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 V: International Atomic Energy Agency - (Sec. 501) 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. 502) Urges the President to negotiate with other nations to promote the early adoption of reforms in the implementation of IAEA safeguards. Title VI: Review of Plutonium Use Policy - (Sec. 602) Directs the President to report to the Congress on modifying policy that currently provides that the United States will not inhibit plutonium use in nations where it does not constitute a proliferation risk.

Bosnia and Herzegovina Self-Defense Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993

Bosnia and Herzegovina Self-Defense Act of 1993 - Directs the President to terminate the U.S. arms embargo of the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina upon receipt of a request from such government for assistance in exercising its right of self-defense under the United Nations Charter. Authorizes the President to direct the drawdown of defense articles and services and military education and training to provide assistance to Bosnia and Herzegovina if it makes such request. Limits the amount of such assistance. Bars members of the U.S. armed forces who provide such assistance from performing combatant duties outside of the United States. Authorizes appropriations.

Omnibus Nuclear Proliferation Control Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 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.

A bill to require that defense reinvestment and economic growth funds be allocated among communities on the basis of the relative levels of reductions in employment experienced in such communities as a result of reduced spending for national defense functions.

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993

Requires that defense reinvestment and economic conversion funds be allocated among communities on the basis of relative levels of reductions in employment experienced in such communities as a result of defense spending reductions or the closure or realignment of military installations.

Comprehensive Violent Crime Control Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Death Penalty Title II: Habeas Corpus Subtitle A: General Habeas Corpus Reform Subtitle B: Death Penalty Litigation Procedures Title III: Exclusionary Rule Title IV: Firearms Subtitle A: Firearms and Related Amendments Subtitle B: Prohibited Gun Clips and Magazines Title V: Obstruction of Justice Title VI: Gangs and Juvenile Offenders Title VII: Terrorism Subtitle A: Aviation Terrorism Subtitle B: Maritime Terrorism Subtitle C: Terrorist Alien Removal Subtitle D: Terrorism Offenses and Sanctions Subtitle E: Antiterrorism Enforcement Provisions Title VIII: Equal Justice Act Title IX: Victims' Rights Comprehensive Violent Crime Control Act of 1993 - Title I: Death Penalty - Capital Punishment Procedures Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish criteria for the imposition of the death penalty for Federal crimes. (Sec. 102) Requires: (1) the Government, for any offense punishable by death, to serve notice upon the defendant a reasonable time before trial or acceptance of a plea, that it intends to seek the death penalty and the aggravating factors upon which it will rely; and (2) a separate sentencing hearing when the defendant is found guilty or pleads guilty to an offense punishable by death. Allows the defendant and the Government to present any information relevant to sentencing, but permits evidence to be excluded where its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of creating unfair prejudice, confusing the issues, or misleading the jury. Sets forth: (1) mitigating and aggravating factors; and (2) special aggravating factors for espionage, treason, homicide, attempted murder of the President, and drug offenses punishable by the death penalty (including previous serious drug felony convictions, use of a firearm in committing or furthering certain continuing criminal enterprises, use of minors in trafficking, and lethal adulteration of controlled substances). Sets forth procedures for: (1) appeal from a death sentence; and (2) implementation of such sentence. Provides for the imposition of the death penalty for specified offenses, including: (1) murder committed by prisoners in Federal prisons; (2) murder for hire; (3) murder in the aid of a racketeering activity; and (4) specified violations of the Controlled Substances Act, the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act, and the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) appointment of counsel; and (2) deadlines for collateral attacks on judgements imposing a sentence of death; and (3) stays of execution. Title II: Habeas Corpus Reform - Subtitle A: General Habeas Corpus Reform - Habeas Corpus Reform Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal judicial code to establish a one-year statute of limitations for habeas corpus actions brought by State prisoners. (Sec. 204) Vests authority to issue certificates for probable cause for appeal of habeas corpus orders exclusively in the courts of appeals. (Sec. 205) Permits denial on the merits of habeas corpus writs notwithstanding the failure to exhaust State remedies. Prohibits the granting of a petition for habeas corpus with respect to any claim which has been fully and fairly adjudicated in State proceedings. Subtitle B: Death Penalty Litigation Procedures - Death Penalty Litigation Procedures Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal judicial code to set forth special habeas corpus procedures in capital cases. Applies such procedures to Federal habeas corpus cases brought by prisoners in State custody who are subject to a capital sentence. (Sec. 211) Requires a State in which capital punishment may be imposed to provide legal services to indigents: (1) charged with offenses for which capital punishment is sought; (2) who have been sentenced to death and who seek appellate, collateral, or unitary review in State court; and (3) who have been sentenced to death and who seek certiorari review of State court judgments in the U.S. Supreme Court. Directs the State to establish an appointing authority, which shall: (1) publish a roster of attorneys qualified to be appointed in capital cases, procedures by which attorneys are appointed, and standards governing qualifications and performance of counsel; (2) monitor attorney performance; and (3) appoint a defense team to represent a client at the relevant stage of proceedings upon receiving notice of the need from the relevant state court. Provides for a mandatory stay of execution during the post-conviction review initiated pursuant to this Act. Details conditions which will cause such stay to expire. Prohibits a Federal court from entering a stay of execution or granting relief in a capital case unless specified conditions are met. Sets forth time limits for determining petitions. Specifies that the adjudication of petitions or motions involving habeas corpus in capital cases shall be granted priority by the district court and court of appeals over all noncapital matters. Title III: Exclusionary Rule - States that the Constitution does not require the exclusion from a criminal trial of evidence: (1) obtained in reasonable reliance on a search warrant issued by a detached and neutral magistrate who is not misled, even though the warrant is ultimately determined to be invalid; (2) the legal discovery of which was inevitable, even though the evidence was in fact discovered through constitutionally invalid means; or (3) for which a source exists that is independent of the source through which the evidence was in fact discovered through constitutionally invalid means. Title IV: Firearms - Subtitle A: Firearms and Related Amendments - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide for enhanced penalties for: (1) the use of a semiautomatic firearm during a crime of violence or drug trafficking offense, with exceptions; and (2) possession of a firearm or explosive during the commission of such offenses. Sets forth various firearms related provisons, including the following. (Sec. 406) Sets forth penalties for smuggling firearms in aid of drug trafficking and for theft of firearms and explosives. (Sec. 408) Provides for the mandatory revocation of the supervised release of an individual for possession of a firearm. (Sec. 409) Increases penalties for: (1) making knowingly false, material statements in connection with the acquisition of a firearm from a licensed dealer; and (2) a second offense of possessing an explosive during certain felonies. Subtitle B: Prohibited Gun Clips and Magazines - Includes ammunition feeding devices (AFDs) within the definition of firearms for purposes of Federal firearms laws. Defines an AFD to include any detachable magazine, feed strip, or similar device which has a capacity of, or which can be readily converted to accept, more than 15 rounds of ammunition, with exceptions. (Sec. 434) Prohibits the transfer or possession of AFDs, with exceptions. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to maintain a central registry of all such devices transferred after the enactment date of this Act which, after such transfer, are not under the control of the United States or any State or political subdivision. Specifies that such registry shall include: (1) identification of the device; (2) date of registration; (3) identification and address of the person entitled to possess the device; and (4) such other information as may be required by regulations promulgated by the Secretary. Establishes additional registration procedures. Requires all AFDs to be identified by a serial number and such other identification as the Secretary may prescribe. (Sec. 436) Provides for criminal penalties for violation of provisions of this Act relative to AFDs. (Sec. 437) Authorizes specified individuals engaged in the manufacture or importation of AFDs requiring a license to continue to engage in such business pending final action on the application. Title V: Obstruction of Justice - Increases penalties for obstruction of justice offenses against court officers and jurors and for retaliatory killings of witnesses, victims, and informants. (Sec. 503) Includes State and local law enforcement officers assisting Federal officers or employees in the performance of their official duties within the scope of provisions setting penalties for individuals who kill or attempt to kill any U.S. judge, U.S. Attorney, or specified other classes of individuals. Title VI: Gangs and Juvenile Offenders - Requires that juveniles found guilty of specified serious crimes be fingerprinted and photographed and that such information and records of the adjudication be sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Authorizes reporting, retention, disclosure, and availability of juvenile records permitted under the law of the State in which a Federal juvenile proceeding takes place. Repeals provisions that authorize prejudgment probation for certain drug offenders convicted of possession of a controlled substance and require expungement of records for such offenders under 21 years of age at the time of the offense. (Sec. 602) Adds certain cocaine and drug conspiracy and attempt offenses committed by juveniles to the list of crimes authorizing prosecution as an adult if the Attorney General certifies that there is a substantial Federal interest in the case that justifies adult prosecution. Sets forth criteria for determining whether a juvenile should be prosecuted as an adult. (Sec. 603) Defines "serious drug offense" under the Federal criminal code to include any act of juvenile delinquency that if committed by an adult would be a serious drug offense under such provisions. (Sec. 604) Increases the penalty for: (1) interstate and foreign travel or transportation in aid of racketeering enterprises; and (2) conspiracy to commit murder for hire. Title VII: Terrorism - Subtitle A: Aviation Terrorism - Amends the Federal criminal code to set forth penalties for: (1) performing or attempting an act of violence against a person at an airport serving international civil aviation which causes or is likely to cause serious injury or death; (2) destroying or seriously damaging the facilities of, or a civil aircraft not in service at, such airport; or (3) disrupting the services of such airport, if such an act endangers or is likely to endanger safety. (Sec. 702) Amends the Federal Aviation Act to delete a limitation on the applicability of aircraft piracy provisions to situations where the place of takeoff or of actual landing of the aircraft on board which the offense is committed is situated outside the territory of the State of registration of such aircraft. Subtitle B: Maritime Terrorism - Act for the Prevention and Punishment of Violence Against Maritime Navigation and Fixed Platforms - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for acts of violence against maritime navigation, such as seizing control of a ship by force, threat, or intimidation, performing acts of violence against persons on board a ship that are likely to endanger safe navigation, and destroying or seriously damaging maritime navigational facilities that are likely to endanger safe navigation. Sets forth analogous provisions with respect to maritime fixed platforms. (Sec. 717) Sets forth provisions with respect to U.S. jurisdiction over the territorial sea and over crimes against U.S. jurisdiction over the territorial sea and over crimes against U.S. nationals on foreign vessels. Subtitle C: Terrorist Alien Removal - Terrorist Alien Removal Act of 1993 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make terrorist activity (as defined by this Act) grounds for deportation. (Sec. 724) Establishes removal procedures for alien terrorists, including a special removal hearing which shall be open to the public. Directs the Chief Justice of the United States to designate five district court judges from five of the U.S. judicial circuits who shall constitute a court with jurisdiction to conduct all matters and proceedings authorized under this title; and (2) provide for the maintenance of appropriate security measures to protect information concerning matters before the court from harming the national security of the United States, adversely affecting foreign relations, revealing investigative techniques, or disclosing confidential sources of information. Sets forth provisions with respect to the retention of an alien in custody, the deportation of such alien to the alien's or a third country, and the transfer of such alien to the custody of State authorities, as appropriate. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) grant exclusive jurisdiction to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to review excludability orders; (2) set penalties for entering (or attempting to enter) the United States subsequent to exclusion or removal; and (3) delete a provision authorizing an alien held in custody pursuant to a deportation order to obtain judicial review by habeas corpus proceedings. Subtitle D: Terrorism Offenses and Sanctions - Establishes criminal penalties for: (1) committing, or attempting to commit, torture outside the United States; (2) using weapons of mass destruction against a U.S. national outside of the United States, any person within the United States, or any property that is owned, leased, or used by the United States; (3) committing certain homicides and attempted homicides involving firearms in Federal facilities; and (4) providing material support to terrorists. (Sec. 735) Makes specified terrorist offenses predicates to a violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute. (Sec. 736) Authorizes the civil and criminal forfeiture of property used to commit specified terrorist and violent acts. (Sec. 737) Provides for enhanced penalties for specified offenses, such as fraud and misuse of visas, permits, and other entry documents. (Sec. 738) Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend its sentencing guidelines to provide an increase of not less than three levels in the base offense level for any felony that involves or is intended to promote international terrorism, with exceptions. Subtitle E: Antiterrorism Enforcement Provisions - Authorizes the Attorney General to award permanent residence or other status to an alien and his immediate family who is already present in the United States under specified circumstances, such as where necessary to protect the life of an individual who has cooperated with Federal law enforcement authorities, subject to certain numerical limitations. (Sec. 742) Amends the Alien Enemies Act to authorize the President, whenever invoking the authority contained in such Act as to aliens of a hostile nation or government and upon further determining that the United States may also be subject to actual, attempted, or threatened predatory incursions by aliens of other nations, to include within the terms of such Act (which provides for the apprehension, restraint, and removal of alien enemies) any or all other aliens within the United States as the President may designate. (Sec. 743) Authorizes the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to obtain (after submitting a written request) from a wire or electronic communications service provider subscriber information regarding a person or entity which is relevant to an authorized foreign counterintelligence investigation, where information available to the FBI indicates that there is reason to believe that communications facilities registered in the name of such person or entity have been used, through the services of such provider, in communication with a foreign agent or power. (Sec. 744) Amends the Consumer Credit Protection Act to require a consumer reporting agency to furnish a consumer report or other information requested in connection with an authorized foreign counterintelligence investigation to the FBI under specified conditions. (Sec. 745) Authorizes: (1) interceptions of communications (subject to approval by the appropriate Federal judge) under specified Federal provisions; (2) participation of foreign and State government personnel in interceptions; and (3) disclosure of intercepted communications, under specified circumstances, to foreign law enforcement officials. (Sec. 748) Extends the statute of limitations for specified terrorism offenses. Title VIII: Equal Justice Act - Equal Justice Act - Requires that: (1) the death penalty and all other penalties be administered by the United States and by every State without regard to the race or color of the defendant or victim; (2) neither the United States nor any State prescribe any racial quota or statistical test for the imposition or execution of the death penalty or any other penalty; and (3) in a criminal trial in any Federal or State court, on motion of the defense attorney or prosecutor, the risk of racial prejudice or bias be examined on voir dire if there is a substantial likelihood in the circumstances of the case that such prejudice or bias will affect the jury either against or in favor of the defendant and a change of venue be granted if an impartial jury cannot be obtained in the original venue because of racial prejudice or bias. (Sec. 804) Requires: (1) the judge in a Federal capital case before a jury to instruct the jury not to be influenced by prejudice or bias relating to the race or color of the defendant or victim in considering whether a sentence of death is justified; and (2) the jury, upon the return of a recommendation of a sentence of death, to return a certificate, signed by each juror, that the juror's individual decision was not affected by prejudice or bias relating to the race or color of the defendant or victim and that the individual juror would have made the same recommendation regardless of the race or color of the defendant or victim. Makes the fact that the killing of a victim was motivated by racial prejudice or bias an aggravating factor whose existence permits consideration of the death penalty, in a prosecution for an offense against the United States for which a sentence of death is authorized. Authorizes imposition of the death penalty for violation of specified civil rights provisions, if death results. (Sec. 805) Amends: (1) the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize drug control and system improvement grants to States to provide in all appropriate cases, particularly in collateral and other post-conviction proceedings, adequate resources and expertise to ensure that the death penalty is expeditiously carried out; and (2) specified civil rights provisions to cover conspiracy against rights, and deprivation of rights under color of law, of any person (currently, inhabitant of) a State, territory, or district. Title IX: Victims' Rights - Authorizes the court: (1) to require the defendant to reimburse the victim for necessary child care, transportation, and other expenses related to participation in the investigation or prosecution of, or attendance or proceedings related to, the offense; and (2) if the defendant is delinquent in making restitution pursuant to an established payment schedule, after a hearing, to suspend the defendant's eligibility for all Federal benefits until such time as the defendant demonstrates to the court good-faith efforts to return to such schedule. (Sec. 902) Amends the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to authorize the court: (1) before imposing sentence for a crime of violence or sexual abuse, to address the victim personally if the victim is present at the sentencing hearing and determine if the victim wishes to make a statement and present any information in relation to the sentence; and (2) upon a motion that is filed jointly by the defendant and the attorney for the Government, to hear in camera such a statement by the victim.

Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1994

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Multilateral Assistance Title II: Bilateral Economic Assistance Title III: Military Assistance Title IV: Export Assistance Title V: Fiscal Year 1993 Supplemental Title I: Multilateral Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 1994 for the U.S. contribution to the: (1) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; (2) International Development Association; (3) International Finance Corporation; (4) Inter-American Development Bank; (5) Asian Development Fund; (6) African Development Fund; (7) European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; and (8) Enterprise for the Americas Multilateral Investment Fund. Makes appropriations for FY 1994 for international programs and organizations. Title II: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 1994 for: (1) development assistance (including development assistance for Subsaharan Africa); Special Fund; (2) international disaster assistance; (3) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (4) operating expenses of the Agency for International Development (AID) and the AID Office of Inspector General; (5) worldwide housing guarantees and for administrative expenses of such program; (6) debt reduction; (7) economic support fund assistance; (8) the Multilateral Assistance Initiative for the Philippines; (9) economic assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States; (10) assistance for the independent states of the former Soviet Union; (11) the African Development Foundation; (12) the Inter-American Foundation; (13) Overseas Private Investment Corporation direct and guaranteed loans and administrative expenses; (14) the Peace Corps; (15) international narcotics control; (16) migration and refugee assistance, salaries and expenses authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1980, and specified allowances and the hire of passenger motor vehicles; (17) the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund; and (18) antiterrorism assistance. Title III: Military Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 1994 for: (1) international military education and training; (2) foreign military financing and direct loans; (3) international peacekeeping operations; and (4) a Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to redesignate the Guaranty Reserve Fund as the Foreign Military Loan Liquidating Account. Title IV: Export Assistance - Prohibits the use of Export-Import Bank funds for nuclear exports to a non-nuclear weapon state. Makes appropriations for FY 1994 for: (1) direct loans, tied-aid grants, loan guarantees, and insurance under Export-Import Bank programs; (2) administrative expenses; and (3) the Trade and Development Agency. Title V: Fiscal Year 1993 Supplemental - Makes appropriations for FY 1993 for additional assistance for: (1) the independent states of the former Soviet Union; and (2) the defense agencies for providing assistance to such states.

To provide for Federal incarceration of undocumented criminal aliens and to provide for the transfer of closed military bases to the Justice Department for use as prison facilities for the incarceration of criminal aliens.

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for Federal incarceration, upon State request, of undocumented criminal aliens. Authorizes the transfer of closed military bases for use as criminal alien incarceration facilities.

Bosnia-Hercegovina Self-Defense Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993

Bosnia-Hercegovina Self-Defense Act of 1993 - Directs the President to terminate the U.S. arms embargo of the Government of Bosnia-Hercegovina upon receipt of a request from such government for assistance in exercising its right of self-defense under the United Nations Charter. Authorizes the President to direct the drawdown of defense articles and services and military education and training to provide assistance to Bosnia-Hercegovina if it makes such request. Limits the amount of such assistance. Bars members of the U.S. armed forces who provide such assistance from performing combatant duties outside of the United States. Authorizes appropriations.

Veterans Health Programs Improvement Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993

Amends the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992 and Federal veterans' benefits provisions to: (1) extend through December 31, 1998, the authority of the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide sexual trauma counseling at Department facilities as well as through non-Department providers; (2) remove a requirement that veterans seek such counseling within a specified period after discharge; (3) remove the current one-year limit on the length of such counseling; (4) make the provision of such counseling equal in priority to the provision of Department outpatient services; (5) authorize the Department to provide such counseling to all veterans (currently, only women); and (6) require (current law authorizes) the provision of a 24-hour toll-free telephone number for the provision of sexual trauma crisis counseling. Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make certain reports with respect to: (1) the operation of the telephone hotline; and (2) the difficulties veterans encounter in obtaining from the Department determinations that disabilities relating to sexual trauma are service-connected. Modifies responsibilities of Department coordinators of women's services. Requires the Secretary to ensure that such coordinators are provided sufficient resources to carry out such responsibilities.

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that certain deductions of members of the National Guard or reserve units of the Armed Forces will be allowable in computing adjusted gross income.

United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an individual taxpayer an income tax deduction for travel, meals, lodging, transportation, and uniform expenses paid or incurred in connection with the taxpayer's performance of services as a member of the armed forces reserves or the National Guard.

A bill to amend certain cargo preference laws.

United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993

Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 and certain military cargo preference laws to: (1) provide that specified cargo shall be carried by U.S. flag vessels only if their rates are competitive with those of their foreign-flag counterparts; and (2) authorize the President to waive such requirement only for reasons of national security.

To amend chapter 17 of title 38, United States Code, to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs program of sexual trauma counseling for veterans and to improve certain Department of Veterans Affairs programs for women veterans.

United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993

Amends the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992 and Federal veterans' benefits provisions to: (1) extend through December 31, 1998, the authority of the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide sexual trauma counseling at Department facilities as well as through non-Department providers; (2) remove a requirement that veterans seek such counseling within a specified period after discharge; (3) remove the current one-year limit on the length of such counseling; (4) make the provision of such counseling equal in priority to the provision of Department outpatient services; (5) authorize the Department to provide such counseling to all veterans (currently, only women); and (6) require (current law authorizes) the provision of a 24-hour toll-free telephone number for the provision of sexual trauma crisis counseling. Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make certain reports with respect to: (1) the operation of the telephone hotline; and (2) the difficulties veterans encounter in obtaining from the Department determinations that disabilities relating to sexual trauma are service-connected. Modifies responsibilities of Department coordinators of women's services. Requires the Secretary to ensure that such coordinators are provided sufficient resources to carry out such responsibilities.

To designate the week of July 25 through 31, 1993, as the "National Week of Recognition and Remembrance for Those Who Served in the Korean War".

United States · United States Congress · 26 May 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.

A bill to amend the War Powers Resolution to require a cost assessment with respect to certain commitments of United States Armed Forces abroad.

United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1993

Amends the War Powers Resolution to direct the President to report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate a cost assessment of the continued involvement of U.S. armed forces abroad in situations in which war has not been declared.

To apply the expanded definition of disposable retired pay used for computation of the maximum amount of a former spouse's share of military retired pay to divorces that became final before the effective date of amendments made by Public Law 101-510 as well as those after that date.

United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1993

Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to apply the definition of disposable retired pay, as used under such Act for the determination of a former spouse's share of such pay, to all divorces, dissolutions, annulments, and legal separations that become effective at any time. (Currently, such definition is applicable to such actions that occur after November 5, 1990.)

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Committee on Agriculture Title II: Committee on Armed Services Title III: Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Title IV: Education and Labor Title V: Committee on Energy and Commerce Title VI: Committee on Foreign Affairs Title VII: Committee on the Judiciary Title VIII: Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Title IX: Committee on Natural Resources Title X: Committee on Post Office and Civil Service Title XI: Committee on Public Works and Transportation Title XII: Committee on Veterans Affairs Title XIII: Committee on Ways and Means-Savings Title XIV: Revenue Provisions Title I: Committee on Agriculture - Agricultural Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Subtitle A: Commodity Programs - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to reduce payment acres for wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice. (Sec. 1101) Extends specified loan, payment, and acreage reduction programs for wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, rice, milk and dairy products, tobacco, sugar, oilseeds, peanuts, honey, and wool and mohair. Sets forth maximum purchase prices for butter and nonfat dry milk. Increases marketing assessments for tobacco and sugar. Establishes an additional marketing assessment for peanuts. (Sec. 1109) Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide temporary additional customs duties on peanut butter and peanut paste. Subjects peanut butter to import quotas. (Sec. 1110) Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to reduce the support rate and annual payments for honey. Eliminates marketing assessments. (Sec. 1111) Reduces annual payments for wool and mohair. Eliminates marketing assessments. Subtitle B: Restructuring of Loan Programs - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to restructure current Rural Electrification Administration (REA) electric and telephone loan programs, including creation of categories of hardship loans and municipal (electric) loans. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1202) Transfers REA authority to the Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Administration. Subtitle C: Food Stamp Program - Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief Act - Chapter 1: Ensuring Adequate Food Assistance - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to increase the basic food stamp program (program) benefit to 104 percent of the thrifty food plan. (Sec. 1312) Increases the age for students whose income is excluded from consideration as program income. (Sec. 1313) Removes (with an interim increase) the excess shelter cap. (Sec. 1314) Eliminates food stamp reductions for certain reapplying households. (Sec. 1315) Excludes third party payments for transitional housing for the homeless from consideration as program income. (Sec. 1318) Increases funding for the nutrition assistance program in Puerto Rico. (Sec. 1316) Excludes general assistance vendor payments from consideration as program income. Chapter 2: Promoting Self Sufficiency - Excludes education assistance and certain child support from consideration as program income. (Sec. 1324) Increases dependent care deductions and participant and State agency reimbursements in connection with employment and training activities. (Sec. 1325) Increases annually the fair market value limits of vehicles that program recipients may own. (Sec. 1326) Excludes from financial resources the value of a household vehicle used to carry heating fuel or water for home use. (Sec. 1327) Authorizes resource accumulation demonstration projects. Chapter 3: Simplifying the Provision of Food Assistance - Permits related adults living in the same household to apply for separate program benefits. (Sec. 1332) Makes children living with parents who are partcipating in drug or alcohol treatment programs eligible for food stamps. (Sec. 1333) Permits a participating family made up of, or including, an elderly or disabled member to own $3,000 in allowable financial resources. (Sec. 1334) Repeals provisions authorizing benefit reductions due to funding. Chapter 4: Improving Program Integrity - Expands: (1) the permitted use and disclosure of information provided by retail and wholesale food concerns; and (2) claims collections alternatives. (Sec. 1343) Authorizes demonstration projects aimed at coupon trafficking. Chapter 5: Improving Food Stamp Program Management - Excludes from categorical eligibility any household disqualified from participation because of workfare noncompliance. (Sec. 1353) Disqualifies program participants for trading food stamp coupons for controlled substances or for firearms, ammunition, or explosives. (Sec. 1356) Modifies the program's quality control system. Requires an error measurement study. Chapter 6: Uniform Reimbursement Rates - Revises State reimbursement rates. Chapter 7: Implementation and Effective Dates - Sets forth implementation and effective dates. Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to extend and reduce expenditure levels for the market promotion program. (Sec. 1402) Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to improve admission and recreation fees at specified public use areas. (Sec. 1403) Requires reduction of Department of Agriculture expenditures through personnel and office consolidations. (Sec. 1404) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to: (1) reduce the conservation reserve program acreage requirement; and (2) revise and make mandatory wetlands reserve program acreage requirements. (Sec. 1405) Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to direct the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to make available four levels of commodity insurance based upon percentage of loss in yield. Title II: Committee on Armed Services - Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a limited increase in the military retired pay of any former military personnel who became a member of the armed forces before August 1, 1986. (Sec. 2002) Waives the automatic FY 1994 increase in the rates of basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic subsistence allowance. Provides that if the General Schedule pay rates for Federal employees is increased during any of FY 1995 through 1998, then military pay rates shall be increased. Title III: Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to prescribe an order of priority for the distribution of amounts realized from the resolution of any insured depository institution. Requires distributions in connection with certain claims to be accompanied by an accounting report. (Sec. 3002) Amends the Federal Reserve Act to mandate that for FY 1994 through FY 1998 specified percentages of the surplus fund of any Federal reserve bank be transferred to the Treasury. 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) require that certain income disclosure consent forms be submitted for verification of eligibility for benefits; and (2) amend applicant, participant, and public housing agency protections. (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; (2) assure that a portion of program benefits accrue to mortgagors who execute eligible mortgages; and (3) summarize program activities to the Congress. (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: Education and Labor - Subtitle A: Federal Direct Loan Program - 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. Chapter 1: Amendments to Part D of Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Amends HEA to change the Federal Direct Loan Demonstration Program to the Federal Direct Student Loan Program (FDSL). (Sec. 4002) Sets forth program authority for making sums available for FDSL loans to all eligible students (and parents). Directs the Secretary of Education to provide funds for such student and parent loans on the basis of need and eligibility of students and parents at each participating institution. Declares that no institution shall have a right to participate in FDSL programs. Provides for 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 to apply to originate FDSL loans. 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. Sets minimum and maximum loan fees. Provides for standard, extended, graduated, and income contingent (EXCEL account) repayment plan options. Sets forth deferment and forbearance possibilities (including national service). 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 use of funds for research on FDSL program aspects, including flexible repayment plans. Chapter 2: Conforming Amendments - Amends HEA with respect to FFEL program student and parent loans during the transition to the FDSL program. (Sec. 4021) Provides for advances to guaranty agencies for lender-of-last-resort services. Requires the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) to begin making FFEL loans as lender-of-last-resort and to cease such lending when the triggering conditions have ceased. (Sec. 4028) Requires a study of alternatives for Sallie Mae during and after the transition to FDSL, including its own transition from a Government-sponsored enterprise to a private corporation. (Sec. 4030) Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to provide that any reductions in the FDSL program required by a sequestration order shall be achieved only through a specified increase in the loan fee. Chapter 3: Effective Dates; Study - Sets forth effective dates for amendments made by this Act. (Sec. 4032) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the feasibility of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collection of student loan repayments. (Sec. 4033) Expresses the preference of the House Committee on Education and Labor for an IRS collection mechanism. Subtitle B: 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 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. Subtitle C: ERISA Amendments Relating to Group Health Plans - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to coordinate ERISA preemption rules with Medicaid provisions for liability of third parties. (Sec. 4202) Prohibits a group health plan from reducing its coverage of the costs of pediatric vaccines below that provided as of May 1, 1993. (Sec. 4203) Sets forth rules whereby: (1) ERISA preemption of State laws shall be inapplicable to certain State laws (of Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, and New York); or (2) the Secretary of Labor can assist such States in effectuating the policies of certain provisions superseded by ERISA. Title V: Committee on Energy and Commerce - Subtitle A: Medicare Program - Chapter 1: Provisions Relating to Part B - Subchapter A: Physicians' Services - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to, among other things: (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; (3) provide for classification of primary care services as a separate category of services with respect to volume performance standards and updates in conversion factors for physicians' services; (4) phase-in reductions to the practice expense relative value units; (5) revise the payment policy for anesthesia care teams; (6) repeal the prohibition on separate billing for the interpretation of electrocardiograms (EKGs); (7) require adjustments in the relative value units for services in order to ensure budget neutrality; (8) require Medicare carriers to screen unassigned claims; (9) include antigens prepared by a physician on the physician fee schedule; and (10) specify the conditions under which the Secretary can recognize substitute billing arrangements between two physicians. (Sec. 5011) Requires the Secretary to develop relative values for pediatric physicians' services. Subchapter 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, as well as the 5.8 percent reduction in payments for other costs of such services; and (2) extend special payment rates for certain eye or eye and ear hospitals. (Sec. 5023) Directs the Secretary to suspend the annual update for ambulatory surgery payments for FY 1994. (Sec. 5025) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OMBRA '90) to extend the cap on payments for intraocular lenses. Subchapter C: Durable Medical Equipment - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) revise payment rules for items of durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies; (2) remove aspirators and nebulizers from the category of DME items requiring frequent and substantial servicing, and specifically provide for payment of related accessories; (3) set forth requirements which suppliers of medical equipment and supplies must satisfy in order to qualify for Medicare reimbursement; (4) require development of standardized certificates of medical necessity forms; (5) require DME suppliers to submit claims to the carrier with jurisdiction over the geographic area including the patient's permanent residence; (6) place restrictions on certain DME supplier marketing and sales practices; (7) specify circumstances under which Medicare beneficiaries are not financially liable for covered items and services furnished by a supplier; (8) address adjustments made to unreasonable DME payment amounts; (9) determine payments for surgical dressings; and (10) reduce the DME fee schedule amount for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation devices. (Sec. 5032) Freezes payments during 1994 for parenteral and enteral nutrients, supplies, and equipment at 1993 levels. (Sec. 5034) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on: (1) the effect of the uniform criteria established pursuant to this Act for DME items; and (2) appropriate methodology for determining payment under Medicare for prosthetic devices and orthotics. (Sec. 5037) Amends SSA title XI to modify anti-kickback provisions. (Sec. 5042) Requires a report to the Congress on variations in DME supplier costs. Subchapter D: Part B Premium - Amends SSA title XVIII to extend current law with respect to the monthly Medicare part B premium for beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare. Subchapter E: Other Provisions - Revises provisions of SSA title XVIII, including: (1) to revise payments for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests; (2) to address the provision of x-ray services by rural health clinics and federally-qualified health centers; (3) to condition payment for mammograms on the certification status of the facility; and (4) to provide Medicare coverage of oral cancer drugs. (Sec. 5064) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986 (OMBRA '86) to extend the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration. (Sec. 5066) Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COMBRA '85) to extend certain municipal health service demonstration projects. (Sec. 5069A) Requires a report to the Congress on annual payment limitations for outpatient physicial and occupational therapy services. Chapter 2: Provisions Relating to Parts A and B - Amends Medicare part C (Miscellaneous) provisions relating to Medicare parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) to: (1) eliminate requirements for special adjustments for administrative costs of hospital-based home health agencies; (2) make changes with regard to Medicare as secondary payor; (3) reduce payment for erythropoientin; (4) require nursing facilities and home health agencies to inform Medicare beneficiaries of the hospice benefit; and (5) require revision of the capitation payment methodology for health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to account for regional variations in application of Medicare secondary payor provisions. (Sec. 5073) Amends Medicare part B with regard to use of carriers to recover erroneous payments from primary payers. (Sec. 5072, 5074, and 5078) Requires: (1) a report on Medicare payments to hospitals for medical residency training program costs; (2) a report on the use of the new shared facility arrangement exception to ownership and compensation arrangements under the ban on certain referrals by physicians; and (3) establishment of a method of outreach to newly eligible Medicare beneficiaries qualifying for Medicaid payment of out-of-pocket expenses. (Sec. 5077) Amends OMBRA '86 to extend certain waivers under Medicare for the Watts Health Foundation. (Sec. 5079) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OMBRA '87) to extend the waivers under Medicare for social health maintenance organization (SHMO) demonstration projects. Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to require additional SHMO demonstration projects and permit one project to enroll Medicare end stage renal disease beneficiaries. (Sec. 5082) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OMBRA '90) to revise the payment methodology for organizations under a risk-sharing contract with the Secretary. Chapter 3: Provisions Relating to Medicare Supplemental Insurance Policies - Amends OMBRA '90 and Medicare to make changes to Federal standards respecting the sale of Medicare supplemental insurance policies. Subtitle B: Medicaid Program and Other Health Care Provisions- Chapter 1: Medicaid Program - Subchapter A: Program Savings Provisions - Amends SSA title XIX to, among other things: (1) repeal the mandate that States cover personal care services under their Medicaid programs for all individuals entitled to nursing facility benefits; (2) allow States to establish formularies limiting coverage of prescription drugs under their Medicaid programs; (3) prohibit States from disregarding assets in cases where an individual has received payments under a long-term care policy; (4) address the liability of third parties to pay for care and services provided to Medicaid eligibles; (5) require States to have in effect certain laws relating to medical child support; and (6) make changes with regard to payments for disproportionate share hospitals. (Sec. 5117) Amends SSA to add a new title XXI requiring establishment of a Health Coverage Clearinghouse to identify third parties which may be liable for payment of health care items and services furnished to Medicare, Medicaid, Indian Health Service, and Maternal and Child Health Service beneficiaries. Subchapter B: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends SSA title XIX to, among other things: (1) provide for the application under Medicaid of the physician self-referral prohibitions currently under Medicare; (2) require State maintenance of annual expenditures (adjusted) for State Medicaid fraud control units; (3) change treatment of HMO enrollees in determining the Medicaid inpatient utilization rate of a hospital seeking to qualify as a disproportionate share hospital; (4) raise, with respect to eligible States, Federal Medicaid matching payments for State expenses incurred in the provision of bona fide emergency medical services to undocumented aliens; (5) establish an option for States to make TB-infected individuals eligible for limited TB-related services; (6) require that mammographies paid for under Medicaid be conducted by a facility certified under the Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992; and (7) make permanent the current law requirement for continued Medicaid coverage of families who lose eligibility for cash assistance under the Aid to Families with Dependent Chidren Program because they work. (Sec. 5132 and 5144) Amends SSA title XI to: (1) authorize an alternative intermediate remedy for redressing kickback offenses; (2) change procedures for initiation of a civil monetary penalty action; and (3) raise the ceiling on Federal Medicaid matching payments to Puerto Rico and other specified territories. (Sec. 5137) Extends the period during which the Secretary is required to waive application of the enrollment mix requirement under Medicaid for certain HMOs under the Dayton Area Health Plan, Inc. (Sec. 5138, 5146, and 5150) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 with respect to the Tennessee Primary Care Network, certain demonstration projects for low-income pregnant women and children, and the Kent Community Hospital Complex and the Saginaw Community Hospital. (Sec. 5139) Directs the Secretary to waive application of the enrollment mix requirement under Medicaid with respect to the District of Columbia Chartered Health Plan, Inc.. (Sec. 5140) Amends the Family Support Act of 1988 to extend the period during which the Secretary is required to waive application of certain provisions of Medicaid law for the Minnesota Prepaid Demonstration Project. Subchapter C: Miscellaneous and Technical Corrections Relating to OMBRA '90 - Amends OMBRA '90 to make miscellaneous and technical corrections to various specified Medicaid-related provisions. Chapter 2: Universal Access to Childhood Immunizations - Amends the Public Health Service Act to entitle each State to the Federal purchase of enough pediatric vaccines to immunize each child in the State who is: (1) covered under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act; (2) uninsured, or has insurance which does not cover vaccinations; or (3) an Indian. (Sec. 5181) Establishes the National Childhood Immunization Trust Fund. Exempts the vaccine program from reduction under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Mandates State allotments for a registry of information on every child, including immunization data. Authorizes appropriations. Mandates grants to States to achieve objectives for immunizing U.S. children. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 5182) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconcilation Act of 1989 to authorize appropriations from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Funds to administer certain provisions of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Amends the Public Health Service Act to modify provisions regulating the effect on the statute of limitations of revisions to the Vaccine Injury Table. (Sec. 5183) Amends Medicaid provisions to require notifying all Medicaid-eligible persons under 21 of the need for immunizations. Adds grant entities under Public Health Service Act health provisions for residents of public housing to the list of entities within the definition of "Federally-qualified health center." (Sec. 5184) Allows Medicaid payments directly to vaccine manufacturers under certain programs. (Sec. 5185) Authorizes grants for demonstration projects providing comprehensive services to reduce the incidence of infant mortality and morbidity, fetal deaths, maternal mortality, fetal alcohol syndrome, and low birth weight. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 5186) Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant) of the Social Security Act to authorize appropriations to carry out specified provisions. (Sec. 5187) Modifies compensation requirements regarding members of the National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps. Allows certain entities that are migrant, community, homeless, and public housing health services providers to elect certain treatment under the Public Health Service for purposes of malpractice actions. Removes provisions allowing waiver of rights to recover National Health Service Corps scholarship or loan repayment amounts after default. Subtitle C: Communications Licensing Improvement - Chapter 1: Competitive Bidding Authority - Licensing Improvement Act of 1993 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to empower the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to use a system of competitive bidding in the granting of licenses involving the use of the electromagnetic spectrum (public airwaves). Outlines certain provisions, including: (1) uses to which such bidding may apply; (2) establishment by the FCC of a competitive bidding methodology; (3) alternative payment schedules for the use of airwaves; and (4) bidder and licensee qualifications. (Sec. 5205) Revises the FCC's regulatory authority in the mangagement 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 as required under the Communications Act. Prohibits State or local government imposition of any rate or entry regulation on commercial mobile service, but allows the FCC to grant a State petition to regulate rates under certain conditions. Chapter 2: Emerging Telecommunications Technologies - Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Act of 1993 - Amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and the FCC Chairman to conduct joint electromagnetic spectrum planning with respect to future spectrum requirements and promotion of efficient use of the spectrum. (Sec. 5222) Directs the Secretary to report to the President and the Congress identifying bands of frequencies that are allocated primarily for Government, are eligible for licensing, and are not required by the Government. Requires a report to the Congress on preliminary identification of reallocable bands of frequencies. Requires that an advisory committee be convened to assist in carrying out this Chapter. Directs certain actions after receipt of the advisory committee report on reallocation of band frequency assignments between Government and private uses. Authorizes the President to substitute alternative frequencies in the interest of national defense, governmental needs, public health or safety, or financial considerations. Directs the FCC to submit a plan for the distribution of reallocated frequency bands. Authorizes the President to reclaim reassigned frequencies. Chapter 3: Communications Technical Amendments - Sets forth corrections and technical amendments to communications provisions. Subtitle D: Energy Programs - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to extend from September 30, 1995, to September 30, 1998, the authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to collect annual charges. Title VI: Committee on Foreign Affairs - States that the Committee on Foreign Affairs recommends changes in Federal law which would reduce direct spending under the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund and the Foreign Service Pension System by requiring a three-month delay in cost-of-living adjustments for each year, FY 1994 through 1996. Title VII: Committee on the Judiciary - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to extend through FY 1998 the authorization for the collection of surcharges for use of the Patent and Trademark Office. Title VIII: Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries - Amends Federal shipping law to extend the years during which certain tonnage duties are imposed. (Sec. 8002) Declares the sense of the Congress that the inland waterways fuel tax should not be increased beyond those increases already mandated by law. Title IX: Committee on Natural Resources - Amends specified Federal law regarding the political union of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (Commonwealth) with the United States to repeal the direct grant asssitance for such Islands. Prescribes guidelines under which the United States commits its full faith and credit for specified payments to certain U.S. possessions and territories, including payments for capital improvements projects. Requires reports on the minimum wage and immigration policies of the Commonwealth. (Sec. 9002) 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 prior to their division and distribution between the States and the United States. (Sec. 9003) Mandates the payment of a specified minimum flat claim maintenance fee and location fee by the holder of an unpatented mining claim, mill, or tunnel site in lieu of the assessment work and related filing requirements under certain Federal mining law. Exempts certain oil shale claims from the fee requirement. Waives fees under certain conditions. (Sec. 9004) Amends Federal reclamation laws to mandate that non-Federal recipients of water delivered by way of Federal facilities pay an operation and maintenance charge to the United States. Establishes the Natural Resources Restoration Fund for the benefit of fish and wildlife resources and habitat affected by Federal reclamation projects. (Sec. 9005) Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to prohibit recreation user fees for campgrounds lacking specified amenities. Revises the terms of "Golden Age" passports in the National Park System. Establishes user fees for rights-of-way, tour vehicles or aircraft, and commercial telephone transmission facilities on Federal lands. (Sec. 9007) Directs the Secretaries of Energy and of the Interior adjust fees and other charges in order to recover the cost of Government services and establish a fee mechanism to recover Government costs of providing services which are currently free. (Sec. 9008) Directs the President to transmit in the annual budget an estimate of unfunded future Federal liabilities that are not accounted for in the budget itself. Title X: Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - Subtitle A: Civil Service - Delays the cost-of-living adjustments scheduled to take effect under certain Federal employee retirement systems during FY 1994 through 1996. (Sec. 1002) Amends the Civil Service and Federal Employees' Retirement Systems and the Foreign Service and Central Intelligence Agency systems to permanently eliminate the lump sum retirement option except for employees with a critical medical condition. (Sec. 1003) Eliminates the 1994 annual cost-of-living adjustment for Members of Congress and Federal employees. Amends the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 and other Federal law to modify the formulae for computing such adjustments for 1995 through 1997. (Sec. 1004) Amends Federal law to delay locality-based comparability payments until July of 1994. Limits the total amounts payable for locality payments between July 1, 1994, and September 30, 1998. Authorizes the President to specify locality payments less than the minimum amounts which would otherwise be required if necessary to comply with such limitations. Delays annual cost-of-living adjustments for Federal employees and Members of Congress until July of each year for the period between January 1, 1995, and December 31, 2003. Repeals provisions excluding senior executives from the limitation on the accumulation of annual leave. Prohibits cash awards during FY 1994 through 1998. Limits the average total number of civilian employees in the executive branch (except employees of the U.S. Postal Service and Postal Rate Commission) during FY 1994 through 1998. Requires the Director of the Administrative Office of United States Courts to apply the prohibitions and limitations of this Act with respect to annual cost-of-living adjustments and locality-based comparability payments to employees under the separate system of the Office. (Sec. 1005) Requires certain Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) plans to apply the Medicare part B limiting charges for physicians' services to enrolled retirees who are 65 or older and do not participate in Medicare part B. (Sec. 1006) Extends the proxy premium formula for determining Government contributions under FEHBP through contract year 1998 in the absence of a Government-wide indemnity benefit plan. Expresses the sense of the Congress that such extension should not be considered to reflect any view on the appropriateness, merits, or timing, or any other aspect of any comprehensive health care reform legislation. Subtitle B: Postal Service - Directs the U.S. 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: Revenue Forgone Reform - Revenue Forgone Reform Act - Amends Federal postal service law to repeal the authorization of appropriations under the Overseas Citizens Voting Rights Act of 1975 and the Federal Voting Assistance Act of 1955 for mail sent at reduced postage rates. Revises provisions relating to the treatment of reduced-rate categories of mail. (Sec. 10203) Repeals certain Federal provisions authorizing appropriations to the Postal Service for certain accumulated operating indebtedness and directing the Postal Service to provide door or curbline delivery to certain permanent addresses. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 through 2035 to cover losses. (Sec. 10205) Prohibits reduced mailing rates for mail adverstising or offering products or services if: (1) the sale is not related to the purposes allowing mail at such rates; or (2) the mail matter involved is part of a cooperative mailing with a person not authorized to mail at reduced rates. Revises provisions with respect to the mailing rates of books. (Sec. 10207) Expresses the sense of the Congress that any legislation enacted after September 30, 1994, which would expand the class of mail eligible for reduced rates should provide for funding ensuring no losses to the Postal Service nor increases in rates for other classes of mail. Title XI: Committee on Public Works and Transportation - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to revise fees charged for aircraft registration, designation as an aviation medical examiner, issuance of an airman's certificate to be a pilot and costs associated with processing forms for fuel system repairs. Requires fees be deposited in the Airport and Airway Trust Fund. (Sec. 11002) Amends the Flood Control Act of 1968 to authorize the Secretary of the Army to collect fees for the use of developed recreation facilities, including campsites, beaches, and boat launching ramps. Requires fees to be deposited into the Treasury account for the Corps of Engineers. Title XII: Committee on Veterans Affairs - Veterans Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Amends the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1990 to extend through September 30, 1998, the requirement that veterans with a certain minimum income level make copayments in exchange for receiving certain health care benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs. Extends: (1) the requirement of a minimal copayment for medications received by veteran outpatients; (2) authority to recover the cost of veterans' services from third party insurers; (3) the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to provide certain financial information for income verification purposes; (4) a monthly pension limitation for certain recipients of nursing home care covered under Medicaid; and (5) procedures applicable to liquidation sales on defaulted home loans to veterans. (Sec. 12006) Prohibits any FY 1994 cost-of-living adjustment in the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation paid to surviving spouses. (Sec. 12008) Increases the home loan fee charged to veterans for loans guaranteed by the Department, closed after September 30, 1993, and before October 1, 1998. (Sec. 12009) Reduces by one percentage point the FY 1994 cost-of-living adjustment for educational assistance benefits payable to active duty and reserve personnel under the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program. (Sec. 12010) Excludes a person who is not the natural or legally adopted child of the parent from eligibility for survivors' and dependents' educational assistance. Title XIII: Committee on Ways and Means: Savings - Subtitle A: Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Programs - Amends OMBRA '90 to require the Secretary to reestablish and maintain in service the same number of telephone lines to each local social security office that were in place as of September 30, 1989. (Sec. 13003) Makes amendments to SSA title II, including to: (1) permit States collecting social security numbers to use those numbers to eliminate duplicate names and names of convicted felons from jury source lists; (2) extend to all States the option to provide police officers and firefighters with social security coverage; (3) disregard the windfall elimination provision in computing any U.S. totalization benefit and the amount of a regular U.S. benefit of an individual who receives a foreign totalization benefit based in part on U.S. employment, and who does not receive any other pension based on noncovered employment; (4) provide that military pensions based wholly on service in the military reserves before 1988 shall not trigger application of the Government pension offset or windfall elimination provision to the individual's social security benefits; (5) permit the Department of Agriculture to share its list of names, social security numbers, and employer identification numbers of the owners of retail grocery stores which redeem food stamps with other Federal agencies for the purpose of investigating food stamp fraud and other crimes; and (6) prohibit a State from using social security numbers in the administration of any driver's license or motor vehicle registration law where the State has not contracted to provide death certificate and related information to the Secretary, or where use of death information is restricted. (Sec. 13005) Exempts from payment liability and penalties ministers who were American citizens and residents of Canada prior to the 1984 totalization agreement between the United States and Canada and failed to file a tax return or pay self-employment taxes. (Sec. 13010) Amends IRC to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose information from tax returns on individuals' mortality status to the Secretary for eipdemiological research purposes; (2) coordinate the collection of domestic service employment taxes with the collection of income taxes; and (3) change threshold requirements with respect to social security employment taxes on domestic services. (Sec. 13015) Requires the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the rising costs of disability benefits. (Sec. 13016) Amends the Social Disability Amendments of 1980 to extend the Secretary's authority to conduct disability work incentive demonstration projects. Subtitle B: Human Resources Amendments - Chapter 1: Child Welfare Services, Foster Care, and Adoption Assistance - Amends SSA title IV part B (Child-Welfare Services) to, among other thing: (1) create a capped entitlement program to provide child welfare services designed to strengthen and preserve families; (2) repeal provisions linking the payment of title IV part B funds to the implementation of protections for children in foster care; (3) require State part B plans to contain a description of the specific measures taken by the State to comply with the Indian Child Welfare Act; and (4) provide for child welfare traineeships. (Sec. 13212) Directs the Secretary to provide grants for State courts to improve foster care placement and adoption proceedings. (Sec. 13216) Amends SSA title IV part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) (FCAA) to change the reimbursement policy with respect to foster care maintenance payments made on behalf of certain children whose adoption has been set aside by a court or whose voluntary placement in foster care has been judicially determined to be in the best interests of the child. Requires States to review their foster care maintenance payment and adoption assistance levels. Requires the health and education records in each child's case plan include a record that the foster care provider was advised (where appropriate) of the child's eligibility for certain Medicaid services. Makes permanent the authorization for the independent living program. Sets forth case plan requirements for children placed in foster care a substantial distance from their homes or in a different State. (Sec. 13218) Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the ways in which States implement the reasonable efforts requirements for State part E plans. (Sec. 13225) Amends OMBRA '89 to extend permanently (and retroactively to October 1, 1992) the level of Federal reimbursement under part E for the training of personnel employed by the State or local child welfare agency, and for the training of foster and adoptive parents. (Sec. 13227) Amends SSA title XI part A to overturn certain limitations in Suter v. Artist M. on private enforceability of State plan requirements. (Sec. 13232) Prohibits the Secretary, until October 1, 1994, from reducing any payment to any State under parts B or E because of State noncompliance with part B foster care protections. (Sec. 13233) Requires the Secretary to make grants to eligible institutions to train individuals to deliver culturally sensitive and bilingual child welfare services in border areas with Mexico. Authorizes approprations. Chapter 2: Child Support Enforcement - Amends SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to set up new paternity establishment performance standards and procedures for State child support enforcement programs. Outlines State plan requirements. Requires State child support enforcement agencies to periodically report, at no charge, the names and amounts of obligors at least two months delinquent in child support payments to bona fide consumer reporting agencies. Chapter 3: Supplemental Security Income - Amends SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) and other Federal law to require the Social Security Administration to charge States fees for the Federal cost of administering supplemental SSI payments. (Sec. 13252) Amends OMBRA '90 to make permanent the exclusion of State and local relocation assistance from countable income under SSI. (Sec. 13253-13256) Amends SSA title XVI to: (1) deem to be living in a household a spouse or parent of family members on SSI who is absent because of active duty military assignment; (2) exclude hazardous duty pay from countable income; (3) continue SSI benefits to children who are U.S. citizens if they received SSI in the United States and then accompanied their parents on military assignment to a U.S. territory or possession; and (4) extend the SSI definition of disability for children under 18 to any person under age 18. (Sec. 13257) Exempts income of up to $2,000 per year received by individual Indians that is derived from leases on trust or restricted Indian lands in determining eligibility and benefit levels under AFDC (SSA title IV part A) and SSI. Chapter 4: Aid to Families with Dependent Children - Amends SSA title IV part A to: (1) reduce to 50 percent the enhanced Federal matching available for certain categories of State administrative expenses; (2) make optional a State's verification of an individual's immigration status with the Immigration and Naturalization Service through an immigration status verfication system; (3) delay Federal requirements regarding AFDC-UP participation rates; and (4) increase the amount of stepparent earnings disregarded in determining the eligibility and benefit amounts of AFDC recipients and applicants. (Sec. 13263) Amends part F (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program) (JOBS) to require development of criteria for performance standards in the JOBS program, rather than performance standards themselves. (Sec. 13264) States that the Congress declares: (1) it is the responsibility of the Federal Government to reduce family dependence on income from welfare programs, to assist them toward self-sufficiency, and to increase the living standards of low-income families; and (2) the Federal Government should help welfare recipients and individuals at risk of welfare participation to improve education and job skills, to obtain access to child care and support services, and to take other steps as may assist them to become financially independent. Directs the Secretary to develop welfare participation measures and predictors, and report annually on welfare participation to specified congressional committees. Establishes the Advisory Board on Welfare Participation. (Sec. 13265) Directs the Secretary to provide for a demonstration project offering low-income residents of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, employment, wage supplements, health and child care, and job counseling and training. (Sec. 13266 and 13270) Amends the Family Support Act of 1988 to: (1) delay the requirement for implementation of the Unemployed Parent program in Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa until the limitations on Federal matching payments with respect to AFDC and FCAA maintenance payments are repealed; and (2) extend the authorization for early childhood development projects. (Sec. 13269) Amends OMBRA '87 to extend New York State's Child Assistance Program demonstration. (Sec. 13267) Amends SSA title XI to provide that, with respect to AFDC, one adult member of a household may sign a declaration attesting to the citizenship or satisfactory immigration status of other household members. Chapter 5: Unemployment Insurance - Amends IRC and SSA title III (Unemployment Compensation) to provide for the treatment of short-time compensation programs under which individuals whose workweeks have been reduced by at least ten percent (especially as an alternative to a temporary layoff) are eligible for unemployment compensation, under certain conditions. (Sec. 13275) Amends the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to increase the reimbursement rate and repeal special eligibility requirements under the extended unemployment program. (Sec. 13276 and 13277) Amends IRC to extend the current Federal unemployment tax rate and require disclosure of tax information to the Railroad Retirement Board for administration of the Railroad Retirement and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Acts. Chapter 6: Technical Provisions - Makes technical corrections related to the income security and human resources provisions of OMBRAs '89 and '90. (Sec. 13283) Amends SSA title XVI to repeal certain obsolete provisions relating to treatment of the earned income tax credit. Subtitle C: Medicare Program - Chapter 1: Provisions Relating to Part A -Subchapter A: Elimination of Inflation Update for Services Provided under Part A: - Amends SSA title XVIII (Medicare) to eliminate updates for inpatient hospital services and hospice care under Medicare part A in FY 1994 and 1995. (Sec. 13402) Prohibits the Secretary from applying an update factor to the cost limits for skilled nursing facility cost reporting periods beginning in FY 1994 and 1995. Subchapter B: Other Provisions Relating to Part A - Amends SSA title XVIII to, among other things: (1) provide that a change in classification of hospitals from one area to another cannot result in a reduction in the wage index for an urban area if the area has an age index below the rural wage index for the State or if the area is the only urban area in a State with no rural areas; (2) change certain standards for designating metropolitan statistical areas that are used in determining treatment of hospitals in rural counties adjacent to urban areas; (3) require the phase out of payments for day outlier cases starting in FY 1995; (4) authorize appropriations for the Essential Access Community Hospital (EACH) demonstration program; (5) provide for a prospective payment system for outpatient rural primary care hospital services; (6) continue special payments for Medicare-dependent, small rural hospitals for discharges occurring through FY 1994, with reduced payments for certain discharges; (7) allow to participate in Medicare hospitals where the care of patients receiving qualified psychologist services is under a clinical psychologist; (8) require skilled nursing facilities to inform beneficiaries of the hospice benefit under Medicare; (9) reduce the part A premium, on a phase-in basis, for individals with 30 or more quarters of social security coverage (and their spouses); (10) require periodic updating of salary equivalency guidelines for physical therapy and respiratory therapy services; and (11) provide that diagnosis-related group (DRG) window provisions will not apply to hospitals that are not paid on a DRG basis. (Sec. 13414) Amends OMBRA '87 to: (1) reauthorize and extend the rural health transition grant program; and (2) provide that all hospitals classified as regional referral centers on September 30, 1992, shall retain such status through FY 1994. (Sec. 13418) Amends OMBRA '90 to require the Secretary to continue limited-service rural hospital demonstration projects through calendar 1995. (Sec. 13419) Amends OMBRA' 89 to extend the hemophilia pass-through program. (Sec. 13420) Declares that, in the case of a State with a Medicare-approved payment system, no other provision of law shall be construed as preventing the system from providing that payment for covered services be made on the basis of rates provided for under such system. (Sec. 13423) Prohibits the Secretary from taking action to recover certain amounts paid by Medicare to uniformed services treatment facilities in Boston, Baltimore, and Seattle for services provided between October 1, 1986, and December 31, 1989, except to the extent that funds are made available for that purpose under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1993. Requires a report to the Congress on establishment of joint medical facilities among the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans' Affairs, and other entities. (Sec. 13424 and 13425) Requires the Secretary to: (1) review ]the DRGs assigned to discharges of patients with intractable epilepsy; (2) revise the assignment of discharges to such groups as the Secretary considers appropriate to account for the resource requirements of such patients; and (3) begin collecting data necessary to compute a skilled nursing facility wage index adjustment to the routine service cost limits required under Medicare. Requires the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission to report to the Congress on the impact of applying routine per diem cost limits for skilled nursing facilities on a regional basis. (Sec. 13429) Allows hospitals that have been reclassified from urban to rural as a result of revisions to metropolitan statistical area definitions issued by the Office of Management and Budget on December 28, 1992, to apply to the Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board for reclassification in FY 1994. Chapter 2: Provisions Relating to Part B: Subchapter A: Elimination of Inflation Update - Amends SSA title XVIII part B to eliminate the inflation update for physician and related professional services and other items and services. (Sec. 13432) Freezes payments for enteral and parenteral nutrients, supplies and equipment, rural health clinic, federally qualified health center, and comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility services, dialysis services, and other part B items and services. Subchapter B: Physicians' Services - Amends SSA title XVIII part B to, among other things: (1) repeal the OMBRA '90 prohibition on separate payments for EKG interpretations; (2) repeal the reductions in payments to new physicians and practitioners; (3) prohibit changing the methodology in effect as of January 1, 1992, for calculating anesthesia time in the fee schedules; (4) revise requirements with respect to geographic adjustment factors and beneficiary liability for amounts billed above the limiting charge; (5) require pre-payment screening by carriers of unassigned claims submitted by nonparticipating physicians; (6) require the Explanation of Benefits form to contain information on amounts billed in excess of the applicable limiting charge; (7) specify the practitioners who may only bill for services on an assignment-related basis; (8) include antigens prepared by a physician on the physician fee schedule; (9) prohibit the imposition of user fees in specified circumstances in the administration of claims relating to physicians' services; and (10) specify the conditions under which the Secretary can recognize substitute billing arrangements between two physicians. (Sec. 13444) Requires the Secretary to revise and report to specified congressional committees on the data necessary to revise geographic indices. Requires the Physician Payment Review Commission to develop criteria for use in redefining the localities used within States for adjusting physicians' fees. (Sec. 13446) Requires the Secretary to develop relative values for the full range of pediatric physicians' services and report to the Congress. Subchapter C: Ambulatory Surgical Center Services - Makes amendments identical to those made above to the Medicare program and OMBRA'90 under subchapter B of chapter 1 of title V of this Act with respect to eye and eye and ear hospitals and intraocular lenses. (Sec. 13452) Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on the costs to providers of intraocular lenses provided to individuals enrolled under Medicare part B. Subchapter D: Durable Medical Equipment - Makes amendments similar to those made above to the Medicare program and SSA title XI under subchapter C of chapter 1 of title V of this Act with respect to durable medical equipment and kick-backs. (Sec. 13468) Subjects ostomy supplies, tracheostomy supplies, and urologicals to national payment limits. Subchapter E: Other Provisions - Makes amendments similar to those made above to the Medicare program, OMBRA '86, and COMBRA '85 under subchapter E of chapter 1 of title V of this Act with respect to oral cancer drugs and the treatment of certain Indian health programs and facilities as federally-qualified health centers, and the extension of Alzheimer's disease and municipal health service demonstration projects. (Sec. 13471) Amends SSA title XVIII to, among other things: (1) freeze at the 1992 level the conversion factor used to determine payments to medically directed certified registered nurse anesthetists; (2) cap the part B premium penalty for late enrollment for Federal employees who meet certain conditions; and (3) establish statutory definitions for speech language pathologist and audiologists. (Sec. 13473) Provides for uniform coverage of "off-label" drugs used in anti-cancer therapy. Requires a report to specified congressional committees on Medicare coverage of patient care costs associated with clinical trials of new cancer therapies. Subchapter F: Part B Premiums - Duplicates the amendment to the Medicare program made above under subchapter D of chapter 1 of subtitle A of title V of this Act with respect to the monthy Medicare part B premium. Chapter 3: Provisions Relating to Parts A and B -Subchapter A: Elimination of Updates - Amends SSA title XVIII to eliminate updates in payments to hospitals for the direct costs of graduate medical education for cost reporting periods beginning during FY 1994 and 1995. (Sec. 13502) Prohibits the Secretary from providing any update in the cost limits for home health services for cost reporting periods beginning during FY 1994 and 1995. Subchapter B: Medicare Secondary Payer Provisions - Makes amendments similar to those under chapter 2 of subtitle A of title V of this Act with respect to Medicare as secondary payer. Subchapter C: Physician Ownership and Referral - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) apply the ban on certain referrals by physicians to all payers, extending it to cover additional specified health services as well as new exceptions; (2) expand current standards used to define a group practice; and (3) provide that Federal law shall not preempt State laws that related to referrals not covered under the ban, or that relate to referrals covered under the ban but are even more restrictive. Subchapter D: Other Provisions - Sets forth measures similar to those under chapters 1 and 2 of subtitle A of title V of this Act with respect to: (1) interest payments on clean claims; (2) payments for erythropoietin; (3) qualified Medicare beneficiary outreach; (4) social health maintenance demonstrations; (5) the second surgical opinion program under SSA title XI; (6) hospice notification; and (7) Medicare capitation payments. (Sec. 13551) Requires the Secretary to redetermine the full-time-equivalent (FTE) resident amount to reflect the amount that would be allowed if the hospital had been liable to pay FICA taxes or make other specified retirement contributions for residents during the base year, but did not make such payments, yet now must do so as a result of OMBRA '90. Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) provide for adjustments for certain publicly funded family residency programs; (2) extend on a graduated basis to three years (after 1997) the current one-year period following a transplant procedure during which Medicare covers immunosuppressive drug therapy for beneficiaries who have received organ transplants; and (3) provide that user fees imposed under the Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act of 1967 are not subject to the general ban on user fees for determining compliance with any requirement of Medicare. (Sec. 13560) Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to provide that to the extent that appropriations are enacted providing budget authority for Medicare administrative costs above a base level spending in FY 1992 of $1.526 billion, the appropriate discretionary spending limits shall be adjusted to accommodate additional budget authority in FY 1994 and 1995. Chapter 4: Medicare Supplemental Insurance Policies - Amends OMBRA '90 and Medicare to make specified changes to Federal standards respecting the sale and regulation of Medicare supplemental insurance policies. Chapter 5: Treatment of Certain State Health Care Programs - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide that: (1) the Hawaii Prepaid Health Care Act will not be preempted by ERISA unless the Secretary of Labor notifies the Governor of Hawaii that certain conditions exist; and (2) State tax laws relating to employee benefit plans will continue to be preempted. Subtitle D: Customs and Trade Provisions - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to authorize appropriations for FY 1994 and 1995 for the United States International Trade Commission (ITC). Prohibits use of funds for any special study, requested by the executive branch unless the ITC is reimbursed. (Sec. 13601) Amends the Customs Procedural Reform and Simplification Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for FY 1994 and 1995 for the United States Customs Service for noncommercial and commercial operations, and the air and marine interdiction programs. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for FY 1994 and 1995 for the Office of the United States Trade Representative. (Sec. 13602) Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) to extend the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to collect customs user fees through September 30, 1998. (Sec. 13603) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to remove the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from the list of countries ineligible for designation as a beneficiary developing country under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). Extends duty-free treatment provided under the GSP through September 30, 1994. (Sec. 13604) Extends the worker trade adjustment assistance program (trade adjustment assistance benefits for workers adversely affected by import competition or the relocation of U.S. production facilities abroad), and authorization of appropriations, from FY 1993 through FY 1996. (Sec. 13605) Amends the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to extend the authority of the President, for a specified period of time, to enter into trade agreements with foreign countries for the reduction or elimination of tariff or nontariff barriers if the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has not resulted in such trade agreements by May 31, 1993. Provides that implementing bills involving tariff and nontariff trade agreements shall be effective only if, among other things, the President, at least 120 calendar days (currently, 90 days) before he enters into such an agreement, notifies the Congress of his intention and publishes such intention in the Federal Register. Extends congressional "fast track procedures" to such implementing bills through April 16, 1994. (Sec. 13606) Amends the Federal Trade Act of 1974 to eliminate the East-West Trade Statistics Monitoring System. Subtitle E: Customs Officer Pay Reform - Revises the pay system for United States Customs Service inspectors. (Sec. 13701) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to prohibit merchandise or passengers from foreign places, or merchandise being transported from one port to another, from being unladen from carrying vehicles during overtime hours (currently, at night). (Sec. 13702) Authorizes cash awards to customs officers for foreign language proficiency. (Sec. 13703) Amends COBRA to provide for reimbursement of appropriations from the Customs User Fee Account for agency retirement contributions. (Sec. 13704) Amends Federal law with regard to the treatment of certain pay of customs officers for retirement purposes. (Sec. 13705) Revises COBRA congressional reporting requirements respecting Account reimbursements. Requires additional General Accounting Office reports to the Congress on financing of overtime inspectional services through user fees. Title XIV: Revenue Provisions - Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Subtitle A: Training and Investment Incentives - Part I: Provisions Relating to Education and Training - Makes permanent after June 30, 1992: (1) the tax exclusion of employer-provided educational assistance; and (2) the targeted jobs credit. Allows the use of the targeted jobs credit, with limitations, for the hiring of a qualified participant in an approved school-to-work program. Part II: Investment Incentives - Subpart A: Research Credit - Makes permanent the credit for increasing research activities. Modifies the fixed base percentage of such credit for startup companies for taxable years after 1993. Subpart B: Capital Gain Provisions - Allows a taxpayer other than a corporation to exclude from gross income 50 percent of gain from the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock held for more than five years. Set forth rules and limitations for such exclusion. Treats one-half of such exclusion as an item of tax preference for minimum tax purposes. (Sec. 14114) Allows the rollover of gain from the sale of publicly traded securities into specialized small business investment companies. Subpart C: Modifications to Minimum Tax Depreciation Rules - Modifies the method of determining the depreciation deduction for certain personal property placed in service after 1993. Eliminates the depreciation adjustment for computing adjusted current earnings for such property. Subpart D: Increase in Expense Treatment for Small Business - Increases the dollar limitation on the election to expense certain depreciable small business assets. Part III: Tax-Exempt Bond Provisions - Provides a complete tax exemption (currently a 75 percent tax exemption) for bonds used to finance high-speed intercity rail facilities. (Sec. 14122) Permanently extends the authority to issue qualified small issue bonds to finance manufacturing facilities and farm property. Part IV: Expansion and Simplification of Earned Income Tax Credit - Repeals certain interaction rules with respect to the medical expense deduction, the deduction for health insurance, and the dependent care credit. Revises credit and phaseout percentages for 1994. Part V: Incentives for Investment in Real Estate - Subpart A: Extension of Qualified Mortgage Bonds and Low-Income Housing Credit - Makes permanent: (1) the authority to issue qualified mortgage bonds and qualified mortgage credit certificates; and (2) the low-income housing credit. (Sec. 14142) Provides that assistance under the HOME Investment Partnerships Act should not result in certain buildings being federally subsidized. Subpart B: Modification of Passive Loss Rules - Provides for the treatment of rental real estate activities under the limitations on losses from passive activities. Subpart C: Provisions Relating to Real Estate Investments by Pension Funds - 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. 14145) Repeals the special rule for publicly traded partnerships with respect to the treatment of unrelated business taxable income. (Sec. 14146) 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. 14147) 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. Subpart D: Discharge of Indebtedness - Excludes from gross income the income from the discharge of qualified real property business indebtedness. Subpart E: Increase in Recovery Period for Nonresidential Real Property - Increases the depreciation recovery period for nonresidential real property. Part VI: Luxury Tax - Repeals the luxury excise tax on boats, aircraft, jewelry, and furs. (Sec. 14162) 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. Exempts from the luxury excise tax parts for accessories installed for use of passenger vehicles by disabled individuals. (Sec. 14163) Extends the current diesel fuel excise tax to diesel fuel used by noncommercial motorboats. Retains such taxes in the General Fund of the Treasury. Part VII: Other Changes - Repeals the tax preferences 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. 14171) Requires Secretary of the Treasury to report to specified congressional committees on the development of a procedure for taxpayers to seek an agreement with the Secretary on the value of tangible personal property prior to the donation of such property to a qualifying charitable organization. (Sec. 14172) Amends the Railroad Retirement Solvency Act of 1983 to make permanent the treatment of certain railroad retirement benefits as received under employer plans. (Sec. 14173) Provides for the temporary extension of the deduction of health insurance costs of self-employed individuals. Subtitle B: Revenue Increases - Part I: Provisions Affecting Individuals- Subpart A: Rate 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. 14203) Increases the tentative minimum tax for taxpayers other than corporations. (Sec. 14204) Makes permanent the overall limitation on itemized deductions and the phaseout of personal exemptions for high-income taxpayers. (Sec. 14206) Sets forth provisions to prevent the conversion of ordinary income to capital gain in certain financial transactions. Repeals certain exeptions to market discount rules. Provides for the treatment of purchases of stripped preferred stock after April 30, 1993. Revises methods of: (1) computing the limitation on the deductibility of investment interest; and (2) determining substantial appreciation of partnership inventory items. Subpart B: Other Provisions - Repeals the limitation on the amount of wages subject to the health insurance employment tax. (Sec. 14208) Increases and makes permanent the highest estate and gift tax rate. (Sec. 14209) Reduces the deduction for business meals and entertainment expenses. (Sec. 14210) Disallows a tax deduction for social club membership dues, except for employee recreational expenses. (Sec. 14211) Disallows a deduction as a trade or business expense remuneration to certain employees in excess of $1 million. (Sec. 14212) Reduces the compensation taken into account in determining contributions and benefits under qualified retirement plans. (Sec. 14213) Removes qualified residence sales, purchases, or leases and meals from the deduction for moving expenses. (Sec. 14214) Revises the limitation on using the preceding year's tax to calculate an individual's estimated tax payments. (Sec. 14215) Increases the amount of social security and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits to be included in the gross income of certain taxpayers. Part II: Provisions Affecting Business - Increases the tax rate for corporate income in excess of $10 million and the tax rate on personal service corporations. (Sec. 14222) Denies a tax deduction for lobbying expenses. Subjects lobbying organizations to special reporting requirements. (Sec. 14223) 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. 14224) Requires taking into account: (1) certain Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) assistance as compensation for loss; and (2) FSLIC assistance for any debt for determining whether such debt is worthless and the amount of any addition to a reserve for bad debts. (Sec. 14225) Increases the required annual payment for corporations that fail to pay estimated income tax. Modifies the periods for applying such annualization. (Sec. 14226) Limits the Puerto Rico and possession tax credit to 60 percent of the possession corporation's qualified possession wages. (Sec. 14227) 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. Part III: Foreign Tax Provisions - Subpart A: Current Taxation of Certain Earnings of Controlled Foreign Corporations - Requires U.S. shareholders of controlled foreign corporations to include in gross income a pro rata share of the corporation's excess passive assets. Modifies the rule on taxation of investment in U.S. property and takes into account excessive passive assets. Requires a report on investments by controlled foreign corporations in U.S property. (Sec. 14233) Excepts from foreign personal holding income dividends attributable to earnings and profits of the distributing corporation accumulated during any period 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. Subpart B: Allocation of Research and Experimental Expenditures - Reduces the amount allowed as allocation and apportionment of research and experimental expenditures from sources within the United States. Subpart C: Other Provisions - (Sec. 14235) Excludes passive dividends or interest income from foreign oil and gas income. (Sec. 14236) Modifies accuracy-related penalties for tax underpayments. (Sec. 14237) Denies the inclusion of certain contingent interest in the exemption for portfolio interest for nonresident aliens. (Sec. 14238) Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations recharacterizing any multiple-party financing transaction as a transaction directly among any two or more of such parties when appropriate to prevent tax avoidance. Part IV: Energy Tax Provisions - Subpart A: Energy Tax Based on Btu Content - Imposes an excise tax on the following energy products: (1) taxable refined petroleum products removed from a U.S. refinery or terminal entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing, and sold to a nonregistered person; (2) natural gas removed from any U.S. pipeline, entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing, and entered into any nonregistered pipeline; (3) coal received at any facility for use as a fuel at such facility; and (4) the sale of electricity to ultimate users in the United States and the use of electricity which was not subject to such tax. Bases the rate of tax on such products on the applicable Btu factor and content. (Sec. 14241) Provides for refunding certain amounts to ultimate vendors of petroleum used for heating oil and international commercial transportation. Repays certain sums to persons who use petroleum to produce calcined coke. Provides excise tax exemptions for certain uses. Refunds the tax paid by certain users of methane recovered from biomass or coal mining. Imposes a tax on the use of any fossil fuel: (1) in the manufacture or production of a fuel other than at a U.S. refinery; or (2) as a fuel. Imposes a tax on floor stock of taxable fuels held on the date of the tax increase. Allows a credit against such tax. Provides for such tax increases to begin July 1, 1994. Imposes a Btu tax on certain imported products that contain significant levels of direct energy inputs that would be taxable if the products were manufactured in the United States. Imposes a penalty on persons who sell dyed fuel for taxable uses. Subpart B: Modifications to Tax on Diesel Fuel - Imposes an excise tax on diesel fuel. 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 in regulations. (Sec. 14242) 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. 14243) Imposes a floor stocks tax on any person holding diesel fuel April 1, 1994. Subpart C: Extension of Motor Fuel Tax Rates; Increased Deposits Into Highway Trust Fund - 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. Part V: Compliance Provisions - Requires information reporting on payments to corporations for services. (Sec. 14252) Modifies provisions concerning substantial understatement and return-preparer penalties to allow reasonable cause exceptions. (Sec. 14253) 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. Part VI: Treatment of Intangibles - 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. Part VII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Establishes substantiation requirements for charitable contributions of $750 or more. (Sec. 14272) 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. 14273) Expands the 45-day interest-free period for refunding tax overpayments to all returns, 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. 14274) Denies the business travel expense deduction for spouses, dependents, or others. (Sec. 14275) Increases the withholding rate for supplemental wage payments. Subtitle C: Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities - Part I: Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities, Etc. - Provides for the designation of 100 tax enterprise communities and ten enpowerment zones between 1993 and 1996: (1) by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for urban areas; (2) by the Secretary of Agriculture for rural areas; and (3) by the Secretary of the Interior for Indian reservations. (Sec. 14301) Sets forth eligibility criteria. Makes certain buildings in such communities or zones eligible for the low-income housing credit applicable to buildings in high-cost areas. Provides for the issuance of enterprise zone facility bonds in enterprise communities and enpowerment zones in a manner similar to exempt facility bonds. Excludes enterprise zone facility bonds from the interest deduction limitations on financial institutions. Provides States an additional housing credit ceiling for each zone and community through 1996. Allows a limited empowerment zone employment credit to employers for a percentage of qualified zone wages paid during calendar years 1994 through 2004. Allows businesses a zone resident empowerment savings credit of 50 percent of the qualified savings contributions made by an employer to a defined contribution plan on behalf of a zone employee. Limits the credit amount based on the employee's compensation. Increases the limitation on expensing certain depreciable business assets. Increases the volume cap applicable to enterprise zone facility bonds if the business owners meet specified ownership requirements with regard to abiding in such zones. (Sec. 14302) Allows use of the targeted jobs credit for hiring empowerment zone residents. Part II: Credit for Contributions to Certain Community Development Corporations - Allows a general business tax credit for contributions to selected community development corporations for low-income individuals who are residents of the operational area of the community. Subtitle D: Other Provisions - Part I: Disclosure Provisions - Extends the authority to disclose tax return information to the Department of Veterans Affairs through September 30, 1998. (Sec. 14402) Authorizes the disclosure of certain tax return information to the Department of Education to implement the direct student loan program and to the Department of Housing for income verification. Part II: User Fee Provisions - Requires 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). (Sec. 14412) Removes authority to use the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for administrative expenses of certain customs fee collections. (Sec. 14413) Increases the tax on fuel used on commercial transportation on inland waterways. Part III: Public Debt Limit - Increases the public debt limit and repeals the temporary limit on such increase. Part IV: Vaccine Provisions - Makes permanent: (1) the excise tax on certain vaccines; and (2) the authority to pay compensation from the Vaccine Trust Fund under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program for certain damages resulting from vaccines administered after September 30, 1988. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report to specified congressional committees on uses of such Fund. (Sec. 14431) Imposes a floor stocks tax on taxable vaccines. (Sec. 14432) Requires contribution coverage under group health plans of the costs of pediatric vaccines. (Sec. 14433) Establishes the Childhood Immunization Trust Fund for the entitlement program under the Public Health Service Act.

International Peacekeeping Reform Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1993

International Peacekeeping Reform Act of 1993 - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States should not be assessed a greater share for any international peacekeeping operation than the current U.S. share of the regular assessed budget for the international organization with jurisdiction over the operation; (2) all U.S. military assistance, logistical support, and in-kind contributions for an international peacekeeping operation should be fully counted toward the U.S. assessment for the operation or fully reimbursed; and (3) regional countries that would receive disproportionate benefit from the establishment of such operation should voluntarily provide a higher proportionate share of the operation costs. Prohibits funds authorized to be appropriated to the Contributions for International Peacekeeping Activities Account at the Department of State for the United States Peacekeeping Emergency Fund or which are not specifically designated for an existing peacekeeping operation from being made available for any peacekeeping operation of an international organization in which the United States assessed share exceeds its assessed share for the regular budget for such organization.

Many Neighbors, One Earth Resolution

United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1993

Many Neighbors, One Earth Resolution - Urges the President to develop and implement a coordinated economic and development policy and program of action designed to promote broadbased, sustainable development. Specifies that such policy and program should have as principal objectives: (1) expanding economic opportunities; (2) meeting basic human needs; (3) promoting environmental protection and sustainable use of natural resources; and (4) promoting pluralism, democratic participation, and human rights. Specifies that such policy and program should involve all relevant international activities of the U.S. Government. Urges specific actions that the President should take, including: (1) working with the Congress to enact legislation providing for a post-Cold War foreign assistance program that would have as its primary purpose the promotion of sustainable development; (2) ensuring that development cooperation programs, conform to such objectives in ways that invigorate local community-based development through taking into account relevant local perspectives of its beneficiaries during the design, planning, implementation, and evaluation process for project and program assistance; (3) providing government-to-government assistance only to countries that exhibit a commitment to development that promotes such objectives, with priority to countries with the highest incidence of hunger and poverty; and (4) encouraging and supporting the efforts of countries to reduce their levels of military spending when such spending is disproportionate to security needs and spending on health, education, and environmental protection.

Federal Acquisition Improvement Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Enhancement of Competition in Contracting Subtitle A: Acquisition of Commercial Items Subtitle B: Miscellaneous Title II: Amendments to Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 Title III: Amendments Relating to Title 10, United States Code Title IV: Brooks Act Amendments Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions Title VI: Provisions Relating to General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Improvement Act of 1993 - Title I: Enhancement of Competition in Contracting - Subtitle A: Acquisition of Commercial Items - Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to include the implementation of a preference for the acquisition of commercial items among the procurement responsibilities of the head of each executive agency. Requires executive agencies, before beginning a procurement, to conduct market research to determine if commercial items can meet the needs of the executive agency. Renames the position of Advocate for the Acquisition of Commercial Products in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy the Advocate for the Acquisition of Commercial Items. Requires revision of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to implement the amendments made by this title. Requires such revision to include issuance of one or more simplified uniform contracts for the acquisition of commercial items. Sets forth other requirements for FAR relating to warranties, market acceptance, and past performance. Subtitle B: Miscellaneous - Revises requirements pertaining to contractor submission of cost or pricing data. Requires additional revisions of FAR in order to implement specified requirements. Title II: Amendments to Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 - Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to permit executive agencies to award multiple contracts for the same supply or service when the agency head determines it is in the best interests of the Government to maintain a continuous source for the supply or service. Sets forth provisions generally analogous to those contained in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 concerning an agency's responsibilities regarding statements of evaluation factors in a contract solicitation. Revises evaluation and award provisions. Raises temporarily the cost and pricing data threshold under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. Repeals commercial pricing requirements. Title III: Amendments Relating to Title 10, United States Code - Amends the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 and other Federal law relating to the armed forces with respect to source selection factors and contractor submission of cost or pricing data. Title IV: Brooks Act Amendments - Provides that specified provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 may be cited as the Brooks Automatic Data Processing Act and the Brooks Architect-Engineers Act. Amends the Brooks Automatic Data Processing Act to: (1) allow the General Services Administration's (GSA) board of contract appeals to dimiss protests that are frivolous or have been brought in bad faith; and (2) provide for GSA oversight of agency automatic data processing equipment procurements. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 to revise provisions authorizing the General Accounting Office's (GAO) Comptroller General to award bid and proposal preparation and protest costs to companies that file bid protests. Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to provide for post-award debriefings for certain procurements and an increase in the small purchase threshold. Provides for implementation of electronic data interchange systems for procurement information. Makes development of procurement policies with respect to small businesses a function of the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy. Authorizes the Administrator to conduct a program of tests of alternative and innovative procurement procedures. Amends the Brooks Architect-Engineers Act to prohibit agency preaward audits to evaluate proposed contract costs where the objectives of the audit can be met by accepting the results of a previous Government audit. Requires the GSA Administrator to ensure that requirements of the Buy American Act apply to all procurements made with funds authorized under title VI. Provides for debarment of persons convicted of falsely labeling products as made in America. Title VI: Provisions Relating to General Services Administration - Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to authorize appropriations. Adds previous management experience requirements for appointments to senior GSA positions.

To amend the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to require that testimony before the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission be given under oath.

United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1993

Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to require that all testimony at public hearings conducted by the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission be presented under oath.

Chas. W. Freeman, of Rhode Island, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, vice James Roderick Lilley, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 20 May 1993

Federal Disaster Preparedness and Response Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993

Federal Disaster Preparedness and Response Act of 1993 - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Federal Government should give immediate attention to developing a broad risk-based strategy for improving Federal readiness and response to major disasters; (2) the all hazards approach is the best way to prepare the United States for all threats; (3) all reasonable actions should be taken to mitigate the effects of disasters; (4) the American Red Cross and other volunteer organizations make valuable contributions in responding to disasters; (5) State and local responses to disasters and emergencies must be strengthened and maintained; (6) private nonprofit organizations are important in disaster relief operations and essential for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts; and (7) hazard mitigation is important in disaster preparedness and recovery. Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act and other specified Federal law to establish a new framework for governing Federal, State, and local government and private relief agency preparedness for and response to major disasters and emergencies through such measures as: (1) requiring respective plans by the President and Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for providing Federal assistance, when requested, to affected States and establishing chains of command, Federal agency duties, and the relationship between them and those of the State and local governments and private relief agencies involved; (2) transferring the National Disaster Medical System to FEMA; (3) requiring review of the National Guard's role in responding to such events; and (4) requiring FEMA to inventory Federal disaster resources and establish systems for the use of volunteers and management of donated goods during disasters, a State grant program for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery, a university-based center for disaster research, and volunteer disaster medical and strike teams. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the President to establish a Domestic Crisis Monitoring Unit, headed by the Vice President, to: (1) monitor potential disasters and emergencies; (2) notify the President and Federal agencies of impending disasters and emergencies as soon as practicable; and (3) ensure effective, coordinated, and rapid Federal agency response immediately afterwards. Mandates restructuring of FEMA in order to implement an all hazards approach to disaster management, use defense-related resources for disasters, redefine the relationship between FEMA headquarters and regional offices, and relocate regional offices in high risk areas. Redesignates various specified political appointee positions in FEMA as career reserved positions. Creates the National Academy for Fire and All Hazards Training out of the National Academy for Fire Prevention and Control and Emergency Management Institute, which are abolished. Authorizes appropriations. Repeals the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950.

International Sanctions Enforcement Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993

International Sanctions Enforcement Act of 1993 - Authorizes the President to prohibit U.S. persons from procuring, importing, selling, or exporting goods or services to or from any foreign person who has knowingly violated United Nations Security Council Resolution 748 imposing sanctions against Libya. Urges the President to initiate consultations with foreign governments with jurisdiction over such persons with respect to the imposition of sanctions. Requires the President to impose the sanctions unless he certifies to the Congress that a government has taken actions to terminate the involvement of a person in such activities. Exempts the procurement of vital defense articles by the U.S. Government and medical or other humanitarian items from sanctions under this Act. Aplies 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, violate the Resolution. Permits the President to waive sanctions after such period if he certifies to the Congress that continued imposition would have a serious adverse effect on U.S. interests. Applies enforcement authorities and penalty provisions of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to sanctions and violations under this Act. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act to authorize the issuance of residence visas for protection purposes to up to 25 aliens (per fiscal year) who furnish information concerning acts of international terrorism against U.S. persons or property. Increases criminal penalties for the misuse of passports. Directs the President to certify to the Congress whenever he determines that a country is not complying with the Resolution. Suspends service of such countries' air carriers to or from the United States and authorizes the revocation of their rights to engage in air transportation to or from the United States. Amends the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to regulate or prohibit the importation or exportation of informational materials containing technical or commercial data of value to the economy of a foreign country whose transactions are otherwise regulated or prohibited. Increases the amount of civil penalties authorized for violations of such Act.

Violent Crimes Control Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Death Penalty Title II: Habeas Corpus Reform Subtitle A: General Habeas Corpus Reform Title III: Exclusionary Rule Title IV: Firearms and Related Amendments Title V: Terrorism and International Matters Title VI: Sexual Violence, Child Abuse, and Victims' Rights Subtitle A: Sexual Violence and Child Abuse Subtitle B: Victims' Rights Subtitle C: Crime Victims Fund Subtitle D: National Child Protection Act Subtitle E: Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children Registration Act Subtitle F: Domestic Violence Subtitle G: Other Provisions Title VII: Equal Justice Act Title VIII: Public Corruption Title IX: Federal Prisons Title X: Violent Crime Title XI: International Parental Kidnapping Violent Crimes Control Act of 1993 - Title I: Death Penalty - Federal Death Penalty Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish criteria for the imposition of the death penalty for Federal crimes. (Sec. 102) Allows the defendant and the Government to present any information relevant to sentencing (including victim impact statements), but permits evidence to be excluded where its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of creating unfair prejudice, confusing the issues, or misleading the jury. Sets forth: (1) procedures for the implementation of, and appeal from, a sentence of death; and (2) provisions regarding the appointment of counsel, deadlines for collateral attacks on judgments imposing a death sentence, and stays of execution. (Sec. 110) Provides for the imposition of the death penalty for various offenses, including: (1) murder committed by prisoners in Federal prisons; (2) murder for hire; (3) murder in the aid of racketeering activity; (4) specified violations of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA); (5) murder of Federal witnesses; (6) rape and child molestation murders; and (7) murders in the District of Columbia. Title II: Habeas Corpus Reform - Subtitle A: General Habeas Corpus Reform - Habeas Corpus Reform Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal judicial code to establish a one-year statute of limitations for habeas corpus actions brought by State prisoners. (Sec. 204) Vests authority to issue certificates of probable cause for appeal of habeas corpus orders exclusively in the courts of appeals. Subtitle B: Death Penalty Litigation Procedures - Death Penalty Litigation Procedures Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal judicial code to set forth special habeas corpus procedures in capital cases. Subtitle C: Equalization of Capital Habeas Corpus Litigation Funding - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Omnibus Act) to require the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to provide grants to the States to support litigation pertaining to Federal habeas corpus petitions in capital cases. Title III: Exclusionary Rule - Amends the Federal criminal code to bar the exclusion of evidence obtained as a result of a search or seizure carried out under circumstances justifying an objectively reasonable belief that it was in conformity with the fourth amendment. Title IV: Firearms and Related Amendments - Sets forth various firearms-related provisions, including the following. Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) increase mandatory minimum sentences for knowingly possessing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime; and (2) establish penalties for smuggling firearms in aid of drug trafficking and for theft of firearms and explosives. (Sec. 402) Increases penalties for: (1) a second offense of using an explosive to commit a felony; (2) making knowingly false, material statements in connection with the acquisition of a firearm from a licensed dealer; and (3) interstate gun trafficking. (Sec. 406) Authorizes the summary destruction of explosives subject to forfeiture under specified circumstances. Sets forth requirements for reimbursement of the value of destroyed property. (Sec. 410) Prohibits: (1) the receipt of firearms by non-residents of the State in which the transferor resides, unless such receipt is for lawful sporting purposes; (2) transactions involving stolen firearms which have moved in interstate or foreign commerce; and (3) the possession of explosives by felons and specified others. (Sec. 418) Amends: (1) the Internal Revenue Code regarding the disposition of forfeited firearms; and (2) the Federal criminal code regarding the definitions of "burglary" and "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984. Title V: Terrorism and International Matters - Repeals the Antiterrorism Act of 1990. Establishes a civil remedy for U.S. nationals (and their survivors or estates) injured, in their person, property, or business, by acts of international terrorism. (Sec. 502) Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) make it a criminal offense to provide material support to terrorists; and (2) provide for civil and criminal forfeiture of assets used to support terrorists. (Sec. 504) Authorizes the Attorney General to waive immigration admission and other legal requirements and grant permanent resident status for alien witnesses who cooperate with the Government in Federal or State prosecutions. (Sec. 513) Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) establish penalties for removing a child from, or retaining a child outside, the United States with intent to obstruct the lawful exercise of parental rights; (2) provide for the prosecution of individuals who murder U.S. nationals abroad; and (3) permit Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) access to telephone subscriber information under specified circumstances. Title VI: Sexual Violence, Child Abuse, and Victims' Rights - Subtitle A: Sexual Violence and Child Abuse - Defines "sexual act" to include the intentional touching, not through the clothing, of the genitalia of another person who has not attained age 16 with intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade, or to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person. (Sec. 602) Increases penalties for recidivist sex offenders. (Sec. 603) Authorizes the court to award restitution for victims of sex offenses. (Sec. 604) Sets forth provisions regarding human immunodeficiency virus testing, penalty enhancement, and cost of testing in sex offense cases. Subtitle B: Victims' Rights - Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) restitution and suspension of Federal benefits; and (2) the number of peremptory challenges under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Subtitle C: Crime Victims Fund - Repeals: (1) the current $150 million cap on the Crime Victims Fund under the Victims of Crime Act of 1984; and (2) sunset provisions under such Act. Modifies the formula for the distribution of sums deposited into the Fund. (Sec. 622) Increases the Federal share of victim compensation programs from 40 to 45 percent of the amounts awarded by each program during the preceding fiscal year. (Sec. 623) Allows up to five percent of a victim compensation program grant to be used for administrative costs. (Sec. 624) Specifies that if the compensation paid by an eligible crime victim compensation program would cover costs that a Federal program, or a federally financed State or local program, would otherwise pay: (1) such victim compensation program shall not pay such compensation; and (2) the other program shall make its payments without regard to the existence of the crime victim compensation program. (Sec. 626) Requires crime victim assistance chief executives to give particular attention to children who are victims of violent street crime. Subtitle D: National Child Protection Act - National Child Protection Act of 1993 - Provides for: (1) State reporting of child abuse crime information to a national criminal background check system; (2) funding to improve such information; and (3) the withholding of a portion of such funding to States not in compliance with a timetable established under this Act. Subtitle E: Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children Registration Act - Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children Registration Act - Directs the Attorney General to establish guidelines for State programs requiring any person who is convicted of a criminal offense against a minor to register a current address with a designated State law enforcement agency for ten years after release from prison or being placed on parole or supervised release. Sets forth registration, State compliance, and related requirements. Subtitle F: Domestic Violence - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the Director of the BJA to make grants to assist States in implementing a civil and criminal response to domestic violence. Specifies that such grants shall be used to: (1) encourage increased prosecutions for domestic violence; (2) report more accurately the incidences of such violence; (3) facilitate arrests and aggressive prosecution policies; (4) provide legal advocacy services for victims; and (5) improve the knowledge of health professionals regarding domestic violence and facilitate cooperation between health professionals, social service providers, and law enforcement personnel to better assist such victims. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) application requirements; (2) allocation of funds and limitations on grants; (3) grant award and renewal; and (4) reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 662) Requires the Attorney General and Secretary of Health and Human Services to transmit to the Congress a report on the medical and psychological basis of battered women's syndrome and on the extent to which evidence of the syndrome has been held to be admissible as evidence of guilt or as a defense in a criminal trial. Subtitle G: Other Provisions - Sets penalties for inducing a minor to commit an offense against the United States. (Sec. 672) Amends the General Education Provisions Act to provide for the disclosure of arrest records by campus police. (Sec. 673) Requires the Attorney General to contract with an appropriate entity to provide for a national baseline study to research the effectiveness of campus sexual assault policies for institutions of postsecondary education. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 674) Expresses the sense of the Congress that in determining child custody and visitation rights the courts should take into consideration the history of drunk driving of any person involved in the determination. Title VII: Equal Justice Act - Equal Justice Act - Requires that the death penalty and all other penalties be administered by the United States and by every State without regard to the race or color of the defendant or victim. Bars the use of any racial quota or statistical test for the imposition or execution of any penalty. (Sec. 703) Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) safeguards against racial prejudice or bias in criminal courts; and (2) jury instructions and certification, and racial motivation in killings as an aggravating factor, in Federal capital cases. (Sec. 705) Amends specified civil rights provisions to cover conspiracy against rights, and deprivation of rights under color of law, of any person in (currently, inhabitant of) a State, territory, or district. Title VIII: Public Corruption - Anti-Corruption Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prescribe criminal penalties to be imposed against anyone who uses any facility of, or affects, interstate or foreign commerce to deprive or defraud the inhabitants of a State or political subdivision of a State of the honest services of a government official or employee, or of a fair and impartially conducted election process. Prescribes criminal penalties to be imposed upon any official, or person selected to be a public official, who, in order to carry out or conceal any scheme or artifice to defraud, discriminates, harasses, or takes adverse action against any employee or official of the United States, or any State or political subdivision. Authorizes such an adversely affected employee or official to obtain relief through a civil action, provided such person did not participate in the scheme or artifice. (Sec. 803) Amends mail fraud provisions to prohibit the use of any facility of interstate or foreign commerce in the execution of a scheme or artifice to defraud. (Sec. 804) Sets forth prohibitions regarding narcotics-related public corruption. Title IX: Federal Prisons - Authorizes appropriations for new prison construction. Title X: Violent Crime - Life Imprisonment for Egregious Recidivists Act of 1993 - Requires the court to sentence a defendant convicted of a Federal violent felony to life imprisonment if the defendant has previously been convicted of two other violent felonies. Title XI: International Parental Kidnapping - International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993 - Sets penalties for removing a child from the United States or retaining a child (who has been in the United States) outside the United States in order to obstruct the lawful exercise of parental rights. (Sec. 1103) Authorizes appropriations to carry out, under the State Justice Institute Act of 1984, national, regional, and in-State training and educational programs dealing with criminal and civil aspects of interstate and international parental child abduction.

Freedom of Speech on Campus Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993

Freedom of Speech on Campus Act of 1993 - Expresses the sense of the Congress that students attending universities or other institutions of higher education that receive Federal funds should be able to exercise full rights to freedom of speech on campus free from official intrusion. Amends the Education Amendments of 1972 to prohibit discrimination by an institution of higher education against a student based on protected speech in any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance under the Higher Education Act of 1965. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to religious or military institutions. Provides that such prohibition shall not be construed to prevent: (1) imposition of an official sanction on a student determined to have willfully participated in the disruption or attempted disruption of a lecture, class, speech, presentation, or performance made or scheduled to be made under the auspices of the institution of higher education; or (2) actions by such institution that are necessary to ensure the safety of individuals, protection of property, and continuation of the academic and administrative process without interference.

Walter Becker Slocombe, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, vice I. Lewis Libby, Jr., resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 19 May 1993

Emmett Paige, Jr., of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, vice Duane Perry Andrews, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 19 May 1993

Deborah Roche Lee, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, vice Stephen M. Duncan, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 19 May 1993

Corinth, Mississippi, Battlefield Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993

Corinth, Mississippi, Battlefield Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands in the vicinity of the Corinth Battlefield in Mississippi for the construction of an interpretive center to commemorate and interpret the 1862 Civil War Siege and Battle of Corinth and to be administered as part of the Shiloh National Military Park. Authorizes appropriations.

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to revise the method for pricing tobacco products for sale in commissaries, exchanges, and ships' stores, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993

Requires the price charged for tobacco products sold in commissary stores, military exchanges, or ships' stores (commissaries) to be: (1) the prevailing price charged by private commercial businesses in the local retail market area in the case of commissaries located in the United States; and (2) the average amount charged by private commercial retail businesses in the United States in the case of commissaries located outside the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of the appropriate military department to use profits from such sales to promote the health and fitness of members of the armed forces and their dependents.

Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Authorization Title II: Personnel Management Improvement Title III: Miscellaneous Sections Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1993 - Title I: Authorization - Authorizes appropriations for the Coast Guard for: (1) operation and maintenance; (2) acquisition, construction, rebuilding, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore and offshore facilities, vessels, and aircraft; (3) research, development, test, and evaluation; (4) retirement pay and benefits; (5) alteration or removal of bridges; and (6) environmental compliance and restoration. Authorizes the Coast Guard end-of-year strength for active duty personnel and the average military training student loads. Title II: Personnel Management Improvement - Raises the ceiling on the number of active duty commissioned officers in the Coast Guard. Authorizes the Commandant to enter into cooperative agreements to accept and utilize voluntary services for the maintenance and improvement of natural and historic resources, or to benefit natural and historic research, on Coast Guard facilities, provided that any such agreement requires the parties to contribute funds or services on a matching basis to defray costs. Authorizes the Secretary of the respective department in which the Coast Guard is operating, where necessary to reduce the number of Reserve officers in an active status in any grade, to provide a steady flow of promotion, or where there is an excessive number of such officers in an active status in any grade, to appoint and convene a retention board to consider all of the Reserve officers in that grade in an active status who have 18 years or more of service for retirement, with exceptions. Makes the ten-month deadline established in the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1989 with respect to the correction of military records mandatory and applicable to applications pending before the Board for Correction of Military Records or the Secretary of Transportation on June 12, 1990, where administrative remedies are exhausted and other specified conditions are met. Revises provisions regarding the retirement of a Commandant to provide for continuity of grade of admirals and vice admirals. Authorizes the President to appoint a Chief of Staff of the Coast Guard. Title III: Miscellaneous Sections - Repeals provisions of the Act of June 25, 1936, requiring: (1) public notice of North Atlantic Ocean vessel routes, avoidance of ice regions, and penalties for failure to comply with such provisions; and (2) publication of rules and regulations in the Federal Register. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) acquire real property or interests for use as Coast Guard family housing units and dispose of any such property or interests for adequate consideration; and (2) spend or obligate funds for improvements of buildings at Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Grants the Secretary long-term lease authority for specified navigation and communications systems sites. Authorizes the Coast Guard to compete for and accept Federal, State, or other educational research grants, provided that no award is accepted for the acquisition or construction of facilities, or for the routine functions of the Academy. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) expend specified sums for acquisition, construction, and improvement that are derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to acquire and preposition oil response equipment at Port Arthur, Texas, and Helena, Arkansas, and to the New York Maritime College of the State of New York to purchase a marine oil spill management simulator; and (2) construct specified shore facilities improvements at Coast Guard Station, Little Creek, Virginia. Authorizes appropriations for the latter. Directs the: (1) Coast Guard to establish the Gulf of Mexico Regional Fisheries Law Enforcement Training Center in the Eighth Coast Guard District in southeastern Louisiana; and (2) Secretary of Transportation to establish a program to evaluate the technological feasibility and environmental benefits of having tank vessels carry oil spill prevention and response technology. Exempts from inspection an unmanned seagoing barge that does not carry oil in bulk or a reportable or harmful quantity of a hazardous material.

Harold P. Smith, Jr., of California, to be Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy, vice Robert B. Barker, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 18 May 1993

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to codify the rates of disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of such veterans as such rates took effect of December 1, 1992, and to make a technical correction relating to the financing of discount points for certain veterans loans.

United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993

Increases the rates of: (1) veterans' disability compensation; (2) additional compensation for veterans' dependents; (3) the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans; (4) dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children; and (5) supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for disabled adult children. Makes a technical correction relating to the financing of discount points for certain veterans' loans.

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to establish the United States Army Reserve Command as a permanent major command of the Army,to designate the Chief of Army Reserve as Commander of the United States Army Reserve Command,and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993

Directs the Secretary of the Army to establish a United States Army Reserve Command as a major command of the Army. Directs the Secretary to assign to such command all Army Reserve forces other than those assigned to the unified combatant command for special operations forces. Designates the Chief of Army Reserve as Commander of such Command. Requires such Chief to be appointed in the grade of lieutenant general (currently, major general) if he holds a lower reserve grade.

Guam Excess Lands Act

United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993

Guam Excess Lands Act - Directs the Administrator of General Services to transfer specified excess Federal lands to Guam for public benefit, by quitclaim deed and without reimbursement. Makes such lands eligible for transfer upon the enactment and submission to specified congressional committees by Guam of a land use plan. Declares that such property shall not be subject to the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act or the requirement set forth in the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1981 that the sale by the Government of Guam of certain property, including property within the Apra Harbor complex, conveyed to it by the Secretary of the Navy shall only be for monetary consideration.

Ways and Means Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Short Title; References to Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 Titles II-XII: (Reserved) Title XIII: Committee on Ways and Means-Savings Subtitle A: Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program Subtitle D (sic): Customs and Trade Provisions Subtitle E: Customs Officer Pay Reform Subtitle B (sic): Human Resources Amendments Subtitle C: Medicare Program Title XIV: Revenue Provisions Subtitle A: Training and Investment Incentives Subtitle B: Revenue Increases Subtitle C: Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities, Etc. Subtitle D: Other Provisions Title I: Short Title; References to Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Ways and Means Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Deems any reference in this Act to the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to be a reference to the Ways and Means Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993. Titles II-XII: (Reserved) Title XIII: Committee on Ways and Means: Savings - Subtitle A: Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Program - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OMBRA '90) to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to reestablish and maintain in service the same number of telephone lines to each local social security office that were in place on September 30, 1989. (Sec. 13002) Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to raise the threshold at which election services become subject to social security employment taxes. (Sec. 13003) Amends SSA title II to: (1) permit States which already collect social security numbers under current law to use them to eliminate duplicate names and names of convicted felons from jury source lists; (2) extend to all States the option to provide police officers and firefighters participating in a public retirement system with social security coverage under voluntary agreements with the Secretary; (3) disregard the windfall elimination provision in computing any U.S. totalization benefit and the amount of a regular U.S. benefit of an individual who receives a foreign totalization benefit based in part on U.S. employment, and who does not receive any other pension which is based on noncovered employment; (4) provide that military pensions based wholly on service in the military reserves before 1988 shall not trigger application of the Government pension offset or windfall elimination provision to the individual's social security benefits; (5) repeal the facility-of-payment provision; (6) make the guaranteed primary insurance amount the basis for calculating the guaranteed maximum family benefit; (7) make unauthorized disclosure of information and fraudulent attempts to obtain personal information under SSA a felony, and increase penalties for such offenses; (8) increase the time for which an extension may be granted for filing an annual earnings report; (9) permit the Department of Agriculture to share its list of names, social security numbers, and employer identification numbers of the owners and officers of retail grocery stores which redeem food stamps with other Federal agencies for the purpose of investigating food stamp fraud and violations of other Federal laws; (10) prohibit the misuse of Department of the Treasury names, symbols, etc.; (11) prohibit a State from using an individual's social security number in the administration of any driver's license or motor vehicle registration law where the State has not entered into a contract to provide death certificate and related information to the Secretary, or where such a contract restricts the Secretary's use of death information; and (12) require the Secretary to study improvements in gathering and reporting of death information. (Sec. 13005) Exempts from payment liability and penalties any ministers who were American citizens and residents of Canada prior to the 1984 totalization agreement between the United States and Canada and failed to file a tax return or pay self-employment taxes. (Sec. 13010) Amends IRC to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose information from tax returns on individuals' mortality status to the Secretary for epidemiological research purposes; (2) provide for the coordination of the collection of domestic service employment taxes with the collection of income taxes; and (3) change threshold requirements with respect to social security employment taxes on domestic services. (Sec. 13015) Requires the Secretary to study the rising costs of disability benefits for a report to the Congress with recommendations for legislative changes. (Sec. 13016) Amends the Social Security Disability Amendments of 1980 to extend the Secretary's authority to conduct disability work incentive demonstration projects. Subtitle D (sic): Customs and Trade Provisions - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to authorize appropriations for the United States International Trade Commission (ITC). Prohibits use of such funds for any special study, investigation, or report requested by an agency of the executive branch unless such agency reimburses the ITC for its costs. (Sec. 13601) Amends the Customs Procedural Reform and Simplification Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for the United States Customs Service for: (1) noncommercial and commercial operations; and (2) the air and marine interdiction programs. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for the Office of the United States Trade Representative. (Sec. 13602) Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) to extend the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to collect customs user fees. (Sec. 13603) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to remove the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from the list of countries ineligible for designation as a beneficiary developing country under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). Extends duty-free treatment provided under the GSP. (Sec. 13604) Extends the worker trade adjustment assistance program (trade adjustment assistance benefits for workers adversely affected by import competition or the relocation of U.S. production facilities abroad) as well as authorization of appropriations for it. (Sec. 13605) Amends the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to extend the authority of the President, for a specified period of time, to enter into trade agreements with foreign countries for the reduction or elimination of tariff or nontariff barriers if the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has not resulted in such trade agreements by May 31, 1993. Provides that implementing bills involving tariff and nontariff trade agreements shall be effective only if, among other things, the President, at least 120 calendar days (currently, 90 days) before he enters into such agreement, notifies the Congress of his intention to enter into it, and publishes such intention in the Federal Register. Extends congressional "fast track procedures" to such implementing bills through April 16, 1994. (Sec. 13606) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to eliminate the East-West Trade Statistics Monitoring System. Subtitle E: Customs Officer Pay Reform - Amends Federal law to revise the pay system for United States Customs Service Inspectors (customs inspectors). (Sec. 13702) Authorizes cash awards to customs officers for foreign language proficiency. (Sec. 13703) Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) to provide for reimbursement of appropriations from the Customs User Fee Account (Account) for agency retirement contributions. (Sec. 13704) Amends Federal law with regard to the treatment of certain pay of customs officers for retirement purposes. (Sec. 13705) Revises COBRA congressional reporting requirements respecting Account reimbursements. Requires additional General Accounting Office reports to the Congress concerning the financing of overtime inspectional services through user fees. Subtitle B: (sic) Human Resources Amendments - Chapter 1: Child Welfare Services, Foster Care, and Adoption Assistance - Amends SSA title IV part B (Child-Welfare Services) to: (1) create a capped entitlement program to provide child welfare services designed to strengthen and preserve families; (2) repeal provisions linking the payment of certain SSA title IV part B funds to the implementation of certain protections for children in foster care; (3) require that the State part B plan provide for the foster care protections currently outlined in such provisions as well as for State review of its procedures in effect for children abandoned at or shortly after birth, as well as enactment of any procedures necessary to enable permanent child placement decisions to be made expeditiously; (4) provide that the funds withheld or recovered from a State owing to its failure to comply with such protections may not be reallotted among other States; (5) require State part B plans to contain a description of the specific measures taken by the State to comply with the Indian Child Welfare Act; and (6) provide for child welfare traineeships. (Sec. 13212) Directs the Secretary to provide grants for State courts to assess and improve proceedings relating to foster care placement and adoption. (Sec. 13216) Amends SSA title IV part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) (FCAA) to: (1) change the reimbursement policy with respect to foster care maintenance payments made on behalf of certain children whose adoption has been set aside by a court or whose voluntary placement in foster care has been judicially determined to be in the best interests of the child; (2) provide for 90 (and later 50) percent matching of State expenditures for planning, design, development, or installation of statewide mechanized data collection and information retrieval systems, and 50 percent matching of State expenditures for operation of the systems; (3) require States to review periodically their foster care maintenance payment and adoption assistance levels to ensure their continuing appropriateness; (4) revise the case review system to provide that hearings after the initial dispositional hearing take place at least every 12 months, rather than periodically; (5) require the health and education records in each child's case plan to include a record that the foster care provider was advised (where appropriate) of the child's eligibility for early and periodic Medicaid screening, diagnostic, and treatment services; (6) provide for the treatment of assets of youths participating in the independent living program; (7) make permanent the authorization for the independent living program; (8) repeal authority to transfer unused foster care funds to the child welfare services program; (9) require the Secretary to promulgate regulations for on-site reviews and audits of State expenditures for foster care maintenance and adoption assistance payments; (10) set forth case plan requirements for children placed in foster care a substantial distance from their homes or in a different State; (11) require the dispositional hearing for a child placed in foster care in a different State to determine whether the out-of-State placement continues to be appropriate and in the child's best interests; (12) require the adoption and foster care data collection system to provide information on the number and characteristics of children placed in foster care outside the State; and (13) codify Federal regulations providing a timetable for the treatment of State claims for foster care and adoption assistance. (Sec. 13218) Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the ways in which States implement the reasonable efforts requirements for State SSA title IV part E plans. (Sec. 13225) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 (OMBRA '89) to extend permanently (and retroactively to October 1, 1992) the level of Federal reimbursement under SSA title IV part E for the training of personnel employed or preparing for employment by the State or local child welfare agency, and for the training of foster and adoptive parents. (Sec. 13227) Amends SSA title XI part A to: (1) bar the Secretary from imposing financial penalties on States for the failure of State programs under SSA title IV parts B and E to comply with State plan requirements, except pursuant to final regulations meeting specified requirements; (2) provide for certain demonstration projects to promote the objectives of such parts; and (3) overturn certain limitations in Suter v. Artist M. on private enforceability of State plan requirements. (Sec. 13232) Prohibits the Secretary: (1) until October 1, 1994, from reducing any payment to, withholding any payments from, or seeking any repayments from any State under SSA title IV parts B or E by reason of a determination in connection with a review of State compliance with SSA title IV part B foster care protections; and (2) from reducing any payments to, withholding any payments from, or seeking any repayments from any State under SSA title IV part E by reason of a determination in connection with any on-site Federal financial review, or any audit conducted by the Inspector General using similar methodologies. (Sec. 13233) Requires the Secretary to make grants to eligible institutions to train individuals to deliver culturally sensitive and bilingual child welfare services in border areas with Mexico. Authorizes appropriations. Chapter 2: Child Support Enforcement - Amends SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to: (1) set up new paternity establishment performance standards and procedures for State child support enforcement programs; (2) outline State SSA title IV part D plan requirements applicable to health insurers, employers, and State Medicaid agencies with regard to health insurance coverage for children of parents subject to a support order; and (3) require State child support enforcement agencies to periodically report, at no charge, the names of obligors at least two months delinquent in child support payments to bona fide consumer reporting agencies capable of making accurate use of such information. Chapter 3: Supplemental Security Income - Amends SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (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 such payments. (Sec. 13252) Amends OMBRA '90 to make permanent the exclusion of State and local relocation assistance from countable income under SSI. (Sec. 13253) Amends SSA title XVI to: (1) deem to be living in a household a spouse or parent of family members on SSI who is absent from the household solely because of active duty military assignment; (2) exclude hazardous duty pay received while on active military duty from countable income; (3) continue SSI benefits to children who are U.S. citizens if they received SSI in the United States and then accompany their parents on military assignment to any U.S. territory or possession; and (4) extend the SSI definition of disability for children under 18 to any person under 18. (Sec. 13257) Amends Federal law to exempt income of up to $2,000 per year received by individual Indians that is derived from leases on individually-owned trust or restricted Indian lands in determining eligibility and benefit levels under AFDC (SSA title IV part A) and SSI. Chapter 4: Aid to Families with Dependent Children - (Sec. 13261) Amends SSA title IV part A to: (1) reduce to 50 percent the enhanced Federal matching available for certain categories of State administrative expenses; (2) make optional a State's verification of an individual's immigration status with the Immigration and Naturalization Service through an immigration status verification system; (3) delay Federal requirements regarding AFDC-UP participation rates; and (4) increase the amount of stepparent earnings disregarded in determining the eligibility and benefit amounts of AFDC recipients and applicants. (Sec. 13263) Amends SSA title IV part F (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program) (JOBS) to require the Secretary to develop criteria for performance standards in the JOBS program, rather than performance standards themselves, by a certain date. (Sec. 13264) States that the Congress hereby declares that: (1) it is the policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to reduce the rate and degree to which families depend on income from welfare programs, to assist them toward self-sufficiency, and to increase the living standards of low-income families; and (2) the Federal Government should help welfare recipients as well as individuals at risk of welfare participation to improve their education and job skills, to obtain access to high quality child care and other necessary support services, and to take such other steps as may assist them to meet their responsibilities to become financially independent. Directs the Secretary to develop welfare participation measures and predictors, and report annually on welfare participation to specified congressional committees. Establishes the Advisory Board on Welfare Participation to assist the Secretary in the development of such measures and predictors. (Sec. 13265) Directs the Secretary to provide for a demonstration project offering low-income residents of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, employment, wage supplements, health and child care, and counseling and training for job retention or advancement. (Sec. 13266) Amends the Family Support Act of 1988 to: (1) delay the requirement for implementation of the Unemployed Parent program in Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Soma until the limitations on Federal matching payments to these jurisdictions with respect to AFDC and FCAA maintenance payments are repealed; and (2) extend the authorization for early childhood development projects. (Sec. 13269) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OMBRA '87) to extend New York State's Child Assistance Program demonstration. (Sec. 13267) Amends SSA title XI to provide that, with respect to AFDC, one adult member of a family or household may sign, under penalty of perjury, a declaration attesting to the citizenship or satisfactory immigration status of other family or household members. Permits an adult to sign a declaration on behalf of a newly born child no later than the next eligibility redetermination date. Chapter 5: Unemployment Insurance - Amends IRC and SSA title III (Unemployment Compensation) to provide for the treatment of short-time compensation programs under which individuals whose workweeks have been reduced by at least ten percent (especially as an alternative to a temporary layoff) are eligible for unemployment compensation, under certain conditions. (Sec. 13275) Amends the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to increase the reimbursement rate and repeal special eligibility requirements under the extended unemployment program. (Sec. 13276) Amends IRC to: (1) extend the current Federal unemployment tax rate; and (2) require disclosure of information about certain taxes to the Railroad Retirement Board for purposes of its administration of the Railroad Retirement and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Acts. Chapter 6: Technical Provisions - Makes technical corrections related to the income security and human resources provisions of OMBRAs '89 and '90. (Sec. 13283) Amends SSA title XVI to repeal certain obsolete provisions relating to treatment of the earned income tax credit. Subtitle C: Medicare Program - Chapter 1: Provisions Relating to Part A - Subchapter A: Elimination of Inflation Update for Services Provided under Part A: - Amends SSA title XVIII (Medicare) to eliminate updates for inpatient hospital services and hospice care under Medicare part A in FY 1994 and 1995. (Sec. 13402) Prohibits the Secretary from applying an update factor to the cost limits for skilled nursing facility cost reporting periods beginning in FY 1994 and 1995. Subchapter B: Other Provisions Relating to Part A - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) provide that a change in classification of hospitals from one area to another cannot result in a reduction in the wage index for an urban area if the area has a wage index below the rural wage index for the State or if the area is the only urban area in a State with no rural areas; (2) change certain requirements with respect to the standards for designating metropolitan statistical areas that are used in determining treatment of certain hospitals in rural counties adjacent to one or more urban areas; (3) require the Secretary to phase out payments for day outlier cases starting in FY 1995; (4) revise and authorize appropriations for the Essential Access Community Hospital (EACH) demonstration program; (5) provide for a prospective payment system for determining payments for outpatient rural primary care hospital services; (6) continue special payments for Medicare-dependent, small rural hospitals for discharges occurring through FY 1994, with reduced payments for certain discharges; (7) extend the regional floor provision with respect to certain hospital discharges the payment for which is set at 85 percent of the national amount and 15 percent of the regional amount; (8) allow to participate in Medicare hospitals where the care of patients receiving qualified psychologist services is under a clinical psychologist; (9) provide for additional medical education payments for interns and residents providing services at a community heath center under a hospital's ownership or control; (10) require skilled nursing facilities to inform beneficiaries of the hospice benefit under Medicare, except under certain conditions; (11) reduce the part A premium, on a phase-in basis, for individuals with 30 or more quarters of social security coverage (and their spouses); (12) require the Secretary to update periodically the salary equivalency guidelines for physical therapy and respiratory therapy services using the most recent available data; and (13) provide that diagnosis-related group (DRG) window provisions will not apply to hospitals that are not paid on a DRG basis. (Sec. 13414) Amends OMBRA '87 to: (1) reauthorize and extend the rural health transition grant program; and (2) provide that all hospitals classified as regional referral centers on September 30, 1992, shall retain such status through FY 1994. (Sec. 13415) Requires the Secretary to: (1) make a lump sum retroactive payment to any such hospital for payments lost as a result of the loss of its regional referral center status; and (2) provide any hospital which fails to qualify as a rural referral center as a result of its urban reclassification with the opportunity to decline such reclassification and retain rural referral center status. (Sec. 13418) Amends OMBRA '90 to require the Secretary to continue limited-service rural hospital demonstration projects through calendar 1995. (Sec. 13419) Amends OMBRA' 89 to extend the hemophilia pass-through program. (Sec. 13420) Declares that, in the case of a State with a Medicare-approved payment system, no other provision of law shall be construed as preventing the system from providing that payment for covered services be made on the basis of rates provided for under such system. (Sec. 13423) Prohibits the Secretary from taking action to recover certain amounts paid by Medicare to uniformed services treatment facilities in Boston, Baltimore, and Seattle for services that were provided between October 1, 1986, and December 31, 1989, except to the extent that funds are made available for that purpose under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1993. Requires a study and report to the Congress by the Secretary on establishment of joint medical facilities among the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and other public and private entities. (Sec. 13424) Requires the Secretary to: (1) review ]the DRGs assigned to discharges of patients with intractable epilepsy; (2) revise, for discharges occurring on or after October 1, 1994, the assignment of discharges to such groups as the Secretary considers appropriate to account for the resource requirements of such patients; and (3) begin collecting the data necessary to compute a skilled nursing facility wage index adjustment to the routine service cost limits required under Medicare. Requires the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission to study and report to the Congress on the impact of applying routine per diem cost limits for skilled nursing facilities on a regional basis. (Sec. 13429) Allows hospitals that have been reclassified from urban to rural as a result of revisions to metropolitan statistical area definitions issued by the Office of Management and Budget on December 28, 1992, to apply to the Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board for reclassification in FY 1994. Chapter 2: Provisions Relating to Part B: Subchapter A: Elimination of Inflation Update - Amends SSA title XVIII part B to eliminate the inflation update for physician and related professional services and other specified items and services. (Sec. 13432) Freezes payments for enteral and parenteral nutrients, supplies and equipment, rural health clinic, federally-qualified health center, and comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility services, dialysis services, and other part B items and services. Subchapter B: Physicians' Services - Amends SSA title XVIII part B to: (1) repeal the OMBRA '90 prohibition on separate payments for EKG interpretations; (2) repeal the reductions in payments to new physicians and practitioners; (3) prohibit the Secretary from changing the methodology in effect as of January 1, 1992, for calculating anesthesia time in the fee schedules for anesthesia services; (4) revise requirements with respect to geographic adjustment factors and beneficiary liability for amounts billed above the limiting charge; (5) require pre-payment screening by carriers of unassigned claims submitted by nonparticipating physicians; (6) require the Explanation of Benefits form to contain information on amounts billed in excess of the applicable limiting charge; (7) specify the practitioners who may only bill for services on an assignment-related basis; (8) include antigens prepared by a physician on the physician fee schedule; (9) prohibit the imposition of user fees in specified circumstances in the administration of claims relating to physicians' services; and (10) specify the conditions under which the Secretary can recognize substitute billing arrangements between two physicians. (Sec. 13444) Requires the Secretary to: (1) study and report to specified congressional committees on the data necessary to review and revise geographic indices; and (2) review and revise such indices and the geographic index values applied for all fee schedule areas by a certain date. Requires the Physician Payment Review Commission to conduct a study to develop criteria for use in redefining the localities used within States for adjusting physicians' fees. (Sec. 13446) Requires the Secretary to: (1) fully develop, by not later than July 1, 1994, relative values for the full range of pediatric physicians' services; and (2) study and report to the Congress on the relative values for pediatric and other services. Subchapter C: Ambulatory Surgical Center Services - Amends SSA title XVIII to extend special payment rates for certain eye or eye and ear hospitals to any hospital that otherwise meets current law criteria but, on October 1, 1987, operated as a physically separate or distinct eye or ear unit of a general acute care hospital which has since disposed of a substantial portion of its other acute care operations. (Sec. 13452) Amends OMBRA '90 to extend the cap on payments for intraocular lenses through 1994. Requires the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the costs to providers of intraocular lenses provided to individuals enrolled under Medicare part B. Subchapter D: Durable Medical Equipment - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) remove aspirators and nebulizers from the category of durable medical equipment (DME) items requiring frequent and substantial servicing; (2) specifically provide for payment of accessories relating to aspirators and nebulizers; (3) set forth requirements which suppliers of medical equipment and supplies must satisfy in order to qualify for Medicare reimbursement; (4) require the Secretary to develop standardized certificates of medical necessity forms for use in documenting the medical necessity of DME items and supplies; (5) require DME suppliers to submit claims to the carrier having jurisdiction over the geographic area that includes the permanent residence of the patient to whom the item is furnished; (6) place restrictions on certain marketing and sales practices by DME suppliers; (7) specify the circumstances under which Medicare beneficiaries are not financially liable for covered items and services furnished by a supplier on an unassigned basis; (8) address adjustments made to final DME payment amounts for inherent reasonableness generally and require adjustments for certain items where the final payment amounts are found reasonable; and (9) subject ostomy supplies, tracheostomy supplies, and urologicals to national payment limits. Subchapter E: Other Provisions - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) freeze at the 1992 level the conversion factor used to determine payments to medically directed certified registered nurse anesthetists; (2) provide that in subsequent years such factor shall be the previous year's conversion factor increased by the update for physician anesthesia services for that year; (3) provide for Medicare coverage of oral cancer drugs, under certain conditions; (4) provide for uniform coverage of "off-label" anti-cancer drugs; (5) cap the part B premium penalty for late enrollment for Federal employees who meet certain conditions; (6) authorize the Secretary to enter into agreements with States to allow them to pay the late enrollment premium increases of eligible individuals; (7) establish statutory definitions for speech-language pathologists and audiologists consistent with current coverage guidelines; and (8) provide for the treatment of certain Indian health programs and facilities as federally-qualified health centers. (Sec. 13473) Requires a study and report to specified congressional committees by the Secretary on Medicare coverage of patient care costs associated with clinical trials of new cancer therapies. (Sec. 13476) Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to extend municipal health service demonstration projects. Subchapter F: Part B Premium - Amends SSA title XVIII to extend current law provisions for establishing the monthly Medicare part B premium for beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare. Chapter 3: Provisions Relating to Parts A and B - Subchapter A: Elimination of Updates - Amends SSA title XVIII to eliminate updates in payments to hospitals for the direct costs of graduate medical education for cost reporting periods beginning during FY 1994 and 1995. (Sec. 13502) Prohibits the Secretary from providing any update in the cost limits for home health services for cost reporting periods beginning during FY 1994 and 1995. Subchapter B: Medicare Secondary Payer Provisions - Specifies numerous changes with regard to Medicare as secondary payor. Subchapter C: Physician Ownership and Referral - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) apply the ban on certain referrals by physicians to all payers, extending it to cover additional specified health services as well as new exceptions; (2) expand current standards used to define a group practice; and (3) provide that Federal law shall not preempt State laws that relate to referrals not covered under the ban, or that relate to referrals covered under the ban but are even more restrictive. Subchapter D: Other Provisions - Requires the Secretary to: (1) redetermine the full-time-equivalent (FTE) resident amount to reflect the amount that would be allowed if the hospital had been liable to pay FICA taxes or make other specified retirement contributions for residents during the base year, but did not make such payments, yet now must do so as a result of OMBRA '90; and (2) establish outreach to Medicare beneficiaries who may qualify for Medicaid payment of their out-of-pocket Medicare expenses. (Sec. 13551) Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) reduce payments for erythropoientin; (2) require home health agencies to inform Medicare beneficiaries of their entitlement to hospice care under Medicare; (3) provide for interest payments to be made on clean claims if payment is not made within 30 days of receipt; (4) provide for adjustment in Medicare capitation payments to account for regional variations in application of Medicare secondary payer provisions; (5) provide for adjustments for certain publicly- funded family practice residency programs; (6) extend on a graduated basis to three years (after 1997) the current one-year period following a transplant procedure during which Medicare covers immunosuppressive drug therapy for beneficiaries who have received organ transplants; and (7) provide that user fees imposed under the Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act of 1967 are not subject to the general ban on user fees for determining compliance with any requirement of Medicare. (Sec. 13555) Amends OMBRA '87 and the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to: (1) extend social health maintenance organization demonstration projects for an additional two years; and (2) permit one of the projects to enroll Medicare end-stage renal disease beneficiaries. Increases the limit on the number of individuals who pay participate in such projects. (Sec. 13558) Amends SSA title XI to repeal the requirement that peer review organizations precertify selected surgical procedures. (Sec. 13560) Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to provide that to the extent that appropriations are enacted providing budget authority for Medicare administrative costs above a base level of spending in FY 1992 of $1.526 billion, the appropriate discretionary spending limits shall be adjusted to accommodate additional budget authority in FY 1994 and 1995. Chapter 4: Medicare Supplemental Insurance Policies - Amends OMBRA '90 and Medicare to make specified changes to Federal standards respecting the sale and regulation of Medicare supplemental insurance policies. Chapter 5: Treatment of Certain State Health Care Programs - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide that: (1) the Hawaii Prepaid Health Care Act will not be preempted by ERISA unless the Secretary of Labor notifies the Governor of Hawaii that, as a result of any amendment to such Act, the proportion of the population covered would be less than the current proportion or the level of coverage would be less than the actuarial equivalent of the current level of coverage; and (2) State tax laws relating to employee benefit plans will continue to be preempted. Title XIV: Revenue Provisions - Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Subtitle A: Training and Investment Incentives - Part I: Provisions Relating to Education and Training - Makes permanent after June 30, 1992: (1) the tax exclusion of employer-provided educational assistance; and (2) the targeted jobs credit. Allows the use of the targeted jobs credit, with limitations, for the hiring of a qualified participant in an approved school-to-work program. Part II: Investment Incentives - Subpart A: Research Credit - Makes permanent the credit for increasing research activities. Modifies the fixed base percentage of such credit for startup companies for taxable years after 1993. Subpart B: Capital Gain Provisions - Allows a taxpayer other than a corporation to exclude from gross income 50 percent of gain from the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock held for more than five years. Set forth rules and limitations for such exclusion. Treats one-half of such exclusion as an item of tax preference for minimum tax purposes. (Sec. 14114) Allows the rollover of gain from the sale of publicly traded securities into specialized small business investment companies. Subpart C: Modifications to Minimum Tax Depreciation Rules - Modifies the method of determining the depreciation deduction for certain personal property placed in service after 1993. Eliminates the depreciation adjustment for computing adjusted current earnings for such property. Subpart D: Increase in Expense Treatment for Small Business - Increases the dollar limitation on the election to expense certain depreciable small business assets. Part III: Tax-Exempt Bond Provisions - Provides a complete tax exemption (currently a 75 percent tax exemption) for bonds used to finance high-speed intercity rail facilities. (Sec. 14122) Permanently extends the authority to issue qualified small issue bonds to finance manufacturing facilities and farm property. Part IV: Expansion and Simplification of Earned Income Tax Credit - Repeals certain interaction rules with respect to the medical expense deduction, the deduction for health insurance, and the dependent care credit. Revises credit and phaseout percentages for 1994. Part V: Incentives for Investment in Real Estate - Subpart A: Extension of Qualified Mortgage Bonds and Low-Income Housing Credit - Makes permanent: (1) the authority to issue qualified mortgage bonds and qualified mortgage credit certificates; and (2) the low-income housing credit. (Sec. 14142) Provides that assistance under the HOME Investment Partnerships Act should not result in certain buildings being federally subsidized. Subpart B: Modification of Passive Loss Rules - Provides for the treatment of rental real estate activities under the limitations on losses from passive activities. Subpart C: Provisions Relating to Real Estate Investments by Pension Funds - 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. 14145) Repeals the special rule for publicly traded partnerships with respect to the treatment of unrelated business taxable income. (Sec. 14146) 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. 14147) 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. Subpart D: Discharge of Indebtedness - Excludes from gross income the income from the discharge of qualified real property business indebtedness. Subpart E: Increase in Recovery Period for Nonresidential Real Property - Increases the depreciation recovery period for nonresidential real property. Part VI: Luxury Tax - Repeals the luxury excise tax on boats, aircraft, jewelry, and furs. (Sec. 14162) 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. Exempts from the luxury excise tax parts for accessories installed for use of passenger vehicles by disabled individuals. (Sec. 14163) Extends the current diesel fuel excise tax to diesel fuel used by noncommercial motorboats. Retains such taxes in the General Fund of the Treasury. Part VII: Other Changes - 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. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report to specified congressional committees on the development of a procedure for taxpayers to seek an agreement with the Secretary on the value of tangible personal property prior to the donation of such property to a qualifying charitable organization. (Sec. 14172) Amends the Railroad Retirement Solvency Act of 1983 to make permanent the treatment of certain railroad retirement benefits as received under employer plans. (Sec. 14173) Provides for the temporary extension of the deduction of health insurance costs of self-employed individuals. Subtitle B: Revenue Increases - Part I: Provisions Affecting Individuals- Subpart A: Rate 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. 14203) Increases the tentative minimum tax for taxpayers other than corporations. (Sec. 14204) Makes permanent the overall limitation on itemized deductions and the phaseout of personal exemptions for high-income taxpayers. (Sec. 14206) 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. Subpart B: Other Provisions - Repeals the limitation on the amount of wages subject to the health insurance employment tax. (Sec. 14208) Increases and makes permanent the highest estate and gift tax rate. (Sec. 14209) Reduces the deduction for business meals and entertainment expenses. (Sec. 14210) Disallows a tax deduction for social club membership dues, except for employee recreational expenses. (Sec. 14211) Disallows a deduction as a trade or business expense remuneration to certain employees in excess of $1 million. (Sec. 14212) Reduces the compensation taken into account in determining contributions and benefits under qualified retirement plans. (Sec. 14213) Removes qualified residence sales, purchases, or leases and meals from the deduction for moving expenses. (Sec. 14214) Revises the limitation on using the preceding year's tax to calculate an individual's estimated tax payments. (Sec. 14215) Increases the amount of social security and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits to be included in the gross income of certain taxpayers. Part II: Provisions Affecting Business - Increases the tax rate for corporate income in excess of $10 million and the tax rate on personal service corporations. (Sec. 14222) Denies a tax deduction for lobbying expenses. Subjects lobbying organizations to special reporting requirements. (Sec. 14223) 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. 14224) 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. 14225) Increases the required annual payment for corporations that fail to pay estimated income tax. Modifies the periods for applying such annualization. (Sec. 14226) Limits the Puerto Rico and possession tax credit to 60 percent of the possession corporation's qualified possession wages. (Sec. 14227) 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. Part III: Foreign Tax Provisions - Subpart A: Current Taxation of Certain Earnings of Controlled Foreign Corporations - 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. Requires a report to specified congressional committees on a study of investments by controlled foreign corporations in U.S property. (Sec. 14233) Excepts from foreign personal holding income any 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. Subpart B: Allocation of Research and Experimental Expenditures - Reduces the amount allowed as allocation and apportionment of research and experimental expenditures from sources within the United States. Subpart C: Other Provisions - Excludes passive dividends or interest income from foreign oil and gas income. (Sec. 14236) Modifies accuracy-related penalties for tax underpayments. (Sec. 14237) Denies the inclusion of certain contingent interest in the exemption for portfolio interest for nonresident aliens. (Sec. 14238) Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations recharacterizing any multiple-party financing transaction as a transaction directly among any two or more of such parties where appropriate to prevent any tax avoidance. Part IV: Energy Tax Provisions - Subpart A: Energy Tax Based on Btu Content - Imposes an excise tax on the following energy products: (1) taxable refined petroleum products removed from a U.S. refinery or terminal entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing, and sold to a nonregistered person; (2) natural gas removed from any pipeline in the United States, entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing, and entered into any nonregistered pipeline; (3) coal received at any facility for use as a fuel at such facility; and (4) the sale of electricity to ultimate users in the United States and the use of electricity which was not subject to such tax. Bases the rate of tax on such products on the applicable Btu factor and content. Provides for refunding certain amounts to ultimate vendors of petroleum used for heating oil and international commercial transportation. Repays certain sums to persons who use petroleum to produce calcined coke. Provides exemptions from such excise tax for certain uses. Refunds the tax paid by certain users of methane recovered from biomass or coal mining. Imposes a tax on the use of any fossil fuel: (1) in the manufacture or production of a fuel other than at a U.S. refinery; or (2) as a fuel. Specifies the application of such tax and exceptions. Imposes a tax on floor stock of taxable fuels held on the date of the tax increase. Allows a credit against such tax. Provides for such tax increases to begin July 1, 1994. Imposes an imported Btu tax on certain imported products that contain significant levels of direct energy inputs that would be taxable if the products were manufactured in the United States. Imposes a penalty on persons who sell dyed fuel for taxable uses. Subpart B: Modifications to Tax on Diesel Fuel - Imposes an excise tax on diesel 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 in 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. 14243) Imposes a floor stocks tax on any person holding diesel fuel April 1, 1994. Subpart C: Extension of Motor Fuel Tax Rates; Increased Deposits Into Highway Trust Fund - 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. Part V: Compliance Provisions - Requires information reporting on payments to corporations for services. (Sec. 14252) Modifies provisions concerning substantial understatement and return-preparer penalties to allow reasonable cause exceptions. (Sec. 14253) 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. Part VI: Treatment of Intangibles - 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. Part VII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Establishes substantiation requirements for charitable contributions of $750 or more. (Sec. 14272) 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. 14273) 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. 14274) Denies the business travel expense deduction for spouses, dependents, or others. (Sec. 14275) Increases the withholding rate for supplemental wage payments. Subtitle C: Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities- Part I: Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities, Etc. - Provides for the designation of 100 tax enterprise communities and ten empowerment zones during calendar years after 1993 and before 1996: (1) by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in the case of an urban area; (2) by the Secretary of Agriculture in the case of a rural area; and (3) the Secretary of the Interior for an Indian reservation. Sets forth eligibility criteria for such designations. Makes certain buildings in such communities or zones eligible for the low-income housing credit applicable to buildings in high-cost areas. Provides for the issuance of enterprise zone facility bonds in enterprise communities and empowerment zones in a manner similar to exempt facility bonds. Excludes enterprise zone facility bonds from the interest deduction limitations on financial institutions. Provides States an additional housing credit ceiling for each zone and community through 1996. Allows an empowerment zone employment credit to employers for a percentage of qualified zone wages paid during calendar years 1994 through 2004. Limits the amount of such credit. Allows businesses a zone resident empowerment savings credit of 50 percent of the qualified savings contributions made by an employer to a defined contribution plan on behalf of a zone employee. Limits the amount of such credit based on the employee's compensation. Increases the limitation on expensing certain depreciable business assets. Increases the volume cap applicable to enterprise zone facility bonds if the business owners meet specified ownership requirements with regard to abiding in such zones. (Sec. 14302) Allows the use of the targeted jobs credit for hiring empowerment zone residents. Part II: Credit for Contributions to Certain Community Development Corporations - Allows a general business tax credit for contributions to selected community development corporations to provide employment of, and business opportunities for low-income individuals who are residents of the operational area of the community. Subtitle D: Other Provisions - Part I: Disclosure Provisions - Extends the authority to disclose tax return information to the Department of Veterans Affairs through September 30, 1998. (Sec. 14402) Authorizes the disclosure of certain tax return information to: (1) the Department of Education to implement the direct student loan program; and (2) to the Department of Housing for income verification under certain housing programs. Part II: User Fee Provisions - 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. 14412) Removes authority to use the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for administrative expenses of certain customs fee collections. (Sec. 14413) Increases the tax on fuel used on commercial transportation on inland waterways. Part III: Public Debt Limit - Increases the public debt limit and repeals the temporary limit on such increase. Part IV: Vaccine Provisions - Makes permanent: (1) the excise tax on certain vaccines; and (2) the authority to pay compensation from the Vaccine Trust Fund under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program for certain damages resulting from vaccines administered after September 30, 1988. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report to specified congressional committees on various uses of such Fund. Imposes a floor stocks tax on taxable vaccines. (Sec. 14432) Requires continuation coverage under group health plans of the costs of pediatric vaccines. (Sec. 14433) Establishes the Childhood Immunization Trust Fund for the childhood immunization entitlement program under the Public Health Service Act.

To amend the Homeless Veterans Comprehensive Service Programs Act of 1992 to remove the requirement that funds be expressly provided.

United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993

Amends the Homeless Veterans Comprehensive Service Programs Act of 1992 to remove the requirement that funds used for programs under such Act be expressly provided in an appropriation Act.