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Bill· HRH.R. 278 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Enhanced Prosecution of Dangerous Juvenile Offenders Title II: Youth Development and Juvenile Crime Prevention Subtitle A: Juvenile Gun Courts Subtitle B: Community-Based Juvenile Justice Grants for Prosecutors Subtitle C: Juvenile Drug Courts Subtitle D: After School Crime Prevention Act Balanced Juvenile Justice and Crime Prevention Act of 1997 - Title I: Enhanced Prosecution of Dangerous Juvenile Offenders - Enhanced Prosecution of Dangerous Juvenile Offenders Act of 1997 - Revises Federal criminal code provisions to allow a juvenile alleged to have committed an offense against the United States or an act of juvenile delinquency to be surrendered to State authorities, proceeded against as a juvenile, or tried as an adult under specified circumstances. Sets guidelines for proceeding against such a juvenile as a juvenile, and as an adult, in Federal court. (Sec. 103) Directs that: (1) the arresting officer promptly take reasonable steps to notify the juvenile's parents, guardian, or custodian whenever a juvenile is taken into custody; and (2) the juvenile be taken before a judicial officer without unreasonable delay. (Sec. 105) Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) place of detention for juveniles age 15 or older and juveniles under 15; (2) contact with adults convicted or awaiting trial; and (3) reasonable living conditions, education, and medical care. (Sec. 106) Modifies speedy trial provisions to provide that if a juvenile proceeded against under provisions regarding delinquency proceedings or criminal prosecutions in district courts who is in detention pending trial is not brought to trial within 45 (currently 30) days, the information shall be dismissed on motion of the alleged delinquent or at the direction of the court. (Sec. 107) Requires: (1) the court to hold a disposition hearing within 40 court days after finding a juvenile to be a juvenile delinquent, unless the court has ordered further study; and (2) victim impact information to be included in the predisposition report and victims to be provided the opportunity to make a statement to the court or present information regarding disposition. Requires the court to order restitution. Authorizes the court to suspend the findings of juvenile delinquency, place the juvenile on probation, commit the juvenile to official detention, and impose any fine that would be authorized if the juvenile had been tried and convicted as an adult. Sets forth or modifies provisions regarding: (1) limits on detention, supervised release, and commitment of juveniles; (2) an inpatient study; (3) juvenile records; and (4) serious juvenile delinquency drug trafficking adjudications as predicates to the Armed Career Criminal Act. Title II: Youth Development and Juvenile Crime Prevention - Youth Development and Juvenile Crime Prevention Act of 1997 - Subtitle A: Juvenile Gun Courts - Authorizes the Attorney General to provide grants to States, State and local courts, local governments, and Indian tribes for court-based juvenile justice programs that target young firearm offenders through the establishment of juvenile gun courts. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Community-Based Juvenile Justice Grants for Prosecutors - Authorizes the Attorney General to provide grants to State, local, and Indian tribal prosecutors to support the establishment or expansion of community-based juvenile justice programs. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Juvenile Drug Courts - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to States, State and local courts, local governments, and Indian tribes to establish programs that: (1) continue judicial supervision over certain juvenile offenders with substance abuse problems; and (2) integrate administration of other sanctions and services, including mandatory periodic drug testing during periods of supervised release or probation, substance abuse treatment, aftercare services, and (where possible) payment by the offender of treatment costs and restitution. Directs the Attorney General to issue regulations and guidelines to ensure that the programs authorized under this subtitle exclude participation by violent offenders. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: After School Crime Prevention Act - After School Crime Prevention Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide grants to eligible entities to provide children in the eligible community services and activities that include extracurricular and academic programs offered: (1) after school and on weekends and holidays during the school year; and (2) as daily full-day part-day programs during the summer months. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 269 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Role Models Academy Demonstration Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to carry out a demonstration program under which a four-year, residential, military-style academy (the Role Models Academy) is established which: (1) offers at-risk youth secondary school coursework and vocational training (and may offer precollegiate coursework); (2) focuses on the education and vocational training of youth at risk of delinquency or dropping out of secondary school; (3) has a teaching staff primarily composed of former members of the armed forces or participants in the Troops to Teachers Program, if they are qualified and trained to teach at the Academy; (4) operates a mentoring program involving role models from all sectors of society; (5) may contain a Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit; (6) is housed on the site of any military installation closed pursuant to a base closure law; and (7) if effective, serves as a model for similar military-style academies throughout the United States. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 149 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (as amended by the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994), in order to allow certain counties flexibility in spending funds received under basic grants to local educational agencies, to repeal requirements for: (1) determining the number of children aged five to 17 from families below the poverty line; and (2) biennial population updates on the number of such children.
Bill· HRH.R. 155 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
United States Textbook and Technology Trust Fund Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an individual to designate on a tax return that there shall be paid into the United States Textbook and Technology Fund (the Fund): (1) one dollar of a tax overpayment; and (2) any cash contribution which the individual includes in the return. Creates such Fund. Makes qualifying public elementary schools eligible to receive grants from the Fund.
Bill· HRH.R. 188 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Directs the Attorney General to appoint in the Department of Justice a National Director of Bias Crime. Sets forth the duties of the Director, including to: (1) examine the needs of Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies in training officers for the investigation and reporting of bias crimes; (2) recommend to the Attorney General policy options for the enhancement of bias crime interdiction and prevention; (3) develop a national curriculum to be taught as a preventative measure at elementary and secondary schools throughout the country; (4) coordinate technical assistance provided to State and local law enforcement agencies related to bias crime; and (5) coordinate assistance to victims of bias crime. Requires training programs established by the Director to include: (1) recognition of basic elements of bias crimes and proper initial response procedures; (2) instruction on how to comply with Federal reporting requirements under the National Hate Crimes Statistics Act; (3) notification of law enforcement officials regarding the history and growth of organized bias groups in the United States; and (4) methods to develop preventative education curricula for local schools and community youth groups and methods to cope with the trauma experienced by victims of bias crime. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 280 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Requires the Federal Communications Commission to implement the recommendations pertaining to the establishment of universal service support mechanisms for the provision of advanced telecommunications and information services to schools and libraries submitted to the Commission on November 7, 1996, by the Federal-State Joint Board established under the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Bill· HRH.R. 318 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Tuition Tax Credit Act of 1997 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for the educational expenses (tuition and supplies) of the taxpayer, spouse, or dependents at an eligible private elementary or secondary school, institution of higher education, or vocational school. Limits the credit to $1,000 per student per year.
Bill· HRH.R. 283 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1987 to allow, at the request of a Member of the House of Representative, the Clerk of the House to donate computers and related peripheral tools previously used by the Member to a public elementary or secondary school designated by such Member without regard to whether the donation: (1) is a cost to the Government; or (2) has a recoverable value.
Bill· HRH.R. 228 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow penalty-free (and exclude from income if repaid) distributions from an individual retirement account (IRA) for first home purchases, higher education expenses, qualified long-term care expenses, and qualified unemployment distributions. Increases deductible IRA contribution amounts, and provides for inflation indexing. Eliminates the phase-out for individuals who are not active participants in defined contribution plans, and increases applicable dollar amounts for taxpayers other than those married filing separately. Increases 401(k) plan contribution limits. Establishes an alternative method for satisfying nondiscrimination requirements. Excludes inherited IRAs and certain 401(k) plans from a decedent's gross estate. Allows a designated beneficiary of an inherited IRA to hold such IRA free of immediate distribution provisions. Allows inherited 401(k) amounts as nondeductible contributions to a beneficiary's IRA, and excludes such amounts from income if so contributed.
Bill· HRH.R. 194 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Children's Financial Security Act of 1997 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury or a delegate to transfer each calendar year, from the general fund of the Treasury, $1,000 to the Child Retirement Account (CRA) of each eligible child. Makes eligible any individual who as of the close of such calendar year: (1) is a citizen or resident alien of the United States; and (2) has not attained age six. Allows the applicable taxpayer, in the case of children below age 19 as of the close of 1997, to contribute, during 1998 and 1999 only, to the child's CRA an amount equal to the lesser of $6,000 or the product of $1,000 and the child's age as of the close of 1997. Reduces the amount of any Federal or parental contribution for children of high-income parents, according to a phaseout range formula. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt CRAs from the income tax, but not from the tax on unrelated business income of charitable organizations. Requires the withholding of a 20 percent tax on any distribution from a CRA (although such distributions shall not be included in gross income). Provides for qualified special purpose distributions for first-time homebuying and for higher education expenses (along with a specified credit against the 20 percent distribution tax).
Law· HRH.R. 6 (105th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Higher Education Amendments of 1998 - Extends through FY 2004 the authorization of appropriations for, and the duration of, each program conducted under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). Provides for continuation of specified authorization amounts and of certain required functions of the Secretary of Education with respect to such HEA programs.
Bill· HRH.R. 82 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Family Affordable College Tuition Act of 1997 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide an income-adjusted deduction for qualified higher education expenses and qualified higher education loan interest paid during the tax year. Provides an income-adjusted deduction of up to $4000 for payments made to a qualified (higher) education savings plan during the tax year. Excludes plan distributions used to pay qualified education costs from gross income and dependent support determinations.
Bill· HRH.R. 52 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Fair Health Information Practices Subtitle A: Duties of Health Information Trustees Subtitle B: Use and Disclosure of Protected Health Information Subtitle C: Access Procedures and Challenge Rights Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Provisions Subtitle E: Enforcement Title II: Amendments to Title 5, United States Code Title III: Regulations, Research, and Education; Effective Dates; Applicability; and Relationship to Other Laws Fair Health Information Practices Act of 1997 - Title I: Fair Health Information Practices - Subtitle A: Duties of Health Information Trustees - Requires, subject to exceptions, health care providers, health oversight agencies, health benefit plan sponsors, or public health authorities to permit an individual to examine his or her own protected health information (physical or mental health records created or received by a health care provider, a health benefit plan sponsor, health oversight agency, or public health authority). Excepts certain mental health or other records which may endanger the individual. Sets forth provisions concerning: (1) notice of information practices; (2) disclosure histories; and (3) security. Subtitle B: Use and Disclosure of Protected Information - Sets forth the general rule that health information trustees (health care providers, health oversight agencies, health benefit plan sponsors, public health authorities, and health researchers) may use protected information only for a purpose: (1) that is compatible with and directly related to the purpose for which the information was collected or received by the trustee; or (2) for which the trustee has received disclosure authorization. Makes exceptions regarding: (1) next of kin and directory information; (2) public health; (3) health research; (4) emergencies; (5) judicial and administrative purposes; (6) law enforcement; and (7) subpoenas, warrants, and search warrants. Subtitle C: Access Procedures and Challenge Rights - Sets forth access and challenge procedures for subpoenas, warrants, and search warrants concerning protected health information. Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Provisions - Permits a health information trustee to disclose only such information as is necessary to process a payment when payment is made by a debit, credit, or other payment card. (Sec. 143) Mandates establishment of electronic documents transmission, receipt, and maintenance standards. (Sec. 147) Directs a State to establish a process under which any created or recorded protected health information is delivered to and maintained by the State or its designated entity. Subtitle E: Enforcement - Sets forth civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act's provisions. Mandates alternative dispute resolution methods to resolve the civil complaints. Title II: Amendments to Title 5, United States Code - Amends provisions of title 5 (Government Organization and Employees) of the United States Code concerning agency records maintained on individuals to direct the head of any agency that is a health information trustee to promulgate rules to exempt a system of records within the agency from stated provisions of title 5, to the extent that the such system contains protected health information. Title III: Regulations, Research, and Education; Effective Dates; Applicability; and Relationship to Other Laws - Authorizes the Secretary to sponsor research concerning protected health information. Directs the Secretary to establish education and awareness programs concerning such information. Establishes, in the Office of the Secretary, the Office of Information Privacy. (Sec. 303) Sets forth provisions concerning: (1) the applicability of the provisions of this Act to protected health information; and (2) the relationship of the provisions of this Act to other laws.
Law· HRH.R. 5 (105th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Title II: Miscellaneous Provisions IDEA Improvement Act of 1997 - Title I: Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - Revises the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to allow States to extend use of the developmental delay category of eligibility for children up to age nine. (Sec. 101) Eliminates certain provisions for: (1) acquisition of equipment and construction; and (2) removal of architectural barriers. Revises the program of assistance for education of all children with disabilities. Revises the funding formula for allotments to States. Provides for increases in allotments over a transition period of FY 1998 through 2006. Bases the new formula on a State's: (1) child population; and (2) child poverty. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth requirements for least restrictive environment in placement of students. Requires States to use methods of distributing IDEA funds that ensure compliance with such requirements. Allows a public agency to reduce or deny reimbursement to parents of a child placed in a private school without the public agency's consent or referral if: (1) the parents (with specified exceptions) did not notify the agency of the intended placement, with a written statement of their concerns, at least ten days before the child's removal from public school; (2) the parents did not make the child available for a local educational agency (LEA) initial assessment and evaluation before the child's removal from public school and enrollment in private school; or (3) it is so ruled at the judge's discretion. Allows an LEA to reduce its level of special education expenditures under specified limited circumstances. Allows commingling of Federal and State special education funds under certain circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to modify certain LEA requirements for ten designated LEAs or groups of LEAs which endeavor to achieve innovative delivery of services. Revises provisions for evaluations, reevaluations, individualized education programs (IEPs), and educational placements. Grants parents a right to refuse an initial evaluation of a referred child's need for special education services. Authorizes the LEA, in such a circumstance, to utilize certain mediation and due process procedures to resolve the dispute. Prohibits construing the parents' consent for a child's evaluation as consent for placement for receipt of special education and related services. Requires, in the cases of children whose behavior impedes their own or others' learning, the IEP Team to consider strategies, including behavioral management plans, to address that behavior. Includes the following categories of behavior, at school or a school function, among those for which school personnel may order removal of a child with a disability from the classroom, and placement in an alternative educational setting, for an additional 45 days over the regular ten-day limit for such a removal: (1) carrying any weapons (current law only covers firearms); (2) having, using, soliciting sale of, or selling medications or illegal drugs; and (3) causing serious physical or emotional injury as a result of physical or verbal assault. Authorizes a hearing officer to order such a change of placement for up to 45 days if there is substantial evidence that maintenance of the current placement is substantially likely to result in injury to the child or to others. Requires an IEP Team to review whether the child's inappropriate action was a manifestation of the disability, including review of the technical soundness of the behavior management plan. Allows change of placement, with the parents' agreement, if the behavior is a result of the disability. Provides for an immediate appeal to the hearing officer if the parents disagree with the determination or the changed educational placement. Allows application to children with disabilities of the same relevant disciplinary procedures applicable to children without disabilities, if the behavior is determined to be not a manifestation of the disability. Allows a due process hearing if the parents disagree with such application of discipline. Requires States and LEAs receiving IDEA assistance to offer parents voluntary mediation procedures for disputes over provision of free appropriate public education to children with disabilities. Requires all parties in a dispute to disclose, for review, to all other parties evaluations and recommendations intended for use at the hearing. Revises the program for infants and toddlers with disabilities, repealing a requirement that all State policies and assurances pertaining to programs for infants and toddlers with disabilities be filed with every application to the Department of Education. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1998 through 2002. Provides for national activities to improve education of children with disabilities, replacing current provisions for training personnel for the education of individuals with disabilities, and consolidating as discretionary programs certain current programs. Authorizes: (1) the Secretary to carry out various national research and improvement activities; (2) States to apply for improvement grants upon certification that a collaborative process with specified types of participants has been used in developing the State improvement plan for special education and early intervention systems; and (3) the Secretary to make grants to and contracts with parent organizations to support parent training and information centers, as well as provide technical assistance for such centers' programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1998 through 2002. Authorizes the Secretary to make personnel development grants and contracts for: (1) various activities of national significance relating to development of personnel to work with children with disabilities; (2) professional development for personnel who will provide educational and related services to children with low-incidence disabilities, and personnel who will provide early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities; and (3) preparation of leadership personnel. Directs the Secretary to develop a plan for providing outreach services to increase the participation in competitions for such personnel development grants and contracts by: (1) Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other higher education institutions with at least 25 percent minority enrollment; (2) specified eligible institutions under provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 for strengthening institutions with high enrollments of needy students; (3) nonprofit and for-profit agencies at least 51 percent owned or controlled by one or more minority individuals; and (4) underrepresented populations. Title II: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide for coordination of schoolwide programs with those under IDEA. (Sec. 203) Repeals specified parts of IDEA superseded by this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 88 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to suspend the eligibility for grants, loans, or work assistance under title IV (Student Assistance) of any individual student convicted under Federal or State law of any offense involving possession or sale of a controlled substance. Specifies ineligibility periods: (1) for possession offenses of one year (first offense), two years (second offense), and indefinite (third offense); and (2) for sale offenses of two years (first offense) and indefinite (second offense).
Bill· HRH.R. 83 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Restrictions on Loans From Qualified Retirement Plans Title II: Promotion of Availability of Private Pensions Upon Retirement Title III: Health Coverage for Retired Workers Title IV: Application of Certain Prohibited Transactions Rules for 401(K) Plans Title V: Retirement Savings and Security Subtitle A: Expanded Pension Coverage and Simplification Subtitle B: Portability Subtitle C: Enhanced Security Title VI: Expanded Individual Retirement Accounts to Increase Coverage and Portability Subtitle A: Retirement Savings Incentives Subtitle B: Distributions and Investments Comprehensive Pension and Retirement Security Act of 1997 - Title I: Restrictions on Loans From Qualified Retirement Plans - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to prohibit qualified employer plans from making loans through credit cards and other intermediaries. (Sec. 102) Treats loans from qualified employer plans as distributions unless they are used to purchase a first home, to pay higher education or financially devastating medical expenses, or during periods of unemployment. Title II: Promotion of Availability of Private Pensions Upon Retirement - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the IRC to require the availability of a defined contribution plan option (in lieu of the defined benefit plan) for participants in defined benefit plans to which an employer makes contributions. (Sec. 202) Amends ERISA to require fiduciaries to make timely investments of plan contributions. (Sec. 203) Amends the IRC to increase the penalty for early distributions from pension plans. Title III: Health Coverage for Retired Workers - Amends ERISA and the IRC to require advance notice of material reductions in covered services under group health plans. (Sec. 302) Amends the IRC to set forth requirements relating to the duration of, and determination of premiums for, continuation of coverage for persons 55 and older until they are eligible for Medicare. (Sec. 303) Amends the Social Security Act to set forth protections under the Medicare program for retired workers who lose retiree health benefits. Provides, in such cases, for: (1) no premium penalty for late enrollment; (2) a special Medicare enrollment period; and (3) a special rule with respect to the Medigap (Medicare supplemental policy) open enrollment period. Title IV: Application of Certain Prohibited Transactions Rules for 401(K) Plans - Amends ERISA to provide for the application of certain prohibited transactions rules to IRC section 401(k) plans. Title V: Retirement Savings and Security - Subtitle A: Expanded Pension Coverage and Simplification - Amends ERISA to repeal the requirement that a plan administrator file with the Secretary of Labor a plan description, a summary plan description, and descriptions of material modifications to a plan. (Sec. 502) Revises ERISA to exempt from the prohibition against certain transactions any purchase of qualified State prepaid tuition program instruments. Subtitle B: Portability - Directs the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to prescribe specified rules relating to missing participants for multiemployer plans that terminate under certain ERISA provisions. (Sec. 512) Eliminates a special vesting rule for multiemployer plans under ERISA. (Sec. 513) Provides, with respect to treatment of loans during military service, that a loan made by a plan shall not fail to meet specified ERISA requirements by reason of a loan repayment suspension under the IRC. Subtitle C: Enhanced Security - Revises certain formulas for determining payments with respect to benefits guarantees (increasing the guaranteed amounts) under certain insolvent multiemployer plans. (Sec. 522) Directs the Secretary of Labor, as chairman of the PBGC board, to send a reversion report to the President and the Congress on plans from which residual assets were distributed to employers. (Sec. 523) Sets forth a full funding limitation for multiemployer plans under ERISA. (Sec. 524) Increases maximum civil penalties for certain prohibited transactions under ERISA. (Sec. 525) Modifies the phase-in of guarantee and the allocation of assets under ERISA provisions relating to substantial owner benefits. Pension Audit Improvement Act of 1997 - Repeals the mandate for limited scope audits. (Sec. 533) Establishes certain reporting and enforcement requirements for employee benefit plans. Requires a plan administrator to notify the Secretary of Labor, within five business days, of: (1) irregularities that may have occurred with respect to the plan; and (2) the termination of the plan's accountant. Requires plan accountants to notify the Secretary of: (1) such irregularities, if the administrator does not do so; and (2) any disagreements they may have with the reasons given by the administrator for their termination. Sets forth civil penalties for violations of such requirements. (Sec. 534) Sets forth additional requirements for qualified public accountants for plans under ERISA. (Sec. 535) Revises ERISA provisions for fiduciary penalties to: (1) modify a prohibition of assignment or alienation; (2) make discretionary the imposition and amount of civil penalties for breach of fiduciary responsibility; and (3) provide for the applicable recovery amount and other rules. Title VI: Expanded Individual Retirement Accounts to Increase Coverage and Portability - Subtitle A: Retirement Savings Incentives - Amends the IRC with respect to deductions from gross income for contributions to individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and retirement savings to: (1) increase the applicable dollar amount component in the formulas for certain income limitations; (2) require inflation adjustments to the deductible amount and income limitations; (3) require coordination of the IRA deduction limit with the elective deferral limit; and (4) provide for establishment of special nondeductible tax-free IRAs. Subtitle B: Distributions and Investments - Allows the use of distributions from IRAs without additional tax for the purchase of first homes, for higher education or financially devastating medical expenses, or by the unemployed. (Sec. 612) Requires IRA contributions to be held at least five years in certain cases. (Sec. 613) Sets forth special rules for the use of IRA distributions to purchase qualified State prepaid tuition program instruments.
Bill· HRH.R. 58 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Medicare Diabetes Education and Supplies Amendments of 1997 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of diabetes outpatient self-management training services and blood-testing strips for individuals with diabetes.
Bill· HRH.R. 106 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Graduate Medical Education Trust Fund Act of 1997 - Amends the Social Security Act (SSA) to add a new title XXI (Teaching Hospital and Graduate Medical Education Trust Fund), which establishes in the Treasury the Teaching Hospital and Graduate Medical Education Trust Fund for formula payments to teaching hospitals for the direct and indirect costs of operating approved medical residency training programs. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for certain adjustments in Medicare payments under SSA title XVIII, removing medical education and disproportionate share hospital payments from calculation of adjusted average per capita cost. Establishes within the Department of Health and Human Services a National Advisory Council on Postgraduate Medical Education to advise the Secretary on appropriate policies for making postgraduate medical education support payments in order to assure an adequate supply of physicians trained in various specialties, consistent with the health care needs of the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 53 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Higher Education Accumulation Program Act of 1997 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for amounts paid to a Higher Education Accumulation Program account established to accumulate funds to pay the educational expenses of a child of the taxpayer. Declares such accounts exempt from tax. Allows the deduction in arriving at adjusted gross income. Imposes an excise tax on excess contributions and prohibited transactions. Imposes a penalty for failure to meet reporting requirements.
Bill· HRH.R. 19 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Education and Training Affordability Act of 1997 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual a deduction for the amount of qualified higher education expenses paid by the individual. Limits the amount allowed to $5,000 ($2,500 in case of a married individual filing separately). Provides for a limitation based on modified adjusted gross income and other limitations.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 12 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that: (1) nothing in the Constitution shall be construed to prohibit individual or group prayer in public schools or other public institutions; (2) no person shall be required by the United States or any State to participate in prayer; and (3) neither the United States nor any State shall prescribe the content of any such prayer.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 13 (105th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Designates the minority party membership on the following House committees: (1) Agriculture; (2) Appropriations; (3) Banking and Financial Services; (4) Budget; (5) Commerce; (6) Education and the Workforce; (7) Government Reform and Oversight; (8) House Oversight; (9) International Relations; (10) Judiciary; (11) National Security; (12) Resources; (13) Rules; (14) Transportation and Infrastructure; and (15) Ways and Means.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 12 (105th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Designates the majority party membership on the following House committees: (1) Agriculture; (2) Appropriations; (3) Banking and Financial Services; (4) Budget; (5) Commerce; (6) Education and the Workforce; (7) Government Reform and Oversight; (8) House Oversight; (9) International Relations; (10) Judiciary; (11) National Security; (12) Resources; (13) Rules; (14) Transportation and Infrastructure; (15) Ways and Means; and (16) Standards of Official Conduct.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 5 (105th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1997
Provides for the adoption of the Rules of the House of Representatives of the 104th Congress as the Rules of the House for the 105th Congress with amendments as outlined in this resolution. (Sec. 1) Amends rule I (duties of the Speaker) to allow the Speaker to postpone (for consideration within two legislative days) further proceedings on a vote objected to on the grounds that a quorum is not present with respect to the question of: (1) agreeing to a motion to recommit a bill considered from the Corrections Calendar; or (2) agreeing to an amendment to such a bill. (Sec. 2) Changes (also in rule XI (rules of procedure for committees)) current references to the "contingent fund of the House" to references to "applicable accounts" for committee salaries and expenses, House Information Systems, and allowances and expenses for Members, House officers, and administrative offices of the House. (Sec. 3) Requires the Speaker to develop, through an appropriate House entity, a system for drug testing of House Members, officers, or employees that is comparable in scope to the system for drug testing in the executive branch. (Sec. 4) Amends rule V (Chief Administrative Officer) to provide that the Chief Administrative Officer of the House shall have responsibilities assigned by, shall be subject to the policy direction and oversight of, and shall report to, the Committee on House Oversight (currently, such Committee and the Speaker). (Sec. 5) Amends rule X (establishment and jurisdiction of standing committees) to give jurisdiction over: (1) measures relating to the budget process (currently, the congressional budget process) to the Committee on the Budget; and (2) government management and accounting measures, generally (currently, budget and accounting measures, generally) to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. (Sec. 6) Renames the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities as the Committee on Education and the Workforce. (Sec. 7) Requires the joint approval by the chairman and ranking minority party member of the Committee on House Oversight of the amount of any payment before a House employing office may enter into a settlement of a complaint under the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995. (Sec. 8) Amends rule XI (rules of procedures of committees) to set forth special authorities with respect to the filing of committee investigative and oversight reports. (Sec. 9) Requires each committee to make its publications available in electronic form to the maximum extent feasible. (Sec. 10) Requires the written statement of proposed testimony required to be submitted by a witness appearing before a committee in a nongovernmental capacity to include a curriculum vitae and a disclosure of the amount and source of any Federal grant or contract received during the current fiscal year or either of the two previous fiscal years by such witness or by an entity represented by the witness. (Sec. 11) Repeals provisions prohibiting House committees from sitting, without special leave, while the House is reading a measure for amendment under the five-minute rule. (Sec. 12) Allows a committee to adopt a rule or motion permitting: (1) an equal number of its majority and minority party members each to question a witness for a specified period not longer than 30 minutes; and (2) committee staff for its majority and minority party members to question a witness for equal specified periods. (Sec. 13) Requires each report of a committee on a bill or joint resolution of a public character to include a statement citing the specific powers granted to the Congress in the Constitution to enact the law proposed by such legislation. Repeals a provision requiring each report to contain an inflationary impact statement. (Sec. 14) Changes the period allowed for a committee member to file additional views on any measure approved by the committee from not fewer than three calendar days to not fewer than two additional calendar days after the day the member gives notice of such intent. Permits the committee to arrange to file its report with the Clerk within one hour after the expiration of such time. (Sec. 15) Allows a committee's primary expense resolution to include a reserve fund for unanticipated expenses. Requires the approval of the Committee on House Oversight before any amount from such fund is allocated. (Sec. 16) Amends rule XIII (calendars and reports of committees) to revise procedures for the consideration of bills on the Corrections Calendar. (Sec. 17) Provides that a report from the Committee on Ways and Means on a bill or joint resolution designated by the Majority Leader as major tax legislation may include a dynamic estimate of the changes in Federal revenues expected to result from enactment of the legislation. Requires the Joint Committee on Taxation to render such estimate only in response to a timely request from the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means. (Sec. 18) Amends rule XXI (bills) to prohibit from being reported in a general appropriation bill a provision which makes the availability of funds contingent on the receipt or possession of information not required by existing law for the period of the appropriation. Makes it out of order to consider an amendment of such nature to the bill. (Sec. 19) Defines "income tax rate increase" for purposes of provisions requiring approval of a Federal income tax rate increase by a three-fifths vote as any amendment to specified provisions of the Internal Revenue Code that imposes a new percentage as a rate of tax and thereby increases the amount of tax imposed. (Sec. 20) Amends rule XXIII (Committees of the Whole House) to allow an amendment proposing only to strike an unfunded mandate from the portion of the bill then open to amendment, if otherwise in order, to be precluded from consideration in the Committee of the Whole only by specific terms of a special order of the House. (Sec. 21) Amends rule XXVII (changes or suspension of rules) with regard to motions to discharge filed with the Committee on Rules. (Sec. 22) Amends rule XXXII (admission to the floor) to prohibit a Member, officer, or employee of the House, or any other person entitled to admission to the Hall of the House or rooms leading thereto by this Rule, from knowingly distributing any political campaign contribution in such areas. (Sec. 23) Repeals rule LI (employment practices). (Sec. 25) Amends rule X to establish a Select Committee on Ethics to be composed only of members who served on the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct at the expiration of the 104th Congress. Grants jurisdiction to the Committee only to resolve the statement issued by the Investigative Subcommittee of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct in the 104th Congress relating to the official conduct of Representative Gingrich and otherwise report to the House on the Subcommittee's activities. Abolishes the Committee upon final disposition by the House of a report designated by the Committee as its final report on such matter or at the expiration of January 21, 1997, whichever is earlier.