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Defense Competitiveness Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1993

Defense Competitiveness Act of 1993 - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to permit the Export-Import Bank, for a five-year period, to finance the sale of defense articles or services to a qualified country if a U.S. company and a foreign entity are competing for the sale. (Currently, the Bank is prohibited from financing such sales.) Defines a "qualified country" as Japan, any member of NATO (other than the United States), and any party to the security treaty (ANZUS Pact) between Australia, New Zealand, and the United States (other than the United States). Limits the amount of financing provided in any fiscal year. Repeals provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 concerning the international military education and training program.

Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1994, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1993

Makes continuing appropriations for FY 1994 for projects or activities, including the costs of direct loans and loan guarantees, provided for in the following Acts: (1) the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994; (2) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994; (3) the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1994; (4) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1994; (5) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1994; (6) the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994; (7) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994; (8) the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1994; (9) the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994; (10) the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1994; and (11) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994. Sets forth limitations on the use of such funds. Requires the following functions to be maintained at the current rate of operations: (1) the Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality activities; and (2) activities funded by the Selective Service System salaries and expenses account.

Expressing the sense of the Congress that a comprehensive program be developed and implemented by the federal government to deal with the Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1993

Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that the Federal Government should develop and implement a comprehensive program to deal with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), including routine testing between the ages of 14 and 55, contact tracing, Government-assisted medical and psychological treatment, expanded medical research, civil rights protections for HIV-infected individuals, public education campaigns on HIV effects and transmission, and penalties for knowingly spreading HIV.

South African Democratic Transition Support Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1993

South African Democratic Transition Support Act of 1993 - Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to U.S. policy towards South Africa. Repeals specified provisions of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, providing for a total repeal of such Act when the President certifies to the Congress that an interim government that was elected on a nonracial basis through free and fair elections has taken office in South Africa. Urges all State or local governments and private entities in the United States to rescind any restrictions on economic interactions with South Africa. Authorizes the President to provide development and economic support fund assistance to support the transition to nonracial democracy in South Africa. Prohibits such assistance to the Government of South Africa unless the President certifies to the Congress that an interim government elected on a nonracial basis through free and fair elections has taken office. Exempts from such prohibition assistance to the Transitional Executive Council, South African higher education institutions, and any other entity that would promote the transition to nonracial democracy. Declares that the President should: (1) negotiate a tax treaty with South Africa; (2) initiate negotiations with the South African Government to provide for Overseas Private Investment Corporation programs in such country; (3) conclude cooperative agreements with South Africa on various issues; and (4) encourage other donors to expand their activities in support of the transition to nonracial democracy. States that: (1) the Director of the Trade and Development Agency should provide additional funds for projects in South Africa; (2) the Export-Import Bank should expand its activities in connection with exports to South Africa; and (3) the Director of the U.S. Information Agency should use his authorities to promote the transition to nonracial democracy. Requires the heads of Federal Government agencies, in procuring goods or services, to make affirmative efforts to assist business enterprises having more than 50 percent ownership by nonwhite South Africans. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of international financial institutions to urge financial assistance to South Africa to support the transition to democracy.

Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Public Safety and Policing Title II: Death Penalty Title III: Habeas Corpus Reform Title IV: Gun Crime Penalties Title V: Obstruction of Justice Title VI: Youth Violence Subtitle A: Increased Penalties for Drug Trafficking and Criminal Street Gangs Subtitle B: Juvenile Drug Trafficking and Gang Prevention Grants Subtitle C: Bindover System for Certain Violent Juveniles Title VII: Terrorism Subtitle A: Maritime Navigation and Fixed Platforms Subtitle B: General Provisions Title VIII: Sexual Violence and Child Abuse Subtitle A: Sexual Abuse Subtitle B: Child Protection Subtitle C: Crimes Against Children Title IX: Crime Victims Subtitle A: Victims' Rights Subtitle B: Crime Victims' Fund Title X: State and Local Law Enforcement Subtitle A: DNA Identification Subtitle B: Department of Justice Community Substance Abuse Prevention Subtitle C: Racial and Ethnic Bias Study Grants Title XI: Provisions Relating to Police Officers Subtitle A: Law Enforcement Family Support Subtitle B: Police Pattern or Practice Subtitle C: Police Corps and Law Enforcement Officers Training and Education Subtitle D: Study Rights of Police Officers Title XII: Drug Court Programs Title XIII: Prisons Subtitle A: Federal Prisons Subtitle B: State Prisons Title XIV: Rural Crime Subtitle A: Fighting Drug Trafficking in Rural Areas Subtitle B: Drug Free Truck Stops and Safety Rest Areas Title XV: Drug Control Subtitle A: Increased Penalties Subtitle B: Precursor Chemicals Act Subtitle C: General Provisions Title XVI: Drunk Driving Provisions Title XVII: Commissions Subtitle A: Commission on Crime and Violence Subtitle B: National Commission to Study the Causes of the Demand for Drugs in the United States Subtitle C: National Commission to Support Law Enforcement Title XVIII: Bail Posting Reporting Title XIX: Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Title XX: Protections for the Elderly Title XXI: Consumer Protection Title XXII: Financial Institution Fraud Prosecution Title XXIII: Savings and Loan Prosecution Task Force Title XXIV: Sentencing Provisions Title XXV: Sentencing and Magistrates Amendments Title XXVI: Computer Crime Title XXVII: International Parental Kidnapping Title XXVIII: Safe Schools Title XXIX: Miscellaneous Subtitle A: Increases in Penalties Subtitle B: Extension of Protection of Civil Rights Statutes Subtitle C: Audit and Report Subtitle D: Gambling Subtitle E: White Collar Crime Amendments Subtitle F: Safer Streets and Neighborhoods Subtitle G: Other Provisions Title XXX: Technical Corrections Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1993 - Title I: Public Safety and Policing - Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Act of 1993 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Omnibus Act) to authorize the Attorney General to make grants and provide technical assistance to units of State and local government, and to other public and private entities, to increase police presence (including the rehiring of law enforcement officers laid off as a result of State and local budget reductions, as well as the hiring of new, additional career law enforcement officers, for deployment in community-oriented policing), expand and improve cooperative efforts between law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and members of the community, and otherwise enhance public safety. Sets forth matching fund, application, and related requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Death Penalty - Federal Death Penalty Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide for imposition of the death penalty for various offenses, including: (1) murder by a Federal prisoner; (2) civil rights murders; (3) drive-by shootings and carjackings resulting in death; (4) foreign murder of U.S. nationals; (5) rape and child molestation murders; (6) gun murders during Federal crimes of violence and drug trafficking crimes; and (7) murder in the course of alien smuggling. (Sec. 202) Sets forth procedures for the imposition, implementation, and review of such sentence. Limits mitigating factors (such as impaired capacity, duress, minor participation, and victim's consent) and aggravating factors (such as involvement of a firearm or previous conviction of a violent felony involving a firearm, previous conviction of other serious offenses, vulnerability of victim, and continuing criminal enterprise involving drug sales to minors). Requires a special hearing to determine whether a death sentence is justified. Directs the court to instruct the jury not to consider the race, color, religious beliefs, national origin, or sex of the defendant or of any victim. Prohibits the execution of a woman while she is pregnant and of a person who is mentally retarded. Title III: Habeas Corpus Reform - Habeas Corpus Reform Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal judicial code to impose a 180-day limitations period for the filing of Federal habeas corpus petitions, applicable in both capital and non-capital cases in which the State has offered the petitioner counsel for State post-conviction review, which begins from the time the petitioner's conviction becomes final on State direct review. Tolls such period while the petitioner pursues State post-conviction remedies, unless the petitioner fails to initiate post-conviction review within 270 days in capital cases or 180 days in non-capital cases. Provides for a one-time 60-day extension of the period upon a showing of good cause. (Sec. 303) Provides an automatic stay of execution in capital cases through the consideration of the first Federal habeas corpus petition. Permits a stay of execution to be granted thereafter only if the petition on its face satisfies the requirements for successive petitions. (Sec. 304) Prohibits a Federal court from announcing or applying a new rule to grant relief to a habeas corpus petitioner, except where the new rule places a class of individual conduct beyond the power of the criminal lawmaking authority to proscribe or prohibits the imposition of a certain type of punishment for a class of persons because of their status or offense, or constitutes a watershed rule of criminal procedure implicating the fundamental fairness and accuracy of the criminal proceeding. Codifies case law providing for an independent Federal habeas corpus review of claims under Federal law, except for fourth amendment exclusionary rule claims. Specifies that the State bears the burden of proving harmless error in Federal habeas corpus review of State criminal convictions. (Sec. 305) Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) limits on successive petitions (allows a prisoner to bring a second or subsequent petition only upon a showing of cause for not having brought the claim before and prejudice if the claim is not heard); and (2) new evidence (allows prisoners in capital cases to present claims of actual innocence based on newly discovered evidence that the petitioner did not previously know about). (Sec. 308) Sets standards and procedures for the provision of counsel for indigent defendants at all stages of State capital litigation. Requires each State in which a sentence of death may be imposed to establish a State counsel certification authority, comprised of members of the State's criminal defense bar, to create a roster of qualified lawyers eligible for court appointment and monitor the performance of attorneys so certified. (Sec. 309) Amends the Omnibus Act to require the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to make grants to States to help fund the provision of defense counsel. Authorizes: (1) Federal grants of up to 75 percent of the additional costs imposed by the new counsel requirements during the first three years following enactment of this title and 50 percent thereafter; and (2) grants for the prosecution of Federal habeas corpus cases in an amount equal to that allocated to capital resource centers. Title IV: Gun Crime Penalties - Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend its sentencing guidelines to enhance the penalty for: (1) use of a semiautomatic firearm during a crime of violence or a drug trafficking crime; (2) a second offense of using an explosive to commit a Federal felony; (3) use of a firearm in the commission of counterfeiting or forgery; and (4) firearms possession by violent felons and serious drug offenders. (Sec. 403) Prohibits and sets penalties for: (1) smuggling firearms in aid of drug trafficking; (2) theft of firearms and explosives; (3) the transfer of firearms to a nonresident of a State, except for lawful sporting purposes; (4) conspiracies to commit firearms and explosives crimes; and (5) the distribution of explosives to a person who is legally disqualified from having the explosives. (Sec. 405) Mandates the revocation of: (1) supervised release and the institution of a prison term for a defendant who possesses a controlled substance or firearm in violation of a condition of such release, or who refuses to cooperate with drug testing; and (2) probation for possession of a controlled substance or firearms in violation of a condition of probation, or who refuses to cooperate with drug testing. (Sec. 407) Increases the penalty for: (1) knowingly making a false, material statement in connection with the acquisition of a firearms from a licensed dealer; and (2) interstate gun trafficking. Title V: Obstruction of Justice - Increases the penalties for threats and intimidation of jurors and court officers, obstruction of justice, and attempted retaliatory killings of witnesses, victims, and informants. (Sec. 501) Provides the death penalty for: (1) the murder of jurors and court officers; (2) retaliatory killings of witnesses, victims, and informants; (3) the murder of State officials working with Federal law enforcement officials in connection with Federal criminal investigations; and (4) the murder of Federal witnesses. (Sec. 503) Creates an exception to current law requiring that persons charged with capital offenses be furnished with a list (with addresses) of veniremen and witnesses, if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that providing such list may jeopardize the life or safety of any person. Title VI: Youth Violence - Subtitle A: Increased Penalties for Drug Trafficking and Criminal Street Gangs - Amends: (1) the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) to increase penalties for employing children to distribute drugs or avoid apprehension for a drug offense; and (2) the Federal criminal code to provide for imprisonment of up to ten years for a gang member or person acting on behalf of a criminal street gang who commits a Federal drug or violent crime offense and who has had a prior drug or crime of violence conviction, with the penalty to run consecutively to any other sentence imposed. Subtitle B: Juvenile Drug Trafficking and Gang Prevention Grants - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to authorize the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to make grants for: (1) programs to reduce the formation or continuation of juvenile gangs and the use and sale of illegal drugs by juveniles; (2) public or non-profit private organizations or individuals to identify promising new juvenile drug reduction and enforcement programs; and (3) public or non-profit private organizations or individuals to support promising new programs that specifically address the unique crime, drug, and alcohol related challenges faced by juveniles living at or near international ports of entry and in other international border communities. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Bindover System for Certain Violent Juveniles - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize grants for bindover systems for the prosecution of 16- and 17-year-olds as adults for certain violent crimes (first- and second-degree murder, attempted murder, armed robbery with a firearm, aggravated battery or assault with a firearm, criminal sexual penetration when armed with a firearm, and drive-by shooting). Title VII: Terrorism - Subtitle A: Maritime Navigation and Fixed Platforms - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit and set penalties for the seizure of a ship or fixed platform by force, an act of violence against a person aboard, damage or destruction, or the injuring or killing of a person in connection with such activities. Provides the death penalty where death results. Subtitle B: General Provisions - Provides the death penalty where death results from the use of a weapon of mass destruction. (Sec. 714) Extends: (1) the application of State, territory, or district law for offenses committed in territorial waters not otherwise committed within a State's territory or district; (2) special maritime and territorial jurisdiction to offenses committed by or against a U.S. national during a voyage on a foreign vessel scheduled to depart from or arrive in the United States; and (3) the statute of limitations to ten years for certain terrorist offenses. (Sec. 716) Provides: (1) the death penalty for the commission of torture outside the United States and for the killing of a U.S. national outside the country; (2) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with access to telephone subscriber information if the Director or Deputy Assistant Director certifies that such information is relevant to a foreign counterintelligence investigation and that it pertains to an agent of a foreign power; and (3) criminal penalties for willful violations of airport or airline security regulations. (Sec. 719) Prohibits: (1) acts of terrorism at U.S. international airports (and provides the death penalty where death results); and (2) counterfeiting U.S. currency abroad (and sets penalties). Enhances penalties for any felony that involves or is intended to promote international terrorism. Sets penalties for those who provide material support to terrorists. (Sec. 722) Creates an Economic Terrorism Task Force. (Sec. 725) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Attorney General to grant a nonimmigrant visa to an alien who possesses critical information about a criminal organization and whose presence in the United States is essential to an investigation or prosecution of such organization. Title VIII: Sexual Violence and Child Abuse - Subtitle A: Sexual Abuse - Amends the Federal criminal code to include within the definition of "sexual act" the intentional touching, not through the clothing, of the genitalia of another person who has not attained age 16 with intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade, or arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person. Subtitle B: Child Protection - National Child Protection Act of 1993 - Provides for the establishment of a national background check system whereby child care organizations can determine whether prospective employees have histories of child abuse or other serious crimes. Requires State to have at least 80 percent currency of crime cases in their systems within three years. Directs the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to begin a study of child abusers' criminal records. (Sec. 816) Amends the Omnibus Act to provide for the use of drug control and system improvement grants for the improvement of State record systems and the sharing of records of child abuse crime information to implement this subtitle. Subtitle C: Crimes Against Children - Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children Registration Act - Directs the Attorney General to establish guidelines for State programs requiring any person convicted of a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor to register a current address with a designated State LEA for ten years after release from prison or being placed on parole or supervised release. Subjects to criminal penalties a person required to register under a State program who knowingly fails to register and keep such registration current. (Sec. 823) Specifies that the allocation of BJA grant funds (under the Omnibus Act) received by a State not complying with provisions of this Act three years after its enactment shall be reduced by ten percent, with the unallocated funds to be reallocated to the States in compliance with this Act. Title IX: Crime Victims - Subtitle A: Victims' Rights - Amends Rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to give victims of violent crimes and sexual abuse the right to address the court concerning the sentence to be imposed on convicted offenders. Permits such right to be exercised by a parent or guardian if the victim is under 18, or by one or more family members if the victim is deceased or incapacitated. (Sec. 902) Requires courts to order criminal defendants who are convicted to pay restitution to victims. Specifies that a restitution order shall constitute a lien against real or personal property. Subtitle B: Crime Victims' Fund - Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to provide that if the compensation paid by an eligible crime victim compensation program would cover costs that a Federal, or a federally financed State or local, program would otherwise pay: (1) such victim compensation program shall not pay such compensation; and (2) the other program shall make its payments without regard to the existence of the crime victim compensation program. (Sec. 913) Allows: (1) up to five percent of a victim compensation or assistance program grant to be used for administrative costs; and (2) the Director of the Office for Victims of Crime to use unspent compensation funds for assistance programs in either the year such funds are not spent or in the following year. (Sec. 917) Requires grantees to certify that no grant funds will be used to supplant State and local funds, but rather will supplement those otherwise available funds. Title X: State and Local Law Enforcement - Subtitle A: DNA Identification - DNA Identification Act of 1993 - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the use of drug control and system improvement grants to develop or improve in a forensic laboratory a capability to analyze deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) for identification purposes. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1003) Requires the Director of the FBI to appoint an advisory board on DNA quality assurance methods and issue standards for quality assurance. (Sec. 1004) Authorizes the Director to establish an index of DNA identification records of persons convicted of crimes, and of analyses of DNA samples recovered from crime scenes and from unidentified human remains. (Sec. 1005) Sets forth proficiency testing and privacy protection requirements, and penalties for violations. (Sec. 1006) Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Department of Justice Community Substance Abuse Prevention - Department of Justice Community Substance Abuse Prevention Act of 1993 - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to eligible coalitions to develop and implement substance abuse prevention programs, with the efforts of such coalitions involving substantial community participation. Grants priority to communities providing evidence of significant abuse. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Racial and Ethnic Bias Study Grants - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to States that have established, by State law or the court of last resort, plans for analyzing the role of race in their criminal justice systems. Requires State plans to include recommendations designed to correct any findings of racial and ethnic bias. Authorizes appropriations. Title XI: Provisions Relating to Police Officers - Subtitle A: Law Enforcement Family Support - Amends the Omnibus Act to: (1) require the Director of the BJA to establish guidelines and oversee the implementation of family-friendly policies in law enforcement divisions of the Department of Justice (DOJ), identify model programs that provide support to law enforcement families, and provide technical assistance for stress reduction and family support efforts by State and local LEAs; and (2) authorize the Director to make grants to States and local LEAs and organizations representing State or local law enforcement personnel to provide family support services to law enforcement personnel. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Police Pattern or Practice - Prohibits any governmental authority, or any agent or person acting on behalf of such authority, from engaging in a pattern or practice of conduct by law enforcement officers that deprives persons of their constitutional or Federal rights. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring a civil action against such officers to eliminate such practices. (Sec. 1112) Directs the Attorney General to acquire data about the use of excessive force by law enforcement officers. Subtitle C: Police Corps and Law Enforcement Officers Training and Education - Chapter 1: Police Corps - Police Corps Act - Establishes in DOJ an Office of the Police Corps and Law Enforcement Education, headed by a Director. Authorizes the Director to award college and graduate school scholarships (of up to $30,000 per student) in exchange for four years work with a State or local police force upon graduation. Requires participants who do not follow through on their commitment to pay back all the scholarship money plus ten percent interest. (Sec. 1127) Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) selection and training of participants; (2) swearing in, discipline, and layoffs; (3) State plan requirements; and (4) assistance to States and localities employing police corps officers. Authorizes appropriations. Chapter 2: Law Enforcement Scholarship Program - Law Enforcement Scholarships and Recruitment Act - Requires the Director to provide scholarships for in-service law enforcement personnel who seek further education, allotting 80 percent of funds based on the relative number of law enforcement officers per State and 20 percent based on the relative shortage of officers. Provides grants for summer jobs or part-time jobs during the year for high school students interested in law enforcement careers. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: Study Rights of Police Officers - Directs the Attorney General to conduct a study of the procedures followed in internal, noncriminal investigations of State and local law enforcement officers to determine if such investigations are conducted fairly and effectively. Title XII: Drug Court Programs - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the BJA to make grants to States: (1) for drug testing upon arrest and on a regular basis pending trial for the purpose of making pretrial detention decisions; (2) to develop alternative methods of punishment for young offenders to traditional forms of incarceration and probation; and (3) for residential substance abuse treatment programs in State prisons. Authorizes appropriations. Title XIII: Prisons - Subtitle A: Federal Prisons - Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) prohibit the Bureau of Prisons from showing favoritism to prisoners of high social or economic status in designating their place of imprisonment; and (2) require that any submission of legislation by the judicial or executive branch that might affect prison populations be accompanied by an impact statement (and requires the Attorney General to prepare and transmit to the Congress annual prison impact assessments). (Sec. 1303) Federal Prisoner Drug Testing Act of 1993 - Requires the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to establish a program of drug testing of Federal offenders on post-conviction release. (Sec. 1304) Drug Treatment in Federal Prisons Act of 1993 - Establishes a schedule for the Bureau of Prisons to place all eligible prisoners into residential substance abuse treatment programs for between nine and 12 months, in facilities separate from the general prison population. Specifies that prisoners who successfully complete such programs could be released up to a year early. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: State Prisons - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to States and to multi-State compact associations for the development and operation of boot camp prisons (for prisoners not convicted of violent felonies, providing a highly regimented schedule of strict discipline, physical training, and work, as well as remedial education and treatment for substance abuse) and regional prisons (for violent offenders with serious substance abuse problems). Specifies that grants may support the activation of boot camp and regional prison facilities already constructed by State or local governments, and shall support aftercare services (to reduce the likelihood of repeat criminality following release). Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1323) Requires the Director of the National Institute of Justice to study: (1) the feasibility of establishing an information clearinghouse to facilitate the interstate transfer of prisoners to facilities near their families; (2) the recidivism rates of persons who were under the influence of alcohol at the time they committed their crimes, comparing recidivism rates of those who participated in a residential treatment program while in custody with those who did not; and (3) the use of alcohol, alone or in combination with other drugs, as a factor in criminal activity. (Sec. 1324) Requires the Bureau of Prisons to notify State and local law enforcement authorities concerning the release or relocation to their areas of Federal offenders under post-release supervision, with respect to prisoners convicted of drug trafficking and violent crimes. Title XIV: Rural Crime - Subtitle A: Fighting Drug Trafficking in Rural Areas - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize appropriations, and increase the base allocation, for rural drug enforcement assistance. (Sec. 1402) Directs the Attorney General to establish a Rural Drug Enforcement Task Force in each of the Federal judicial districts which encompass significant rural lands. (Sec. 1403) Authorizes the Attorney General to cross-designate up to 100 Federal officers with jurisdiction to enforce CSA provisions on non-Federal lands to the extent necessary to effect the purposes of this title. (Sec. 1404) Requires the Director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center to develop a specialized course of instruction devoted to training law enforcement officers from rural agencies in the investigation of drug trafficking and related crimes. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Drug Free Truck Stops and Safety Rest Areas - Drug Free Truck Stop Act - Amends the CSA to enhance penalties for drug distribution at or near truck stops and safety rest areas. Title XV: Drug Control - Subtitle A: Increased Penalties - Amends: (1) the Federal criminal code to enhance penalties for drug trafficking and illegal drug use in prisons; (2) the Tariff Act of 1930 to make the penalty for failure to declare a controlled substance 1,000 percent of the value of the article (as under current law) or $500, whichever is greater; and (3) the CSA to enhance penalties for drug dealing in or near public housing authority facilities, and to set penalties for any physical trainer or adviser who endeavors to persuade or induce an individual to possess or use anabolic steroids in violation of such Act. (Sec. 1505) Directs the Sentencing Commission to amend the sentencing guidelines to increase penalties for drug-dealing in "drug-free" zones. Subtitle B: Precursor Chemicals Act - Chemical Control Amendments Act of 1993 - Amends the CSA to impose registration requirements for precursor chemicals. (Sec. 1514) Requires manufacturers to submit annual reports concerning listed chemicals manufactured during the year. (Sec. 1515) Amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to: (1) subject brokers and traders to the same recordkeeping and reporting requirements for international transactions, and the same criminal penalties, as exporters; (2) authorize the Attorney General to require that the 15-day advance notice requirement with respect to the importation and exportation of listed chemicals apply to all exports of specific listed chemicals to specified countries, regardless of the status of certain customers in such countries as regular customers, if necessary to support effective diversion control programs or as required by treaty; and (3) establish criminal penalties for attempting to evade reporting requirements and for smuggling listed drugs. (Sec. 1519) Grants the Attorney General the same inspection authority for listed chemicals as presently exists with respect to controlled substances. (Sec. 1521) Makes it a felony to violate the Solid Waste Disposal Act in the handling of chemicals used to illegally manufacture a controlled substance. Requires that violators be assessed costs of the initial cleanup an disposal of the listed chemical and contaminated property and the costs of restoring property damaged by exposure to such chemical. Subtitle C: General Provisions - Prohibits advertising which aims to illegally solicit or sell drugs. (Sec. 1535) Includes among the long-term goals of the National Drug Control Strategy making drug treatment available to all who need it. (Sec. 1536) Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to issue regulations requiring employees to report to law enforcement authorities the discovery of illegal drugs or amounts of cash over $10,000 in airport security screenings. Title XVI: Drunk Driving Provisions - Drunk Driving Child Protection Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide supplementary prison terms and fine authorizations in cases where drunk driving endangers or injures a person under 18 years of age. (Sec. 1603) Expresses the sense of the Congress that in determining child custody and visitation rights the courts should consider the history of drunk driving of anyone involved in the determination. Title XVII: Commissions - Subtitle A: Commission on Crime and Violence - Establishes the National Commission on Crime and Violence in America to develop a comprehensive crime control plan for the 1990's. Subtitle B: National Commission to Study the Causes of the Demand for Drugs in the United States - National Commission to Study the Causes of the Demand for Drugs in the United States - Establishes a National Commission to Study the Causes of the Demand for Drugs in the United States. Subtitle C: National Commission to Support Law Enforcement - National Commission to Support Law Enforcement Act - Establishes a National Commission to Support Law Enforcement. Title XVIII: Bail Posting Reporting - Illegal Drug Profits Act of 1993 - Requires State and Federal criminal court clerks to report to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and prosecutors the name and taxpayer identification number of anyone accused of a drug, money laundering, or racketeering crime who posts cash bail exceeding $10,000. Title XIX: Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention - Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Act - Directs the Attorney General to develop a national voluntary motor vehicle theft prevention program which would involve placing identifiable decals on the vehicles of consenting owners, whereby such vehicles could then be stopped by law enforcement officers upon a reasonable suspicion that the vehicles were not being operated by or with the consent of their owners. (Sec. 1903) Prohibits and sets penalties for tampering with the decals, with exceptions. Title XX: Protections for the Elderly - Directs the Attorney General to make grants in support of programs to protect and locate missing patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 2002) Directs the Sentencing Commission to ensure that the sentences for those convicted of crimes of violence against elderly victims be sufficiently stringent to deter such crimes, protect the public from additional crimes of such a defendant, and provide enhanced penalties under specified criteria. Title XXI: Consumer Protection - Amends the Federal criminal code to set penalties for insurance industry crimes, including embezzling from insurance companies, making false entries in insurance company books with intent to deceive, and corruptly influencing or obstructing proceedings before State insurance regulatory agencies or insurance examiners. Prohibits persons convicted of criminal felonies involving dishonesty or breach of trust from engaging in the insurance business without the written consent of an insurance regulatory official authorized to regulate the insurer. (Sec. 2102) Consumer Protection Against Credit Card Fraud Act of 1993 - Prohibits the sale of credit cards without credit card company authorization, fraudulent receipt of payments via credit card for goods never received or inferior to those promised, and laundering of credit card receipts. (Sec. 2103) Extends the mail fraud statute to include mail sent by private interstate carriers. Title XXII: Financial Institution Fraud Prosecutions - Financial Institutions Fraud Prosecution Act of 1991 (sic) - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to disqualify certain persons with criminal records from participating in the affairs of insured depository institutions and credit unions. (Sec. 2204) Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to encourage the Attorney General to report to the Congress on the collapse of private insurance deposit corporations. Title XXIII: Savings and Loan Prosecution Task Force - Directs the Attorney General to establish within DOJ a savings and loan criminal fraud task force to prosecute those criminal cases involving savings and loan institutions. Title XXIV: Sentencing Provisions - Amends the Federal criminal code to allow the court, in determining the sentence to be imposed in the case of a violation of probation or supervised release, to consider guidelines or policy statements issued by the Sentencing Commission. (Sec. 2403) Directs the court to revoke a term of supervised release and require the defendant to serve in prison all or part of the term of release authorized by statute for the offense that resulted in such term, without credit for time previously served on post-release supervision, if the court finds that the defendant violated a condition of supervised release, subject to specified limitations. Authorizes the court to include a requirement that the defendant be placed on supervised release after imprisonment when a term of supervised release is revoked and the defendant is required to serve a term of imprisonment less than the maximum authorized. Specifies that the power of the court to revoke a term of supervised release for violation of a condition of such release extends beyond the expiration of the term of release for a period reasonably necessary for the adjudication of matters arising before its expiration if, prior to such expiration, a warrant or summons has been issued on the basis of an allegation of such a violation. Title XXV: Sentencing and Magistrates Amendments - Permits concurrent sentencing of a defendant to imprisonment and probation for petty offenses. (Sec. 2502) Authorizes the trial of petty offenses by magistrate judges. Title XXVI: Computer Crime - Computer Abuse Amendments Act of 1993 - Amends the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to make it a felony to knowingly transmit an unauthorized program or code that alters the information stored in a computer with the intent to damage the system or information contained within the affected computer or system, or to withhold or deny the use of such system or information, if the transmission: (1) occurred without the authorization of the person responsible for the computer system receiving the program; and (2) causes damage exceeding $1,000 in any one-year period or modifies or impairs the medical care of one or more individuals. Makes it a misdemeanor to recklessly transmit a destructive computer program or code. Creates a civil cause of action for persons suffering damage or loss by virtue of a violation of this Act. Modifies the prohibition against accessing a Government computer where such conduct affects the use of the Government's operation of such computer to cover only actions that "adversely" affect such use. Title XXVII: International Parental Kidnapping - International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for removing a child from, or retaining a child outside, the United States with intent to obstruct the lawful exercise of parental rights. (Sec. 2703) Authorizes appropriations to carry out under the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 national, regional, and in-State training and educational programs dealing with criminal and civil aspects of interstate and international parental child abduction. Title XXVIII: Safe Schools - Safe Schools Act of 1993 - Amends the Omnibus Act to: (1) authorize the Director of the BJA to make grants to local educational agencies for the purpose of providing assistance to such agencies most directly affected by crime and violence; and (2) require the Director to develop a written safe schools model in English and in Spanish and make such model available to any such agency that requests it. Authorizes appropriations. Title XXIX: Miscellaneous - Subtitle A: Increases in Penalties - Increases penalties for assault: (1) of Federal officers, foreign officials, and official guests and internationally protected persons; (2) within a maritime and territorial jurisdiction; and (3) of the President, presidential staff, congressional leaders, cabinet officials, and Supreme Court justices. (Sec. 2902) Increases the maximum penalties for voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. (Sec. 2903) Broadens the scope and increases the penalties for conspiracies to deprive persons of their civil rights. (Sec. 2904) Increases penalties for: (1) trafficking in counterfeit goods and services; (2) conspiracy to commit murder for hire; and (3) Travel Act violations. Subtitle B: Extension of Protection of Civil Rights Statutes - Extends the protections of the criminal civil rights statute to any person in a State. (Currently, the statute only covers State "inhabitants.") Subtitle C: Audit and Report - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) require State and local LEAs to annually audit and detail the uses and expenses to which forfeiture funds were dedicated and the amount used for each use or expense; and (2) report to the Congress on the administrative and contracting expenses paid from the DOJ Assets Forfeiture Fund. Subtitle D: Gambling - Grants a State gaming enforcement office located within a State Attorney General's office access to FBI criminal history record information for licensing purposes. Subtitle E: White Collar Crime Amendments - Establishes penalties for knowingly receiving the proceeds of: (1) extortion; (2) a kidnapping; and (3) a postal robbery. (Sec. 2943) Extends the prohibition against obstructing civil investigative demands to include obstruction in racketeering and false claims investigations. Subtitle F: Safer Streets and Neighborhoods - Safer Streets and Neighborhoods Act of 1993 - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the Director of the BJA to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, non-Federal public or private agencies, institutions, or organizations to carry out specified purposes of such Act (current law does not specify "non-Federal"), effective October 1, 1993. Subtitle G: Other Provisions - Authorizes the venue for espionage and related offenses to be in the District of Columbia or in any other district authorized by law. (Sec. 2963) Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act to make amendments with respect to certain IRS undercover operations effective from the date of this Act's enactment through December 31, 1994. (Sec. 2964) Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to the Congress on the medical and psychological basis of "battered women's syndrome" and the extent to which evidence of the syndrome has been held to be admissible as evidence of guilt or as a defense in a criminal trial. (Sec. 2966) Amends the Federal criminal code to set penalties for: (1) the theft of major art works from museums; (2) misuse of the words "Drug Enforcement Administration" or the initials "DEA"; and (3) attempted robbery, kidnapping, smuggling, and property damage offenses. (Sec. 2971) Extends the statute of limitations for arson. Title XXX: Technical Corrections - Makes technical corrections to various criminal law provisions.

Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Public Safety and Policing Title II: Death Penalty Title III: Habeas Corpus Reform Title IV: Coerced Confessions Title V: Firearms Subtitle A: Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act Subtitle B: Gun Crime Penalties Title VI: Youth Violence Subtitle A: General Subtitle B: Criminal Street Gangs Subtitle C: Certainty of Punishment for Young Offenders Subtitle D: Juvenile Drug Trafficking and Gang Prevention Grants Title VII: Terrorism Subtitle A: Maritime Navigation and Fixed Platforms Subtitle B: General Provisions Title VIII: Sexual Violence and Child Abuse Subtitle A: Sexual Abuse Subtitle B: Child Protection Subtitle C: Crimes Against Children Title IX: Crime Victims Title X: State and Local Law Enforcement Subtitle A: Safer Streets and Neighborhoods Subtitle B: DNA Identification Subtitle C: Department of Justice Community Substances Abuse Prevention Subtitle D: Drug Testing of Arrested Individuals Subtitle E: Racial and Ethnic Bias Study Grants Title XI: Provisions Relating to Police Officers Subtitle A: Law Enforcement Relating to Police Officers Subtitle B: Police Pattern or Practice Subtitle C: Police Corps and Law Enforcement Officers Subtitle D: Study Rights of Police Officers Title XII: Grant Program for State Prisons Title XIII: Federal Prisons Subtitle A: General Subtitle B: Drug Testing Subtitle C: Enhanced Penalties for Drugs in Federal Prisons Subtitle D: Drug Treatment in Federal Prisons Subtitle E: Studies Title XIV: Rural Crime Subtitle A: Fighting Drug Trafficking in Rural Areas Subtitle B: Drug Free Truck Stops and Safety Rest Areas Title XV: Drug Control Subtitle A: Drug Emergency Areas Subtitle B: Precursor Chemicals Subtitle C: General Provisions Title XVI: Drunk Driving Provisions Title XVII: Commissions Subtitle A: Commission on Crime and Violence Subtitle B: National Commission to Study the Causes of the Demand for Drugs in the United States Subtitle C: National Commission to Support Law Enforcement Title XVIII: Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Title XIX: Protections for the Elderly Title XX: Consumer Protection Title XXI: Sentencing Provisions Title XXII: Computer Cime Title XXIII: International Parental Kidnapping Title XXIV: Safe Schools Title XXV: Financial Institutions Fraud Prosecutions Title XXVI: White Collar Crime Amendments Title XXVII: Gambling Title XXVIII: Bail Posting Reporting Title XXIX: General Increased Penalty Provisions Title XXX: Miscellaneous Title XXXI: Technical Corrections Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1993 - Title I: Public Safety and Policing - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Omnibus Act) to authorize the Attorney General to make grants and provide technical assistance to units of State and local government, and to other public and private entities, to increase police presence (including the rehiring of law enforcement officers laid off as a result of State and local budget reductions, as well as the hiring of new, additional career law enforcement officers, for deployment in community-oriented policing), expand and improve cooperative efforts between law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and members of the community, and otherwise enhance public safety. Sets forth matching fund, application, and related requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Death Penalty - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide for imposition of the death penalty for various offenses, including: (1) murder by a Federal prisoner; (2) civil rights murders; (3) drive-by shootings and carjackings resulting in death; (4) foreign murder of U.S. nationals; (5) rape and child molestation murders; (6) gun murders during Federal crimes of violence and drug trafficking crimes; and (7) murder of Federal witnesses. (Sec. 201) Sets forth procedures for the imposition, implementation, and review of such sentence. Limits mitigating factors (such as impaired capacity, duress, minor participation, and victim's consent) and aggravating factors (such as previous conviction of a violent felony involving a firearm, previous conviction of other serious offenses, vulnerability of victim, and continuing criminal enterprise involving drug sales to minors, and previous conviction of sexual assault or child molestation). Requires a special hearing to determine whether a death sentence is justified. Directs the court to instruct the jury not to consider the race, color, religious beliefs, national origin, or sex of the defendant or of any victim. Prohibits the execution of a woman while she is pregnant and of a person who is mentally retarded. Title III: Habeas Corpus Reform - Amends the Federal judicial code to impose a 180-day limitations period for the filing of Federal habeas corpus petitions, applicable in both capital and non-capital cases in which the State has offered the petitioner counsel for State post-conviction review, which begins from the time the petitioner's conviction becomes final on State direct review. Tolls such period while the petitioner pursues State post-conviction remedies, unless the petitioner fails to initiate post-conviction review within 270 days in capital cases or 180 days in non-capital cases. Provides for a one-time 60-day extension of the period upon a showing of good cause. (Sec. 302) Provides an automatic stay of execution in capital cases through the consideration of the first Federal habeas corpus petition. Permits a stay of execution to be granted thereafter only if the petition on its face satisfies the requirements for successive petitions. (Sec. 303) Prohibits a Federal court from announcing or applying a new rule to grant relief to a habeas corpus petitioner, except where the new rule places a class of individual conduct beyond the power of the criminal lawmaking authority to proscribe or prohibits the imposition of a certain type of punishment for a class of persons because of their status or offense, or constitutes a watershed rule of criminal procedure implicating the fundamental fairness and accuracy of the criminal proceeding. Codifies case law providing for an independent Federal habeas corpus review of claims under Federal law, except for fourth amendment exclusionary rule claims. Specifies that the State bears the burden of proving harmless error in Federal habeas corpus review of State criminal convictions. (Sec. 304) Allows a prisoner to bring a second or subsequent petition only upon a showing of cause for not having brought the claim before and prejudice if the claim is not heard. (Sec. 306) Sets standards and procedures for the provision of counsel for indigent defendants. Requires each State in which a sentence of death may be imposed to establish a State counsel certification authority, comprised of members of the State's criminal defense bar, to recruit, train, monitor, and support attorneys involved at all stages of capital litigation. (Sec. 307) Amends the Omnibus Act to require the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to make grants to States to help fund the provision of defense counsel. Authorizes: (1) Federal grants of up to 75 percent of the additional costs imposed by the new counsel requirements during the first three years following enactment of this title and 50 percent thereafter; and (2) grants for the prosecution of Federal habeas corpus cases in an amount equal to that allocated to capital resource centers. Title IV: Coerced Confessions - Specifies that the admission into evidence of a coerced confession (i.e., one elicited in violation of the fifth or fourteenth amendments to the Constitution) shall not be considered harmless error. Title V: Firearms - Subtitle A: Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide for a five (business) day waiting period for the purchase of a handgun. Sets forth: (1) interim procedures (pending the establishment of a national instant criminal background check system) for checking with the chief law enforcement officer of the place of residence of the purchaser as to whether the purchaser has a criminal record or whether there is any other legal impediment to such individual's receiving a handgun; and (2) permanent procedures for conducting criminal background checks. Sets penalties for violations. (Sec. 502) Directs the Attorney General to establish a national instant criminal background check system that any licensee may contact for information on whether receipt of a firearm by a prospective purchaser would violate specified legal provisions. Provides for the correction of erroneous information in the system. (Sec. 503) Permits the use of formula grants under the Omnibus Act for improvements in State criminal records. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth provisions with respect to the withholding of State and Department of Justice (DOJ) funds for failure to meet set deadlines. Subtitle B: Gun Crime Penalties - Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend its sentencing guidelines to enhance the penalty for: (1) use of a semiautomatic firearm during a crime of violence or a drug trafficking crime; (2) a second offense of using an explosive to commit a Federal felony; (3) use of a firearm in the commission of counterfeiting or forgery; and (4) firearms possession by violent felons and serious drug offenders. (Sec. 506) Prohibits and sets penalties for: (1) smuggling firearms in aid of drug trafficking; (2) theft of firearms and explosives; (3) the transfer of firearms to a nonresident of a State, except for lawful sporting purposes; (4) conspiracies to commit firearms and explosives crimes; and (5) the distribution of explosives to a person who is legally disqualified from having the explosives. (Sec. 508) Increases the penalty for: (1) knowingly making a false, material statement in connection with the acquisition of a firearm from a licensed dealer; and (2) interstate gun trafficking. Title VI: Youth Violence - Subtitle A: General - Amends the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) to increase the penalty for employing, using, inducing, or coercing individuals under age 18 to violate provisions of such Act, or to assist in avoiding detection or apprehension for certain offenses under such Act by Federal, State, or local law enforcement officials. (Sec. 602) Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit a juvenile from being transferred to adult prosecution or a hearing from being held under section 5037 (disposition after a finding of juvenile delinquency) until any prior juvenile records have been received by the court or other specified conditions are met. (Sec. 603) Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize grants for bindover systems for the prosecution of 16- and 17-year-olds as adults for certain violent crimes (first- and second-degree murder, attempted murder, armed robbery with a firearm, aggravated battery or assault with a firearm, criminal sexual penetration when armed with a firearm, and drive-by shooting). Subtitle B: Criminal Street Gangs - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide for imprisonment of up to ten years for a gang member or person acting on behalf of a criminal street gang who commits a Federal drug or violent crime offense and who has had a prior drug or violent crime conviction, with the penalty to run consecutively to any other sentence imposed Subtitle C: Certainty of Punishment for Young Offenders - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the Director of the BJA to make grants to States for the purpose of developing alternative methods of punishment for young offenders to traditional forms of incarceration and probation. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: Juvenile Drug Trafficking and Gang Prevention Grants - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the Director of the BJA to make grants for programs to reduce the formation or continuation of juvenile gangs and the use and sale of illegal drugs by juveniles. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII: Terrorism - Subtitle A: Maritime Navigation and Fixed Platforms - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit and set penalties for the seizure of a ship or fixed platform by force, an act of violence against a person aboard, damage or destruction, or the injuring or killing of a person in connection with such activities. Provides the death penalty where death results. Subtitle B: General Provisions - Provides the death penalty where death results from the use of a weapon of mass destruction. (Sec. 705) Extends: (1) special maritime and territorial jurisdiction to offenses committed by or against a U.S. national during a voyage on a foreign vessel scheduled to depart from or arrive in the United States; and (2) the statute of limitations to ten years for certain terrorist offenses. (Sec. 706) Provides: (1) the death penalty for the commission of torture outside the United States and for the killing of a U.S. national outside the country; (2) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with access to telephone subscriber information if the Director or Deputy Assistant Director certifies that such information is relevant to a foreign counterintelligence investigation and that it pertains to an agent of a foreign power; and (3) criminal penalties for willful violations of airport or airline security regulations. (Sec. 709) Prohibits: (1) acts of terrorism at U.S. international airports (and provides the death penalty where death results); and (2) counterfeiting U.S. currency abroad. Enhances penalties for any felony that involves or is intended to promote international terrorism. (Sec. 713) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Attorney General to grant a nonimmigrant visa to an alien who possesses critical information about a criminal organization and whose presence in the United States is essential to an investigation or prosecution of such organization; and (2) the Federal criminal code to set penalties for those who provide material support to terrorists. Title VIII: Sexual Violence and Child Abuse - Subtitle A: Sexual Abuse - Amends the Federal criminal code to include within the definition of "sexual act" the intentional touching, not through the clothing, of the genitalia of another person who has not attained age 16 with intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade, or arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person. Subtitle B: Child Protection - Provides for the establishment of a national background check system whereby child care organizations can determine whether prospective employees have histories of child abuse or other serious crimes. Requires State to have at least 80 percent currency of crime cases in their systems within three years. Directs the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to begin a study of child abusers' criminal records. (Sec. 806) Amends the Omnibus Act to provide for the use of drug control and system improvement grants for the improvement of State record systems and the sharing of records of child abuse crime information to implement this subtitle. Subtitle C: Crimes Against Children Registration - Directs the Attorney General to establish guidelines for State programs requiring any person convicted of a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor to register a current address with a designated State LEA for ten yeas after release from prison, or being placed on parole or supervised release. Subjects to criminal penalties a person required to register under a State program who knowingly fails to register and keep such registration current. (Sec. 808) Specifies that the allocation of BJA grant funds (under the Omnibus Act) received by a State not complying with provisions of this Act three years after its enactment shall be reduced by ten percent, with the unallocated funds to be reallocated to the States in compliance with this Act. Title IX: Crime Victims - Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to: (1) specify the amounts available for grants under certain sections of the Act; and (2) provide that if the compensation paid by an eligible crime victim compensation program would cover costs that a Federal, or federally financed State or local, program would otherwise pay, such victim compensation program shall not pay such compensation and the other program shall make its payments without regard to the existence of the crime victim compensation program. (Sec. 903) Amends Rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to give victims of violent crimes and sexual abuse the right to address the court concerning the sentence to be imposed on convicted offenders. Permits such right to be exercised by a parent or guardian if the victim is under 18, or by one or more family members if the victim is deceased or incapacitated. (Sec. 904) Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to specified congressional committees on the medical and psychological basis of "battered women's syndrome" and the extent to which evidence of the syndrome has been admitted as evidence of guilt or as a defense in criminal trials. Title X: State and Local Law Enforcement - Subtitle A: Safer Streets and Neighborhoods - Continues the current Federal-State funding formula for grants under title I of the Omnibus Act. (Sec. 1002) Amends such Act to authorize the Director of the BJA to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, non-Federal public or private agencies, institutions, or organizations to carry out specified purposes of the Act (current law does not specify "non-Federal"), effective October 1, 1994. Subtitle B: DNA Identification - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the use of drug control and system improvement grants to develop or improve in a forensic laboratory a capability to analyze deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) for identification purposes. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1004) Requires the Director of the FBI to appoint an advisory board on DNA quality assurance methods and issue standards for quality assurance. Authorizes the Director to establish an index of DNA identification records of persons convicted of crimes, and of analyses of DNA samples recovered from crime scenes and from unidentified human remains. (Sec. 1006) Sets forth proficiency testing and privacy protection requirements, and penalties for violations. (Sec. 1007) Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Department of Justice Community Substances Abuse Prevention - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to eligible coalitions to develop and implement substance abuse prevention programs, with the efforts of such coalitions involving substantial community participation. Grants priority to communities providing evidence of significant abuse. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: Drug Testing of Arrested Individuals - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the Director of the BJA to make grants to States for the purpose of developing, implementing, or continuing a drug testing project when individuals are arrested and during the pretrial period. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle E: Racial and Ethnic Bias Study Grants - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to States that have established, by State law or the court of last resort, plans for analyzing the role of race in their criminal justice systems. Requires State plans to include recommendations designed to correct any findings of racial and ethnic bias. Authorizes appropriations. Title XI: Provisions Relating to Police Officers - Subtitle A: Law Enforcement Family Support - Amends the Omnibus Act to: (1) require the Director of the BJA to establish guidelines and oversee the implementation of family-friendly policies in law enforcement divisions of DOJ, identify model programs that provide support to law enforcement families, and provide technical assistance for stress reduction and family support efforts by State and local LEAs; and (2) authorize the Director to make grants to States and local LEAs and organizations representing State or local law enforcement personnel to provide family support services to law enforcement personnel. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Police Pattern or Practice - Prohibits any governmental authority, or any agent or person acting on behalf of such authority, from engaging in a pattern or practice of conduct by law enforcement officers that deprives persons of their constitutional or Federal rights. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring a civil action against such officers to eliminate such practices. (Sec. 1104) Directs the Attorney General to acquire data about the use of excessive force by law enforcement officers. Subtitle C: Police Corps and Law Enforcement Officers Scholarship Programs - Chapter 1: Community Police Corps Initiatives - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants for up to ten Community Police Corps Programs in which participants can receive scholarships of not more than $5,000 annually times the number of years in the educational institution's regular program in exchange for a commensurate period of work with a State or local police force upon graduation. Authorizes appropriations. Permits up to ten percent of grant funds to be awarded to law enforcement officers currently employed by the jurisdiction, and who are assigned to community-oriented policing or who exercise supervisory or training roles in relation to such officers, for college or post-graduate work. Chapter 2: Law Enforcement Scholarship Program - Requires the Director of the BJA to provide scholarships for in-service law enforcement personnel who seek further education, allotting 80 percent of funds based on the relative number of law enforcement officers per State and 20 percent based on the relative shortage of officers. Provides grants for summer jobs or part-time jobs during the year for high school students interested in law enforcement careers. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: Study Rights of Police Officers - Directs the Attorney General to conduct a study of the procedures followed in internal, noncriminal investigations of State and local law enforcement officers to determine if such investigations are conducted fairly and effectively. Title XII: Grant Programs for State Prisons - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the Director of the BJA to make grants to States for residential substance abuse treatment programs in State correctional facilities, as well as those in which inmates are incarcerated for a time sufficient to permit substance abuse treatment. Authorizes appropriations. Title XIII: Federal Prisons - Subtitle A: General - Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) prohibit the Bureau of Prisons from considering the social or economic status of a prisoner in designating such prisoner's place of imprisonment; and (2) require that any submission of legislation by the judicial or executive branch that might affect prison populations be accompanied by an impact statement (and requires the Attorney General to prepare and transmit to the Congress annual prison impact assessments). (Sec. 1303) Requires notice to State and local law enforcement authorities concerning the release or relocation to their areas of Federal offenders under post-release supervision at least five days prior to such release or relocation, with respect to prisoners convicted of drug trafficking and violent crimes. (Sec. 1304) Deems references to supervised release, in the case of prisoners convicted of offenses committed prior to November 1, 1987, to be references to probation or parole. Subtitle B: Drug Testing - Requires the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to establish a program of drug testing of Federal offenders on post-conviction release. Subtitle C: Enhanced Penalties for Drugs in Federal Prisons - Provides for enhanced penalties for drug trafficking and illegal drug use in Federal prisons. Subtitle D: Drug Treatment in Federal Prisons - Establishes a schedule for the Bureau of Prisons to place all eligible prisoners into residential substance abuse treatment programs for between nine and 12 months, in facilities separate from the general prison population. Specifies that prisoners who successfully complete such programs could be released up to a year early. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle E: Studies - Requires the National Institute of Justice to study: (1) the feasibility of establishing an information clearinghouse to facilitate the interstate transfer of prisoners to facilities near their families; (2) the recidivism rates of persons who were under the influence of alcohol at the time they committed their crimes, comparing recividism rates of those who participated in a residential treatment program while in custody with those who did not; and (3) the use of alcohol, alone or in combination with other drugs, as a factor in criminal activity. Title XIV: Rural Crime - Subtitle A: Fighting Drug Trafficking in Rural Areas - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize appropriations, and increase the base allocation, for rural drug enforcement assistance. (Sec. 1402) Directs the Attorney General to establish a Rural Drug Enforcement Task Force in each of the Federal judicial districts which encompass significant rural lands. (Sec. 1403) Authorizes the Attorney General to cross-designate up to 100 Federal officers with jurisdiction to enforce CSA provisions on non-Federal lands to the extent necessary to effect the purposes of this title. (Sec. 1404) Requires the Director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center to develop a specialized course of instruction devoted to training law enforcement officers from rural agencies in the investigation of drug trafficking and related crimes. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Drug Free Truck Stops and Safety Rest Areas - Amends the CSA to enhance penalties for drug distribution at or near truck stops and safety rest areas. Title XV: Drug Control - Subtitle A: Drug Emergency Areas - Amends the National Narcotics Leadership Act of 1988 to authorize the President to declare a State, or part thereof, a drug emergency area, to take all necessary actions to save lives and protect property, public health, and safety, and to make grants aggregating $25 million for any single major drug-related emergency. Requires grant money to be divided equally between drug supply and demand reduction efforts, unless State or local conditions dictate otherwise. Permits the President to direct any Federal agency to utilize its resources to assist State anti-drug efforts. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Precursor Chemicals - Amends the CSA to impose registration requirements for precursor chemicals. (Sec. 1504) Requires manufacturers to submit annual reports concerning listed chemicals manufactured during the year. (Sec. 1505) Amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to: (1) subject brokers and traders to the same recordkeeping and reporting requirements for international transactions, and the same criminal penalties, as exporters; and (2) authorize the Attorney General to require that the 15-day advance notice requirement with respect to the importation and exportation of listed chemicals apply to all exports of specific listed chemicals to specified countries, regardless of the status of certain customers in such countries as regular customers, if necessary to support effective diversion control programs or as required by treaty; and (3) establish criminal penalties for attempting to evade reporting requirements and for smuggling listed drugs. (Sec. 1509) Grants the Attorney General the same inspection authority for listed chemicals as presently exists with respect to controlled substances. (Sec. 1511) Makes it a felony to violate the Solid Waste Disposal Act in the handling of chemicals used to illegally manufacture a controlled substance. Requires that violators be assessed costs of the initial cleanup and disposal of the listed chemical and contaminated property and the costs of restoring property damaged by exposure to such chemical. Subtitle C: General Provisions - Prohibits and sets penalties for: (1) drug dealing in or near public housing authority facilities; (2) a physical trainer or adviser who tries to persuade an individual to use anabolic steroids; and (3) advertising which aims to illegally solicit or sell drugs. (Sec. 1518) Enhances penalties for drug dealing in "drug-free zones." (Sec. 1519) Includes among the long-term goals of the National Drug Control Strategy making drug treatment available to all who need it. Title XVI: Drunk Driving Provisions - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide supplementary prison terms and fine authorizations in cases where drunk driving endangers or injures a person under age 18. (Sec. 1602) Expresses the sense of the Congress that in determining child custody and visitation rights the courts should consider the history of drunk driving of anyone involved in the determination. Title XVII: Commissions - Subtitle A: Commission on Crime and Violence - Establishes the National Commission on Crime and Violence in America to develop a comprehensive crime control plan for the 1990's. Subtitle B: National Commission to Study the Causes of the Demand for Drugs in the United States - Establishes a National Commission to Study the Causes of the Demand for Drugs in the United States. Subtitle C: National Commission to Support Law Enforcement - Establishes a National Commission to Support Law Enforcement. Title XVIII: Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention - Directs the Attorney General to develop a national voluntary motor vehicle theft prevention program which would involve placing identifiable decals on the vehicles of consenting owners, whereby such vehicles could then be stopped by law enforcement officers upon a reasonable suspicion that the vehicles were not being operated by or with the consent of their owners. (Sec. 1802) Prohibits and sets penalties for tampering with the decals, with exceptions. Title XIX: Protections for the Elderly - Directs the Attorney General to make grants in support of programs to protect and locate missing patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1902) Directs the Sentencing Commission to ensure that the sentences for those convicted of crimes of violence against elderly victims be sufficiently stringent to deter such crimes, protect the public from additional crimes of such a defendant, and provide enhanced penalties under specified criteria. Title XX: Consumer Protection - Amends the Federal criminal code to set penalties for insurance industry crimes, including embezzling from insurance companies, making false entries in insurance company books with intent to deceive, and corruptly influencing or obstructing proceedings before State insurance regulatory agencies or insurance examiners. Prohibits persons convicted of criminal felonies involving dishonesty or breach of trust from engaging in the insurance business without the written consent of an insurance regulatory official authorized to regulate the insurer. (Sec. 2002) Consumer Protection Against Credit Card Fraud Act of 1993 - Prohibits the sale of credit cards without credit card company authorization, fraudulent receipt of payments via credit card for goods never received or inferior to those promised, and laundering to credit card receipts. (Sec. 2003) Extends the mail fraud statute to include mail sent by private interstate carriers. Title XXI: Sentencing Provisions - Amends the Federal criminal code to allow the court, in determining the sentence to be imposed in the case of a violation of probation or supervised release, to consider guidelines or policy statements issued by the Sentencing Commission. (Sec. 2103) Sets forth provisions regarding mandatory revocation of probation and of supervised release after imprisonment for possession of a controlled substance or firearm, or for refusal to comply with drug testing. (Sec. 2105) Permits concurrent sentencing of a defendant to imprisonment and probation for petty offenses. Title XXII: Computer Crime - Amends the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to make it a felony to knowingly transmit an unauthorized program or code that alters the information stored in a computer with the intent to damage the system or information contained within the affected computer or system, or to withhold or deny the use of such system or information, if the transmission: (1) occurred without the authorization of the person responsible for the computer system receiving the program; and (2) causes damage exceeding $1,000 in any one-year period or modifies or impairs the medical care of any individual. Makes it a misdemeanor to recklessly transmit a destructive computer program or code. Creates a civil cause of action for persons suffering damage or loss by virtue of a violation of this title. Modifies the prohibition against accessing a Government computer where such conduct affects the use of the Government's operation of such computer to cover only actions that "adversely" affect such use. Title XXIII: International Parental Kidnapping - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for removing a child from, or retaining a child outside, the United States with intent to obstruct the lawful exercise of parental rights. (Sec. 2302) Authorizes appropriations to carry out under the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 national, regional, and in-State training and educational programs dealing with criminal and civil aspects of interstate and international parental child abduction. Title XXIV: Safe Schools - Amends the Omnibus Act to: (1) authorize the Director of the BJA to make grants to local educational agencies for the purpose of providing assistance to such agencies most directly affected by crime and violence; and (2) require the Director to develop a written safe schools model in English and in Spanish and make such model available to any such agency that requests it. Authorizes appropriations. Title XXV: Financial Institutions Fraud Prosecutions - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to disqualify certain persons with criminal records from participating in the affairs of insured depository institutions and credit unions. Title XXVI: White Collar Crime Amendments - Establishes penalties for knowingly receiving the proceeds of: (1) extortion; (2) a kidnapping; and (3) a postal robbery. (Sec. 2603) Extends the prohibition against obstructing civil investigative demands to include obstruction in racketeering and false claims investigations. Title XXVII: Gambling - Sets forth provisions regarding the scope of the prohibition on gambling on ships in international waters. Grants a State gaming enforcement office located within a State Attorney General's office access to FBI criminal history record information for licensing purposes. Title XXVIII: Bail Posting Reporting - Illegal Drug Profits Act of 1991 (sic) - Requires State and Federal criminal court clerks to report to the Internal Revenue Service and prosecutors the name and taxpayer identification number of anyone accused of a drug, money laundering, or racketeering crime who posts cash bail exceeding $10,000. Title XXIX: General Increased Penalty Provision - Increases penalties for assault: (1) of Federal officers, foreign officials, and official guests and internationally protected persons; (2) within a maritime and territorial jurisdiction; and (3) of the President, presidential staff, congressional leaders, cabinet officials, and Supreme Court justices. (Sec. 2902) Increases the maximum penalties for voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. (Sec. 2903) Increases penalties for: (1) conspiracy to commit murder for hire; (2) trafficking in counterfeit goods and services; and (3) Travel Act violations. (Sec. 2906) Broadens the scope and increases the penalties for conspiracies to deprive persons of their civil rights. Title XXX: Miscellaneous - Extends the protection of the criminal civil rights statute to any person in a State. (Currently, the statute only covers a State "inhabitants.") (Sec. 3003) Directs the Attorney General to: (1) require State and local LEAs to annually audit and detail the uses and expenses to which forfeiture funds were dedicated and the amount used for each use or expense; and (2) report to the Congress on the administrative and contracting expense paid from the DOJ Assets Forfeiture Fund. (Sec. 3005) Creates an optional venue in the District of Columbia for espionage and related offenses regarding the gathering, transmitting, losing, or delivering of defense information. (Sec. 3007) Prohibits: (1) the disclosure of information obtained through wiretapping or electronic surveillance with the intent to obstruct a criminal investigation; (2) the theft of major art works from museums; (3) misuse of the words "Drug Enforcement Administration" or the initials "DEA"; and (4) attempted robbery, kidnapping, smuggling, and property damage offenses. (Sec. 3010) Permits trials by a magistrate judge in petty offense cases involving juveniles. Title XXXI: Technical Corrections - Makes technical corrections to various criminal law provisions.

Improving America's Schools Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 Title II: Amendments to the General Education Provisions Act Title III: Amendments to Other Acts Improving America's Schools Act of 1993 - Title I: Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise and reauthorize ESEA. (Sec. 101) Establishes a title I program for Helping Children in Need Meet High Standards, which revises and reauthorizes some of the current title I chapter 1 programs of Financial Assistance to Meet the Special Educational Needs of Children. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) grants under the basic program; (2) Even Start; (3) education of migratory children; (4) education for neglected or delinquent youth; (5) capital expenses; (6) school improvement; and (7) Federal activities. Requires any State desiring to receive a grant (under the basic program for making high-poverty schools work) to submit State plans that are integrated with that State's plan under the Goals 2000: Educate America Act or with other State plans under this Act. Requires each State plan to describe high-quality standards for all children that will be used by the State, it local educational agencies (LEAs), and its schools to carry out this Act, including challenging content standards in the core academic subjects and challenging performance standards, as well as assessment provisions and other teaching and learning support provisions. Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a process for peer review and Secretarial approval. Requires LEAs receiving subgrants to have plans with standards and assessments provisions and other teaching and learning support provisions. Provides for State approval and shared program responsibility of schools and the LEA in deciding on schoolwide programs and targeted assistance schools. Allows an LEA to only use basic program funds in eligible school attendance areas in which the percentage of children from low-income families is at least as high as that in the LEA as a whole. Sets forth formulas for ranking eligible school attendance areas for purposes of such funding in various cases where there are insufficient funds. Sets forth criteria which a school must meet in order for the LEA to use basic program funds to upgrade the entire educational program at an eligible school (schoolwide programs). Provides that in participating schools that are ineligible for a schoolwide program or that choose not to operate a schoolwide program, an LEA may use basic program funds only for targeted assistance programs that provide services to eligible children identified as having the greatest need for special assistance (targeted assistance schools). Sets forth criteria for eligible children at such schools. Sets forth requirements for parental involvement and for participation of children enrolled in private schools. Provides for assessment and school and district improvement, including local review, designation of Distinguished Schools, school improvement identification, State review and LEA improvement, State establishment of a corps of Distinguished Educators, and State allocations for school improvement. Revises formulas for allocations of funds. Revises Even Start Family Literacy Programs to increase program services and high-poverty-area targeting and include teenage parents. Revises Education of Migratory Children to restrict eligibility to children who have moved within the previous two years. Revises Education of Neglected and Delinquent Youth to require a 20-hour instructional week. Eliminates title I provisions for the National Commission on Migrant Education, rural technical assistance centers, current chapter 2 State block grants under the partnership for educational improvement, national diffusion network, and law-related education. Eliminates under title I, but provides elsewhere for, evaluation and technical assistance and blue ribbon schools. Provides, later in this Act, for programs for handicapped children to be combined with programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Establishes a new ESEA title II, Improving Teaching and Learning, with a new part A, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development Program, to support professional development of elementary and secondary school teachers in core academic subjects. (This replaces the current Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education Act programs.) Gives priority for professional development in mathematics and science. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a new title II part B, Support and Assistance for ESEA Programs. (This replaces the current Foreign Languages Assistance Act programs.) Includes under such technical assistance program comprehensive regional centers and technology-based technical assistance. Provides for information collection, evaluation, and transition. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a new ESEA title III, Expanding Opportunities for Learning. (The current title III, Magnet Schools Assistance, is transferred to a new title V, Promoting Equity.) Authorizes appropriations for the following title III parts: (A) Putting Technology to Work for All Students, including educational technology research, development, and demonstration, an Office of Educational Technology, a national long-range plan, and Federal leadership, as well as a revised Star Schools Program; (B) a revised and renamed Fund for the improvement of Education (currently under title IV as the Secretary's Fund for Innovation in Education); (C) a revised Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Education Program (currently under title IV); (D) a new Charter Schools program to increase public school choice through grants for innovative programs and exemptions from regulations that limit school operational and management flexibility; (E) an expanded Arts in Education program; and (F) the Inexpensive Book Distribution Program. Establishes as ESEA title IV a Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities program, which replaces and revises the current title V Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act program. (The current title IV Special Programs are replaced as follows: (1) Women's Educational Equity, Gifted and Talented Children, Immigrant Education, and the Secretary's Fund for Innovation are transferred to other titles; and (2) Ellender Fellowships and certain Territorial Assistance are eliminated.) The new program includes: (1) State Grants for Drug and Violence Prevention Programs at State and local levels, including coordinating councils; (2) Postsecondary Drug and Violence Prevention Programs, including higher education institution grants and a national center; and (3) national programs. Establishes as ESEA title V, Promoting Equity, which authorizes appropriations for parts: (A) a revised Magnet Schools Assistance program; (B) a new Equalization Assistance program which provides technical and other assistance, including research, regarding school finance equity; and (C) a revised Women's Educational Equity program. Establishes a new ESEA title VI, Indian Education, which adds revised Indian Education Act programs to ESEA. (Eliminates the current title VI provisions for Projects and Programs Designed to Address School Dropout Problems and to Strengthen Basic Education.) Authorizes appropriations for the following title VI programs: (1) formula grants to LEAs; (2) discretionary programs to improve achievement of Indian children, through grants to Indian-controlled schools and demonstration grants; (3) professional development and adult education programs; (4) national activities and grants to States; and (5) Federal administration through the Office of Indian Education and the National Advisory Council on Indian Education. Revises ESEA title VII, Bilingual Education Programs, while transferring the Emergency Immigrant Education Program to title VII from title IV. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) financial assistance for bilingual education, including enhancement grants and comprehensive district grants; (2) research and evaluation, including academic excellence awards, State grants, and the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education; (3) professional development, including grants to higher education institutions, State educational agencies, and LEAs, and academic fellowships; and (4) the Emergency Immigrant Education Program. Establishes a new ESEA title VIII, Impact Aid. (The current impact aid laws are repealed later in this Act.) Revises the impact aid to LEAs by: (1) terminating payments for children whose parents either live on Federal land or work for the Federal Government; and (2) changing the payment formula for those children whose parents work for the Federal Government and live on Federal property, and those who live on Indian lands. Authorizes appropriations. Revises ESEA General Provisions, transferring them from title X to title IX. Provides for: (1) flexibility in the use of administrative and other funds, through consolidation of State administrative funds for elementary and secondary education programs and consolidation of funds for local administration; (2) coordination of programs, including consolidated State and local applications; (3) waivers of statutory and regulatory requirements; and (4) certain uniform provisions. Title II: Amendments to the General Education Provisions Act - Part A: Applicability of the General Education Provisions Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to revise applicability and other aspects. Part B: The Department of Education - Revises GEPA with respect to functions of the Department of Education, including an Office of Private Education. Part C: Appropriations and Evaluations - Revises GEPA with respect to availability of appropriations, contingent extension of programs, and biennial evaluation report. Part D: Administration of Education Program - Revises GEPA with respect to joint funding of programs, information collection and dissemination, review of application, use of withheld funds, applications, regulations, reduction of record retention requirements, and equity for students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries. Part E: Advisory Committees - Repeals specified GEPA provisions relating to Advisory Councils. Part F: Enforcement - Repeal specified GEPA provisions relating to use of recovered funds. Part G: Related Amendments to Other Acts - Makes related amendments to the Department of Education Organization Act and the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). Part H: Conforming Amendments - Makes conforming amendments to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and to HEA. Title III: Amendments to Other Acts - Part A: Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to revise provisions for allocations. Combines the current ESEA title I chapter I State agency program for the handicapped with the IDEA programs of grants to States and for infants and toddlers with disabilities. Part B: Amendments to the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to revise provisions with respect to grants for State literacy initiatives and grants for State and local activities for the education of homeless children and youth. Authorizes appropriations. Part C: Repeal of Impact Aid Statutes - Repeals certain Federal laws for impact aid. (Impact aid provisions are added to ESEA earlier in this Act.)

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1994

United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Military Personnel Title II: Operation and Maintenance Title III: Procurement Title IV: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Title V: Revolving and Management Funds Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs Title VII: Related Agencies Title VIII: General Provisions Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1994 - Title I: Military Personnel - Appropriates funds for FY 1994 for military and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force. Title II: Operation and Maintenance - Appropriates funds for FY 1994 for the operation and maintenance of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force (including a transfer of funds in each case), the defense agencies, the respective reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guards. Appropriates funds for the Army's National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration (including a transfer of funds), support for specified international sporting competitions (including a transer of funds), transportation of humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan and sub-Saharan Africa, certain Department of Defense (DOD) global cooperative initiatives (including a transfer of funds), and for assistance to the republics of the former Soviet Union for the elimination of nuclear, chemical, and other weapons, demilitarization, conversion, and retraining. Title III: Procurement - Appropriates funds for FY 1994 for the procurement by the armed forces and reserve counterparts of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion (including the carrier replacement program and the DDG-51 destroyer program), and National Guard and reserve equipment and for other procurement. Appropriates funds for purchases under the Defense Production Act of 1950. Title IV: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Appropriates funds for FY 1994 for research, development, test, and evaluation by the armed forces and defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the Directors of Test and Evaluation and Operational Test and Evaluation. Title V: Revolving and Management Funds - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Defense Business Operations Fund; and (2) programs under the National Defense Sealift Fund (including a transfer of funds). Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) DOD medical and health care programs; (2) the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions; (3) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense (including a transfer of funds); and (4) expenses and activities of the Office of Inspector General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978. Title VII: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; and (2) expenses of the Community Management Staff. Rescinds certain funding of the National Security Education Trust Fund. Title VIII: General Provisions - Specifies authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of appropriated funds. (Sec. 8014) Prohibits the management of DOD civilian personnel by end strengths during FY 1994. (Sec. 8025) Directs DOD to award contracts competitively in FY 1994 for at least four new fixed price managed care support contracts. (Sec. 8051) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds: (1) to reduce military or civilian medical and medical support personnel strengths below the FY 1993 level; (2) for travel or other support costs of the Tailhook Association; and (3) for the joint Department of Defense/Department of Energy Safeguard C contingent nuclear testing program. (Sec. 8056) Establishes the National Drug Intelligence Center to coordinate and consolidate drug intelligence from all national security and law enforcement agencies. (8060) Authorizes DOD to develop and procure the LANDSAT 7 vehicle. (Sec. 8063) Authorizes the Secretary to accept defense burden sharing contributions from Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Kuwait. (Sec. 8073) Authorizes the payment of voluntary separation incentive payments to military personnel. (Sec. 8080) Requires the Director of the Air National Guard to operate a Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence planning office. (Sec. 8098) Authorizes the obligation of funds for procurement of OH-58D Scout aircraft and AH-64 aircraft. (Sec. 8114) Appropriates funds for transfer to the Coast Guard for payment of a 2.2 percent pay increase for uniformed members. (Sec. 8120) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to establish the Mine Warfare Center of Excellence at the naval station at Ingleside, Texas. (Sec. 8121) Caps the total amount that may be expended during FY 1994 from funds appropriated by this or any other DOD appropriation Act at $255.8 billion. (Sec. 8122) Provides for transfers of funds for the following programs, among others: (1) the SSN-688 attack submarine; (2) the CVN nuclear aircraft carrier; (3) the TRIDENT ballistic missile submarine; (4) the SSN-21 attack submarine; (5) the DDG-51 destroyer; (6) the T-AGOS surveillance ship; and (7) the LSD cargo variant ship. (Sec. 8124) Directs the Departments of Defense and Air Force to obligate the $55.5 million appropriated for research and development in Public Law 102-396 only for the continuance of the Space Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Program.

Women's Health Information Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1993

Women's Health Information Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an Interagency Committee on Health Communications to provide advice to the Secretary on developing, overseeing, and coordinating Federal health promotion and education activities, including such activities within the Public Health Service. Requires the Committee to give priority to activities concerning women's health. Provides for the establishment of a Clearinghouse on Women's Health to compile and disseminate information concerning women's health.

Environmental Risk Reduction Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1993

Environmental Risk Reduction Act of 1993 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to use resources pursuant to environmental laws to reduce risks to human health and welfare and ecological resources through the assessment and ranking of relative risks and options for their management. Requires the Administrator to establish: (1) a Committee on Relative Risks to provide advice on ranking the relative risks of stressors to human health and welfare and ecological resources; (2) a Committee on Environmental Benefits to provide advice on estimating quantitative benefits of reducing risks and the costs of existing or proposed laws or regulations; and (3) a Committee on Communicating Risk to provide advice on communicating information on risks to the public. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Administrator to: (1) protect human health and the environment by using careful risk assessments and evaluation of options for reducing risks; and (2) develop and revise, as necessary, guidelines to ensure consistency and technical quality in risk assessments by specifying minimum standards for risk assessment approaches. Requires the Administrator to conduct a core environmental risk assessment research program to insure that the risk assessment process is based on adequate environmental data and scientific understanding. Requires at least half of research conducted under this Act to be under agreements with universities or not-for-profit organizations. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes an Interagency Panel on Risk Assessment and Reduction for purposes of coordinating Federal research, data gathering, and implementation of environmental risk assessment and risk reduction activities. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress on: (1) a prioritized list of the human health and welfare and ecological resource risks considered by the Committee on Relative Risks; (2) public awareness of the likelihood, seriousness, magnitude, and irreversibility of each risk; (3) alternative options for reducing risks and estimated costs and benefits to society; (4) the time required for reducing risks through each option; (5) evaluation of the uncertainty associated with aspects of the assessment process; and (6) research or data collection that would reduce such uncertainty. Provides for biennial updates of such report.

To require that educational organizations that offer educational programs to minors for a fee disclose certain information.

United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1993

Requires educational organizations that offer educational programs to minors for a fee to disclose certain information in written form to the minor or the minor's parent before accepting funds for the cost of the minor's participation in such a program. (Excludes from the definition of educational organization a local educational agency, an elementary or secondary school or organization sponsored by such a school, a recreational organization, or a social club.) Requires each such educational organization to include a verifiable statement of nondiscriminatory enrollment and employment policy on all enrollment or recruitment material. Directs the Secretary of Education to monitor compliance with this Act. Authorizes imposition of civil fines for violations.

Primary Health Care Support Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1993

Primary Health Care Support Act of 1993 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop resource-based expenses for the determination of average practice expense relative value units for use in determining payment for each physician service under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA). Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) eliminate the reduction in practice expense relative value units for certain part B services as mandated under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993; (2) base Medicare reimbursement for graduate medical education (GME) costs on a weighted national mean amount; and (3) provide greater GME reimbursement for primary care residencies. Establishes the National Physician Work Force Commission to: (1) study all matters relating to physician work force goals and issues in order to develop recommendations for an annual report to the Congress; (2) evaluate the undergraduate medical education programs operated by medical schools and graduate medical education programs located in the United States for a report to the Congress and the Secretary; (3) study non-Medicare funding of GME for a report to the Congress and the Secretary; and (4) submit to the Congress an implementing bill for allocating first-year residency positions to the various specialties and subspecialties and for allocating the positions within each specialty to individual GME programs. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Health Professions Education Extension Amendments of 1992 to abolish the Council on Graduate Medical Education. Directs the Secretary to conduct research and report to the Congress on the effect of research grants and contracts on primary care medical training. Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) double Medicare bonus payments for physicians who furnish qualified physician services in health professional shortage areas (HPSAs); (2) allow physicians to continue receiving their bonus payments for ten years after an area loses its HPSA designation; and (3) decrease on a graduated basis the indirect teaching adjustment factor used in determining additional payments for certain hospitals with indirect costs of medical education.

Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act

United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1993

Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education to disclose gender participation rates and program support expenditures in college athletic programs to prospective students and, upon request, to the public. Directs the Secretary of Education to compile and publish annual reports of such data.

Urban Schools of America (USA) Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Urban School Improvement Title II: School Bulding Repair and Renovation Title III: Urban School Research Title IV: General Provisions Urban Schools of America (USA) Act of 1993 - Title I: Urban School Improvement - Authorizes appropriations and sets forth funds allocation factors. (Sec. 105) Requires LEAs to use funds under this title to meet national education goals through programs designed to: (1) increase the academic achievement and graduation rates of urban school children to at least the national average; (2) prepare urban school graduates to enter higher education, pursue careers, and exercise their responsibilities as citizens; (3) recruit and retain qualified teachers; and (4) decrease the use of drugs and alcohol by urban students, and enhance their physical and emotional health. (Sec. 106) Sets forth program accountability requirements. (Sec. 107) Authorizes the Secretary to make competitive incentive awards to individual participating schools that demonstrate exemplary progress in meeting specified program requirements. (Sec. 108) Directs the Secretary to report on the impact of Federal regulations, guidelines, and policies on urban public schools. (Sec. 109) Requires LEAs desiring to receive an allotment to establish (or designate) a local advisory group. (Sec. 110) Sets forth special rules relating to ranking of schools to determine relative need, in general, on the basis of achievement, poverty, and racial isolation. Requires each LEA receiving a grant to serve between ten and 20 percent of its schools. Requires eligible LEAs to have flexibility to serve homeless children, desegregating students, immigrants, migrants, or other highly mobile populations, within the program assisted under this title. Title II: School Building Repair and Renovation - Authorizes appropriations to assist eligible LEAs in repairing and renovating instructional facilities in city schools and for programs for school environmental concerns and safety improvement. (Sec. 203) Limits the period covered by a grant application to three years, and requires annual review by the Secretary. Title III: Urban School Research - Authorizes appropriations for the National Institute for Urban Education (the Institute), established in the Department of Education by this title. (Sec. 302) Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to create an Assistant Secretary for Urban Education (the Assistant Secretary), who is to establish the Institute in the Department. Requires the Institute and allows LEAs to use funds for specified functions involving research, information, and evaluation relating to urban education and title I programs. Title IV: General Provisions - Establishes the Interagency Council on Urban Schools to: (1) review Federal programs to determine effects on urban schools' ability to meet national education goals; (2) track school progress toward such goals; (3) solicit advice and information from urban education experts and urban school representatives on improvement of Federal programs; (4) review Federal regulations for duplication or contradiction; (5) report annually to the Congress and the President on urban school progress; (6) review and recommend improvement or streamlining of Federal data collection in urban schools; and (7) conduct research to help urban school practitioners improve school performance. (Sec. 402) Directs the President to conduct a White House Conference on Urban Education. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 403) Establishes a National Commission on Urban Education, which shall: (1) study specified issues relating to urban schools; and (2) report, and recommend changes in Federal legislation, to the President and appropriate congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations.

Rural Schools of America (RSA) Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Rural School Improvement Title II: School Building Repair and Renovation Title III: Evaluation of Results Title IV: General Provisions Rural Schools of America (RSA) Act of 1993 - Title I: Rural School Improvement - Establishes, and authorizes appropriations for, a rural school improvement (RSI) grants program to help meet national educational goals. (Sec. 102) Directs the Secretary of Education, under such program, to: (1) reserve specified funds for competitive grant awards to exemplary school programs; and (2) make allotments to State educational agencies (SEAs), for suballotment to local educational agencies (LEAs), based on relative Chapter 1 funding (for educationally disadvantaged students under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965). Requires recipient LEAs to make subgrants to community-based organizations or nonprofit partnerships between the LEA, local colleges or universities, or area-wide collaboratives of private sector businesses. (Sec. 103) Sets forth: (1) requirements for applications, local planning, uses of funds, accountability, and local advisory groups; and (2) special rules for ranking schools within an LEA by need, flexibility, and coordination with Chapter 1 planning. (Sec. 107) Authorizes incentive awards to individual schools that demonstrate exemplary progress. (Sec. 108) Directs the Secretary to report on the impact of Federal regulations, guidelines, and policies on rural public schools. Title II: School Building Repair and Renovation - Establishes, and authorizes appropriations for, a program of assistance for rural school building repair and renovation. (Sec. 202) Allots program funds to SEAs based on relative Chapter 1 funding, with suballotments to LEAs based on number of: (1) children from families below the poverty line; (2) school buildings used for instructional purposes; and (3) school buildings more than 25 years old used for instructional purposes. (Sec. 204) Requires eligible LEAs to use half of their suballotment for programs for school building repair and renovation, and half for programs for school environmental concerns and safety improvements. Authorizes SEA waivers of such requirement. Applies Davis-Bacon Act requirements to such programs. Title III: Evaluation of Results - Establishes, and authorizes appropriations for, a program of rural school research and evaluation. (Sec. 302) Directs the Secretary to establish for each region a National Rural Regional Education Research Center, to be operated by the appropriate regional educational laboratory. (Sec. 303) Requires each Center to make direct grants to rural LEAs in its region participating in a program assisted under title I of this Act, to conduct local schoool district research and evaluation of efforts toward meeting the national education goals. Title IV: General Provisions - Establishes the Interagency Council on Rural Schools. (Sec. 402) Directs the President to conduct a White House Conference on Rural Education. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 403) Requires eligible LEAs to use Federal funds received under this Act only to supplement but not supplant non-Federal funds.

Foreign Assistance Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Reform of Foreign Assistance Policies and Programs Title II: Bilateral Economic and Development Assistance Title III: Security Assistance Title IV: Multilateral Assistance Part A: International Development Association Part B: Asian Development Fund Part C: Global Environment Facility Part D: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Part E: Other Provisions Title V: Regional Provisions Part A: Provisions Relating to Sub-Saharan Africa Part B: Provisions Relating to East Asia and the Pacific Part C: Provisions Relating to Europe and the Former Soviet Union Part D: Provisions Relating to the Middle East Part E: Provisions Relating to Latin America Title VI: Bosnia and Hercegovina Self-Defense Act of 1993 Title VII: South African Democratic Transition Support Act of 1993 Title VIII: General Provisions Title IX: Effective Date Foreign Assistance Act of 1993 - Title I: Reform of Foreign Assistance Policies and Programs - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to revise provisions concerning U.S. policy on foreign assistance. (Sec. 102) Requires the President to submit to the Congress a plan for comprehensive reform of U.S. foreign assistance programs and of the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance. Sets forth immediate reform actions to be taken by the President, including: (1) establishing criteria for the closure or termination of agency field offices or programs; and (2) reducing by 20 percent, by the end of FY 1994, the number of countries in which such agency has either a field presence or programs. Expresses the sense of the Congress that private and voluntary organizations participating in development assistance programs should obtain a greater share of their resources from private contributions. (Sec. 103) Directs the President to establish a program performance evaluation capacity in the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance and report annually to the Congress on: (1) the progress of the agency in achieving sustainable development objectives; and (2) the impact on economic development of U.S. economic assistance on a country-by-country basis. (Sec. 104) Revises congressional purposes of development assistance. Sets forth as the four basic objectives of development assistance programs and U.S. economic cooperation policy: (1) the promotion of sustainable economic growth and development; (2) the building of democratic participation in development; (3) the prevention and resolution of specified transnational issues; and (4) the response to emergency humanitarian needs. Revises authorized uses of development assistance. (Sec. 105) Revises policies and objectives of military assistance programs. (Sec. 109) Prohibits the use of funds authorized for foreign assistance for FY 1994 for: (1) financial incentives to induce businesses to relocate outside the United States if it will reduce the number of individuals employed in the United States; (2) establishing any export processing zone or designated area in which the tax, tariff, labor, environment, and safety laws of a country do not apply to activities in such area, unless the President certifies that such assistance is not likely to cause a loss of jobs within the United States; (3) support for any project designed to increase exports of agricultural, import-sensitive textile, or apparel commodities from a developing country if such exports are in direct competition with U.S. exports or are expected to cause substantial injury to U.S. exporters (exempts activities designed to increase food security); or (4) assistance for a project that contributes to the violation of workers' rights. (Sec. 111) Prohibits foreign assistance funding to a country on a grant basis except pursuant to an agreement which authorizes the administrator of the agency responsible for administering development assistance to deobligate such funds without the country's approval. (Sec. 112) Requires the annual deobligation of specified unexpended foreign assistance funds that have been obligated for more than four years. (Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary of State to report to specified congressional officials on U.S. military and economic assistance, focusing on the balance and appropriate uses of each. (Sec. 114) Requires the Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID) to report to specified congressional officials on the potential of programs to provide conflict resolution assistance. Title II: Bilateral Economic and Development Assistance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for: (1) specified development assistance; (2) international disaster assistance; (3) American schools, libraries, and hospitals abroad; (4) assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States; (5) assistance for the independent states of the former Soviet Union; (6) the International Fund for Ireland; (7) the Multilateral Assistance Initiative for the Philippines; (8) the Inter-American Foundation; (9) the African Development Foundation; and (10) the Peace Corps. (Sec. 202) Authorizes the President to reduce the debt owed by an eligible country as a result of housing guarantees, credits or guarantees made under the Arms Export Control Act, or loans or guarantees made under the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945. Defines an "eligible country" as a country with a heavy debt burden that is eligible to borrow from the International Development Association (IDA) but not from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) and that meets other specified conditions. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 203) Provides for the establishment of a Microenterprise Development Fund within the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance. (Sec. 206) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for worldwide housing guarantees and raises the ceiling on the amount of loans available under such program. (Sec. 207) Supports development education programs to involve U.S. citizens in programs about developing countries or in the development process. (Sec. 208) Authorizes the President, subject to certain conditions, to provide assistance through nongovernmental organizations to the people of a country that would otherwise be restricted from receiving foreign assistance. (Sec. 210) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for AID operating expenses. Title III: Security Assistance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for: (1) foreign military financing (grants) for Israel, Egypt, and other recipients; (2) foreign military financing (loans) for Turkey, Greece, and Portugal; (3) economic support fund (ESF) assistance for Israel, Egypt, Cyprus, cooperative projects, and other recipients; (4) international military education and training; (5) anti-terrorism assistance; (6) peacekeeping operations; and (7) nonproliferation and disarmament activities in the independent states of the former Soviet Union. (Sec. 303) Establishes limits on additions to stockpiles in South Korea, Israel, and Thailand. (Sec. 306) Amends the Arms Export Control Act to revise provisions concerning presidential certifications and congressional procedures for certain arms transfers. (Sec. 310) Prohibits sales, the extension of credits or guarantees, and the approval of licenses with respect to the sale of defense articles or services to a foreign country unless the U.S. supplier certifies that it will not make any third-party incentive payments for purposes of satisfying an offset agreement with such country. Defines an "offset agreement" as an agreement under which the supplier agrees to purchase goods from the country in consideration for the country's purchase of defense articles or services. Imposes sanctions on foreign parties to coproduction agreements that violate restrictions concerning unauthorized third party transfers or unauthorized dispositions of defense articles or services or technical data if the President notifies the Congress or the Congress so determines by bill or joint resolution. Prohibits military assistance involving coproduction or licensed production outside the United States of any defense article of U.S. origin unless the President furnishes full information on the proposed transaction to the appropriate congressional committees. (Sec. 311) Prohibits the sale or lease of defense articles or services to any country or international organization which is known to have sent letters to U.S. firms requesting, or soliciting information about, compliance with the secondary or tertiary Arab boycott. Provides for presidential waivers, subject to certain conditions. (Sec. 312) Expresses the sense of the Congress that U.S. foreign policy is best served when ESF assistance is provided either in the form of U.S. goods and services or in the form of direct support for projects in the recipient country. Requires at least 15 percent of annual ESF assistance to be provided in the form of commodity import programs. Title IV: Multilateral Assistance - Part A: International Development Association - Amends the International Development Association Act to authorize appropriations for the U.S. contribution to the tenth replenishment of the IDA. (Sec. 402) Amends the International Financial Institutions Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to encourage the U.S. executive directors of the IDA and World Bank to advocate, and to report to specified congressional committees on, policies regarding improvements in the standard of living, economic empowerment of women, environmental protection, debt relief, and support for the rule of law. Part B: Asian Development Fund - Amends the Asian Development Bank Act to authorize appropriations for the U.S. contribution to specified replenishments of the Asian Development Fund. Part C: Global Environmental Facility - Amends the Bretton Woods Agreement Act to authorize appropriations for the U.S. contribution to the Global Environment Facility subject to certain conditions. Part D: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991 to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to oppose Bank lending to countries which have: (1) failed to take adequate steps to prevent drug trafficking; (2) expropriated property owned by a U.S. citizen; (3) taken steps to nullify contracts with U.S. citizens; or (4) imposed discriminatory taxes or restrictive operational conditions. Part E: Other Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for contributions to international organizations and programs. Removes the South West Africa People's Organization from the list of organizations and countries for which funding is prohibited. Adds Myanmar, Iraq, North Korea, and Syria to such list, but makes the withholding of funds inapplicable to contributions to programs of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) or the United Nations Children's Fund in such countries. Earmarks funds for the United Nations Population Fund subject to prohibitions on funding for programs in China and other restrictions regarding commingling of funds and approval of projects. (Sec. 442) Prohibits funding for technical assistance to specified international financial institutions. (Sec. 443) Amends the International Financial Institutions Act to require the U.S. executive directors of specified international financial institutions to promote policies to encourage developing countries to reduce excessive military expenditures and enhance resources for primary health care and basic education. (Sec. 444) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should consider withholding U.S. payments to multilateral development organizations or international financial institutions that do not take steps to establish independent audit and review agencies. Title V: Regional Provisions - Part A: Provisions Relating to Sub-Saharan Africa - Amends the African Development Foundation Act to authorize the African Development Foundation to employ persons who are not U.S. citizens. (Sec. 503) Prohibits, unless certain conditions are met: (1) military and economic assistance for Sudan; (2) foreign military financing for Kenya; and (3) economic and military assistance for Zaire. (Sec. 505) Authorizes the President to provide reconstruction assistance to Somalia. (Sec. 508) Allocates assistance for establishing conflict resolution capabilities within specified African organizations and for facilitating reductions in the size of armed forces of Subsaharan African countries. Part B: Provisions Relating to East Asia and the Pacific - Sets forth the Multilateral Assistance Initiative for the Philippines. (Sec. 512) Authorizes the President to use funds for the independent states of the former Soviet Union to provide assistance to Mongolia. (Sec. 513) Includes the Lao People's Democratic Republic in the list of Communist countries to which foreign assistance is prohibited. (Sec. 514) Requires the President, before certain arms sales or licenses are approved under the Arms Export Control Act with respect to Indonesia, to determine whether there have been improvements in the human rights situation in East Timor. (Sec. 515) Sets forth the sense of the Congress with respect to human rights in India. (Sec. 516) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should show clear support for Taiwan. Part C: Provisions Relating to Europe and the Former Soviet Union - Makes East European countries eligible to receive excess defense articles. (Sec. 525) Earmarks funds for winter-related and other humanitarian assistance for the people of Bosnia-Hercegovina. (Sec. 526) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States should allocate more resources for Ukraine. Part D: Provisions Relating to the Middle East - Prohibits assistance to Syria until the President reports to the appropriate congressional committees that Syria has taken specified steps with regard to emigration and human rights, terrorism, weapons proliferation, withdrawal of troops from Lebanon, and antinarcotics efforts. Withholds all assistance for Jordan if Jordan has not substantially complied with United Nations Security Council resolutions concerning Iraq. Part E: Provisions Relating to Latin America - Extends the administration of justice assistance program. Makes such assistance available for Panama. (Sec. 543) Prohibits foreign assistance to Peru until the President certifies to the Congress that Peru has paid compensation to the survivors of a specified member of the Air Force who was killed by the Peruvian armed forces. Title VI: Bosnia and Hercegovina Self-Defense Act of 1993 - Bosnia and Hercegovina Self-Defense Act of 1993 - Declares that the President should terminate the arms embargo of Bosnia and Hercegovina upon receipt of a request from such government for assistance in exercising its right of self-defense under the United Nations Charter. (Sec. 604) Authorizes the President, if such request is made, to direct the drawdown of defense articles and services and military education and training to provide assistance. Bars members of the armed forces who provide such assistance abroad from performing combatant duties. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII: South African Democratic Transition Support Act of 1993 - South African Democratic Transition Support Act of 1993 - Repeals specified provisions of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 (to be completely repealed when the President certifies to the Congress that an interim government that was elected on a nonracial basis through free and fair elections has taken office in South Africa). Urges all State or local governments and all private entities in the United States to rescind any restrictions on economic interaction with South Africa. (Sec. 705) Authorizes the President to provide assistance to support the transition to nonracial democracy in South Africa, subject to certain limitations. (Sec. 706) Sets forth U.S. policy on investment, trade, and exchanges with South Africa, listing steps to be taken by specified Federal agencies and international financial institutions. Title VIII: General Provisions - Terminates foreign assistance to any recipient who uses assistance for unauthorized purposes. (Sec. 802) Prohibits foreign assistance for: (1) lobbying activities; (2) private and voluntary organizations that fail to provide documentation for auditing purposes; (3) assessments, arrearages, or dues to the United Nations of any foreign member country; (4) any country whose elected head of government is deposed by a military coup; and (5) any country that provides lethal military equipment to a terrorist government (subject to presidential waivers). (Sec. 812) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should instruct the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations to enhance the enforcement of nonproliferation treaties through the adoption of a Security Council resolution that would state that any non-nuclear weapon state that is found to have terminated or violated an IAEA safeguards agreement would be subject to international economic sanctions. Prohibits foreign assistance or funding under the Arms Export Control Act to non-nuclear weapon states that have terminated or violated such agreements. (Sec. 813) Directs the Secretary of State to notify specified congressional committees in advance of any proposed deployment of U.S. military personnel to undertake civic action or humanitarian assistance programs in a foreign country. (Sec. 814) Withholds assistance to a foreign country in an amount equivalent to total unpaid parking fines and penalties owed by the country to the District of Columbia. (Sec. 815) Requires the Secretary of State to report to the Congress on efforts to promote the elimination of discrimination against people with disabilities and on discriminatory practices against such people around the world. Title IX: Effective Date - Requires this Act to take effect on October 1, 1993.

A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to 1965 to authorize programs of child abuse education and prevention, and to establish a demonstration project relating to child abuse education and prevention.

United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1993

Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to establish a demonstration program and fund other programs for child abuse education and prevention curriculum development and teacher training. Authorizes appropriations.

Nonviolent Futures for Children Act

United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1993

Nonviolent Futures for Children Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to eligible local educational agencies for preventive services and interventions to reduce the incidence of violence. Gives priority to areas with high concentrations of disadvantaged students and high rates of violence affecting children and youth. Allows such grants to be used for: (1) school-based activities, including peer education or mediation, conflict resolution training, social skills training, youth designed and developed programs, parenting education, postsecondary educational opportunity projects, or remodeling and security personnel; or (2) school-community partnership activities, including after-school programs, mentoring programs, parenting skills courses, professional training for school personnel, or job training and placement. Directs the Secretary to award competitive grants to eligible entities for establishing community-based programs to: (1) assist out-of-school youth and rehabilitate youth offenders; and (2) provide opportunities for such youth to continue their education or obtain job training. Gives priority to areas with high concentrations of out-of-school youth or youth offenders and high rates of violence affecting children and youth. Allows such grants to be used for community-based programs, including peer and adult support and redirection, incentives for continuing education, assessments of needs and referrals to appropriate services, community service, job training and placement opportunities, mentoring services, and other rehabilitative opportunities. Authorizes appropriations.

Gender Equity in Education Amendments of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1993

Gender Equity in Education Amendments of 1993 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to establish gender equity requirements and training programs for teachers and other educational personnel (or parents) with respect to: (1) basic program requirements (under chapter 1 of title I for educationally disadvantaged children), innovative projects, schoolwide projects, parental involvement, and program improvement; (2) Even Start progam uses of funds; (3) secondary school programs (for basic skills improvement and dropout prevention and reentry) applications and award of grants; (4) local targeted assistance programs (under chapter 2 educational improvement partnership); (5) Eisenhower Mathematics and Science program school teacher training and national programs; (6) Women's Educational Equity personnel training and career education programs; (7) gifted and talented students personnel training; and (8) computer-based instruction personnel training under the Secretary's fund for innovation in education. Amends the School Dropout Demonstration Assistance Act of 1988 to reserve certain funds for programs to serve pregnant and parenting teenagers. Adds gender-equity requirements to applications under such Act and under the Secondary Schools Basic Skills Demonstration Assistance Act of 1988. Amends ESEA with respect to pregnant teenagers and teenage parents under various programs, including: (1) Even Start programs; (2) local targeted assistance programs; and (3) State and local drug abuse education and prevention programs. Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) and ESEA to add gender-equity requirements in research and data compilation. Requires the Office of Educational Research and Improvement to conduct special studies to assess the impact of Federal, State, and local efforts to provide a gender-equitable education to elementary and secondary school students. Directs the Secretary of Education to provide for special studies to assess progress in achieving gender equity in education as a result of this Act.

Fairness in Education for Girls and Boys Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Gender Equity in Mathematics and Science Education Title II: Elimination of Sexual Harassment and Abuse Fairness in Education for Girls and Boys Act of 1993 - Title I: Gender Equity in Mathematics and Science Education - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise the Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education program with respect to: (1) grants to higher education institutions for elementary and secondary mathematics and science programs of school teacher training in gender-equitable instruction, targeted intervention and followup to encourage historically underserved students, and community-based informal education for historically underserved and underrepresented students; (2) State application statistics on sex and race (or ethnicity) of students and teachers involved; (3) Federal model standards for reporting data by sex within race (or ethnicity) and socioeconomic status; and (4) model program grant priority for gender equity in computer use and teaching practices; and (5) national clearinghouse information dissemination; (6) regional consortia use of funds; and (7) programs for computer-based instruction. Title II: Elimination of Sexual Harassment and Abuse - Amends ESEA to make an environment free from sexual harassment and abuse a distinguishing feature of effective schools. Adds to certain targeted uses of funds certain programs of training, technical assistance, and education designed to eliminate sexual harassment and abuse in schools. Adds programs to address sexual harassment and violence as part of efforts to ensure that educational institutions are free from threats to student and employee safety (among programs which may receive Women's Educational Equity assistance). Includes the areas of sexual harassment and assault, depression and suicide, and eating disorders among those for which grants for comprehensive school health education may be used.

Women's Educational Equity Restoration Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1993

Women's Educational Equity Restoration Act of 1993 - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish an Office of Gender Equity as an organizational entity in the Department of Education. Requires the Director of such Office to report annually on the programs and activities assisted under the Women's Educational Equity Act. Women's Educational Equity Act of 1993 - Amends the Women's Educational Equity Act (part A of title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) to reauthorize and revise grant programs to encourage gender equity throughout the educational system, including grants for model equity programs, local implementation, and research and development. Gives the Director of the Office of Gender Equity specified responsibilities under such Act. Authorizes appropriations.

A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize programs of child abuse education and prevention, and to establish a demonstration project relating to child abuse education and prevention.

United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1993

Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to establish a demonstration program and fund other programs for child abuse education and prevention curriculum development and teacher training. Authorizes appropriations.

Opal Creek Forest Preserve Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1993

Opal Creek Forest Preserve Act of 1993 - Establishes the Opal Creek Forest Preserve, consisting of specified Federal lands in the Detroit Ranger District of the Willamette National Forest, Oregon. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a cooperative management plan for the Preserve to address suitable research, recreational, and educational uses for each drainage and subdrainage within the Preserve, consistent with specified standards (for timber harvesting, nonmotorized recreation, road construction, special use permits, and roads, structures, and utilities) and guidelines (for research, education, and preservation of historic assets). Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) withdrawal of lands from disposition under the public land, mining, and mineral leasing laws and from operation of the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970; and (2) management of private inholdings. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct an inventory of non-Federal lands and interests in the Preserve and acquire those that would be suitable for inclusion in it. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) the addition of lands within the Bornite Project Area to the Preserve; and (2) the use of access roads to inholdings within the Preserve.

Affordable Health Care Now Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Improved Access to Affordable Health Care Subtitle A: Increased Availability and Continuity of Health Coverage for Employees and Their Families Subtitle B: Reform of Health Insurance Marketplace for Small Business Subtitle C: Preemption Subtitle D: Health Deduction Fairness Subtitle E: Improved Access to Community Health Services Subtitle F: Improved Access to Rural Health Services Subtitle G: State Flexibility in the Medicaid Program: The Medical Health Allowance Program Title II: Health Care Cost Containment and Quality Enhancement Subtitle A: Medical Malpractice Liability Reform Subtitle B: Administrative Cost Savings Subtitle C: Deduction for Cost of Catastrophic Health Plan; Medical Savings Accounts Subtitle D: Anti-Fraud Subtitle E: Medicare Payment Changes; Part B Premium Tax for High-Income Individuals Subtitle F: Removing Anti-Trust Impediments Subtitle G: Encouraging Enforcement Activities of Medical Self-Regulatory Entities Subtitle H: Prefunding Government Health Benefits for Certain Annuitants Subtitle I: Miscellaneous Provisions Title III: Long-Term Care Subtitle A: Tax Treatment of Long-Term Care Insurance Subtitle B: Protection of Assets Under Medicaid Through Use of Qualified Long-Term Care Insurance Subtitle C: Studies Subtitle D: Volunteer Service Credit Demonstration Projects Affordable Health Care Now Act of 1993 - Title I: Improved Access to Affordable Health Care - Subtitle A: Increased Availability and Continuity of Health Coverage for Employees and Their Families - Part 1: Required Coverage Options for Eligible Employees, Spouses, and Dependents - Requires each employer to make available to each eligible employee a group health plan under which: (1) coverage of each eligible individual with respect to such employee may be elected on an annual basis; (2) coverage is provided for at least the required coverage specified; and (3) employees may elect to have premiums collected through payroll deduction. Does not require employer contributions to the cost of coverage under such a plan. Provides for the exclusion of: (1) employers who have been employers for less than two years or who have no more than two eligible employees or no more than two eligible employees not covered under any group health plan; and (2) family members under specified circumstances. Specifies that a group health plan shall not be treated as failing to meet the requirements of this Act solely because a period of service by an eligible employee of not more than 60 days is required for coverage. Specifies that the required coverage is standard coverage, except that in the case of a small employer that has not contributed during the previous plan year to the cost of coverage for any eligible employee under any group health plan, the required coverage for the plan year is coverage under a MedAccess standard, MedAccess catastrophic, and MedAccess medisave plan. Provides for a five-year transition for existing group health plans. (Sec. 1002) Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) compliance with applicable requirements through multiple employer health arrangements; and (2) coverage options under a State medical health allowance program. Part 2: Preexisting Conditions and Continuity of Coverage; Renewability - Prohibits a group health plan from imposing (and an insurer from requiring an employer from imposing through a waiting period for coverage under a plan or similar requirement) a limitation or exclusion of benefits relating to treatment of a preexisting condition if: (1) the condition relates to a condition that was not diagnosed or treated within three months before the date of coverage under the plan; or (2) the limitation or exclusion extends over more than six month after the date of coverage, applies to an individual who, as of the date of birth, was covered under the plan, or relates to pregnancy. Specifies that, in the case of an individual who is eligible for coverage under a plan but for a waiting period imposed by the employer, the individual shall be treated as having been covered under the plan as of the earliest date of the beginning of the waiting period. (Sec. 1012) Requires each group health plan to waive any period applicable to a preexisting condition for similar benefits with respect to an individual to the extent that the individual, prior to enrollment in such plan, was covered for the condition under any other health plan. (Sec. 1013) Prohibits: (1) a multiemployer plan and an exempted multiple employer health plan from canceling or denying renewal of coverage under such a plan for an employer other than for nonpayment of contributions, fraud or other misrepresentation, noncompliance with plan provisions, or misuse of a provider network provision, or because the plan is ceasing to provide any coverage in a geographic area; (2) an insurer from canceling a health insurance plan or denying renewal of coverage other than as prescribed above; and (3) an insurer who terminates the offering of health insurance plans in an area from offering such a plan to any employer in the area until five years after the date of the termination. Part 3: Enforcement; Effective Dates; Definitions - Makes provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 applicable with respect to enforcement of this Act (by the Department of Labor). Amends the Internal Revenue Code (Code) to impose a tax ($100 per day for each individual involved, subject to specified limitations) on the failure of an insurer to comply with the requirements under part 2 unless the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) determines that the State has in effect a regulatory enforcement mechanism that provides adequate sanctions. Subtitle B: Reform of Health Insurance Marketplace for Small Business - Requires each insurer that makes available a health insurance plan to a small employer in a State to make available to each small employer in the State a MedAccess standard, MedAccess catastrophic, and MedAccess medisave plan, with exceptions for health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and if a State provides for guaranteed availability (rather than guaranteed issue). Requires each insurer that offers a MedAccess plan to a small employer in a State to accept: (1) every small employer in the State that applies for coverage; and (2) every eligible individual who applies for enrollment on a timely basis. Sets forth provision regarding: (1) special rules for HMOs; (2) timely enrollment requirements; and (3) enrollment of spouses and dependents. Makes such requirements inapplicable in a State that has provided (in accordance with specified standards) a mechanism under which each insurer offering a health insurance plan to a small employer in the State must participate in a program for assigning high-risk small employer groups (or individuals within such a group) among some or all such insurers, if the insurers comply. (Sec. 1102) Defines "MedAccess plan" as a health insurance plan that: (1) is designed to provide standard coverage with substantial cost-sharing, only catastrophic coverage, or medisave coverage; (2) includes only essential and medically necessary services; (3) meets applicable requirements relating to guaranteed issue; and (4) meets specifies consumer protection standards. Defines "MedAccess standard plan," "MedAccess catastrophic plan," and "MedAccess medisave plan" to mean a MedAccess plan that provides for at least standard coverage, for only catastrophic coverage, or medisave coverage, respectively. Requests the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to submit to the Secretary a set of rules which NAIC determines is sufficient for determining, in the case of any health insurance plan and for purposes of this subtitle, the actuarial value of the coverage offered by the plan. Directs the Secretary to certify such set of rules for use under this subtitle if they meet such requirements or establish such a set of rules. Specifies that a health insurance plan is considered to provide: (1) standard coverage if the benefits are determined, in accordance with certified rules of actuarial equivalence, to have a value that is within five percentage points of an established target actuarial value for standard coverage; (2) catastrophic coverage if benefits are available under the plan for a year only to the extent that expenses for covered services in a year exceed a deductible amount that is consistent with a specified requirement for a catastrophic health plan under the Code, and are determined, in accordance with certified actuarial equivalence rules, to have a value that is within five percentage points of an established target actuarial value for catastrophic coverage; and (3) medisave coverage if such plan consists of a catastrophic health plan within the meaning of the Code and a medical savings account. Requests NAIC to submit to the Secretary target actuarial values for standard and catastrophic coverage. Permits NAIC to submit periodic revisions of, and permits the Secretary to revise, the set of rules of actuarial equivalence and target actuarial values where necessary to take into account changes in the relevant types of health benefits provisions, in deductible levels for catastrophic coverage, or in relevant demographic conditions. (Sec. 1103) Directs the Secretary to request NAIC to develop model regulations that specify standards with respect to requirements: (1) that insurers make available MedAccess plans; (2) of guaranteed availability of MedAccess plans to small employers; (3) relating to limits on premiums and certain consumer protections; and (4) relating to limitation of annual premium increases. Requires the Secretary to review such standards and, if NAIC fails to specify standards meeting such requirements, to promulgate standards. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) the application of MedAccess standards and consumer protection standards by the States; and (2) the Federal role. (Sec. 1104) Sets forth provisions: (1) regarding limits on premiums and annual premium increases; and (2) requiring an insurer, at the time of offering a health insurance plan to a small employer, to fully disclose rating practices for health insurance plans, including rating practices for different populations and benefit designs. (Sec. 1106) Directs the Secretary to: (1) request NAIC to develop models for reinsurance or allocation of risk mechanisms for health insurance plans made available to small employers for whom an insurer is at risk of incurring high costs under the plan; and (2) review such models or specify models. Sets forth provisions regarding implementation of reinsurance or allocation of risk mechanisms by the States and the Federal role. Amends the Code to provide for the imposition of a tax on any health insurance plan which covers any employee in a Federal reinsurance State. (Sec. 1108) Directs the Secretary to establish an Office of Private Health Care Coverage. Requires the Office Director to submit to the Congress annual reports evaluating health care coverage reform. (Sec. 1109) Authorizes the Director to conduct: (1) research on the impact of this subtitle on the availability of affordable health coverage for employees and dependents in the small employers group health care coverage market and other specified topics; and (2) demonstration projects relating to such topics. Requires the Director to develop: (1) methods for measuring the relative health risks of eligible individuals in terms of the expected costs of providing benefits under health insurance plans and, in particular, MedAccess plans; and (2) a model for equitably distributing health risks among insurers in the small employer health care coverage market. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Preemption - Part 1: Scope of State Regulation - Prohibits: (1) State benefit mandates for group health plans; and (2) State or local law prohibitions against two or more employers obtaining coverage under an insured multiple employer health plan. (Sec. 1203) Preempts State restrictions concerning: (1) reimbursement rates or selective contracting; (2) differential financial incentives; and (3) utilization review methods. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the benefits and cost effectiveness of the use of managed care in the delivery of health services. Part 2: Multiple Employer Health Benefits Protections - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to allow a limited exemption under preemption rules for multiple employer plans providing health benefits subject to certain Federal standards. (Sec. 1212) Relieves exempted multiple employer plans providing medical care benefits of certain restrictions on preemption of State law. Treats such plans as employee welfare benefit plans. Allows commencement of new arrangements only if such exemption is in effect or an application is pending and the Secretary of Labor determines that provisional protection is appropriate. Sets forth exemption procedures, eligibility requirements, and additional requirements applicable to exempted arrangements. Requires certain disclosures to participating employers, maintenance of reserves, and corrective actions. Provides for expiration, suspension, and revocation of exemptions, and for review of actions by the Secretary. (Sec. 1213) Revises provisions relating to scope of preemption rules, and to treatment of single employer arrangements and of certain collectively bargained arrangements. (Sec. 1215) Establishes special rules for employee leasing healthcare arrangements. Treats such arrangements as multiple employer welfare arrangements except when they are multiple employer health plans. (Sec. 1216) Sets forth enforcement provisions relating to multiple employer welfare arrangements and employee leasing health care arrangements. (Sec. 1217) Sets forth filing requirements for multiple employer welfare arrangements. (Sec. 1218) Provides for cooperation between Federal and State authorities in enforcing ERISA requirements for multiple employer welfare arrangements with the limited exemption. Part 3: Encouragement of Multiple Employer Arrangements Providing Basic Health Benefits - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate the commonality of interest or geographic location requirement for tax exempt trust status for multiple employer health plans and insured multiple employer health plans if they meet certain requirements under ERISA and this Act. Part 4: Simplifying Filing of Reports for Employers Covered under Insured Multiple Employer Health Plans - Amends ERISA to direct the Secretary of Labor to prescribe an alternative method providing for a single annual report with respect to all employers who are covered under the same insured multiple employer health plan. Part 5: Compliance with Coverage Option Requirements - Provides for compliance with applicable coverage requirements through multiemployer plans and other multiple employer health arrangements. Subtitle D: Health Deduction Fairness - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide: (1) for a permanent extension and increase in the health insurance tax deduction for self-employed individuals; and (2) that the deduction for certain health insurance costs be determined without regard to an adjusted gross income threshold. Disallows the deduction to individuals eligible for employer-subsidized coverage. Allows the deduction whether or not the individual itemizes other deductions. Subtitle E: Improved Access to Community Health Services - Part 1: Increased Authorization for Community and Migrant Health Centers - Directs the Secretary to provide for grants to migrant and community health centers to promote primary health care services for underserved individuals. Allows grants to be used to promote the provision of off-site services, to improve birth outcomes in areas with high infant mortality and morbidity, to establish primary care clinics in areas in need, and for recruitment and training costs of necessary providers and operating costs for unreimbursed services. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the impact of such grants on access to health care, birth outcomes, and the use of emergency room services. Part 2: Grants for Projects for Coordinating Delivery of Services - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities: (1) to carry out demonstration projects to increase access to outpatient primary health services in specified geographic areas (i.e., areas that are rational areas for the delivery of health services, have a population of not more than 500,000 individuals, and have been designated by the Secretary as areas with a shortage of personal health services or that have a significant number of individuals with low incomes or insufficient health care insurance through coordinating the delivery of such services under Federal, State, local, and private programs; and (2) for developing plans to carry out such projects. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle F: Improved Access to Rural Health Services - Part 1: Establishment of Rural Emergency Access Care Hospitals Under Medicare - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide for: (1) establishment of rural emergency access care hospitals under Medicare; and (2) coverage of and payment for rural emergency access care hospital services under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance). Part 2: Rural Medical Emergencies Air Transport - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary to make grants to States to assist in the creation or enhancement of air medical transport systems that provide victims of medical emergencies in rural areas with access to treatments. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) application and State plan requirements; (2) considerations in awarding grants; (3) State administration and use of grants; (4) the number of grants; and (5) reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Part 3: Emergency Medical Services Amendments - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary to: (1) establish an Office of Emergency Medical Services, headed by a Director; (2) engage in specified emergency medical services activities, including disseminating information obtained in carrying out specified activities to public and private entities, providing technical assistance to State and local agencies, coordinating Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) activities with those of other Federal agencies; and (3) ensure that such activities are carried out consistent with certain requirements regarding maintaining an adequate number of health professionals with expertise in the provision of services, developing, periodically reviewing, and revising as appropriate guidelines for the provision of such services, appropriately using available technologies, and serving the unique needs of underserved inner-city and rural areas. (Sec. 1522) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States for the purpose of improving the availability and quality of emergency medical services through the operation of State offices of emergency medical services, subject to specified matching fund, budgetary, and other requirements. (Sec. 1523) Provides for demonstration projects to establish telecommunications between rural medical facilities and medical facilities with expertise or equipment. Directs the Secretary to ensure that the telecommunications technologies demonstrated include interactive video telecommunications, static video imaging transmitted through the telephone system, and facsimiles transmitted through such system. (Sec. 1524) Authorizes appropriations for: (1) emergency medical services (including for State offices of Emergency Medical Services and for telecommunications demonstrations); and (2) trauma care and certain other activities. Subtitle G: State Flexibility in the Medicaid Program: The Medical Health Allowance Program - Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to provide for the establishment of State health allowance programs under which the State makes payments to a group health plan which provides coverage to an eligible individual as an allowance towards the costs of providing the individual with benefits under the plan. Subtitle H: Medicaid Program Flexibility - Amends SSA title XIX Medicaid) to modify: (1) Federal requirements to allow States more flexibility in contracting for coordinated care services under Medicaid; and (2) provisions regarding the extension of certain waivers. Title II: Health Care Cost Containment and Quality Enhancement - Subtitle A: Medical Malpractice Liability Reform - Part 1: General Provisions - Makes this subtitle applicable with respect to any medical malpractice liability claim and to any medical malpractice liability action brought in State or Federal court, except a claim or action for damages arising from a vaccine-related injury or death to the extent that title XXI of the Public Health Service Act applies. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) preemption of State law; (2) effect on sovereign immunity and choice of law or venue; (3) jurisdiction; and (4) effective dates. Part 2: Medical Malpractice and Product Liability Reform - Prohibits a medical malpractice liability action from being brought in any State court during a calendar year unless the relevant claim has been initially resolved (i.e., a decision has been reached on whether the defendant is liable to the plaintiff for damages and on the amount of damages) under a certified alternative dispute resolution (ADR) system or an alternative Federal system. Prohibits a medical malpractice liability action from being brought in Federal court based on diversity of citizenship during a calendar year unless the relevant claim has been initially resolved under such a system in the State whose law applies. Directs the Attorney General to establish an ADR process for tort claims consisting of medical malpractice liability claims brought against the United States under chapter 171 of the Federal judicial code (U.S. Court of Federal Claims). Prohibits a medical malpractice liability action based on such a claim from being brought in any Federal court unless the claim has been initially resolved under such process. Sets forth procedures for filing actions. (Sec. 2012) Limits to $250,000 the amount of noneconomic damages that may be awarded to a claimant and family members in a medical malpractice liability action. Sets limits on punitive damages and on periodic payments for future losses. (Sec. 2013) Set forth provisions regarding: (1) limits on attorney fees and other costs; (2) joint and several liability (generally, liability may be found only for those damages directly attributable to the person's proportionate share of fault or responsibility for the injury); (3) a statute of limitations of seven years; and (4) a uniform standard for determining negligence (the defendant's conduct at the time of providing the health care services was not reasonable). (Sec. 2017) Specifies that in the case of a medical malpractice liability claim relating to services provided during labor or the delivery of a baby, if the health care professional did not previously treat the injured individual for the pregnancy, the trier of fact may not find that the defendant committed malpractice nor assess damages unless the malpractice is proven by clear and convincing evidence. Part 3: Requirements for State Alternative Dispute Resolution Systems - Lists requirements for State ADR systems, including that such a system: (1) applies to all medical malpractice liability claims under the jurisdiction of the courts of that State; (2) requires that a written opinion resolving the dispute be issued within six months after each party against whom the claim is filed has received notice of the claim; (3) is approved by the State or local governments; (4) provides for the transmittal to the State agency responsible for monitoring or disciplining health care professionals and providers of any findings of malpractice; and (5) provides for the regular transmittal of information on disputes resolved under the system to the Administrator for Health Care Policy and Research in a manner that protects the identity of the parties involved. (Sec. 2032) Directs the Secretary, by October 1 of each year, to certify State ADR systems that meet such requirements. Directs the Secretary to establish an alternative Federal ADR system for the resolution of medical malpractice liability claims in States that do not have in effect a certified ADR system. (Sec. 2033) Directs the Secretary, within five years, to submit to the Congress a report describing and evaluating State ADR systems and the alternative Federal system, including: (1) information on the effect of the ADR systems on health care costs, access to health care, and quality of care provided within the State; and (2) to the extent that such report does not provide information on no-fault systems operated by States as ADR systems, an analysis of the feasibility and desirability of establishing a system for resolving medical malpractice liability claims on a no-fault basis. Part 4: Other Provisions Relating to Medical Malpractice Liability - Authorizes a State agency responsible for disciplinary actions for a type of health care practitioner to enter into agreements with State or county professional societies to permit their participation in the licensing of such practitioner and to review any health care malpractice action, claims, or allegation, or other information concerning the practice patterns of any such practitioner. Sets forth agreement requirements. (Sec. 2042) Directs the Secretary to study incentives adopted by State and local governments, insurers, medical societies, and other entities to encourage physicians to volunteer to provide health care services in medically underserved areas. (Sec. 2043) Directs each State to require: (1) each health care professional and health care provider to participate in a risk management program to prevent, and provide early warning of, practices which may result in injuries to patients or endanger patient safety; and (2) each provider of health care professional and provider liability insurance in the State to establish risk management programs or sanction programs of risk management for health care professionals and providers provided by other entities, and require each such professional or provider, as a condition of maintaining insurance, to participate in one such program at least once in each three-year period. (Sec. 2044) Directs the Secretary to make grants: (1) for basic research in the prevention of, and compensation for, injuries resulting from health care professional or provider malpractice and for research of the outcomes of health care procedures; (2) to the States to assist in improving their ability to license and discipline health care professionals; and (3) to States and local governments, private nonprofit organizations, and health professional schools for educating the general public about the appropriate use of health care, realistic expectations of medical intervention, and the resources and role of health care professional licensing and disciplinary boards in investigating claims of incompetence or health care malpractice, and for developing programs of faculty training and curricula for educating health care professionals in quality assurance, risk management, and medical injury prevention. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Administrative Cost Savings - Part 1: Standardization of Claims Processing - Directs the Secretary to adopt standards relating to: (1) data elements for use in paper and electronic claims processing under health benefit plans and in utilization review and management of care; (2) uniform claims forms; and (3) uniform electronic transmission of the data elements. (Sec. 2102) Authorizes the Secretary, two years after standards are adopted for classes of services upon determining that a significant number of claims for benefits for such services under health benefit plans are not being submitted in accordance with such standards, to require that all providers of such services submit claims to health benefit plans in accordance with such standards. (Sec. 2103) Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for the ongoing receipt and review of comments and suggestions for changes in the standards adopted and promulgated; (2) establish a schedule for the periodic review of such standards; and (3) revise such standards. Part 2: Electronic Medical Data Standards - Directs the Secretary to promulgate standards for hospitals concerning electronic medical data, including standards for transmission of such data and confidentiality of patient-specific information. Authorizes the Secretary to periodically revise such standards. (Sec. 2112) Sets forth requirements with respect to: (1) the sharing of hospital information under Medicare; (2) waiver of such requirements; and (3) application of such requirements to hospitals of the Department of Veterans Affairs. (Sec. 2113) Authorizes the head of a Federal agency to require a provider to present and transmit a required data element electronically in accordance with applicable presentation or transmission standard. (Sec. 2114) Sets forth limitations on data requirements where standards with respect to data elements are in effect. (Sec. 2115) Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory commission on the standards established under this part and operational concerns about the implementation of such standards. Authorizes appropriations. Part 3: Development and Distribution of Comparative Value Information - Directs the Secretary to determine whether each State is developing and implementing a health care value information program that meets specified criteria and a specified schedule. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make grants to enable each State to plan development and initiate implementation of its health care value information program; and (2) recover the amount of such a grant by offset against any other amount payable to the State under the Social Security Act under specified circumstances. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 2122) Directs the Secretary to take actions necessary to implement a comparable program in a State that fails to develop or implement a health care value information program in accordance with such criteria and schedule. Authorizes the Secretary to charge fees for the information materials provided pursuant to such a program. (Sec. 2123) Directs the head of each Federal agency with responsibility for the provision of health insurance or health care services to individuals to develop health care value information relating to each program that such head administers and covering the same types of data that a State program meeting such criteria would provide. (Sec. 2124) Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop model systems to facilitate the gathering of data on health care cost, quality, and outcome and the analysis of such data in a manner that will permit the valid comparison of such data among providers and among health plans; (2) support experimentation with different approaches to achieve such objectives in the most cost effective manner; and (3) evaluate the various methods to determine their relative success. Authorizes the Secretary to establish standards for the collective and reporting of data on health care cost, quality, and outcomes. Authorizes appropriations. Part 4: Additional Standards and Requirements; Research and Demonstrations - Directs the Secretary to: (1) adopt standards relating to the design and use of magnetized Medicare identification cards to assist health care providers in determining whether individuals are eligible for benefits for provided services under the Medicare program and in billing the Medicare program for covered services; (2) take steps to encourage and assist States in the design and use of magnetized Medicaid identification cards under their Medicaid plans; and (3) establish a Medicare and Medicaid information system to provide information on group health and other health benefit plans that are primary payors to the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 2132) Specifies that, effective January 1, 1994, no effect shall be given to any provision of State law that requires medical or health insurance records (including billing information) to be maintained in written, rather than electronic, form. (Sec. 2133) Requires, effective January 1, 1995, each health benefit plan: (1) to use a beneficiary's social security number as the personal identifier for claims processing and related purposes (authorizes the Secretary to impose a civil money penalty on any plan that fails to do so); and (2) to use the unique identifier under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (Medicare) for a provider that furnishes health care items or services to a beneficiary under the plan as the identifier of that provider for claims processing and related purposes. (Sec. 2134) Directs the Secretary to: (1) determine, where benefits are payable under two or more health benefit plans, whether problems relating to the rules for determining the liability of plans or the availability of information among plans causes significant administrative costs; and (2) promulgate standards, if the implementation of standards would significantly reduce such administrative costs. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a civil money penalty on plans that fail to comply with such standards. (Sec. 2135) Directs the Secretary to provide grants to qualified entities for research on the application of comprehensive information systems in continuously monitoring and improving patient care. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to: (1) two to five community organizations or coalitions of health care providers, health benefit plans, and purchasers to establish and document the efficacy of communication links between the information systems of health benefit plans and of health care providers; (2) two to five public or private nonprofit entities for the development of regional or community-based clinical information systems; and (3) public or private nonprofit entities to develop and test the definition of a comprehensive set of data elements and the specification and manner of presentation of the individual data elements of the set, for electronic medical data generated by physicians and other entities (other than hospitals) that provide health care services. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Deduction for Cost of Catastrophic Health Plan; Medical Savings Account - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include under the medical expense deduction the portion of such expense attributable to coverage under a catastrophic health plan. (Sec. 2202) Allows individuals a tax deduction for percentage of contributions made to a medical care savings account established for the benefit of an eligible individual. Allows such deduction whether or not an individual itemizes deductions. Disallows distributions from such accounts as medical expense deductions. Excludes employer contributions to such accounts from employment taxes. Establishes an excise tax for excess contributions to medical care savings accounts. Subtitle D: Anti-Fraud - Part 1: Criminal Prosecution of Health Care Fraud - Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) set penalties for health care providers who knowingly engage in any scheme or artifice to defraud any person in connection with the provision of health care; and (2) make activity which, if engaged in by the U.S. Postal Service, would be a violation of mail fraud provisions punishable to the same extent with respect to private or commercial interstate carriers. (Sec. 2303) Authorizes appropriations to hire, equip, and train no fewer than: (1) 225 special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and support staff to investigate health care fraud cases; (2) 50 assistant United States Attorneys and support staff to prosecute such cases; and (3) 25 investigators in the Office of Inspector General, DHHS, to be devoted exclusively to health care fraud cases. (Sec. 2304) Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize the Attorney General to make payments of up to $10,000 to a person who furnishes information unknown to the Government relating to a possible prosecution of health care fraud, subject to specified requirements and exceptions. Part 2: Coordination of Health Care Anti-Fraud and Abuse Activities - Directs the Secretary to establish in the Office of the Inspector General of DHHS a program (all-payer fraud and abuse control program) to: (1) coordinate Federal, State, and local law enforcement programs to control fraud and abuse with respect to the delivery of, and payment for, health care in the United States; (2) conduct investigations, audits, evaluations, and inspections relating to such delivery and payment; and (3) facilitate the enforcement of provisions of the Social Security Act and other statutes applicable to health care fraud and abuse. Directs the Secretary to establish standards to carry out such program, including standards relating to the furnishing of information by health insurers, providers, and other to enable the Secretary to carry out the program and procedures to assure that such information is provided and utilized in a manner that protects the confidentiality of the information and the privacy of individuals receiving health care services. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) qualified immunity for providing information; (2) ensuring access to documentation; and (3) failure to comply as grounds for exclusion from the Medicare and Medicaid programs. (Sec. 2312) Authorizes additional appropriations to enable the Secretary to conduct investigations of allegations of health care fraud and to carry out the all-payor fraud and abuse control program. (Sec. 2313) Establishes in the Treasury an Anti-Fraud and Abuse Trust Fund to be used to assist the Inspector General of DHHS in carrying out the all-payor fraud and abuse control program in the fiscal year involved. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) the deposit into the Fund of Federal health anti-fraud and abuse penalties; and (2) the use of such penalties to repay beneficiaries for cost-sharing. (Sec. 2314) Amends SSA title XI to provide for the application of Federal health anti-fraud and abuse sanctions to all fraud and abuse against private health benefit plans. Subtitle E: Medicare Payment Changes; Part B Premium Tax for High-Income Individuals: Part 1 - Medicare Payment Changes - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) eliminate the membership limitation for Medicare health maintenance organizations; and (2) revise the Medicare select policy program and provide for a civil money penalty for misrepresentations made in connection with a Medicare select policy. (Sec. 2402) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to: (1) make permanent the Medicare select policy program; and (2) allow access to Medicare select policies in all States. (Sec. 2403) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take such steps as may be necessary to consolidate the administration of Medicare parts A and B. Part 2: Part B Premium Tax for High-Income Individuals - (Sec. 2411) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on the Medicare part B premiums of high income individuals. Subtitle F: Removing Anti-Trust Impediments - Directs the Attorney General to promulgate guidelines under which a health care joint venture may submit an application requesting that the Attorney General provide the entities participating in the venture with an exemption under which: (1) monetary recovery on an antitrust claim brought against the entity shall be limited to actual damages if specified conditions are met; and (2) the conduct of the entity in making or performing a contract to carry out the venture shall not be deemed illegal per se. Requires the Attorney General to approve or disapprove the application within a specified time frame and to provide a statement explaining the reasons for any disapproval. Directs the Attorney General to approve the application if an entity participating in the venture submits to the Attorney General an application that contains the identities of the parties to the venture; the nature, objectives, and planned activities of the venture; and specified assurances and information. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) revocation and renewal of exemptions and withdrawal of an application; (2) requirements relating to notice and publication of exemptions; and (3) issuance of health care certificates of public advantage to each eligible health care joint venture that complies with specified requirements. Establishes the Interagency Advisory Committee on Competition, Antitrust Policy, and Health Care to: (1) discuss and evaluate competition and antitrust policy and their implications regarding the performance of health care markets; (2) analyze the effectiveness of health care joint ventures receiving exemptions in reducing costs and expanding access; and (3) make recommendations to the Congress. Subtitle G: Encouraging Enforcement Activities of Medical Self-Regulatory Entities - Part 1: Application of the Clayton Act to Medical Self-Regulatory Entities - Provides that no damages, cost of suit, or attorney fee may be recovered under section 4, 4A, or 4C of the Clayton Act, or under any similar State law, except by a State or the United States, from any medical self-regulatory entity as a result of engaging in standard setting or enforcement activities that are: (1) designed to promote the quality of health care provided to patients; and (2) not conducted for purposes of financial gain. Directs the court to award the cost of such a suit, including a reasonable attorney fee, to a substantially prevailing defendant. Part 2: Consultation by Federal Agencies - Requires any Federal agency engaged in the establishment of medical profession standards to consult with appropriate medical societies or associations, specialty boards, or recognized accrediting agencies, if available, in carrying out medical professional standard setting and guidelines or standards relating to the practice of medicine. Subtitle H: Prefunding Government Health Benefit for Certain Annuitants - Requires that certain agencies prefund Government health benefits contributions for their annuitants. Subtitle I: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends Civil Service and Federal Employees' Retirement Systems law to increase the minimum age required to be eligible for an immediate retirement annuity. Provides for the conformance of other Federal retirement systems with the minimum age increase made above. Title III: Long-Term Care - Subtitle A: Tax Treatment of Long-Term Care Insurance - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the treatment of qualified long-term care insurance as accident and health insurance for purposes of insurance company taxation. (Sec. 3002) Excludes from gross income benefits provided under a long-term care insurance contract. Includes in gross income employer-provided coverage for long-term care services. (Sec. 3003) Includes amounts paid for qualified long-term care services as medical expenses for individual itemized deductions. Includes any parent or grandparent as a dependent for purposes of such expenses. (Sec. 3004) Provides for the nonrecognition of gain or loss on the exchange of any life insurance contract or an endowment or annuity contract for a long-term care insurance contract. (Sec. 3005) Excludes from gross income certain amounts withdrawn from individual retirement accounts and certain employer cash or deferred arrangement to pay long-term care premiums. (Sec. 3006) Allows insurance companies to issue accelerated death benefit riders on life insurance contracts. Subtitle B: Protection of Assets Under Medicaid Through Use of Qualified Long-Term Care Insurance - Amends SSA title XIX to require State Medicaid plans to disregard some or all of the individual's assets attributable to coverage under a qualified long-term care insurance contract in determining the individual's eligibility for long-term care services. Subtitle C: Studies - Requires the Comptroller General to study the feasibility of: (1) encouraging health care providers to donate their services to homebound patients; and (2) providing heads of households who care for elderly family members in their home with an income tax credit. (Sec. 3203) Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study and report to the Congress on the feasibility of encouraging or requiring the use of a single designate public or nonprofit agency to coordinate, through case management, the provision of long-term care benefits under current Federal, State, and local programs in a geographic area. Subtitle D: Volunteer Service Credit Demonstration Projects - (Sec. 3301) Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require the Commissioner of the Administration on Aging to establish and operate a volunteer service credit demonstration project in each State.

Family Medicine and Primary Care Research Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Office of Family Medicine and Primary Care Research Title II: Incentives for Rural Physicians Regarding Primary Care Title III: Primary Care Physicians Under Approved Medical Residency Training Programs Family Medicine and Primary Care Research Act of 1993 - Title I: Office of Family Medicine and Primary Care Research - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) the Office on Family Medicine and Primary Care Research to monitor and coordinate all NIH research, training, and information dissemination activities regarding family medicine and other primary medical care disciplines. Provides for the development, modernization, and operation of new and existing research centers in family care and primary care. Mandates an advisory council. Title II: Incentives for Rural Physicians Regarding Primary Care - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for medical education loan interest that accrues while a physician is providing primary care or obstetrical and gynecological services in a medically underserved rural area and living in that area. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 with regard to the Stafford Federal Student Loan Program to defer principal payments and with regard to the Perkins Direct Student Loan Program to defer principal and interest payments while the borrower is serving in an internship or residency program in preparation for practice in primary care or obstetrics and gynecology. Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to modify requirements regarding substitute billing arrangements. Title III: Primary Care Physicians Under Approved Medical Residency Training Programs - Mandates a national policy that at least 50 percent of entry positions in medical residency training programs be in primary care. Allows waiver for a State if application of the general rule would not be practicable. Amends Medicare provisions to tie to that policy Medicare payments to hospitals for direct graduate medical education costs and for indirect costs of medical education. Establishes the National Health Professional Workforce Advisory Board to make recommendations on: (1) the distribution of such positions among primary and non-primary care residents at various sites; (2) the supply and role of non-physician primary care providers; and (3) the appropriateness of spending Medicare direct graduate medical education funds available for the clinical training of physicians and nurses for the clinical training in primary care of additional practitioners. Repeals provisions of the Health Professions Education Extension Amendments of 1992 establishing the Council on Graduate Medical Education. Mandates annual publication of a list of the total amount of payments made to each hospital in the United States during the previous year under Medicare provisions relating to direct graduate medical education costs.

National Breast Cancer Strategy Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Establishment of Office of Breast Cancer and National Breast Cancer Commission Title II: Duties of Director of the National Cancer Institute Relating to Breast Cancer National Breast Cancer Strategy Act of 1993 - Title I: Establishment of Office of Breast Cancer and National Breast Cancer Commission - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish: (1) the Office of Breast Cancer in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health; and (2) the National Breast Cancer Commission to study public and private breast cancer prevention, early detection, treatment, education, and research. Title II: Duties of Director of the National Cancer Institute Relating to Breast Cancer - Authorizes appropriations for conducting and supporting breast cancer research. Adds biomedical and behavioral research, training, and dissemination of information regarding breast cancer to the duties of the National Cancer Institute Director. Establishes the Rose Kushner Scholarship Program of scholarships in exchange for completing post-graduate clinical oncology training and serving as National Institutes of Health (NIH) employees carrying out breast cancer programs. Establishes a program of educational loan repayments in exchange for breast cancer activities as NIH employees. Authorizes appropriations for at least ten programs for research on breast, lung, and prostate cancer under designated Specialized Programs of Research Excellence.

National Maritime Heritage Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1993

National Maritime Heritage Act of 1993 - Declares that it shall be the policy of the Federal Government, in partnership with State and local governments and private organizations and individuals, to support and encourage Federal, State, and local governmental and private conservation of historic maritime resources. Creates the National Maritime Trust to receive, preserve, and administer donations of real property and objects significant in American maritime history and culture and accept, hold, and administer gifts to carry out a maritime preservation and education program. Establishes the National Maritime Heritage Grants Program to foster a greater awareness and appreciation of the role of maritime endeavors in history and culture. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make a cooperative agreement with the Trust for assistance in administration of the Program. Provides for a matching grants-in-aid program to carry out this Act. Authorizes the Secretary, through the National Maritime Initiative, to administer a program of direct grants for the preservation of maritime resources, including direct preservation, demonstration projects, training, and educational programs. Authorizes conveyance to the Trust, without consideration, of each vessel in the National Defense Reserve Fleet that has no usefulness to the Government and is scheduled to be scrapped. Requires the Trust to sell: (1) the vessels for scrap and use the proceeds for the purposes of this Act; and (2) sufficient vessels to derive a minimum annual dollar amount. Declares that amounts available to, or used by, the Trust under these provisions shall not be considered in any determination of amounts available to the Department of the Interior. Establishes the Maritime Heritage Grants Committee to perform certain duties, including overseeing the grants program and reviewing grant proposals. Requires the Committee to determine whether any projects exist that meet specified criteria regarding receiving a grant prior to issuance of implementing regulations. Provides for disbursal of scrapped vessel funds to approved projects. Mandates an annual audit of Trust accounts by independent accountants and authorizes annual audits by the General Accounting Office.

Women's Health Equity Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Research on Women's Health Subtitle A: NIH Women Scientist Employment Opportunities Act Subtitle B: Women and AIDS Research Initiative Amendments of 1993 Subtitle C: Women and Alcohol Research Equity Act of 1993 Subtitle D: National Breast Cancer Strategy Act of 1993 Subtitle E: Lupus Research Amendments of 1993 Subtitle F: Women's Midlife Health Research Act Subtitle G: Osteoporosis and Related Bone Disorders Research Education, and Health Services Act of 1993 Subtitle H: Ovarian Cancer Research and Information Amendments of 1993 Subtitle I: Antiprogestin Testing Act of 1993 Subtitle J: Women's Health Environmental Factors Research Act of 1993 Subtitle K: Federal Risk Assessment in Women's Health Act of 1993 Subtitle L: Pharmaceutical Interactions Safety Act Subtitle M: Pharmaceutical Testing Fairness Act Subtitle N: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Studies Act of 1993 Title II: Services Regarding Women's Health Subtitle A: Equity in Health Professions Education Act Subtitle B: Women's Health Office Act of 1993 Subtitle C: Women's Health Information Act of 1993 Subtitle D: Breast and Cervical Cancer Amendments of 1993 Subtitle E: Women's Preventive Health Amendments of 1993 Subtitle F: Postreproductive Health Care Act Subtitle G: Medicare Bone Mass Measurement Coverage Act of 1993 Subtitle H: Mickey Leland Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Parenthood Act of 1993 Subtitle I: Adolescent Health Demonstrations Projects Act of 1993 Subtitle J: Eating Disorders Information and Education Act of 1993 Subtitle K: Women and HIV Outreach and Prevention Act Subtitle L: Standby Guardianship Act Subtitle M: Federal Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act of 1993 Subtitle N: Smoking Prevention and Cessation in WIC Clinics Act Subtitle O: Family and Medical Leave Health Care Reform Resolution of 1993 Subtitle P: Veteran Women's Health Improvement Act of 1993 Subtitle Q: Defense Women's Health Improvement Act of 1993 Subtitle R: International Population Stabilization and Reproductive Health Act Women's Health Equity Act of 1993 - Title I: Research on Women's Health - Subtitle A: Women Scientists Employment Opportunities Act - NIH Women Scientists Employment Opportunity Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health to: (1) establish policies for NIH on matters relating to the employment of women scientists by NIH; and (2) monitor compliance with such policies and take appropriate actions if the policies have been violated. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Women and AIDS Research Initiative Amendments of 1993 - Women and Aids Research Initiative Amendments of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with respect to cases of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus, to establish a program, under the Public Health Service Act, for the purpose of conducting biomedical and behavioral research on such cases in women, especially on the prevention of such cases. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Women and Alcohol Research Equity Act of 1993 - Women and Alcohol Research Equity Act of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to obligate a specified amount to carry out research projects on alcohol abuse and alcoholism among women. Subtitle D: National Breast Cancer Strategy Act of 1993 - National Breast Cancer Strategy Act of 1993 - Establishes an Office of Breast Cancer within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health to coordinate activities of Federal agencies relating to breast cancer. (Sec. 118) Establishes the National Breast Cancer Commission to conduct a study on current efforts on both the public and private sectors relating to the prevention, early detection, treatment, education, and research relating to breast cancer. (Sec. 119) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 through 1996 for conducting and supporting research on breast cancer through the National Cancer Institute. (Sec. 120) Requires the Director of the National Cancer Institute to: (1) conduct and support biomedical and behavioral research and research training, the dissemination of health information, and other programs with respect to breast cancer; and (2) establish the Rose Kushner Scholarship Program for the purpose of entering into contracts with individuals under which the Institute provides scholarships to individuals for attending health professions schools and the individuals agree to study oncology and serve as employees of the National Institutes of Health for a specified period. (Sec. 121) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 through 1996 for at least ten research programs on breast cancer, lung cancer, or prostate cancer under designated programs. Subtitle E: Lupus Research Amendments of 1993 - Lupus Research Amendments of 1993 - Requires the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to expand and intensify research and related activities of the Institute with respect to lupus. Authorizes appropriations. Subpart F: Women's Midlife Health Research Act - Women's Midlife Health Research Act - Requires the Director of the National Institute on Aging to provide for the development or expansion of not less than five centers for research on: (1) the process by which the functioning of the ovaries diminishes or ceases completely; and (2) conditions arising from the diminished or complete cessation of the functioning of the ovaries. Subtitle G: Osteoporosis and Related Bone Disorders Research Education, and Health Services Act of 1993 - Osteoporosis and Related Bone Disorders Research, Education, and Health Services Act of 1993 - Requires the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, the Director of the National Institute on Aging, and the Director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to expand and intensify research on osteoporosis and related bone disorders. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services an Interagency Council on Osteoporosis and Related Disorders. Sets forth the duties of such Council. Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services an Advisory Panel on Osteoporosis and Related Disorders. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to make grants or enter into contracts with eligible organizations to establish a Resource Center on Osteoporosis and Related Disorders. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle H: Ovarian Cancer Research and Information Amendments of 1993 - Ovarian Cancer Research and Information Amendments of 1993 - Amends provisions of the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 which added provisions to the Public Health Service Act to make revisions concerning ovarian cancer funding and public information education. Subtitle I: Antiprogestin Testing Act of 1993 - Antiprogestin Testing Act of 1993 - Provides for research on antiprogestin drugs for any potential use, including termination of pregnancy and contraception and when used therapeutically for cancer, endocrine disorders, and endometriosis. Subtitle J: Women's Health Environmental Factors Research Act of 1993 - Women's Health Environmental Factors Research Act of 1993 - Requires the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to carry out research on the effects that environmental factors have on women's health conditions. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle K: Federal Risk Assessment in Women's Health Act of 1993 - Federal Risk Assessment in Women's Health Act of 1993 - Directs the Office of Science and Technology Policy to conduct a review of all Federal programs that assess or mitigate the risks to women's health from environmental exposures. Subtitle L: Pharmaceutical Interactions Safety Act - Pharmaceutical Interactions Safety Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act to require clinical investigations to include investigations of the possible interaction of the drug or biological product with relevant female or male hormones, unless inappropriate. Subtitle M: Pharmaceutical Testing Fairness Act - Pharmaceutical Testing Fairness Act - Requires new drug clinical investigations, device clinical investigations, and biological products clinical investigations to include women and minority groups as subjects, unless inappropriate. Subtitle N: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Studies Act of 1993 - Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Studies Act of 1993 - Directs the Federal Trade Commissions to conduct specified studies concerning tobacco advertising and its effect on women and minorities, as well as its targeting of women and girls concerning weight loss, and the demographics of such advertising. Title II: Services Regarding Women's Health - Subtitle A: Equity in Health Professions Education Act - Equity in Health Professions Education Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study to determine the extent to which health professions schools provide adequate education to students on women's health conditions. Subtitle B: Women's Health Office Act of 1993 - Women's Health Office Act of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health an Office of Women's Health. Sets forth the duties of such Office. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 208) Establishes within the Office of the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention an Office of Women's Health. Sets forth the duties of such Office. Requires the Director of such Office to establish the Coordinating Committee on Research on Women's Health. Sets forth the duties of such Committee. (Sec. 209) Establishes within the Office of the Director of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research an Office of Women's Health. Sets forth the duties of such Office. Requires the Director of such Office to establish the Coordinating Committee on Research on the Women's Health. Sets forth the duties of such Committee. (Sec. 210) Amends title VII of the Social Security Act to provide for the establishment within the Office of the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration an Office of Women's Health. Sets forth the duties of such Office. Requires the Director of the Office to establish the Coordinating Committee on Research on Women's Health. Sets forth the duties of such Committee. (Sec. 210A) Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish within the Office of Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration an Office of Women's Health. Sets forth the duties of such Office. Requires the Director of such Office to establish the Coordinating Committee on Women's Health. Sets forth the duties of such Committee. Subtitle C: Women's Health Information Act of 1993 - Women's Health Information Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an Interagency Committee on Health Communications to provide advice to the Secretary on developing and coordinating Federal promotion and education activities, including activities within the Public Health Service. Requires the Committee to give priority to carrying out activities regarding women's health. (Sec. 214) Directs the Assistant Secretary for Health to establish the Clearinghouse on Women's Health to compile, archive and disseminate information concerning women's health and to publish a yearly summary of such materials to be made available upon request. Subtitle D: Breast and Cervical Cancer Amendments of 1993 - Breast and Cervical Cancer Amendments of 1993 - Amends provisions of the program under the Public Health Service Act which provides for breast cancer screenings to place certain limits on the amounts which may be paid to promote entities for such screenings. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1998 for the screening program. Subtitle E: Women's Preventive Health Amendments of 1993 - Women's Preventive Health Amendments of 1993 - Provides for grants for demonstration projects relating to preventive health care for women. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle F: Postreproductive Health Care Act - Postreproductive Health Care Act - Provides for grants to provide specified health services to women who are of menopause age or older. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle G: Medicare Bone Mass Measurement Coverage Act of 1993 - Medicare Bone Mass Measurement Coverage Act of 1993 - Provides for Medicare coverage of bone mass measurements for qualified individuals. Subtitle H: Mickey Leland Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Parenthood Act of 1993 - Mickey Leland Adolescent Pregency Prevention and Parenthood Act of 1993 - Revises title XX of the Public Health Service Act. Renames such title as Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, Care, and Research Grants. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to provide prevention and care services to pregnant adolescents and their male partners, adolescent parents, and nonpregnant adolescents. Sets forth provisions affecting: (1) how such grants are to be used; (2) priorities, amounts, and duration of such grants; (3) grant application requirements; (4) program coordination; and (5) research. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle I: Adolescent Health Demonstrations Projects Act of 1993 - Adolescent Health Demonstrations Projects Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary to make grants to establish or support adolescent health demonstration projects in secondary schools for the purpose of demonstrating how such projects may be established throughout the United States. Requires that priority be given to projects serving low-income or minority populations. Prohibits the use of any project funds to perform or pay for abortions. Subtitle J: Eating Disorders Information and Education Act of 1993 - Eating Disorders Information and Education Act of 1993 - Provides for a program of information and education to the public on the prevention and treatment of eating disorders. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle K: Women and HIV Outreach and Prevention Act - Women and HIV Outreach and Prevention Act - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for a program that provides to women preventive health services that are related to acquired immune deficiency. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 253) Authorizes the Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to make grants for the treatment of women for substance abuse, including counseling to prevent infection with and transmission of AIDS. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 254) Authorizes appropriations for the AIDs early intervention program for women under the Public Health Service Act. Subtitle L: Standby Guardianship Act - Standby Guardianship Act - Amends part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to require a State, in order to be eligible for payments under such part, to have in effect standby guardianship laws and procedures. Subtitle M: Federal Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act of 1993 - Federal Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide for the imprisonment or fining of any individual who knowingly circumcises, excises, or infibulates the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris of any person under the age of 18. Directs the Secretary to carry out outreach activities in communities that traditionally practice female circumcision. Subtitle N: Smoking Prevention and Cessation in WIC Clinics Act - Smoking Prevention and Cessation in WIC Clinics Act - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to require the State agency responsible for nutrition education and drug abuse education to establish a smoking cessation demonstration program for pregnant participants. Subtitle O: Family and Medical Leave Health Care Reform Resolution of 1993 - Expresses the sense of the Congress that any bill to address the ongoing and unmet health insurance needs of this country that is enacted should require that paid or unpaid leave, as detailed in the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, be incorporated as a basic or elective option in specified situations. Subtitle P: Veteran Women's Health Improvement Act of 1993 - Veteran Women's Health Improvement Act of 1993 - Includes women's health services within the definition of medical services authorized to be furnished to eligible veterans. Includes as women's health services pap smears, breast examinations, and reproductive health care. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to contract with non-Department of Veterans Affairs facilities for outpatient women's health services when Department facilities are inadequate or inaccessible. Requires information on the provision of women's health services to be included in a report from the Secretary to the Congress concerning women veterans. (Sec. 278) Amends the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992 to: (1) require consultation by the Secretary with various officials, advisory committees, and task forces with regard to appropriate women's health research; (2) expand the research related to women to include specified topics; (3) include certain appropriate personnel of the Department in conducting such research, including women veterans and veteran members of minority groups; and (4) direct that a women veterans population study report required under such Act include an examination of the medical and demographic histories of women veterans comprising the study sample. (Sec. 279) Makes applicable to Department medical facilities provisions of the Public Health Service Act regarding mammography quality standards. Requires all Department facilities to meet such standards within two years. Subtitle Q: Defense Women's Health Improvement Act of 1993 - Requires female members and former members of the armed forces who are entitled to medical care under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to be furnished primary and preventive health care services for women as part of such care. Provides the same coverage for female dependents of members and former members of the armed forces. (Sec. 283) Directs the Secretary of Defense to prepare and submit to the Congress a report evaluating the provision of health care services through military medical treatment facilities and CHAMPUS to female members of the armed forces and female covered beneficiaries. Requires the Secretary to include a study to determine the needs of female members and dependents for health care services, including primary and preventive health care services for women. (Sec. 284) Directs the Secretary to establish a Defense Women's Health Research Center within the Department of the Army to be the coordinating agent for multidisciplinary and multiinstitutional research within the Department of Defense on women's health issues related to service in the armed forces. (Sec. 285) Directs the Secretary of the Army, during FY 1994, to continue the breast cancer research program as established under prior law. (Sec. 286) Directs the Secretary of Defense, in conducting or supporting clinical research, to ensure that women and minority group members of the armed forces are included as research subjects. Provides a waiver of such requirement. (Sec. 287) Directs the Secretary to submit three annual reports on research relating to female members and dependents within the armed forces. (Sec. 288) Directs the Secretary to establish at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences a women's health curriculum advisory committee to promote the comprehensive integration of women's health issues into the curriculum. Subtitle R: International Population Stabilization and Reproductive Health Act - International Population Stabilization and Reproductive Health Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to set forth population assistance authorities and requirements. (Sec. 292) Makes such assistance available to a country that: (1) accounts for a significant portion of the world's annual population increment; (2) has significant unmet needs for methods of contraception, prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, and obstetric and gynecological care and requires foreign assistance to sustain quality reproductive health services; or (3) demonstrates a strong commitment to population stabilization and reproductive health strategies. Prohibits nongovernmental and multilateral organizations from being subjected to requirements which are more restrictive than those applicable to foreign governments for such assistance. Makes funds available for: (1) the United Nations Population Fund if it agrees to prohibit the use of funds for coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization; and (2) the Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training to further international cooperation in the development of contraceptive technology. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 294) Makes development assistance available on a priority basis for countries which have agreed to address specific education, literacy, and health issues. Authorizes the President to establish a grant program, to be known as the Safe Motherhood Initiative, to improve the access of girls and women to reproductive health care services. Earmarks amounts of development and economic assistance for programs in support of equalizing male and female levels of primary and secondary school enrollment. Authorizes appropriations for the Child Survival Fund, the Safe Motherhood Initiative, and for research on, and treatment and control of, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in developing countries. (Sec. 296) Requires the U.S. executive directors of specified international financial institutions to report annually to the Congress on allocations to population activities and, if such allocations total less than $1 million, to set forth actions to encourage increased allocations. (Sec. 297) Establishes the Commission on World Population Stabilization and Reproductive Health to coordinate U.S. participation in the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 298) Provides for certain actions to support the United Nations Forward Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women and the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

A joint resolution designating the week beginning November 14, 1993, and the week beginning November 13, 1994, each as "Geography Awareness Week".

United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1993

Designates the weeks beginning November 14, 1993, and November 13, 1994, as Geography Awareness Week.

Police Corps and Law Enforcement Scholarship and Employment Act

United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Police Corps Program Title II: Enforcement Scholarship and Employment Program Police Corps and Law Enforcement Scholarship and Employment Act - Requires a State that desires to participate in the Police Corps program or the Law Enforcement Scholarship program (established pursuant to this Act) to designate a lead agency and submit a State plan containing assurances with respect to: (1) lead agency cooperation with other State and local agencies; (2) the State advertising of the assistance available; (3) State screening and selection of law enforcement personnel for participation in the program; and (4) compliance with other specified requirements. Title I: Police Corps Program - Establishes within the Department of Justice (DOJ) an Office of the Police Corps to be headed by a Director. (Sec. 103) Authorizes the Director to award scholarships (including direct payments to institutions and reimbursement of educational costs) to participants who agree to work for four years in a State or local police force after completion of a baccalaureate program and police corps training, subject to specified conditions. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) scholarship assistance for dependent children of law enforcement officers; (2) the selection of participants; (3) minority recruitment; and (4) leaves of absence. (Sec. 105) Requires the Director to establish up to three training centers to provide basic law enforcement training to State Police Corps program participants. Requires participants to attend two eight-week training sessions at such training centers and to meet certain performance standards in order to remain in the Police Corps program. Requires the Director to pay participants a weekly stipend during training. (Sec. 107) Requires a State, in order to participate in the Police Corps program, to submit a plan for implementing such program to the Director for approval. Requires such plan to: (1) include assurances that participants will receive additional State or local training after completing Federal training which shall count toward the four-year service obligation; and (2) provide that program participants shall be assigned to community and preventive patrol in geographic areas with the greatest need for additional law enforcement personnel. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) the swearing in of participants as members of the police force which they are assigned after completing Federal training and meeting the requirements of that police force; (2) layoffs; and (3) assistance to States and localities employing Police Corps officers. (Sec. 110) Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Law Enforcement Scholarship and Employment Program - Directs each State to pay from funds under this Act the Federal share (not more than 60 percent) of the costs of: (1) awarding scholarships to in-service law enforcement personnel for further education; and (2) providing full-time employment in the summer or part-time (up to 20 hours per week) employment for a period not to exceed one year. (Sec. 206) Sets forth application requirements. Grants priority in awarding scholarships to persons who are members of underrepresented groups, are pursuing an undergraduate degree, and are not receiving financial assistance under the Higher Education Act of 1965. (Sec. 208) Requires each scholarship recipient to work in a law enforcement position in the State for a period of one month for each credit hour for which funds are received under the scholarship (with a six-month minimum and two-year maximum). (Sec. 210) Authorizes appropriations.

A bill to help schools achieve the sixth goal of the National Education Goals, which provides that by the year 2000, every school in America will be free of drugs and violence and will offer a disciplined environment conducive to learning, by supporting school and communitywide efforts to make schools and neighborhoods safe and drug free.

United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1993

Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise drug education programs to assist States and local educational agencies to attain the national educational goal of safe and drug-free schools and communities. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to States and local education agencies for drug and violence prevention programs. Requires each recipient State to establish a State Drug and Violence Prevention Coordinating Council. Allows local agencies that demonstrate implementation of the basic program to carry out an expanded program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and contracts with higher education institutions and consortia for drug and violence prevention programs. Authorizes the Secretary to support a national center to provide training and technical assistance in developing model strategies to prevent violence and the use of illegal drugs by students at postsecondary educational institutions. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out national programs to prevent illegal use of drugs and violence among students at all educational levels. Prohibits the Secretary from prescribing the use of specific curricula for programs supported under this Act, but allows evaluation of the effectiveness of such curricula and other strategies in drug and violence prevention. Prohibits use of funds under this Act for: (1) construction, except minor remodeling; (2) drug treatment or rehabilitation; and (3) psychiatric, psychological, or other medical treatment or rehabilitation, other than school-based counseling for students or school personnel who are victims or witnesses of school-related crime.

Smokeless Tobacco Consumption Reduction and Education Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1993

Smokeless Tobacco Consumption Reduction and Education Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the excise tax on snuff and chewing tobacco equivalent to that on small cigarettes. Establishes in the Treasury the Smokeless Tobacco Education and Prevention Trust Fund. Requires ten percent of the net increase in revenues received by reason of this Act to be transferred to such Fund. Makes the Fund available for programs of public education regarding the risks of smokeless tobacco and other programs to reduce the consumption of smokeless tobacco.

Omnibus Adoption Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: National Advisory Council on Adoption Title II: Adoption Data Collection System Title III: Adoption Education Programs Title IV: Adoption Benefits for Federal Employees and Military Personnel Title V: Adoption Tax Credit Title VI: Maternal Health Certificates Program Title VII: Rehabilitation Grants for Maternity Housing and Services Facilities Title VIII: Sense of Congress Regarding Changes in State Adoption Laws Omnibus Adoption Act of 1993 - Title I: National Advisory Council on Adoption - Establishes the National Advisory Council on Adoption to monitor program implementation under this Act and make recommendations to the Congress. Title II: Adoption Data Collection System - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to submit a status report to the Congress on implementation of a certain data collection system required under the Social Security Act. Title III: Adoption Education Programs - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award social work graduate school fellowships for work in innovative programs on the effects of adoption on the parties involved. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Education to award grants to the States for implementation of adoption education programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Adoption Benefits for Federal Employees and Military Personnel - Amends Federal law to set forth adoption benefits for Federal employees and military personnel. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Transportation to coordinate their efforts in implementing this Act and to consult with the National Advisory Council on Adoption. Title V: Adoption Tax Credit - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow adoption expenses as a credit against the individual income tax. Title VI: Maternal Health Certificates Program - Directs the Secretary to establish a maternal health certificates program to cover maternity and housing services facility expenses incurred by eligible pregnant women. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII: Rehabilitation Grants for Maternity Housing and Services Facilities - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to implement a grant program to assist eligible nonprofit entities to rehabilitate buildings for use as housing and services facilities for eligible pregnant women. Authorizes appropriations. Title VIII: Sense of Congress Regarding Changes in State Adoption Laws - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the States should adopt a specified statutory adoption scheme, including certain health plan benefits.

Donald Richard Wurtz, of California, to be Chief Financial Officer, Department of Education, vice William Dean Hansen, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 7 September 1993

Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act Amendments Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act Amendments Act of 1993 - Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (the Act) revise requirements relating to review procedures and approval criteria for proposed self-determination contracts and amendments. Provides for approval of any severable portion of a contract proposal which does not support a declination finding. Authorizes an Alaskan tribal organization permitted to contract programs under the Act to redelegate that authority with advance notice to all tribes served by the organization. Specifies that certain Federal procurement policy law and Federal acquisitions regulations shall not apply to contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements under the Act except to the extent that they apply expressly to Indian tribes. Provides that: (1) title to property and equipment furnished with funds under any self-determination contract or grant agreement shall vest in the appropriate tribe or tribal organization; and (2) upon retrocession, rescission, or termination of such contract or grant title to such property having a value in excess of a specified amount, and remaining in use in support of the contracted program, shall revert to the appropriate Secretary, upon that Secretary's option. Authorizes tribal organizations which are carrying out self-determination contracts to redesign programs and services under such contracts to best meet various needs of the Indian people and tribe served. Includes certain previously incurred or one-time start-up costs as part of the contract or of support costs, if the Secretary has been notified in advance. Requires every Federal agency and State to pay their full proportionate share of the indirect costs associated with federally funded contracts or grants awarded to tribes or tribal organizations under any other law. Directs the appropriate Secretary, subject to availability of appropriations, to fund shortfalls and report unfunded shortfalls to the Congress, if appropriations are insufficient for Federal agencies (other than the Departments of the Interior or Health and Human Services) or for State governments or agencies. Allows a tribal organization to use funds provided under a self-determination contract: (1) to meet matching or cost participation requirements under other Federal and non-Federal programs; and (2) without approval, to the extent supportive of a contract program, for various specified purposes. Directs the Office of Management and Budget to develop a separate set of cost principles applicable to tribes and tribal organizations consistent with the government-to-government Federal-tribal relationship under this Act. Prohibits the appropriate Secretary from suspending or delaying payments to a tribal organization under a self-determination contract, except in connection with a rescission or reassumption. Requires program income earned by a tribal organization in carrying out a self-determination contract to: (1) be used to further the general purposes of the contract; and (2) not be a basis for reducing the amount otherwise obligated under the contract. Requires the appropriate Secretary to make any savings resulting from contracting activities under the Act available to tribal organizations contracting under the Act, to the extent that does not adversely affect the Secretary's ability to carry out responsibilities to other tribes and tribal organizations. Requires Federal requirements for self-determination contracts and grants to be promulgated as a single set of regulations. Sets forth procedures to be followed in the promulgation of regulations.

Law Enforcement Scholarship and Recruitment Act

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

Law Enforcement Scholarship and Recruitment Act - Directs each State to pay from funds under this Act the Federal share (not more than 60 percent) of the cost of: (1) awarding scholarships to in-service law enforcement personnel for further education; and (2) providing full-time employment in summer or part-time employment for a period up to a year to students enrolled in accredited institutions of higher education who demonstrate an interest in law enforcement careers. Requires each State receiving such funds to designate a lead agency to conduct such programs. Makes the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance responsible for administration of such program and for issuing rules. Provides that such a scholarship shall be for one academic year and may be used at any accredited institution of higher education. Conditions eligibility on an individual's having been employed in law enforcement for two years immediately preceding the date on which scholarship assistance is sought. Makes individuals who have been employed as law enforcement officers ineligible to participate in student employment programs under this Act. Requires each scholarship recipient to work in a law enforcement position in the State that awards the scholarship for a period of one month for each credit hour for which funds are received (with a six-month minimum and two-year maximum). Authorizes and allocates appropriations.

Wastewater Treatment Operator Training and Certification Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

Wastewater Treatment Operator Training and Certification Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to revise provisions concerning training grants and contracts to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) implement a national program to train persons in the operation of municipal and industrial wastewater treatment works and other water pollution control facilities; (2) make grants to, or contracts with, institutions of higher education to support such programs; and (3) publish guidance on the minimum elements of such programs. Requires chief operators and other designated personnel of publicly owned treatment works to be certified as proficient by the Administrator. Directs the Administrator to publish: (1) guidelines on minimum standards for certification; and (2) a treatment works operator's manual. Authorizes the delegation of authority for a certification program to a State, subject to certain conditions. Makes certifications valid for a five-year period. Permits recertification for an additional five years provided that the individual complies with in-service training and related education. Requires institutions of higher education, in addition to other requirements for receiving scholarships for individuals planning to enter occupations involving treatment works, to: (1) have participated in the treatment works training program; and (2) ensure representation of minorities and women in the scholarship program. Authorizes appropriations.

Church Retirement Benefits Simplification Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

Church Retirement Benefits Simplification Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to recodify and revise qualifications for church retirement and pension plans. Makes employee contributions to such plans nonforfeitable. Requires the plan to meet minimum vesting requirements. Recodifies the authority of a church or a convention or association of churches to be treated as an employer making contributions to retirement income accounts. Subjects church-related hospitals and universities to certain coverage and related rules in the case of a contract purchased by a church. Requires distributions from retirement income accounts provided by churches to be in accordance with distributions under cash or deferred arrangements. Provides for determining the beginning date for such distributions. Allows self-employed ministers and chaplains who work for non-church employers to participate in their church plans. Provides that certain rules aggregating employees do not apply to churches. Restores qualified voluntary employee contributions to church plans. Treats self-employed ministers as employees for purposes of certain welfare benefit plans and retirement income accounts. Allows a deduction for contributions to retirement income accounts by such ministers. Provides that a church plan maintained by more than one employer shall not be treated as a single plan. Provides that accounting methods of deferred compensation plans of State and local governments and tax-exempt organizations do not apply to a church plan. Exempts a church plan from the requirement to maintain separate accounts for medical benefits for key employees. Provides that the special rules for computing employee contributions to pension plans do not apply to certain foreign missionaries. Repeals the elective deferral catch-up limitation for church retirement income accounts. Allows church plans to annuitize benefits and increase benefit payments. Provides that rules for self-insured medical reimbursement plans are not applicable to church plans. Provides that retirement benefits of ministers are not subject to the tax on net earnings from self-employment.

Youth Apprenticeship Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

Youth Apprenticeship Act of 1993 - Establishes an Institute for Youth Apprenticeship as an independent establishment to administer youth apprenticeship demonstration programs set up under this Act. Directs the Institute Board Chairperson to establish guidelines, criteria, and procedures for such programs. Directs the Institute Executive Director to enter into contracts with public and nonprofit private organizations to develop and evaluate youth apprenticeship demonstration programs. Requires each eligible entity entering into such a contract with the Institute Board to establish partnerships among secondary and postsecondary schools and employers, labor organizations, and community and civic leaders to provide apprenticeship training to students. Requires at least: (1) one secondary school wage incentive demonstration program under which the Institute shall pay 50 percent of the apprenticeship wage; and (2) one secondary school disadvantaged youth demonstration program. Authorizes two postsecondary school demonstration programs. Requires training for various levels of secondary school students. Requires employers to pay: (1) 100 percent of the apprentice wage rate in secondary school programs (but 50 percent in the wage incentive program); (2) 100 percent of the apprentice wage rate and costs of continuing basic skills courses in postsecondary programs; and (3) costs of on-the-job training. Does not require employers to hire apprentices upon completion of the apprenticeships. Requires program coordination and assistance by the Institute, including operating a clearinghouse for the partnerships and gathering information on labor mobility of apprentices. Authorizes appropriations. Terminates the Board, Institute, and these programs within 69 months.

National Workforce Preparation and Development Reform Act

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Federal Responsibilities Subtitle A: Federal Workforce Preparation and Development Council Subtitle B: National Advisory Board on Workforce Preparation and Development Subtitle C: Federal Waiver Authority for Provisions of Workforce Preparation and Development Program Subtitle D: Implementation Grants and Technical Assistance Title II: State Responsibilities Subtitle A: State Human Resource Investment Council Subtitle B: Unified Single State Plan Subtitle C: Unified Service Areas Subtitle D: Local Workforce Development Boards Subtitle E: Community Job Resource Centers Title III: Conforming Amendments to Wagner-Peyser Act Title IV: Effective Date and Transition National Workforce Preparation and Development Reform Act - Establishes a comprehensive workforce preparation and development (WPD) system. Makes available specified amounts to provide implementation grants and technical assistance to States under this Act from amounts appropriated for national activities under the Job Training Partnership Act and for one-stop career centers. Title I: Federal Responsibilities - Subtitle A: Federal Workforce Preparation and Development Council - Establishes the Federal Workforce Preparation and Development Council, consisting of the Secretaries of Labor, Education, Health and Human Services, and Commerce, the Director of the Office of Management and the Budget, and any other Federal agency heads the President may designate, which shall develop a strategic WPD plan for the United States. Subtitle B: National Advisory Board on Workforce Preparation and Development - Establishes a bipartisan National Advisory Board on Workforce Preparation and Development. Directs the Advisory Board to advise the President and the Federal Council. Subtitle C: Federal Waiver Authority for Provisions of Workforce Preparation and Development Programs - Authorizes the Federal Council to waive provisions of law or regulations relating to State planning and reporting, performance standards, or other provisions with respect to WPD programs under unified State plans. Sets forth provisions for waiver applications, review, approval or disapproval, and revocation. Subtitle D: Implementation Grants and Technical Assistance - Authorizes the Federal Council to provide grants and technical assistance to States that have an approved application to carry out the single State plan. Requires a State to provide at least 70 percent of such a grant to the Local Boards. Title II: State Responsibilities - Subtitle A: State Human Resource Investment Council - Requires any participant State to establish a State human resource investment council to assist the Governor in developing a coordinated State strategy for WPD programs, including school-to-work transition and lifelong learning programs. Subtitle B: Unified Single State Plan - Requires any participant State to establish a unified single State plan to coordinate services under WPD programs. Subtitle C: Unified Service Areas - Requires any participant State to ensure establishment of unified service areas throughout the State to provide community-wide WPD services. Subtitle D: Local Workforce Development Boards - Requires any participant State to ensure establishment of a Local Workforce Development Board in each unified service area. Requires a participant Local Board, in partnership with local governments, to submit an annual unified local plan to the State Council for approval. Subtitle E: Community Job Resource Centers - Requires any participant State to ensure that each Local Board designates or establishes a network of community job resource centers in its unified service area, to be composed of specified entities. Title III: Conforming Amendment to Wagner-Peyser Act - Amends the Wagner-Peyser Act to require the local employment service office to participate in the operation of the community job resource centers established under this Act based on the plan developed by the Local Board. Allows such offices to apply to be designated as such centers. Title IV: Effective Date and Transition - Sets forth an effective date and transition provisions.

Community Arts Partnership Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

Community Arts Partnership Act of 1993 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a Community Arts Partnership program. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to eligible entities to provide comprehensive and coordinated educational and cultural services to at-risk children and youth. Authorizes appropriations.

Law Enforcement Family Support Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

Law Enforcement Family Support Act of 1993 - Establishes an Office of Family Support within the Department of Justice (DOJ), to be headed by a Director. Requires the Director to: (1) oversee the implementation of family-friendly policies within law enforcement-related offices in DOJ; (2) study the effects of stress on law enforcement personnel and family well-being and disseminate the findings to Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and others; (3) evaluate model programs that provide support services to law enforcement personnel and families; (4) provide technical assistance and training programs to develop stress reduction and family support to State and local LEAs; (5) collect and disseminate information regarding family support, stress reduction, and psychological services to LEAs, law enforcement-related organizations, and others; and (6) determine issues to be researched by the Office and by grant recipients. Authorizes the Director to make grants to States and local LEAs and to organizations representing State and local law enforcement personnel to provide family support services to law enforcement personnel. Directs State or local law enforcement grant recipients to use sums provided to establish or improve training and support programs for law enforcement personnel, including providing at least one of the following services: (1) counseling for law enforcement family members; (2) child care on a 24-hour basis; (3) marital and adolescent support groups; (4) stress reduction programs; (5) stress education for law enforcement recruits and families; and (6) technical assistance and training programs to support such services. Authorizes recipients to provide services such as: (1) post-shooting debriefings for officers and their spouses; (2) group therapy; (3) hypertension clinics; (4) counseling for families of personnel killed in the line of duty; (5) seminars regarding alcohol, drug abuse, gambling, and overeating. Sets forth provisions with respect to application requirements, grant durations, and limitations on the use of funds. Authorizes the Director to reserve ten percent of appropriated funds for discretionary research grants. Authorizes appropriations.

National Institute for the Environment Act

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

National Institute for the Environment Act - Establishes the National Institute for the Environment to: (1) increase scientific understanding of environmental issues by supporting scientific environmental research and other environmental programs; (2) assist decision-making on environmental issues by providing assessments of existing knowledge of such issues; (3) serve as the foremost provider of access to current scientific and technical information about the environment; (4) sponsor higher education and training in environmental fields; (5) support the development of methods and technologies that increase understanding of the environment and minimize adverse environmental impact; (6) evaluate the status and needs of the various environmental sciences and fields; (7) foster interchange of scientific information about the environment; (8) address emerging environmental issues and aspects of environmental problems; and (9) establish research priorities for environmental issues. Establishes a Governing Board for the Institute and an Interagency Advisory Committee to ensure that the environmental efforts of the Institute and Federal agencies are complementary. Makes scientists, engineers, and other researchers eligible to receive funding from the Institute.

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct and operate the Walter B. Jones Center for the Sounds at the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge.

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct and operate the Walter B. Jones Center for the Sounds at the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in Tyrrell County, North Carolina, to: (1) provide public opportunities, facilities, and resources to study the natural history and natural resources of northeastern North Carolina; (2) offer a variety of environmental educational programs and interpretive exhibits; (3) foster an awareness and understanding of the interactions among wildlife, estuarine and wetland ecosystems, and human activities; and (4) provide office space and facilities for refuge administration, research, education, and related activities. Directs the Secretary to ensure that the design, size, and location of a facility constructed under this Act are consistent with the cultural and natural history of the area with which the facility will be concerned. Authorizes the Secretary to accept contributions of funds from non-Federal sources to pay the costs of operating and maintaining the facility authorized under this Act. Directs the Secretary to take appropriate steps to obtain such contributions. Sets forth reporting requirements.

Richard Bolling Center for the Study of Congress Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

Richard Bolling Center for the Study of Congress Act of 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide funds to assist in the development and construction of the Richard Bolling Center for the Study of Congress at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri. Authorizes appropriations.

Older Americans Preventive Health Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

Older Americans Preventive Health Act of 1993 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of a comprehensive health assessment and certain immunizations under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance). Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize additional appropriations for the provision of education and information regarding cancer to health professionals and the public.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities Historic Building Restoration and Preservation Act

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

Historically Black Colleges and Universities Historic Building Restoration and Preservation Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to eligible historically black colleges and universities for the preservation and restoration of historic buildings and structures on their campuses. Authorizes appropriations.

School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: School-to-Work Opportunities Basic Program Components Title II: School-to-Work Opportunities System Development and Implementation Grants to States Subtitle A: State Development Grants Subtitle B: State Implementation Grants Title III: Federal Implementation Grants to Partnerships Title IV: National Programs Title V: General Provisions School-of-Work Opportunities Act of 1993 - Establishes a national framework for development of School-to-Work Opportunities systems in all States. Declares the congressional intent that the Secretaries of Education and of Labor jointly administer this Act in a flexible manner. Directs the Secretaries to jointly administer the programs established by this Act. Title I: School-to-Work Opportunities Basic Program Components - Requires School-to-Work Opportunities (SWO) programs to: (1) integrate work-based and school-based learning; (2) provide students with the opportunity to complete career majors; and (3) incorporate specified program components including work-based and school-based learning and connecting activities. Title II: School-to-Work Opportunities System Development and Implementation Grants to States - Subtitle A: State Development Grants - Authorizes the Secretaries to award development grants to applicant States to complete development of a comprehensive, statewide SWO system. (Such development may have begun with funds awarded under the Job Training Partnership Act and the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act.) Subtitle B: State Implementation Grants - Allows States to apply to the Secretaries for competitive implementation grants, with applications containing: (1) plans for comprehensive, statewide SWO systems meeting content requirements; (2) descriptions of how funds will be allocated to local SWO partnerships; and (3) optional requests for waivers of certain statutory or regulatory requirements. Title III: Federal Implementation Grants to Partnerships - Authorizes the Secretaries to award competitive SWO implementation grants to partnerships in States that have not received State implementation grants. Authorizes the Secretaries to award grants to implement SWO programs in high poverty areas. (Such funds may be awarded in combination with funds appropriated for the Youth Fair Chance Program.) Title IV: National Program - Directs the Secretaries to provide for: (1) research, demonstration, and other projects; (2) performance outcomes and evaluation, in collaboration with States; and (3) training and technical assistance. Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) State requests and responsibilities for waivers of statutory and regulatory requirements; (2) such waivers by each of the Secretaries; (3) program safeguards, including nondisplacement of current workers; and (4) acceptance of gifts. Authorizes appropriations.

Nutrition Labeling and Education Act Amendments of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993

Nutrition Labeling and Education Act Amendments of 1993 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide more time for qualifying small businesses to achieve compliance with the labeling requirements of the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990.

Adopt-A-School Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993

Adopt-A-School Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow businesses a tax credit for 70 percent of qualified contributions made to public elementary and secondary schools located in poverty areas.