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Bill· HRH.R. 3566 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1991
Intermodal Surface Transportation Infrastructure Act of 1991 - Declares that: (1) it is a goal of the United States to develop a national intermodal transportation (IT) system that moves people and goods in an energy efficient manner; and (2) the nation's future economic direction is dependent on its ability to confront directly the challenges of the global economy, declining productivity growth, energy vulnerability, air pollution, and the need to rebuild the nation's infrastructure. Title I: Federal-Aid Highways - Declares that the authorizations of appropriations and apportionments for construction of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways (Interstate System - IS) made by this Act are the final authorizations of appropriations and apportionments for completion of construction of the IS. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to apportion for all States (other than Massachusetts) for FY 1993 specified sums authorized for such year by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 for expenditure on the IS, based on the apportionment factors contained in Committee Print 102-24 of the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Extends specified apportionments for the IS through FY 1997. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) obligation ceilings for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs for FY 1992 through 1997, with exceptions; and (2) the distribution of, limitations on, and redistribution of unused, obligation authority. Authorizes appropriations from the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) for: (1) the State flexible program; (2) the National Highway System (NHS); (3) the urban mobility system (UMS); (4) the rural mobility system (RMS); (5) the combined highway safety improvement program; (6) the bridge program; (7) Indian reservation roads; (8) forest highways; (9) public lands highways; (10) parkways and park highways; (11) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) safety programs; and (12) FHWA highway safety research and development programs. Requires: (1) that not less than ten percent of the amounts authorized to be appropriated under titles I, III, V, and VI of this Act be expended with small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and econmically disadvantaged individuals, with exceptions; (2) each State to annually survey and compile a list of disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs) and the location of such concerns in the State, and notify the Secretary, in writing, of the percentage of such concerns which are controlled by women, by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals other than women, and by women who are otherwise socially and economically disadvantaged; and (3) the Secretary to establish minimum uniform criteria for State governments to use in certifying whether a concern qualifies as a DBE. Directs the Comptroller General to: (1) conduct a study of the FHWA's DBE program; and (2) report on the results to specified committees. Makes reductions in specified authorizations. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) freeway service patrols; and (2) budget compliance. Restructures the Federal-aid highway program by reorganizing it into four Federal-aid systems: (1) the IS; (2) the NHS; (3) the UMS; and (4) the RMS. Requires: (1) each State to functionally reclassify the roads and streets in such State; and (2) the Secretary to approve and report to the Congress containing such reclassification and to study and report on route redesignations of the NHS. Directs the Secretary to establish a flexible program under which a State may expend funds apportioned to it for carrying out any project or activity for which Federal funds may be obligated under Federal highway provisions. Requires any State which includes a nonattainment area for transportation-related pollutants under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to expend a percentage of apportioned funds (equal to the percentage of the population of the State residing in such nonattainment areas but not to exceed 50 percent) to carry out in such areas any project or activity for which Federal funds may be obligated under this title. Includes among eligible NHS projects: (1) construction, resurfacing, and rehabilitation of segments of such system; (2) highway safety improvements for segments of such system; (3) highway-related technology transfer activities; (4) fringe and corridor parking; (5) carpool and vanpool projects; (6) bicycle transportation; and (7) participation in wetland mitigation banks and statewide programs to create, conserve, or enhance wetland habitat. Includes among eligible UMS and RMS systems: (1) construction, resurfacing, and rehabilitation of segments of such system; (2) highway safety improvements; (3) public transportation; (4) transportation planning; (5) highway-related and public transportation-related technology transfer activities; (6) bicycle transportation and pedestrian walkways; (7) landscaping, scenic enhancement, and planting of wild flowers; and (8) participation in such wetland mitigation banks and statewide programs. Specifies that with respect to eligible NHS projects and UMS and RMS systems: (1) contributions toward wetland mitigation efforts may occur in advance of specific project activity to build up credit for future projects that may impact upon wetlands; and (2) participation in such wetlands conservation projects shall not serve to exempt any highway construction project from any applicable requirement of Federal law. Authorizes appropriations under the interstate substitute program for highway and transit projects. Makes funds authorized to be appropriated for substitute transit projects for FY 1993 and 1995 available until expended. (Under current law, such funds are available for the fiscal year for which apportioned or allocated and for the succeeding fiscal year.) Sets forth provisions with respect to apportionments: (1) under the interstate substitute program; and (2) for the NHS, RMS, UMS, and the State flexible program. Limits the transferability of NHS apportionments, but provides special transferability rules for nonattainment areas for carbon monoxide or ozone under the CAA. Increases the set-aside for metropolitan planning. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the manner in which alternative fuels are treated for purposes of determining a State's relative revenue contributions to the HTF. Revises program and project approval provisions to bar the Secretary from approving: (1) any project in a proposed program which is not eligible for assistance under Federal highway provisions; (2) projects after September 30, 1992, which are not included in a transportation improvement program (TIP); (3) any program of projects in an urbanized area not based on the planning process (under Federal highway provisions) and without consideration by the State of the views of responsible public officials of the affected area; (4) a highway project (other than a project for construction of high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes) in an urbanized area of more than 200,000 population which will significantly increase the motor vehicle carrying capacity of a highway facility unless the project is consistent with a congestion management system for such area; and (5) a highway project for new construction or reconstruction within the boundaries of a State along which a pedestrian walkway or a bicycle transportation facility is required to be included under the State TIP unless such walkway or facility is part of such highway project, with exceptions. Directs the Secretary, in approving programs for: (1) NHS projects in non-urbanized areas, to require that such projects be selected by the State in consultation with appropriate local officials; (2) RMS projects, to require that such projects be selected by the State highway department, appropriate local officials, and Indian tribal governments in cooperation with each other, with exceptions; (3) NHS projects, to give preference to such projects as will expedite the completion of an adequate and connected system of highways interstate in character; (4) UMS projects, to require that such projects be selected by the designated metropolitan planning organization (MPO) in consultation with the State; and (5) Federal-aid systems, to give priority to projects which incorporate improved standards and features with safety benefits. Authorizes the Secretary, in approving programs, to give priority of approval to, and expedite the construction of, projects that are recommended by specified officials as important to the national defense. Specifies that, in preparing programs to submit for approval, the Secretary and the State: (1) shall give consideration to projects providing direct and convenient public access to public airports, public ports for water transportation, new town communities, and new town-intown communities; and (2) may give priority to projects for the reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, or rehabilitation of highways which are incurring a substantial use as a result of transportation activities to meet national energy requirements and which will continue to incur such use. Sets forth provisions with respect to preconstruction activities and contracting for engineering and design services. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress a national list of rights-of-way identified by the MPOs and the States, including a strategy for preventing further loss of rights-of-way and the desirability of creating a transportation right-of-way land bank to preserve vital corridors. Authorizes the States, MPOs, or units of local government (using NHS, UMS, or RMS funds) to purchase threatened rights-of-way, subject to certain limitations. Directs the Secretary, in approving such purchases, to give priority to those rights-of-way most imminently threatened with being lost to transportation purposes. Specifies that this Act shall not be construed to affect the Federal share established by the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1983, for highway construction on the IS. Directs the Secretary to advance the State of Washington emergency relief funds for the replacement of a bridge on the IS damaged by storms in November 1990. Sets forth provisions with respect to the Federal share and repayment of funds. Bars States from allowing a longer combination vehicle (LCV) to be operated on the IS within its boundaries without having its apportionment of funds withheld, unless authorized under this title. Authorizes a State to continue to allow LCVs lawfully operated on June 1, 1991 to operate on the IS within its boundaries, subject to specified requirements. Establishes separate requirements for the State of Wyoming. Makes additional exceptions with respect to the operation of certain specialized hauling vehicles on Interstate Route 68 in Garrett and Alleghany Counties, Maryland. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study of State and Federal regulations pertaining to transporters of water well drilling rigs on public highways to identify requirements which place a burden on such transporters without enhancing safety or preservation of public highways; and (2) report to the Congress within two years on the results of such study. Exempts firefighting vehicles from axle weight limitations and the bridge formula for vehicles using the IS for two years, subject to renewal for an additional year. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of State laws regulating the use on the IS of such vehicles and the issuance of permits by States exempting such vehicles from such requirements to determine whether or not: (1) such State laws and Federal highway provisions need to be modified; (2) a permanent exemption should be made for such vehicles; or (3) the bridge formula should be modified as it applies to such vehicles. Sets forth reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary to permit Federal participation in the initial construction (current law authorizes such participation in construction) and 4R projects with respect to toll highways, bridges, or tunnels, conversion of toll-free bridges or tunnels to toll facilities, and preliminary studies to determine the feasibility of a toll facility for which Federal participation is authorized on the same basis as in the construction of free highways. Sets forth provisions with respect to ownership of such facilities, limitations on the use of revenues and on the Federal share, and modification of agreements to allow Federal participation. Eliminates the public operation requirement for toll ferries. Directs the Secretary, subject to specified circumstances, to void certain agreements with respect to: (1) the Fort McHenry Tunnel, Maryland; and (2) the I-78 Delaware River Bridge. Specifies that any new agreement shall permit the continuation of tolls without repayment of Federal funds and shall provide that all toll revenues be used first for repayment of the non-Federal cost of construction, second for operation and maintenance costs, and for other specified purposes. Replaces railway-highway crossing provisions with provisions for a combined highway safety improvement program, under which each State shall: (1) conduct and systematically maintain an engineering survey of all highways to identify hazardous locations, as well as railroad crossings which may require separation, relocation, protective devices, or pedestrian stoplights; (2) assign priorities for correction; and (3) establish and implement a schedule of projects for improvements so identified. Sets the Federal share for projects under such program at 80 percent of the cost. Authorizes the Secretary to classify the various types of projects involved in the elimination of hazards of railway-highway crossings and set for each classification a percentage of the costs of construction deemed to represent the net benefit to the railroads for the purpose of determining the railroads' share of construction costs. Sets forth provisions with respect to liability for construction cost, discharge of liability, and enforcement of Act requirements. Provides for the apportionment of funds. Directs the Secretary to set aside: (1) $300,000 for Operation Life Saver (a public information and education program to prevent and reduce motor vehicle accidents, injuries, and fatalities, and to improve driver performance at railway-highway crossings); and (2) $10,000,000 for railway-highway crossing hazard elimination in high speed rail corridors. Authorizes the use of funds by local governments for the improvement of railway-highway crossings under specified circumstances. Requires each State to: (1) establish an evaluation process to assess results achieved by highway safety improvement projects and develop cost-benefit data for various types of corrections and treatments which shall be used in setting priorities for such projects; and (2) submit progress reports to the Secretary by December 30 of each year. Directs the Secretary to: (1) revise the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices and such other regulations and agreements of the FHWA as necessary to authorize States and local governments to install stop or yield signs at any rail-highway grade crossing without automatic traffic control devices with two or more trains operating across such crossing per day; (2) initiate a rulemaking proceeding to revise the guidelines and standards for the installation of roadside barriers and other safety appurtenances, reflecting state-of-the-art designs, testing, and evaluating criteria contained in the National Cooperative Highway Research Program Report 230 (relating to approval standards which provide an enhanced level of crashworthy performance to accommodate vans, mini-vans, pickup trucks, and four-wheel drive vehicles); and (3) complete such proceeding and issue a final rule regarding the implementation of revised guidelines and standards for acceptable roadside barriers and other safety appurtenances (which shall accommodate vans, mini-vans, pickup trucks, and four-wheel drive vehicles and shall be applicable to the refurbishment and replacement of existing, as well as the installation of new, roadside barriers and safety appurtenances). Sets forth provisions with respect to the control of outdoor advertising. Directs MPOs, in cooperation with the State, to develop transportation plans and programs for urbanized areas of the State which provide for the development of transportation facilities (including pedestrian walkways and bicycle transportation facilities) which will function as an IT system for the State and such urbanized areas. Provides for the designation or redesignation of MPOs for each urbanized area of the State. Sets forth provisions with respect to the area covered by the transportation planning process and the factors to be considered in developing transportation plans and programs, such as: (1) applicable Federal, State, and local energy conservation programs, goals, and objectives; (2) applicable CAA requirements; (3) methods to reduce traffic congestion; (4) the effect of transportation decisions on land use and development; (5) the use of innovative mechanisms for financing projects; (6) long-range needs of transportation systems in the urbanized area; (7) methods to enhance the efficient movement of commercial motor vehicles; and (8) with respect to bridges and tunnels, life-cycle costs in the design and engineering for the bridge or tunnel. Sets forth special rules for urbanized areas of greater than 200,000 population. Requires each MPO designated for an urbanized area to: (1) develop a long-range transportation plan and a TIP for the area for which such organization is designated; (2) provide citizens, affected public agencies, representatives of transportation agency employees, other affected employee representatives, private providers of transportation, and other interested parties with a reasonable opportunity to comment on the proposed plan; (3) develop a long-range comprehensive plan for bicycle transportation and pedestrian walkways for such area which shall be incorporated into the long-range transportation plan for such area; and (4) review and approve TIPs at least biannually. Directs the Secretary to establish in the Department of Transportation (DOT) an advisory committee to review: (1) the planning process being utilized by MPOs; (2) the composition and organization of such MPOs; (3) the impact on such MPOs of changing demographics and increased responsibilities under Federal highway provisions and under the CAA; and (4) the relationship between the MPO and statewide planning processes. Sets forth reporting requirements. Sets forth provisions with respect to statewide planning that are analogous to those for metropolitan planning. Authorizes: (1) the Secretary to develop highway construction training and assistance programs in cooperation with Indian tribal governments; (2) the States to implement a preference for employment of Indians on projects carried out under this title near Indian reservations; (3) the use of RMS or UMS funds for capital improvement to provide access and coordination between intercity and rural bus service, and for construction of facilities to provide connections between highway transportation and other modes of transportation; and (4) the Secretary to approve as a project on any Federal-aid system modifications to existing highway facilities on such system necessary to accommodate other modes of transportation if such modifications will not adversely effect automotive safety or future highway improvements. Makes public mass transportation projects in urbanized areas subject to metropolitan planning requirements under this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) inventory all highway bridges on Indian reservation roads and park bridges; (2) classify them according to serviceability, safety, and essentiality for public use; (3) assign each a priority for replacement or rehabilitation; and (4) determine the cost of replacing such bridge with a comparable facility or of rehabilitating such bridge. Authorizes the Secretary to approve Federal participation in the painting of, or application of calcium magnesium acetate to, the structure of highway bridges upon application by a State for assistance. Provides for the apportionment of discretionary bridge program funds. Authorizes the expenditure of certain funds to rehabilitate, paint, or apply calcium magnesium acetate to highway bridges located on public roads other than those on the Federal-aid system. Requires that projects not on a Federal-aid system be designed, constructed, operated, and maintained in accordance with State laws, regulations, directives, and safety, design, and construction standards. Requires a set-aside for such activities with respect to Indian reservation bridges. Directs the Secretary, upon determining a State bridge apportionment and before transferring funds to the States, to transfer the Indian reservation bridge allocation to the Secretary of the Interior for expenditure pursuant to this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out specified high cost bridge projects. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth provisions with respect to allocation percentages, the Federal share (80 percent), delegation of responsibility to the States, and advance construction. Continues existing apportionment criteria. Makes permanent the extension of the 65 miles per hour speed limit demonstration program. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations with respect to: (1) the monitoring of programs conducted by the States to ensure uniformity; and (2) the placing of devices and equipment at such locations on maximum speed limit highways on a scientifically random basis which take into account the relative risk of motor vehicle accidents occurring, considering the classes of such highways and the speeds at which vehicles are traveling on such classes of highways. Sets forth a formula for the transfer of a State's apportionment of Federal highway funds if such State fails to adequately enforce the speed limit. Requires a State to obligate at least 50 percent of any funds transferred under this title for a fiscal year for speed limit enforcement and public information and education. Requires the Secretary to carry out such provisions through the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA). Provides for the transfer of certain FHWA personnel to the NHTSA to carry out such provisions. Directs the Secretary: (1) in FY 1992 and each fiscal year thereafter, to allocate among the States amounts sufficient to ensure that a State's percentage of the total apportionments in each such fiscal year and allocations for the prior fiscal year for Federal-aid highway programs, with exceptions, shall not be less than 90 percent of the percentage of estimated tax payments attributable to highway users in such State paid into the HTF (other than the Mass Transit Account) in the latest fiscal year for which data is available; and (2) in each of FY 1992 through 1997, to make supplemental minimum allocations based upon authorizations for special projects. Authorizes a State, subject to approval by the Secretary, to obligate: (1) UMS and flexible program funds for the construction of pedestrian walkways and bicycle transportation facilities and for carrying out-non-construction projects related to safe bicycle use; and (2) NHS funds for such construction adjacent to any highway on the NHS (other than the IS). Authorizes the use of Federal lands highway funds, at the discretion of the department charged with the administration of such funds, for the construction of such walkways and facilities in conjunction with trails, roads, highways, and parkways on Federal lands. Requires each State receiving an apportionment under this title to fund, in the State transportation department, a position of bicycle and pedestrian coordinator. Authorizes, with respect to highway bridge deck replacement or rehabilitation, such replacement or rehabilitation so as to provide for the safe accommodation of bicycles, subject to certain conditions. Sets the Federal share of pedestrian walkway and bicycle transportation facility construction at 80 percent. Requires such walkways and facilities to be located and designed pursuant to an overall plan to be developed by each MPO and State and incorporated into their comprehensive annual long-range plans, which shall provide due consideration for safety and contiguous routes. Limits the use of motorized vehicles on pedestrian walkways and trails under this title. Bars any bicycle project under this Act from being carried out unless the Secretary has determined that such project will be principally for transportation, rather than recreation, purposes. Requires that: (1) two percent of funds made available for Indian reservation roads for each fiscal year be allocated to those Indian tribal governments applying for transportation planning; and (2) the Indian tribal government develop a TIP that includes all Indian reservation road projects proposed for funding. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study on differences between the use of funds out of the HTF on, and the designation of roads as, Indian reservation roads and rural mobility highways; and (2) report to the Congress on the results, together with any recommendations for correcting inequities identified under such study. Requires the Secretary, within one year, to issue regulations for State development, establishment, and implementation of a system (which may include a compliance schedule and minimum standards) for managing: (1) highway pavement of the Federal-aid system; (2) bridges on and off such system; (3) highway and transportation safety; (4) traffic congestion; (5) public transportation facilities and equipment; and (6) IT facilities and systems. Directs the Secretary to issue guidelines and requirements for the State development, establishment, and implementation of a traffic monitoring system for highways and public transportation facilities and equipment. Sets forth additional provisions with respect to State requirements, intermodal requirements, reporting requirements, funding, and congressional review of regulations. Authorizes appropriations for specified congestion relief projects. Sets forth provisions with respect to allocation percentages, the Federal share, delegation to the States, and advance construction. Prohibits: (1) the discovery (current law only bars the admission as evidence) of certain reports and surveys compiled to develop a highway safety construction improvement project to enhance the safety of potential accident sites or hazardous conditions; and (2) the Secretary from using iron in highway or urban transit projects (current law specifies only steel and manufactured products used in such projects) that has not been produced in the United States. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) relocation assistance regulations relating to the Rural Electrification Administration; (2) a temporary matching fund waiver regarding qualifying State projects; (3) repayment of increases in the Federal share; and (4) deductions from State apportionments where a State has not made the required repayment on or before March 30, 1994. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to submit to the Congress a report on purchases from foreign entities granted waivers from "Buy America" provisions in FY 1992 and 1993, indicating the dollar value of items for which such waivers were granted. Makes ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds authorized under this Act any person determined by a court or Federal agency to have intentionally: (1) affixed a label bearing a "Made in America" inscription to any product used in projects under Federal highway provisions, sold in or shipped to the United States, that was not made in the United States; or (2) represented that any product used in such projects, sold in or shipped to the United States that was not produced in the United States, was produced in the United States. Specifies that such waiver shall not apply to products produced in a foreign country if the Secretary determines that such country: (1) is a party to an agreement with the United States pursuant to which the head of a U.S. agency has granted a waiver; and (2) has violated the terms of such agreement by discriminating against specified U.S.-produced products. Identifies and authorizes appropriations for specified high priority corridors on the NHS. Sets forth provisions with respect to allocation percentages, the Federal share, delegation to the States, and advance construction. Directs the Secretary to: (1) include all such corridors on the proposed NHS as submitted to the Congress; (2) prepare a long-range plan for the upgrading of each corridor to the appropriate standards for highways on the NHS, including separate plans for developing the corridor and financing the development; (3) prepare feasibility and design studies, as necessary, for those corridors for which such studies have not been prepared; and (4) use procedures for acceleration of projects in carrying out projects on high priority corridors. Requires each State in which a priority segment is located to prepare a detailed plan for completion of construction on such segment and for financing such construction. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth criteria for States to use in selecting high priority segments of corridors of national significance. Authorizes appropriations out of the HTF for feasibility and design studies under this title. Directs the Secretary to establish a Priority Corridor Revolving Loan Fund. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants under a highway bridge research and demonstration program. Directs the Secretary to: (1) take such action as necessary to ensure that information and technology resulting from such research is made available to State and local transportation departments and other interested persons; and (2) make grants to States for construction of highway timber bridges on the RMS. Sets forth provisions with respect to applications, approval criteria, the Federal share, and funding for such grants. Requires the Secretary to carry out a program for ferry boat construction. Bars the Secretary from disapproving, for five years, a highway project solely on the ground that it includes the use of asphalt containing recycled rubber. Specifies that a patented application process for recycled rubber shall be eligible for approval under the same conditions that an unpatented process is eligible. Directs the Secretary to: (1) gather information and recommendations concerning such use in highway projects from those States that have extensively researched and experimented with such use, and make available such information and recommendations to States which indicate an interest in such use; (2) conduct a study to evaluate the economic savings, technical performance qualities, and environmental benefits of using recycled materials in highway projects and report the results to the Congress; and (3) encourage the use of recycled materials in federally-assisted highway projects where such materials are available for the project if such use, in comparison to conventional materials, has been demonstrated to supply equal or superior performance qualities and environmental benefits at equal or lesser cost over the economic life of the project. Directs the Secretary to carry out highway use tax evasion projects, subject to specified limitations. Authorizes the Secretary to allocate specified funds to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the States for such purposes. Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study to determine the feasibility and desirability of using dye and markers to aid in motor fuel tax enforcement activities and other purposes; and (2) establish an advisory committee to prepare a plan to carry out and coordinate highway use tax evasion projects, monitor the results, provide progress reports to the Secretary, and make recommendations to the Secretary for the distribution of funds. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) termination of such committee; (2) State certification requirements (that the State will maintain motor fuel tax enforcement activities at a certain level); (3) reporting requirements; and (4) funding of such projects. Authorizes the Secretary to approve substitute highway, bus transit, and light rail transit projects in lieu of construction of the I-94 East-West Transitway project in Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties, Wisconsin. Directs the Comptroller General to complete a study on equipment rental rates for use in reimbursing contractors for extra work on Federal-aid projects. Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish within DOT an advisory committee to assist the Secretary with respect to the establishment of a national scenic byways program; and (2) provide technical assistance and make grants to the States for the planning, design, and development of State scenic byways programs. Sets forth provisions with respect to the membership, function, and reporting requirements of such committee; the Federal share (80 percent); and funding provisions. Establishes an interim scenic byways program during FY 1992 through 1994. Authorizes appropriations. Specifies the Federal share (80 percent). Makes funds available for such years, subject to specified limitations. Directs the Secretary to carry out a highway project in Arkansas to demonstrate: (1) the benefits of providing training to county and town traffic officials in the need for and application of uniform traffic control devices; and (2) safety benefits of providing for adequate and safe warning and regulatory signs. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out specified: (1) rural access projects; and (2) urban access and mobility projects. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth provisions with respect to allocation percentages, the Federal share, delegation to the States, and advance construction. Directs: (1) the Secretary to carry out a project to make modifications to bridges necessary for the Secretary of the Army to carry out a project for flood control at Molly Ann's Brook, New Jersey (NJ); and (2) the Governor of NJ to carry out all the responsibilities of the Secretary with respect to highway construction projects in Passaic and Bergen Counties, NJ. Sets forth provisions with respect to certain regulatory interpretations concerning: (1) the coating of steel; and (2) the funding of fusees and flares. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the progress being made by the States in adopting and implementing a uniform system for handicapped parking. Sets forth reporting requirements. Requires that: (1) not less than five percent of the mileage of roadside barriers installed along Federal-aid highways within the boundaries of a State in each calendar year be innovative safety barriers; and (2) each State annually certify to the Secretary compliance with such requirement. Directs the Secretary to conduct a survey to identify current State standards relating to geometric design, traffic control devices, roadside safety, safety appurtenance design, uniform traffic control devices, and sign legibility and directional clarity for all Federal-aid highways, taking into consideration posted speed limits as they relate to highway design. Sets forth reporting requirements. Sets forth: (1) the effective date of this title; and (2) provisions with respect to the availability and transferability of unobligated balances. Authorizes appropriations for specified innovative projects. Sets forth provisions with respect to allocation percentages, the Federal share, delegation to the States, advance construction, and reporting requirements. Exempts certain toll pilot projects in Orange County California, from requirements applicable to public parks, recreation areas, and wildlife and waterfowl refuges. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study of the advisability and feasibility of establishing an international border highway infrastructure discretionary program; (2) conduct a study to determine an appropriate symbol or emblem to be placed on highway signs referring to the IS to commemorate the vision of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in creating the IS; and (3) report on each to the Congress. Makes unobligated balances of funds previously authorized under the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 for demonstration projects available for projects located in Tampa, Florida; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and from Larkspur to Korbel, California. Renames the U.S. Route 68 bridge across the Ohio River between Aberdeen, Ohio, and Marysville, Kentucky, as the William H. Harsha Bridge. Bars the Secretary from recognizing any certification made by a State on the safety of motorbikes on HOV lanes that was made prior to the enactment of this Act until the Secretary publishes notice of, and provides opportunity for public comment on, such certification. Directs the Secretary to: (1) encourage the States to provide for equitable participation in the use of tourist-oriented directional or logo signs along the IS and Federal-aid primary system; (2) conduct a study, and report to the Congress, on the participation in the use of such signs and State practices with respect to such use; and (3) conduct a study, and report to the Congress, regarding the feasibility of constructing a four-lane highway connecting Interstate Routes 65 and ten in the vicinity of Pensacola, Florida. Amends the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 to include Calhoun County, Mississippi, in Appalachia. Provides that, in the case of specified highway projects which would otherwise be eligible for assistance, or projects on a federally-owned bridge, the Federal share shall be 100 percent. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop a proposed work zone safety program to improve work zone safety at highway construction sites; and (2) issue regulations for the establishment of value engineering review programs by the States. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations for various specified highway and highway-related projects throughout the United States. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973 to extend the railroad relocation and demonstration program through 1994 (currently, in effect through 1991). Renames a highway bypass in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, as the J. Clifford Naugle Bypass. Authorizes an interim advance construction program, subject to specified limitations. Directs the Secretary to approve the construction of a specified DOT project in Fulton County, Georgia, subject to specified limitations. Authorizes the Secretary to fund the production of a documentary, in cooperation with a not-for-profit national public television station, to create awareness by the public and State and local governments of the nation's infrastructure and to encourage studies and projects to improve the infrastructure. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to collect and analyze data on the volume of traffic crossing specified U.S.-Canadian bridges. Expresses the sense of the Congress that State and local governments should encourage the environmentally safe use of compost and fertilizer products derived from treated municipal sewage sludge along the rights-of-way of Federal-aid highways. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study of State compliance with requirements for revocation and suspension of drivers' licenses; and (2) report to the Congress on the results of such study. Requires the Secretary to establish a private sector involvement program to encourage States to contract with private firms for engineering and design services in carrying out Federal-aid highway projects. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) grants to States; and (2) reporting requirements. Sets forth provisions with respect to the repayment of funds by New Hampshire to the United States. Title II: Highway Safety - Requires (as a prerequisite to the Secretary's approval) that each State's highway safety program include the following programs: (1) drunk driving; (2) speeding; (3) occupant protection; (4) emergency medical services; (5) motorcycle safety; (6) uniform data collection and reporting; (7) accident location; (8) highway design, construction, and maintenance; and (9) traffic engineering. Permits the Secretary to approve a State's highway safety program only if it includes three or more of the following programs: (1) bicycle safety; (2) pedestrian safety; (3) school bus safety; (4) traffic record system; (5) police traffic services; and (6) such other programs as the Secretary may establish by regulation. Bars the Secretary from approving a State highway safety program that does not: (1) provide that at least 40 percent of Federal funds apportioned to the State for a fiscal year be expended by the political subdivisions of the State, including Indian tribal governments (current law makes no mention of tribal governments); and (2) provide adequate and reasonable access for the safe and convenient movement of individuals with disabilities (currently, physically handicapped persons). Authorizes the Secretary to waive the 40 percent requirement whenever the Secretary determines that there are an insufficient number of local highway safety programs to justify the expenditure in the State of such percentage of Federal funds during the fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations establishing minimum standards for State highway safety programs to be approved under this title which: (1) with respect to the drunk driving, speeding, occupant protection, and police traffic services programs, must include public information, education, and law enforcement components; and (2) may require a State highway safety program to include adoption and enforcement of State law authorizing the use of automatic speed detection devices by law enforcement officers. Specifies that such highway safety requirements and regulations shall, to the extent deemed appropriate by the Secretary, be applicable to federally administered areas where a Federal agency controls the highways or supervises traffic operations. Applies provisions of this title to Indian reservations. Specifies that 95 percent of the funds apportioned to the Secretary of the Interior under this title shall be expended by Indian tribes to carry out highway safety programs within their jurisdictions. Bars the admission as evidence or use in any action for damages of traffic record system data. Sets forth reporting requirements with respect to legislation necessary to implement programs developed by the Secretary to reduce traffic-related deaths and injuries. Revises highway safety research and development provisions to authorize the Secretary to: (1) use appropriated funds to engage in research on all phases of highway safety and traffic conditions; and (2) undertake, on a cost-shared basis, collaborative research and development with non-Federal entities which may include crash data collection and analysis, driver and pedestrian behavior, and demonstrations of technology. Bars the Secretary from agreeing to provide more than 50 percent of the cost of any such research and development project. Revises drunk driving provisions to authorize the Secretary to make grants to States which adopt and implement effective programs to reduce traffic safety problems resulting from persons driving while under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance. Requires States, to be eligible for basic grants, to provide for: (1) the prompt suspension, for a period of not less than 90 days for a first offender and one year for a repeat offender, of the driver's license of any individual who a law enforcement officer has probable cause under State law to believe has committed an alcohol-related traffic offense and who is determined, based on one or more chemical tests, to be intoxicated or who refuses to submit to such a test; (2) a mandatory sentence, of imprisonment for not less than 48 consecutive hours or not less than 100 days of community service, not subject to suspension or probation, for any person convicted of driving while intoxicated (as defined by this Act) more than once in any five-year period; (3) a statewide program for stopping motor vehicles on a nondiscriminatory, lawful basis to determine whether or not operators of such vehicles are driving while under the influence of alcohol; and (4) a self-sustaining drunk driving prevention program under which a significant portion of the fines or surcharges collected from individuals apprehended and fined for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol are returned, or an equivalent amount of non-Federal funds are provided, to those communities which have comprehensive programs for the prevention of such operation of motor vehicles. Modifies or adds provisions with respect to supplemental grants, limits on administrative expenses, apportionment of funds, and reapportionment of noneligible State funds. Authorizes the Secretary, in the case of a local highway program carried out by an Indian tribe with insufficient funds to meet the non-Federal cost of such program, to increase the Federal share of the cost. Directs the Secretary to make $17,000,000 available for each of FY 1993 through 1997 to carry out drunk driving provisions. Allows States which have been eligible for such grants before the date of the enactment of this Act to elect to receive in a fiscal year grants under such provisions, as so in effect, in lieu of receiving in such fiscal year grants under such provisions, as amended by this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States which have in effect specified State motorcycle helmet and safety belt use laws to: (1) educate the public about motorcycle and passenger vehicle safety, and motorcycle helmet, safety belt, and child restraint system use, and to involve public health education and other related agencies in such efforts; and (2) train law enforcement officers in the enforcement of, monitor the rate or compliance with, and enforce, such laws. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) the maintenance of State expenditures for traffic safety programs; (2) the Federal share of the cost; (3) eligibility requirements; (4) measuring rates of compliance; and (5) penalties for failing to have in effect such laws. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) NHTSA highway safety and highway safety research and development, programs; and (2) the alcohol traffic safety incentive grant program. Directs the Secretary, acting through the NHTSA, to establish a regional program for implementation of drug recognition programs and for training law enforcement officers to recognize and identify individuals who are operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or one or more controlled substances or other drugs. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary to establish a citizens advisory committee to report to the Congress. Specifies that such committee shall include one member of Mothers Against Drunk Driving and one member of a narcotics control organization. Amends the National Driver Register Act of 1982 to make authorizations of appropriations for highway safety educational programming and a study of the use of mass media to educate the public of ways of reducing the number and severity of highway accidents. Title III: Federal Transit Act of 1991 - Amends Federal law to rename the Urban Mass Transportation Administration of DOT the Federal Transit Administration. Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 (the Act) to delete specified provisions relating to the authority of the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) to issue letters of intent with respect to grants and loans for mass transportation projects. Directs the Secretary to apportion certain amounts for FY 1992 through 1997 for rail and guideway modernization for certain urbanized areas. Earmarks a portion of the funds made available for construction of new fixed guideway systems and extensions for obligation at the Secretary's discretion for systems planning, alternative analysis, and preliminary engineering. Earmarks a specified amount at the Secretary's discretion for grants to States and local public bodies and agencies to prevent crime and to increase security in existing and future transit systems. Revises certain criteria to prohibit the making of grants or loans for construction of new fixed guideway systems or extensions unless such proposed projects: (1) have undergone a cost-effectiveness analysis; and (2) are included, after September 30, 1992, in a transportation improvement program. Requires the Secretary to report annually to specified congressional committees on factors which the Secretary considers they should use in authorizing such projects. Allocates on a percentage basis grants or loans for mass transportation projects for FY 1992 through 1997 for: (1) rail modernization; (2) construction of new fixed guideway systems and extensions to such systems; (3) replacement, rehabilitation, and purchase of buses and related equipment and the construction of bus-related facilities; and (4) apportionments to States for eligible capital projects and Federal highway programs. Prohibits States (other than the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands) from receiving for any fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1991, less than one-third of one percent of funds available from the Mass Transit Account of the HTF for transportation projects under this Act. Treats such named territories together as one State. Makes provisions of title 23 of the United States Code (relating to Federal-aid highway projects) applicable to State projects that are funded under this Act. Sets at 80 percent (or any lower percentage mandated) the Federal share of costs with respect to Federal-aid highway and mass transportation projects. Authorizes the remainder of net project costs of a planned extension to a fixed guideway system to include the cost of rolling stock previously purchased if an applicant demonstrates that such purchase was made: (1) solely with non-Federal funds; and (2) for use on such extension. Increases the percentages of block grant funds available for expenditure for mass transportation projects in urbanized areas with more than, and less than, a population of 200,000, respectively. Extends the Secretary's authority to investigate safety conditions of mass transportation projects financed under the block grant program. Redefines the term "associated capital maintenance items" to include supplies (except for fuels and lubricants). Provides for an annual increase in the amount of mass transportation funds that may be used for operating assistance by urbanized areas regardless of size (currently, for urbanized areas with less than a population of 200,000). Authorizes States to transfer their apportionment of mass transportation block grant funds for urbanized areas with populations with less than 200,000 to their apportionment for Federal-aid highway projects. Treats any area that has been designated as an urbanized area under the 1980 census and not under the 1990 census as an urbanized area eligible to receive mass transportation funds. Requires contracts for engineering and design services with respect to mass transportation projects to be performed and audited in compliance with cost principles contained in the Federal acquisition regulations of the Code of Federal Regulations. Defines "transit" to mean mass transportation. Requires the Secretary, not later than January 31, 1992, to issue regulations requiring a pre-award and post-delivery audit with respect to any Federal grant for the purchase of rail rolling stock and for the purchase of IS or more buses in order to assure compliance with certain Federal motor vehicle safety, Buy American, and bid specifications requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to any public body for any public purpose facilities and equipment and other assets (including land) acquired by a recipient of Federal transportation funds but no longer needed. Sets forth specified determinations to be made by the Secretary with respect to the transfer of such assets for purposes other than for mass transportation. Defines a turnkey system project as a vendor-specific project under which a recipient contracts with a vendor to build a transit system that meets specific performance criteria and which is operated by such vendor for a period of time. Authorizes the Secretary to allow the solicitation for a turnkey system project to be conditionally awarded before Federal requirements are met so long as such award is made without prejudice to such requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and loans to private nonprofit corporations and associations in order to pay operating expenses related to new and existing transportation services that meet the special needs of elderly and handicapped persons. Authorizes transit service providers who receive Federal transportation assistance under programs for elderly and handicapped persons and rural transportation programs to assist in providing meal delivery service for homebound persons if such service does not conflict with the provision or result in a reduction of mass transportation services. Authorizes States to transfer portions of their apportionment of formula grants for public transportation projects in rural areas to their apportionment for Federal-aid highway projects. Requires the Secretary, before apportioning any such formula grants after September 30, 1991, to set aside a specified amount for the development and support of intercity bus transportation. Defines the term "construction" with regard to transportation construction projects to include acquisition of materials and supplies. Authorizes appropriations from the Treasury and the Mass Transit Account of the HTF for FY 1992 through 1997 for: (1) block grants for mass transportation projects in urbanized areas; (2) formula grants for public transportation projects in rural areas; (3) mass transportation and construction projects (including capital maintenance items); (4) rural transportation programs; (5) mass transportation services for elderly and handicapped persons; (6) projects for the deployment of innovative techniques and methods in the management and operation of public transportation services; (7) transportation research, development, and demonstration projects; (8) long-range transportation planning programs and technical studies; (9) grants to public and private nonprofit educational institutions to assist in establishing comprehensive research in the problems of transportation urban areas; (10) rural transit assistance programs; (11) human resources programs in public transportation activities; (12) administrative expenses of the Secretary; (13) a certain survey of the future transit needs of the Nation and a study on the transferability of transit funds for nontransit purposes; and (14) university transportation centers. Makes funds available from the HTF (other than the Mass Transit Account) for FY 1992 through 1997 for such transportation centers. Makes specified Federal transportation funds available to the Secretary for making grants, or entering into contracts, for: (1) transportation research, development, and demonstration projects; (2) long-range transportation planning programs and technical studies; (3) fellowships for training of personnel employed in managerial, technical, and professional positions in the public transportation field; (4) public and private nonprofit educational institutions to assist in establishing comprehensive research in the problems of transportation in urban areas; (5) rural transit assistance programs; or (6) human resources programs in public transportation activities. Requires the Secretary to make a specified amount of such funds available for transit-related technical assistance, demonstration programs, special demonstration initiatives, research, public education, and other activities that the Secretary deems appropriate to help transit providers comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. Requires the Secretary to establish an entrepreneurial transportation services program to provide grants and loans to assist in the development of private transportation services to meet new transportation needs and complement public transportation services. Earmarks specified funds for: (1) an inertial navigation system demonstration project to determine the safety, economic, and environmental benefits of deploying inertial navigation tracking and control systems in urban and rural environments. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake a program of transit technology development. Requires the Secretary to establish an industry technical panel to assist in identifying priority technology development areas and in establishing guidelines for project development, project cost sharing, and project execution. Earmarks a specified amount of funds for: (1) State transit cooperative research programs; and (2) State and local transportation planning, research, and training in urbanized areas. Requires the Secretary, as part of the transit cooperative research program, to establish an independent governing board to recommend transit research, development, and technology transfer activities. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and enter into cooperative agreements with, the National Academy of Sciences to implement such activities. Directs the Secretary to enter into a full funding grant agreement with a public entity for construction of a suspended light rail system technology pilot project. Requires the Secretary to report biennially to specified congressional committees: (1) an estimate of the future transit needs of the nation, including in rural areas (particularly access to health care facilities); and (2) a study on the transferability of transit funds for nontransit purposes. Requires the Secretary to enter into a full funding grant agreement for the provision of Federal transportation assistance to the New Jersey Urban Core Project. Exempts such project from certain requirements under the Act relating to criteria for new construction of fixed guideway systems. Directs the Secretary to complete a draft environmental impact statement for an extension of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) to the San Francisco International Airport. Directs the Secretary to make grants to BART and to Santa Clara County Transit District (SCCTD) to conduct preliminary engineering and complete environmental impact statements on the locally preferred alternative for the extension of BART to the San Francisco International Airport and for the Tasman Corridor Project. Sets forth a schedule for approval of the construction of such projects. Directs the Secretary, upon such approval, to execute a multiyear grant agreement with BART to permit the expenditure of funds for the construction of the BART San Francisco International Airport Extension and with SCCTD for the construction of the Tasman Corridor Project. Requires the Secretary to execute full funding grant agreements (consistent with Metropolitan Transportation Commission Resolution No. 1876) with BART for Colma and the San Francisco International Airport, and with SCCTD for the Tasman Corridor Project. Requires the Secretary, not later than April 1, 1992, to complete and publish in the Federal Register a final supplemental environmental impact statement for Minimum Operable Segment-3 (other than the East Side Extension) of the Los Angeles Metro Rail Project. Requires the Secretary to negotiate with the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission on an amendment to a specified full funding contract for construction of Minimum Operable Segment-2 of the Los Angeles Metro Rail Project in order to include construction of Minimum Operable Segment-3, including a commitment for Federal funding for the East Side Extension, in such contract. Directs the Secretary to enter into multiyear grant agreements with certain States for the construction of specified transportation projects. Directs the Federal Transit Administration to allow petroleum violation escrow account funds spent by the New Jersey Transit Corporation on transit improvements to be applied as credit towards the non-Federal match for any transit project funded under the Act. Makes specified amounts of Federal transportation funds available to the State of New York for projects designed to meet the transportation needs associated with the 1993 World University Games. Increases the limitation on operating assistance for the Staten Island Ferry. Forgives the outstanding balance on a specified grant agreement made to the Fayettville Transit Authority, North Carolina. Extends the repayment period on the outstanding balances due on certain loans made to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority. Requires the Secretary to study procedures for determining disability in order to obtain off peak reduced fares under the Act. Requires the Secretary to make a specified amount of Federal transportation funds available to Pennsylvania for capital expenses to assist in the provision of elderly and handicapped transportation services. Provides for the reduction of authorized appropriations from the Mass Transit Account of the HTF. Declares that any obligated M account balances remaining available for expenditure as of August 1, 1991, for Urban Discretionary Grants and Interstate Transfer Grants-Transit shall remain available until expended. Requires the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to undertake an alternatives analysis for the East-West Central Milwaukee Corridor. Title IV: Motor Carrier Act of 1991 - Motor Carrier Act of 1991 - Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 to add as conditions for approval of State plans (to be eligible for commercial motor vehicle safety enforcement grants) that such plans ensure that: (1) activities funded under such Act do not diminish the effectiveness of development and implementation of commercial motor vehicle safety programs; (2) fines imposed and collected by the State for violations of commercial motor vehicle safety regulations will be reasonable and appropriate; and (3) the designated State agency will coordinate the plan with respect to commercial motor vehicle safety with the State highway safety plan. Requires State plans to provide for maintenance of the level of expenditures for enforcement of commercial motor vehicle size and weight limitations, drug interdiction, and State traffic safety laws and regulations as conditions for approval of such plans. Authorizes a State, subject to specified limitations, to use grant funds for: (1) enforcement of commercial motor vehicle size and weight limitations at locations other than fixed weight facilities, at specified geographical locations (such as steep grades or mountainous terrains), or at seaports where intermodal shipping containers enter and exit the United States; (2) detecting the unlawful presence of controlled substances in a commercial motor vehicle or on the person of any occupant of such vehicle; and (3) enforcement of State traffic laws and regulations designed to promote safe operation of commercial motor vehicles. Authorizes appropriations. Makes grants available for expenditure by States for a period of three (currently, one) years, to be available until expended (currently, for the fiscal year and the three succeeding fiscal years). Authorizes the Secretary to deduct up to one (currently, one half) percent of funds made available for administering the grant program in specified fiscal years. Directs the Secretary, on October 1 of each fiscal year, or as soon thereafter as is practicable, to allocate (after making such deduction) among the States whose applications for grants have been approved, the funds authorized to be appropriated for such fiscal year pursuant to criteria established by the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to obligate funds for specified fiscal years for: (1) training of hazardous materials inspectors; (2) commercial motor vehicle information system review; (3) the truck and bus accident data grant program; and (4) research, development, demonstration, and training manuals. Authorizes appropriations for motor carrier safety functions of the FHWA. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) establish, as part of the motor carrier safety information network system of DOT and similar State systems, an information system (paid for by user fees) which will serve as a clearinghouse and depository of information pertaining to State registration and licensing of commercial motor vehicles and the safety fitness of the registrants of such vehicles; and (2) authorize the operation of such system by contract, through an agreement with a State or States, or by designating a third party which represents the interests of the States. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a review of State motor vehicle registration systems pertaining to license tags for commercial motor vehicles; (2) establish standards to ensure uniform data collection and reporting by all States; and (3) include, as part of the information system established under this title, information on the safety fitness of the registrant of the commercial motor vehicle and such other information as the Secretary considers appropriate. Directs the Secretary to make grants to States: (1) to carry out a project to demonstrate methods of establishing an information system which will link the motor carrier safety information network system of DOT and similar State systems with the motor vehicle registration and licensing systems of the States; (2) which agree to adopt or have adopted the recommendation of the National Governors' Association with respect to police accident reports for truck and bus accidents; (3) and to other persons for research, development, demonstrations, and information systems designed to promote commercial motor vehicle safety and which will be beneficial to all U.S. jurisdictions; and (4) to assist in educating the motoring public on its shared responsibility with operators of commercial motor vehicles for highway safety. Authorizes the Secretary to pay for the development, printing, and publication of manuals or other materials used in training roadside inspectors of commercial motor vehicles. Prohibits any State, effective January 1, 1994, from requiring a motor carrier holding a certificate or permit (certificate) issued under this title to: (1) file and maintain such certificate; (2) register motor vehicles operated under such certificate; (3) display or carry on any vehicle a decal, stamp, cab card, or other means of identification evidencing the lawfulness of any transportation or service provided under such certificate; or (4) pay a fee with respect to any such activities. Specifies that nothing in this title shall be construed as limiting the authority of a State to require a motor carrier from filing and maintaining proof of insurance or qualification as a self-insurer. Provides for reimbursements to States for specified loss revenues in FY 1992, subject to certain requirements. Bars States from allowing on the IS and those classes of qualifying Federal-aid primary system highways as designated by the Secretary any commercial motor vehicle with two or more cargo carrying units (not including the truck tractor), whose cargo carrying units are of a length greater than were authorized by State statute or regulation and were being lawfully operated on the IS and such classes of highways on or before June 1, 1991, with specified exceptions. Makes separate requirements for Wyoming. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) additional State restrictions; (2) the publication of State laws governing such vehicles; and (3) State certifications (of such vehicles which are permitted), review of certifications, and related requirements. Directs: (1) the Secretary to initiate a rulemaking (within 60 days) and issue a final regulation (within two years) establishing minimum training requirements for operators of LCVs; (2) the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the safety of LCVs; (3) the Secretary to conduct a study comparing the effects of driving LCVs and driving other truck-trailer combination vehicles on drivers, including driver fatigue; and (4) the Secretary to conduct tests with respect to the operations of LCVs. Sets forth reporting requirements. Requires the Secretary to establish a working group to: (1) establish procedures for resolving disputes among States participating in the International Registration Plan (the interstate agreement for the apportionment of vehicle registration fees paid by motor carriers, developed by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators) and among States participating in the International Fuel Tax Agreement (the interstate agreement for the collection and distribution of fuel use taxes paid by motor carriers, developed under the auspices of the National Governors' Association); (2) provide technical assistance to States participating in the Plan or in the Agreement; and (3) make grants to States and appropriate persons to facilitate participation in the Plan and in the Agreement. Sets forth reporting requirements. Specifies that, after September 30, 1996, no State: (1) other than a State which is participating in the Plan shall establish, maintain, or enforce any law or regulation which limits the operation of any commercial motor vehicle within its borders which is not registered under the laws of the State if the vehicle is registered under the laws of any other State participating in the Plan; and (2) shall establish, maintain, or enforce any law or regulation which has fuel use tax reporting requirements which are not in conformity with the Agreement, and which provides for the payment of a fuel use tax unless such law or regulation is in conformity with the Agreement with respect to collection of such a tax by a single base State and proportional sharing of such taxes charged among the States where a commercial motor vehicle is operated. Authorizes: (1) and directs the Attorney General, upon the request of the Secretary, to institute a civil action for injunctive relief to assure compliance with such vehicle registration requirement; and (2) the court to issue a mandatory injunction (and directs the court to issue a temporary restraining order or preliminary or permanent injunction, upon a proper showing) to assure such compliance. Authorizes appropriations. Permits a motor carrier to establish a rate and related rule equal to the rate charged for the transportation of one individual when that rate is for the transportation of: (1) a totally blind individual and an accompanying guide or a dog trained to guide the individual; (2) a disabled individual and accompanying attendant or animal trained to assist the individual, or both, when required because of the disability; or (3) a hearing-impaired individual and a dog trained to assist the individual. Title V: Intermodal Transportation - Declares it to be Government policy to encourage and promote a national IT system in the United States. Includes among the duties of the Secretary to coordinate Federal policy on IT and initiate policies to promote efficient IT in the United States. Requires: (1) the Secretary to establish within DOT an Office of Intermodalism, headed by a Director; and (2) the Director to develop and maintain an IT data base (and make information from such data base available to private individuals and public agencies), be responsible for coordinating Federal research on IT and for carrying out research needs identified by the Director, and provide technical assistance to States and MPOs in urban areas having a population of 1,000,000 or more in collecting data relating to IT to facilitate the collection of such data. Directs the Secretary to make grants to not more than six States for the purpose of developing model State IT plans, including systems for collecting data relating to IT, subject to specified requirements. Requires the Secretary to: (1) enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Public Administration to continue a study of options for organizing DOT to increase the effectiveness of program delivery, reduce costs, and improve intermodal coordination among surface transportation-related agencies; and (2) report to the Congress on the findings of the study and recommend appropriate organizational changes by January 1, 1993. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out specified priority IT projects. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 through 1997. Sets forth provisions with respect to allocation percentages, the Federal share (80 percent), delegation to the States, and advance construction. Title VI: Research - Part A: Programs, Studies, and Activities - Revises Federal highway research provisions to authorize the Secretary to: (1) engage in research, development, and technology transfer activities on motor carrier transportation and all phases of highway planning and development; (2) make grants to, and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, or any State agency, authority, organization, or person, to carry out the authority granted by this title; (3) make grants for research fellowships for any purpose for which research is authorized by this title; and (4) undertake on a cost-shared basis, collaborative research and development (R&D) with non-Federal entities. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into specified cooperative R&D agreements, with a Federal share of up to 50 percent, or higher if there is a substantial public interest or benefit. Specifies that such agreements shall recognize all directly related costs to the non-Federal partners, including personnel, travel, and hardware development. Specifies that funds to carry out collaborative research shall be derived from certain administrative funds. Earmarks at least 15 percent of such funds for long-term projects. Directs the Secretary to develop an integrated national plan for surface transportation R&D, including: (1) provisions for appropriate funding levels and a schedule with milestones, preliminary cost estimates, appropriate work scopes, personnel requirements, and estimated costs and goals for the next three years for each area of R&D; (2) a ten-year projection of long-term R&D; and (3) recommendations for appropriate sources or mechanisms for surface transportation R&D funding, taking into account the recommendations of the Research and Development Coordinating Council of DOT. Requires that: (1) the initial plan be submitted to the Congress by January 15, 1992; (2) the plan be reviewed and updated, with recommendations submitted to the Congress, annually; (3) the plan focus on those surface transportation systems needed for future urban, suburban, and rural areas in the next decade; and (4) a primary component of the plan be cooperation with industry in carrying out this title and in strengthening the manufacturing capabilities of U.S. firms to produce products for surface transportation systems. Mandates that: (1) all surface transportation R&D within DOT be included in, and evaluated in accordance with, the plan; (2) the plan provide for the development of a range of technologies, within the shortest time possible, needed to produce convenient, safe, affordable modes of transportation to be available for public use beginning in the mid-1990's, and for maintaining a long-term advanced R&D program to provide for next general surface transportation systems; and (3) the Secretary consult with and, where appropriate, use the expertise of other Federal agencies and their laboratories. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct necessary systems research for a lightweight, rubber-tired multiple-unit system for a short haul passenger transportation system; (2) expand surface transportation infrastructure R&D, including bridge materials, non-destructive testing, robotic road repair machinery, highway materials, and construction equipment R&D; and (3) implement Strategic Highway Research Program results and continue long-term pavement performance tests. Requires that: (1) one and one-half percent of specified State apportionments be reserved for State research and planning purposes; and (2) States use 25 percent of such funds for research, development, and technology transfer purposes. Expands the scope of research conducted under Federal highway provisions to include public transportation and intermodal systems planning, design, construction, and maintenance. Revises provisions with respect to the National Highway Institute (NHI) to: (1) remove the limitation on training to public sector employees working on Federal-aid highways; (2) give NHI specific authority to cooperate with national or international organizations to develop, conduct, and administer training to U.S. citizens and foreign nationals engaged in highway work of interest to the United States eligible for participation in NHI training programs; (3) authorize an expansion of the scope of NHI programs to include management, relocation assistance, safety, and motor carrier activities; (4) require private agencies and individuals to pay the full cost of any education and training received by them; and (5) authorize NHI to collect fees for service and use such fees to improve the exchange of highway technology with national and international entities. Specifies that not to exceed one-quarter of one percent of funds apportioned shall be available for expenditure by the State highway department for payment of not to exceed 80 (currently, 75) percent of the cost of tuition and direct educational expenses in connection with the education and training of State and local highway department employees. Sets forth provisions with respect to NHI funding. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) carry out a transportation assistance program to provide highway and transportation agencies, in urbanized areas of 50,000 to 1,000,000 population and in rural areas, with access to modern highway technology; and (2) make grants and enter into contracts for specified education and training, technical assistance, and related support services. Requires the Secretary to provide technical and financial support for local technical assistance program centers. Authorizes such centers to provide technical assistance to local rural transportation agencies for the purpose of identifying a rural priority local road and bridge system. Directs the Secretary to engage in activities to inform the domestic highway, transit, and IT communities of technological innovations developed outside the United States that could significantly improve transportation in the United States, promote U.S. transportation expertise internationally, and increase transfers of U.S. transportation technology to foreign countries. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) cooperation with other entities; and (2) funding. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish and implement an applied research and technology program to accelerate the testing, evaluation, and implementation of technologies designed to improve the durability, efficiency, environmental impact, productivity, and safety of highway, transit, and IT systems; (2) issue guidelines on the selection of foreign and domestic technologies to be tested and test locations, and for the scientific collection and evaluation of appropriate test data; (3) carry out projects to assess the state of technology, feasibility, and costs and benefits, with respect to heating the decks of bridges; (4) carry out a project in New Jersey to demonstrate the environmental and safety benefits of elastomer modified asphalt; (5) carry out a program in Missouri to demonstrate the durability and construction efficiency of high performance blended cement; (6) carry out projects to assess the state of technology with respect to thin bonded overlay and surface lamination of pavement, and the feasibility, costs, and benefits associated with the repair, rehabilitation, and upgrading of highways and bridges with overlay; (7) carry out a program to demonstrate the safety and durability of all weather pavement markings; (8) provide technical assistance to States and localities in carrying out projects under this title; and (9) report annually to specified congressional committees. Specifies that highway technologies testing projects carried out under this title shall be carried out on highways on the Federal-aid system. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) the Federal share (80 percent); and (2) funding. Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish a program to study the vulnerability of highways, tunnels, and bridges on the Federal-aid system to earthquakes and develop and implement cost-effective methods of retrofitting such highways, tunnels, and bridges to reduce such vulnerability; (2) conduct the program in cooperation with the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research at the University of Buffalo; (3) expend specified funds to carry out this Act; and (4) report to specified congressional committees. Requires the Secretary, in required biennial reports regarding future highway needs of the nation, to provide the means to relate and compare the conditions and service measures used in different years when such measures are changed. Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 (UMTA) to include transportation safety as an area of responsibility for university transportation centers. Directs the Secretary to make grants to: (1) Morgan State University to establish a national center for transportation management, research, and development; (2) the New Jersey Institute of Technology to establish and operate a center for transportation and industrial productivity; (3) Monmouth College, West Long Branch, New Jersey, for modification and reconstruction of a specified building; and (4) the University of Arkansas to establish a national rural transportation center. Sets forth provisions with respect to program coordination, evaluation, funding, and obligation limitations. Directs the Secretary to make grants to: (1) San Jose State University to establish and operate an institute for national surface transportation policy studies; (2) Northwestern University to establish and operate an infrastructure technology institute; (3) the University of South Florida and a consortium of Florida A and M, Florida State University, and Florida International University for an urban transit institute; and (4) the University of Minnesota, Center for Transportation Studies, for an intelligent vehicle-highway concepts institute. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a National Council on Surface Transportation Research. Directs the Council to: (1) investigate and study current surface transportation research and technology developments in the United States and internationally; and (2) identify gaps and duplication in current surface transportation research efforts, determine R&D areas which may increase efficiency, productivity, safety, and durability in the nation's surface transportation systems, and develop a national surface transportation R&D plan for immediate implementation. Sets forth reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary to establish an independent surface transportation research advisory committee. Sets forth reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary to: (1) enter into an agreement with the NAS to conduct a study on the adequacy of data collection procedures and capabilities of DOT; (2) begin a comprehensive study of the most appropriate and accurate methods of calculating State level of effort in funding surface transportation programs; (3) conduct a study to evaluate State procurement practices; and (4) conduct a study of occupational injury and fatality statistics for street and highway construction workers. Sets forth reporting requirements. Includes within the definition of "new model bus" under the UMTA (and, thus, within the scope of testing requirements under such Act) any model using alternative fuels. Amends the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 to require that braking performance and emissions tests be conducted on new bus models. Provides funding for expansion of the bus testing center and for establishment of a revolving loan fund to fund operation and maintenance of such facility. Amends the UMTA to require the Secretary to make grants to Rutgers University to establish a national transit institute to develop and administer training programs of instruction for Federal, State, and local transportation employees engaged, or to be engaged, in Federal-aid transit work. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) funding; and (2) provision of training to States and local governments. Directs the Secretary to promote and undertake R&D related to basic highway vehicle science. Includes among the purposes of DOT to stimulate technological advances in transportation (as under current law) through R&D or otherwise. Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to require the Secretary to: (1) convene a conference of domestic motor vehicle manufacturers, parts suppliers, Federal laboratories, and motor vehicle users to explore ways in which cooperatively they can improve the competitiveness of the U.S. motor vehicle industry by developing new technologies which will enhance the safety and energy savings, and lessen the environmental impact, of domestic motor vehicles; and (2) publish and submit the results of such conference to the President and specified congressional committees. Establishes a National Award for the Advancement of Motor Vehicle Research. Part B: Intelligent Vehicle-Highway Systems Act - Intelligent Vehicle-Highway Systems Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a program to research, develop, and operationally test intelligent vehicle-highway systems (IVHS) and promote implementation of such systems as a component of the nation's surface transportation systems; (2) consult with specified officials from other Federal agencies in carrying out such program; (3) develop and implement standards and protocols to promote the widespread use and evaluation of IVHS; (4) promote compatibility, to the extent practicable, among IVHS technologies implemented throughout the States (and authorizes the Secretary to use the services of existing standards-setting organizations); (5) establish guidelines and requirements for the evaluation of field and related operational tests; and (6) establish and maintain a repository for technical and safety data collected as a result of federally sponsored projects and make such information (except for proprietary information and data) readily available, upon request, to all users at an appropriate cost. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) delegate responsibility to an appropriate entity not within DOT, subject to specified requirements; and (2) utilize one or more advisory committees. Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop, submit to the Congress, and commence implementation of a plan for the IVHS program within one year; and (2) develop a completely automated highway and vehicle system which can become a prototype from which future fully automated IVHS can be developed, including research in human factors to ensure the success of the man-machine relationship. Specifies that: (1) the goal of such program is to have the first fully automated roadway in operation by the end of 1997; and (2) such system shall accommodate installation of equipment in new and existing motor vehicles. Sets forth reporting requirements, including a report addressing the nontechnical constraints and barriers to implementation of the IVHS program (such as antitrust, privacy, staffing, and liability concerns). Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide planning and technical assistance and information to State and local governments seeking to use and evaluate IVHS technologies (and requires the Secretary to assist State and local officials in developing plans for areawide traffic management control centers, necessary law pertaining to establishment and implementation of such systems, and plans for infrastructure for such systems and in conducting other activities necessary for the IVHS program); and (2) make grants to State and local governments for feasibility and planning studies for development and implementation of IVHS, and for operational tests. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) priorities in operational testing; (2) eligibility of traffic management entities to receive Federal assistance; and (3) authority of States and local entities to use funds to implement IVHS-related activities. Directs the Secretary to: (1) designate transportation corridors in which application of IVHS will have particular benefit and, through financial and technical assistance, assist in the development and implementation of such systems; (2) allocate, in providing funding for such corridors, not less than 50 percent of the funds made available to eligible State or local entities for application of IVHS in between three and ten corridors with specified characteristics, such as traffic density at least 1.5 times the national average for such class of highway, severe or extreme nonattainment for ozone under the CAA, and complexity of traffic patterns; and (3) allocate the balance of such funds where the application of such systems and associated technologies will demonstrate benefits related to improved operational efficiency, reduced regulatory burden, improved commercial productivity, improved safety, or enhanced motorist and traveler performance. Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study to evaluate technology which is designed for installation on a commercial motor vehicle to provide the vehicle operator with a warning if a turn, lane change, or other intended movement will place the vehicle in the path of an adjacent object or vehicle; and (2) report to specified congressional committees. Provides for the funding of the IVHS corridors program and other IVHS activities. Requires that at least five percent of such funds be available for innovative, high-risk operational or analytical tests that do not attract substantial non-Federal commitments but are determined to have significant potential to achieve long-term goals established by the plan. Sets the Federal share for activities under this part at 80 percent of the cost, with exceptions. Part C: Advanced Transportation Systems and Electric Vehicles - Authorizes an eligible consortium to submit to the Secretary a proposal for receiving grants made available under this part for electric vehicle and advanced transportation R&D. Sets forth provisions with respect to proposal contents, grant authority, extension of deadlines, eligibility criteria, services to be performed by such consortium, and funding. Title VII: Extension of Highway-Related Taxes and Trust Fund - Surface Transportation Revenue Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 1999 (currently, 1995) provisions with respect to: (1) taxes on heavy trucks and trailers sold at retail, tires and tread rubber, and highway use, and the HTF financing rates on gasoline and diesel fuel; and (2) exemptions relating to farm use, certain tax-free sales, termination of exemptions for highway use tax, gasoline used on farms and for certain nonhighway purposes, advance repayment of increased diesel fuel tax, fuels not used for taxable purposes, and other exemptions. Extends: (1) provisions with respect to floor stocks refunds and installment payments on highway use tax; and (2) deposits into, and certain transfers from, the HTF. Extends and expands expenditures from the HTF. Expands mass transit account purposes. Bars the Secretary of Transportation from imposing any condition on the use of funds transferred under provisions of this Act for highway use tax evasion projects to the IRS. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, at least 60 days before the beginning of each fiscal year (after FY 1992) for which such funds are to be transferred, to submit a report to specified congressional committees detailing increased enforcement activities to be financed with such funds. Sets forth provisions with respect to budget compliance.
Bill· HRH.R. 3554 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1991
Lead Exposure Reduction Act of 1991 - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to prohibit the importing, manufacturing, processing, or distribution in commerce of certain products containing more than a specified percentage of lead. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to modify the allowable lead percentage for such products under certain conditions. Exempts from lead content requirements products used: (1) for medical purposes; (2) for purposes in the paramount interest of the United States; (3) for radiation protection; (4) in the mining industry to determine the presence of noble metals in geological materials; or (5) as radiation shielding in electronic devices and in specialized electronics uses where the Administrator has determined that no appropriate substitutes for lead are available. Provides additional exemptions for: (1) corrosion inhibitive coatings applied by original equipment manufacturers to motor vehicle parts that do not exceed a specified lead content; (2) industrial paint in which the incidental presence of lead does not exceed a specified percentage; (3) paint or stained glass used by artists, provided the paint is labeled with a warning label that it is for adult use only; (4) toys and recreational game pieces that are collectible items and scale models intended for adult acquisition, provided they are labeled to disclose that they are not suitable for children; and (5) certain plastic additives. Requires the Administrator to determine whether there are primer paints suitable for use as electrocoat or electrodeposition primers on motor vehicle parts that: (1) contain less than a specified percentage of lead; (2) have corrosion inhibition and related performance characteristics equivalent to primer paints in use for corrosion inhibition; and (3) do not pose a greater risk to human health and the environment than primer paints already in use for corrosion inhibition. Prohibits the importing, manufacturing, processing, or distribution in commerce of any electrocoat or electrodeposition primer paint with a lead level exceeding that identified by the Administrator if the Administrator determines that one or more primer paints meeting such characteristics exist and are economically feasible to use. Sets alternative lead content limitations on such paints if the Administrator determines that no paints meeting such characteristics exist. Prohibits the sale or promotion of any packaging or product in packaging that includes any additive to which lead has been intentionally introduced, beginning 48 months after this Act's enactment. Sets allowable concentration levels for the incidental presence of lead in such packaging. Prohibits the sale or promotion of packaging exceeding such levels. Authorizes the Administrator to exempt from such requirements: (1) packaging manufactured prior to this Act's enactment date; and (2) packaging to which lead has been added to comply with Federal, State, or local health or safety requirements. Requires certificates of compliance with lead requirements to be retained by packaging manufacturers or distributors and made available to purchasers. Directs persons manufacturing, processing, or importing any product containing more than .1 percent lead by dry weight to submit specified information to the Administrator. Exempts owners or operators of automotive dismantler or recycling facilities for post-consumer metal, glass, paper, or textiles regulated by a State or the Administrator from such requirement. Makes it unlawful to fail to submit such information. Requires the Administrator to update, and publish a compilation of, such information. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress on such information and on recommendations for minimizing the release of lead into the environment and preventing human exposure to lead. Permits persons submitting inventory information to claim such information as confidential. Sets forth provisions concerning confidentiality applications. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations that provide for the labeling of products (other than lead-acid batteries and products regulated under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act): (1) to which any lead has been intentionally introduced as an element during manufacturing, processing, or distribution; or (2) in which the incidental presence of lead exceeds a certain percentage. Directs the Administrator to conduct a program to promote monitoring, detection, and abatement of lead-based paint and other lead exposure hazards. Requires the Administrator to chair an Interagency Coordinating Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention to coordinate Federal lead poisoning prevention programs and to make recommendations for Federal, State, and local lead poisoning prevention programs. Directs the Administrator to establish: (1) standards for laboratory analysis of lead in paint films, soil, and dust; and (2) certification programs to assure the quality and consistency of such analyses, unless voluntary accreditation programs are operating nationwide. Requires the Administrator to publish and make available to the public a list of certified or accredited environmental sampling laboratories. Provides for the review of such programs on a triennial basis. Directs the Administrator to: (1) evaluate and develop standards and testing protocols for emerging products and techniques for detecting lead in paint films and dust; (2) report to the Congress on the efficacy and effectiveness of various abatement and management techniques in reducing lead dust levels; (3) establish a program and develop standards for the evaluation of products and procedures for encapsulating or removing lead-based paint; (4) publish a list of products and procedures that meet performance standards; and (5) issue guidelines for the management of lead-based paint debris. Requires the Administrator to conduct research and report to the Congress on: (1) the sources of lead exposure in children who have elevated blood lead levels (or other indicators of elevated lead body burden); and (2) means to reduce hazardous occupational lead abatement exposures. Requires the Administrator to sponsor public education and outreach activities to increase awareness of the scope and severity of lead poisoning from household sources, potential exposure to lead in schools and day care centers, the need for abatement and management action, and other components of a lead poisoning prevention program. Directs the Administrator to issue guidelines concerning the action levels for lead in soil and abatement recommendations. Requires the Administrator to appoint a Coordinator for Lead Activities. Directs the Administrator to promulgate final regulations governing lead-based paint abatement activities, including requirements for the accreditation of lead abatement training programs for workers and the certification of lead abatement contractors. Requires the Administrator to delegate the administration of such regulations to the States. Directs the Administrator to award grants to nonprofit organizations engaged in lead-based paint abatement activities with demonstrated experience in operating worker health and safety lead-based paint abatement training and education programs and with an ability to target workers engaged in such activities. Requires the Administrator to award grants to institutions of higher education for purposes of establishing Centers for the Prevention of Lead Poisoning. Limits the Federal share of Center operation costs. Limits grants to two-year periods. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 3553 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1991
Higher Education Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise and reauthorize its various programs. Title I: Partnerships for Educational Excellence - Revises HEA title I and renames it Partnerships for Educational Excellence (replaces the current title I, Postsecondary Programs for Nontraditional Students). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997 for the following title I programs: (1) part A, Urban Community Service; (2) part B, Urban and Rural College, University, and School Partnerships; (3) part D, Articulation Agreements; and (4) part E, Manufacturing Engineering Education. Establishes as part A of title I a Urban Community Service program to provide incentives to urban institutions (including academic, private, and civic bodies) to work together to devise and implement solutions to the most pressing and severe problems in their communities. Requires applications for such urban community service program grants to contain a plan agreed to by the members of a consortium that includes a public or private four-year institution of higher education (and, where possible and appropriate, a community college) in partnership with an urban school system, a local government, a private business, or a nonprofit institution. Allows the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to waive this consortium requirement for applicants with an appropriate integrated and coordinated plan. Gives priority to applications that: (1) include plans agreed to by a consortium of several members of the specified categories; and (2) propose to conduct joint projects supported by other local, State, and Federal programs. Requires grant funds to be used for planning, applied research, training, resource exchanges, technology transfers, delivery of services, or other activities to design and implement programs to assist urban communities to meet and address their most pressing problems. Includes the following problem areas among those for which such activities are authorized: (1) urban poverty and its alleviation; (2) health care including delivery and access; (3) under-performing school systems and students; (4) problems faced by the elderly in urban settings; (5) crime prevention and alternative interventions; (6) urban housing; (7) urban infrastructure; (8) economic development; and (9) other problem area which the participants agree are of high priority for that urban area. Establishes as part B of title I an Urban and Rural College, University, and School Partnerships program to encourage partnerships of urban institutions of higher education (or consortia of such institutions) and secondary schools and school systems serving low-income and disadvantaged urban or rural students to support programs to improve school retention and graduation rates, student academic skills, opportunities to continue education beyond high school, and prospects for productive employment. Requires an urban or rural institution of higher education (or consortium), to be eligible for such a university-school partnership grant, to enter a written partnership agreement with a local education agency (LEA). Allows such partnership to include businesses, labor organizations, professional associations, community-based organizations, or other public or private agencies or organizations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to university-school partnerships to support the authorized program activities. Requires that grant preference be given to: (1) programs to serve predominantly low-income neighborhoods; (2) partnerships to run programs during the regular school year and during the summer; and (3) programs to serve educationally disadvantaged students, potential dropouts, pregnant adolescents, and teen-aged parents. Requires maintenance of fiscal effort by LEAs participating in such partnership agreements. Requires such grant applications to assure: (1) establishment of a partnership governing body including one representative from each participant; (2) a gradually declining specified Federal share of project costs; and (3) use of such Federal grant funds to supplement and not supplant non-Federal funds. Sets forth title I part C administrative provisions to provide for: (1) peer review panels for part A or B grant applications; and (2) multiyear disbursement of Urban Community Service program grant funds, under specified conditions. Establishes as part D of title I an Articulation Agreements program of grants for articulation agreements and planning between partnerships of two-year and four-year institutions of higher education. (Current part D provisions for the Student Literacy Corps are revised and transferred to part B of title XI of HEA by this Act.) Directs the Secretary to make such grants to States to make awards to articulation partnerships between qualified institutions, on the basis of either a competition or a formula determined by the State. Provides for allocation of such grant funds to States: (1) by a formula based on the relative total amount of student assistance received under HEA title IV by students attending institutions in the State, if the authorization of appropriations for such grants program equals or exceeds a specified amount; or (2) if such authorized amount is less than the specified amount, by competitive grants which the Secretary is authorized to make to States. Sets forth requirements for State and local applications, articulation agreements, and State administrative costs limitations. Requires States to give priority to grant applications for programs which: (1) encourage teacher education; (2) have, as one partner participating in the agreement, an entity meeting a specified requirement for the tech-prep education program consortia (i.e. a local or intermediate educational agency or area vocational education school serving secondary school students, or a secondary school funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs) under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act; (3) contribute their own institutional resources; (4) are not subject to a student loan default reduction agreement under title IV (Student Assistance) of HEA; or (5) encourage articulation in subject areas of national importance as determined by the Secretary. Sets forth requirements for annual State program reports and for program evaluation by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to: (1) report to the Congress by January 31, 1996, on the results of such evaluation; and (2) disseminate findings relating to the most successful programs. Reserves limited amounts for such purposes. Establishes as part E of title I a Manufacturing Engineering Education program. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of grants to institutions of higher education to support enhancement of existing and establishment of new programs in manufacturing engineering education. Requires consultation with the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Requires the Secretary and the NSF Director to enter into an agreement to coordinate such grant program with similar NSF programs, and for NSF assistance in administering and managing such grant program. Sets forth requirements for programs of engineering supported by such grant awards. Requires such programs to be conducted at the undergraduate and/or graduate level. Sets forth components for such consolidated and integrated multidisciplinary programs. Requires significant involvement of industry in such programs. Sets forth requirements for grant proposals. Bases grant awards on merit competition. Sets forth minimum criteria for selection. Title II: Academic Library and Information Technology Enhancement - Revises HEA title II and renames it Academic Libraries in an Electronic Networked Environment (currently Academic Library and Information Technology Enhancement). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997 for the following title II programs: (1) part A, College Library Technology and Cooperation Grants; (2) part B, Library Education, Research, and Development; (3) part C, Improving Access to Research Library Resources; and (4) part D, Strengthening Library and Information Science Programs in Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Directs the Secretary to ensure that title II programs are administered by appropriate library experts. Transfers to title II part A program of the College Library Technology and Cooperation Grants (currently part D) and eliminates current part A provisions for College Library Resources. Revises such College Library Technology and Cooperation Grants program to add provisions emphasizing the accessing and sharing of library and information resources through technology. Requires the Secretary to give priority, in awarding certain such grants, to institutions of higher education seeking assistance for projects which assist developing institutions of higher education in linking one or more institutions of higher education to resource sharing networks. Increases the required minimum grant amount and sets a maximum amount for certain grants. Revises and renames title II part B as Library Education, Research, and Development (currently Library Training, Research, and Development). Requires the Secretary to consult with appropriate library and information science professional organizations to determine: (1) critical needs under provisions for grants and contracts for library education and human resources development, and (2) priorities for awarding grants for research and demonstrations. Revises provisions for library education and human resource development to include assistance for training for library and information science, particularly in areas of critical needs such as recruitment and retention of minorities. Requires that stipends for certain fellowships and traineeships be for those who demonstrate need and are working toward a graduate degree. Revises provisions for research and demonstration projects to include those related to education in library and information science and to enhancement of library services through use of new technology. Revises title II part C and renames it as Improving Access to Research Library Resources (currently Strengthening Research Library Resources). Eliminates provisions which precluded part C grant recipients from receiving certain other title II grants. Adds a new title II part D program for Strengthening Library and Information Science Programs in Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Directs the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, historically black colleges and universities and library organizations or agencies which have nationally approved programs in library and information science to educate and train African Americans and other ethnic minorities, particularly in areas of critical needs. Requires that at least 75 percent of such funds be used to establish or maintain graduate fellowships or traineeships. Allows the remainder to be used for: (1) costs of courses of study or staff development, including short-term or regular session institutes; and (2) establishing, developing, or expanding programs of library and information science, including new techniques of information transfer and communication technology. Title III: Institutional Aid - Revises and reauthorizes HEA title III (Institutional Aid). Revises title III part A (Strengthening Institutions) provisions relating to award of grants, eligible institutions, and duration of grants. Requires part A grant applications to describe measurable goals for the institution's financial management and academic program and include a plan for achieving such goals. Requires continuation applications to demonstrate progress made toward achievement of such goals. Revises title III part B (Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to add to authorized uses of part B grants: (1) development offices to improve contributions from alumni and the private sector; (2) programs of teacher education, including preparation for certification, to qualify students to teach in public elementary or secondary schools in the State; and (3) community outreach programs to encourage elementary and secondary students to develop the academic skills and interest to pursue postsecondary education. Increases the minimum allotment for each part B institution. Requires part B grant applications to describe measurable goals for the institution's financial management and academic programs and include a plan for achieving such goals. Includes as eligible for part B grants specified independent professional and graduate institutions, as well as any other part B institution offering a professional or doctoral degree program that the Secretary determines is deserving of such a grant. Provides that only certain of such specified institutions shall receive such funding if the total funding does not exceed a specified amount. Revises title III part C and renames it Endowment Challenge Grants for Institutions Eligible for Assistance under Part A or Part B (currently Challenge Grants, etc.). Repeals the Challenge Grant Program, but reauthorizes the Endowment Challenge Grant Program. Defines eligible institutions for purposes of such program. Revises conditions under which the Secretary may make an endowment challenge grant to an eligible institution. Revises selection criteria. Requires part C grant applications to include a description of the long- and short-term plans for raising and using the funds under part C. Requires a set-aside of 30 percent of part C funds for challenge grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, under specified conditions. Revises title III part D general provisions relating to application for assistance. Repeals provisions for special payments rules and for challenge grant program applications. Extends through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for title III Institutional Aid programs under: (1) part A, Strengthening Institutions; (2) part B, Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities; and (3) part C, Endowment Challenge Grants. Requires that 25 percent of specified excess funds under part A be allocated among eligible institutions at which at least 60 percent of the students are Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, or Pacific Islanders, or any combination thereof. Title IV: Student Assistance - Part A: Grants to Students in Attendance at Institutions of Higher Education - Subpart 1: Federal Pell Grants - Revises and reauthorizes programs under HEA title IV (Student Assistance). Revises and renames the Pell Grants program under title IV part A subpart 1 as the Federal Pell Grants program (later redesignates the provisions as subpart 2). Increases the maximum award amount for Pell Grants to $4,500 in academic year 1993-1994, with further increases based on the Consumer Price Index for academic years 1994-1995 through 1998-1999. Revises the formula for determining the amount of a Pell Grant award to a student. Sets forth payment schedules based on the expected family contribution and tuition costs, for various types of students. Modifies the prohibition against Pell Grant awards to students attending on a less than half-time basis, to allow such awards for not more than five semesters (or their equivalent). Revises provisions relating to the period of eligibility for Pell Grants. Includes as eligible for Pell Grants students in programs of study abroad that are approved for credit by the institution. Revises provisions relating to the eligibility index. Makes the Pell Grant program an entitlement. Gives every student who qualifies for a Pell Grant a contractual right against the United States for the amount of such grant to which they are entitled. Provides that Pell Grant recipients shall not be considered to be individual grantees for purposes of specified Federal law. Repeals specified provisions for a separate need analysis formula for Pell Grants. (Later in this Act, a single new need analysis formula and system is established for all title IV student aid programs, including Pell Grants. Subpart 2: Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants - Revises and renames the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants program under title IV part A subpart 2 as the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants program (supplemental grants) (later redesignates the provisions subpart 3). Extends through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for the supplemental grants program. Includes students in programs of study abroad that are approved for credit by the institution among those eligible for supplemental grants. Requires institutions in the supplemental grants program to agree that the Federal share of awards will not exceed 75 percent, unless the Secretary determines that a larger Federal share is required to further the purpose of the program. Requires institutions to assure that selection procedures will be designed to award supplemental grants, first, to students with exceptional need (i.e. the greatest financial need). Requires that a reasonable proportion of an institution's supplemental grants allocation be made available to certain nontraditional students (i.e. less than full-time, age 24 or older, single parents, or independent students), if such allocation is directly or indirectly based in part on the financial need of such students. Revises provisions relating to transfer of funds. Requires reduction of an institution's allocation for the next fiscal year by the amount returned, if this is more than ten percent of its allocation. Authorizes waiver of such reduction if it is contrary to the interest of the supplemental grants program. Subpart 3: State Student Incentive Grants - Revises title IV part A subpart 3 provisions for the program of Grants to States for Student Incentives (State student incentive grants program) (later redesignates these provisions as subpart 4). Extends through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for such program. Includes, as eligible for grants from States under such program, eligible students participating in programs of study abroad approved for credit by the institutions. Increases to $5,000 (currently $2,500) the maximum amount for any such grants for full-time attendance at an institution of higher education and for campus-based community service work learning study jobs. Revises conditions for State allotments and expenditures under such program. Repeals the requirement for a reasonable proportion of a institution's allocation being made available to less than full-time students under such program. Subpart 4: Federal Early Outreach and Student Services Programs - Revises and renames subpart 4 of part A of title IV as Federal Early Outreach Services Programs (the current subpart 4, Special Programs for Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds, is repealed in name, but reauthorized and revised under subpart 4 Chapter 1 provisions for Trio Programs). (Also transfers such subpart 4 to subpart 1 of part A of title IV and then redesignates subparts 1, 2, 3 as 2, 3, 4.) Sets forth chapter 1, TRIO Programs, i.e. the revised and reauthorized Special Programs for Students for Disadvantaged Backgrounds. Extends through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for such programs. Adds to program goals motivation and preparation of such students for doctoral programs. Adds requirements for: (1) a peer review application process; (2) inflation adjustments; (3) minimum grant levels for specified programs; (4) duration of grants and contracts; (5) notice of application status; (6) early notification and technical training for potential providers of special programs and projects; (7) unlimited number of applications by an entity; and (8) coordination with other programs for disadvantaged students. Directs the Secretary to ensure that: (1) members of groups underrepresented in higher education are represented as readers of TRIO programs applications; and (2) each such application is read by at least three reviewers not employed at the Department of Education. Sets forth requirements for documentation of status as a low-income individual, for purposes of TRIO programs eligibility. Revises provisions for the Talent Search program (one of the TRIO programs). Sets forth an expanded list of permissible services which talent search projects may offer, in addition to tutoring, including counseling, mentoring, and parent workshops. Lowers the minimum age and elementary education completion levels for participant eligibility to 11 years of age and five years of school completed (currently 12 and six, respectively, while retaining the maximum age level of 27 years). Revises provisions for the Upward Bound program (one of the TRIO programs). Adds to the list of permissible services which upward bound projects may offer mentoring programs involving elementary or secondary school teachers college faculty, students, or any combination thereof. Requires any assisted upward bound project which has received two or more years of program funding to include in its core curriculum: (1) instruction in mathematics through precalculus; (2) at least one laboratory science; (3) at least one foreign language; and (4) instruction in composition and literature. Revises provisions for Student Support Services (one of the TRIO programs). Adds requirements for design goals of support services projects, including increased rates of college retention, graduation, and transfers from two- to four-year institutions, and institutional climates supportive of low-income and first-generation college students and individuals with disabilities. Adds to permissible services for such projects mentoring programs involving school teachers, college faculty and/or students. Revises provisions for the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement (under TRIO programs provisions). Adds to permissible services: (1) mentoring programs involving elementary or secondary school teachers, college faculty, and/or students; and (2) exposure to cultural events and academic programs not usually available to disadvantaged students. Allows costs for summer room and board, summer tuition, and transportation to summer programs to be paid in addition to the maximum annual amount for a student stipend. Eliminates provisions which: (1) conditioned program funding on specified minimum funding for other programs; and (2) set program funding limits. Revises provisions for Educational Opportunity Centers (under TRIO programs provisions). Expands the list of permissible services which such centers may offer, in addition to tutorial and counseling services, including public information campaigns, assistance in course selection, financial aid application, and entrance exam preparation, alternative education guidance for dropouts, career workshops, monitoring programs and special programs for students of limited English proficiency. Revises provisions for Staff Development Activities (for training for staff and leadership personnel for projects under TRIO Programs). Requires such training to be offered annually for new directors of such projects as well as annually specified topics and other topics chosen by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to make Outreach Grants to institutions of higher education, community-based organizations, and other public and private nonprofit organizations to provide outreach information to potential providers of programs and projects authorized under Federal Early Outreach and Student Services Programs (the new subpart 1) that could serve groups underrepresented in such programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make Project Evaluation grants and contracts to institutions of higher education and other public and private organizations to: (1) evaluate the effectiveness of the various programs authorized under TRIO programs provisions (chapter 1); and (2) disseminate results of on-going evaluations to similar programs as well as to other individuals concerned with the postsecondary access and retention of low-income, first-generation students. Establishes National Liberty Scholarships and Partnerships Programs (as chapter 2 of the new subpart 1). Authorizes the Secretary to establish such programs through matching payments to States for: (1) State financial aid programs that award grants to low-income students who attain a high school diploma or its equivalent to guarantee them the financial assistance necessary to attend an institution of higher educaiton; and (2) a partnership program (provided by States in cooperation with local educational agencies, postsecondary institutions, and community organizations) of additional counseling, outreach, and supportive services for elementary, middle, and secondary students at risk of dropping out of school and for students and their parents regarding college financing options. Requires State plans for such financial aid program to provide for: (1) at least one-half of program costs from non-Federal funds; (2) all qualified students to be designated as eligible; and (3) first preference for payments of specified other grant funds to students eligible for grants under this program. Requires State plans for such partnership program to provide for matching the Federal grant with funds from non-Federal sources which will supplement and not supplant funds for existing State and local programs. Requires States, in order to receive such financial aid program payments, to establish or maintain a financial assistance program that awards grants to students in accordance with specified requirements. Requires that the maximum amount of such a grant be established by the State, but prohibits such amount from being less than 75 percent of the average cost of attendance for an in-State student in a four-year program at public institutions in such State. Defines "qualified student" for purposes of such financial aid program as one who: (1) is less than 22 years old at time of first grant award; (2) is receiving a Pell Grant for the academic year of the award or would be eligible for such Pell Grant but for their attendance on a less than half-time basis; (3) receives a high school diploma or equivalent in 1993 or thereafter; and (4) is enrolled in an authorized degree program in the State (States may opt to offer grant program portability for recipients at institutions in other participating States). Requires a State to demonstrate, under the partnership program, that it has increased the aggregate amount of its expenditures to provide comprehensive mentoring, counseling, outreach and supportive services. Directs the Secretary to establish criteria for determining which types of services programs may be counted for such purpose. Lists examples of acceptable activities. Allows the State to include in such program participating of businesses, religious organizations, community groups, postsecondary educational institutions, nonprofit and philanthropic organizations, and other entities deemed appropriate by the Secretary. Sets forth requirements for Federal matching payments to States for such financial aid and partnership programs, with additional payments for limited administrative expenses. Bases State allotments under this Act on their relative allocations under provisions for grants for local educational agencies in counties with especially high concentrations of children from low-income families under the Elementary and Secondary Education of 1965. Prohibits any State from using more than 50 percent of its allotment for the comprehensive counseling, outreach, and support services partnership program. Sets forth reallotment provisions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997 for grants for matching payments to States for such financial aid and partnership program. Establishes Model Program Community Partnership Counseling Grants (as chapter 3 of the new subpart 1). Directs the Secretary to award grants to develop model programs for: (1) counseling students, at an early age, about college opportunities, precollege requirements, college admissions procedures, and financial aid opportunities, in ways designed or customized for use in specific geographic, social, and cultural environments; or (2) stimulating community partnerships with schools by providing tutoring, mentoring, work experiences, and other support services to make postsecondary education a realistic goal for all students. Gives priority to model programs directed at areas with a high proportion of minority, economically disadvantaged, or at-risk students. Sets forth requirements for: (1) either tailoring to a specific environment or community partnership with local businesses, labor organizations, or community groups; and (2) measurement of goals and outcomes. Directs the Secretary to collect, and disseminate through the National Diffusion Network, information on: (1) successful programs for counseling students about college and for early intervention to help them stay in school and pursue postsecondary education; and (2) model programs for counseling students in specific environments and for community partnership support services to make postsecondary education a realistic goal. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997 for such model program grants and such dissemination activities. Establishes the Presidential Achievement Awards Scholarships program (as chapter 4 of the new subpart 1), to award scholarships to Pell Grants recipients who: (1) have participated in a preparatory program for postsecondary education; and (2) demonstrate academic achievement. Allows Presidential Achievement Scholars to receive a Presidential Achievement scholarship for each year the student receives a Pell Grant and meets specified requirements for eligibility. Bases eligibility in the first year of postsecondary education on the student's receiving a Pell Grant and having: (1) participated for at least 36 months in an early intervention program meeting certain requirements; (2) completed secondary education, including three years of mathematics, two years of science, and four years of English; and (3) earned at least a 2.5 grade point average in the final two years of high school. Bases eligibility after the first year on the student's receiving a Pell Grant and: (1) having received a Presidential Achievement Award in a previous academic year; and (2) maintaining satisfactory academic progress. Sets such scholarship amount at 25 percent of the student's Pell Grant amount (with reductions for the amount by which the scholarship combined with any other assistance exceeds the cost of attendance). Sets forth provisions for award procedures, payment of scholarships, and awards cermonies. Establishes a program of Technical Assistance for Teachers and Counselors (as chapter 5 of the new subpart 1). Directs the Secretary to award two-year technical assistance grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to obtain specialized training for guidance counselors, teachers, and principals to counsel students about college opportunities, precollege requirements, college admissions procedures, and financial aid opportunities. Gives priority to LEAs serving school districts with significantly high proportions of students who do not continue on to higher education and who are educationally disadvantaged. Sets forth planning, evaluation, and reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997 for such technical assistance grants. Establishes a National Student Savings Demonstration Program (as chapter 6 of the new subpart 1), to: (1) test the feasibility of a national program to encourage families to save for their children's college education, and thereby reduce the loan indebtedness of college students; and (2) help determine the most effective means of achieving such purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to award a demonstration grant to not more than five States to conduct such a student savings program. Provides for a Federal match of not more than $50 per child. Gives priority to States proposing programs that establish accounts for a child prior to the age of compulsory school attendance in that State. Gives special consideration to States that: (1) permit employers to use pretax income in making contributions to a child's account; and (2) provide assurances that interest earned in such accounts shall be exempt from State taxes. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 through 1996 for such program. Sets forth provisions for Public Information (as chapter 7 of the new subpart 1), including a database, information lines, and public advertising. Directs the Secretary to award a contract to establish and maintain: (1) a computerized database of all public and private financial assistance programs, to be accessible to schools and libraries through modems or toll-free telephone lines; and (2) a toll-free information line, including access by telecommunications devices for the deaf, to provide individualized financial assistance information to parents, students, and others, including referrals to postsecondary clearinghouse for individuals with disabilities. Directs the Secretary to encourage private nonprofit organizations to work with video producers to develop and deliver public service announcements and paid advertising messages that encourage economically disadvantaged, minority, or at-risk individuals to seek higher education and financial assistance counseling at public schools and libraries. Allows such announcements and messages to be specially designed for students of limited English proficiency. Requires the Secretary to keep the Congress informed of such advertising efforts and to recommend any additional legislative authority that will serve such purposes. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1998 for such Public Information programs. Subpart 5: Amendments to Subparts 5 through 8 of Part A - Revises provisions for Special Programs for Students Whose Families Are Engaged in Migrant and Seasonal Farmwork (Migrant Programs) (subpart 5 of part A of title IV of HEA), including the high school equivalency program (HEP) and the college assistance migrant program (CAMP). Includes under program eligibility provisions, for HEP recruitment services and CAMP outreach and recruitment services, certain persons who have participated under specified programs for migrants under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 or the Job Partnership Training Act. Extends the ordinary grant period to five years (currently three). Extends through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for Migrant Programs. Extends through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for the Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program (subpart 6 of part A of title IV of HEA). Repeals provisions for certain definitions under such program. Repeals provisions for Assistance to Institutions of Higher Education (subpart 7 of part A of title IV of HEA), including: (1) certain cost-of-education payments to institutions of higher education based on numbers of students receiving Pell Grants; and (2) a veterans education outreach program. Extends through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for Special Child Care Services for Disadvantaged College Students (subpart 8 of part A of title IV of HEA). Part B: Federal Family Education Loans - Revises and renames HEA title IV part B as the Federal Family Education Loan Program (currently the Robert T. Stafford Student Loan Program). Refers to the program under this part as the Federal Stafford Student Loan Program (currently known as the Stafford or Guaranteed Student Loan- GSL-program) and to loans made under this part as Federal Stafford Loans. Limits the authorization to guarantee new loans under the part B (Stafford Loan) program, by making such guarantee authority contingent on timely rulemaking. Prohibits issuance of any such new loan guarantees after June 30, 1994, if the Secretary does not issue final regulations implementing the changes made this Act. (Under part D of this Act a Federal Direct Loans program replaces the Stafford or GSL program, with a phase-in process beginning in July 1994 and terminating GSL authority by the end of June 1996.) Revises Stafford or GSL program provisions to add provisions relating to guaranty agency funding and solvency, including requirements for: (1) information collection; (2) standards; (3) management plans; (4) penalties for failure to submit acceptable plans; (5) reports; and (6) confidential treatment of information. Revises payment rules for the GSL (and the FISL or federally-insured student loan) programs to: (1) require graduated or income-sensitive schedules upon borrower request; and (2) eliminate the special minimum payment rule for married couples. Adds special rules to cover approved study abroad, for purposes of student loan disbursement and amounts. Revises provisions relating to applicable interest rates. Revises provisions for agreements for Federal payments to reduce student interest rates. Prohibits eligible institutions with a cohort default rates of 20 percent or higher from providing loan applications directly to their students (who must therefore obtain an application from the lender). Provides for proration of GSL loan program amounts eligibility to course load. Requires a minimum payment of at least the interest due and payable. Revises provisions for deferments. Revises provisions relating to exclusion of forebearance from repayment period calculation. Revises provisions relating to consequences of institutional eligibility limitation, suspension, and termination actions. Requires participation agreements between the guaranty agency and each eligible institution. Requires notice to borrowers of any sale or other transfer of the loan to another holder. Allows requests for GSL program student loan repayment deferments by students engaged in graduate or postgraduate fellowship-supported study abroad (such as Fulbright grant recipients) to be approved until completion of the fellowship period. Adds requirements for conflict-of-interest restrictions on guaranty agency officers and employees. Authorizes guaranty agencies to enter into agreements under which State licensing boards will, upon request, furnish guarantee agencies with the addresses of student borrowers. Revises the time period during which a guaranty agency may file a claim for reimbursement. Limits additional review claims by exceptional performance lenders and loan servicers to cases of fraud or other purposeful misconduct in obtaining such designation. Revises provisions relating to subrogation. Requires guaranty agencies to submit lists of defaulted borrowers to institutions of higher education to check on the lists' accuracy, prior to filing reinsurance claims. Revises forbearance provisions. Provides for references to third party servicers. Sets forth special rules for exceptional performance in loans collection by eligible lenders and loan services. Revises provisions for cost of lender participation promotion to refer to eligible (rather than commercial) lenders. Provides for coordination of repayment of Stafford loans and Supplemental Loans for Students (SLS). Revises provisions relating to capitalization of interest. Revises provisions for parent (PLUS) loans with respect to: (1) copayable checks; (2) disbursement; (3) limitation of deferral; and (4) capitalization of interest. Revises provisions for consolidation loans with respect to: (1) use of consolidation to avoid default; (2) extension of the consolidation eligibility period; (3) consolidation of loans of married borrowers; (4) interest during deferral; (5) repayment periods; and (6) gradual and income-sensitive repayment. Revises loan proceeds disbursement rules to: (1) prohibit institutions from penalizing students because of delayed disbursement; and (2) allow weekly or monthly disbursement, with the borrower's permission. Adds provisions for unsubsidized Stafford loans for middle-income borrowers. Authorizes insured loans under the part B program for borrowers who do not qualify for Federal interest subsidy payments. Entitles any student meeting the definition of student eligibility under title IV general provisions to borrow an unsubsized Stafford loan. Sets forth provisions for: (1) determination of loan amount; (2) loan limits; (3) payment of principal and interest without subsidy payments to reduce interest costs; (4) reinsurance premium; and (5) single application form. Establishes an extended collection demonstration program. Directs the Secretary to enter into agreements with guaranty agencies to establish up to nine demonstration programs designed to reduce defaults through extended efforts on delinquent student loans originally guaranteed by such agencies. Sets forth provisions for: (1) selection of participants; (2) eligibility of loans for inclusion in the program; (3) lender eligibility to participate; (4) extended collection period; and (5) reports, regulations, and applicability of other terms, conditions, and benefits. Terminates such demonstration program on September 30, 1995. Directs the Secretary to use at least a minimum specified amount of part B-Funds for default reduction activities, including program reviews, audits, debt management programs, training activities, and other management improvement activities. Revises part B administrative provisions relating to: (1) authority to regulate services; and (2) limitation, suspension, and termination. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations for: (1) standardization and simplification of student loan forms and procedures; and (2) standardization of data reporting. Directs the Secretary to: (1) undertake a program to encourage private and public employers to assist borrowers in repaying student loans under title IV, including options for payroll deduction and loan repayment matching under employee benefit packages; (2) publicize repayment models deserving recognition; and (3) make recommendations to appropriate congressional committees on changes to the tax code or other statutes that could encourage such efforts. Adds provisions relating to the consequences of guaranty agency insolvency. Revises requirements for student loan information by eligible lenders to include statements that the loan must be repaid and that the borrower's loan repayment obligation is distinct from the school's obligation to the borrower. Revises definition for the student loan insurance program. Repeals a separate definition of institution of higher education. Defines both institution of higher education and eligible institution as under title IV general provisions. Repeals a definition of vocational school. Revises the definition of eligible lender. Prohibits a cohort default rate above 15 percent. Requires use of proceeds from special allowance payments and interests payments from borrowers for need-based grant programs, except for reasonable reimbursement for direct administrative expenses. Defines third party servicer. Revises provisions for the Secretary's repayment of loans of bankrupt, deceased, or disabled borrowers to extend such treatment to borrowers: (1) who are unable to complete the program due to the closure of the institution; or (2) whose eligibility to borrow under part B GSL programs was fraudulently certified by the eligible institution. Provides that the Secretary shall pursue any claim available to such borrower against the institution (as well as discharge their liability by repaying the amount owed). Provides that the period of attendance at the institution which closed and at which the student was unable to complete the course of study shall not count against the student's period of eligibility for additional title IV assistance. Provides that borrowers whose loans have been discharged under these repayment provisions shall not be precluded from receiving additional title IV assistance. Directs the Secretary to report to credit bureaus on such repaid loans. Permits a certain special allowance to also be given on unsubsidized Stafford loans. Phases out origination fees under part B student loan programs, and eliminates discounting. Allows the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) (the Association) to charge interest on any loan on the same basis as national banks located in: (1) the District of Columbia; and (2) the State in which the lender is located. Part C: Federal Work-Study Programs - Revises and renames HEA title IV part C as Federal Work-Study Programs (currently Work-Study Programs). Extends through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for part C work-study programs. Provides for reallocation of excess allocations as a consequence of failure to award work-study program funds, under specified conditions. Allows institutions to use work-study program funds to pay eligible students to engage in mentoring activities. Increases from $200 to $300 the amount of work-study program compensation in excess of need that a student may receive. Includes students who are age 24 or older, single parents, or independent students (as well as less-than-full-time students) among those for whom a reasonable proportion of an institution's work-study program funds must be available. Revises Federal share provisions. Adds provisions for approved study abroad eligibility for work-study programs. Requires work-study program grant agreements to provide assurances that employment made available from such program funds may be used to support programs for supportive services to students with disabilities. Sets forth provisions for carry-back authority. Increases the maximum amount of its work-study grant allotment which an institution may use for a community services job location and development program for its students. Establishes a work colleges program. Transfers to Part D of title XI current provisions for: (1) work study for community service-learning on behalf of low-income individuals and families; and (2) student community service job location and development. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 through 1996 to carry out to work colleges program. Requires such funds to be allocated to qualifying institutions, in lieu of allocations under other specified work-study program provisions, upon application, for eligible students as defined under student aid provisions. Requires an institution receiving such a work colleges program allocation to expend an equal amount of matching funds from non-Federal sources for such program. Authorizes institutions to use such work colleges program funds for: (1) supporting qualified students' educational costs through self-help payments or credits provided under the institution's work-learning program within the limits of student aid program provisions; (2) promoting work-learning-service experience as a tool of postsecondary education, financial self-help, and community service-learning opportunities; (3) administering, developing, and assessing comprehensive college work-learning programs, including community based work-learning alternatives that expand opportunities for community service and career-related work; and (4) developing programs that develop sound citizenship and personal values, encourage student persistence, and make optimum use of college work-study dollars in HEA title IV aid in education and student development. Allows funds allocated to the institution under HEA title IV provisions for supplemental educational opportunity grants, work-study programs, and direct student loans to be transferred for use under the work colleges program to provide flexibility in strengthening the self-help-through-work element in financial aid packaging. Requires postsecondary institutions, in order to be eligible to participate in the work colleges program, to: (1) be public or private nonprofit institutions with stated commitments to service; (2) have comprehensive work-learning-service program for at least two years; (3) requires service by all resident students through a comprehensive work-learning program as an integral part of the institution's educational philosophy; and (4) provide through the institutional work program an opportunity for the students to contribute to the overall educational program and the welfare of the community as a whole. Part D: Federal Direct Loans - Establishes a Federal Direct Loans program as part D of title IV of HEA. (Eliminates the current part D, Income Contingent Direct Loans Demonstration Project.) (Provides that such Federal Direct Loans program shall replace the Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) and the Perkins Direct Loan programs which shall be phased out.) Directs the Secretary to carry out such Federal direct loan program (the program) for qualified students at institutions of higher education during the period beginning on July 1, 1994. Directs the Secretary to make program payments for any fiscal year to: (1) each institution of higher education having a program agreement; and (2) the designated lending agent if such an institution designates one. Requires such payments to be made on the basis of the estimated needs of the institution's students, considering their demand and eligibility for subsidized and unsubsidized direct loans under the program. Sets forth program payment rules, in general and for initial payments. Declares that an institution with an approved application and agreement with the Secretary shall be deemed to have a contractual obligation (entitlement) from the United States for making the program payments specified in that application. Sets forth requirements for such applications of and agreements with institutions of higher education. Requires the Secretary to make program agreements for the academic year beginning July 1: (1) 1994, with a first cohort of 450-500 institutions; (2) 1995, with a second cohort of 950-1,000 institutions in addition to the first cohort; and (3) 1996, with a third cohort of any institutions desiring to participate. Provides for allowing institutions to designate lending agents to receive advances of program payments. Sets forth types of entities eligible to be designated lending agents. Entitles an institution to a payment for each fiscal year during which it makes student loans under such an agreement in lieu of reimbursement for its expenses in administering its student loan program during such year. Sets forth formulas for determining such payments. Requires each institution to use such payments first to carry out specified HEA provisions relating to administrative expenses and then for such additional administrative costs as that institution determines necessary. Deems an institution with such program agreement to have a contractural right to such payments. Provides for student eligibility for, and the amount of, subsidized and unsubsidized loans under the program. Limits program eligibility, among other criteria, to qualified students carrying at least one-half the normal academic workload and maintaining good standing. Allows subsidized loans under the program to be made only to students who meet the basic requirements but also demonstrate financial need for such a loan. Makes qualified graduate and professional students and qualified undergraduate independent students eligible to borrow unsubsidized loans under the program in specified amounts. Makes qualified undergraduate dependent students eligible for unsubsidized loans under the program, if the financial aid administrator determines after review that exceptional circumstances will likely preclude the student's parents from borrowing under the program. Prohibits students from being eligible to borrow unsubsidized loans under the program until they have obtained a high school diploma or equivalent. Declares that, if an institution's cohort default rate is 30 percent or more for the most recent fiscal year for which data is available, no undergraduate student at that institution may borrow unsubsidized loans under the program. Directs the Secretary to afford any such institution an opportunity to present evidence contesting the accuracy of the calculation of such rate. Makes parents of qualified dependent students eligible to borrow unsubsidized loans under the program in any amount, subject to specified restrictions based on cost of attendance and amount of other unsubsidized loans and student aid. Provides for determining subsidized loan amounts, based on cost of attendance, other types of student aid received, and expected family (or independent student self-help) contribution. Sets annual and aggregate limits for subsidized loans to first-year, undergraduate, and graduate or professional students. Provides for determining unsubsidized loans to students or parents, based on cost of attendance and other types of student aid. Sets forth annual and aggregate limits for unsubsidized loans for first-year, undergraduate, and graduate or professional students. Sets forth terms of loans under the program. Provides for deferments of repayment during specified periods of education or service. Allows borrowers to accelerate without penalty repayment of the whole or any part of the loan. Sets forth additional and separate terms for subsidized loans and for unsubsidized loans under the program. Sets forth requirements for multiple disbursement of student loans. Sets forth loan repayment rules, including minimum repayment amounts. Requires if a borrower so requests, that repayment be made in accordance with a graduated or income contingent schedule established by the Secretary. Allows the Secretary and the borrower to agree to increase the specified repayment period, but prohibits it from extending beyond 20 years. Directs the Secretary to notify the student borrower, at the beginning of the repayment period, of the availability of the flexible repayment program. Provides for interest rates on: (1) unsubsidized loans (the bonds equivalent rate of 52-week Treasury bills, plus three and one-quarter percent) (but not exceeding 12 percent); and (2) and subsidized loans (eight percent). Directs the Secretary to report such interest rates to the Congress for any fiscal year in which they are not sufficient to recover specified costs to the Government. Sets forth requirements for consolidation loans. Directs the Secretary to enter into agreements to provide loans to consolidate eligible student loans whose outstanding indebtedness is at least $10,000. Sets forth terms and conditions of consolidation loans, including annual interest rates of at least eight percent. Directs the Secretary to establish repayment terms, including graduated and income contingent repayment schedules. Provides for administration of the program. Requires the Secretary to establish: (1) a central data system to maintain records on all loans made under the program; and (2) default prevention programs. Provides for funding of the program through the sale of Government obligations. Sets forth the duties of the Secretary and the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to such sale and funding. Sets forth various amendments to phase out the Stafford Student Loan Program (GSL) by June 30, 1996. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and thereafter for administrative expenses necessary for carrying out title IV student aid programs, including expenses for staff personnel and compliance activities. Part E: Federal Perkins Loans - Revises and renames part E of title IV of HEA as Federal Perkins Loans (currently named Direct Loans to Students in Institutions of Higher Education or Perkins Loans). Extends through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for contributions by the Secretary to Perkins Loans program student loan funds. Adds provisions for eligibility for study abroad. Provides for reduction of allocation as a consequence of failure to award funds. Revises Perkins loan program provisions for capital contributions by institutions. Requires an institution to match the Federal capital contribution if the institution is granted permission to participate in an Expanded Lending Option and has a default rate not more than seven and one-half percent. Requires all other institutions to contribute an amount at least one-third of the Federal amount. Adds requirements for institutions to disclose specified information to any credit bureau with which the Secretary has a specified agreement. Revise loan limits under the Perkins Loan program. Provides for a reasonable proportion of a institution's Perkins Loans to be made to nontraditional students, including less-than-full-time, age 24 or older, single parents, or independent students. Revises minimum monthly payments for loans made after a specified date. Provides for adjustment of excessive loan awards. Adds a deferment of Perkins loan repayment for family service agency employees who provide or supervise services to high-risk children from low-income communities and their families. Allows requests for deferment of Perkins loan repayment by students in graduate or post-graduate fellowship-supported study abroad (such as Fulbright grant recipients) until completion of the fellowship period. Authorizes the Secretary to grant an institution special repayment authority to compromise, within specified limits, on the repayment of defaulted Perkins loans, under specified conditions, to encourage repayment and protect U.S. interests. Revises provisions for cancellation of Perkins loans for certain public service. Adds special rules for determining the list of schools with specified percentages of educationally disadvantaged students at which full-time teaching service in any subject may qualify for such cancellation, and for continuing eligibility even if the school is no longer on such list. Adds provisions for such cancellation for full-time service as: (1) a teacher of infants, toddlers, children or youth with disabilities in a public or other nonprofit elementary or secondary school system, or as a professional provider of early intervention services; (2) nurse or medical technician providing health care services; or (3) family service agency employee providing or supervising services to high-risk children from low-income communities and their families. Revises an excess capital rule. Establishes the Perkins Loan Revolving Fund, to be available to the Secretary to make payments under part E. Provides that specified funds be deposited in such Fund. Provides for gradual termination of the Perkins Loan program, to be replaced by the Federal Direct Loans program. Prohibits any institution which has a Federal Direct Loans program agreement with the Secretary from receiving funds or making new loans under the Perkins Loan program. Requires deposit in an endowment fund of any collections of Perkins loans after an institution has begun distributing Federal Direct Loans. Requires the proceeds of such endowment fund to be awarded to student at that institution under specified provisions for Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants. Part F: Need Analysis - Revises HEA title IV part F provisions for Need Analysis. Establishes a new single need analysis formula to be used in the calculation of financial need for all title IV Student Assistance programs (thus replacing the current separate formulas for Pell Grants and for other title IV programs). Bases such new formula on the current formula used for the Stafford (GSL) and the "campus-based" aid programs including supplemental grants and work-study programs. Revises provisions for amount of need. Eliminates provisions for a minimum student contribution. Revises provisions for cost of attendance. Revises provisions for expected family contribution: (1) in general; (2) for dependent students; (3) independent students without dependent children; and (4) independent students with dependent children. Revises provisions relating to the Secretary's authorization to prescribe specified updated need analysis tables and to propose modifications in the need analysis methodology. Revises provisions for the simplified needs test to provide for a by-pass and consideration as having a zero family contribution for those with family adjusted gross incomes less than or equal to the earned income tax credit. Retains provisions relating to: (1) the discretion of student financial aid administrators; (2) disregard of student aid in other Federal programs; and (3) Native American students. Revises definitions for need analysis provisions under title IV. Includes, under the definition of independent student, one who is 24 years of age or older by December 31 of the award year. Part G: General Provisions - Revises definitions for title IV (Student Assistance) in general. Excludes from the definition of institution of higher education, for purposes of title IV program eligibility, any institution which: (1) offers more than 50 percent of its courses by correspondence (also excludes correspondence courses from student eligibility); or (2) has filed for bankruptcy, if there is a judicial determination of fraud involving Federal funds. Sets forth certain eligible program requirements for proprietary institutions of higher education. Revises the definition of academic and award years. Sets forth certain eligible program standards for length of time of specified types of programs. Sets forth provisions for: (1) time limitations on, and renewal of, eligibility; (2) conditional certification of institutional eligibility; (3) branches; and (4) changes of ownership. Revises provisions relating to a master calendar. Revises provisions for forms and regulations for title IV student aid programs. Requires the common financial reporting form to be produced, distributed, and processed by the Secretary. Prohibits charging any parent or student a fee for the collection, processing, or delivery of financial aid through use of such a form. Requires institutions to pay the costs of other forms and their processing if they require or encourage students to use any form other than one approved by the Secretary. Requires use of the approved common form for purposes of title IV programs. Makes all data collected for the multiple data entry process the exclusive property of the Secretary. Prohibits such data from being transferred to a third party by an approved contractor without the Secretary's expressed written approval. Directs the Secretary to develop a streamlined reapplication process. Revises provisions for toll-free student aid information to include: (1) accessiblity for telecommunication devices for the deaf; and (2) referrals to a postsecondary clearinghouse for individuals with disabilities. Revises provisions for student eligibility for title IV student aid programs. Includes programs of study abroad approved for credit by the eligible institution among programs in which a student may receive such aid. Prohibits a student who is incarcerated from being eligible to receive a loan under title IV. Revises provisions for ability-to-benefit programs to include a State-prescribed determination process approved by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to verify all applications for aid through the use of any means available, including exchange of information with other Federal agencies. Revises provisions for loss of student eligibility for violation of loan limits to allow students who inadvertently exceed such borrowing limit to repay the excess amount prior to being certified for further title IV assistance. Sets forth provisions for the Secretary's verification of social security numbers provided by students to eligible institutions. Sets forth provisions for data base matching with the Selective Service. Provides for eligibility for title IV assistance for students in study abroad programs approved for credit by their home institutions. Provides that students enrolled in courses of instruction at eligible institutions of higher education that are offered in whole or part through visual telecommunications devices or mediums and lead to recognized associate, bachelor, or graduate degrees shall not: (1) be considered to be enrolled in correspondence courses (which are not eligible for student assistance); and (2) have their eligibility to participate in HEA title IV student assistance programs restricted or reduced solely on the basis of their enrollment in such courses offered through visual telecommunications. Prohibits the Secretary, for award years prior to enactment of this Act, to take any action against a student or eligible institution arising out of a prior award of student assistance if the institution demonstrates that its course of instruction would have been in conformance with such provisions. Revises statute of limitations provisions to provide that, with respect to any loan made part B GSL programs, a lender, holder, guaranty agency, or the Secretary shall not be subject to any claim or defense asserted by a borrower which is attributable to an act or failure to act by an educational institution attended by the borrower (unless the lender is an eligible institution). Establishes requirements for institutional refunds, refund policies, disclosures of policy. Revises provisions for information dissemination activities. Requires the institution to inform prospective student borrowers that study abroad programs approved for credit by the institution are eligible for student aid. Requires borrowers to provide certain information during the exit interview, regarding their expected permanent address, employer, next of kin, and corrections in the institution's records relating to their identification and location. Requires the institution to forward such information to the lender and guaranty agency. Establishes requirements for institutional information to students and prospective students regarding campus security policy and crime statistics. Sets forth provisions for campus security policy development. Revises provisions for a National Student Loan Data System to include requirements for: (1) common identifiers; and (2) integration of databases. Directs the Secretary to establish a centralized Student Loan Data System for use by schools, borrowers, holders, and guarantors in: (1) confirming borrower, internship, and residency status; and (2) identifying the current holder and servicer of a loan. Sets forth requirements for information in such system and restricted access, and deadlines for planning and implementation. Revises provisions for training in financial aid and student supportive services. Sets forth grant limitations. Extends through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for such training programs. Revises provisions for title IV program participation agreements. Requires institutions to disclose to prospective student relevant State licensing requirements for any job for which the course of instruction is designed. Prohibits institutions from: (1) making incentive payments to persons or entities engaged in student recruiting or admission or awarding of assistance; (2) employing or using any individual or organization that has committed fraud involving Federal funds; or (3) denying Federal aid to any eligible student because of participation in approved study abroad. Requires institutions: (1) acknowledge specified entities' information-sharing authority; (2) develop Default Management Plans under specified conditions; (3) comply with any specified maximum growth rates or percentages of aid recipients; and (4) complete specified surveys and collect and transmit specified information. Revises provisions relating to hearings and availability of records. Requires financial responsibility standards to: (1) be based on annual independent financial audit reports on institutions; and (2) require of every institution a letter of credit or other irrevocable bond to cover all potential liabilities to students and to the Secretary, for funds under title IV and cover all loan obligations discharged to students under specified provisions. Requires compliance audits of third party servicers. Authorizes emergency actions by the Secretary against any or all institutions under the substantial control of any individual or entity that is determined to have committed violations of any title IV program requirements or has been suspended or debarred by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to provide specified audit information to any appropriate Federal or State agency with responsibilities with respect to student assistance. Establishes a Quality Assurance Program. Authorizes the Secretary to select institutions for voluntary participation in such program based on criteria including demonstrated institutional performance and considering current quality assurance goals. Allows participating institutions to develop and implement their own systems to verify student financial aid application data. Exempts participating institutions from title IV reporting or verification requirements, and allows them to substitute such quality assurance reporting as the Secretary deems necessary. Sets forth conditions for removal from the program. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) select institutions for voluntary participation as experimental sites to provide recommendations on the impact and effectiveness of proposed regulations or new management initiatives; and (2) exempt such institutions from any title IV requirements or regulations that would bias experimental results. Directs the Secretary to assign to each participant (including institutions, lenders, and guaranty agencies) in title IV programs a single identification number. Increases the percentage of specified program funds which may be involved in certain inter-program transfers. Revises provisions for administrative expenses payments to require a reasonable proportion of an institution's funds to be available for financial aid services during times and in places to accommodate specified types of nontraditional students. Revises title IV provisions for criminal penalties. Increase the amount of fines for specified violations. Adds provisions relating to extent of liability for financial losses to the Federal Government, student aid recipients, and other proram participants and civil and criminal penalties, arising from material inaccuracy of information submitted by institution to the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to require: (1) financial guarantees from an institution participating or seeking to participate in a title IV program, and/or from one or more individuals exercising substantial control over such institution; and (2) the assumption of personal liability by one or more such individuals, in accordance with specified provisions. Revises provisions for the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance to eliminate outdated provisions for a special institutional lender study. Sets forth provisions relating to the investigating and arrest authority and powers of designating employees of the Office of Inspector General, Department of Education. Establishes procedures for performance based regulatory relief for that satisfy specified criteria in title IV program participation. Requires regional meetings and negotiated rulemaking in developing regulations implementing amendments made to HEA title IV by this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for such purposes. Part H: Program Integrity - Establishes a new part H of title IV of HEA, Program Integrity. Sets forth requirements for State postsecondary approving agency programs for conduct or coordination of review and approval of institutions of higher education for purposes of title IV eligibility. Sets forth requirements for: (1) agreements with such State agencies; (2) Federal reimbursement of such State agency costs; (3) State agency functions, including criteria for review; (4) State standards, subject to disapproval by the Secretary, with differential standards for approval under specified conditions; (5) disapproval authority and procedures; (6) consumer complaints; and (7) enforcement mechanisms. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 and succeeding fiscal years for Federal reimbursement of State approving agency costs for such program integrity review and approval functions, in an amount not to exceed one percent of the amount appropriated for the fiscal year for title IV student financial assistance programs. Part I: Conforming Amendments - Makes conforming amendments to specified provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 and the Higher Education Technical Amendments of 1991. Title V: Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Development - Revises HEA title V (Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Development). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997 for: (1) the new part A, State and Local Programs for Teacher Excellence; (2) part B, Teacher Scholarships and Fellowships (currently part D), including subpart 1 Paul Douglas Teacher Corps-Scholarships, and subpart 2 Christa McAuliffe Fellowship Program; and (3) part C, National Programs, including subpart 1 National Mini Corps Program, subpart 3 Partnerships for Innovative Teacher Education, subpart 4 Teacher Opportunity Corps, subpart 5 National Job Bank for Teacher Recruitment, and subpart 6 Midcareer Teacher Training for Nontraditional Students (currently part A). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for the part C subpart 7 Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification and Licensure. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 through 1998 for the part C subpart 2 National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Establishes, as the new part A of title V, State and Local Programs for Teacher Excellence. Provides for: (1) funds to State educational agencies (SEAs), local educational agencies (LEAs), and institutions of higher education to update and improve the skills of classroom teachers and school administrators; and (2) a comprehensive examination of State requirements for teacher preservice and certification. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to SEAs to improve the quality of teaching. Provides for allotment to States based on school-age population. Requires the SEA to allocate at least 50 percent of the State allotment to LEAs based on relative enrollments in their public schools and requiring any LEA receiving less than a specified minimum to form a consortium with other LEAs). Allows the SEA to reserve up to 25 percent of the State allotment for specified grants to institutions of higher education for teacher training programs. Directs the SEA to reserve not more than 25 percent of the State allotment to distribute to institutions of higher education for purposes of specified State uses of funds including assessment of teacher education programs, establishment of State Academies for Teachers and for School Administrators, and other teaching improvement activities. Requires the State to distribute such allotment funds to LEAs on a competitive basis if the appropriation for part A is less than a specified minimum amount. Sets forth requirements for State and local applications. Requires LEAs to use part A funds for inservice training of teachers. Allows LEAs to use such funds for: (1) programs to recruit individuals into teaching; (2) business partnerships for employee-teacher exchange and internship programs; and (3) other teaching improvement activities. Requires SEAs to use part A funds to conduct an assessment of teacher education programs within the State. Allows SEAs to use such funds for: (1) establishing State Academies for Teachers; (2) establishing State Academies for School Leaders; and (3) other teaching improvement activities. Requires each SEA receiving part A funds to undertake a study of teacher education programs and State laws and regulations relating to such programs, including standards or requirements for teacher certification and licensure. Sets forth deadlines for study results and reports. Sets forth provisions for competitive awards for and authorized activities of, State Academies for Teachers and State Academies for School Administrators. Sets forth provisions for applications by institutions of higher education for part A grants by SEAs. Requires SEAs to award such grants on a competitive basis to such institutions having departments, schools, or colleges of education, for: (1) institutional technical assistance to LEAs for inservice training; (2) innovations and improvements in teacher education programs within the institution to better meet LEAs needs for well-prepared teachers; (3) integrating the instruction of academic and vocational teacher education programs; (4) activities to encourage individuals, especially from minority groups, to pursue careers in education; and (5) implementing new requirements for teacher education programs, when the State study of such programs is completed. Requires part A funds to supplement, not supplant, regular non-Federal funds. Revises, and transfers to part B of title V of HEA, provisions for Teacher Scholarships and Fellowships (currently part D). Revises, extends, and renames subpart 1 as the Paul Douglas Teacher Corps Scholarships program (currently Paul Douglas, or Congressional, Teacher Scholarships program). Bases allocation among States on school-age population. Requires State agencies to make particular efforts to attract, and give priority consideration to, ethnic and racial minority students, students with disabilities, or other individuals historically underrepresented in teaching (as well as students from low-income disadvantaged backgrounds). Requires special consideration, in selecting teacher corps members, to be given to individuals who intend to teach: (1) students with disabilities (or provide related services for them); (2) limited English proficient students; (3) preschool age children; or (4) in curricular or geographic areas where there is a demonstrated shortage of qualified teachers. Retains and extends the subpart 2 Christa McAuliffe Fellowship Program, a national fellowship program for outstanding teachers. Establishes title V part C provisions for National Programs. Establishes, as subpart 1, the National Mini Corps Program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education to establish program partnerships with LEAs. Provides for program services for individuals who are: (1) first-generation college students or low-income individuals as defined under TRIO special programs for students from disadvantaged backgrounds; or (2) migrant or seasonal farmworkers, or the children of such farmworkers, who meet qualifications for attendance at a college or university. Provides for certain program services, also, for children who are: (1) migrant children; or (2) eligible to receive services for educationally disadvantaged children with special needs under chapter 1 of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA chapter 1). Requires the program to provide: (1) such individuals enrolled or planning to enroll in institutions of higher education with advice, training, and instructional services to help in being role models for such children; (2) such children with outreach and recruitment services to encourage them to enroll in teacher education programs; (3) such individuals enrolled in such an institution with support and instructional services to enable them to provide direct instructional services to such children, in coordination with SEA or LEA goals; (4) designation of college coordinators at participating institutions to train, supervise, and assign such individuals in cooperation with SEAs and LEAs in which such children have been identified; and (5) support for other activities related to encouraging such individuals to enter the teacher profession and provide a link to the community. Sets forth requirements for institutional applications, grant awards, and uses of funds. Establishes, as subpart 2 of part C, provisions for a National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (the Board). Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance to the Board from specified appropriations authorized for FY 1994 through 1998. Sets forth terms and conditions for such funding. Prohibits any funds from being made available to the Board after FY 1995 (except as authorized for FY 1994 through 1998). Requires the Board to consult at least twice annually with the Committee (i.e. the Fund for Improvement and Reform of Schools and Teaching Board) on design and execution of its overall research and development strategy, including compliance with merit review and open competition requirements. Requires funds for the Board under this Act to be used only for research and development of teacher assessment and certification procedures for elementary and secondary school teachers. Requires that priority be given to such activities relating to teaching: (1) the subject areas of mathematics, the sciences, foreign languages, and literacy (including reading, writing, and analytical ability); and (2) special educational populations, including limited English proficient children, gifted and talented children, children with disabilities, and economically and educationally disadvantaged children. Sets the Federal share of the cost of such Board activities at 50 percent. Requires the Board to report annually to the appropriate committees of the Congress. Requires the Secretary of Education, the Director of the National Science Foundation, and the National Research Council to review and comment on the Board's report and to report to such congressional committees on the Board's compliance with these provisions. Establishes, as subpart 3 of part C, provisions for a new Partnerships for Innovative Teacher Education program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and contracts with State and local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and consortia of such institutions and agencies to plan, establish, and operate teaching schools to develop and put into practice the best knowledge about teaching. Provides that planning and implementation grant awards shall be for a term one year, with a total of five years of implementation grants under specified conditions. Provides for applications, priorities, uses of funds by award recipients, and authorized activities of such teaching schools. Sets the Federal share at 50 percent for planning grants and 33 1/3 percent for implementation grants. Establishes, as subpart 4 of part C, provisions for a Teacher Opportunity Corps (TOC), to encourage institutions of higher education to offer educational programs and financial assistance to enable paraprofessionals working in shortage area schools serving disadvantaged students to become certified teachers. Directs the Secretary to allocate TOC program grant funds to States according to the same formula under which States receive ESEA chapter 1 funding for education of disadvantaged children. Requires TOC grant program agreements to include provisions for administration and recordkeeping by the State education or higher education agency. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States to support TOC programs at institutions of higher education. Sets forth State grant application requirements and general criteria for State grants, including: (1) involvement of institutions of higher educaiton and shortage area schools or school districts; (2) full creditability to a baccalaurate program leading to teacher certification; (3) a program evaluation system; and (4) appropriate credit for paraprofessional classroom experience as practice or student teaching. Requires any paraprofessional who receives student financial assistance under the TOC program to agree to act as a paraprofessional in a shortage area school for at least one year for each year of such assistance, within ten years after completing the the postsecondary education. Requires repayment of all or part of such assistance, plus interest and reasonable collection costs, if the recipient fails to comply with this service requirements, except in specified circumstances. Requires that such student financial assistance supplement, but not supplant, other Federal or State assistance for which the student would otherwise qualify. Requires TOC program grants to be for a term of at least five years, subject to availability of appropriations. Allows States to use TOC program funds for: (1) student financial assistance to paraprofessionals to pay part or all of the costs of attendance in postsecondary education programs required for teacher certification; (2) instructional and supportive services for such paraprofessionals during participation in such programs; and (3) payment of child care expenses to attend postsecondary classes required for teacher certification. Establishes, as subpart 5 of part C, a National Job Bank for Teacher Recruitment. Directs the Secretary, through the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), to study the feasibility of establishing: (1) a clearinghouse to operate a national teacher job bank; and (2) regional clearinghouses. Directs the Secretary, through OERI, to contract with one or more State entities, nonprofit organizations, or higher education institutions to pay the Federal share of costs of establishing a Teacher Job Bank Clearinghouse to help: (1) public and private education agencies locate qualified applicants for teaching-related positions; and (2) individuals locate teaching-related jobs or training necessary to enter the teaching profession. Sets forth requirements for applications and authorized uses of funds. Retains and extends, and transfers to subpart 6 of part C of title V, provisions for Midcareer Teacher Training for Nontraditional Students (currently part A of title V). Alternative Routes to Teacher and Principal Certification and Licensure Act of 1991 - Establishes, as subpart 7 of part C of title V of HEA, Alternative Routes to Teacher and Principal Certification and Licensure. Establishes program of assistance for alternative routes to teacher certification or licensure, to improve the supply of qualified elementary and secondary school teachers and principals by assisting State programs to help talented professionals who have demonstrated high competence in a subject area and wish to pursue education careers to meet State certification licensing requirements, with special emphasis on minority group member participation. Sets forth requirements for allotments, State applications, and uses of funds. Repeals this subpart as of July 1, 1995. (Authorized appropriations for this subpart for FY 1993.) Title VI: International Education Programs - Revises title VI of HEA, International Education Programs. Revises provisions for part A, International and Foreign Language Studies. Revises provisions for graduate and undergraduate language and area studies, to add to authorized uses of program grants the establishing and maintaining of linkages with overseas institutions of higher education and other organizations that may contribute to specified educational objectives of the program or center. Authorizes the Secretary to make additional grants to comprehensive language and area centers for programs of linkage or outreach: (1) between foreign language, area studies, and other international fields and professional schools and colleges; (2) with two-and four-year colleges and universities; (3) with departments or agencies of State and Federal governments; (4) with the news media, business, professional, or trade associations; and (5) carried out by summer institutes in foreign area and other international fields. Revises provisions for stipends. Revises provisions for language resource centers. Revises provisions for undergraduate international studies and foreign language programs. Limits program grants to not more than 50 percent of project costs. Replaces model grant provisions with provisions for grants to strengthen programs of demonstrated excellence to ensure their self-sustaining maintenance and growth and enhance their capacity-building and dissemination functions. Authorizes the Secretary to also make grants for programs of national significance for undergraduate international studies and foreign language education purposes. Retains and extends provisions for intensive summer language institutes. Revises provisions for research, studies, and annual reports. Revises provisions for assistance in acquiring and making available periodicals published outside the United States to add provisions for other research materials published outside the United States. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997 for such assistance (in addition to other funds authorized for part A). Requires the Secretary, in awarding grants under part A International and Foreign Language Studies, to ensure that an appropriate portion of such funds are used to support undergraduate education. Extends through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for title VI part A, International and Foreign Language Studies. Revises title VI part B provisions for Business and International Education Programs. Revises provisions both for centers for international business education and for education and training programs to add to authorized users of such center and program grants: (1) establishment of linkages overseas with institutions of higher education and other organizations that contribute to such centers' and programs' educational objectives, and (2) summer institutes in international business, foreign area, and other international studies designed to carry out specified purposes. Extends through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for title VI part B, Business and International Education Programs, including Centers for International Business Education and Education and Training Programs. Revises title VI part C general provisions to eliminate provisions for an Advisory Board. Adds a definition of critical languages. Provides that amendments to title VI establishing new programs or expanding existing programs pursuant to this Act shall not be funded in FY 1993 through 1997 unless and until the Congress enacts appropriations for pre-1992 title VI programs enacted prior to this Act at a level no less than their, FY 1992 funding. Establishes a new part D of title VI, the Institute for International Public Policy (the Institute), which shall, conduct a program to significantly increase the numbers of African Americans and other minorities in the foreign service of the United States. Authorizes the Institute to be established through grant or contract between the Secretary and an eligible recipient (a consortia of institutions eligible for title III part B assistance for historically Black colleges and universities, other institutions of higher education serving substantial numbers of African American and other minority students, and institutions of higher education with nationally recognized programs in training foreign service professionals). Requires each consortia to designate a host institution for the Institute. Sets forth the components of the academic program of the Institute, including a junior year abroad, academic year and summer internships, a masters degree program, and fellowships for full-time study for students who agree to enter the U.S. foreign service. Requires appointment of a Board of Visitors for the Institute. Sets forth matching requirements and provisions for gifts and donations. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for the Institute. Title VII: Construction, Reconstruction and Renovation of Academic Facilities - Revises title VII of HEA, Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Academic Facilities. Revises title VII program purposes, and makes a priority on renovation optional rather than mandatory. Extends through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for the following title VII programs: (1) part A, Grants for the Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Undergraduate Academic Facilities; (2) part B, Grants for Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Graduate Academic Facilities; (3) part C, Loans for Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Academic, Housing, and Other Educational Facilities (consolidates the current parts C and F); and (4) part D, Grants to Pay Interest on Debt. Revises title VII part A provisions for Grants for the Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Undergraduate Academic Facilities. Limits the total payment of under part A for any fiscal years to institutions of higher education in any State to not move than 12 1/2 percent of part A appropriations. Directs the Secretary to use a national peer review panel in making part A grants to institutions. Retains provisions for cost limitations and use for maintenance. Retains part B provisions for Grants for Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Graduate Academic Facilities. Consolidates loan programs under current part C and part F provisions into a new part C, Loans for Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Academic, Housing, and Other Educational Facilities. Sets forth provisions for such Federal assistance in the form of loans, use of funds, and a revolving loan fund. Limits to not more than 12 1/2 percent of part C funds in the form of loans the amount which may be made available to educational institutions within any one State. Directs the Secretary, in awarding part C loans, to give priority to loans for renovation or reconstruction of: (1) graduate or undergraduate academic facilities; and (2) older graduate or undergraduate academic facilities that have gone without major renovation or reconstruction for an extended period. Provides for a portion of funds obtained pursuant to specified provisions under title IV of the Housing Act of 1950 to be available for part C purposes. Retains part D provisions for Grants to Pay Interest on Debt, and part E provisions for the College Construction Loan Insurance Association. Eliminates provisions for part G, Special Programs. Establishes a new part F, Historically Black College and University Capital Financing. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into insurance agreements to provide financial insurance to guarantee full payment of principal and interest on qualified bonds to facilitate capital financing for historically Black colleges and universities (eligible institutions). Requires the Secretary to designate a qualified bonding authority that agrees to assume specified responsibilities, including using bond proceeds to make loans to eligible institutions for capital projects. Limits the aggregate principal amount of outstanding bonds insured under this Act together with any accrued unpaid interest thereon. Limits the specified portions of such aggregate amount which may be used for loans to eligible institutions that are, respectively, private or public. (Provides, for such purposes, that Lincoln University of Pennsylvania and Howard University in Washington, D.C., are public institutions.) Sets forth duties and powers of the Secretary under this part F, including procedures for designation of the bonding authority. Establishes, within the Department of Education, the Historically Black College and University Capital Financing Advisory Board. Provides for minority business enterprise utilization under this part F. Repeals title VII part J (I) provisions for the Agriculture, Strategic Metals, Minerals, Forestry, and Oceans College and University Research Facilities and Instrumentation Modernization Program. Title VIII: Cooperative Education - Revises title VIII of HEA, Cooperative Education. Extends through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for cooperative education programs under title VIII. Limits eligibility to apply for new administration grants under title VIII to those institutions of higher education which have not received funds for the administration of the cooperative education program for the preceding ten years. Revises provisions for Federal share and applications. Title IX: Graduate Programs - Revises title IX of HEA, Graduate Programs. Directs the Secretary to provide for coordinated administration and regulation of assisted graduate programs to ensure that they are carried out in a manner most compatible with academic practices. Directs the Secretary to appoint administrative and technical employees with the appropriate educational background to assist in program adminstration. Revises and renames part A, Grants to Institutions to Encourage Women and Minority Participation in Graduate Education (currently, Grants to Institutions to Encourage Minority Participation in Graduate Education). Adds provisions for women (as well as for individuals from minority groups underrepresented in graduate education) under such part A program. Adds provisions for information collection under such part A program. Revises title IX part B provisions. Renames part B as Postbaccalaureate Opportunity and Harris Fellowship Programs (currently Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowships). Provides for a subpart 1 program of Postbaccaulaureate masters and professional education of women and minorities underrepresented in such education. Provides for a subpart 2 program, the Patricia Roberts Harris Graduate Fellowship Program, to provide, through institutions of higher education, grants to assist the doctoral education for women and individuals from underrepresented groups. Provides for individual stipends comparable with National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships. Revises title IX part C provisions for the Jacob K. Javits Fellows Program. Authorizes up to 600 new fellowships per year (currently limited to 450 per-year). Revises provisions for individual stipends (to be comparable with National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships). Sets the institutional assistance payment at $10,000, to be adjusted annually for inflation. Revises title IX part D provisions for Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need. Provides for institutional commitments to provide stipends to complete graduate study to include students pursuing a doctoral degree after having completed a masters degree program. Provides for individual stipend comparable to National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships. Provides for an added institutional assistance payment of $10,000, to be adjusted for inflation. Revises title IX part E provisions for Assistance for Training in the Legal Profession. Requires such assistance to be for minority and other low-income, disadvantaged college graduates to successfully pursue a law degree and service in the legal profession. Requires such assistance to be through and annual grant on contract with the Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO). Sets forth authorized services for part E legal training projects. Requires the Secretary, by grant or contract on a biennial basis, with CLEO, to cover all or part of costs of specified activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 through 1996 for specified authorized services provided by part E legal training projects. Revises title IX part F provisions for Law School Clinical Experience Programs. Authorize grant use to cover costs of continuing (as well as establishing or expanding) such programs. Increases the maximum amount any law school may receive under part F in any fiscal year (from $100,000 to $250,000). Establishes, as a new part G of title IX, a program of Grants to Institutions to Encourage Minorities to Enter the Higher Education Professorate. Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education or to nonprofit organizations associated with such institutions with a demonstrated record of enhancing minority access to graduate education), in consortia with historically black colleges and universities and other institutions with significant enrollments of African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans. States that such grants shall enable such institutions to: (1) identify talented candidates for and recipients of baccalaureate degrees and faculty who wish to enter or continue in the higher education professorate; and (2) provide such students and faculty with stipends and fellowships to assist them in obtaining a doctoral degree and returning to an institution of higher education to teach. Designates such fellowships as the Faculty Development Fellowships. Sets forth application and selection requirements. Requires each Faculty Development Fellowship recipient to agree to teach at an institution of higher education for two years for every one year of fellowship assistance, or else repay the fellowship. Sets forth repayment procedures and exceptions. Transfers to part H of title IX provisions for Authorization of Appropriations (currently part G). Extends for FY 1993 through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for the following title IX programs: (1) part A, Grants to Institutions to Encourage Women and Minority Participation in Graduate Education; (2) part B, subpart 1, Postbaccalaureate Opportunity Fellowships; (3) part B, subpart 2, Patricia Roberts Harris Graduate Fellowship Program; (4) part C, Jacob K. Javits Fellows Program; (5) part D, Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need; (6) part F, Law School Clinical Experience Programs; and (7) part G, Grants to Institutions to Encourage Minorities to Enter the Higher Education Professorate. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 through 1998 for part E, Assistance for Training in the Legal Profession (under part E, this Act also authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 through 1996 for specified authorized services provided by part E legal training projects). Title X: Postsecondary Improvement Program - Revises title X of HEA, Postsecondary Improvement Program. Authorizes the Secretary to make planning grants to institutions of higher education for the development and testing of innovative techniques in postsecondary education. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997 for such planning grants. Extends through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for HEA title X part A, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (the Fund) (to which such planning grant provisions are added). Extends through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for part B, Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Programs. Retains the current division of such funds as follows: (1) 50 percent for the Minority Science Improvement Program; (2) 33 1/3 percent for Science and Engineering Access Programs; and (3) 16 2/3 percent for the Special Services Projects progam. Redesignates the current part C of title X of HEA, Innovative Projects for Community Services and Student Financial Assistance, as part C of a new title XI of HEA (Student Community Service). Establishes a new part C of title X of HEA, Special Projects in Areas of National Need. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education, consortia thereof, and other public agencies and nonprofit institutions for innovative projects concerning one or more areas of particular national need in postsecondary education identified by the Secretary and the Director of the Fund. Sets forth application requirements. Requires areas of national need to initially include, but not be limited to: (1) international exchanges; (2) campus climate and culture; and (3) evaluation and dissemination. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997 for such grants Title XI: Student Community Service - Establishes a new title XI of HEA, Student Community Service, which consolidate current and new HEA community service programs. Some elements of the current title XI, Partnerships for Economic Development and Urban Community Service, are contained in revised forms under the new title I of HEA, as amended by this Act.) Establishes, as part A of title XI, Higher Education Innovative Projects for Community Service, to support innovative projects to encourage students to participate in community service activities while attending institutions of higher education (such provisions are revised and transferred from the National and Community Service Act of 1990). (The current part A of title XI of HEA is Partnerships for Community Development.) Authorizes the Secretary (after consultation with the Commission on National Service, to insure coordination of activities, to make part A grants to and contracts with institutions of higher education (including consortia of such institutions) working in partnership with other public agencies and nonprofit organizations, to: (1) enable institutions to create or expand community service activities to their students; (2) encourage community service projects designed and initiated by students; (3) encourage student participation in community service activities that engender social responsibility and commitment to the community; (4) encourage students to assist in teaching individuals with limited basic skills or an inability to read and write; and (5) provide for training teachers, prospective teachers, related education personnel, and community leaders in the skills necessary to develop community service acitivites. Requires, with respect to proposed community service activities, consideration of: (1) the particular needs of a community; (2) the grantee's ability to actively involve a major part of the community; and (3) whether the community will benefit substantially. Sets the Federal share at not more than 50 percent. Sets forth application requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997 for such part A program. Establishes a new part B of title XI, Student Literacy Corps and Student Mentoring Corps (the current part D of title I of HEA provides for a Student Literacy Corps). Authorizes the Secretary to make part B grants to institutions of higher education for up to four years to carry out literacy corps programs and/or mentoring corps programs in public community agencies in the communities in which the institutions are located. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such grant funds. Sets forth application requirements for such programs. Sets forth provisions for technical assistance and coordination arrangements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997 for such part B programs. Sets forth, as part C of title XI, provisions for Innovative Projects for Community Services and Student Financial Independence (currently such provisions are under part C of title X). Extends through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for such part C projects. Sets forth, as part D of title XI, provisions for Community Service-Learning. Transfers and revises such provisions, which are currently under title IV part C, for: (1) work-study for community service-learning on behalf of low-income individuals and families; and (2) community service job location and development programs for students at institutions of higher education. Establishes, as part E of title XI, Grants for Sexual Offenses Education and prevention programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make such part E program grants to and contracts with institutions of higher education, on a competitive basis. Requires program grants, in general, to be used to educate and provide support services to student victims of sexual offenses. Sets forth authorized activities. Requires that at least 25 percent ofprogram funds be available for grants for model demonstration programs, to be coordinated with local rape crisis centers, for: (1) development and implementation of quality rape prevention and education curricula; and (2) local programs to provide services to student sexual offense victims. Requires, under conditions for institutional eligibility for part E grants, written policies that: (1) prohibit all forms of sexual offenses; and (2) require disclosure to the victim of any sexual offense the outcome of any campus police investigation or campus disciplinary proceedings brought pursuant to the victim's complaint against the alleged perpetrator. Gives priority to grant applicants who do not have an established campus education program regarding sexual offenses. Sets forth requirements for part E grant applictions and grantee performance reports. Directs the Secretary to: (1) promulgate regulations for such program; and (2) report on such program to congressional committees responsible for issues relating to higher education and crime. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 through 1995 for such part E grants for sexual offenses education and prevention programs. Repeals provisions of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 relating to Higher Education Innovative Projects for Innovative Eduction (such provisions are transferred in a revised form to part A of title XI of HEA by this Act, as described above). Title XII: General Provisions - Revises title XII of HEA, General Provisions. Revises HEA definitions, including that of institution of higher education, and adds, definitions with cross-reference to other laws. Revises antidiscrimination provisions to declare that nothing in HEA shall be construed to limit any individual's rights or responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, or any other law. Adds requirements for institutional disclosures of foreign gifts. Requires such disclosure reports to be made to the Secretary and to be open to public inspection. Provides for court orders to enforce such disclosure requirements. Title XIII: Indian Higher Education Programs - Part A: Tribally Controlled Community Colleges - Amends the Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act of 1978 to extend the authorization of appropriations: (1) from FY 1992 through 1996, for technical assistance contracts, grants to tribally controlled community colleges, and a renovation program and construction of new facilities; and (2) from FY 1993 through 1997, for the tribally controlled community college endowment program grants and economic development program. Amends the Navajo Community College Act to extend the authorization of appropriations from FY 1993 through 1997 for construction grants. Part B: Higher Education Tribal Grant Authorization Act - Higher Education Tribal Grant Authorization Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary, for purposes of this part B of title XIII) to make grants to Indian tribes (tribes) to permit them to provide financial assistance to individual Indian students for the cost of attendance at institutions of higher education. Provides that such grants shall come from appropriations for supporting higher education grants for Indian students under the authority of the Snyder Act. Prohibits the Secretary from placing any restrictions not expressly authorized by this part on the use of funds provided to an Indian tribe under this part. Provides that this Act shall not affect any Federal trust responsibilities. Prohibits any termination, modification, suspension, or reduction of grants under this part which is only for the convenience of the administering agency. Allows any tribe to qualify for such a grant by filing: (1) a notice of intent to administer such a student assistance program, if such tribe obtains funds for educational purposes similar to those authorized in this part pursuant to a contract under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (ISDEAA) (contracting tribe); or (2) an application for such a grant, if the tribe does not have such an ISDEAA contract (noncontracting tribe), under guidelines for programs under ISDEAA. Presumes an Indian tribe which has qualified for such a grant to continue to be eligible for such a grant for each succeeding fiscal year, unless the Secretary revokes such eligibility for a specified cause, involving failure to submit annual financial statements and program descriptions to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) or biennial financial audits to the Secretary, or independently evaluated failure to comply with standards relating to eligible students, programs, or institutions of higher education, satisfactory progress, or allowable administrative costs, as determined under ISDEAA contracts. Sets forth procedural safeguards relating to such revocations, including written notice, opportunity and technical assistance to make corrections, and hearing and appeals applicable under ISDEAA. Directs the Secretary to continue to determine the amount of program funds to be received by each grantee under this part by the same method used for determining such distribution in FY 1991 for tribally-administered and BIA-administered programs of grants to individual Indians to defray postsecondary expenses. Provides for additional amounts to cover program administrative costs, determined for: (1) contracting tribes, by the method used by the grantee during the preceding ISDEAA contract period; and (2) noncontracting tribes, by the ISDEAA regulations governing such determinations, as in effect at the time of the grant application. Provides for a single grant to each grantee during any fiscal year, combining such program and administrative funds. Requires the grant to be maintained in a separate account. Requires the tribes to use such grants to make grants to individual Indian students to meet, on the basis of need, any educational expense of attendance in a postsecondary education program (as determined under ISDEAA contracts), to the extent such expense is not met through other sources or cannot be defrayed through the action of any State, Federal, or municipal Act (except that nothing in these provisions is to be interpreted as requiring any priority in consideration of resources). Allows use of such grants also for program administrative costs, within the specified limits. Bars use of grant funds for study at a divinity school or department or for any religious worship or sectarian activity. Sets forth provisions for grant payments. Requires that interest or any other income on grant funds: (1) be used only for the same purposes as the grants; (2) be the property of the tribe or tribal organization; and (3) not be taken into account by Federal officers or employees in determining whether to provide assistance, or the amount of assistance, under any Federal law. Sets forth requirements relating to investments and deposits of such funds. Provides that such funds shall not be considered for purposes of underrecovery or overrecovery determinations by any Federal agency for any other funds. Directs the Secretary to report biennially to the Congress on the programs established under this part, including specified items. Requires that: (1) grant applications, and application modifications, be reviewed and approved by personnel under the direction and control of the Director of the Office of Indian Education Programs; and (2) required reports be submitted to such personnel. Requires that specified provisions of the ISDEAA be applicable to grants provided under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations relating to discharge of duties specifically assigned to the Secretary by this part. Prohibits the Secretary from issuing regulations in all other matters relating to the details of planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of grants under this part. Provides that regulations issued under these provisions shall not have the standing of a Federal statute for purposes of judicial review. Sets forth procedures for retrocession of programs assisted under this part. Makes any such retrocession requested by a tribe effective on a date specified by the Secretary not more than 120 days after such request, or such later date as may be mutually agreed upon by the Secretary and the tribe. Requires the Secretary, if such program is retroceded, to provide any tribe served by such program at least the same quantity and quality of services. Requires the tribal governing body requesting the retrocession to specify whether the retrocession shall be to: (1) a contract administered by the tribe, or a tribal entity, under the authority of the ISDEAA; or (2) a BIA-administered program. Part C: Critical Needs for Tribal Development Act - Critical Needs for Tribal Development Act - Authorizes an eligible Indian tribe or tribal organization to require any applicant for federally funded higher education assistance to enter into a critical area service agreement, as a condition of receipt of such assistance. Requires such tribe or tribal organization that implements such critical area service agreements to designate particular occupational areas as critical areas for the economic or human development needs of the tribe or its members, and to notify the Secretary of the Interior in writing of such designated critical areas. Establishes guidelines and procedures to implement such critical area service agreements. Part D: Institute of American Indian Native Culture and Arts Development - Amends the Higher Education Amendments of 1986 (of which title XV is the American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Culture and Art Development Act is referred to as the Act for purposes of this part) to revise provisions relating to the Institute of American Indian Native Culture and Arts Development (the Institute) and its Board of Directors (the Board). Requires that Board members represent diverse fields of expertise, including finance, law, and fine arts higher education administration. Directs the President to carry out through the Board the publication of announcements of expiration of terms and the solicitation of nominations from Indian tribes and organizations to fill vacancies. Authorizes the Board to: (1) make recommendations based on nominations received; (2) make recommendations of its own; and (3) review and make comments on individuals being considered by the President for whom no nominations have been received. Grants the Board the power to recommend the continuation of Board members, in order to maintain stability and continuation, in accordance with specified procedures. Revises general powers of the Board. Authorizes the Board to: (1) enter into joint development ventures with public or private commercial or noncommercial entities for development of facilities to meet a specified required plan (provided that such ventures are related to and further the Institute's mission); and (2) designate annually a portion (up to ten percent) of specified appropriated funds for investment on a short-term basis to maximize yield and liquidity. Requires that interest and earnings on specified amounts received and invested by the Institute be expended to carry out the Act. Revises provisions for basic compensation rates for Institute staff to require these to be set at rates comparable to those of similar institutions of higher education (or, as at present, at civil service rates for individuals with comparable qualifications). Revises Institute functions to eliminate certain requirements relating to a Center for Culture and Art Studies, Center for Research and Cultural Exchange, and Museum of American Indian and Alaska Native Arts. Makes the Board responsible for establishing the policies and administrative organization relating to the administrative organization relating to the administrative control and monitoring responsibilities for all Institute subdivisions, administrative entities, and departments, with the specific responsibilities of each to lie solely within the discretion of the Board or its designee. Requires the Board to establish, within the Institute, departments for the study of culture and arts and for research and exchange, and a museum. Directs the Board to establish areas of competency for such departments. Authorizes the Institute to develop a policy or policies to extend preference to Indians in its program admissions and enrollment, employment, and contracts, fellowships, and grants. (Currently authorizes the Institute to simply extend such preference.) Revises provisions relating to transfer of functions, including certain provisions for forgiveness of amounts owed and hold harmless provisions. Eliminates requirements for an annual report by the Institute President. Revises provisions relating to the Institute's headquarters to refer to the Board, rather than the Secretary of the Interior. Provides that the Institute shall not be subject to any requirement for non-Federal matching funds as a condition for Federal assistance. Revises provisions for the Institute's endowment program. Allows the Institute to use funds from any non-Federal governmental source (as well as from any private or tribal source) to comply with a contribution requirement. Directs the Board to prepare a master plan on the short- and long-term facilities needs of the Institute, including specified types of evaluations, impact projections, periodic reviews, and needs prioritization. Requires transmittal of such plan to the Congress within 18 months after enactment of this part. Part E: Tribal Development Student Assistance Revolving Loan Program - Tribal Development Student Assistance Act - Establishes a student assistance revolving loan program for Native Americans, to be administered by tribes or tribal organizations. Requires that funds received under a grant under this part or recovered under specified provisions of this part be identified and accounted for separately from any other tribal or Federal funds received from the Federal Government. Requires that all funds in such account be used for the purposes of this Act. Makes the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary, for purposes of this part) responsible for establishing requirements for receipt, investment, and accounting of such funds to safeguard any financial interests of the Federal Government. Requires such funds to be: (1) invested by the tribe or tribal organization only in obligations of the United States or in obligations or securities guaranteed or insured by the United States; or (2) deposited only in accounts that are insured by an agency or instrumentality of the United States. Provide that any interest or investment income that accrues to any of such funds after they have been distributed to a tribe or tribal organization to make loans under this part shall be: (1) the property of the tribe or tribal organization; and (2) not taken into account by any Federal officer or employee in determining whether to provide to provide assistance, or the amount of assistance, under any provision of Federal law. Directs the Secretary to make grants under this part to: (1) tribes or multitribal organizations not serviced by current federally funded postsecondary institutions authorized for economic development grants; and (2) tribes or multitribal organizations which lack sufficient numbers of professionally trained tribal members to support established or ongoing economic development activities. Requires any tribe or tribal organization which receives such grant funds to make such funds available by loan to Native American students who have successfully completed 30 hours of postsecondary education and who are eligible for readmission to a postsecondary institution. Sets forth terms of such student loans, including: (1) being subject to repayment over a period of not more than five years; (2) not bearing interest; and (3) being subject to forgiveness for services to the tribe under specified provisions. Requires that calculation of the student's cost of attendance include all costs as determined by the tribe for purposes of fulfilling the policy of this part. Requires any student seeking such a loan to apply for and accept the maximum financial aid available from other sources. Prohibits such loans from being considered in needs analysis under any other Federal law, and from penalizing students in determining eligibility for other funds. Sets forth requirements for a written agreement between the tribe or tribal organization and the eligible recipient for service fulfillment or loan repayment. Requires the recipient to commit to: (1) perform, for each academic year of assistance under this part, one calendar year of service to the tribe or tribal organization in an occupation related to the course of study pursued and an economic or social tribal development plan (commencing not later than six months after the student ceases to carry at least one-half the normal full-time academic workload); or (2) repay to the tribe or tribal organization the full amount of the loan, in monthly or quarterly installments within five years (with such recovered funds to be reported annually to the Secretary and invested in the account). Sets forth provisions for: (1) limitations and conditions on such service; (2) waivers or suspensions of such service agreements; (3) pro rata reductions for partial service; and (4) annual certification of individuals' service by the tribe to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish an application process for making grants to eligible entities; (2) take into account in reviewing applications the number of students with partial completion identified by the applicant, relative to the total number of tribal members who would be benefitted by the provision of services; and (3) attempt to achieve geographic and demographic diversity in such grants. Directs the Secretary, subject to the availability of funds and acceptable applications, to make five four-year grants to tribes or tribal organizations. Requires that the amount of administrative costs associated with such grants be negotiated by the Secretary with successful applicants and made a part of the grant agreement. Authorizes appropriations for this part for FY 1993 through 1997. Title XIV: Miscellaneous - Part A: Studies -Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to conduct, through the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), a two-year study of programs to increase the accessibility of postsecondary education for nontraditional students. Requires an interim and final report on such study to specified congressional committees. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study to evaluate the coordination of Federal student assistance programs with other benefit programs funded in whole or part with Federal funds. Requires particular attention to: (1) the effect of receipt of student aid on reduction or denial of other program benefits to such students; and (2) the attendance cost elements funded in whole or part by Federal student assistance programs for students eligible for other Federal programs, and the inclusion of room and/or board costs in such attendance costs. Requires a report on such study to appropriate congressional committees within three years. Directs the Secretary to conduct an annual special purpose survey of factors associated with participation of low-income, disadvantaged, and minority students in various types of postsecondary education. Requires such survey data to permit comparisons with other groups that have characteristically participated at higher rates than at-risk students. Requires consultation with the Congress and the elementary, secondary, and higher education community in developing such annual survey. Sets forth required inclusions in such survey. Requires the Secretary, in the event of significant findings related to underparticipation rates of at-risk and other students, to submit a plan containing policies and program modifications for ensuring the participation of at-risk students. Directs the Secretary, through OERI, to evaluate the effectiveness of postsecondary assistance guaranty programs for disadvantaged children that, in exchange for the child's commitment to achieving a satisfactory elementary and secondary education, promise the child the financial resources needed to pursue a postsecondary education. Requires such study to sample the types of such guarantee programs available, which may include supportive services, mentoring, study skills, and counseling for student participants. Requires dissemination of study findings. Requires an interim and a final report to specified congressional committees. Directs OERI to conduct a two-year study to: (1) assess information currently collected on graduate education; and (2) identify what additional information should be generated to guide the Department of Education in supporting graduate education. Requires consultation with other agencies and organizations involved in graduate education policies and programs. Directs the Comptroller General to evaluate staffing requirements of the U.S. Department of Education's Center for International Education, including specified considerations. Requires consultation with institutions of higher education which have participated in specified international education programs under HEA and the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act, and with national organizations of such institutions. Requires a report to the Congress within one year on such evaluation results. Part B: National Clearinghouse for Postsecondary Education Materials - Authorizes the Secretary to award a three-year grant or contract to establish a National Clearinghouse for Postsecondary Education Materials in accessible form, including audio and digital for students with disabilities. Sets forth authorized uses of such grant or contract funds. Sets forth a declining Federal share of program cost for each year of the award. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1995 for such clearinghouse.
Bill· HRH.R. 3548 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1991
Title I: Expansion of Head Start Programs - Amends the Head Start Act to extend through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for Head Start programs. Increases the amounts already authorized to be appropriated for FY 1993 and 1994. Title II: Incentive for Quality Education - Incentives for Quality Education Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 (ESEA) to add to ESEA title I chapter 1 (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Children) a new Incentives for Quality Education program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997 for such incentive grants program. Sets forth provisions for: (1) allocation of program funds among States; (2) State applications; (3) State use of at least 96 percent of such funds for awards to local educational agencies (LEAs) that meet specified criteria; (4) State review panels; and (5) annual State reports. Requires the State educational agency (SEA) to make such awards to any LEA: (1) whose students are receiving ESEA title I chapter 1 services; and (2) that has met criteria established by the SEA. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to establish minimum to be used by every SEA in developing selection criteria. Requires such minimum criteria to address specified matters. Requires each SEA to establish additional selection criteria that measure progress in student achievement and other indicators of a school's success. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of such award based on other chapter 1 awards. Requires the LEA to use its award for activities that further the educational program of the school in order to further student achievement. Restricts such activities to specified types, and to supplementation of other funding. Prohibits Federal, State or local reduction of other assistance. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a biennial evaluation of such quality education incentive awards; and (2) submit information on successful quality education incentive programs to the National Diffusion Network for possible dissemination. Title III: Incentives for Educational Excellence - Incentives for Educational Excellence Act - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to LEAs to strengthen the skills of students and teachers. Sets forth application and program requirements. Requires, at a minimum, assurances that the LEA has developed programs or shall develop a plan to: (1) increase the number of days students attend school each year to at least 200 days per year by the year 2000, which may include all-year-round attendance requirements; (2) decrease the number of students in each class or increase the ratio of teachers to students in each class; (3) improve teacher training through inservice programs that include collaborative efforts with colleges and universities; (4) reduce the number of school dropouts through innovative outreach programs; and (5) develop career skill centers to give students an exposure to various career opportunities. Requires States receiving such grants to submit annual progress reports. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997 to carry out such grants program.
Bill· HRH.R. 3543 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1991
Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations and Transfers for Relief from the Effects of Natural Disasters, for Other Urgent Needs, and for Incremental Costs of "Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm" Act of 1992 - Makes dire emergency supplemental appropriations for FY 1992 to carry out this Act. Title I: Emergency Supplemental Appropriations - Chapter I: Department of Defense - Military - Makes supplemental appropriations for the Department of Defense and the Department of Transportation for additional costs associated with operations in and around the Persian Gulf known as Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, including the authorized transfer during FY 1992 of amounts from either the Defense Cooperation Account, or the Persian Gulf Regional Defense Fund. Chapter II: Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies - Makes supplemental appropriations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency for: (1) emergency disaster assistance payments in presidentially-declared disasters; (2) existing emergencies and major disasters created by wildfires in California, Washington, Virginia, and other States; and (3) other emergencies and major disasters, including those causing the loss of life or loss of or damage to roads and bridges, highways, schools, libraries, and other State or local government public buildings. Chapter III: Department of Agriculture - Makes supplemental appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for recent natural disasters. Chapter IV: Department of Defense - Civil - Makes supplemental appropriations for the Department of the Army for the Corps of Engineers-Civil for flood control in the Mississippi River and tributaries, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee to meet dire emergency needs resulting from devastating flooding in the lower Mississippi Valley. Chapter V: Department of the Interior - Makes supplemental appropriations for the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement for emergency situations caused by landslides and other abandoned mine-related disasters which result in the imminent potential loss of life or property. Chapter VI - Department of Commerce - Makes supplemental appropriations for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the loss of critical computer and related telecommunications equipment destroyed by fire. Title II: General Provisions - Declares the findings of the Congress with respect to dire emergency conditions. Designates all funds in this Act as "emergency requirements" for all purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).
Bill· HRH.R. 3544 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1991
Emergency Job Creation Appropriations Act, 1992 - Title I: Meeting Our Economic Problems Coming from Changing Conditions with Essential Productive Jobs - Directs the appropriate congressional committees to study the current economic crisis, with emphasis on long-term recovery and and a strong private sector based on Government/industry partnership, and present their findings to the Congress as expeditiously as possible for appropriate action. Declares that the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Open Market Committee should take necessary actions to achieve and maintain a level of interest rates low enough to achieve significant economic growth and reduce the current level of unemployment. Makes appropriations for FY 1992, in order to create productive jobs and protect public investment, for various activities relating to: (1) Federal buildings; (2) interstate highways; (3) air transportation; (4) mass transportation; (5) rehabilitation of highway bridges crossing over Northeast corridor rail transportation properties; (6) railroad infrastructure and rights-of-way improvement; (7) veterans' medical facilities and services; (8) public housing modernization; (9) community development; (10) international trade competition; (11) local economic development; (12) small business loans and investments; (13) small business oriented employment or national resources development programs; (14) parks and recreational areas and facilities; (15) the National Forest System; (16) Indian health facilities; (17) Fish and Wildlife Service facilities; (18) rural development and resource conservation, including rural water and waste disposal; (19) soil conservation, including watershed and flood prevention operations; (20) Federal, State, and local prison modernization; (21) water resource and hydroelectric power, flood control, shore protection, harbor channel and navigable waterway maintenance; (22) reclamation and irrigation projects; (23) Federal agricultural research facilities; (24) tree-planting and other natural resources development programs; (25) historic properties restoration; and (26) Bureau of Land Management facilities. Makes appropriations for FY 1992 to the Department of Labor to provide productive jobs for unemployed individuals under specified conditions, in various types of public service employment. Provides for allocation of such funds to eligible local governments, rural area concentrated employment program grantees, or States. Makes appropriations in additional amounts for FY 1992 for: (1) employment and training services; (2) grants to States for unemployment insurance and employment services; (3) higher education academic and research facilities; and (4) the Federal Emergency Management Agency's emergency food and shelter program. Makes appropriations for FY 1991 for: (1) construction and modernization of military family housing; (2) low-income energy conservation weatherization activities (in an additional amount) and (3) Federal motor vehicle procurement. Title II: Technical Provisions - Provides that no part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
Bill· HRH.R. 3535 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1991
USHealth Program Act of 1991 - Title I: Provision And Expansion Of Hospital, Medical, And Preventive Services To Cover All Americans Either Through A USHealth Program Or Qualified Employer Health Plans - Subtitle A: Coverage of Elderly, Disabled, Retired, and Other Non-Employed Individuals Through a USHealth Program - Part 1: Eligibility - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish the USHealth Program (Program) for the provision of hospital as well as long-term care and certain preventive benefits to U.S. citizens and permanent U.S. residents. Provides for incorporating into the Program for hospital care: (1) aliens who are employed with a foreign government or an international organization and reside in the United States; and (2) foreign visitors. Provides for low-income assistance under the Program. Repeals provisions of various other benefit programs rendered superfluous by the comprehensive nature of the Program. Makes conforming amendments to the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974. Provides transitional Medicaid (title XIX of the Social Security Act) coverage of pregnant women and infants up to 185 percent of the Federal poverty level. Increases to 100 percent the Federal medical assistance percentage for additional populations covered. Part 2: Benefits - Revises the scope of benefits under Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance). Lists under such part Program benefits which comprise: (1) inpatient hospital services; (2) medical and other health services; (3) comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility services and home intravenous drug therapy services; (4) alcohol and drug abuse rehabilitation services; (5) outpatient mental health services; and (6) home health services. Changes payment provisions. Expands covered medical and other health services under Medicare to include the following preventive services as Program benefits: (1) prenatal care; (2) well-child care; (3) screening mammographies; (4) screening pap smears; (5) family planning services and supplies furnished to individuals of child-bearing age who desire such services and supplies; (6) colorectal cancer screening services; (7) counseling to modify risk factors for heart disease, cancer, and stroke, including dietary measures, weight reduction, smoking restriction, and physical conditioning; and (8) such other health services as the USHealth Board finds are cost-effective in the prevention of disease or illness. Directs the USHealth Board to establish: (1) frequency schedules for the provision of certain preventive services listed above; and (2) standards for entities furnishing preventive service under Medicare who otherwise are not qualified to provide other services under Medicare. Includes prescription drugs within such expanded coverage as Program benefits. Sets forth certification standards for comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility services, outpatient physical therapy services, outpatient speech pathology services, and home intravenous drug therapy services. Eliminates all mandatory benefits under the Medicaid program. Part 3: Payments For Services - Sets forth payment rules for inpatient hospital services, medical and other health services generally, prescription drugs, and home intravenous drug therapy services, which include no co-payments for inpatient hospital services. Directs the USHealth Board to: (1) establish a program to assure appropriate prescribing and dispensing practices; (2) prepare and update annually a guide for physicians concerning wholesale prices of commonly prescribed drugs; (3) establish a fee schedule for home intravenous drug therapy services; and (4) adjust Medicare payment rates for inpatient hospital services and physicians' services to reflect changes in the population served and other special circumstances. Requires the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission to conduct a study concerning appropriate adjustments in payments for inpatient hospital services to account for reduced hospital costs resulting from Medicare payment of prescription drugs and home intravenous drug therapy services. Provides protection against out-of-pocket expenses which exceed specified individual and family catastrophic limits. Prohibits service providers from imposing charges when a catastrophic limit has been reached. Details provisions with respect to the treatment of health maintenance organizations (HMOs). Repeals Medicare payment rules for outpatient mental health services. Subtitle B: Coverage of Employed Individuals Through Qualified Employer Health Plans - Part 1: General Provisions - Amends the Social Security Act to add a new title XXI (Access to Health Insurance For Health Services Through Employment) under which employers are required to enroll their employees and dependents in a qualified employer health plan or in the Program. Sets forth rules for the enrollment of full- and part-time, seasonal, and temporary employees, including rules applicable in cases of families with more than one worker and where both employers offer enrollment under a qualified employer health plan. Phases in implementation of enrollment requirements according to a schedule based on the size of the employer. Sets forth enforcement provisions. Outlines requirements for qualified employer health plan premiums and cost-sharing, including limitations on the amount that may be charged for premiums. Gives qualified employer health plans the option of electing Program rules governing payments for services. Sets forth the requirements for standards to certify a health plan provided by an employer or sold to an individual as a qualified health plan, including: (1) requirements that plan benefits must at least mirror the Medicare part A health services provided under the Program; (2) requirements respecting limits on pre-existing condition exclusions and coverage standards for such required plan benefits; and (3) disclosure and other requirements to protect consumers. Prohibits certain State benefit and coverage rules under a qualified health plan. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a full deduction for health insurance costs of the self-employed and to make such deduction permanent. Part 2: Insurance Reform - Subpart A: General Reforms - Amends the Public Health Service Act to add a new title XXVII (Group Health Insurance Standards) under which insured and self-insured employment-related health plans must be ascertained as meeting certain standards established below in order to be, respectively, issued or offered. Provides sanctions for plans that fail to meet such standards, including possible loss of their qualified status. Requires the USHealth Board to request the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to develop specific standards to implement the requirements in the remaining paragraphs below which such plans must be ascertained as meeting. Provides that if NAIC fails to develop such standards or if the Board finds that such standards do not implement such requirements, the Board shall develop such standards. Requires that such plans may not discriminate on the basis of health status for certain services. Requires that pre-existing condition exclusions under such plans be treated in the same manner as is mandated under the Social Security Act for qualified health plans. Requires any carrier which offers such a plan to register with the applicable State regulatory authority. Requires that such carriers offer the same plans to all employers within their individual service areas. Details separate requirements with respect to HMOs. Specifies that a carrier may not offer or issue to an employer such a plan with a term of less than 12 months. Requires guaranteed renewability with some exceptions. Lists notice and other requirements applicable to renewals, including the requirement that the period of renewal for each employer plan be for a period of not less than 12 months. Provides an exception to the requirements in this paragraph for self-insured carriers and self-insured employment-related health plans. States that such requirements do apply to reinsurance carriers and employment-related reinsurance plans offered to such carriers or underwriting such self-insured plans. Requires that the premiums for all employer plans of the same entity shall be: (1) established based on a single cohesive rating system which is applied consistently for all employer groups and is designed not to treat groups, after a certain period, differently based on health or risk status; and (2) actuarially certified each year. Requires employer health plan premiums to be community-rated for a given geographical area. Disallows adjustments to premium rates based on age and gender of covered individuals. Requires a Program reimbursement election before employer health plan premium rates may be adjusted otherwise. Requires employer health plans to permit enrollment of individuals based on specified beneficiary classes. Provides an exception to the requirements in this paragraph for self-insured carriers and self-insured employment-related health plans. States that such requirements do apply to reinsurance carriers and employment-related reinsurance plans offered to such carriers or underwriting such self-insured plans. Prescribes a basic benefit package for employer health plans, with exceptions for employment-related reinsurance plans, self-insured plans, and HMO plans. Sets forth miscellaneous disclosure and recordkeeping requirements for employer health plans. Subpart B: Encouraging Establishment of Managed Care - Adds a new part 3 (Favorable Treatment of Network Plans and Utilization Review Programs) to new title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act added above to provide for favorable treatment of network plans and utilization review programs. Subpart C: Repeal of COBRA Continuation Requirements - Repeals COBRA continuation requirements under the Public Health Service Act, the Internal Revenue Code, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Title II: Provision of Long-Term Home and Community-Based Care, Nursing Home Care, And Other Benefits For All Americans Through the USHealth Program - Adds a new part B (Long-Term Care Protection And Certain Preventive Benefits) to Medicare under which U.S. citizens and permanent U.S. residents are eligible for long-term care, without regard to age or disability status, and certain preventive benefits. Sets forth provisions respecting long-term care protection under new part B. Details eligibility criteria for long-term care which include requirements that only those individuals applying for benefits who have been determined by a Screening Agency to be limited in daily living activities or so cognitively impaired as to require ongoing supervision will be eligible for: (1) home and community-based services; (2) respite care; and (3) nursing facility services. Provides that the duration of such services shall be unlimited as long as the Case Management Agency determines, through its periodic review of a patient, that the patient continues to require such services. Requires that the determination of the need of an individual for such services shall be made by the Case Management Agency. Places limitations on coverage for respite care. Directs the USHealth Board to contract with States or other entities to act as Long-Term Care Screening Agencies for the State. Makes such agency responsible for assessing the eligibility of individuals for such services. Directs the USHealth Board to contract with a State or private nonprofit organization to establish and administer a Long-Term Care Case Management Agency for each designated area of a State. Requires such agency to: (1) provide case management services for eligible individuals directly or through contracts with home care or home health agencies; (2) develop a care plan for each individual determined to be eligible by a Screening Agency or approve such a plan which has been developed by a qualified service provider; (3) maintain a registry of qualified providers of home and community-based care and nursing facilities in the State; and (4) assist individuals in choosing qualified providers to carry out the care plan and in locating alternative providers if the individual becomes dissatisfied with the provider initially chosen. Requires a State, in addition to the USHealth Board, to monitor the performance of all designated Case Management Agencies and assure the fiscal stability of such agencies. Requires services provided to eligible individuals pursuant to a plan of care to be provided by qualified service providers. Lists service providers qualified to provide home and community-based services. Sets forth payment rules for home and community-based services and nursing facility services. Sets forth requirements for the certification of providers of such long-term care services. Establishes the Home and Community-Based Care Advisory Council to: (1) assist the USHealth Board in assuring the prompt and efficient implementation of long-term care protection under new part B; (2) regularly review the implementation of such protection; and (3) recommend to the Board and to the Congress any necessary modifications to such protection with respect to home and community-based services. Sets forth home- and community-based provider quality assurance requirements and case management agency quality assurance requirements. Directs the USHealth Board to develop and implement a standard and extended survey of home care agencies certified to receive payments for such long-term care services provided under new part B. Sets forth provisions respecting certain preventive benefits under new part B. Entitles U.S. citizens and permanent U.S. residents to the following preventive benefits: (1) routine physical checkups; (2) routine eye care (including the dispensing of corrective lenses); (3) dental care; and (4) hearing care. Specifies the specific items and services which comprise each such benefit. Sets forth special rules for children. Directs the USHealth Board to provide for a program for the certification of the safety and efficacy of hearing aids for which payment may be made under new part B. Sets forth payment rules, including rules prohibiting the application of deductibles or co-payments to payments for such preventive benefits. Directs the USHealth Board to make grants to: (1) educational institutions for programs to train individuals in the provision of home- and community-based care and nursing facility services; (2) State approved programs to develop and conduct programs to train individuals in the provision of home health aide services; and (3) accredited university schools of nursing to develop model consumer training programs to provide information and training about the delivery of home care services for caregivers as well as general information about the home- and community-based care service system. Authorizes appropriations for such grants. Directs the Board to assist public or private nonprofit entities in meeting the costs of planning, developing, and operating centers for long-term care planning and technical assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the USHealth Board to conduct long-term home care demonstration projects for seriously mentally ill individuals and family caregivers. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Low-Income Assistance - Adds a new part C (Assistance For Low-Income Individuals) to Medicare under which low-income U.S. citizens and permanent U.S. residents who are enrolled under part A or under a qualified employer health plan or are entitled to benefits under part B may apply for assistance to limit or eliminate their financial obligations for premiums, deductibles, and co-payments. Title IV: USHealth Program Administration - Subtitle A: USHealth Administration - Adds a new part D (USHealth Administration) to Medicare to establish, as an independent agency in the executive branch of the Government, a USHealth Administration, to be governed by a USHealth Board, to administer the USHealth Program created under this Act. Abolishes the Health Care Financing Administration. Subtitle B: Miscellaneous - Repeals provisions regarding the use of public agencies or private organizations to facilitate payment to providers of services. Permits States to be carriers for administration of part A benefits. Makes miscellaneous conforming changes in carrier provisions. Adds additional administrative provisions to part A relating to prescription drugs. Directs the Director of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment to provide for the appointment of a Prescription Drug Payment Review Commission to report annually to the Congress on methods of determining payment for prescription drugs. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct various studies with respect to prescription drugs, including a study on the possible inclusion of experimental drugs under the Program, and to report to the Congress on the results of each such study. Requires General Accounting Office studies on wholesale prescription drug prices and the costs to pharmacies of doing business. Directs the USHealth Board to develop a standard prescription drug claims form. Subjects home intravenous drug therapy services to review by peer review organizations. Revises administrative provisions under Medicare regarding home intravenous drug therapy services. Makes miscellaneous and technical changes with respect to HMO coverage and payment. Sets forth special rules for frail elderly demonstration projects and similar projects. Title V: Quality Assurance And Cost Containment - Subtitle A: Quality Assurance - Amends part B (Peer Review) of title XI of the Social Security Act to require contracts with peer review organizations to provide that: (1) major organizational efforts be devoted to quality assurance activities; and (2) quality assurance activities be conducted with respect to all the different types of health and long-term care covered by Medicare or through a private payor. Revises the definition of the term "peer review organization" to require such an entity to include representatives of providers of services for which quality assurance activities are conducted. Provides funding for increased quality assurance activities. Requires each utilization and quality control peer review organization to establish and staff a quality assurance board that will monitor the quality of care provided under Medicare in the area served by the organization. Amends the Medicare program to: (1) prohibit payments to health care providers which are not licensed and certified by the State; (2) direct the USHealth Board to promulgate a consumers' bill of rights which shall recognize specified rights as rights of consumers which may be asserted by the consumer or his or her representative or guardian; (3) revise the hospital discharge planning process to require a discharge planning process which meets guidelines and standards to be established by the USHealth Board that guard against early inappropriate hospital discharges and ensure a timely and smooth transition to the most appropriate type of and setting for post-hospital care; and (4) require HMOs to make outpatient mental health services available to their clients and ensure that quality assurance activities include such services. Amends the Peer Review program to require peer review organizations to monitor hospitals' compliance with discharge planning process requirements. Subtitle B: Cost-Containment - Sets forth a formula to determine the overall annual health care amount allowed to be spent under the Program. Directs the USHealth Board to conduct negotiations each year with representatives of the classes of health care providers in order to allocate overall spending among the different classes of providers. Requires a report to the Congress on negotiation results along with a specification of the amount to be allocated to each class of provider. Requires the Board to adjust each year the payment rates by each class of provider. Title VI: Financing - Amends the Medicare program to: (1) set forth rules for determining the premiums to be charged individuals and employers for enrollment under part A; (2) specify the early year premiums for aged and disabled part A enrollees and set forth rules for determining the premiums for later years; and (3) revise procedures for collecting part B premiums to provide for the collection of delinquent premiums. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) eliminate the limit on wages and self-employment income subject to social security and railroad retirement taxes; and (2) increase the health insurance tax rate. Requires State maintenance of effort payments. Redesignates the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund as the USHealth Program Trust Fund. Provides for off-budget treatment of the Fund. Extends the borrowing authority of the Fund. Dedicates additional specified revenues to the support of the Program. Repeals the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund and transfers the funds in, and obligations of, such Fund to the USHealth Program Trust Fund. Repeals the separate authorization of appropriations to cover Government contributions and provide a contingency reserve applicable to the former Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. Title VII: Rural And Central City Demonstration Projects And Expansion Of Primary Care And Public Health Delivery Capacity - Directs the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration to provide for additional research and demonstration projects into how Medicare could be changed to better cover care for beneficiaries residing in rural areas and in central city areas of large cities. Requires an annual report to the Congress on the progress of such projects. Extends the authorizations for the following programs or services under the Public Health Service Act through the year 2000: (1) immunization programs; (2) tuberculosis prevention and control programs; (3) lead poisoning prevention programs; (4) programs (and projects) for the prevention and control of sexually transmitted diseases; (5) migrant and community health center services; (6) homeless programs; (7) public housing programs; (8) family planning services; and (9) early intervention services for individuals with HIV disease. Directs the USHealth Board to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for projects to plan and develop primary care centers and public health clinics which will serve medically underserved populations. Directs the USHealth Board, every five years, beginning with 1994, to submit to the Congress a report on the impact of this Act in meeting the following Goals for the Nation stated in "Health People, 2000": (1) to increase the span of healthy life for Americans; (2) to reduce health disparities among Americans; and (3) to achieve access to preventive services for all Americans. Requires each report to include such recommendations with respect to changes in the benefits and payment policies under this Act as will best promote achievement of national health promotion and disease prevention goals and objectives.
Law· HRH.R. 3531 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1991
Patent and Trademark Office Authorization Act of 1991 - Authorizes appropriations to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Office) for FY 1992. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to: (1) repeal the 69 percent surcharge on all Office fees; and (2) require the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks to establish such surcharges (to meet deficit reduction goals) for FY 1991 through FY 1995. Allows appropriations to remain available until expended. Amends Federal patent law to direct the Secretary of Commerce (the Secretary) to furnish certain congressional committees with a financial status report on Office activities. Directs the Commissioner to charge specified patent fees. Authorizes the Commissioner to adjust such fees annually to reflect the Consumer Price Index. Requires the Commissioner to maintain, for use by the public, collections of United States patents, foreign patent documents, and United States trademark registrations. Prohibits the imposition of fees directly for use of either the collections, or for use of the public patent or trademark search rooms or libraries. Authorizes the Commissioner to establish reasonable fees for access by the public to automated search systems of the Patent and Trademark Office. Requires the Commissioner to submit an annual status report to the Congress on the Office's automated search systems and upon public access to such systems. Permits the Commissioner to charge reasonable fees for such access. Prohibits the Commissioner from entering into exchange agreements with respect to automatic data processing resources during FY 1992. Exempts from such prohibition agreements relating to data for automation programs entered into with an international entity or foreign government. Authorizes the Commissioner to indemnify Office personnel who participated in the Office's Law School Tuition Assistance Program against tax liability incurred as a result of program payments made to law schools in specified tax years.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 243 (102nd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1991
Elects the following Members of the House of Representatives to the specified committee: (1) Ed Pastor to the Committees on Education and Labor and Small Business; (2) Peter J. Visclosky to the Committee on Appropriations; and (3) Neil Abercrombie and Cal Dooley to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Bill· SS. 1822 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1991
Hispanic Access to Higher Education Act of 1991 - Title I: Early Intervention - Part A: Early Outreach Program - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish an integrated early outreach program. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make allotments to States on the basis of relative State population and relative number of students enrolled in institutions of higher education in each State. Requires States to use such allotments to make grants and contracts to specified types of entities for providing various educational services to develop the academic skills and self-confidence of program participants necessary for success in higher education. Requires that: (1) at least two-thirds of program participants be low-income, racial or ethnic minorities underrepresented in higher education who are first-generation college students; and (2) the remaining one-third of such participants be either low-income individuals or first-generation college students. Requires participants to have completed five years of elementary education, and be between ten and 19 years of age (unless such limitations would defeat program purposes). Requires annual program reports to include data on student academic progress, appropriate income measures, gender, English proficiency, and the racial and ethnic background of program participants and service providers. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: National Survey of Factors Associated with Participation - Directs the Secretary to conduct a biennial survey, through the National Center for Educational Statistics, of factors associated with participation of low-income and minority students in various types of postsecondary education. Sets forth requirements for development of such survey and types of data to be included. Part C: TRIO Programs - Revises provisions for special programs for students from disadvantaged backgrounds (TRIO programs). Directs the Secretary to reserve specified funds to provide assistance to current and new providers proposing programs that serve geographic areas or eligible populations which have been underserved by TRIO programs. Directs the Secretary to conduct outreach activities to ensure that entities eligible for TRIO programs assistance submit applications proposing such programs. Requires provision of assistance in developing applications and programs, as well as notice of the availability of such assistance. Directs the Secretary to ensure that readers of applications for TRIO program assistance represent diverse backgrounds reflecting the populations served by such program, including African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Native American Pacific Islanders (including Native Hawaiians), individuals with disabilities, and individuals from rural areas. Requires the Secretary to ensure that each such application is read by at least three reviewers not employed by the Department of Education. Title II: Teacher Recruitment and Training - Part A: Loan Forgiveness for Teachers - Establishes a demonstration program of Stafford student loan forgiveness for any borrower employed as a full-time teacher: (1) in a school which qualifies under HEA for loan cancellation for Perkins student loan recipients who teach at such schools; and (2) of mathematics, science, foreign languages, special education, bilingual education, or any other field where the State educational agency determines there is a shortage of qualified teachers. Directs the Secretary to assume the obligation to repay the following percentages of Stafford loans incurred during the borrower's last two undergraduate years: (1) 15 percent for the first or second academic year in which the borrower is a full-time teacher; (2) 20 percent for the third or fourth such years of teaching; and (3) 30 percent for the fifth year. Sets forth a special rule authorizing such repayments with respect to Stafford loans for a maximum of two years in returning to an institution of higher education after graduation to obtain a teaching certificate. Part B: Teacher Corps - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to State educational agencies (SEAs) to conduct Teacher Corps activities. Bases the amount of such grants on relative school-age population. Directs the Secretary to use funds for such program to: (1) disseminate information nationally about the availability of Teacher Corps scholarships to individuals leaving the armed services; and (2) conduct activities, with SEA cooperation, which foster communications and meetings, including training, of Teacher Corps members. Authorizes each SEA receiving such a grant to use such funds for: (1) grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for induction and mentor programs; (2) in-service and mentoring programs for Teacher Corps members at State and local levels; (3) technical assistance to LEAs for Teacher Corps and induction programs; (4) evaluation of Teacher Corps membership applications and awarding Teacher Corps scholarships; (5) Teacher Corps awards to individuals in training to become a school psychologist, school social worker, or a school counselor; (6) ensuring that members understand repayment obligations resulting from noncomplaince with scholarship conditions; (7) assistance for employment placement of Teacher Corps members; and (8) collection of scholarship repayments. Requires SEAs to give priority in awarding grants to LEAs with the greatest proportion of disadvantaged students, including racial and ethnic minorities. Allows each SEA to choose to administer such program through a preexisting experienced panel. Authorizes LEAs receiving grants to use such funds for: (1) induction programs for new Teacher Corps members and other new teachers; and (2) ensuring that Teacher Corps members participate in an induction program for at least one year, including working with a mentor teacher designated by the LEA. Allows such induction programs to be developed in cooperation with institutions of higher education. Requires the SEA, in cooperation with the State higher education agency, to select Teacher Corps members. Requires the SEA-established criteria to include specified factors. Requires special consideration for individuals who intend to teach limited English-proficient students, preschool age children, or students with disabilities (or to provide related services to students with disabilities). Requires priority consideration for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, including racial and ethnic minorities and individuals with disabilities, who are underrepresented in the teaching profession or the curricular areas in which they are preparing to teach. Sets forth application requirements for Teacher Corps membership, SEAs, and LEAs. Provides for Teacher Corps scholarships. Limits individual eligibility to a maximum of three years of specified types of programs of study. Limits individual scholarship amount and duration. Requires that such scholarships be considered in determining eligibility for HEA student assistance. Requires that total assistance not exceed need. Provides for continued eligibility. Sets forth scholarship conditions, including agreement to work as a teacher, upon completion of education, for five years in a school which qualifies for Perkins student loan cancellation under HEA, or to repay all or part of the scholarship, plus interest, if scholarship conditions are not complied with. Requires SEAs receiving Teacher Corps assistance to: (1) publicize availability of and application procedures for Teacher Corps scholarships, particularly among specified types of students and individuals; and (2) recruit minority students to participate in the Teacher Corps program. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits any such funds from being appropriated unless the amount appropriated to carry out the Paul Douglas Congressional Teacher Scholarships program under HEA equals or exceeds a specified amount. Part C: Teacher Opportunity Corps - Amends HEA to establish the Teacher Opportunity Corps (TOC) program, to encourage institutions of higher education to offer educational programs and financial assistance to enable paraprofessionals working in shortage area schools serving disadvantaged students to become certified teachers. Directs the Secretary to allocate TOC program grant funds to States according to the same formula under which States receive funding for education of disadvantaged children. Requires TOC grant program agreements to include provisions for administration and recordkeeping by the State education or higher education agency. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States to support TOC programs at institutions of higher education. Sets forth State grant application requirements and general criteria for State grants, including: (1) involvement of institutions of higher education and shortage area schools or school districts; (2) full creditability to a baccalaurate program leading to teacher certification; (3) a program evaluation system; and (4) appropriate credit for paraprofessional classroom experience as practice or student teaching. Requires any paraprofessional who receives student financial assistance under the TOC program to agree to act as a paraprofessional in a shortage area school for at least one year for each year of such assistance, within ten years after completing postsecondary education. Requires repayment of all or part of such assistance, plus interest and reasonable collection costs, if the recipient fails to comply with his or her service requirements, except in specified circumstances. Requires that such student financial assistance supplement, but not supplant, other Federal or State assistance for which the student would otherwise qualify. Requires TOC program grants to be for a term of at least five years, subject to availability of appropriations. Allows States to use TOC program funds for: (1) student financial assistance to paraprofessionals to pay part or all of the costs of attendance (including child care) in postsecondary education programs required for teacher certification; (2) supportive services for such paraprofessionals during participation in such programs; and (3) payment of wage costs of substitute paraprofessionals to afford employed paraprofessionals release-time to attend postsecondary classes required for teacher certification. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Migrant Student Education - Part A: Amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Revises HEA special programs for students whose families are engaged in migrant and seasonal farmwork. Expands eligibility for the high school equivalency program and the college assistance migrant program to include certain persons who have participated in specified programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 or the Job Training Partnership Act. Extends the grant period from three to five years. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the high school equivalency program and the college assistance migrant program. Part B: National Mini-Corps Program - Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a National Mini-Corps Program to: (1) provide certain migrant college students with training to help them serve as student or teacher role models, links to the community, and tutors and teachers of migrant children; (2) designate college coordinators at participating institutions to train, supervise, and assign migrant students in cooperation with the operating State agency in which migrant children with special needs have been identified; (3) provide academic assistance, home visits, parental involvement, parent-student advisement services, and family advocacy; (4) provide that the instructional services for migrant children are to be coordinated with the overall educational goals of the operating State agency; and (5) provide that migrant students participating in such programs work from ten to 15 hours per week and receive stipends for such services. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· SS. 1820 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1991
Technology for the Classroom Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to award competitive grants to eligible consortia to develop instructional programs and technology-based systems for complete courses or units of study for a specific subject and grade level, if these are commercially unavailable locally. Requires that an eligible consortium consist of: (1) State or local educational agencies in partnership with businesses; and (2) institutions of higher education or other public or private nonprofit organizations. Requires priority to be given to applications describing programs that are developed: (1) so that the program may be adapted and applied nationally; and (2) to raise the achievement levels of students, particularly disadvantaged students who are not realizing their potential. Sets forth application requirements and criteria for awarding such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to States to carry out specified types of activities to improve access to technology. Requires States to use such grants to: (1) identify schools or school districts which have a large number of educationally disadvantaged students and limited access to technology-based learning resources; and (2) develop jointly, with local educational agencies or individual schools, strategies to improve accessibility and use of technology-based learning resources, including specific plans for teacher and school personnel training, hardware or software acquisition (if this is a major barrier to accessibility), and partnership arrangements with businesses, institutions of higher education, and other public or private nonprofit organizations. Sets forth State plan requirements. Directs the Secretary to coordinate and share information regarding curriculum-based educational technology programs assisted under this Act with other Federal agencies which administer programs supporting development of such programs. Directs the Secretary to: (1) collect information about products developed pursuant to this Act and the evaluation of such products; and (2) disseminate such information in regular reports to State and local educational agencies and other appropriate organizations or individuals. Requires that any royalties paid to any State or local educational agency as a result of assistance provided under this Act be used for further development of curriculum-based learning resources authorized by this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 3526 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1991
Economic Equity Act - Title I: Employment Opportunities - Subtitle A: Nontraditional Employment for Women Act - Nontraditional Employment for Women Act - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to modify requirements regarding women in nontraditional employment (defined as occupations or fields where women comprise less than 25 percent of the individuals) relating to: (1) job training plans and coordination and special services plans; (2) the duties of the State job training coordinating council; and (3) the use of certain funds. Requires States to develop demonstration programs to train and place women in nontraditional employment. Subtitle B: Worker Retraining Act of 1991 - Worker Retraining Act of 1991 - Mandates grants to not more than ten States to plan, establish, and operate worker retraining initiatives to allow employed low-income individuals to advance from low skill to higher skill positions. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Women in Apprenticeship Occupations and Nontraditional Occupations Act - Women in Apprenticeship Occupations and Nontraditional Occupations Act - Requires the Department of Labor to promote an outreach program to employers to inform employers of the availability of technical assistance in preparing the work place to employ women in apprenticeable occupations and other nontraditional occupations. Mandates a report to the Congress on the participation of women in apprenticeable and other nontraditional occupations. Subtitle D: Glass Ceiling Act of 1991 - Glass Ceiling Act of 1991 - Establishes a Glass Ceiling Commission to study and report to the President and appropriate committees of the Congress concerning: (1) eliminating artificial barriers to the advancement of women and minorities; and (2) increasing the opportunities and developmental experiences of women and minorities to foster advancement to management and decision making positions in business. Establishes the National Award for Diversity and Excellence in American Executive Management. Allows a recipient business to publicize the receipt of the award and use the award in its advertising, if the business agrees to help other U.S. businesses improve with respect to the promotion of opportunities and developmental experiences of women and minorities to foster the advancement of women and minorities to management and decision making positions. Authorizes appropriations. Terminates the Commission and the authority to make awards four years after enactment of this Act. Subtitle E: Women and Minorities in Science and Mathematics Act of 1991 - Women and Minorities in Science and Mathematics Act of 1991 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 with regard to women and minorities who are underrepresented in science and mathematics to mandate grants and contracts for education programs. Modifies existing provisions regarding: (1) off-campus programs; (2) adult and continuing education staff development; (3) research and research application in adult and continuing education; (4) the "talent search" and "upward bound" programs; (5) midcareer teacher retraining; (6) school, college, and university partnerships; (7) professional development resource centers; (8) congressional teacher scholarships; (9) model and cooperative education; (10) graduate education programs; (11) Harris fellowships; (12) graduate assistance in areas of national need; (13) the Minority Science Improvement Program; and (14) science and engineering access programs. Subtitle F: Commission on the Advancement of Women in the Science and Engineering Work Forces Act - Commission on the Advancement of Women in the Science and Engineering Work Forces Act - Establishes the Commission on the Advancement of Women in the Science and Engineering Work Forces. Title II: Women in Business - Subtitle A: Act for Microenterprise - Act for Microenterprise - Amends the Social Security Act to exclude business assets from consideration in determining: (1) eligibility for aid and services to needy families with children (AFDC); and (2) income and resources in connection with provisions relating to supplemental security income (SSI). Excludes income from a business with five or fewer employees, during the first year of the business, from consideration in determining the amount of aid under AFDC and SSI. Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to require approval of any State law making unemployment compensation payable to individuals starting microenterprises. Requires State law to entitle an individual performing services in a microenterprise to receive regular or extended unemployment compensation. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to allow assistance under certain provisions of the Act to be used for: (1) loans to commercial enterprises with five or fewer employees, one or more of whom own the enterprise; and (2) counseling, technical assistance, educational programs, planning, and training to facilitate such commercial enterprises. Amends the Small Business Act to set forth Congressional findings regarding microenterprises and implementation of loan programs under specified provisions of the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958. Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act to add references to microenterprise loans to provisions defining "qualified thrift investments." Requires each Federal banking agency to establish a division to be known as the Microenterprise Technical and Operations Office to offer technical assistance, training, outreach, and other support. Subtitle B: Microlend for the Future Act - Microlend for the Future Act - Authorizes the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to make loans and grants to community based organizations for the startup and expansion of microenterprises, with the organizations using the loans to make loans and the grants to provide technical assistance to microenterprises. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Women's Business Procurement Assistance Act of 1991 - Women's Business Procurement Assistance Act of 1991 - Amends the Small Business Act to add references to small businesses owned and controlled by women to provisions concerning: (1) Government-wide goals for participation of small businesses in procurement; (2) U.S. policy on small business participation in Federal procurement and on timely payment by prime contractors to small business subcontractors; and (3) a clause required to be included in Federal agency contracts. Requires that each Federal agency having procurement powers: (1) designate a specialist responsible for programs to assist small businesses owned and controlled by women; and (2) engage in affirmative efforts to identify and solicit offers from such businesses. Establishes in the Small Business Administration the Office of Women's Business Ownership. Subtitle D: Equal Surety Bond Opportunity Act - Equal Surety Bond Opportunity Act - Prohibits discrimination by a surety in any aspect of a surety bond transaction: (1) on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, or age; (2) because the applicant has exercised any right under this title; or (3) because the applicant previously obtained a bond through certain means. Specifies activities not constituting discrimination. Provides for civil and equitable relief and prohibits a company from being approved as a surety by the Secretary of the Treasury unless the company is in full compliance with the requirements of this subtitle. Amends Federal Law to require surety companies to be in compliance with this subtitle. Subtitle E: Small Business Access to Surety Bonding Survey Act of 1991 - Small Business Access to Surety Bonding Survey Act of 1991 - Requires the Comptroller General to conduct a survey and report to specified congressional committees on the experiences of businesses, especially small businesses, in obtaining surety bonds from corporate surety firms. Title III: Economic Justice - Subtitle A: Pay Equity Technical Assistance Act - Pay Equity Technical Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to carry out a continuing program regarding reducing or eliminating, conducting research on, and providing technical assistance concerning wage disparities based on sex, race, or national origin. Subtitle B: Legislative Pay Equity Study - Declares that it is congressional policy that persons employed in the legislative branch shall receive equal pay for comparable work. Establishes the Commission on Employment Discrimination in the Legislative Branch. Subtitle C: Part-Time and Temporary Workers Protection Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to set forth special participation, vesting, and accrual rules applicable to part-time and temporary employees. Allows limited reductions in employer-provided group health plan premiums for part-time employees. Modifies, for provisions relating to protection of employee benefit rights, the definition of "employee" to include persons who have performed at least 500 hours of service per year. Subtitle D: Child Support Enforcement Improvements Act of 1991 - Child Support Enforcement Improvements Act of 1991 - Shields a depository institution from liability under Federal or State law for disclosing any financial record of an individual to a State child support enforcement agency attempting to establish, modify, or enforce a child support obligation. Prohibits the recipient enforcement agency from improperly disclosing the information and provides for civil damages. Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to allow a consumer reporting agency to furnish a consumer report to such an enforcement agency that is making such an attempt. Amends the Social Security Act to require that a State plan for child and spousal support include certain procedures relating to the provision by an absent parent of medical insurance coverage for one or more children of a custodial parent. Increases the incentive payment to States for successful enforcement of court orders for the coverage. Modifies requirements concerning: (1) regulation of the interception of refunds from the internal revenue service; and (2) employer withholding of support payments. Provides for a national network to build on the statewide child support enforcement systems States are developing. Subtitle E: Dependent Care Tax Credit Refundability - Amends the IRC to allow as a limited refundable credit a portion of: (1) expenses for household services and for the care of a qualifying individual; and (2) respite care expenses. Subtitle F: Pell Grant Eligibility Expansion Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to remove provisions prohibiting, in certain circumstances, basic educational opportunity grants (BEOGs) to less than half-time students. Subtitle G: Federal Council on Women Act - Federal Council on Women Act - Establishes in the legislative branch the Federal Council on Women to make recommendations on a wide range of issues and concerns relating to women. Title IV: Retirement Equity - Subtitle A: Pension Reform Act of 1991 - Pension Reform Act of 1991 - Amends the Tax Reform Act of 1986 to modify requirements relating to the effective date of the application of nondiscrimination rules to integrated plans. Amends the IRC to repeal provisions relating to nondiscrimination requirements and permitted disparity with regard to contributions to pension plans, including simplified pension plans. Modifies minimum coverage requirements for qualified pension, profit-sharing, and stock bonus plans with regard to whether an employer operates separate lines or a single line of business. Amends the IRC and ERISA to modify minimum vesting standards to remove provisions relating to multiemployer plans. Requires the Comptroller General to report to specified congressional committees on alternative: (1) methods of requiring employee pension benefit plans to provide cost-of-living and other adjustments to benefits; and (2) pension portability mechanisms for preserving and enhancing the real value of deferred vested pension benefits. Allows a domestic relations court order entered after enactment of this Act and amending an order originally entered before 1985 to be considered a qualified domestic relations order for purposes of certain provisions of the Retirement Equity Act of 1984. Subtitle B: Spousal Pension Equity Act - Spousal Pension Equity Act - Amends provisions of the IRC relating to limitations on the amount of annual compensation taken into account to prohibit aggregation of spousal incomes when both spouses are licensed to perform services in the same professional field and perform the services for the employer. Subtitle C: Social Security Care Provider Act of 1991 - Social Security Care Provider Act of 1991 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to change the formula for determining the number of an individual's benefit computation years. Subtitle D: Social Security Modernization Act of 1991 - Social Security Modernization Act of 1991 - Amends OASDI to require, provided this method increases benefits, that the combined earnings of an individual and his or her spouse, during their marriage, be divided equally for determining OASDI benefits. Terminates the amendment made by this subtitle after the year 2015. Mandates studies every five years by the appropriate congressional committees to determine the effect of the termination on beneficiaries. Subtitle E: Former Military Spouses - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to apply amendments relating to retired pay to any divorces, dissolutions of marriage, annulments, and legal separations (currently, to any such events that occur more than 90 days after enactment of the Act). Subtitle F: Federal Employees Former Spouses - Amends the Civil Service Retirement Spouse Equity Act of 1984 to modify requirements for entitlement of a former spouse of a Federal employee or Member of Congress to a survivor annuity. Allows any former spouse who becomes eligible, because of this subtitle, for a survivor annuity, to enroll in a health benefits plan under specified provisions of Federal law.
Bill· HRH.R. 3522 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1991
United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1991 - Title I: United States Policy - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the following should be U.S. policy with respect to the U.S. relationship with Hong Kong: (1) the United States should seek to establish direct bilateral ties with Hong Kong in economic, shipping, communications, tourism, cultural, sport, and other matters to the extent that Hong Kong is allowed to exercise autonomy in these fields under the 1984 Joint Declaration of the Governments of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and China on the question of Hong Kong; (2) the United States should seek to maintain after June 30, 1997, with the authorization of the Chinese Government, the U.S. Consulate-General in Hong Kong and other U.S. official and semi-official organizations; (3) the United States should invite Hong Kong to maintain, after such date, its official and semi-official missions in the United States and to open other missions in those fields in which it is permitted to exercise autonomy under the Joint Declaration; (4) the United States should seek to reach agreements with the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Administrative Region) in such fields, particularly with respect to reduction or abolishment of visa restrictions hindering U.S. nationals seeking to work in Hong Kong and Hong Kong residents seeking to work in the United States; (5) the United States should recognize passports and travel documents issued by the Administrative Region; and (6) the Chinese Government's exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong should not affect treatment of Hong Kong residents who apply for visas to visit the United States. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the following should be U.S. policy with respect to participation by Hong Kong in multilateral organizations: (1) the United States should support Hong Kong's participation in multilateral organizations open to non-states that are concerned with those matters in which Hong Kong is permitted to exercise autonomy under the Joint Declaration; (2) the United States should continue to fulfill its obligations to Hong Kong under international agreements, so long as Hong Kong reciprocates; (3) the United States should support Hong Kong's application to join all multilateral international conferences, agreements, and organizations; and (4) the United States should support Hong Kong's continued participation after June 30, 1997, under the name Hong Kong, China, in all such conferences, agreements, and organizations. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the following should be U.S. policy with respect to commerce between the United States and Hong Kong: (1) the United States should seek to maintain and expand economic and trade relations with Hong Kong and should continue to treat Hong Kong as a separate territory in economic and trade matters (even after June 30, 1997); (2) the United States should continue to negotiate directly with Hong Kong to conclude bilateral economic agreements (even after June 30, 1997); (3) the United States should continue to consider Hong Kong for most-favored-nation trade status and to recognize certificates of origin for manufactured goods issued by the Administrative Region; (4) the United States should continue to allow the U.S. dollar to be freely exchanged with the Hong Kong dollar and U.S. businesses should continue to operate in Hong Kong; (5) the United States should continue to support Hong Kong's access to sensitive technologies; (6) the United States should encourage Hong Kong to continue to develop a framework which provides protection for intellectual property rights; and (7) the United States should negotiate a bilateral investment treaty with Hong Kong. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the following should be U.S. policy with respect to transportation matters involving Hong Kong: (1) the United States should continue to recognize ships and airplanes registered in Hong Kong and negotiate air service agreements directly with Hong Kong; (2) the United States should continue to recognize ships registered by Hong Kong after June 30, 1997, and U.S. commercial ships should remain free to port in Hong Kong; (3) the United States should recognize certificates issued by the Administrative Region to Hong Kong air carriers; (4) the United States should recognize permits issued by the Administrative Region to U.S. air carriers for specified services; (5) the United States should negotiate with the Administrative Region to renew or amend all air service agreements existing on June 30, 1997, and to conclude new air service agreements affecting all flights to, from, or through China; and (6) the United States should negotiate with the Administrative Region about arrangements to implement international aviation agreements. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the following should be U.S. policy with respect to cultural and educational exchanges with Hong Kong: (1) the United States should seek to maintain and expand U.S.--Hong Kong relations and exchanges in culture, education, science, and academic research; (2) the Administrative Region should be accorded individual status as a full partner in the Fulbright Program; and (3) the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress should seek to expand educational and informational ties with the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. Title II: The Status of Hong Kong in United States Law - Applies U.S. laws to Hong Kong after June 30, 1997, in the same manner they applied before such date. Approves the continuation in force of all treaties entered into by the United States and Hong Kong before such date. Title III: Reporting Provisions - Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) submit to the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a report on the degree to which the Joint Declaration is being implemented; and (2) include a separate subreport on Hong Kong when submitting country reports to the Congress.
Bill· SS. 1813 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1991
Postsecondary Opportunities Act for Students with Disabilities - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve access to postsecondary education for students with disabilities. Requires that student literacy corps tutoring services be located in public community agencies which serve individuals with disabilities (as well as in those which serve educationally or economically disadvantaged individuals). Revises HEA title I (Postsecondary Programs for Nontraditional Students) to add a new part E, to encourage partnerships between institutions of higher education and secondary and vocational students with disabilities to improve their academic and vocational skills and to increase their opportunities for continued education, independent living, and employment after secondary school. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to provide funds to ten demonstration grant programs in ten States between local education agencies and higher education institutions or consortia that submit joint applications to develop, implement, and improve systems to provide postsecondary educational opportunities to students with disabilities from age 12 until they exit secondary school. Sets forth required uses of such funds. Allows students with disabilities who participate in such projects to be paid stipends. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 through 1996. Directs the Secretary to use a portion of such funds to: (1) provide for independent evaluation of such programs, with specified criteria for such evaluations; (2) report to the Congress by June 30, 1994, on such evaluations; and (3) disseminate such evaluations. Revises HEA title II (Academic Library and Information Technology Enhancement) to add a new part F, Access and Equity to Education for All Americans through Telecommunications. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to eligible partnerships to enable such partnerships to pay the Federal share (50 percent) of the cost of the education telecommunications activities and services which will benefit nontraditional postsecondary education students, including special services for individuals with disabilities (such as captioned films, television, and descriptive video and education media). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 through 1996. Requires eligible partnerships to consist of a public broadcasting entity (or consortium) and an institution of higher education (or consortium). Allows such partnerships to also include a State, local government, or public or private nonprofit organization. Sets forth: (1) application requirements; (2) approval priorities;(3) authorized activities; (4) reporting requirements; and (5) dissemination requirements. Requires that students with disabilities who are taking six or more credit hours at an institution of higher education be considered as full-time students for purposes of receiving Pell Grants. Revise need analysis provisions to include an allowance for expenses required for attendance of students with disabilities, including costs of: (1) special services, personal assistance, equipment, assistive technology services and devices (for both the Pell Grant program and other student assistance programs generally under HEA title IV); and (2) transportation and supplies (for such other student assistance programs). Requires college work-study program grant agreements to provide assurances that employment made available from such program funds may be used to support programs for supportive services for students with disabilities. Requires that the Federal student aid information toll-free telephone number refer students with disabilities and their families to the postsecondary clearinghouse authorized under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act. Revises HEA title V (Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Development) part D (Teacher Scholarships and Fellowships) to add a new subpart 3, Faculty Development Grants. Authorizes the Secretary to award such grants to institutions of higher education to: (1) develop model programs for training secondary school faculty to prepare students with disabilities for postsecondary educational opportunities; and (2) establish faculty development programs to prepare faculty who teach at the institution of higher education for the enrollment of students with disabilities at such institution. Sets forth authorized uses of such grants and application requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 through 1996. Defines "auxiliary aid" and "disability," for HEA purposes, the same as under the American With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). Provides that nothing under HEA shall be construed to limit the rights or responsibilities of any individual under the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, or any other law. Authorizes the Secretary to award a three-year grant or contract on a competitive basis to establish a National Clearinghouse for Postsecondary Education Materials (the Clearinghouse) in an accessible form, including audio and digital for students with disabilities. Sets forth required uses of such funds and Federal share limitations. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1995.
Law· HRH.R. 3508 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1991
Health Professions Education Amendments of 1991 - Amends the Public Health Services Act to require giving priority, in providing financial assistance under title VII (Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel) of the Act, to applicants that have trained or can be expected to train health or allied health professionals who provide primary health services to a substantial number of medically underserved individuals. Sets forth additional requirements applicable to schools of medicine or osteopathic medicine and residency programs. Sets limits on the total principal amount for specified fiscal years for the Federal loan insurance program under certain provisions relating to the training of health personnel. Modifies requirements regarding: (1) when repayment must begin; (2) the premium charged; and (3) default rate limits for institutions, lenders, and holders, including allowing rate limits and penalties to be applied differently for different health professions. Establishes in the Division of Student Assistance of the Health Resources and Services Administration the Office on Student Loan Debt Collections. Prohibits funds which are returned to the Secretary of Health and Human Services from a student loan fund for disadvantaged individuals from being used for any other purpose. Authorizes appropriations for scholarships for health professions students of exceptional financial need. Allows scholarships under specified provisions to be used only for students who are from disadvantaged backgrounds and (currently, or) for whom school costs would constitute a severe financial hardship. Authorizes appropriations. Bars from entering into a contract individuals who have been faculty members at a school during a specified length of time before the application for a contract under provisions relating to loan payment for individuals who serve on the faculty of health professions schools. Reduces the percentage of principal and interest of an individual which may be repaid by the program. Authorizes appropriations for grants to establish departments of family medicine. Repeals the authorization after the specified fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations for area health education centers and area health education and training centers. Adds schools of osteopathic medicine to the definition of "health professions school" for provisions relating to programs of excellence in health professions education for minorities. Authorizes appropriations. Allows grants and contracts for traineeships and fellowships in general internal medicine and general pediatrics to be used for internship and residency programs (currently, for residency programs) for medical students, interns, residents, or practicing physicians (currently, for residents). Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes appropriations for residency programs in the general practice of dentistry and for family medicine training programs. Requires that educational assistance grants to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds be equitably: (1) geographically distributed; and (2) allocated among the various racial and ethnic populations. Authorizes appropriations. Replaces provisions authorizing grants and contracts for training in preventive medicine with similar provisions transferred from provisions relating to special projects. Authorizes appropriations. Removes provisions authorizing grants: (1) for two-year schools of medicine or osteopathy; and (2) for faculty and curriculum development and clinical training sites. Authorizes grants and contracts for health professions research relating to: (1) the impact of student indebtedness on specialty choice and practice location; (2) the impact of minority health professional programs in majority schools on recruitment, retention, and practice choices of minority health personnel; (3) the effects of graduate medical education payments on the distribution of physician specialties; or (4) the effectiveness and variation of State licensing authorities in identifying problem providers and undertaking disciplinary actions. Authorizes appropriations for the remaining provisions relating to special projects and for the health professions research. Authorizes appropriations relating to: (1) training with respect to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); and (2) oral health care for patients with AIDS. Adds references to schools that offer graduate programs in medical social work to provisions authorizing grants and contracts for: (1) educational assistance to individuals with disadvantaged backgrounds; and (2) training faculty to teach students to care for the health care needs of individuals with AIDS. Adds references to medical social workers to provisions allowing the collection of certain data about health professionals. Authorizes grants and contracts, under existing provisions relating to geriatric medicine and geriatric dentistry, for training optometrists to teach geriatric optometry. Modifies recipient requirements and training options. Authorizes appropriations for geriatric education centers and geriatric training. Replaces provisions relating to special projects with provisions authorizing grants and contracts for projects to: (1) meet the objectives established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the health status of the U.S. population for the year 2000; (2) recruit individuals for education in health specialties as necessary to meet the objectives; and (3) improve access to community-based health programs. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth priorities for grants for traineeships under existing provisions. Authorizes appropriations. Requires, in providing grants and contracts under existing provisions relating to allied health personnel, special consideration to needs regarding the supply of physical therapists, occupational therapists, and clinical laboratory technologists. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes grants and contracts to: (1) develop and operate postgraduate (currently, doctoral) programs for advanced specialty training of allied health professionals who plan to teach and conduct research; and (2) provide financial assistance for traineeships or fellowships to students in such programs. Requires special consideration regarding physical therapists, occupational therapists, and clinical laboratory technologists. Authorizes appropriations. Makes programs that specialize in training marriage and family therapy eligible for grants and contracts under existing provisions relating to health care for rural areas. Removes provisions mandating a study of manpower training needs in rural areas. Authorizes appropriations to carry out remaining rural health care provisions. Removes provisions: (1) establishing a loan repayment program for allied health personnel; (2) mandating grants for Lister Hill scholarships (requiring the practice of family medicine in a health professional shortage area); (3) authorizing grants for departments of family medicine; (4) establishing a retention program for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds in health professions schools; (5) authorizing grants and contracts for educational assistance to disadvantaged individuals in allied health training; and (6) authorizing appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991 to carry out provisions relating to the Council on Graduate Medical Education. Removes provisions authorizing grants for: (1) continuing education for nurses; (2) geriatric training; and (3) facilitation of agreements between nursing students and health facilities for the repayment of educational loans. Replaces provisions authorizing grants for training to develop curricula regarding baccalaureate degrees in nursing with provisions authorizing grants for training for paraprofessional nursing personnel to become licensed vocational or practical nurses. Removes provisions authorizing: (1) grants and contracts relating to geriatric nursing; and (2) grants for innovative hospital nursing practice models. Authorizes appropriations for remaining provisions relating to nursing education special projects. Revises authorities for grants and contracts for advanced nurse education programs. Authorizes appropriations. Revises authorities for grants and contracts for nurse practitioner and nurse midwife programs. Removes authority to make grants and contracts for traineeships relating to such programs. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes appropriations for special projects relating to nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Removes authority to make grants for: (1) post-baccalaureate fellowships for faculty of schools of nursing; and (2) traineeships for nurses in masters' degree and doctoral degree programs for practice as nurse administrators, nurse educators, and nurse researchers. Revise priorities in, and authorizes appropriations to carry out, remaining provisions relating to traineeships for the education of professional nurses. Requires special consideration, in making grants for traineeships for registered nurses to become nurse anesthetists, to programs providing experience in rural hospitals and rural clinics. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes appropriations for nursing student loan repayment in return for service in certain health facilities. Requires that returned Federal capital contributions to nursing student loan funds be available under provisions relating to such loan repayment (currently, under provisions relating to undergraduate education of professional nurses). Removes provisions authorizing grants for scholarships for the training of professional nurses. Allows grants and contracts under existing provisions relating to geriatric education centers to be made to schools of nursing as well as to schools of allied health. Mandates a study regarding the shortage of clinical laboratory technologists in the United States. Establishes the Advisory Council on Medical Licensure to take specified actions, including giving advice regarding the establishment and operation of a system of verifying and maintaining information on the qualifications of individuals to practice medicine. Mandates a study of at least ten States regarding licensure of domestic and foreign medical graduates.
Bill· HRH.R. 3491 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1991
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1991 - Amends the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act to remove class C waste from the low-level program. Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to issue regulations governing the siting of low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities, including requirements that any candidate site be located: (1) in a low population density area with estimated limited future population growth potential; and (2) at least five kilometers from the residential property limits of the nearest urban community at the time of site selection and from schools and other facilities primarily serving children.
Bill· HRH.R. 3507 (102nd)reported
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1991
American Industrial Quality and Training Act of 1991 - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, through the Technology Administration, to make competitive matching grants to establish and operate American workforce quality partnership programs for workforce training consortia of industry and higher education institutions. Requires such programs to establish partnerships between one or more technology-based or manufacturing sector firms and a local community or technical college to train and educate a significant portion of the industrial partners' employees at all organizational levels through workplace and classroom training programs. Requires each partnership to establish an advisory board. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish, in the Technology Administration, the American Industrial Quality Foundation to further the ability of U.S. industry to compete internationally. Sets forth the Foundation's functions, including identifying and disseminating information on best practices. Sets forth provisions for a Director and staff, an advisory committee, and user fees. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make competitive grants to develop and operate youth technical apprenticeship programs. Gives special consideration to applications providing for non-Federal contributions. Provides planning grants for such programs. Requires each grant recipient to establish an advisory board. Directs the Secretary of Labor, together with other appropriate entities, to establish and maintain a clearinghouse of youth apprenticeship programs in the United States. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make competitive matching grants to States for statewide technical education and training networks to develop plans or strategies to establish statewide systems to provide technical, technician, or technological skills and education by building upon Federal, State, and local programs through various methods. Requires State Governors to submit evaluation reports within three years of award of such grants. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Labor, in conjunction with the Small Business Administration and other relevant agencies, to compile information and statistics on the total annual expenditure of U.S. industry on formal worker training programs, quantity of training, and other relevant worker training information, by firm size, sector, industry, job classification, and purpose of training (as well as any other available and appropriate data such as international comparative data). Requires a biennial report to the Congress on such information in a useful format. Requires making such information available to U.S. industry. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Education, in conjunction with the Secretary of Commerce, to report to the Congress on the feasibility of adopting principles of total quality management, as embodied in the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, to improve the quality and relevance of secondary and postsecondary education.
Bill· HRH.R. 3504 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1991
Rural Health Innovation Demonstration Act of 1991 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize competitive grants for the development of networks among rural and urban health care providers to preserve and share health care resources and enhance the quality and availability of health care in rural areas. Allows the networks to be statewide or regional. Specifies the services for which grant amounts must be used. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes competitive grants to develop and administer cooperatives in rural areas that will establish an effective case management and reimbursement system designed to support the economic viability of essential public or private health services, facilities, health care systems, and health care resources. Involves the cooperative in matters such as third party reimbursement, employee health insurance, malpractice insurance, and managed care and practice standards. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes competitive grants to develop and implement a plan for mental health outreach programs in rural areas. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes grants to enable rural communities to provide stipends to physicians, nurses, or other health professional trainees to encourage such individuals to continue to provide health care services in such communities. Authorizes appropriations to carry out provisions relating to area health education centers.
Bill· HRH.R. 3492 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1991
Wetlands Improvement Act of 1991 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to revise provisions concerning permits for dredged or fill material. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to issue permits for the following activities conducted in navigable waters: (1) the dredging, excavation, channelization, draining, or flooding of wetlands; and (2) similar activities that impair the flow, reach, or circulation of such waters. Sets forth conditions under which a permit application is not required to receive expedited Federal review. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Corps of Engineers, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to submit to the Congress an analysis of the needs of the Corps of Engineers and EPA for additional personnel, administrative resources, and funding to improve implementation of the wetlands permit program. Requires specified percentages of funds for such program to be used for: (1) the training and certification of individuals as wetlands delineators authorized by the Water Resources Development Act of 1990; and (2) the improvement of existing education and outreach programs of the Corps of Engineers or EPA regarding wetlands. Requires the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service to use: (1) specified percentages of funds for the Service for the existing wetlands mapping program and to conduct mapping in areas with the potential for delineation of large areas of wetlands; and (2) amounts as necessary to delineate wetlands in watersheds and ecosystems for which the need for delineation is particularly acute. Requires the Director to update maps under the existing program at least once every 15 years. Excludes from the definition of "wetlands" under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act any area of cropland that: (1) is manipulated and cropped before December 23, 1985; (2) no longer exhibits important wetlands functions; and (3) is of a type described in regulations issued by the Administrator. Requires the Administrator and the Secretary to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to determine the wetlands functions and values of such croplands in each of their current, abandoned, and restored states. Directs the Administrator, based on the findings of such study, to issue regulations describing croplands that are not wetlands.
Bill· HRH.R. 3493 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual income tax deduction for contributions to a savings account established to pay the educational expenses (tuition, supplies, meals, and lodging) of the taxpayer's child or certain other relatives at an institution of higher education or a vocational school. Limits the deduction to $150,000 for all taxable years (adjusted for inflation) for each account. Disallows the deduction for contributions to an account maintained for any individual aged 19 or older. Requires any account balance to be distributed after the beneficiary attains age 30. Permits an exclusion from the gross income of the contributor or the beneficiary of account distributions: (1) used to pay educational expenses of the beneficiary; or (2) contributed to the individual retirement plan (IRA) of the contributor. Exempts an account from taxation (except for the tax on unrelated business income of a charitable organization), unless a contributor or the beneficiary engages in specified prohibited transactions in connection with it. Imposes a ten percent surtax on distributions not used for educational purposes. Requires the account trustee to report to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the account's beneficiary concerning the account. Imposes a penalty for failure to report. Allows taxpayers who do not otherwise itemize deductions to deduct for contributions to an education savings account. Imposes penalty taxes in connection with excess contributions or prohibited transactions associated with an account. Exempts from annual contribution limitations any distributions from education savings accounts into IRA's. Excludes from gross income any distributions from IRA's into education savings accounts.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 209 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1991
Declares that the Congress recognizes and supports U.S. leadership in computer software development. Designates March 1992 as National Computing Education Month.
Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 68 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1991
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Members of Congress, agencies of the Federal Government, and all employers in the United States should: (1) support parent-teacher conferences; and (2) undertake measures to encourage working parents to use paid leave for the purpose of attending parent-teacher conferences.
Bill· HRH.R. 3470 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1991
High Skills, Competitive Workforce Act of 1991 - Title I: Findings and National Policy - Sets forth findings and purposes of this Act. Makes national policy declarations involving: (1) Federal encouragement of a voluntary system of educational and occupational standards of proficiency to be used in design and evaluation of worker training programs; (2) increased attention and resources to provide adequate educational resources to students of all backgrounds, school-to-work transition programs, and adult education and training; (3) technical assistance and diagnostic services for employers and labor unions to implement changes to high performance forms of work organization; (4) workforce training, education, and other activities emphasizing increasing education, skills, and direct authority and autonomy of front-line workers; (5) the Federal role as a guide and catalyst, providing incentives, establishing broad strategic goals, sponsoring research and pilot projects, disseminating information and knowledge, and simplifying and coordinating existing Federal resources; and (6) the private sector lead role and the involvement of business, labor educational institutions, State and local governments, and community organizations. Sets forth nondiscrimination provisions and prohibitions against State use of funds under this Act to attract existing businesses to relocate from another State. Title II: Standards of Excellence in Education and Training - Establishes a National Board for Professional and Technical Standards (the National Board) for occupational training. Directs the National Board to establish advisory committees for each major industry and for major occupations that involve more than one industry. Requires the National Board: (1) by December 1, 1993, to have identified at least 20 occupational categories and developed recommendations for occupational standards, curricula, and certifications for such occupations; and (2) develop a program to ensure that standards, curricula, and certifications for all remaining identified occupational categories are completed by January 1, 2000. Requires that such developed occupational proficiency standards be applied so that their attainment is likely to meet requirements for transferable credit and enable students to continue their education. Requires that such developed occupational standards, curricula, and certification systems for an industry or occupation be made available for voluntary use by postsecondary education institutions offering professional and technical education labor organizations, trade and technical associations, employers providing formalized training, and other organizations. Authorizes appropriations for the National Board and the industry committees and their development of professional and technical standards for occupational training. Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to make a national declaration of policy with respect to encouraging and promoting research relative to internationally competitive standards in academic achievement. Includes among priority resource and development needs, for which the Office of Education and Research and Improvement (OERI) is to concentrate its resources under GEPA: (1) research to develop a system of academic achievement and proficiency standards in specific subjects at appropriate age/grade levels; (2) research to develop curricula to facilitate academic achievement in specific subjects; and (3) development of multiple assessment tools, such as assessment of student performance, proficiency, projects, and portfolios of work in and across specific subject areas. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants under GEPA for pilot projects to design, develop, and evaluate State or multi-State assessment systems for elementary, middle, and high school students, leading to an assessment system to assist both educators and policymakers to improve instruction and learning. Sets forth requirements for such pilot projects, including wide dissemination of evaluation findings. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to add to requirements for student aid program participation agreements that the higher education institution certify that it will release to the public information (confirmed by independent audit) concerning each program it offers, including number of students enrolled, costs to students, characteristics of students participating, student completion rate, and other outcomes, including, where appropriate, job placement rates and employment status of graduates for the two years following program completion. Title III: School-to-Work Transition - Subtitle A: Career Preparation - Directs the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to award grants for career preparation demonstration program (to the extent appropriations are available). Requires such career preparation programs to: (1) involve students in 7th through 10th grades seven through ten who are prospective program participants; through career awareness and counseling programs; (2) give 11th and 12th grade students the opportunity to voluntarily enter into such programs that integrate academic and workplace instruction leading to a high school diploma, community college degree, or occupational certificate of mastery; (3) if the program is for two years, require participants to receive in-school training in a high school, vocational educational institution, Youth Opportunity Center, or alternative State-approved institution; and (4) if the program is for three or four years, require in-school training for the first two years in a high school, vocational educational institution, or Youth Opportunity Center, and for the third or fourth years in a community college, technology college, vocational educational institution, or other State-approved institution. Requires maximum flexibility to be afforded to participants to transfer from career preparation to a conventional academic program or from one field to another. Requires coordination with the Regional Employment and Training Board. Directs the Secretary of Labor to designate a wide variety of occupations for such grants, but prohibit such awards for occupations with existing registered apprenticeships programs. Sets forth requirements for eligible entities, applications, and regional distribution. Requires priority consideration for applications approved by the approriate Regional Employment and Training Board that include specified assurances. Directs the Secretary of Labor, by January 15, 1996, to: (1) conduct a comprehensive evaluation of such career preparation demonstration program; and (2) report, with recommendations, to specified congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor and the Director of the National Science Foundation, to make grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements for career information materials, including videos and softwares. Requires such materials to be designated to convey to 7th through 12th grade students an awareness and realistic understanding of a wide variety of career options, utilizing advanced educational technologies. Sets forth requirments for eligible entities and applications. Requires the Secretary of Education to provide such developed career information materials to all States and encourage their use in programs in all school districts. Requires career awareness programs to also include work site trips, career days, workshops, and demonstrations. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Community Youth Employment Compacts - Directs the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to award incentive grants to establish collaborative public-private Community Youth Employment Compacts (to the extent appropriations are available). Requires such Compacts to: (1) organize the community's youth labor markets; and (2) provide youth who are attending high school or alternative education programs with job coaching services and access to private sector work experience and jobs upon graduation. Requires promulgation of program guidelines and criteria for equitable distribution of grants. Sets forth requirements for eligible entities, applications, uses of grants, individual participants, and State and local contributions. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Youth Opportunity Centers - Directs the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to award grants to States to provide incentives to local communities to establish Youth Opportunity Centers (to the extent appropriations are available). Requires such Centers to provide comprehensive alternative education and school-to-work transition services to high school dropouts under age 21. Requires promulgation of guidelines for such Centers and criteria for equitable distribution of grants. Sets forth requirements for State applications, uses of grants, eligible entities, individual participants, services to participants, contracts for provision of services, and administrative procedures. Allows waivers of certain other Federal program requirements, under specified conditions. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: High Performance Work Organization - Directs the Secretary of Labor to award grants for encouraging adoption and utilization of high performance forms of work organization, to stimulate high productivity and quality (to the extent appropriations are available). Sets forth requirements for eligible entities, use of grants, grant terms and non-Federal share. Requires priority consideration for applications emphasizing small businesses and involving State economic development agencies and employer, trade, or industry associations. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: High Skills Training Consortia - High Skills Training Consortium Act of 1991 - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to: (1) make planning grants to companies or trade associations to plan for establishment of high skills training consortia of companies operating within the same industry or utilizing similar technologies; and (2) pay up to 50 percent of start-up grants to such newly established consortia to pay their initial organization costs. Requires priority consideration for consortia which: (1) emphasize training for participation in high performance work organization; (2) include employees and their representatives in design and implementation of training programs; (3) encourage membership of firms that are not technologically advanced; and (4) provide incentives for participation by small businesses. Sets forth requirements for consortia, programs, and shared investment in training. Sets forth provisions relating to application of antitrust laws, antitrust limitation on recovery, and antitrust attorney's fees. Sets forth requirments for high skills training consortia disclosure to the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: State and Regional Employment and Training Systems - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to award start-up grants to States to establish statewide systems to provide coordinated employment and training services. Sets forth requirements for applications and uses of funds. Requires a State to use grant funds for specified activities, and also for establishing regional employment and training boards to coordinate delivery of all employment and training services in regional labor market areas (including services delivered through Youth Opportunity Centers, provision of labor market information, job placement services, job counseling, and skill training). Sets forth requirements for composition of such boards, strategic plans, board review and approval of applications for grants and loans from a High Skills Training Trust Fund, and annual independent evaluation of board activities. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of all Federal employment and training programs: (1) including a specified inventory and determination; and (2) report with recommendations to the appropriate congressional committees, by January 1, 1993. Title VII: Private Sector Investment in High Skills Workforce Training - Subtitle A: High Skills Training - Requires each employer who employs 20 or more employees to: (1) assemble information on that employer's qualified education and training expenditures during 1993, by December 31, 1993; and (2) provide such information to the Secretary of Labor, by January 31, 1994. Directs the Secretary of Labor to: (1) publish proposed regulations for comment within 60 days after enactment of this Act; and (2) promulgate final regulations within six months after such enactment. Defines qualified education and training expenditures as amounts paid or incurred for: (1) employee training that meets or is consistent with relevant certification standards established under title II; (2) training provided through an apprenticeship program with specified Federal or State registration; or (3) prior to establishment of title II certification standards, tuition and instructional costs for organized instruction of front-line employees in occupationally-related skills. High Skills Training Assessment Act - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to employment taxes to establish a new chapter, the Work Force Training Assessment Act (which may be cited as the High Skills Training Assessment Act). Imposes an assessment on each employer for any calendar year in an amount equal to one percent (one-half of one percent in 1994) of the total wages paid to their employees. Makes such assessment inapplicable to any employer with less than 20 employees on a normal business day during the preceding year. Reduces such assessment for employers with training programs, by their average qualified education and training expenditures during the immediately preceding three-year period. Sets forth a transition rule, definitions, special rules, and administrative provisions. Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the trust fund code to establish in the Treasury a High Skills Training Trust Fund. Transfers to such Fund amounts equivalent to taxes received under the high skills training assessment. Requires that amounts in such Fund be available, as provided by appropriation Acts, to carry out programs established under this entire Act. Subtitle B: High Skills Training Trust Fund - Establishes in the Treasury the High Skills Training Trust Fund (the Fund) to be administered by the Secretary of Labor. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to accept and transfer to the Fund amounts equal to: (1) amounts collected under the high skills training assessment; and (2) amounts of income earned from specified investments of funds from the Fund. Authorizes obligation of funds from the Fund to States for training grant and loan programs, in amounts based on the relative size of contributions from employers in the State under the high skills training assessment. Requires States to use such amounts received from the Fund to establish statewide programs to award grants and loans to eligible entities to provide: (1) skill training, literacy and basic skills instruction, and other services to retrain such entities workforce; and (2) training for the implementation of high performance work organizations. Requires the Governor of any State receiving such funds to establish an independent High Skills Training Panel to administer such State grant and loan program. Sets forth provisions for: (1) Panel functions; (2) administration of such grants and loans by existing State agencies; (3) eligible entities; and (4) applications and assurances (including that up to 15 percent of the grant or loan will be used for high performance work organization). Requires that an eligible entity be an employer or group of employers operating within the State, and allows it to also include one or more community colleges, training institutions, industry associations, labor organizations, Private Industry Councils, State economic development, training, or industrial modernization agencies, or High Skills Training Consortia (and also allows small business employers with fewer than 20 employees to apply for such grants or loans, even though they are exempt from the high skills training assessment). Sets forth the required training and instruction activities to be provided to employees by grant or loan recipient. Requires States, in awarding such grants or loans, to give priority consideration to applications for programs that: (1) use world-class occupational standards; (2) serve small businesses or underserved sectors of industry; (3) involve labor organizations or other means of involving the workforce; (4) leverage other public employment and training resources (such as providing job openings for referrals from the Job Training Partnership Act system when training has upgraded existing employees' skills); or (5) show the employers' commitment to develop their own training capacity and invest further resources in on-going training. Limits the amount which may be expended on administrative costs. Subtitle C: Educational Assistance to Employees - Amends the Internal Revenue to make permanent the tax exclusion for employer-provided educational assistance to employees, in order to foster increased worker participation in educational programs. (Provides that employer-provided educational assistance which receives such tax exclusion shall not be deemed qualified education and training expenditures for purposes of reducing the high skills training assessment.)
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 215 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1991
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Federal Government and all employers in the United States should: (1) support parent-teacher conferences; and (2) undertake measures to encourage working parents to use paid leave for the purposes of attending parent-teacher conferences.
Bill· SS. 1790 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1991
High Skills, Competitive Workforce Act of 1991 - Title I: Findings and National Policy - Sets forth findings and purposes of this Act. Makes national policy declarations involving: (1) Federal encouragement of a voluntary system of educational and occupational standards of proficiency to be used in design and evaluation of worker training programs; (2) increased attention and resources to provide adequate educational resources to students of all backgrounds, school-to-work transition programs, and adult education and training; (3) techical assistance and diagnostic services for employers and labor unions to implement changes to high performance forms of work organization; (4) workforce training, education, and other activities emphasizing increasing education, skills, and direct authority and autonomy of front-line workers; (5) the Federal role as a guide and catalyst, providing incentives, establishing broad strategic goals, sponsoring research and pilot projects, disseminating information and knowledge, and simplifying and coordinating existing Federal resources; and (6) the private sector lead role and the involvement of business, labor, educational institutions, State and local governments, and community organizations. Sets forth nondiscrimination provisions and prohibitions against State use of funds under this Act to attract existing businesses to relocate from another State. Title II: Standards of Excellence in Education and Training - Establishes a National Board for Professional and Technical Standards (the National Board). Directs the National Board to establish advisory committees for each major industry and for major occupations that involve more than one industry. Requires the National Board: (1) by December 1, 1993, to have identified at least 20 occupational categories and developed recommendations for occupational standards, curricula, and certifications for such occupations; and (2) develop a program to ensure that standards, curricula, and certifications for all remaining identified occupational categories are completed by January 1, 2000. Requires that such developed occupational proficiency standards be applied so that their attainment is likely to meet requirements for transferable credit and enable students to continue their education. Requires that such developed occupational standards, curricula, and certification systems for an industry or occupation be made available for voluntary use by postsecondary education institutions offering professional and technical education, labor organizations, trade and technical associations, employers providing formalized training, and other organizations. Authorizes appropriations for the National Board and the industry committees and their development of professional and technical standards for occupational training. Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to make a national declaration of policy with respect to encouraging and promoting research relative to internationally competitive standards in academic achievement. Includes among priority resource and development needs, for which the Office of Educational Research and Improvement is to concentrate its resources under GEPA: (1) research to develop a system of academic achievement and proficiency standards in specific subjects at appropriate age/grade levels; (2) research to develop curricula to facilitate academic achievement in specific subjects; and (3) development of multiple assessment tools, such as assessments of student performance, proficiency, projects, and portfolios of work in and across specific subject areas. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants under GEPA for pilot projects to design, develop, and evaluate State or multi-State assessment systems for elementary, middle, and high school students, leading to an assessment system to assist both educators and policymakers to improve instruction and learning. Sets forth requirements for such pilot projects, including wide dissemination of evaluation findings. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to add to requirements for student aid program participation agreements that the higher education institution certify that it will release to the public information (confirmed by independent audit) concerning each program it offers, including number of students enrolled, costs to students, characteristics of students participating, student completion rate, and other outcomes, including, where appropriate, job placement rate and employment status of graduates for the two years following program completion. Title III: School-to-Work Transition - Subtitle A: Career Preparation - Directs the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to award grants for career preparation demonstration programs (to the extent appropriations are available). Requires such career preparation programs to: (1) involve students in grades seven through ten who are prospective program participants, through career awareness and counseling programs; (2) give students in grades 11 and 12 the opportunity to voluntarily enter into such programs that integrate academic and workplace instruction leading to a high school diploma, community college degree, or occupational certificate of mastery; (3) if the program is for two years, require participants to receive in-school training in a high school, vocational educational institution, Youth Opportunity Center, or alternative State-approved institution; and (4) if the program is for three or four years, require in-school training for the first two years in a high school, vocational educational institution, or Youth Opportunity Center, and for the third or fourth years in a community college, technology college, vocational educational institution, or other State-approved institution. Requires maximum flexibility to be afforded to participants to transfer from career preparation to a conventional academic program or from one field to another. Requires coordination with the Regional Employment and Training Board. Directs the Secretary of Labor to designate a wide variety of occupations for such grants, but prohibits such awards for occupations with existing registered apprenticeship programs. Sets forth requirements for eligible entities, applications, and regional distribution. Requires priority consideration for applications approved by the appropriate Regional Employment and Training Board that include specified assurances. Directs the Secretary of Labor, by January 15, 1996, to: (1) conduct a comprehensive evaluation of such career preparation demonstration program; and (2) report, with recommendations, to specified congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor and the Director of the National Science Foundation, to make grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements for career information materials, including videos and software. Requires such materials to be designed to convey to students in grades seven through 12 an awareness and realistic understanding of a wide variety of career options, utilizing advanced educational technologies. Sets forth requirements for eligible entities and applications. Requires the Secretary of Education to provide such developed career information materials to all States and encourage their use in programs in all school districts. Requires career awareness programs to also include work site trips, career days, workshops, and demonstrations. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Community Youth Employment Compacts - Directs the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to award incentive grants to establish collaborative public-private Community Youth Employment Compacts (to the extent appropriations are available). Requires such Compacts to: (1) organize the community's youth labor market; and (2) provide youth who are attending high school or alternative education programs with job coaching services and access to private sector work experience and jobs upon graduation. Requires promulgation of program guidelines and criteria for equitable distribution of grants. Sets forth requirements for eligible entities, applications, uses of grants, individual participants, and State and local contributions. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Youth Opportunity Centers - Directs the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to award grants to States to provide incentives to local communities to establish Youth Opportunity Centers (to the extent appropriations are available). Requires such Centers to provide comprehensive alternative education and school-to-work transition services to high school dropouts under age 21. Requires promulgation of guidelines for such Centers and criteria for equitable distribution of grants. Sets forth requirements for State applications, uses of grants, eligible entities, individual participants, services to participants, contracts for provision of services, and administrative procedures. Allows waivers of certain other Federal program requirements, under specified conditions. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: High Performance Work Organization - Directs the Secretary of Labor to award grants for encouraging adoption and utilization of high performance forms of work organization to stimulate high productivity and quality (to the extent appropriations are available). Sets forth requirements for eligible entities, use of grants, grant terms and non-Federal share. Requires priority consideration for applications emphasizing small businesses and involving State economic development agencies and employer, trade, or industry associations. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: High Skills Training Consortia - High Skills Training Consortium Act of 1991 - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to: (1) make planning grants to companies or trade associations to plan for establishment of high skills training consortia of companies operating within the same industry or utilizing similar technologies; and (2) pay up to 50 percent of start-up grants to such newly established consortia to pay their initial organization costs. Requires priority consideration for consortia which: (1) emphasize training for participation in high performance work organization; (2) include employees and their representatives in design and implementation of training programs; (3) encourage membership of firms that are not technologically advanced; and (4) provide incentives for participation by small businesses. Sets forth requirements for consortia, programs, and shared investment in training. Sets forth provisions relating to application of antitrust laws, antitrust limitation on recovery, and antitrust attorney's fees. Sets forth requirements for high skills training consortia disclosure to the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: State and Regional Employment and Training Systems - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to award start-up grants to States to establish statewide systems to provide coordinated employment and training services. Sets forth requirements for applications and uses of funds. Requires a State to use grant funds for specified activities, and also for establishing regional employment and training boards to coordinate delivery of all employment and training services in regional labor market areas (including services delivered through Youth Opportunity Centers, provision of labor market information, job placement services, job counseling, and skill training). Sets forth requirements for composition of such boards, strategic plans, board review and approval of applications for grants and loans from a High Skills Training Trust Fund, and annual independent evaluation of board activities. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of all Federal employment and training programs, including a specified inventory and determination; and (2) report with recommendations to the appropriate congressional committees, by January 1, 1993.
Bill· SS. 1789 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1991
Deficit-Neutral Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991 - Title I: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program - Establishes an emergency unemployment compensation program. Allows any State to enter into and participate in an agreement with the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) under which the State agency which administers the State unemployment compensation law will make payments of emergency unemployment compensation: (1) to individuals who have exhausted all rights to regular compensation under State law, have no rights to such regular compensation or any additional State or Federal compensation, and are not receiving Canadian compensation; and (2) for any week of unemployment beginning in the individual's eligibility period. Sets forth provisions relating to exhaustion of regular benefits and weekly amount of emergency benefits equal to regular benefits. Requires a State, under such an agreement, to establish an emergency unemployment compensation account with respect to the benefit year of each eligible individual who files an application. Limits benefit payments to not more than the amount in the individual's account. Sets forth formulas for determining the amount in such account. Provides that the applicable limit in such account shall be equal to: (1) ten weeks during a five-percent period (triggered if the adjusted rate of insured unemployment for such week and the immediately preceding 12 weeks is at least five percent); and (2) six weeks for any other period. Sets forth special rules relating to such applicable limits. Requires reduction in such account by the amount of extended benefits received by the individual relating to the same benefit year under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970. Sets the weekly benefit amount at the amount of regular compensation (including dependents' allowances) payable under the State law to the individual for such week for total unemployment. Provides for determination of periods and applicable triggers. Provides for a minimum period. Provides, in general, that no emergency unemployment compensation shall be payable to any individual under this Act for any week beginning: (1) before the later of October 1, 1991, or the first week following the week in which an agreement under this Act is entered into; or (2) after June 30, 1992. Sets forth transition and reachback provisions for the eligibility of certain individuals for such benefits, as exceptions to such general rule. Provides for payments to States having such agreements for emergency unemployment compensation. Sets forth financing provisions. Requires that funds in the extended unemployment compensation account of the Unemployment Trust Fund be used to make payments to States having agreements under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to the extended unemployment compensation account of sums necessary to pay emergency unemployment compensation payable: (1) under specified provisions for former members of the armed forces; and (2) on the basis of certain services performed for nonprofit organizations or governmental entities, to which certain Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to State unemployment compensation law apply. Sets forth provisions relating to fraud and overpayments. Defines the individual eligibility period under this Act. Amends specified Federal law to repeal certain limitations on payment of unemployment compensation to former members of the armed forces. Reduces the length of required active duty by reserves for purposes for such payment, if the reservist served on active duty in the Persian Gulf area of operations in connection with Operation Desert Storm. Title II: Collection of Nontax Debts - Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to provide for permanent extension of provisions relating to collection of nontax debts owed to Federal agencies. Title III: Guaranteed Student Loans - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise provisions relating to the Stafford student loan program (including guaranteed student loans and federally-insured student loans). Requires, in the case of such student loan applicants over age 21, that the lender: (1) obtain a credit report; and (2) require a cosigner for such applicants who have adverse credit histories. Allows the lender to charge such applicants for the actual cost of such credit reports, up to $25. Requires the lender to obtain the borrower's driver's license number, if any, at the time of application for such a student loan. Directs eligible institutions to require borrowers of any student loan under HEA to supply the following exit interview information: (1) their expected permanent address after leaving the institution; (2) the name and address of their expected employer; and (3) the name and address of their next of kin. Requires student loan interest-subsidy insurance program agreements to require the lender to obtain the borrower's authorization for entry of judgment against the borrower in the event of default. Provides for wage garnishment for student loan collection. Authorizes a guaranty agency, or the Secretary where appropriate, to garnish the disposable pay of an individual to collect the amount owed or the required repayment, subject to certain conditions. Provides for data matching. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to obtain from Federal agencies specified information relating to an individual for student loan collection purposes. Title IV: Electromagnetic Spectrum Function - Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Act of 1991 - Requires the Secretary of Commerce and the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to conduct biannual joint electromagnetic spectrum planning meetings with respect to: (1) future spectrum needs and the allocation actions to accommodate those needs; and (2) actions to promote the efficient use of the spectrum. Requires an open process and joint annual reports to the President. Directs the Secretary to submit reports to the President that identify frequency bands that: (1) are allocated on a primary basis for Government use and eligible for licensing pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934 (the Act); (2) are not required for the present or identifiable future Government needs; (3) can be made available for use under the Act for non-Government users; (4) are likely to have significant value for such users; and (5) will not result in excessive costs to the Government. Sets forth criteria for identifying, and recommending for reassignment or sharing, such frequency bands. Requires such reports to make an initial identification of 50MHz of spectrum for immediate reallocation and distribution by the FCC pursuant to competitive bidding procedures, and preliminary and final identifications of additional reallocable frequency bands. Directs the Secretary to convene a private sector advisory committee to: (1) review frequency bands identified in the preliminary report; (2) advise the Secretary with respect to those bands which should be included in the final report; (3) receive public comment on the reports; and (4) prepare and submit to the Secretary and specified congressional committees a report on recommendations for the reform of allocating the spectrum between Government and non-Government users. Directs the President to: (1) withdraw or limit the assignment to a Government station of any frequency recommended in the initial identification report for reallocation; (2) withdraw or limit the assignment to a Government station of any frequency recommended in the final report for reallocation or mixed use; (3) assign or reassign other frequencies to Government stations as necessary to adjust to such withdrawal or limitation of assignments; and (4) publish in the Federal Register a notice and description of such actions taken. Authorizes the President to substitute alternative frequencies in the interests of national security, important Government needs, public health or safety, or Federal financial considerations. Provides that any Government licensee, or non-Government entity operating on behalf of a Government licensee, that is displaced from a frequency pursuant to this Act may be reimbursed not more than the incremental costs it incurs, in such amounts as provided in advance in appropriation Acts, that are directly attributable to the loss of the use of the frequency pursuant to this Act. Authorizes appropriations to affected licensee agencies to cover such costs. Directs the FCC to form a plan to assign the spectrum identified in the initial report pursuant to competitive bidding procedures during FY 1994 through 1996. Directs the FCC to submit to the President a plan for the distribution of the remaining reallocated frequency bands. Authorizes the President to reclaim reallocated frequencies for reassignment to Government stations. Sets forth procedures for reclaiming frequencies. Amends the Act to require the FCC to use competitive bidding for awarding all initial licenses and new construction permits, subject to specified exclusions. Outlines criteria for awarding licenses and permits under competitive bidding procedures. Prohibits licensing by lottery when competitive bidding is required. Title V: Dislocated Workers - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish for eligible dislocated workers: (1) a program of readjustment allowances; (2) a program for job training and related services substantially similar to the program under specified provisions of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA); and (3) a program for job search and relocation allowances substantially similar to the program under specified JTPA provisions. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Labor to carry out such programs, for each of FY 1993 through 1995, in an amount equal to the revenues raised in such fiscal year by the provisions of and amendments made by titles II, III, and IV of this Act which are in excess of the expenditures made in such fiscal year under title I of this Act. Directs the Secretary of Labor to give special consideration to providing services to dislocated workers in the timber industry in the State of Washington, in determining specified programs and activities to be funded under JTPA in FY 1991 and 1992. Directs the Secretary of Labor to submit a comprehensive report to the Congress on the feasibility and utility of using a total unemployment rate versus an insured unemployment rate, adjusted to include those claimants who have exhausted their benefits, for purposes of triggering extended benefits and, if appropriate, revising the foregoing measures of unemployment to include seasonal adjustments. Title VI: Deficit Reduction Requirement - Sets forth the congressional funding that provisions contained in titles I through V of this Act would lead to a reduction in the deficit. Declares that the Congress designates all direct spending amounts (both increases and decreases) provided by such titles (for all fiscal years) as emergency requirements under specified provisions of the Balance Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Requires, as a condition for any provisions of this Act to take effect, that the President: (1) make a determination and notify the Congress that this Act would reduce the deficit cumulatively for FY 1991 through 1996; and (2) submits a written designation of all direct spending amounts (both increases and decreases provided by titles I through V of this Act (for all fiscal years)) as emergency requirements under such specified provisions of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Bill· SS. 1791 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1991
Deficit-Neutral Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991 - Title I: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program - Establishes an emergency unemployment compensation program. Allows any State to enter into and participate in an agreement with the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) under which the State agency which administers the State unemployment compensation law will make payments of emergency unemployment compensation: (1) to individuals who have exhausted all rights to regular compensation under State law, have no rights to such regular compensation or any additional State or Federal compensation, and are not receiving Canadian compensation; and (2) for any week of unemployment beginning in the individual's eligibility period. Sets forth provisions relating to exhaustion of regular benefits and weekly amount of emergency benefits equal to regular benefits. Requires a State, under such an agreement, to establish an emergency unemployment compensation account with respect to the benefit year of each eligible individual who files an application. Limits benefit payments to not more than the amount in the individual's account. Sets forth formulas for determining the amount in such account. Provides that the applicable limit in such account shall be equal to: (1) ten weeks during a five-percent period (triggered if the adjusted rate of insured unemployment for such week and the immediately preceding 12 weeks is at least five percent); and (2) six weeks for any other period. Sets forth special rules relating to such applicable limits. Requires reduction in such account by the amount of extended benefits received by the individual relating to the same benefit year under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970. Sets the weekly benefit amount at the amount of regular compensation (including dependents' allowances) payable under the State law to the individual for such week for total unemployment. Provides for determination of periods and applicable triggers. Provides for a minimum period. Provides, in general, that no emergency unemployment compensation shall be payable to any individual under this Act for any week beginning: (1) before the later of October 1, 1991, or the first week following the week in which an agreement under this Act is entered into; or (2) after June 30, 1992. Sets forth transition and reachback provisions for the eligibility of certain individuals for such benefits, as exceptions to such general rule. Provides for payments to States having such agreements for emergency unemployment compensation. Sets forth financing provisions. Requires that funds in the extended unemployment compensation account of the Unemployment Trust Fund be used to make payments to States having agreements under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to the extended unemployment compensation account of sums necessary to pay emergency unemployment compensation payable: (1) under specified provisions for former members of the armed forces; and (2) on the basis of certain services performed for nonprofit organizations or governmental entities, to which certain Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to State unemployment compensation law apply. Sets forth provisions relating to fraud and overpayments. Defines the individual eligibility period under this Act. Amends specified Federal law to repeal certain limitations on payment of unemployment compensation to former members of the armed forces. Reduces the length of required active duty by reserves for purposes for such payment, if the reservist served on active duty in the Persian Gulf area of operations in connection with Operation Desert Storm. Title II: Collection of Nontax Debts - Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to provide for permanent extension of provisions relating to collection of nontax debts owed to Federal agencies. Title III: Guaranteed Student Loans - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise provisions relating to the Stafford student loan program (including guaranteed student loans and federally-insured student loans). Requires, in the case of such student loan applicants over age 21, that the lender: (1) obtain a credit report; and (2) require a cosigner for such applicants who have adverse credit histories. Allows the lender to charge such applicants for the actual cost of such credit reports, up to $25. Requires the lender to obtain the borrower's driver's license number, if any, at the time of application for such a student loan. Directs eligible institutions to require borrowers of any student loan under HEA to supply the following exit interview information: (1) their expected permanent address after leaving the institution; (2) the name and address of their expected employer; and (3) the name and address of their next of kin. Requires student loan interest-subsidy insurance program agreements to require the lender to obtain the borrower's authorization for entry of judgment against the borrower in the event of default. Provides for wage garnishment for student loan collection. Authorizes a guaranty agency, or the Secretary where appropriate, to garnish the disposable pay of an individual to collect the amount owed or the required repayment, subject to certain conditions. Provides for data matching. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to obtain from Federal agencies specified information relating to an individual for student loan collection purposes. Title IV: Electromagnetic Spectrum Function - Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Act of 1991 - Requires the Secretary of Commerce and the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to conduct biannual joint electromagnetic spectrum planning meetings with respect to: (1) future spectrum needs and the allocation actions to accommodate those needs; and (2) actions to promote the efficient use of the spectrum. Requires an open process and joint annual reports to the President. Directs the Secretary to submit reports to the President that identify frequency bands that: (1) are allocated on a primary basis for Government use and eligible for licensing pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934 (the Act); (2) are not required for the present or identifiable future Government needs; (3) can be made available for use under the Act for non-Government users; (4) are likely to have significant value for such users; and (5) will not result in excessive costs to the Government. Sets forth criteria for identifying, and recommending for reassignment or sharing, such frequency bands. Requires such reports to make an initial identification of 50MHz of spectrum for immediate reallocation and distribution by the FCC pursuant to competitive bidding procedures, and preliminary and final identifications of additional reallocable frequency bands. Directs the Secretary to convene a private sector advisory committee to: (1) review frequency bands identified in the preliminary report; (2) advise the Secretary with respect to those bands which should be included in the final report; (3) receive public comment on the reports; and (4) prepare and submit to the Secretary and specified congressional committees a report on recommendations for the reform of allocating the spectrum between Government and non-Government users. Directs the President to: (1) withdraw or limit the assignment to a Government station of any frequency recommended in the initial identification report for reallocation; (2) withdraw or limit the assignment to a Government station of any frequency recommended in the final report for reallocation or mixed use; (3) assign or reassign other frequencies to Government stations as necessary to adjust to such withdrawal or limitation of assignments; and (4) publish in the Federal Register a notice and description of such actions taken. Authorizes the President to substitute alternative frequencies in the interests of national security, important Government needs, public health or safety, or Federal financial considerations. Provides that any Government licensee, or non-Government entity operating on behalf of a Government licensee, that is displaced from a frequency pursuant to this Act may be reimbursed not more than the incremental costs it incurs, in such amounts as provided in advance in appropriation Acts, that are directly attributable to the loss of the use of the frequency pursuant to this Act. Authorizes appropriations to affected licensee agencies to cover such costs. Directs the FCC to form a plan to assign the spectrum identified in the initial report pursuant to competitive bidding procedures during FY 1994 through 1996. Directs the FCC to submit to the President a plan for the distribution of the remaining reallocated frequency bands. Authorizes the President to reclaim reallocated frequencies for reassignment to Government stations. Sets forth procedures for reclaiming frequencies. Amends the Act to require the FCC to use competitive bidding for awarding all initial licenses and new construction permits, subject to specified exclusions. Outlines criteria for awarding licenses and permits under competitive bidding procedures. Prohibits licensing by lottery when competitive bidding is required. Title V: Dislocated Workers - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish for eligible dislocated workers: (1) a program of readjustment allowances; (2) a program for job training and related services substantially similar to the program under specified provisions of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA); and (3) a program for job search and relocation allowances substantially similar to the program under specified JTPA provisions. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Labor to carry out such programs, for each of FY 1993 through 1995, in an amount equal to the revenues raised in such fiscal year by the provisions of and amendments made by titles II, III, and IV of this Act which are in excess of the expenditures made in such fiscal year under title I of this Act. Directs the Secretary of Labor to give special consideration to providing services to dislocated workers in the timber industry in the State of Washington, in determining specified programs and activities to be funded under JTPA in FY 1991 and 1992. Directs the Secretary of Labor to submit a comprehensive report to the Congress on the feasibility and utility of using a total unemployment rate versus an insured unemployment rate, adjusted to include those claimants who have exhausted their benefits, for purposes of triggering extended benefits and, if appropriate, revising the foregoing measures of unemployment to include seasonal adjustments.
Bill· HRH.R. 3458 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1991
Educational Research, Development, and Dissemination Excellence Act - Title I: General Provisions Regarding Office of Educational Research and Improvement - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to direct the Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement (the Assistant Secretary) to administer the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) in accordance with the policies and priorities established by the National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board (the Board, established under title II of this Act). Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to act through OERI in administering the Secretary's functions concerning research, development, demonstration, dissemination, evaluation, and assessment activities. Requires that the Assistant Secretary be appointed for a term of six years from among individuals who have significant experience or expertise in educational research and development. Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to revise certain provisions relating to the purpose, administration, functions, and structure of OERI. Eliminates provisions for the National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement. Directs the Secretary, acting through OERI, to carry out specified policies, in accordance with the policies and priorities established by the Board. Requires that OERI consist of programs and units in accordance with specified current GEPA provisions, as well as those added under this Act. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees data on OERI, including numbers of current personnel, broken down by sex, race, and civil service classification, current vacancies, and projections of future personnel needs. Eliminates a specified exception (for small amounts or urgent situations) to the use of peer review procedures established by OERI in awarding competitive grants or contracts. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 through 1996 for OERI programs and units (both current ones and ones added by this Act). Allocates specified portions of such funds for certain purposes. Title II: National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board - Amends GEPA to establish within OERI a National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board (the Board). Makes the Board, acting through the Assistant Secretary, responsible for: (1) determining priorities for OERI expenditures on education research and development; (2) establishing basic policies for conduct and evaluation of all research, development, and dissemination carried out under auspices of the Department of Education (the Department); (3) making periodic recommendations to the President, the Congress, and the Secretary on administrative and statutory changes both to improve coordination of education research, development, and dissemination carried out by the Federal Government, and to develop a comprehensive and integrated system for dissemination of results of education research and developments; and (4) regularly review and evaluate implementation of its recommended priorities and policies by the Department and the Congress. Directs the Board to develop a research priorities program. Requires the Board to survey and assess the state of knowledge in education research and development to identify disciplines and areas of inquiry where knowledge is insufficient and which warrant further investigation, taking into account the views of both education researchers and practicing educators. Requires the Board to consult with the National Goals Panel and other authorities on education to identify national priorities for the improvement of education. Requires that such research priorities program recommend priorities for investment of OERI resources over the next five-, ten-, and 15-year periods. Requires including as priorities those areas of inquiry in which further research and development: (1) is necessary to attain the identified goals for improvement of education; (2) promises to yield the greatest practical benefits to teachers and other educators in improving education; and (3) will not be undertaken in sufficient scope or intensity by other Federal and non-Fedeal entities engaged in education research and development. Sets forth required contents of such program, including goals for OERI expenditures within recommended priority areas, specific objectives expected to be achieved by such expenditures, and recommendations as to relative distribution of resources within each priority area among the various entities engaged in such education research and development. Requires the Secretary to publish a biennial report, and submit such report and any public comment and suggestions to the President and the Congress, on the Board's proposed research priorities. Directs the Board to establish and maintain an ongoing program to improve coordination of education research, development, and dissemination activities within the Department and the Federal Government generally. Requires specified inventories and reports in connection with such coordination program. Directs the Board to develop (after soliciting and giving due consideration to public comments) policies and procedures for the conduct and evaluation of all OERI research, development, and dissemination activities, to assure that such activities meet the highest standards of professional excellence. Requires such policies to include standardized procedures (including peer review) for evaluation of applications for, and periodic review and evaluation of, all grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements by OERI. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations implementing such policies and procedures within 60 days of their transmittal by the Board. Authorizes the Board to establish subcommittees, convene workshops and conferences, and collect data. Requires equitable representation of education researchers, educators, school administrators, and other practitioners on each subcommittee. Sets forth Board powers and membership qualifications, in general. Requires that the 24 Board voting members be appointed by the President, by and with Senate's advice and consent, with specified numbers representing educational researchers, classroom teachers, State and local school teachers and officials, librarians, parents, nonprofit foundations, and business and industry. Designates specified Federal officials as ex-officio, nonvoting members. Requires that the Board be chaired by the Chair of the National Goals Panel. Sets forth provisions for terms of office and meetings. Title III: District Education Agent Program - Subtitle A: District Education Agent Program - Amends GEPA to direct OERI to establish a District Education Agent Program. Requires such Program, by creating an entity at the congressional district level to meet the National Education Goals, to: (1) speedily provide high quality, useful information and technical assistance to increase participation of parents and business and community leaders in partnership with teachers and education leaders; (2) provide an interactive and responsive delivery system for research, development, and dissemination, to assist school improvement efforts; (3) provide a local level intervention agent to guide application of tested, effective models and techniques for solving education-related problems; (4) identify gaps in Federal information, and launch new initiatives to address specific problems; (5) track past and present Federal grants to the district, to evaluate and improve their effectiveness; (6) channel information, materials, and technical assistance to the Learning Grant Institutions and other Federal research and development entities in the district; (7) use Federal agencies and instruments to disseminate useful information as quickly as possible; and (8) channel responses and feedback of practitioners back to the research and development community. Authorizes OERI to conduct a competitive grants program to establish 50 Learning Grant Institutions (LGIs) within 50 of the poorest congressional districts. Directs OERI to make competitive grants to not more than one LGI for each congressional district. Sets forth types of educational research entities eligible to receive such assistance. Requires LGI applicants to have: (1) developed an advisory board that meets certain requirements; and (2) appointed a district education agent to provide information and other education services in that district. Subtitle B: Bureau of Education and Extension - Amends GEPA to direct OERI to establish, within three months after enactment of this Act, a Bureau of Education Extension (the Bureau) to make grants to LGIs to establish the District Education Agent Program (DEAP). Directs the Bureau, acting within OERI, to: (1) develop and establish a competition for designation of LGIs to implement the Intensified District Education Agent Program (IDEAP) in the 50 poorest congressional districts, and prepare for the long-term establishment of DEAPs in the remaining congressional districts;' (2) provide technical assistance to congressional districts (Research and Development Districts or RDDs) to prepare for the IDEAP competition (allows RDDs to be the entire district or at least 250,000 residents, with the remainder of the district as a control for the educational improvement experiment); (3) respond to the assessed needs of each of the 50 IDEAPs, with access to research information, coordination of interagency services to develop programs for parent and school board member training, curricula, and continuing education for teachers and administrators; (4) develop a system to disseminate exemplary educational models, methods, techniques, and technologies to LGIs; (5) develop and support educational research seminars, training programs, teleconferences, and workshops for RDDs; (6) manage such grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements; (7) supervise, monitor, and evaluate the IDEAP; and (8) collect annual reports from each District Education Agent and deliver these to the Secretary, OERI, and appropriate congressional committees. Provides for a Bureau Director and staff of from ten to 15 full-time equivalent employees. Title IV: America on Line: National Education Dissemination Network - Subtitle A: National Education Research Library - Amends GEPA to establish within OERI a National Education Research Library (the Library), to be maintained as a governmental activity, to: (1) provide a central location within the Federal Government for information about education; (2) provide comprehensive reference services on education-related matters; and (3) promote greater cooperation and resource-sharing among education information providers and repositories in the United States. Requires the Library to establish and maintain a one-stop central information and referral service to respond to inquires from the public concerning: (1) Department of Education (Department) programs and activities; (2) Department and other Federal agency education-related publications; (3) OERI services and resources available to the public, including the ERIC Clearinghouses, the National Research and Development Centers, and the Regional Laboratories; (4) statistics and other information produced by the National Center for Education Statistics; and (5) referrals to additional sources of information and expertise about educational issues. Directs the Library to maintain and publicize a toll-free telephone number for public inquiries. Directs the Library to deliver comprehensive reference services of various types on education-related subjects to Department employees, other Federal employees, and members of the general public, with first priority to Department employees' requests. Directs the Library to promote greater cooperation and resource-sharing among libraries and archives with significant collections in the area of education, through various means. Requires the Library to be administered by an Executive Director appointed by the Secretary from among persons with significant training or experience in library and information science. Transfers to the Library all functions of the Department's: (1) Research Library; (2) Reference Section; (3) Information Branch; and (4) Information Technology Branch (except those relating to automatic data processing and other electronic equipment used for Department internal administrative purposes). Directs the Library, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to promulgate a comprehensive collection development policy to govern its operations, acquisitions, and services to users. Sets forth required components of such policy. Directs the Executive Director, on the basis of such policy, to develop a multiyear plan for elimination of cataloging arrearages and for response to preservation needs. Subtitle B: Education Networks and Telecommunication Division - Amends GEPA to establish within OERI a National Networks and Telecommunications Division (the Division). Requires OERI, acting through the Division, to develop an interactive electronic network to: (1) link all Department entities to share information and resources; (2) be extended to libraries, schools, universities, colleges, and homes; and (3) linked to any electronic online dissemination system operated by the Government Printing Office. Requires OERI, acting through the Division, to establish a demonstration program to provide matching grant or contract dollars on a four-to-one ratio for private nonprofit entities (in conjunction with one or more Regional Education Laboratories, State or local education agencies, and universities) to support developing and extending a user-friendly dissemination network to support school and classroom improvement. Requires that a wide range of technologies be tested, including specified types. Requires priority to be given to demonstrations in high poverty areas. Requires both formative and summative evaluations. Requires biennial reports to the appropriate congressional authorizing committees. Title V: National Institute for Education of At-Risk Students - Amends GEPA to direct OERI to provide grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts to establish and operate a National Institute for the Education of At-Risk Students (the Institute). Requires the Institute's Director to appoint Assistant Directors to head each of the following Institute Divisions: (1) Innercity Educational Improvement; (2) Rural Educational Improvement; and (3) Minority Language Educational Improvement. Sets forth the Institute's purposes, and requires it to supplement, not supplant, other Federal activities. Charges it with specific responsibility for developing model programs, and gives examples of such programs. Authorizes the Institute to: (1) carry out various activities to improve learning conditions for at-risk students; and (2) assist Federal, State, and local agencies in developing, implementing, and evaluating policy with respect to the education of at-risk students. Directs the Institute to fund collaborative and coordinated program efforts, program evaluation, and replication of exemplary programs. Requires the Institute to perform specified functions for such purposes. Establishes an educational leadership fellowship program. Authorizes the Institute to award fellowships for outstanding researchers and practitioners with special expertise and experience in the education of rural, bilingual, African-American, and other minorities as well as persons of poverty. Requires such fellowships to be for postdoctoral students as well as those with a distinguished record of work in the field of the education of at-risk students. Sets forth provisions for the Institute's Board and Director. Sets forth administrative provisions. Title VI: National Institute for Innovation in Governance and Management - Amends GEPA to direct OERI to provide grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts to establish and operate a National Institute for Innovation in Governance and Management (the Institute), to be administered by a Director and Board. Sets forth functions and duties of such Board, including establishing standards for all proposals it funds. Authorizes the Institute to provide grants to eligible entities for research, planning, development, and implementation of promising models of innovation in school governance and management (including programs for open enrollment, magnet schools, parent selection of schools and programs, financial and other incentives for improved student achievement, regulatory flexibility for school restructuring and innovation, school-based management, expanded teacher role in policy-making and administration, and increased parental involvement in school management and governance, and other innovations to improve school excellence and student achievement). Sets forth requirements for applications, evaluations, and dissemination of results. Directs the Institute to: (1) sponsor national seminars for personnel from regional educational laboratories and research and development centers, to inform them of its recent findings; and (2) make available funding for cooperative research projects by two or more such centers and laboratories. Sets forth provisions for the Institute Board's composition, executive committee, and member qualifications. Sets forth provisions relating to the Director of the Institute. Title VII: National Research and Development Centers, Regional Educational Laboratories, and Public-Private Research and Development Partnerships - Amends GEPA to direct the Secretary, in carrying out the functions of OERI, to support public-private partnerships between OERI and private organizations to conduct authorized education research, development, dissemination, and technical assistance activities. Requires participation of a State or local educational agency and an education research team in each such partnership. Limits the OERI contribution to no more than 50 percent of the total cost of the project. Revises provisions for support of regional educational laboratories and research and development centers (as well as such public-private partnerships) to require: (1) preparation of a mission statement; (2) coordination with the National Education Dissemination Network; and (3) compliance with evaluation procedures established by the National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board. Sets certain minimum amount requirements for OERI grants and contracts to such laboratories and centers. Directs OERI to require, where appropriate, recipients of all grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements under specified provisions to prepare reports on their procedures, findings, and other relevant information in a form to maximize dissemination and use of such information. Title VIII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Prohibits the Secretary from exceeding specified limits in the amount of Federal assistance in any fiscal year to the New American Schools Development Corporation (a nonprofit private organization incorporated in Virginia).
Bill· HRH.R. 3446 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1991
National Security Education Act of 1991 - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 (the Act) to add a new title VIII, National Security Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants. Directs the National Security Education Board (the Board, established by this Act) to conduct a program of: (1) scholarships to undergraduate students for study abroad for at least one semester in a Board-identified critical country; (2) fellowships to graduate students for graduate study in the United States in Board-determined critical areas of the disciplines of international studies, area studies, and foreign languages (in exchange for work for the Federal Government or in the education field in such study area); and (3) grants to institutions of higher education to establish, operate, and improve programs in Board-determined critical areas of the disciplines of international studies, area studies, and foreign languages. Limits such scholarships and fellowships to U.S. citizens or resident aliens. Sets forth requirements for individual fellowship agreements. Directs the Board to: (1) develop criteria for awarding such scholarships, fellowships, and grants; (2) provide for the wide disbursement of information on activities assisted under this Act; (3) consider providing an equitable geographic distribution of such awards; (4) use a merit review process in making them; and (5) adjust the amount of such awards annually for inflation. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish the National Security Education Board. Requires the following or their representatives to be members of the Board: (1) the Secretaries of Defense (chairperson), of Education, of State, and of Commerce; (2) the Directors of the Central Intelligence and the U.S. Information Agencies; and (3) four appointees of the President, with Senate advice and consent, who have expertise in the fields of international, language, and area studies education. Directs the Board to: (1) establish qualifications for students and institutions desiring such scholarships, fellowships, and grants; and (2) review administration of the program assisted under this Act. Directs the Board to identify as critical: (1) (for undergraduate scholarships) countries not emphasized in other U.S. study abroad programs, such as countries where few U.S. students are studying; (2) (for graduate fellowships) areas of study within the named disciplines which the Board determines U.S. students are deficient in learning; and (3) (for institutional program grants) areas of study within the named disciplines in which U.S. students, educators, and government employees are deficient in learning and in which insubstantial numbers of U.S. institutions of higher education provide training. Establishes in the Treasury the National Education Trust Fund (the Fund) to provide for such scholarships, fellowships, and grants, from the Fund's account by the Board. Requires the Board to report annually to the President and the Congress on its operations. Provides for an Executive Secretary of the Board. Authorizes the General Accounting Office to audit Board activities.
Bill· HRH.R. 3461 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1991
Infertility Prevention Act of 1991 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with regard to any treatable sexually transmitted disease that can cause infertility in women if treatment is not received for the disease, to make grants for specified activities, including counseling, screening, treatment, referrals, outreach, public information and education, training for health care providers, and data collection. Directs the Secretary to establish criteria for ensuring the quality of screening for such diseases. Limits grants to three years, with annual approval by the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for research on improving the delivery of services under this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 3456 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1991
Amends the American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Culture and Art Development Act (the Act, which is title XV of the Education Amendments of 1986) to revise provisions relating to the Institute of American Indian Native Culture and Arts Development (the Institute) and its Board of Directors (the Board). Requires that Board members represent diverse fields of expertise, including finance, law, and education administration. Directs the President to carry out through the Board the publication of announcements of expiration of terms and the solicitation of nominations from Indian tribes and organizations to fill vacancies. Authorizes the Board to: (1) make recommendations based on nominations received; (2) make recommendations of its own; and (3) review and make comments on individuals being considered by the President for whom no nominations have been received. Grants the Board the power to recommend the continuation of Board members, in order to maintain stability and continuation, in accordance with specified procedures. Revises general powers of the Board. Authorizes the Board to: (1) enter into joint development ventures with public or private commercial or noncommercial entities for development of facilities to meet a specified required plan (provided that such ventures are related to and further the Institute's mission); and (2) designate annually a portion (up to ten percent) of specified appropriated funds for investment on a short-term basis to maximize yield and liquidity. Requires that interest and earnings on specified amounts received and invested by the Institute be expended to carry out the Act. Revises provisions for basic compensation rates for Institute staff to require these to be set at rates comparable to those of similar institutions of higher education (or, as at present, at civil service rates for individuals with comparable qualifications). Revises Institute functions to eliminate certain requirements relating to a Center for Culture and Art Studies, Center for Research and Cultural Exchange, and Musuem of American Indian and Alaska Native Arts. Makes the Board responsible for establishing the policies and administrative organization relating to the administrative control and monitoring responsibilities for all Institute subdivisions, administrative entities, and departments, with the specific responsibilities of each to lie solely within the discretion of the Board or its designee. Requires the Board to establish, within the Institute, departments for the study of culture and arts and for research and exchange, and a museum. Directs the Board to establish areas of competency for such departments. Authorizes the Institute to develop a policy or policies to extend preference to Indians in its program admissions and enrollment, employment, and contracts, fellowships, and grants. (Currently authorizes the Institute to simply extend such preference.) Revises provisions relating to transfer of functions, including certain provisions for forgiveness of amounts owed and hold harmless provisions. Eliminates requirements for an annual report by the Institute President. Revises provisions relating to the Institute's headquarters to refer to the Board, rather than the Secretary of the Interior. Provides that the Institute shall not be subject to any requirement for non-Federal matching funds as a condition for Federal assistance. Revises provisions for the Institute's endowment program. Allows the Institute to use funds from any non-Federal governmental source (as well as from any private or tribal source) to comply with a contribution requirement. Directs the Board to prepare a master plan on the short- and long-term facilities needs of the Institute, including specified types of evaluations, impact projections, periodic reviews, and needs prioritization. Requires transmittal of such plan to the Congress within 18 months after enactment of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 3455 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1991
Tribal Development Student Assistance Act - Establishes a student assistance revolving loan program for Native Americans, to be administered by tribes or tribal organizations. Requires that funds received under a grant under this Act or recovered under specified provisions of this Act be identified and accounted for separately from any other tribal or Federal funds received from the Federal Government. Requires that all funds in such account be used for the purposes of this Act. Makes the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary) responsible for establishing requirements for receipt, investment, and accounting of such funds to safeguard any financial interests of the Federal Government. Requires such funds to be: (1) invested by the tribe or tribal organization only in obligations of the United States or in obligations or securities guaranteed or insured by the United States; or (2) deposited only in accounts that are insured by an agency or instrumentality of the United States. Provides that any interest or investment income that accrues to any of such funds after they have been distributed to a tribe or tribal organization to make loans under this Act shall be: (1) the property of the tribe or tribal organization; and (2) not taken into account by any Federal officer or employee in determining whether to provide assistance, or the amount of assistance, under any provision of Federal law. Directs the Secretary to make grants under this Act to: (1) tribes or multitribal organizations not serviced by current federally funded postsecondary institutions authorized for economic development grants; and (2) tribes or multitribal organizations which lack sufficient numbers of professionally trained tribal members to support established or ongoing economic development activities. Requires any tribe or tribal organization which receives such grant funds to make such funds available by loan to Native American students who have successfully completed 30 hours of postsecondary education and who are eligible for readmission to a postsecondary institution. Sets forth terms of such student loans, including: (1) being subject to repayment over a period of not more than five years; (2) not bearing interest; and (3) being subject to forgiveness for services to the tribe under specified provisions. Requires that calculation of the student's cost of attendance include all costs as determined by the tribe for purposes of fulfilling the policy of this Act. Requires any student seeking such a loan to apply for and accept the maximum financial aid available from other sources. Prohibits such loans from being considered in needs analysis under any other Federal law, and from penalizing students in determining eligibility for other funds. Sets forth requirements for a written agreement between the tribe or tribal organization and the eligible recipient for service fulfillment or loan repayment. Requires the recipient to commit to: (1) perform, for each academic year of assistance under this Act, one calendar year of service to the tribe or tribal organization in an occupation related to the course of study pursued and an economic or social tribal development plan (commencing not later than six months after the student ceases to carry at least one-half the normal full-time academic workload); or (2) repay to the tribe or tribal organization the full amount of the loan, in monthly or quarterly installments within five years (with such recovered funds to be reported annually to the Secretary and invested in the account). Sets forth provisions for: (1) limitations and conditions on such service; (2) waivers or suspensions of such service agreements; (3) pro rata reductions for partial service; and (4) annual certification of individuals' service by the tribe to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish an application process for making grants to eligible entities; (2) take into account in reviewing applications the number of students with partial completion identified by the applicant, relative to the total number of tribal members who would be benefitted by the provision of services; and (3) attempt to achieve geographic and demographic diversity in such grants. Directs the Secretary, subject to the availability of funds and acceptable applications, to make five four-year grants to tribes or tribal organizations. Requires that the amount of administrative costs associated with such grants be negotiated by the Secretary with successful applicants and made a part of the grant agreement. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997.
Bill· HRH.R. 3451 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1991
Freedom of Speech on Campus Act of 1991 - Expresses the sense of the Congress that students attending universities or other institutions of higher education that receive Federal funds should be able to exercise full rights to freedom of speech on campus free from official intrusion. Amends the Education Amendments of 1972 to prohibit discrimination by an institution of higher education against a student based on protected speech in any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance under the Higher Education Act of 1965. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to religious or military institutions. Provides that such prohibition shall not be construed to prevent: (1) imposition of an official sanction on a student determined to have willfully participated in the disruption or attempted disruption of a lecture, class, speech, presentation, or performance made or scheduled to be made under the auspices of the institution of higher education; or (2) actions by such institution that are necessary to ensure the safety of individuals, protection of property, and continuation of the academic and administrative process without interference.
Bill· HRH.R. 3447 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1991
Southeast Region African American Educator Institute Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide financial assistance to pay all of the cost of construction, and related expenses, for the establishment of the Southeast Region African American Educator Institute at Knoxville College, in Knoxville, Tennessee, to be used as a national and regional resource and education center. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 3443 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1991
Employee Benefits and Job Security Act of 1991 - Entitles eligible individuals to certain reemployment rights if they leave employment for specified legitimate personal purposes involving family, health, or education. Makes individuals eligible for such reemployment if they: (1) were employed by the employer (from whom reemployment is sought) for at least 2,000 hours of continuous employment during the 14-month period preceding provision of specified notice; (2) left a currently held position with the employer for a period of time for specified legitimate personal purposes; (3) did not accept intervening employment exceeding 17 1/2 hours per week with any employer during the period (unless they applied for reemployment and have been notified that the original or a similar position is not currently available); (4) have provided specified notice and documentation; (5) have applied for reemployment in a specified manner; and (6) were not subject to formal or informal disciplinary action by the employer before delivery of such notices. Requires the employer, with specified exceptions, to: (1) restore an eligible individual to employment in an available similar position at the time of application with any benefits and seniority accrued during prior service with the same employer; or (2) if such a similar position is not available when the individual applies, notify the individual of such situation and any subsequent availability of such a position that occurs within one year after the application date in accordance with specified notification procedures, and restore the individual to employment. Allows the employer and the eligible individual to agree that the individual shall be employed in any available position of lesser status, benefits, or pay until the same or a similar position becomes available. Includes as a period of time for a legitimate family purpose a period: (1) preceding the birth of a child, because of a serious health condition or on the advice of a physician and for purposes directly related to the birth of the child; (2) not exceeding six years, taken by a parent, following the birth of a child, to care and nurture that child; (3) not exceeding six years after placement of a child with the employee for adoption or foster care; (4) not exceeding two years, and taken because of a serious health conditionof the employee, or because of a serious health condition of an immediate family member, to provide necessary medical and personal care to that family member; or (5) not exceeding one year, for the employee to be enrolled in a qualified educational program. Requires individuals, in order to be eligible for such reemployment, to provide the employer with specified types of notice of leaving and documentation and to demonstrate in the reemployment application that they remain qualified to perform the duties and responsibilities of the original position. Grants a prior right of reemployment to the individual who first makes application for reemployment, in any case in which two or more individuals seek to exercise such rights in conflict, but provides that restoration of an eligible individual to employment shall not otherwise affect the reemployment rights of other individuals wishing to be similarly restored. Sets forth an exemption from reemployment requirements of this Act in the case of certain highly compensated employees under specified conditions involving substantial and grievous economic harm to the employer's operations. Exempts an employer from the requirements of this Act with respect to an eligible individual if circumstances have so changed, between the times of notice and application, as to make reemployment unreasonable. Allows joint waivers, by the employer and employee and absent coercion by either, to: (1) vary the requirements and conditions of such reemployment rights; or (2) substitute another arrangement or employment benefit or package for such rights. Requires that the employee receive a written explanation of rights and remedies under this Act before signing such a waiver. Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to prepare and publish a model explanation. Allows an employer to legibly reproduce such model explanation and generally distribute it annually, or post it permanently in a conspicuous place in the workplace, in order to satisfy the requirement of providing it to the employee. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an employer an additional tax deduction for 50 percent of the qualified employee leave expenses paid or incurred by such employer during the taxable year. Defines such qualified employee leave, and written plan requirements for restoration to employment, in terms similar to those used under this Act. Sets forth provisions for enforcement of this Act by the Secretary and by an eligible individual through informal conferences or civil actions. Allows a court to order payment of lost wages or benefits, and to order payment of attorney's fees to the prevailing party. Declares that specified provisions of this Act do not: (1) grant any rights to seniority, status, benefits, or rates of pay beyond those possessed at the time of notice of leaving; or (2) impose on an employer any obligation to provide training of any type, or to offer reemployment in any position, or at any other location, other than that specifically stated in this Act. Applies the rights, protections, and requirements in this Act to any employee and employing authority of any agency of the Congress or of the House of Representatives.
Bill· HRH.R. 3460 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1991
Nurse Education Amendments of 1991 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to remove provisions allowing certain expenditures relating to: (1) special projects in nurse education; (2) training of nurses in geriatrics; (3) innovative hospital nursing practice models; (4) advanced nurse education; (5) the education of nurse practitioners in geriatrics; (6) traineeships for nurse practitioners and nurse midwives; (7) post-baccalaureate fellowships for faculty of nursing schools; (8) traineeships for nurses in doctoral programs, nurse administrators, nurse educators, and nurse researchers; and (9) undergraduate education of professional nurses. Authorizes appropriations for related remaining provisions. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) special projects to increase nursing education for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds; (2) traineeships for nurse anesthetists; and (3) loan repayment programs for nurses providing service in certain health facilities. Reallocates certain returned funds to such loan repayment programs rather than to programs for the undergraduate education of professional nurses. Includes schools of nursing as eligible for grants and contracts relating to geriatric education centers.
Bill· HRH.R. 3448 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1991
Mickey Leland Peace Dividend Housing Assistance Act of 1990 - Title I: Housing for Low-Income Families - Increases FY 1991 through 1995 budget authority for Housing Act of 1937 section 8 existing housing certificates. Amends such Act to revise section 8 tenant selection preferences, including annual reevaluation of family preference. Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to submit semiannual assisted housing reports to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Community Housing Partnership - Community Housing Partnership Act - Subtitle A: Housing Education and Organizational Support Grants for Community Based Housing Projects - Authorizes the Secretary to provide housing education and organizational support grants to eligible cities and States and directly to nonprofit sponsors and nonprofit organizations. Subtitle B: Community Housing Partnership Grants - Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to cities and States and grants and loans to nonprofit sponsors for acquisition, construction, and rehabilitation of low- and moderate-income housing. Allocates community partnership housing grants as follows: (1) 60 percent to metropolitan and urban areas; (2) 25 percent to States for non-urban use; and (3) 15 percent to nonprofit sponsors. Subtitle C: General Provisions - Defines specified terms for purposes of this title. Authorizes appropriations for this title including specified amounts for subtitle A. Title III: Recycling of Existing Federal Assets - Recycling of Existing Assets for Cost-Effective Housing Act - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States for State housing finance agencies to establish revolving funds for low- to moderate-income rental housing. Requires State matching funds. Requires: (1) States receiving such funds to establish a revolving fund; and (2) agencies to develop affirmative action programs. Sets forth requirements with regard to: (1) rental housing; and (2) eligible properties. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Public Housing Development and Modernization - Increases FY 1991 through 1995 budget authority under the Housing Act of 1937 for public housing development and public housing modernization. Amends such Act to revise public housing tenant selection criteria, including annual reevaluation of family preference. Title V: Grants for Preservation of Existing Housing and Security in Public Housing - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for: (1) acquisition and rehabilitation of specified multifamily housing; (2) training and technical assistance to nonprofit sponsors and representative organizations; and (3) public housing security, including Indian public housing. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: Rural Housing Program Funding - Increases FY 1991 through 1995 budget authority under the Housing Act of 1949 for the following rural housing programs: (1) homeownership loan program; (2) very low-income housing repair loan program; (3) farm labor housing loan program; (4) rural rental housing loan program; (5) farm labor housing grant program; (6) housing preservation grant program; and (7) rental assistance payments program. Extends program authority for: (1) rental housing loans; and (2) rural area classification. Title VII: Supportive Services - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to coordinate supportive services in federally assisted housing, including such services as: (1) child care; (2) health monitoring; (3) education and job training; and (4) drug and alcohol counseling. Title VIII: Single Room Occupancy Housing for Homeless Families and Individuals - Increases FY 1991 through 1995 budget authority under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act for section 8 assistance for single room occupancy dwellings. Amends such Act to extend single room occupancy contract authority. Title IX: Miscellaneous - Directs the Comptroller General to audit the Secretary at least annually with respect to activities under this Act, and report to the Congress.
Bill· HRH.R. 3440 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1991
Employer Sanctions Improvements Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for the issuance of new counterfeit-resistant social security cards to employable aliens solely for the purpose of providing employment eligibility. Requires that cards issued to certain aliens specify the work authorization expiration date. Requires employers to: (1) maintain records of employee expiration dates; and (2) request expired-date employees to provide new cards. Directs the Administrator of Social Security to update the Social Security database with regard to such social security cards. States that such cards shall not be considered a national identity card. Authorizes FY 1993 and 1994 appropriations. Directs the Attorney General to conduct a related nationwide employer education program.
Bill· HRH.R. 3437 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1991
Directs the Secretary of Education to report within six months to the Congress on the use of Pell Grants (as student assistance under the Higher Education Act of 1965) by prisoners, including specified types of information, analyses, and recommendations.
Bill· SS. 1768 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1991
Working Families College Cost Relief Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to: (1) increase the amount of non-loan Federal student aid available to low- and middle-income students; (2) make additional Federal loans available to middle-income families; and (3) simplify Federal student financial aid application forms and procedures. Revises provisions relating to the amount of Pell Grants. Provides that the amount of such grant shall be the student's cost of attendance minus the expected family contribution. Retains the provision for proportional reduction of a grant for students attending on less than a full-time basis. Prohibits any such grant from being awarded to a student attending on less than a half-time basis. Increases the maximum amount of a Pell Grant to $4,500 for award year 1992-1993 and succeeding award years. Revises provisions relating to the contribution from parents' assets, for purposes of Pell Grant award determinations, to provide for: (1) a deduction of up to $80,000 from any business assets; and (2) exclusion of assets from a small business (one with assets of less than $1,000,000). Revises the Pell Grant program definition of: (1) cost of attendance; (2) determination of employment expense offset; (3) independent student; and (4) unusual medical and dental expenses (exceeding five, rather than 20, percent of the parents' income). Adds definitions of: (1) allowance for social security taxes; and (2) displaced homemaker. Revises provisions relating to Federal payments to reduce student loan interest costs under the Stafford Student Loan Program. Requires a mandatory self-help amount of $500 to be subtracted from the cost of attendance in estimating a student's need under such program. Makes a student or parent eligible to borrow under the Stafford program if the total family income of a student is not more than $75,000. Revises provisions for work-study program grants to refer to need-based employment for purposes of determining whether a student's income from such employment exceeds need by a specified amount so as to no longer warrant continued subsidization under such program. Directs the Secretary of the Education (the Secretary) to annually publish inflation-adjusted updated tables of revised adjusted gross income levels for eligibility for specified simplified needs test provisions for all Federal student assistance programs. Revises provisions for the simplified needs test to make eligible families who have adjusted gross incomes of $30,000 or less (currently, $15,000 or less), who file specified Federal income tax forms or who are not required to file any such forms. Provides for special treatment, which sets the expected family contribution at zero, for: (1) certain low-income dependent students (whose parents adjusted gross income is $15,000 or less); and (2) recipients of assistance under part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act. Includes, as an example of what is to be considered a necessary adjustment within the scope of a student financial aid administrator's discretionary authority, a determination that the cost of attendance, for purposes of need analysis under student assistance programs, should include costs of food and shelter for dependent care when the income for independent students with dependents is less than a specified standard maintenance allowance. Directs the Secretary to develop: (1) a streamlined process for applicants who reapply for financial aid funds in academic years subsequent to their initial year application; and (2) appropriate mechanisms to support such reapplication. Directs the Secretary to determine those data elements that may be updated from the previous academic year's application. Declares that nothing in HEA title IV (Student Assistance) shall be interpreted as limiting the Secretary's authority to reduce the number of data elements required of reapplicants.
Bill· HRH.R. 3426 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1991
Postsecondary Opportunities for Students with Disabilities - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve access to postsecondary education for students with disabilities. Requires that student literacy corps tutoring services be located in public community agencies which serve individuals with disabilities (as well as in those which serve educationally or economically disadvantaged individuals). Requires college work-study program grant agreements to provide assurances that employment made available from such program funds may be used to support programs for supportive services for students with disabilities. Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to award a three-year grant or contract on a competitive basis to establish a National Clearinghouse for Postsecondary Education Materials (the Clearinghouse) in an accessible form, including audio and digital for students with disabilities. Sets forth required uses of such funds and Federal share limitations. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1995. Revises terminology under priority provisions for student support services to refer to individuals with disabilities (rather than physically handicapped individuals). Revises HEA title I (Postsecondary Programs for Nontraditional Students) to add a new part E, Partnerships, to encourage partnerships between institutions of higher education and secondary and vocational students with disabilities to improve their academic and vocational skills and to increase their opportunities for continued education, independent living, and employment after secondary school. Directs the Secretary to provide funds to ten demonstration grant programs in ten States between local education agencies (LEAs) and higher education institutions or consortia that submit joint applications to develop, implement, and improve systems to provide postsecondary educational opportunities to students with disabilities from age 12 until they exit secondary school. Sets forth required uses of such funds. Allows students with disabilities who participate in such projects to be paid stipends. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997. Directs the Secretary to use a portion of such funds to: (1) provide for independent evaluation of such programs, with specified criteria for such evaluations; (2) report to the Congress by June 30, 1994, on such evaluations; and (3) disseminate such evaluations. Defines "auxiliary aid" and "disability," for HEA purposes, the same as under the American with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). Provides that nothing under HEA shall be construed to limit the rights or responsibilities of any individual under the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, or any other law. Revises need analysis provisions to include an allowance for expenses required for attendance of students with disabilities, including costs of: (1) special services, personal assistance, equipment, assistive technology services and devices (for both the Pell Grant program and other student assistance programs generally under HEA title IV); and (2) transportation and supplies (for such other student assistance programs). Requires that students with disabilities who are taking six or more credit hours at a postsecondary institution be considered as full-time students for purposes of receiving Pell Grants. Requires that the Federal student aid information toll-free telephone number refer students with disabilities and their families to the postsecondary clearinghouse authorized under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 3428 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1991
International Development, Trade, and Finance Act of 1991 - Title I: International Monetary Fund - Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to: (1) consent to an increase in the U.S. quota in the IMF; and (2) accept the amendments to the Articles of Agreement of the IMF proposed in resolution 45-3 of the IMF's Board of Governors. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the IMF to approve the IMF's pledge to sell a specified amount of the IMF's gold to restore the resources of the Reserve Account of the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility Trust to meet obligations to lenders who have made loans to the Trust for financing programs of members who are in arrears to the IMF. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) encouragement should be given to the efforts being made to address the political and economic problems of nations making the transition to more open political and economic systems; and (2) consideration should be given to developing relationships between such nations, the IMF, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and other international financial institutions as part of assisting such nations in making such transitions. Requires the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the IMF to encourage the IMF to adopt procedures for the publication of economic reviews of the major industrialized nations and other commentary, as appropriate. Expresses the sense of the Congress that procedures should be instituted to review the activities of the IMF and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for purposes of coordinating the international economic activities of international financial institutions at the Board, management, and staff levels. Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the IMF to: (1) advocate specified actions concerning poverty alleviation and policy framework papers; and (2) urge renewal of debt and debt service reduction programs. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on the debt of the Soviet Union held by commercial banks outside the Soviet Union and the prospects for repayment of such debt. Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the IMF to encourage environmental considerations in IMF programs. Requires the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the IMF to support the development of programs that recognize the importance of social issues, including certain actions concerning child survival and basic education issues. Directs the Secretary, in the annual report of the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies, to report on: (1) the progress made by the Director in implementing such programs; and (2) any votes cast in opposition to such programs. Requires the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the IMF and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to obtain a joint determination from the Bank and the IMF, with respect to any proposed loan to a member nation, as to whether the nation is engaged in arms and weapons expenditures that: (1) are excessive to its national circumstances; or (2) constitute an impediment to sound management of its economy and achievement of sustained long-term growth. Directs the Secretary to instruct the Directors to: (1) oppose loans to any nation determined to be engaged in excessive weapons expenditures, unless the nation makes a commitment to reducing its weapons expenditures; and (2) report to the Secretary on any loan the United States supports to a country determined to be engaged in excessive weapons expenditures. Title II: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Affiliates - Subtitle A: International Finance Corporation - Amends the International Finance Corporation Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the International Finance Corporation to subscribe to additional shares of the Corporation's capital stock. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development - Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to advocate specified measures to alleviate poverty. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Bank and the International Development Association should: (1) give greater programmatic and budgetary priority to the survival and development of children; and (2) make a commitment to devoting at least five percent of the annual lending of such entities to primary health and basic education, respectively. Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Bank to urge: (1) renewal of debt and debt service reduction programs; (2) the establishment of a program to provide technical assistance to the Baltic States and the Soviet Union in support of democratic reforms, human rights, the rule of law, and market-oriented reforms; and (3) the coordination of such program with the programs of other donors. Subtitle C: Financial Assistance for Global Environmental Protection - Global Environmental Protection Assistance Act of 1991- Authorizes the Secretary to contribute a specified amount to the Global Environmental Facility of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development if the Secretary has certified to specified congressional committees that the Facility has made progress toward implementing certain measures set forth in this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the International Financial Institutions Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the progress made by the multilateral development banks in achieving objectives concerning debt-for-nature exchanges and lending for the environment. Title III: Enterprise for the Americas Initiative - Declares that it is the purpose of this title to support improvement in the lives of the people of Latin America and the Caribbean and economic growth through initiatives to promote debt reduction, investment reforms, trade liberalization, and community-based conservation and sustainable use of the environment. Subtitle A: Provisions Relating to the Enterprise for the Americas Investment Fund at the Inter-American Development Bank - Amends the Inter-American Development Bank Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank to seek the establishment of a fund that meets the requirements of this title. Authorizes the Secretary to seek contributions to the fund from other countries. Sets forth as the requirements for this title that: (1) the U.S. Government and the President of the Bank have concluded an agreement that establishes and sets forth conditions for the use of an Enterprise for the Americas Investment Fund at the Bank; (2) at least three different governments have made a commitment to donate to the Fund; (3) substantial amounts are pledged as contributions to the Fund; and (4) the Secretary has transmitted a copy of the agreement to the chairman of the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs and the President of the Senate. Authorizes the Secretary to contribute to the Fund if such requirements are met. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, if a Fund is established, to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Bank to oppose any proposed action of the Fund that would have a significant adverse environmental impact unless an impact assessment has been available for at least 120 days before the vote. Subtitle B: Enterprise for the Americas Facility - Establishes in the Department of the Treasury the Enterprise for the Americas Facility to administer debt reduction operations for countries that meet investment reforms and other policy conditions. Makes eligible for Facility benefits Latin American or Caribbean countries that: (1) have in effect, received approval for, or are making progress toward, specified IMF arrangements and structural or sectoral adjustment loans from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or the International Development Association; (2) have put in place major investment reforms in conjunction with an Inter-American Development Bank loan or are implementing or making progress toward an open investment regime; and (3) have agreed with commercial bank lenders on a financing program for debt or debt service reduction. Subtitle C: Sales, Reductions, or Cancellations of Loans - Authorizes the President to: (1) sell to any eligible purchaser any loan made to an eligible country before 1991 pursuant to the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945; and (2) reduce or cancel such loan on receipt of payment from an eligible purchaser only for purposes of facilitating debt-for-equity, debt-for-development, or debt-for-nature swaps. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: Reports and Consultations - Sets forth reporting and congressional consultation requirements for the President with respect to the Enterprise for the Americas Facility. Title IV: Asian Development Bank - Amends the Asian Development Bank Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the Asian Development Bank to subscribe to additional shares of the Bank's capital stock. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: African Development Fund - Amends the African Development Fund Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the African Development Fund to contribute a specified amount to the sixth replenishment of the Fund. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: Export-Import Bank - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to repeal a provision concerning limitations on financing for exports to the Soviet Union. Directs the Export-Import Bank to: (1) develop a program for providing guarantees and insurance with respect to the export of high technology items to SEED program countries (defined under the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989); and (2) inform high technology companies about Bank programs for U.S. companies interested in exporting high technology goods to such countries. Earmarks funding for such programs. Directs the Bank to report to the Congress on the demand for loans, guarantees, and insurance for trade between the United States and the Baltic States and the Soviet Union and to make recommendations for the promotion of trade between the United States and such countries. Prohibits the Bank from guaranteeing, insuring, or participating in an extension of credit in connection with any credit sale of defense articles or services to foreign countries (currently, countries designated under a section of the Internal Revenue Code as economically less developed countries). Exempts from such prohibition articles or services sold on or before September 30, 1994, that will be used only for antinarcotics purposes. Applies such exemption with respect to sales to a country that has previously obtained defense articles or services from a U.S. person only if the President determines that the country: (1) has complied with all U.S. restrictions on the end use of such articles and services; and (2) has not used such articles and services to engage in a consistent pattern of human rights violations. Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs and the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the Bank's participation in financing such sales. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should make the determination that Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have ceased to be Marxist-Leninist countries for purposes of waiving restrictions on Bank aid to such countries. Title VII: Multilateral Development Banks - Subtitle A: Energy Efficiency - International Energy Efficiency Financing Act of 1991 - Amends the International Financial Institutions Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the multilateral development banks to: (1) demonstrate programs for measuring the application of systems energy efficiency planning and techniques; and (2) advocate procedures that require assessments of the impacts of proposed actions that would have a significant impact on energy efficiency before votes in favor of such actions. Directs the Secretary to seek the adoption of policies which result in access to the public of energy efficiency assessments by the borrowing countries and the lending institutions. Subtitle B: Alleviation of Poverty, Reduction of Barriers to Economic and Social Progress, and Other Provisions - Requires the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the regional multilateral development banks to advocate the establishment of an organizational unit to aid bank management policies for the reduction of poverty and of barriers to economic and social progress and equity. Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the international financial institutions to: (1) encourage borrowing countries to involve women in development activities and to develop fair labor practices guidelines for such countries; (2) urge such institutions to reflect the diversity of the population in hiring practices and to strengthen and expand recruitment, hiring, and promotion of minorities and women; and (3) urge such institutions to adopt compensation policies to ensure that comparable pay is provided for people in comparable jobs. Requires the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the multilateral development banks to oppose any loan, except for basic human needs, to Ethiopia, Somalia, or Sudan until the President certifies to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Committees on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs and Foreign Affairs, respectively, that the government of the country has: (1) begun to implement peace or national reconciliation agreements; (2) demonstrated a commitment to human rights; (3) manifested a commitment to democracy and has held or scheduled free and fair elections; and (4) agreed to distribute development assistance without discrimination. Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the IMF and specified multilateral lending institutions to support membership of the Soviet Union in such institutions after the President certifies that the Soviet Union is implementing specified economic and political reforms and terminating military assistance to repressive regimes or nations which support terrorism. Subtitle C: Financial Integrity - Requires the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the international financial institutions to ensure the establishment of offices of Inspectors General in such institutions. Title VIII: Consolidation of Reports - Requires annual reports submitted by the Chairman of the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies to include summaries of reports required under the Bretton Woods Agreements Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 3427 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1991
Defense Manufacturing and Critical Technologies Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct a program providing for the establishment of cooperative arrangements (partnerships) between the Department of Defense (DOD) and certain entities in order to encourage and provide for R&D of dual-use critical technologies (technologies having both military and nonmilitary commercial applications). Allows such entities (at least two participating jointly with DOD) to include one or more Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, State governmental agencies, and other appropriate participants, as determined by the Secretary. Requires the joint participants to have a lead institution other than DOD to direct the activities of the partnership. Requires the non-DOD participants to contribute at least 50 percent of the total cost of the partnership activities. Provides for the protection of information disclosed concerning the R&D activities of the participants. Requires the Secretary to evaluate proposals for partnerships on a merit basis using a competitive selection process. Outlines selection criteria. Directs the Secretary, in consultation and coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a program to provide assistance for the activities of eligible regional critical technology application centers (centers) in the United States. Outlines provisions concerning eligible centers, program participants, and assistance authorized, including financial and technical assistance for authorized center activities. Limits such assistance period to six years. Requires: (1) the sponsoring agency of a center to pay at least 30 percent of the total costs incurred for center activities; and (2) the eligible firms participating in a center to pay at least 40 percent of such costs. Requires a center to operate under a management plan that requires participating firms to have the primary responsibility for directing the activities of the center and to exercise such responsibility through majority voting membership of such firms on the board of directors of the center. Outlines provisions concerning program administration as well as selection criteria for centers receiving such assistance. Establishes within the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering the Clearinghouse of Foreign Defense Technology Monitoring and Assessment (Clearinghouse) to: (1) maintain within DOD a central library for the compilation and dissemination of information and assessments regarding significant foreign activities in the R&D and applications of defense critical technologies; (2) establish and maintain data bases on such information and assessments; (3) perform certain liaison activities; (4) provide for public availability of such information and assessments; and (5) cooperate with the Department of Commerce in the dissemination of information and assessments regarding defense critical technologies having potential commercial uses. Directs the Secretary to establish a foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment grant program for the awarding of grants to participating organizations for the establishment of foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment offices in Europe, Pacific Ocean border foreign countries, and other countries as considered appropriate by the Secretary. Makes eligible for such grants any nonprofit industrial or professional organization that has economic and scientific interests in R&D and applications of commercial critical technologies. Requires each grantee to collect, evaluate, and disseminate to its organization and to the Departments of Defense and Commerce assessments of significant activities in R&D and applications of critical technologies that are conducted in the geographic area in which the office is located. Provides funding for FY 1992 and 1993 for critical technology programs and activities. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress at least biennially a multiyear strategic road map for each critical technology. Requires each road map to: (1) cover at least four fiscal years; (2) provide an assessment of current strengths and weaknesses in the national capability to develop and apply the technologies covered in the road map, and the sources of such strengths and weaknesses which enhance or hinder the development and application of such technologies; (3) ensure that results of federally-funded and conducted R&D of national critical technologies covered by the road map are appropriately disseminated to U.S. industry; and (4) include a discussion of the achievements of the activities conducted pursuant to the road map. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish one or more national critical technologies advisory committees. Directs the President to establish a schedule for the submission of such road maps at regular intervals between the enactment of this Act and October 1, 1996. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements (partnerships) with certain entities to encourage and provide for R&D of advanced manufacturing technologies with the potential for having a broad range of applications. Requires each partnership to be composed of participants from two or more eligible firms. Allows the inclusion of one or more Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, State entities, and other participants as deemed appropriate by the Secretary. Outlines provisions concerning program administration and participant selection criteria. Requires the Secretary to establish three or more partnerships within one year after the enactment of this Act. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such partnerships. Directs the Secretary to establish a program: (1) to support manufacturing extension programs of States, local governments, and private, non-profit organizations; (2) to promote the development of a broad range of such extension programs, including programs that provide for productivity and quality improvement activities; and (3) to increase the involvement of appropriate segments of the private sector in such programs. Establishes a Council on Manufacturing Extension to: (1) prescribe policies and procedures for the implementation of the program; (2) serve as a means for coordinating such program with related programs conducted by various Federal departments and agencies; and (3) develop a long-range strategic plan for the manufacturing extension activities of the Federal Government. Outlines application procedures for persons wishing to receive financial assistance for participation in the program, as well as criteria for choosing program participants. Limits the amount of financial assistance awarded to 50 percent of the cost of the program for the period in which the assistance is provided. Provides such assistance for at least five years, unless it is terminated earlier for good cause as determined by the Secretary. Allows a program participant to reapply after a terminated period of assistance. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such program. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Directors of the National Science Foundation (NSC) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), to establish a program for making grants to institutions of higher education to support the: (1) enhancement of existing programs in manufacturing engineering education that are conducted by grantee institutions and meet specified requirements; and (2) establishment of new programs in manufacturing engineering education that meet such requirements. Requires at least one-third of the grants to be awarded for the latter purpose. Directs the Secretary to avoid geographical concentration of such awards. Directs the Secretary and the Director of NSC to enter into an agreement for carrying out the grant program. Outlines grant program requirements. Directs the Secretary to solicit from institutions of higher education proposals for grants to be awarded for the support of programs of manufacturing engineering education. Requires applications to be evaluated on a merit basis under competitive procedures. Outlines grantee selection criteria. Limits the Federal contribution of such assistance to 50 percent of the estimated cost of the activities involved. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a program to support specified activities of one or more manufacturing managers and experts at the institution of higher education involved. Outlines provisions concerning program administration and applicant selection criteria. Limits the Federal support of such program to 50 percent of the costs of activities to be supported by such assistance. Requires the Secretary to award at least ten such grants within one year after enactment of this Act. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretaries of the military departments to enter into cooperative agreements and other transactions for advanced research projects. (Currently, only the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is authorized to enter into such agreements or transactions.) Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1991) the authority to enter into such agreements. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for collecting and assessing information on the extent to which the defense industrial base of the United States: (1) procures weapons systems, subsystems, and components of such systems from foreign sources; and (2) is dependent upon such foreign sources for such procurement. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for the removal of barriers to the effective integration of the commercial and defense sectors of the U.S. industrial base. Requires the Secretary to designate an official within his Office to develop the plan. Requires annual development and submission to the Congress by the Secretary of a National Defense Manufacturing Technology Plan. Places FY 1992 and 1993 funding limitations on manufacturing technology-related R&D not specifically included in such annual Plan. Directs the Secretary to conduct a program for the development and use of advanced flexible computer integrated manufacturing capabilities in each of the military departments and the U.S. defense industrial base. Requires the continued development of Rapid Acquisition of Manufactured Parts technologies and applications as part of such program. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such program, with a specified capabilities-duplication prohibition within the military departments. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, to establish a program to award grants on a competitive basis to U.S. institutions of higher education and other nonprofit organizations for the conduct of programs for U.S. scientists, engineers, and managers to learn Japanese language and culture.
Bill· SS. 1751 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1991
Infertility Prevention Act of 1991 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with regard to any treatable sexually transmitted disease that can cause infertility in women if treatment is not received for the disease, to make grants for specified activities, including counseling, screening, treatment, referrals, outreach, public information and education, training for health care providers, and data collection. Directs the Secretary to establish criteria for ensuring the quality of screening for such diseases. Limits grants to three years, with annual approval by the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for research on improving the delivery of services under this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 3410 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1991
Health Access and Affordability Today Act of 1991 - Title I: Improvements in Access to Health Care - Subtitle A: Improvements in Medicaid Eligibility - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to mandate Medicaid eligibility for eligible persons with incomes below 133 percent of a State-adjusted poverty level. Allows each State Medicaid plan to elect to make eligible for medical assistance: (1) students in schools at which at least 70 percent of the students are eligible for assistance under specified programs; and (2) a younger sibling of the students being made eligible by these provisions. Mandates availability under these provisions of assistance for medical services required to terminate a pregnancy resulting from rape or incest. Adjusts payments to States. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate references to the health insurance credit in provisions relating to: (1) the earned income credit; and (2) deductions for health insurance costs of self-employed individuals. Subtitle B: Improvements in Access to Providers Under the Medicare and Medicaid Programs - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on any health care provider (payable by a hospital, nursing facility, or individual provider) who discriminates against or denies treatment to any individual covered under title XIX (Medicaid) or parts A (Hospital Insurance) or B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Sets forth circumstances in which a hospital or nursing facility shall be treated as discriminating. Applies certain deficiency procedures to these provisions. Sets forth requirements regarding minimum Medicaid payment rates. Subtitle C: Improving Access of All Workers to Employer Health Insurance - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on the providing of a group health plan unless: (1) all employees are eligible to participate in the plan (or another group plan of the employer meeting these requirements); and (2) the employer-provided benefit received by all employees is either the same dollar amount or the same percentage of the value of the coverage provided to each employee under the plan. Provides for part-time employees, small employers, and plans maintained pursuant to collective bargaining agreements. Subtitle D: Improved Provision of Services through Community Health Centers - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to add physicians coming to the United States to provide full-time medical services in a medically underserved area to the list of nonimmigrant aliens excluded from the definition of "immigrant." Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that: (1) health professions schools should require clinical experience in outpatient facilities that are principal sources of primary health services for medically underserved populations and offer courses that prepare students to practice at such facilities; (2) the Secretary of Health and Human Services should issue, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget should cooperate in the issuance of, specified regulations regarding assignment of members of the National Health Service Corps; and (3) the Secretary should ensure the equitable allocation of assignments among urban and rural areas. Amends the Public Health Service Act to mandate a grant for the establishment of a nationwide risk retention group to provide professional liability insurance and other approved types of profitable insurance to the migrant and community health centers. Requires all centers receiving funds under specified provisions and centers and clinics under certain other provisions to become members in the group. Makes all professional staff members of such centers eligible to obtain the insurance offered by the group. Authorizes appropriations for the grant and for capitalization of the group. Subtitle E: Continuation of Access through College and University Health Plans - Prohibits any State or the District of Columbia from establishing or enforcing any law or regulation that prevents a college or university health plan from offering students enrolled in the plan continuation coverage after graduation. Title II: Improvements in Affordability of Health Care - Preempts State laws and regulations dealing with: (1) health insurance under a health benefit plan; or (2) managed care. Mandates adoption of a specified standard (known as the X12 Standard) for electronic data interchange of health care related transactions as a standard under: (1) titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act; (2) the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS); and (3) veterans health programs and the Federal employees health benefit program under specified provisions of Federal law. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow deduction of the full amount (currently, 25 percent of the amount) of health insurance costs of self-employed individuals. Removes provisions ending the deduction on a specified date. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive programmatic restrictions in title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act that hinder implementation of managed care plans under Medicare. Mandates a study of fraud in the health care industry and its impact on health care costs. Establishes the National Advisory Council on Access to Health Care. Requires data collection on: (1) rates and patterns of use of health services, collected through data on hospital discharges, including medical records and hospital bills; and (2) State efforts in health care reform. Authorizes the provision of funds to selected States to demonstrate innovative approaches of using existing data systems to evaluate State-based health care reform efforts. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Medicaid Financial Incentive for State Comprehensive Reform Package to Improve Access to Health Care and Reduce Costs of Health Care - Deems the Federal medical assistance percentage, if a State complies with this title, to be 100 percent of the expenditures attributable to: (1) individuals eligible for assistance only because of this title; or (2) the amount by which payments for medical assistance are increased by specified provisions relating to minimum Medicaid payment rates. Requires a State to enact a small employer health insurance market reform program including: (1) guaranteed access by each small employer group to private health insurance coverage, with a reinsurance mechanism mandated; (2) coverage of whole groups, with neither the employer nor the insurer able to exclude a high risk individual; (3) renewability of coverage; (4) continuity of coverage when an employee changes jobs or when an employer changes carriers; (5) rate and rate change limits; and (6) disclosure of rating practices and annual rating certification. Requires a State to enact laws requiring juveniles riding motorcycles to wear helmets, front seat passengers to wear a safety belt, and children under the age of four to be in a child restraint system. Requires a State to establish an alternative dispute resolution system for health care negligence and provide for malpractice liability reforms at least as stringent as specified requirements regarding future damages, collateral payment, noneconomic losses, attorney's fees, and statutes of limitations. Requires a State to establish one or more managed care plans for the provision of Medicaid services. Authorizes waiver of Medicaid programmatic restrictions that hinder implementation of managed care plans. Requires that there be in operation in a State a qualified pooling association, defined as an organization which: (1) is a nonprofit corporation; (2) permits health insurers, hospital and medical service plan corporations, health maintenance organizations, and employers and other health financing entities to be members; (3) makes specified levels of health insurance available, without regard to health, to all State residents not eligible for benefits under part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act; (4) charges a pool premium rate; and (5) assesses pool losses equitably among members. Specifies the levels of insurance covered. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to exclude such pools from provisions preempting State law.
Bill· HRH.R. 3411 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1991
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to exclude from the calculation of expected family contribution in the determination of need for assistance under the Pell Grant program and other student assistance programs the following assets: (1) the family's principal place of residence; (2) a family farm on which the family resides; and (3) a small business substantially owned and managed by a member or members of the family.
Bill· SS. 1747 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1991
Amends title VI (International Educational Programs) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to add a new part D, Minority Foreign Service Professional Development. Authorizes the establishment of a program to significantly increase the numbers of African Americans and other minorities in the foreign service of the United States. Requires such academic and professional program to be established in the Institute for International Public Policy at Howard University (Washington, D.C.) (the Institute), created by this Act, and to be in consortium with specified institutions of higher education. Allows any institution of higher education that wishes to participate in any or all aspects of such program to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with Howard University. Sets forth the components of the academic program of the Institute, including a junior year abroad, academic year and summer internships, a masters degree program, and Ralph Bunche International Fellowships for graduate study at Howard University or other institutions for students who agree to serve two years in the U.S. foreign service for each year of the fellowship. Requires Howard University and institutions of higher education in consortium with it to delegate to a nonprofit institution in the District of Columbia the administration of the Foreign Service Examination preparative and the International Careers Program, which may include the Junior Year Abroad and the Academic Year and Summer Internship programs. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 3383 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1991
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) transfer specified Federal lands in the county of Clear Creek, Colorado; and (2) file maps and legal descriptions of the Federal lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management in such county with specified congressional committees. Requires that: (1) the acreage and legal descriptions of such lands to be transferred to non-Federal owners be determined to the Secretary's satisfaction; and (2) the cost of additional surveys required by the Secretary be borne by such non-Federal owners. Directs the Secretary to transfer specified Federal lands to the U.S. Forest Service, to be added to the Arapaho National Forest, subject to valid existing rights. Requires the Secretary to transfer specified Federal lands to: (1) the town of Silver Plume, Colorado; (2) the town of Georgetown, Colorado; (3) the county of Clear Creek, Colorado; and (4) the State of Colorado. Makes such transfers subject to valid existing rights, a reservation with respect to mineral rights, and the requirement that such lands be used only for recreation and public purposes. Directs the Secretary to transfer specified other Federal lands to the county of Clear Creek, Colorado, subject to valid existing rights and a reservation with respect to mineral rights. Bars the Secretary from transferring such lands until the county develops an implementation plan, to the Secretary's satisfaction, under which the county agrees to: (1) identify and protect access routes and important resource values on such lands, including threatened or endangered species, and historic and cultural resources; and (2) identify the portion of such lands that the county intends to sell and require that 50 percent of the net proceeds of the sale of any portion of such lands be expended by the county for parks, open space, historical preservation, historical interpretation, or environmental education.
Law· HRH.R. 3394 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1991
Tribal Self-Governance Demonstration Project Act - Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to extend the Tribal Self-Governance Demonstration Project from five to eight years. Increases the number of participating tribes in the project from 20 to 30. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to negotiate and enter into an annual written funding agreement with the governing body of a participating tribal government that successfully completes its Self-Governance Planning Grant. Authorizes appropriations for the ten tribes added to the Project by this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 3400 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1991
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991 - Title I: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program - Establishes an emergency unemployment compensation program. Allows any State to enter into and participate in an agreement with the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) under which the State agency which administers the State unemployment compensation law will make payments of emergency unemployment compensation: (1) to individuals who have exhausted all rights to regular compensation under State law, have no rights to such regular compensation or any additional State or Federal compensation, and are not receiving Canadian compensation; and (2) for any week of unemployment beginning in the individual's eligibility period. Sets forth provisions relating to exhaustion of regular benefits and weekly amount of emergency benefits equal to regular benefits. Requires a State, under such an agreement, to establish an emergency unemployment compensation account with respect to the benefit year of each eligible individual who files an application. Limits benefit payments to not more than the amount in the individual's account. Sets forth formulas for determining the amount in such account. Provides that the applicable limit in such account shall be equal to: (1) ten weeks during a five-percent period (triggered if the adjusted rate of insured unemployment for such week and the immediately perceding 12 weeks is at least five percent; and (2) six weeks for any other period. Sets forth special rules relating to such applicable limits. Requires reduction in such account by the amount of extended benefits received by the individual relating to the same benefit year under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970. Sets the weekly benefit amount at the amount of regular compensation (including dependents' allowances) payable under the State law to the individual for such week for total unemployment. Provides for determination of periods and applicable triggers. Provides for a minimum period. Provides, in general, that no emergency unemployment compensation shall be payable to any individual under this Act for any week beginning: (1) before the later of October 1, 1991, or the first week following the week in which an agreement under this Act is entered into; or (2) after June 30, 1992. Sets forth transition and reachback provisions for the eligibility of certain individuals for such benefits, as exceptions to such general rule. Provides for payments to States having such agreements for emergency unemployment compensation. Sets forth financing provisions. Requires that funds in the extended unemployment compensation account of the Unemployment Trust Fund be used to make payments to States having agreements under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to the extended unemployment compensation account of sums necessary to pay emergency unemployment compensation payable: (1) under specified provisions for former members of the Armed Forces; and (2) on the basis of certain services performed for nonprofit organizations or governmental entities, to which certain Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to State unemployment compensation law apply. Sets forth provisions relating to fraud and overpayments. Defines the individual eligibility period under this Act. Amends specified Federal law to repeal certain limitations on payment of unemployment compensation to former members of the Armed Forces. Reduces the length of required active duty by reserves for purposes for such payment, if the reservist served on active duty in the Persian Gulf area of operations in connection with Operation Desert Storm. Title II: Collection of Nontax Debts - Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to provide for permanent extension of provisions relating to collection of nontax debts owed to Federal agencies. Title III: Guaranteed Student Loans - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise provisions relating to the Stafford student loan program (including guaranteed student loans and federally-insured student loans). Requires, in the case of such student loan applicants over age 21, that the lender: (1) obtain a credit report; and (2) require a cosigner for such applicants who have adverse credit histories. Allows the lender to charge such applicants for the actual cost of such credit reports, up to $25. Requires the lender to obtain the borrower's driver's license number, if any, at the time of application for such a student loan. Directs eligible institutions to require borrowers of any student loan under HEA to supply the following exit interview information: (1) their expected permanent address after leaving the institution; (2) the name and address of their expected employer; and (3) the name and address of their next of kin. Requires student loan interest-subsidy insurance program agreements to require the lender to obtain the borrower's authorization for entry of judgment against the borrower in the event of default. Provides for wage garnishment for student loan collection. Authorizes a guaranty agency, or the Secretary where appropriate, to garnish the disposable pay of an individual to collect the amount owed or the required repayment, subject to certain conditions. Provides for data matching. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to obtain from Federal agencies specified information relating to an individual for student loan collection purposes. Title IV: Electromagnetic Spectrum Function - Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Act of 1991 - Requires the Secretary of Commerce and the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to conduct biannual joint electromagnetic spectrum planning meetings with respect to: (1) future spectrum needs and the allocation actions to accommodate those needs; and (2) actions to promote the efficient use of the spectrum. Requires an open process and joint annual reports to the President. Directs the Secretary to submit reports to the President that identify frequency bands that: (1) are allocated on a primary basis for Government use and eligible for licensing pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934 (the Act); (2) are not required for the present or identifiable future Government needs; (3) can be made available for use under the Act for non-Government users; (4) are likely to have significant value for such users; and (5) will not result in excessive costs to the Government. Sets forth criteria for identifying, and recommending for reassignment or sharing, such frequency bands. Requires such reports to make an initial identification of 30MHz of spectrum for immediate reallocation and distribution by the FCC pursuant to competitive bidding procedures, and preliminary and final identifications of additional reallocable frequency bands. Directs the Secretary to convene a private sector advisory committee to: (1) review frequency bands identified in the preliminary report; (2) advise the Secretary with respect to those bands which should be included in the final report; (3) receive public comment on the reports; and (4) prepare and submit to the Secretary and specified congressional committees a report on recommendations for the reform of allocating the spectrum between Government and non-Government users. Directs the President to: (1) withdraw or limit the assignment to a Government station of any frequency recommended in the initial identification report for rellocation; (2) withdraw or limit the assignment to a Government station of any frequency recommended in the final report for reallocation or mixed use; (3) assign or reassign other frequencies to Government stations as necessary to adjust to such withdrawal or limitation of assignments; and (4) publish in the Federal Register a notice and description of such actions taken. Authorizes the President to substitute alternative frequencies in the interests of national security, important Government needs, public health or safety, or Federal financial considerations. Provides that any Government licensee, or non-Government entity operating on behalf of a Government licensee, that is displaced from a frequency pursuant to this Act may be reimbursed not more than the incremental costs it incurs, in such amounts as provided in advance in appropriation Acts, that are directly attributable to the loss of the use of the frequency pursuant to this Act. Authorizes appropriations to affected licensee agencies to cover such costs. Directs the FCC to form a plan to assign the spectrum identified in the initial report pursuant to competitive bidding procedures during FY 1994 through 1996. Directs the FCC to submit to the President a plan for the distribution of the remaining reallocated frequency bands. Authorizes the President to reclaim reallocated frequencies for reassignment to Government stations. Sets forth procedures for reclaiming frequencies. Amends the Act to require the FCC to use competitive bidding for awarding all initial licenses and new construction permits, subject to specified exclusions. Outlines criteria for awarding licenses and permits under competitive bidding procedures. Prohibits licensing by lottery when competitive bidding is required. Title V: Dislocated Workers - Directs the Secretary of Labor to give special consideration to providing services to dislocated workers in the timber industry in the State of Washington, in determining specified programs and activities to be funded under the Job Training Partnership Act in FY 1991 and 1992. Title VI: Deficit Reduction Requirement - Set forth the congressional finding that provisions contained in titles I through V of this Act would lead to a reduction in the deficit. Declares that the Congress designates all direct spending amounts (both increases and decreases) provided by such titles (for all fiscal years) as emergency requirements under specified provisions of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Requires, as a condition for any provisions of this Act to take effect, that the President: (1) make a determination and notify the Congress that this Act would reduce the deficit cumulatively for FY 1991 through 1996; and (2) submits a written designation of all direct spending amounts (both increases and decreases provided by titles I through V of this Act for all fiscal years) as emergency requirements under such specified provisions of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.