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Resolution· HRESH.Res. 612 (105th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1998
Declares that the Congress: (1) supports the men and women of the armed forces who are carrying out their missions; and (2) reaffirms that it should be U.S. policy to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime.
Bill· SS. 2655 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 October 1998
Limits for FY 1999 and 2000 the total budget authority and the total amount of outlays for such authority, respectively, for budget function 050 (National Defense) to $270.6 billion and $265.5 billion. Requires such amounts to be expended so as to not adversely affect military readiness and the quality of life of military personnel, military retirees, and their families. Prohibits amounts expended for readiness, or for peacekeeping operations that began before September 30, 1998, from being considered emergency expenditures under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), with an exception for any such operation that significantly increases in force size or tempo after such date.
Bill· HRH.R. 4874 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 October 1998
International Military Training Transparency and Accountability Act - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to prohibit the sale, lease, loan, or grant of defense services or training (including Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET)) to any foreign country that is prohibited or restricted from receiving international military education and training (IMET), or other military assistance or arms transfers. Permits a foreign country that is eligible to receive only expanded IMET, and is not prohibited from receiving any other military assistance or arms transfers, to receive defense services and training if it provides for training of civilian officials and military officers of the armed forces on military justice, international human rights standards, and the proper role of such forces in a democratic society. Permits a foreign country otherwise prohibited or restricted from receiving IMET or any other military assistance or arms transfers to receive defense services and training substantially unrelated to the prohibited military assistance or arms transfers, provided the President makes a specified certification to the Congress. Authorizes the President to waive any prohibition under this Act with respect to a foreign country upon certification to the Congress that it is important to the national security of the United States.
Bill· SS. 2646 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1998
Authorizes the Disabled Veterans' LIFE Memorial Foundation to establish a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor disabled American veterans who have served in the U.S. armed forces. Prohibits Federal funds from being used to pay any expense of the establishment of the memorial.
Bill· HRH.R. 4856 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1998
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Miscellaneous Trade Corrections Title II: Temporary Duty Suspensions and Reductions; Other Trade Provisions Subtitle A: Temporary Duty Suspensions and Reductions Subtitle B: Other Trade Provisions Title III: Amendments to Internal Revenue Code of 1986 Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 1998 - Title I: Miscellaneous Trade Corrections - Makes various specified miscellaneous technical corrections to the Trade Act of 1974 and other specified Federal law involving: (1) abolishment of the East-West Foreign Trade Board; (2) repeal of the requirement that certain small vessels departing from a foreign port, or which visited a hovering vessel, carry a certificate for the importation into the United States of alcoholic spirits; (3) repeal of the exemption of documented tugs with a Great Lakes endorsement from certain entry and clearance requirements; (4) change of general most-favored-nation (MFN) status to general or normal trade relations (NTR) status under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States; and (5) conforming amendments to obsolete references to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). (Sec. 1003) Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to allow certain entries of television receivers, monitors, and picture tubes, and combination TV-VCRs with a diagonal measurement of up to 34.29cm (currently, 33.02 cm), or 13.5 inches, to be classified as 13 inches for purposes of tariff treatment under the Schedule. Directs the Customs Service, upon proper request, to liquidate or reliquidate certain entries made on or after January 1, 1995, and before 15 days after enactment of this Act, as if such amendment applied to such entries. Title II: Temporary Duty Suspensions and Reductions; Other Trade Provisions - Subtitle A: Temporary Duty Suspensions and Reductions - Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for temporary duty suspensions for: (1) specified chemicals and dyes through December 31, 2001; (2) snowboard boots with uppers of textile materials through December 31, 2001; (3) ink-jet textile printing machinery through December 31, 2001; (4) textile printing machinery through December 31, 2001; (5) substrates of synthetic quartz or synthetic fused silica imported into the United States in bulk or in forms or packages for retail sale through December 31, 2001; (6) power weaving machines (looms), shuttle type, for weaving fabrics between 30 cm and 4.9m in width, if entered without off-loom or large loom take-ups, drop wires, heddles, reeds, harness frames or beams, through December 31, 2001; (7) skating boots for use in the manufacture of in-line roller skates through December 31, 2001; (8) dual thrust chamber rocket engines, each having a maximum static sea level thrust exceeding 3,550 kN and nozzle exit diameter exceeding 127cm, through December 31, 2001; (9) certain manufacturing equipment through December 31, 2001; (10) textured rolled glass sheets through December 31, 2001; (11) certain anti-HIV drug substances through June 30, 1999; (12) certain high-performance loudspeakers not mounted in their enclosures, through December 31, 2001; (13) parts for use in the manufacture of certain high-performance loudspeakers through December 31, 2001; (14) textile doubling or twisting machines through December 31, 1998; and (15) certain polymers through December 31, 2001. (Sec. 2129) Reduces the duty on a certain dye and on certain chemicals variously through December 31, 1998, December 31, 1999, December 31, 2000, and December 31, 2001. (Sec. 2161) Reduces the duty, for December 31, 1998, and December 31, 2001, respectively, on weaving machines (looms), shuttleless type, for weaving fabrics between 30cm and 4.9m in width, entered without off-loom or large loom takeups, drop wires, heddles, reeds, harness frames, or beams. Subtitle B: Other Trade Provisions - Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend to certain fine jewelry certain trade benefits of insular possessions of the United States. (Sec. 2401) Mandates treatment as a product of the Virgin Islands, Guam, or American Samoa, during 1999 and 2000, of any article of jewelry assembled in such territory or possession. (Sec. 2402) Provides for the tariff treatment of certain components of scientific instruments and apparatus, as well as the application of the domestic equivalency test to such components. (Sec. 2403) Directs the U.S. Customs Service to liquidate or reliquidate (refund duty on) certain entries made at Los Angeles, California, and New Orleans, Louisiana, in accordance with the final decision of the International Trade Administration for shipments entered between October 1, 1984, and December 14, 1987 (case number A- 274-001). (Sec. 2404) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide that packaging material produced in the United States (currently, any packaging material), which is used by the manufacturer or any other person on or for articles which are exported or destroyed, shall also be eligible for a refund (drawback) of 99 percent of any duty, tax, or fee imposed on the importation of such material used to manufacture or produce the packaging material. (Sec. 2405) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, by January 1, 2000, to provide for the inclusion of commercial importation data from foreign-trade zones in the National Customs Automation Program (an automated and electronic system for processing commercial importations). (Sec. 2406) Permits the deferral (until sale) of duty payment on any large yacht (a vessel exceeding 79 feet in length and used primarily for recreation or pleasure) that is imported for sale at a boat show, if the importer of record: (1) certifies to the Customs Service that it is imported for sale at a boat show in the United States; and (2) posts a bond in an amount equal to twice the amount of the duty ordinarily owed on such yacht. (Sec. 2407) Directs the appropriate customs officer to allow or deny within 30 days after the filing date any application for further review with respect to a protest to a decision of the Customs Service. Requires that any allowed protest be forwarded to the customs officer who will conduct the further review. (Sec. 2408) Authorizes the Customs Service, notwithstanding the fact that a valid protest was not filed, to reliquidate an entry to refund merchandise processing fees paid on goods qualifying under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) rules of origin for which no claim for preferential tariff treatment was made at the time of importation, provided that the importer meets certain conditions. (Sec. 2409) Authorizes the entry or withdrawal from a warehouse of international travel merchandise subject to a duty. (Sec. 2410) Revises requirements with respect to the five-year review by the administering authority and the International Trade Commission of countervailing duty or antidumping duty orders, notices of injury determination, or determinations to continue an order or suspension agreement. Excludes from the computation of the five-year period preceding such a review any period during which the importation of the subject merchandise is prohibited on account of U.S. imposition of certain sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act or other Federal law against the country in which such merchandise originates, if that country is not a member of the World Trade Organization. (Sec. 2411) Applies the rates of duty effective after December 31, 1994, under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, if lower, to certain water resistant wool trousers that were entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, after December 31, 1988, and before January 1, 1995. (Sec. 2412) Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide duty-free treatment of previously imported goods for which a duty was paid if they are: (1) exported within three years after the date of such previous importation; (2) sold for exportation and exported to individuals for personal use; (3) reimported without having been advanced in value or improved in condition by any process of manufacture or other means while abroad; (4) reimported as personal returns from those individuals, whether or not consolidated with other personal returns prior to reimportation; and (5) reimported by or for the account of the person who exported them from the United States within one year of such exportation. (Sec. 2413) Grants duty-free treatment, through December 31, 2002, to the personal effects of, and other equipment imported and used by, participants, their families and associated members, and officials involved in the 1999 International Special Olympics, the 1999 Women's World Cup Soccer, the 2001 International Special Olympics, the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, and the 2002 Winter Paralympic Games. Declares that such articles shall be: (1) free of applicable taxes and fees; but (2) not exempt from routine customs inspections. (Sec. 2414) Directs the U.S. Customs Service, upon request, to liquidate or reliquidate (refund duty on) certain entries (filed at the port of Los Angeles) of indirect electrostatic copiers at the rate of duty that would have been applicable to such merchandise if they had been liquidated or reliquidated at a duty rate applicable to other automated data processing (ADP) thermal transfer printer units on the date of entry. (Sec. 2415) Directs the U.S. Customs Service to provide for the liquidation or reliquidation (refund) of certain entries in accordance with the provisions of Treasury Decision 86-126(M) and Customs Ruling No. 224697, dated November 17, 1994. (Sec. 2417) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to authorize duty-free sales enterprises to be located, among other places, within a port of entry, or within 25 statute miles of a staffed port of entry, if reasonable assurance can be provided that the duty-free merchandise sold by the enterprise will be exported by individuals departing from the customs territory through an international airport located within the territory. (Sec. 2418) Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to continue, indefinitely, the use of customs user fees (to the extent funds remain available after making certain reimbursements) for salaries for up to 50 full-time equivalent inspectional positions to provide preclearance customs services. Decreases from $6.50 to $5 the customs user fee charged to each passenger that arrives aboard a commercial vessel or commercial aircraft from a place outside the U.S. customs (except $1.75 shall be charged to each passenger aboard a commercial vessel that arrives from Canada, Mexico, a U.S. territory or possession, or an adjacent island). Earmarks a specified amount of certain customs user fees to the Customs Service for automated commercial systems. Directs the Commissioner of Customs to establish an advisory committee, consisting of representatives from the airline, cruise ship, and other transportation industries, to advise the Commissioner on issues related to the performance of the inspectional services of the Customs Service. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to authorize the Secretary, for a specified period, to prescribe an alternative mid-point interest accounting methodology, which may be employed by the importer, based upon aggregate data in lieu of accounting for such interest from each deposit data provided. (Sec. 2419) Allows a duty drawback (refund of duty) for methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), a finished petroleum derivative, provided certain requirements are met. (Sec. 2420) Revises the methodology used to calculate the drawback (refund of duties) on the export of finished petroleum derivatives that have been manufactured with (substituted for) a qualified article which is of the same kind and quality (whether imported duty-paid or domestic). Redefines the term "qualified article" to include certain manufactured articles (primary forms), including articles of the same kind and quality, or any combination thereof, that are transferred as certified in a certificate of delivery or certificate of manufacture and delivery to an exporter in a quantity not greater than the quantity of articles purchased or exchanged for use in the manufactured article. (Sec. 2421) Directs the U.S. Customs Service, upon proper request, to: (1) liquidate or reliquidate as if the special column one duty rate applicable for Canada applied to certain entries of mueslix cereal; and (2) refund to the importer any excess duties paid with respect to such entries. (Sec. 2422) Directs the Foreign Trade Zones Board to expand Foreign Trade Zone No. 143 to include areas in the vicinity of the Chico Municipal Airport in accordance with the application submitted to the Board by the Sacramento-Yolo Port District of Sacramento, California, on March 11, 1997. (Sec. 2423) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to exempt certain woven fabrics containing silk or silk waste from the country of origin marking requirements. (Sec. 2424) Authorizes the President to: (1) determine that title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 (denying nondiscriminatory treatment to the products of certain countries) should no longer apply to Mongolia; and (2) based upon such determination, extend nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to Mongolian products. (Sec. 2425) Authorizes the Commissioner of the Customs Service to establish a one-year pilot program to provide 24-hour cargo inspection service on a fee-for-service basis at a certain international airport. (Sec. 2426) Directs the Department of Defense to permit the dependent children of deceased U.S. Customs Aviation Group Supervisor Pedro J. Rodriquez attending the Antilles Consolidated School System at Ford Buchanan, Puerto Rico, to complete their primary and secondary education without cost to them or any parent or relative. Title III: Amendments To Internal Revenue Code of 1986 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise provisions concerning a corporation, its shareholders, and the transferring of certain assets and liabilities.
Bill· HRH.R. 4858 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1998
United States-Panama Partnership Act of 1998 - Authorizes the President, any time before December 31, 1999, to certify to the Congress that the United States and the Government of Panama have reached an agreement permitting the United States, for a period of not less than 15 years beginning on January 1, 2000, to maintain its military presence at Howard Air Force Base, Fort Kobbe, Rodman Naval Station, and Fort Sherman, under terms and conditions substantially similar to those that have applied since October 1, 1979. Authorizes specified assistance to Panama, upon such certification by the President, including: (1) assistance for the construction of a new bridge across the Panama Canal; (2) assistance to the Cooperative Association of States for Scholarships program for scholarships for deserving students from Panama to study in the United States; and (3) preferential tariff and quota treatment to certain textile and apparel and certain other articles.
Bill· HRH.R. 4847 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1998
Authorizes the Disabled Veterans' LIFE Memorial Foundation to establish a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor veterans who became disabled while serving in the U.S. armed forces. Prohibits Federal funds from being used to pay any expense of the establishment of the memorial.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 603 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 October 1998
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of State should instruct the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) to use appropriate procedures in the UN to: (1) obtain the removal of the representative of the Burmese military regime from the seat in the UN that is reserved to Burma; (2) enable the seat to be occupied by a representative of the duly elected parliament of Burma; and (3) hold the seat vacant until such time as it can be so occupied.
Bill· HRH.R. 4837 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 October 1998
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Budget With Force of Law Title II: Reserve Funds for Emergencies Title III: Enforcement of Budgetary Decisions Subtitle A: Application of Points of Order to Unreported Legislation Subtitle B: Compliance with Budget Resolution Subtitle C: Justification for Budget Act Waivers Subtitle D: CBO Scoring of Conference Reports Title IV: Accountability for Federal Spending Subtitle A: Prohibitions on Indefinite Spending Subtitle B: Enhanced Congressional Oversight Responsibilities Subtitle C: Strengthened Accountability Title V: Budgeting for Unfunded Liabilities and Other Long- Term Obligations Subtitle A: Budgetary Treatment of Federal Insurance Programs Subtitle B: Reports on Long-Term Budgetary Trends Title VI: Baselines, Byrd Rule, and Lock-Box Subtitle A: The Baseline Subtitle B: The Byrd Rule Subtitle C: Spending Accountability Lock-Box Subtitle D: Automatic Continuing Resolution Title VII: Budgeting in an Era of Surpluses Comprehensive Budget Process Reform Act of 1998 - Makes this Act effective for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1999. Title I: Budget With Force of Law - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA) to require the Congress, by April 15 of each year, to complete action on a joint (currently, concurrent) resolution on the budget for the fiscal year beginning on October 1 of such year. Requires such resolution, in addition to items required under existing law, to set forth for the fiscal year and at least the four ensuing fiscal years: (1) subtotals of new budget authority and outlays for nondefense and defense discretionary spending, direct spending, and other subsets of such spending, if necessary; and (2) subtotals of new budget authority and outlays for emergencies for fiscal years to which the amendments made by title II of this Act apply. Revises matters which may be included in the budget resolution. Authorizes the resolution to change the statutory limit on the public debt if the amendment is submitted by the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives or the Senate Finance Committee to the appropriate Budget Committee. Revises required elements of the report accompanying the budget resolution. Includes within such report: (1) new budget authority and outlays for each major functional category based on allocations of total levels; (2) a measure, as a percentage of gross domestic product, of total outlays, total Federal revenues, the surplus or deficit, and new outlays for nondefense discretionary, defense, and direct spending; (3) a justification for allocating any new budget authority and outlays for any new program or activity to a committee for which such new authority and outlays would not be subject to discretionary appropriations; (4) a description of committee spending allocations; and (5) a justification for not subjecting any program or activity for which an allocation is made to an annual discretionary appropriation if the resolution includes any committee allocation (other than the Appropriations Committees) exceeding current law levels. Amends Federal provisions concerning elements of the President's required budget submission to the Congress. Requires such submission to include, for the affected fiscal year and at least each of the four ensuing fiscal years: (1) totals of new budget authority and outlays; (2) total Federal revenues and the amount by which the aggregate level of revenues should be increased or decreased by reported bills and resolutions; (3) the budget surplus or deficit; (4) subtotals of new budget authority and outlays for nondefense and defense discretionary spending and direct spending and other subsets of such spending, if necessary; (5) the public debt limit; and (6) subtotals of new budget authority and outlays for emergencies for fiscal years to which title II of this Act applies. Amends the CBA to provide a point of order against consideration of any budget resolution or related amendment or conference report that contains matter not specified in content requirements. (Sec. 104) Removes an exception which allows general appropriations bills in the House, after May 15, to be considered before the budget resolution has been agreed to. Applies a specified pay-as-you-go exception in the House to certain legislation that would not increase the deficit only after the date of enactment of the budget resolution (currently, April 15). Requires a three-fifths majority in the Senate to waive or suspend provisions requiring the budget resolution to be adopted before budget-related legislation is considered. Provides for expedited procedures upon presidential veto of the budget resolution. Authorizes the Budget Committees to introduce a concurrent or joint budget resolution upon such veto. Discharges such committees from further consideration of the resolution if such resolution is not reported within three days of referral. Deems any agreed-to concurrent resolution to be the budget resolution for the applicable fiscal years. (Sec. 105) Excludes outlays and revenues of the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) Program under the Social Security Act from surplus or deficit totals required by this Act or other specified Federal public finance provisions. Bars receipts and disbursements of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors and Disability Insurance Trust Funds from being counted as new budget authority, outlays, receipts, or deficit or surplus for purposes of the President's budget submission, the congressional budget, or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Makes it out of order to consider legislation in the House that would provide for specified increases in OASDI benefits or decreases in OASDI taxes. Title II: Reserve Funds for Emergencies - Repeals provisions of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act regarding: (1) discretionary spending limits and emergency appropriations; and (2) direct spending and emergency legislation. Amends rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to repeal a provision which prohibits a provision from being reported in appropriations legislation containing an emergency designation if such provision is not designated as an emergency, with specified exceptions. (Sec. 206) Amends the CBA to require adjustments to be made only to allocations with respect to emergencies in amounts not to exceed those in reserve funds established by this Act. Sets forth the amounts for discretionary budget authority, direct spending, and outlays to be contained in reserve funds for emergencies. Directs the chairman of the Budget Committee, in the case of legislation that provides budget authority for any emergency, to make an adjustment only to the applicable allocation if the chairman certifies that such outlays or budget authority and the resulting outlays are for an emergency meeting the definition under this Act. Sets forth procedures for the consideration of legislation that provides budget authority for an emergency exceeding the amount provided for in the budget resolution. (Sec. 207) Requires committees, when reporting legislation that provides budget authority for any emergency, to identify all provisions that provide such authority and the resulting outlays in the accompanying report or joint explanatory statement of managers. (Sec. 208) Includes: (1) up-to-date tabulations of amounts remaining in the reserve funds for emergencies in summary budget scorekeeping reports provided by the Budget Committees; and (2) the average annual enacted levels of discretionary and direct spending budget authority and the resulting outlays for emergencies for the five fiscal years preceding the fiscal year of the budget resolution in the report accompanying the resolution. (Sec. 210) Makes it out of order to consider an amendment to a budget resolution which changes the amount of budget authority and outlays set forth for emergency reserve funds. Permits limitations on the contents of the budget resolution and the point of order against changing the budget authority and outlays for emergency reserve funds to be waived or suspended only by a three-fifths majority in the Senate. (Sec. 211) Makes the amendments of this title effective only after the enactment of legislation changing or extending for any fiscal year any of the discretionary spending limits set forth in the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act. Title III: Enforcement of Budgetary Decisions - Subtitle A: Application of Points of Order to Unreported Legislation - Applies a certain point of order against the consideration of unreported legislation in the House before the adoption of the budget resolution. Subtitle B: Compliance with Budget Resolution - Amends rule XIII of the Rules of the House to require committee reports to include a budget compliance statement prepared by the chairman of the Budget Committee. Subtitle C: Justification for Budget Act Waivers - Amends rule XI of the Rules of the House to provide a point of order against consideration of any resolution from the Committee on Rules to consider any reported legislation which waives specified provisions of the CBA unless the report contains certain information on the provision proposed for waiver. Subtitle D: CBO Scoring of Conference Reports - Amends the CBA to provide for Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis and scoring of conference reports. Requires such analysis to include, for reported legislation and conference reports, a determination of whether the measure provides indefinite spending authority. Title IV: Accountability for Federal Spending - Subtitle A: Prohibitions on Indefinite Spending - Provides a point of order in the House and the Senate against consideration of legislation that provides direct spending for a new program unless such spending is limited to a period of ten or fewer fiscal years. Removes provisions regarding points of order and legislation providing new entitlement authority. Amends rule XXI of the Rules of the House to make it out of order to consider any legislation that authorizes the appropriation of new budget authority unless such authorization is specifically provided for ten or fewer fiscal years. Amends rule XXIII of the Rules of the House to provide that, in the Committee of the Whole, an amendment to subject a new program providing direct spending to discretionary appropriations if offered by the chairman of the Budget or Appropriations Committees may be precluded from consideration only by the specific terms of a special House order. Declares that the purpose of such amendment is to hold the discretionary spending limits and allocations made to the Appropriations Committee harmless for legislation that offsets a new discretionary program with a designated reduction in direct spending. Amends the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to require, if a provision of direct spending legislation is enacted that decreases direct spending for any fiscal year and is designated as an offset and specifically identifies an authorization of discretionary appropriations for a new program, the reductions in new budget authority and outlays resulting from such provision to be designated as an offset in specified CBO pay-as-you-go estimates. Excludes such offsets from such estimates. Requires, if an authorization Act includes provisions reducing direct spending and identifies those provisions as offsets, the adjustments to be an increase in the budget authority and outlay caps in each fiscal year equal to such authority and reductions, respectively, achieved by the specified offsets. Prohibits the adjustments for the first fiscal year in which the offsetting provisions take effect from exceeding the amount of discretionary new budget authority enacted for the new program in an Act making discretionary appropriations and the resulting outlays. Provides for: (1) adjustments to discretionary spending limits, allocations, and budgetary allocations resulting from programs for which offsets were designated and resulting outlays; and (2) reductions of committee allocations of new budget authority and outlays with respect to reported legislation containing provisions that decrease direct spending and are designated as offsets. Subtitle B: Enhanced Congressional Oversight Responsibilities - Amends rule X of the Rules of the House to require House committees, in developing oversight plans, to provide a specific timetable for review of laws, programs, or agencies within their jurisdiction and require such timetable to demonstrate that such laws, programs, or agencies will be reauthorized at least once every ten years. Removes a provision of such rule pertaining to procedures for consideration of legislation providing new entitlement authority which exceeds the appropriate allocation of budget authority. Requires the House Appropriations Committee to report at least once each Congress (currently, from time to time) on recommendations for terminating or modifying provisions of law which provide permanent budget authority. (Sec. 422) Amends the CBA to require the joint explanatory statement accompanying a conference report on a joint budget resolution that includes an allocation to a committee (other than the Appropriations Committee) of levels exceeding current law levels to set forth a justification for not subjecting any program to annual discretionary appropriations. Makes conforming amendments to provisions regarding the presidential budget submission and to House rules regarding committee consideration of legislation. (Sec. 424) Requires the Budget Committees, during the 106th Congress, to report results of a study on budget reform proposals. Subtitle C: Strengthened Accountability - Requires certain reports on legislation providing new budget authority or increases or decreases in revenues or tax expenditures to include CBO projections of how such legislation will affect levels of budget authority, outlays, revenue, or tax expenditures for the affected fiscal year and the ensuing nine (currently, four) fiscal years. Provides for ten-year (currently, four) CBO cost estimates of reported legislation as well. Amends rule XIII of the Rules of the House to require committee reports to contain cost estimates for each of 11 fiscal years. (Sec. 432) Repeals rule XLIX (relating to the establishment of the statutory limit on the public debt) of the Rules of the House. Title V: Budgeting for Unfunded Liabilities and Other Long-Term Obligations - Subtitle A: Budgetary Treatment of Federal Insurance Programs - Amends the CBA to establish a new title known as the Federal Insurance Budgeting Act of 1998. Requires the President's budget, beginning with FY 2005, to be based on the risk-assumed cost of Federal insurance programs. Defines "risk-assumed cost" as the net present value of the estimated cash flows to and from the Government resulting from an insurance commitment or modification. Requires the program accounts for such programs to pay: (1) the risk-assumed cost borne by the taxpayer to the financing account; and (2) actual insurance program administrative costs. Requires the financing accounts to: (1) receive premiums and other income; (2) pay all claims for insurance and receive all recoveries; and (3) transfer to the program account at least annually amounts necessary to pay administrative costs. Provides that a negative risk-assumed cost shall be transferred from the financing to the program account and from the program account as a nonexpenditure transfer to the general fund. Requires all payments by or receipts of the financing accounts to be treated in the budget as a means of financing. Permits insurance commitments to be made for FY 2005 and thereafter only to the extent that new budget authority to cover the risk-assumed cost is provided in advance in an appropriations Act. Prohibits modification of an outstanding commitment in a manner that increases the risk-assumed cost unless budget authority for the additional cost has been provided in advance. Makes such requirements inapplicable to insurance programs that constitute entitlements. Provides for re-estimations of risk-assumed cost in each subsequent year. Requires agencies with responsibility for Federal insurance programs to develop models to estimate risk-assumed cost by year through the budget horizon and to submit such models, all relevant data, justifications for critical assumptions, and annual projected risk-assumed costs to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) with budget requests each year starting with the request for FY 2001. Directs OMB and CBO, after a comment period for interested persons, to revise the models, data, and major assumptions they would use to estimate the risk-assumed cost of Federal insurance programs. Requires the President's budget submissions and budgets and CBO's reports on the economic and budget outlook for FY 2002 through 2004 to estimate, for display purposes only, the risk-assumed cost of existing or proposed Federal insurance programs. Requires OMB, CBO, and the General Accounting Office to report to the Budget Committees on the advisability and appropriate implementation of this section. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2004 to OMB and each agency responsible for administering a Federal program to carry out this title. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow from, receive from, lend to, or pay the insurance financing accounts appropriate amounts. Establishes a financing account for each Federal insurance program on September 30, 2004. Appropriates to such accounts the amount of the unfunded risk-assumed cost of outstanding Federal insurance commitments as of the close of September 30, 2004. Terminates this section on the last day of FY 2006. Subtitle B: Reports on Long-Term Budgetary Trends - Requires the President's budget submission to include: (1) an analysis based upon current law and one based upon the policy assumptions underlying the submission for every fifth year of the period of the 75 fiscal years beginning with the affected fiscal year of the estimated levels of total new budget authority, outlays, estimated revenues, surpluses, and deficits and, for each major Federal entitlement program, estimated levels of total new budget authority and outlays; and (2) a specification of underlying assumptions and a sensitivity analysis of factors that have a significant effect on the projections made in each analysis and a comparison of the effects of the two analyses on the economy. Establishes a conforming requirement for CBO's annual report to the Budget Committees on fiscal policy. Title VI: Baselines, Byrd Rule, and Lock-Box - Subtitle A: The Baseline - Revises required elements of the President's budget submission to include percentage changes between the current year and the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted for: (1) estimated expenditures and appropriations which are necessary to support the Government, with an exception for detailed budget estimates; (2) laws in effect when the budget is submitted and proposals in the budget to increase revenues as well as for each of the four ensuing fiscal years; and (3) certain proposed appropriations and expenditures for legislation that would establish or expand Government activities or functions, with an exception for detailed budget estimates. Includes within the submission: (1) a comparison of levels of estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations for each function and subfunction in the current fiscal year and the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted, along with the proposed increase or decrease of spending in percentage terms for each function and subfunction; and (2) a table on sources of growth in total direct spending under current law and as proposed in the submission for the budget year and the ensuing four fiscal years. (Sec. 612) Amends the CBA to require the report accompanying the budget resolution to include a comparison of levels for the current fiscal year with proposed spending and revenue levels for subsequent fiscal years along with the proposed increase or decrease of spending in percentage terms for each function. (Sec. 613) Includes similar requirements in certain CBO reports. (Sec. 614) Requires the OMB and CBO Directors, in making budgetary projections for years for which there are no discretionary spending limits, to assume discretionary spending levels at the levels for the last fiscal year for which such levels were in effect. Subtitle B: The Byrd Rule - Removes the applicability of certain procedures with respect to extraneous matter in reconciliation legislation to conference reports. Subtitle C: Spending Accountability Lock-box - Spending Accountability Lock-box Act of 1998 - Directs the chairmen of the Budget Committees to each maintain a Spending Accountability Lock-box Ledger, to be divided into entries corresponding to the subcommittees of the Appropriations Committees. Requires each entry to consist of three components: (1) the House Lock-box Balance; (2) the Senate Lock-box Balance; and (3) the Joint House-Senate Lock-box Balance. Authorizes Members of the House or the Senate, when offering an amendment to an appropriation bill to reduce new budget authority in any account, to state the portion of such reduction to be: (1) credited to the House or Senate Lock-box Balance; (2) used to offset an increase in new budget authority in any other account; or (3) allowed to remain within the Appropriations Committees' subcommittee suballocation. Credits the amount of the reduction to either Lock-box Balance, as applicable, if the amendment is agreed to and no such statement is made. Requires the Budget Committee chairmen, upon the engrossment of any appropriation bill by the House and upon the engrossment of that bill by the Senate, to credit to the applicable entry balance of that House amounts of new budget authority and outlays equal to the net amounts of reductions in new budget authority and in outlays resulting from amendments agreed to by that House to that bill. Specifies the amounts to be credited to the Joint House-Senate Lock-box Balance. Requires a running tally to be available to Members of the House, during the consideration of any appropriations bill by the House, of the amendments adopted reflecting increases and decreases of budget authority in such bill as reported. (Sec. 633) Provides for the downward adjustment, by the amounts credited to the applicable Joint House-Senate Lock-box Balance, of: (1) allocations for the House and Senate upon the engrossment of Senate amendments to any appropriation bill; and (2) suballocations, whenever a such a downward adjustment is made to an allocation. (Sec. 634) Requires the CBO Director to include an up-to-date tabulation of the amounts contained in the Deficit Reduction Lock-box Ledger and each entry in periodic reports. Requires the downward adjustment of discretionary spending limits set forth in the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act by amounts set forth in the final regular appropriation bill for the fiscal year or joint resolution making continuing appropriations through the end of such fiscal year. Subtitle D: Automatic Continuing Resolution - Amends Federal law to make appropriations, if any regular appropriation bill for a fiscal year does not become law prior to the beginning of such year or a continuing appropriations resolution is not in effect, to continue any project or activity for which funds were provided in the preceding year: (1) in the corresponding regular appropriations Act for that year; or (2) in a continuing appropriations resolution for such year if the regular bill did not become law. Makes such appropriations available: (1) at a rate of operations not to exceed the rate provided for the project in the preceding fiscal year; and (2) beginning with the first day of a lapse in appropriations and ending on the earlier of the date the regular appropriation bill, or continuing resolution, becomes law or the last day of the fiscal year. Subjects such appropriations to any conditions imposed in the preceding fiscal year or pursuant to current law. Provides that nothing in this section shall be construed to affect Government obligations mandated by other law, including obligations with respect to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Title VII: Budgeting in an Era of Surpluses - Amends the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to revise the purpose of pay-as-you-go provisions to declare such purpose to be to assure that direct spending or receipts legislation does not increase the deficit or exceed the on-budget surplus. Reduces the amount of any sequestration for the budget year by any OMB estimate of excess receipts over outlays. Excludes outlays and receipts of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors and Disability Insurance Trust Funds, or any off-budget entity from such estimates. Defines a net deficit, for purposes of sequestration provisions, as the amount by which decreases in revenues plus increases in outlays exceed increases in revenues plus decreases in outlays. Includes within sequestration preview reports the estimated excess of receipts over outlays, if any, with specified assumptions and without taking into account the effect of direct spending and receipts legislation enacted after this Act. Requires actual levels of enacted discretionary spending limits to be used in the final pay-as-you-go report regarding information on excess receipts.
Bill· HRH.R. 4817 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 October 1998
Authorizes the Air Force Memorial Foundation to construct a memorial within the Arlington Naval Annex in Arlington, Virginia, to honor individuals who served in the U.S. Air Force and its predecessors. Requires the Secretary of Defense to provide a suitable memorial site and to reimburse the Foundation for expenses incurred. Provides that, upon commencement of memorial construction, no person may construct any monument, memorial, or other structure within a specified area of Arlington County, Virginia, which generally surrounds the Iwo Jima Memorial.
Bill· SS. 2619 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1998
Veterans' Access to Emergency Care Act of 1998 - Declares the annual patient enrollment system of the Department of Veterans Affairs to be a health care plan and the veterans enrolled in such system to be participants in a health care plan. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to contract for the emergency health care of such veterans in non-Department facilities. Includes such contracted emergency care within the definition of authorized Department medical services. Authorizes the reimbursement of enrolled veterans for expenses incurred in the treatment of any medical emergency which poses a serious threat to life or health. Directs the Secretary to require in such a contract that payment by the Secretary for treatment of enrolled veterans at the non-Department facility be made only after any payment that may be made with respect to such treatment: (1) under part A or B of the Medicare program (title XVIII of the Social Security Act); and (2) by a third-party insurance provider.
Bill· SS. 2609 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1998
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Individual's Rights Subtitle A: Review of Protected Health Information by Subjects of the Information Subtitle B: Establishment of Safeguards Title II: Restrictions on Use and Disclosure Title III: Sanctions Subtitle A: Criminal Provisions Subtitle B: Civil Sanctions Title IV: Miscellaneous Medical Information Protection Act of 1998 - Title I: Individual's Rights - Subtitle A: Review of Protected Health Information by Subjects of the Information - Requires specified health entities in possession of protected health information to arrange (except in certain circumstances) for its inspection or copying upon the request of the individual subject of such information (subject individual). Prescribes procedures for: (1) notification upon request denial, including the reasons for such denial, and the concomitant review procedures; (2) requests by such individual to amend such information; and (3) conspicuous disclosure of such entities' confidentiality practices. (Sec. 103) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to develop model notices of confidentiality. Subtitle B: Establishment of Safeguards - Mandates the establishment of: (1) administrative, technical, and physical safeguards for protected health information; and (2) a record of any protected health information disclosures not made within the health entity. Title II: Restrictions on Use and Disclosure - Prescribes guidelines for disclosure of protected health information with respect to: (1) authorizations for treatment, payment, and health care operations; (3) the individual's next of kin and directory information; (4) emergency circumstances; (5) certain oversight agencies; (6) public health authorities; (7) health researchers; (8) civil, judicial, and administrative procedures; (9) certain law enforcement procedures; (10) payment for health care through card or electronic means; (11) certain duly authorized representatives acting on behalf of a subject individual (including a deceased subject individual, and a minor); and (12) certain business sales, transfers, or mergers. (Sec. 212) Directs the Secretary to promulgate protected health information standards for electronic disclosures, authorizations, and authentications. (Sec. 214) Precludes permissible disclosures from liability. Title III: Sanctions - Subtitle A: Criminal Provisions - Amends the Federal criminal code to impose criminal penalties for knowingly and intentionally obtaining or disclosing protected health information in violation of title II of this Act. Subtitle B: Civil Sanctions - Establishes civil monetary penalties for substantial and material failure to comply with this Act. (Sec. 312) Prescribes a procedure for imposition and judicial review of such penalties. (Sec. 313) Grants exclusive enforcement authority to the insurance commissioner of the life insurer's domicile State. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Preempts, subject to exceptions, any State law relating to matters covered by this Act. (Sec. 401) Authorizes the Secretaries of Defense and of Transportation to establish exceptions to the disclosure requirements of this Act with respect to Department of Defense and Coast Guard personnel, respectively, pursuant to the Secretaries' determination that exceptions are necessary for national defense purposes. (Sec. 402) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance Benefits) of the Social Security Act to provide for enforcement of this Act through conditions on participation with respect to: (1) participating physicians and suppliers; (2) Medicare+Choice organizations; (3) Medicare providers; and (4) health maintenance organizations with risk-sharing contracts. (Sec. 404) Directs the National Research Council, in conjunction with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, to study and report to the Congress on research issues relating to protected health information.
Bill· SS. 2599 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1998
Considers hepatitis C becoming manifest in a veteran to a degree of ten percent or more to be service-connected, and therefore compensable under veterans' disability provisions, notwithstanding that there is no record of evidence of such illness during the period of such service, as long as it is shown that during such service the veteran experienced: (1) a blood transfusion before December 31, 1992; (2) blood exposure on or through skin or mucous membrane; (3) hemodialysis; (4) a tattoo, body piercing or acupuncture; (5) unexplained liver disease or abnormal liver function tests; or (6) working in a health care occupation.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 298 (105th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1998
Urges the President and the Secretary of State to: (1) give high priority to solving the conflict in Sierra Leone and to bring stability to West Africa in general; (2) strictly enforce the United Nations (UN) arms embargo on the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council and Revolutionary United Front; (2) work with Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) nations to ensure there are sufficient African forces and arms provided to ECOMOG (ECOWAS's peacekeeping arm); and (3) support the UN High Commission for Refugees appeal for aid to the Sierra Leone refugees in Guinea, Liberia, and other countries; (4) support the UN agencies and nongovernmental organizations working in Sierra Leone to bring humanitarian relief and peace to the country; and (5) support the Government of Sierra Leone in its demobilization, disarmament, and reconstruction plan for the country. Urges the State Department to give the needed logistical support to ECOMOG and the Government of Sierra Leone to bring the conflict to a rapid conclusion. Condemns the use of children as combatants in the conflict. Urges the establishment of a secure humanitarian corridor to strategic areas in the north and east of Sierra Leone for the safe delivery of food and medicines by the Government of Sierra Leone and humanitarian agencies. Encourages and supports the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict, to continue efforts to work in Sierra Leone to establish programs designed to rehabilitate child combatants.
Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 128 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1998
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State should: (1) take measures to ensure that U.S. assistance and exports of equipment to Mexican security forces are used primarily for counter-narcotics purposes and do not contribute to human rights violations; (2) encourage the Government of Mexico to reduce political tension and violence in Chiapas by disarming paramilitary groups and decreasing its military presence there; (3) commend such Government for inviting the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit to discuss the Chiapas conflict; (4) encourage such Government and the Zapatista National Liberation Army to create conditions for good faith negotiations that address the social, economic, and political causes of the conflict; (5) support efforts to provide and monitor relief assistance to displaced persons in Chiapas; and (6) seek a commitment from such Government to respect the rights of U.S. citizens and human rights monitors in Mexico in accordance with Mexican and international law.
Bill· HRH.R. 4771 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1998
Declares that there shall be no increase in the monthly premium (no penalty) for certain military retirees and dependents eligible for hospital insurance benefits under part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act who enrolled in Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) pursuant to a general enrollment period in 1998 or 1999 and remained continuously enrolled. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take appropriate action (such as a lump sum payment or adjustment of future premium payments) to assure there is no premium increase for late enrollment for such individuals.
Bill· HRH.R. 4758 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1998
Veterans' Access to Emergency Care Act of 1998- Declares the annual patient enrollment system of the Department of Veterans Affairs to be a health care plan and the veterans enrolled in such system to be participants in a health care plan. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to contract for the emergency health care of such veterans in non-Department facilities. Includes such contracted emergency care within the definition of authorized Department medical services. Authorizes the reimbursement of enrolled veterans for expenses incurred in the treatment of any medical emergency which poses a serious threat to life or health. Directs the Secretary to require in such a contract that payment by the Secretary for treatment of enrolled veterans at the non-Department facility be made only after any payment that may be made with respect to such treatment: (1) under part A or B of the Medicare program (title XVIII of the Social Security Act); and (2) by a third-party insurance provider.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 347 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1998
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State should: (1) take measures to ensure that U.S. assistance and exports of equipment to Mexican security forces are used primarily for counter-narcotics purposes and do not contribute to human rights violations; (2) encourage the Government of Mexico to reduce political tension and violence in Chiapas by disarming paramilitary groups and decreasing its military presence there; (3) commend such Government for inviting the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit to discuss the Chiapas conflict; (4) encourage such Government and the Zapatista National Liberation Army to create conditions for good faith negotiations that address the social, economic, and political causes of the conflict; (5) support efforts to provide and monitor relief assistance to displaced persons in Chiapas; and (6) seek a commitment from such Government to respect the rights of U.S. citizens and human rights monitors in Mexico in accordance with Mexican and international law.
Bill· SS. 2584 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1998
Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1992 to authorize the payment of aviator continuation pay for military aviation officers who died as a result of flight operations on or after August 2, 1990 (currently January 17, 1991) in specified areas of the Arabian Peninsula, regardless of the date of the commencement of combatant activities there as specified by executive order.
Bill· HRH.R. 4751 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1998
Veterans' Hepatitis C Act of 1998 - Considers hepatitis C becoming manifest in a veteran to be service-connected, and therefore compensable under veterans' disability provisions, notwithstanding that there is no record of evidence of such illness during the period of such service, as long as it is shown that during such service the veteran experienced: (1) a blood transfusion before December 31, 1992; (2) blood exposure on or through skin or mucous membrane; (3) hemodialysis; (4) a tattoo, body piercing, or acupuncture; (5) unexplained liver disease or abnormal liver function tests; or (6) working in a health care occupation.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 342 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1998
Declares that the President should: (1) impose sanctions under the Arms Export Control Act and the Iran-Iraq Arms Non-Proliferation Act of 1992 to the fullest possible extent, including freezing assets and seizing property in the United States of entities involved in illegal transactions with Iran; (2) take steps to expedite the development of a missile defense system for the United States and for U.S. forces wherever deployed to deal with the Iranian threat, including accelerating development of the Navy Upper Tier program and improving the integration of the Patriot, AEGIS, and THADD missile radar systems; and (3) provide assistance to Israel to acquire a third Arrow missile battery for protection against the Iranian missile threat.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 341 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1998
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the commitment made by the United States, in conjunction with South Korea and Japan, to help finance and build two nuclear reactors for North Korea, to provide fuel oil and other assistance to North Korea, and to begin lifting the decades-old economic embargo on North Korea should be suspended until the President certifies that North Korea has agreed to: (1) cease further development of its ballistic missile program; (2) cease all aspects of its nuclear weapons program; (3) cease all construction and activity on all nuclear facilities other than the light water nuclear reactors permitted by the Agreed Framework of October 21, 1994; (4) allow international inspectors complete access to the Yongbyon nuclear complex, all plutonium reprocessing facilities, and other suspected nuclear weapons sites under the Agreed Framework and other international treaties; (5) eliminate its existing stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium and allow verification of such elimination; and (6) stop diverting food, fuel oil, and other international humanitarian assistance to its military personnel and infrastructure; and (7) sign an agreement formally ending the war with South Korea. Declares that the President should at no time, with respect to North Korea, waive the section of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 which requires the maintaining of International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards as a precondition for the transfer of nuclear technology.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 340 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1998
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Iraq is in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations. Calls for the President to: (1) take appropriate action to bring Iraq into compliance with such obligations; (2) insist on the removal, destruction, or rendering harmless of Iraq's programs for biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons; (3) fully support the right of inspectors of the UN Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) to unfettered and unannounced inspections of suspected weapons facilities; and (4) not renege on past warnings issued by the President, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense that the United States is committed to using military force, if necessary, to punish Iraq for interfering with or obstructing UNSCOM's weapons inspections.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 336 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1998
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives and the Senate that the United States should: (1) publicly condemn the Taliban regime for its reprehensible atrocities against human rights, in particular, womens' rights, its embrace of international terrorism, and its willing integration into a worldwide narcotics syndicate; (2) recognize that it will be better served by a comprehensive regional strategy that addresses Afghan issues rather than its current one that relies primarily on Pakistan; (3) explore its mutual interest with other countries of the region regarding the danger of the Taliban; (4) not grant diplomatic recognition to the Taliban or assist in any way its recognition in the United Nations but rather should support the inter-Afghan dialogue efforts to form a truly representative broad- based government; (5) work to initiate through the United Nations Security Council a ban on all international commercial air travel to and from Taliban controlled Afghanistan; (6) call on the Taliban regime to permit humanitarian supplies to be delivered without interference to all regions of Afghanistan; and (7) consider those Afghans, especially known friends of the United States, fleeing political persecution from the Taliban regime to be refugees eligible for consideration for asylum. Calls for: (1) the Department of Defense to conduct a vulnerability assessment of the Taliban regime; (2) the Department of State to urge the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to protect the rights of Christians and Shiite Muslims in Pakistan and to publish a special report to the Congress on the human rights situation in Pakistan, especially as it affects religious minorities; and (3) the Department of State to report to the Congress concerning whether the Taliban, which provides a safe haven for Osama bin Laden and other terrorist organizations as well as illicit drug monies which assist these terrorists, should be added to the list of designated foreign terrorist organizations.
Bill· SS. 2574 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1998
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified sum, out of money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to a named individual in compensation for the erroneous underpayment to her husband of compensation and other benefits relating to a service-connected disability incurred by him during military service in World War II.
Bill· SS. 2573 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1998
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Subtitle A: Elimination of Permanent Agricultural Price Support and Production Adjustment Authority Subtitle B: Phaseout of Peanut Program Subtitle C: Other Agricultural Commodities Subtitle D: Forestry Subtitle E: Other Agricultural Programs Title II: Energy and Natural Resources Subtitle A: Hardrock Mining Royalty Subtitle B: Other Energy and Natural Resources Programs Title III: Defense Title IV: Commerce, Science, and Transportation Saving Taxpayers from Obsolete Programs and Spending Act of 1998 - Title I: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry - Subtitle A: Elimination of Permanent Agricultural Price Support and Production Adjustment Authority - Eliminates agricultural price support and production adjustment authority. (Sec. 102) Repeals the Agricultural Market Transition Act. Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to repeal flood risk reduction authority. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to repeal conservation farm option authority. (Sec. 103) Repeals the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965 to repeal transfer of acreage allotment authority. Amends Federal law to repeal Burley tobacco acreage allotment authority. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1962 to repeal wheat diversion authority. Amends Federal law to repeal cotton acreage allotment authority. (Sec. 105) Repeals the Agricultural Act of 1949, with specified exceptions. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to repeal the American Agriculture Protection program. Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to repeal agricultural embargo authority. Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to repeal the integrated farm management program. (Sec. 106) Repeals the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937. (Sec. 107) Amends the Food Security Commodity Reserve Act of 1996 to repeal the comparability of storage payment provision. (Sec. 108) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation,, and Trade Act of 1990 to repeal milk price support and related programs. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to repeal the dairy products incentive program. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1962 to repeal the acreage diversion programs. (Sec. 110) Makes the provisions of this subtitle effective as of October 1, 2003. Subtitle B: Phaseout of Peanut Program - Chapter 1 - Marketing Quotas for Peanuts - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to: (1) revise peanut marketing program provisions for crop years 1999 through 2001; and (2) terminate peanut quotas as of crop year 2002. Chapter 2 - Market Transition Programs for Peanuts - Amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act to revise the market transition program for 1999 through 2001 crops of quota and additional peanuts. (Sec. 126) Revises nonrecourse loan provisions for the 2002 and subsequent peanut crops. Chapter 3 - Implementation - Sets forth implementation provisions. Subtitle C: Other Agricultural Commodities - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend tobacco deficit reduction assessment authority. (Sec. 132) Amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act to reduce sugarcane (and sugar beet) loan rates through crop year 2002. Requires such loans to be recourse loans. Eliminates sugar price supports and loans as of crop year 2003. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to eliminate sugar marketing quotas and allotments. Subtitle D: Forestry - Amends the National Forest Management Act of 1976 to eliminate below-cost timber sales from National Forest System lands. (Sec. 143) Amends the National Forest Roads and Trails Act to eliminate purchaser road credits as a financing method for national forest road construction. Subtitle E: Other Agricultural Programs - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to eliminate insured electric loan interest subsidies. (Sec. 152) Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to repeal the market access program. (Sec. 153) Eliminates the Wildlife Services Program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Title II: Energy and Natural Resources - Subtitle A: Hardrock Mining Royalty - Requires the payment of a royalty to the Federal Government of five percent of the net smelter return from the production of locatable minerals, or mineral concentrates derived from a locatable mineral, produced from any mining claim located under the general mining laws. Establishes the Abandoned Minerals Mine Reclamation Fund, into which all such royalty receipts (and mining claim maintenance fees) shall be deposited for the reclamation and restoration of land and water resources adversely affected by past minerals activities (other than coal and fluid minerals activities). Identifies the kinds of land and waters eligible for reclamation expenditures. Authorizes appropriations for the Fund. (Sec. 204) Restricts the issuance of any patents for mining or mill site claims to those for which applications were filed, and certain statutory requirements governing vein or lode claims, placer claims, and mill site claims were complied with, before September 30, 1994. (Sec. 205) Sets forth annual claim maintenance fee requirements (which shall not apply to oil shale claims subject to claim maintenance fees under the Energy Policy Act of 1992). Subtitle B: Other Energy and Natural Resources Programs - Amends the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 to define the terms "legal entity," "operator," and "single farm operation." (Sec. 211) Directs the Secretary of the Interior, for each parcel of land to which irrigation water is delivered or proposed to be delivered, to identify a single individual or legal entity as the owner, lessee, or operator. Allows irrigation water to be delivered at less than the normal per-acre cost to either: (1) a qualified recipient that reports gross farm income from a single farm operation in excess of $500,000 per taxable year; or (2) a limited recipient that received such water on or before October 1, 1981, and that reports gross farm income in excess of such amount. Provides an inflation adjustment for calendar years after 1997. Requires lessees (as well as owners and operators) of an irrigation district to furnish such district a certification of compliance with the Act. Allows the Secretary to require a lessee or operator to submit for examination a copy of a tax return for any taxable year in which the single farm operation of the lessee or operator received irrigation water at less than full cost. Repeals a provision exempting district lands held in trust from Federal reclamation ownership and cost pricing limitations. Directs the Secretary to establish penalties for failure to comply with the Act. Directs the Secretaries of the Interior, of the Treasury, and of Agriculture to enter into a memorandum of understanding to permit the Secretary of the Interior to have access to and use available information collected or maintained by either the Department of the Treasury or Agriculture that would aid in enforcement of the ownership and pricing limitations of Federal reclamation law. (Sec. 212) Amends the Federal Land Policy Management Act of 1976 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to National Forest lands in the 16 contiguous Western States, and the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to public domain lands, where domestic livestock grazing is permitted under applicable law, to establish and implement an annual domestic livestock grazing fee equal to fair market value, based on a specified formula. Abolishes grazing advisory boards. Dedicates the U.S. share of grazing fee receipts to: (1) fish and wildlife habitat restoration and enhancement; (2) restoration and improved management of riparian areas; and (3) enforcement of applicable land management plans, allotment plans, and regulations. (Sec. 213) Directs the Secretary of Energy to sell all federally- owned and operated electric power generation and transmission facilities under the supervision of, or in coordination with, a Federal power marketing administration. Instructs the Secretary to obtain the highest practicable sales price for the facilities, including the value of future tax revenues that would have been derived from such facilities. Postulates compliance with environmental laws as a condition of any facility purchase. Requires the Secretary to terminate Federal power marketing operations upon sales completion. (Sec. 214) Directs the Secretary to terminate each Department of Energy program or activity that involves pyroprocessing of plutonium. Makes conforming changes to the Energy Policy Act of 1992. (Sec. 215) Prohibits the Secretary from conducting any petroleum research and development, and to report to the Congress on the attendant termination implementation plan. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Defense - Directs the Secretary of Defense (Secretary, for purposes of this title) to report to the Congress recommendations on which of the following tactical fighter aircraft programs should be terminated if only two of such programs were to be funded: the F-A 18E-F; the F-22; or the Joint Strike Fighter. Requires the Secretary to terminate the recommended program, allowing funds to be expended on such program only for termination costs. Authorizes the Secretary to increase the number of tactical aircraft to be acquired under existing (full-scale) production programs to offset the number which were planned to be acquired under the terminated program. (Sec. 302) Directs the Secretary to close the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences upon the completion of the education and training of those enrolled as of December 31, 1998. Prohibits new students from being enrolled after such date. Allows funds available for the University to be expended only for: (1) completing the education and training of such eligible individuals; and (2) closing the University. (Sec. 303) Prohibits the Secretary from obligating or expending any amount of funds available for FY 1999 through 2003 for a Department of Defense (DOD) program that exceeds that portion of the total program amount that represents an allowance needed to meet increased program costs due to inflation, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, or fuel fluctuations, over the total amount necessary to meet such increased costs. Requires the Secretary to return any excess amounts to the Treasury. (Sec. 304) Limits to $400 million the total amount to be obligated in any fiscal year after 1998 for the Army Theater High Altitude Area Defense program. Prohibits any further obligation or expenditure of such funds until an independent panel established by the Secretary certifies to the Secretary and the Congress that such program is programmatically sound. (Sec. 305) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to require transportation by air for crew members joining a naval vessel deployed abroad unless such Secretary determines that: (1) another means of transportation would be more cost-effective; or (2) the benefits of air transportation are outweighed by safety concerns or concerns about adverse effects on military capabilities. Directs such Secretary to report to the Secretary of Defense on improvements in Navy power projection and power projection support capabilities that result from implementation of the air transportation policy. (Sec. 306) Directs the Secretary to ensure that DOD maintains the most cost-effective, safe, and reliable combination of delivery vehicles that: (1) is necessary to carry not more than the number of warheads agreed to in the START II Treaty; and (2) comprises a force structure that is treaty-compliant. (Sec. 307) Directs the Secretary to terminate the D5 missile program, allowing program funds to be used only for termination costs. (Sec. 308) Directs the Secretary to: (1) expeditiously review DOD inventory requirements to identify excess equipment and supplies; and (2) increase by 50 percent by the end of FY 2003 the total amount realized from sales of excess inventory over such total during FY 1998. (Sec. 309) Directs the Secretary to terminate the Navy's Extremely Low Frequency Communication System program, allowing program funds to be used only for termination costs. (Sec. 310) Directs the Secretary to require all the armed forces to use a single tactical aircraft pilot training program, and, by the end of FY 1999, to select one service branch to train such individuals. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such requirement in the interests of national security. Title IV: Commerce, Science, and Transportation - Directs the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to terminate U.S. participation in the International Space Station program. Authorizes the Administrator to obligate up to $700 million of such program's funds for termination costs.
Bill· SS. 2567 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1998
Trading With the People's Republic of China Military Act of 1998 - Declares it to be U.S. policy to prohibit any entity owned, operated, or controlled by the People's Liberation Army or the People's Armed Police from operating in the United States or from conducting certain business with persons subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Directs the Secretary of Defense to compile, and publish in the Federal Register, a list of persons who are People's Republic of China (PRC) military companies operating directly or indirectly in the United States or any of its territories or possessions. Makes it unlawful for any person to: (1) serve as an officer, director, or other manager of any office or business anywhere in the United States or its territories or possessions that is owned, operated, or controlled by a PRC military company; or (2) make any loan or other extension of credit to any PRC military company, or acquire any ownership interest in such a company. Makes it unlawful for: (1) any person subject to U.S. jurisdiction to export goods, technology, or services to such a company; or (2) any person to export to such a company any goods, technology, or services subject to U.S. jurisdiction. Directs the President to require by regulation the closing and divestiture of such companies in the United States or its territories or possessions. Prohibits goods or services that are the growth, product, or manufacture of a PRC military company from being imported into the United States. Sets forth penalties for violations of this Act.
Bill· SS. 2563 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1998
Military Retirement Readiness Enhancement Act of 1998 - Amends Federal armed forces provisions to repeal: (1) a reduction in retirement pay applicable to individuals who first became members after July 31, 1986, had less that 30 years of military service, and were under 62 years of age at the time of retirement; (2) a reduced annual cost-of-living adjustment in the retired pay of such individuals; and (3) a provision restoring the full retirement amount for such individuals upon reaching 62 years of age.
Bill· HRH.R. 4716 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1998
Provides that eligibility for benefits under title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act shall not terminate by reason of a change of residence to the Philippines, but such benefit shall be reduced by 25 percent, in the case of individuals who, as of January 1, 1990, were eligible for such benefits and, before August 15, 1945, served in the Philippine military forces while such forces were in the service of U.S. armed forces pursuant to the President's military order.
Bill· HRH.R. 4711 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1998
Oil Spill Dispersant Spraying Aircraft Act of 1998 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (Secretary), during FY 1998 through 2002, to sell excess Department of Defense aircraft and parts to a person or entity that contracts to deliver oil dispersants by air for the dispersing of oil spills. Provides sale conditions, including a requirement that the purchaser make certain certifications to the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating as to the testing of the dispersing system and the proper use of aircraft and parts purchased. Requires the Secretary to: (1) prescribe sale regulations; and (2) report to the congressional defense committees on such sales.
Bill· HRH.R. 4705 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1998
Department of Veterans Affairs Employment Reduction Assistance Act of 1998 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, before obligating any resources for voluntary separation incentive payments (payments), to submit to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget a strategic plan outlining the use of such payments and a proposed organizational chart for the Department of Veterans Affairs once such payments have been completed. Requires such plan to include: (1) the positions and functions to be reduced or eliminated; (2) their effects on meeting efficiency, budget, or staffing goals; (3) the period of time during which such incentives may be paid; and (4) a description of how the affected Department components will operate without the eliminated functions and positions. Authorizes the Secretary to make such a payment only to reduce or eliminate positions or functions identified in the plan. Requires such payments to be in a lump sum and no greater than $25,000 apiece. Requires full repayment from any individual who is subsequently reemployed with any Federal department or agency, with exceptions for certain employment in which the individual possesses unique abilities and is the only qualified applicant available. Requires the Secretary to remit to the Office of Personnel Management for credit to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund 15 percent of the final basic pay of each individual receiving such payments. Reduces the total full-time equivalent employees in the Department by one for each individual receiving such a payment. Authorizes the President to waive such reductions upon a determination of the existence of: (1) a state of war or other national emergency; or (2) an extraordinary emergency which threatens life, health, safety, property, or the environment. Provides for continued temporary health insurance coverage for individuals receiving such payments. Prohibits any payment based on the separation of an employee after September 30, 2004.
Bill· HRH.R. 4708 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1998
Veterans Burial Benefits Act of 1998 - Increases from $300 to $600 the authorized allowance for burial and funeral expenses for deceased veterans who: (1) at the time of death were in receipt of veterans' disability compensation or veterans' pension benefits; or (2) were veterans of any war or were discharged or released from active military service for a service-connected disability and for whom there is no next of kin or sufficient resources to cover funeral and burial costs.
Bill· HRH.R. 4696 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1998
Redux Retired Pay Repeal Act - Amends Federal armed forces provisions to repeal: (1) a reduction in retirement pay applicable to individuals who first became members after July 31, 1986, had less that 30 years of military service, and were under 62 years of age at the time of retirement; (2) a reduced annual cost-of-living adjustment in the retired pay of such individuals; and (3) a provision restoring the full retirement amount for such individuals upon reaching 62 years of age.
Bill· SS. 2541 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1998
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic located at 543 Taylor Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, as the Chalmers P. Wylie Veterans Outpatient Clinic.
Bill· SS. 2547 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1998
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to honor, by marker or other appropriate means at the columbarium at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, the memory of veterans eligible for inurnment there whose organs or remains were donated to science.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 333 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1998
Expresses the sense of the Congress that public schools should conduct ceremonies and other activities to educate and inform students about the sacrifice and commitment of veterans of the U.S. armed forces.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 60 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1998
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts (except those derived from borrowing) for that fiscal year unless the Congress, by a three-fifths roll call vote of each House, authorizes a specific excess of outlays over receipts. Bars any surplus of receipts (including interest) over outlays of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds from being counted for purposes of this article. Requires any deficit of receipts (including interest) relative to outlays of such trust funds to be counted and to be completely offset by a surplus of all other receipts over all other outlays. Requires a three-fifths roll call vote of each House to increase the public debt. Directs the President to submit a balanced budget to the Congress. Prohibits any bill to increase revenue from becoming law unless approved by a majority of each House by a roll call vote. Authorizes the Congress to waive these provisions when: (1) a declaration of war is in effect; or (2) the United States is engaged in military conflict which causes an imminent and serious military threat to national security as declared by a joint resolution which becomes law. Allows any enforcement or implementation legislation of the Congress to rely on estimates of outlays and receipts. Makes this article effective beginning with FY 2002 or with the second fiscal year beginning after its ratification, whichever is later.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 59 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1998
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts (except those derived from borrowing) for that fiscal year unless the Congress, by a three-fifths roll call vote of each House, authorizes a specific excess of outlays over receipts. Bars any surplus of receipts (including interest) over outlays of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds from being counted for purposes of this article. Requires any deficit of receipts (including interest) relative to outlays of such trust funds to be counted and to be completely offset by a surplus of all other receipts over all other outlays. Requires a three-fifths roll call vote of each House to increase the public debt. Directs the President to submit a balanced budget to the Congress. Prohibits any bill to increase revenue from becoming law unless approved by a majority of each House by a roll call vote. Authorizes the Congress to waive these provisions when: (1) a declaration of war is in effect; or (2) the United States is engaged in military conflict which causes an imminent and serious military threat to national security as declared by a joint resolution which becomes law. Allows any enforcement or implementation legislation of the Congress to rely on estimates of outlays and receipts. Makes this article effective beginning with FY 2002 or with the second fiscal year beginning after its ratification, whichever is later.
Bill· HRH.R. 4678 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1998
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to convey, under specified conditions, certain National Defense Reserve Fleet vessels to the Victory Ship, Inc., located in Tampa, Florida, for use as a memorial to the American Merchant Marine.
Bill· HRH.R. 4669 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1998
Military Retired Pay Restoration Act of 1998 - Amends Federal armed forces provisions to repeal: (1) a reduction in retirement pay applicable to individuals who first became members after July 31, 1986, had less than 30 years of military service, and were under 62 years of age at the time of retirement; (2) a reduced annual cost-of- living adjustment in the retired pay of such individuals; and (3) a provision restoring the full retirement amount for such individuals upon reaching 62 years of age.
Bill· HRH.R. 4664 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1998
Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 - Declares that it should be the policy of the United States to seek to remove the Saddam Hussein regime from power in Iraq and to replace it with a democratic government. Authorizes the President, after notifying specified congressional committees, to provide to the Iraqi democratic opposition organizations: (1) grant assistance for radio and television broadcasting to Iraq; (2) Department of Defense defense articles and services and military education and training; and (3) humanitarian assistance, with emphasis on addressing the needs of individuals who have fled from areas under the control of the Hussein regime. Prohibits assistance to any group or organization that is engaged in military cooperation with the Hussein regime. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the President to designate one or more Iraqi democratic opposition organizations that meet specified criteria as eligible to receive assistance under this Act. Urges the President to call upon the United Nations to establish an international criminal tribunal for the purpose of indicting, prosecuting, and imprisoning Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi officials who are responsible for crimes against humanity, genocide, and other criminal violations of international law. Expresses the sense of the Congress that once the Saddam Hussein regime is removed from power in Iraq, the United States should support Iraq's transition to democracy by providing humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people and democracy transition assistance to Iraqi parties and movements with democratic goals, including convening Iraq's foreign creditors to develop a multilateral response to the foreign debt incurred by the Hussein regime.
Bill· SS. 2525 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1998
Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 - Declares that it should be the policy of the United States to seek to remove the Saddam Hussein regime from power in Iraq and to replace it with a democratic government. Authorizes the President, after notifying specified congressional committees, to provide to the Iraqi democratic opposition organizations: (1) grant assistance for radio and television broadcasting to Iraq; (2) Department of Defense defense articles and services and military education and training; and (3) humanitarian assistance, with emphasis on addressing the needs of individuals who have fled from areas under the control of the Hussein regime. Prohibits assistance to any group or organization that is engaged in military cooperation with the Hussein regime. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the President to designate one or more Iraqi democratic opposition organizations that meet specified criteria as eligible to receive assistance under this Act. Urges the President to call upon the United Nations to establish an international criminal tribunal for the purpose of indicting, prosecuting, and imprisoning Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi officials who are responsible for crimes against humanity, genocide, and other criminal violations of international law. Expresses the sense of the Congress that once Saddam Hussein is removed from power in Iraq, the United States should support Iraq's transition to democracy by providing humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people and democracy transition assistance to Iraqi parties and movements with democratic goals, including convening Iraq's foreign creditors to develop a multilateral response to the foreign debt incurred by the Hussein regime.
Law· HRH.R. 4655 (105th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1998
Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 - Declares that it should be the policy of the United States to seek to remove the Saddam Hussein regime from power in Iraq and to replace it with a democratic government. Authorizes the President, after notifying specified congressional committees, to provide to the Iraqi democratic opposition organizations: (1) grant assistance for radio and television broadcasting to Iraq; (2) Department of Defense defense articles and services and military education and training; and (3) humanitarian assistance, with emphasis on addressing the needs of individuals who have fled from areas under the control of the Hussein regime. Prohibits assistance to any group or organization that is engaged in military cooperation with the Hussein regime. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the President to designate one or more Iraqi democratic opposition organizations that meet specified criteria as eligible to receive assistance under this Act. Urges the President to call upon the United Nations to establish an international criminal tribunal for the purpose of indicting, prosecuting, and imprisoning Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi officials who are responsible for crimes against humanity, genocide, and other criminal violations of international law. Expresses the sense of the Congress that once the Saddam Hussein regime is removed from power in Iraq, the United States should support Iraq's transition to democracy by providing humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people and democracy transition assistance to Iraqi parties and movements with democratic goals, including convening Iraq's foreign creditors to develop a multilateral response to the foreign debt incurred by the Hussein regime.
Bill· SS. 2522 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1998
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Enhanced Source and Transit Country Coverage Title II: Enhanced Eradication and Interdiction Strategy in Source Countries Title III: Enhanced Alternative Crop Development Support in Source Zone Title IV: Enhanced International Law Enforcement Training Title V: Enhanced Drug Transit and Source Zone Law Enforcement Operations and Equipment Title VI: Relationship to Other Laws Title VII: Criminal Background Checks on Port Employees Title VIII: Drug Currency Forfeitures Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act - Declares that it is U.S. policy to: (1) reduce the supply of drugs and drug use through an enhanced drug interdiction effort in the major drug transit countries and support a comprehensive supply country eradication and crop substitution program, because a commitment of increased resources in international drug interdiction efforts will create a balanced national drug control strategy among demand reduction, law enforcement, and international drug interdiction efforts; and (2) develop and establish comprehensive drug interdiction and drug eradication strategies, and dedicate the resources necessary to reduce the flow of illegal drugs into the United States by 80 percent by December 31, 2001. Title I: Enhanced Source and Transit Country Coverage - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2001 for the Department of the Treasury for the enhancement of radar coverage in drug source and transit countries. (Sec. 101) Directs the Secretary of Defense to examine and report to specified congressional committees on the options available to the United States for improving Relocatable Over the Horizon (ROTHR) capability to provide enhanced radar coverage of narcotics source zone countries in South America and transit zones in the Eastern Pacific. (Sec. 102) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2001 to the Secretary of Transportation for operating expenses of the Coast Guard (including acquisition, construction, and improvement of facilities and equipment) associated with expansion of drug interdiction activities around Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and other transit zone areas of operation. Directs the Secretary to accept seven patrol craft for use by the Coast Guard for expanded drug interdiction activities. (Sec. 103) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2001 for the Department of the Treasury for the enhancement of air coverage and operation for drug source and transit countries. Directs the Secretary of Defense to examine and report to specified congressional committees on the available options in the source and transit zones to replace Howard Air Force Base in Panama, specifying U.S. requirements to establish an airbase or airbases for use in support of counternarcotics operations to optimize operational effectiveness in the source and transit zones. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer to the U.S. Customs Service 20 currently retired and previously identified heavyweight P- 3B aircraft for modification, half into P-3 AEW&C aircraft and half into P-3 Slick aircraft. q04q Title II: Enhanced Eradication and Interdiction Strategy in Source Countries - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2001 for the Department of State for the enhancement of drug-related eradication efforts in Colombia. (Sec. 201) Prohibits U.S. counternarcotics assistance to the Government of Colombia if it negotiates or permits the establishment of any demilitarized zone in which the eradication of drug production by Colombian security forces (including the Colombian National Police antinarcotics unit) is prohibited. (Sec. 202) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2001 for the Department of State for the establishment of a third drug interdiction site in Peru to support air bridge and riverine missions for enhancement of drug-related eradication efforts. Directs the Secretary of Defense to study and report to the Congress on Peruvian counternarcotics air interdiction requirements. (Sec. 203) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2001 for the Department of State for enhancement of drug-related eradication efforts in Bolivia. (Sec. 204) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2001 for enhanced precursor chemical control projects. (Sec. 205) Expresses the sense of the Congress that any individual serving as an assistant secretary of any Federal agency or department who has primary responsibility for international narcotics control and law enforcement (including the principal deputy of any such assistant) shall have substantial professional qualifications in the fields of management and Federal law enforcement or intelligence. Declares that the Department of Defense (DOD) shall be the principle agency responsible for implementation and processing of counternarcotics foreign military sales requests (with the Department of State having a consultative role in such requests). Expresses the sense of the Congress that the responsiveness and effectiveness of Department of State international narcotics assistance activities have been hampered due, in part, to the lack of law enforcement expertise by responsible Department of State personnel. Title III: Enhanced Alternative Crop Development Support in Source Zone - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2001 for the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) for certain alternative crop development programs in Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. (Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2001 to the Secretary of Agriculture to support the counternarcotics research efforts of the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service. (Sec. 303) Requires the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy to develop, and report to the Congress on, a ten-year master plan for the use of mycoherbicides to control narcotic crops (including coca, poppy, and cannabis) in the United States and internationally. Title IV: Enhanced International Law Enforcement Training - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2001 for the Department of Justice for the establishment and operation of international law enforcement academies to carry out law enforcement training activities in Latin America and the Caribbean, Thailand, and South Africa. (Sec. 401) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2001 for the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Department of the Treasury for the joint establishment, operation, and maintenance in San Juan, Puerto Rico, of a center for training law enforcement personnel of countries located in Latin America and the Caribbean in matters relating to maritime law enforcement (including customs-related ports management matters). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2001 for the DOT for the establishment, operation, and maintenance of maritime training vessels. (Sec. 402) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2001 for the Department of Justice for: (1) substantial exchanges for Mexican judges, prosecutors, and police; and (2) enhanced support for the Brazilian Federal Police Training Center. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2001 for the DOT for operation and maintenance for locating and operating Coast Guard assets so as to strengthen the capability of the Coast Guard of Panama to patrol the Atlantic and Pacific coasts for drug enforcement and interdiction activities. Makes members of the national police of Panama eligible to receive training through the International Military Education Training (IMET) program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2001 for the Department of Justice for support for the Venezuelan Judicial Technical Police Counterdrug Intelligence Center. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2001 for the DOT and the Department of the Treasury for the buildup of local coast guard and port control in: (1) Guayaquil and Esmeraldas, Ecuador; (2) Haiti and the Dominican Republic; and (3) Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua (Central America). (Sec. 403) Authorizes the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to transfer or lease a specified amount of nonlethal equipment each year to foreign law enforcement organizations for the purpose of establishing and carrying out cooperative illicit narcotics control activities. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) all U.S. law enforcement personnel serving in Mexico should be accorded the same status as diplomatic and consular personnel serving at U.S. posts in Mexico; and (2) all Mexican narcotics law enforcement personnel serving in the United States should be accorded the same diplomatic and consular status as DEA personnel serving in Mexico. Title V: Enhanced Drug Transit and Source Zone Law Enforcement Operations and Equipment - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2001 for the DEA and the U.S. Customs Service of Department of the Treasury for enhancement of counternarcotics operations in drug transit and source countries. (Sec. 501) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2001 for the Department of State for the deployment of commercial unclassified intelligence and imaging data and a Passive Coherent Location System for counternarcotics and interdiction purposes in the Western Hemisphere. Directs the Secretary of Defense to examine and propose to specified congressional committees recommendations regarding any organizational changes to optimize counterdrug activities, including certain alternative cost-sharing arrangements. (Sec. 502) Authorizes appropriations for the development and purchase of computer software and hardware to facilitate direct communication between agencies that perform drug interdiction activities at U.S. borders, including the Customs Service, the Border Patrol, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the DEA, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). (Sec. 503) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Defense should revise DOD's Global Military Force Policy in order to: (1) treat DOD international drug interdiction and counter-drug activities as a military operation other than war (thus elevating its priority to just below that for war); and (2) allocate DOD assets to drug interdiction and counter-drug activities in accordance with such priority. Title VI: Relationship to Other Laws - Declares that funds authorized to be appropriated for any Federal department or agency for FY 1999 through 2001 are in addition to funds authorized to be appropriated for that department or agency for those fiscal years by any other provision of law. Title VII: Criminal Background Checks on Port Employees - Directs the Attorney General, upon request, to grant access to identification records to any State, county, port authority, or other local jurisdiction to allow it to conduct criminal background checks on employees, or applicants for employment, at any port under its jurisdiction. Title VIII: Drug Currency Forfeitures - Drug Currency Forfeitures Act - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to cite four alternative circumstances that create a rebuttable presumption that property is subject to forfeiture if the Government offers a reasonable basis to believe that there is a substantial connection between the property and a drug trafficking offense. Requires the property at issue to be currency in excess of $10,000 that, at the time of the seizure, was being transported through an airport, on a highway, or at a port-of-entry, and meeting one of several other criteria. Subjects to such presumption, also, any property: (1) acquired during a time period when the person who acquired it was engaged in a drug trafficking offense or within a reasonable time afterwards, and there is no other likely source for such property; (2) that was, or was intended to be, transported, transmitted, or transferred to or from a major drug-transit country, illicit drug producing country, or money laundering country; or (3) involved in a transaction including any person who has been convicted in any Federal, State, or foreign jurisdiction of a drug trafficking offense or a felony involving money laundering, or is a fugitive from prosecution for such an offense. Amends the Federal criminal code to create a rebuttable presumption that property involved in drug money laundering subject to civil forfeiture is the proceeds of an offense involving the felonious manufacture, importation, or other dealing in a controlled substance, thus constituting the proceeds of specified unlawful activity if any of the circumstances set forth in this title apply.
Bill· HRH.R. 4651 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1998
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Amendments Relating to Courts and Sentencing Title II: Amendments Relating to White Collar and Other Nonviolent Crime Title III: Miscellaneous Amendments Title IV: Amendments Relating to Violent Crime and Terrorism Title V: Clarifying the Method of Execution of Federal Prisoners Title VI: Technical Amendments Relating to Criminal Law and Procedure Federal Criminal Law Improvements Act of 1998 - Title I: Amendments Relating to Courts and Sentencing - Amends the Federal criminal code (the code) to remove the requirement that, in an appeal by the United States to a court of appeals from a decision or order of a district court suppressing or excluding evidence or requiring the return of seized property in a criminal proceeding, the United States attorney must certify to the district court that such appeal is not taken for purpose of delay and that the evidence is a substantial proof of a fact material in the proceeding. (Sec. 102) Revises code provisions regarding contempt power, destruction of letter boxes, and breaches of official duty to permit the imposition of both a fine and imprisonment for violations. (Sec. 103) Amends the code and Rule 35 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to grant the court authority, upon motion of the Government, to impose a sentence below a level established by statute as minimum sentence to reflect a defendant's substantial assistance in an investigation of any offense. (Sec. 104) Provides that in a criminal case an appeal by the United States shall lie to a court of appeals from a decision, judgment, or order of a district court dismissing an indictment or information or granting a new trial after verdict or judgment, as to any one or more counts (as under current law) or any part thereof, with an exception. (Sec. 105) Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to direct the United States Sentencing Commission (Sentencing Commission) to promulgate, or amend existing, guidelines to provide sentencing enhancements of not less than three offense levels for offenses that the court at sentencing (currently, the finder of fact at trial) determines beyond a reasonable doubt are hate crimes. (Sec. 106) Amends the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) to specify that its controlled substances provisions are not controlled by a Federal criminal code provision pertaining to the term of supervised release after imprisonment. (Sec. 107) Amends the code to authorize the court to impose a sentence of probation or supervised release when reducing a sentence of imprisonment in certain cases where it finds extraordinary and compelling reasons warrant a reduction or the defendant is at least age 70 and has served at least 30 years in prison. (Sec. 108) Revises code provisions regarding the transfer of offenders serving sentences of imprisonment to direct that good time and other credit be combined by the Bureau of Prisons and deducted from the sentence imposed by a foreign court. Directs the Bureau, if the term of imprisonment for foreign prisoners transferred to the United States is less than or equal to the total sentence imposed and certified by the foreign authorities on the basis of considerations other than a limitation that the combined periods of imprisonment and supervised release that result from such determination not exceed the term imposed by the foreign court on that offender, to calculate credits for satisfactory behavior as specified. Title II: Amendments Relating to White Collar and Other Nonviolent Crime - Amends the code to add attempts to various theft and embezzlement-related prohibitions. (Sec. 203) Expands a provision regarding breaking into a post office (including attempts) to include breaking into any post office box or postal stamp vending machine. (Sec. 204) Makes provisions regarding transportation, and sale or receipt, of stolen vehicles applicable to vessels. (Sec. 207) Authorizes the Attorney General to commence a civil action in Federal court to enjoin a violation or imminent violation of prohibitions against counterfeiting and forgery. Directs that a permanent or temporary injunction or restraining order be granted without bond. (Sec. 209) Amends the interstate travel fraud statute to cover travel by the perpetrator. (Sec. 211) Amends financial crimes provisions of the code to provide that the definition of "State" in the International Banking Act of 1978 shall be deemed to include a U.S. commonwealth, territory, or possession. Title III: Miscellaneous Amendments - Amends code provisions regarding tampering with a witness, victim, or informant, and regarding release or detention pending trial, to add "supervised release" to references to "probation, parole, or release" pending judicial proceedings, trial, sentencing, appeal or completion of sentence. (Sec. 303) Amends a provision regarding entry of goods by means of false statements to increase penalties and to specify that such provision shall not be construed to require proof of any mental state as to whether the defendant's willful act or omission would deprive the Government of any lawful customs duties. (Sec. 306) Eliminates the proof of value requirement for property constituting "matters occurring before the grand jury," with respect to felony theft or conversion of grand jury material. (Sec. 310) Expands jurisdiction over child buying and selling offenses to include U.S. special maritime and territorial areas. (Sec. 311) Amends the CSA to decrease the amount of flunitrazepam necessary to trigger penalties. (Sec. 312) Amends the statute prohibiting the bringing of hazardous substances aboard an aircraft to provide that knowledge of the existence of a regulation or requirement prescribed by the Secretary of Transportation is not an element of the offense. (Sec. 315) Amends the Antiterrorism Act of 1996 to: (1) set the rate of pay for Executive Director of the Commission on the Advancement of Federal Law Enforcement at up to the rate payable for Level IV of the Executive Schedule; (2) authorize any Federal employee to be detailed to the Commission without reimbursement from the Commission, but to retain the rights, status, and privileges of his or her regular employment without interruption; and (3) provide for expedited security clearances for the Commission and selected staff designated by the Chairman of the Commission. (Sec. 316) Substitutes a provision for a sentence reduction of a prisoner convicted of a nonviolent offense after successfully completing a treatment program with a requirement that the Attorney General ensure that eligible prisoners undergo a program of substance abuse treatment. Defines "eligible prisoner" as one who is within 24 months of the date of release or is otherwise designated by the Bureau of Prisons for participation in a residential substance abuse treatment program (currently, is willing to participate), and who meets other specified requirements. (Sec. 318) Restores wiretap authority for certain money laundering offenses. (Sec. 319) Amends the Federal judicial code to make Federal leave provisions applicable to employees of the Sentencing Commission. Title IV: Amendments Relating to Violent Crime and Terrorism - Revises code provisions regarding biological weapons to define "biological agent" as any microorganism (including bacteria, viruses, fungi, rickettsiae, or protozoa), or infectious substance, or any naturally occurring, bioengineered or synthesized component of any such microorganism or infectious substance that meets specified criteria. Makes similar changes with respect to the definitions of "toxin" and "vector." (Sec. 402) Includes as a "crime of violence" an offense relating to possession of explosives or firearms by convicted felons and other categories of prohibited persons. (Sec. 403) Eliminates from the carjacking statute the requirement that the perpetrator acted with intent to cause death or serious bodily harm. (Sec. 404) Provides that whoever, while serving with, employed by, or accompanying the armed forces outside the United States, engages in conduct which would constitute an offense punishable by imprisonment for more than one year if the conduct had been engaged in within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, shall be guilty of a like offense and subject to a like punishment. Authorizes the delivery of such individual to the appropriate authorities of a foreign country in which such person is alleged to have engaged in such conduct if: (1) such authorities request that person's delivery for trial; and (2) such delivery is authorized by a treaty or other international agreement to which the United States is a party. (Sec. 405) Amends the interstate threat statute to include threats to kill. (Sec. 406) Removes the requirement for assault with a dangerous weapon that there be intent to do bodily harm. (Sec. 407) Adds attempts to the interstate domestic violence provision. (Sec. 408) Includes travel with intent that a felony crime of violence be committed within the prohibition against the use of interstate or foreign commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire. (Sec. 409) Increases from ten to 20 years the maximum penalty for voluntary manslaughter. (Sec. 410) Includes among offenses committed within Indian country a felony involving willful and malicious destruction of, or attempts to destroy, buildings or property within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States. (Sec. 411) Revises provisions regarding: (1) drive-by shootings to redefine "major drug offense" to include a conspiracy or attempt to commit specified offenses under the CSA or the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act, and to include shooting into a group in furtherance of a major drug offense with intent to kill; and (2) threats against former Presidents to cover a former President's spouse, and the spouse or a member of the immediate family of a major candidate for President or Vice President, and certain other persons for whom the President directs that such protection be provided. Title V: Clarifying the Method of Execution of Federal Prisoners - Revises code provisions regarding implementation of a death sentence to direct that: (1) a person sentenced to death be committed to the Attorney General's custody, with implementation pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Attorney General; and (2) a United States marshal charged with supervising such implementation use the appropriate Federal facilities. Title VI: Technical Amendments Relating to Criminal Law and Procedure - Makes technical corrections to the code and the Economic Espionage Act of 1996. Removes fine limits under various provisions of the code and CSA.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 559 (105th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1998
Urges the President and the Secretary of State to: (1) give high priority to solving the conflict in Sierra Leone and to bring stability to West Africa in general; (2) strictly enforce the United Nations (UN) arms embargo on the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council and Revolutionary United Front rebel forces; (2) work with Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) nations to ensure there are sufficient African forces and arms provided to ECOMOG (ECOWAS's military peacekeeping arm); and (3) support the UN High Commission for Refugees appeal for aid to the Sierra Leone refugees in Guinea and Liberia. Urges the State Department and the UN to give the needed logistical support to ECOMOG and the Government of Sierra Leone to bring the conflict to a rapid conclusion. Condemns the use of children as combatants in the conflict. Urges the UN to establish a secure humanitarian corridor to strategic areas in the north and east of Sierra Leone for the safe delivery of food and medicines by the Government of Sierra Leone and humanitarian agencies. Urges the President and the State Department to support: (1) the UN agencies and nongovernmental organizations working in Sierra Leone to bring humanitarian relief and peace to the country; and (2) the Government of Sierra Leone in its demobilization, disarmament, and reconstruction plan for the country. Encourages and supports Olara Otunu, UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict, to continue in his efforts to work in Sierra Leone in the establishment of programs designed to rehabilitate child combatants.
Bill· SS. 2516 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1998
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Judicial Financial Administration Title II: Judicial Process Improvements Title III: Judiciary Personnel Administration, Benefits, and Protections Title IV: Federal Public Defenders Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1998 - Title I: Judicial Financial Administration - Amends Federal judicial code provisions regarding the Judiciary Information Technology Fund to repeal provisions subjecting information technology procurement to provisions of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 applicable to executive agencies. (Sec. 102) Authorizes the Judicial Conference of the United States to require the debtor in a chapter 11 bankruptcy case in a district that is not part of a United States trustee region to pay fees equal to those imposed in districts that are part of such a region. (Sec. 103) Requires, for FY 1999 and thereafter, any portion of miscellaneous fees collected by the Judicial Conference from Federal courts of appeals, district courts, bankruptcy courts, the Court of Federal Claims, and the Judicial Panel of Multi-district Litigation, that exceeds the amount of such fees established on the date of enactment of this section, to be deposited into the special fund. Title II: Judicial Process Improvements - Provides authority for the appointment of magistrate judges in the district courts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. (Sec. 202) Amends the Federal Magistrates Act to grant U.S. magistrate judges the power to exercise contempt authority within his or her territorial jurisdiction, including summary criminal contempt authority and criminal and civil contempt authority in civil consent and misdemeanor cases. (Sec. 203) Amends the Federal criminal and judicial codes to remove certain limitations on the authority of magistrate judges to try petty offense cases. (Sec. 205) Authorizes judges retired from regular active service to serve as members of the judicial council of the circuit. (Sec. 206) Provides for the sunset of provisions requiring a civil justice expense and delay reduction plan. (Sec. 207) Repeals a U.S. Court of Federal Claims fee for the filing of any petition. Title III: Judicial Personnel Administration, Benefits, and Protections - Amends the judicial code to include within the definition of "service," for purposes of retirement provisions applicable to the Directors of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts and the Federal Judicial Center and the Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice, service as a congressional employee in the capacity of primary administrative assistant to a Member of Congress or in the capacity of staff director or chief counsel for the majority or the minority of a House or Senate committee or subcommittee. (Sec. 302) Directs each circuit judge of a court of appeals to submit to the chief judge, each district judge to submit to the chief judge, and each chief judge of each circuit and each district to submit to the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, annual reports on the travel expenses of each judge assigned to the applicable circuit or district. Requires: (1) the chief judge's report to include the travel expenses of each judge, a description of the subject matter and purpose of the travel relating to each identified travel expense, and the number of days of each travel, with the judge's name; and (2) the Director to consolidate the reports submitted and annually submit such consolidated report to the Congress. (Sec. 303) Transfers Schuylkill County from the Eastern to the Middle District of Pennsylvania. (Sec. 304) Permits continued payment from retired or retainer pay into a military survivors' benefits plan with respect to a regular, reserve, or former member of a uniformed service receiving such pay who becomes employed as a U.S. justice or judge. (Sec. 305) Authorizes the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to designate judicial branch officers and employees to be disbursing officers and certifying officers. Lists rights and responsibilities of such officers. (Sec. 306) Authorizes the Judicial Conference to prescribe fees for use of information technology resources provided by the judiciary for remote access to the courthouse by litigants and the public and to facilitate the electronic presentation of cases. Title IV: Federal Public Defenders - Amends the judicial code to exempt Federal public defenders from the Tort Claims Act for claims related to representational services.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 554 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1998
Condemns North Korea's Government and military for the missile launch over Japan of August 31, 1998. Calls on such Government to: (1) cease the production of weapons of mass destruction and the proliferation of ballistic missiles to other nations; and (2) abide by the 1994 Agreed Framework entered into by North Korea, the United States, Japan, and South Korea.
Bill· HRH.R. 4609 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1998
Veterans Personal Security Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to notify appropriate local law enforcement agencies immediately, and also in writing within 48 hours, after receiving notice that any of the following has occurred at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility: (1) a patient is missing; (2) a patient or staff member has caused physical abuse or battery to another patient or staff member; (3) a patient or staff member has unlawfully possessed or used a controlled substance; or (4) a rape or any other felony or indictable offense has been committed. Requires the Department to provide appropriate assistance in the investigation of any such allegations.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 549 (105th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1998
Waives points of order against the consideration of the conference report on H.R. 3616 (Department of Defense funding).