Education

Welfare to Work Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: AFDC Transition and Work Program Title II: Paternity Establishment Title III: Expansion of Statutory Flexibility of States Title IV: Expansion of State and Local Flexibility Title V: Miscellaneous Welfare to Work Act of 1995 - Title I: AFDC Transition and Work Program - Amends part F (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program) (JOBS) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to give the JOBS program the new purpose of assuring that needy families with children obtain not only the education and training needed to prepare them for a life without welfare, but the work experience as well. (Sec. 101) Requires State JOBS programs to include a transition component and a work supplementation component that: (1) are each allowed to include any State work experience program approved by the Secretary; and (2) with respect to the first component, must include the State's job search program, and, with respect to the second component, may include the State's work supplementation or community work experience program. Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC) of SSA title IV to revise State AFDC plan participation requirements to incorporate participation in the two JOBS program components above under specified guidelines as a requirement for qualified individuals to receive AFDC. Imposes sanctions for a qualified individual's failure to participate in the JOBS program as required under such guidelines, which include a reduction in AFDC benefits and eventual benefit termination for repeated failures. Revises the exemptions from JOBS program participation requirements. Extends to all States the option to limit AFDC-UP. Increases State JOBS program and work program participation rates with regard to, respectively, AFDC-eligible individuals and unemployed parents. Provides for additional payments to States for JOBS programs. (Sec. 102) Amends community work experience and work supplementation program provisions. (Sec. 104) Establishes requirements for participation in: (1) job search and work programs, by noncustodial parents with child support arrearages; and (2) programs for work, job training, parenting and money management classes, and career counseling, by minor noncustodial parents who fail to provide child or spousal support. Title II: Paternity Establishment - Amends SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) and part A (AFDC) to require mothers or other custodial relatives to cooperate with paternity establishment efforts by States, with good faith exceptions. (Sec. 202) Amends SSA title IV part A (AFDC) to remove States' options with respect to the requirement that unmarried individuals under 18 who are eligible for AFDC and are pregnant or with dependent children under their care reside at the home of their parent or legal guardian, with specified exceptions, in order to receive AFDC. (Sec. 204) Increases the paternity establishment percentage. Title III: Expansion of Statutory Flexibility of States - Amends SSA title IV part A to give States the options to: (1) convert AFDC into a block grant program; (2) exempt themselves from otherwise mandatory denial of AFDC where either parent is a minor; (3) treat families moving interstate who apply for AFDC in their new State of residence (where they have resided for less than one year) under the AFDC rules of their former State of residence; (4) reduce AFDC for parents under 21 who have dropped out of school and dependent children who, without good cause, do not maintain minimum school attendance; (5) exempt themselves from otherwise mandatory denial of AFDC for additional children; (6) modify certain AFDC income disregard rules; (7) provide for a married couple transitional benefit in cases where an AFDC recipient marries an individual who is not a parent of the recipient's child, and the resulting family would become ineligible for AFDC by reason of the marriage; (8) disregard certain savings and income of a family on AFDC designated for education, training, employability (including self-employment), home purchase, or residence change in determining eligibility for AFDC; and (9) condition the receipt of AFDC on the recipient's attendance at parenting and money management classes and on prior approval of any action requiring a change in the educational institution attended by the recipient's dependent child. Title IV: Expansion of State and Local Flexibility - Establishes an Interagency Waiver Request Board in order to provide a focal point within the Federal Government for the development and coordination of waiver requests to improve opportunities for low-income individuals and families. (Sec. 402) Prescribes contents of applications to implement Federal assistance plans, as well as the review, approval, implementation, and evaluation processes. (Sec. 405) Requires any entity applying for plan approval to establish a Public Private Partnership Committee to advise it on plan development and implementation. (Sec. 407) Directs the Comptroller General to submit certain reports on activities under this title to the Congress. (Sec. 408) Terminates any authority provided under this title seven years after the enactment of this Act. Title V: Miscellaneous - Amends SSA title IV part A to require AFDC applicants and recipients to undergo any necessary substance abuse treatment as a condition of receiving AFDC. (Sec. 502) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) conduct research projects to evaluate the impact of education and training programs on the ability of individuals to end participation in the AFDC program; (2) conduct demonstration projects and report to the Congress on whether providing benefits based on need through the use of electronic cards and automatic teller machines would reduce administrative costs and fraud; and (3) establish a commission to determine the cost and feasibility of creating an interstate system to compare the social security numbers of all AFDC recipients in order to identify those recipients receiving AFDC from multiple States. (Sec. 503) Amends SSA to require State AFDC applicants to participate in job search activities while the application is pending, unless a State by law exempts itself from this requirement. (Sec. 505) Amends SSA title IV part A to deny AFDC for certain children who have not received appropriate medical examinations and immunizations. Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act with regard to childhood immunizations. Requires the Surgeon General to issue and periodically revise recommendations for the immunization of children under age six.

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to voluntary prayer in public schools.

United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1995

Constitutional Amendment - Declares that nothing in the Constitution shall prohibit the inclusion of voluntary prayer in any public school program or activity. Provides that neither the United States nor any State shall prescribe the content of any such prayer.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a permanent, confidential database and toll-free telephone line for the collection of medical information concerning members of the Armed Forces and veterans.

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1995

Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in order to provide information for the detection of patterns of illnesses among military personnel and veterans, to maintain a database of the medical histories, service histories, and relevant personal information of military personnel deployed for any operational mission (beginning with the operation in Somalia in 1992-1993) and their spouses and children. Requires permission of the individual before inclusion in the database of information concerning such individual. Requires confidentiality of individual identities represented in the database. Directs the Secretary to maintain a toll-free telephone number to allow military personnel and veterans to report information for inclusion in the database. Allows the Secretary to make database information available to accredited institutions of higher education and other appropriate institutions for medical studies and related research. Directs the Secretary to report annually to appropriate congressional committees on the operation of the database and the toll-free telephone number.

Job Creation and Invest in America Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Physical Capital Investment Subtitle A: Highways and Mass Transit Subtitle B: Airports Subtitle C: Railroads Subtitle D: Water and Sewage Treatment Facilities Subtitle E: Environmental Restoration Subtitle F: Community Development Assistance Subtitle G: Education Infrastructure Subtitle H: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Title II: Human Capital Investment Subtitle A: Job Training Subtitle B: Education Subtitle C: Head Start Subtitle D: Programs Under Public Health Service Act Title III: Amendments of Internal Revenue Code of 1986 Subtitle A: Reduction in Employee Payroll Taxes; Credit for First-Time Homebuyers Subtitle B: Revenue Increases Title IV: Appropriations Job Creation and Invest in America Act of 1995 - Title I: Physical Capital Investment - Subtitle A: Highways and Mass Transit - Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to authorize additional appropriations from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) for interstate maintenance, surface transportation, and bridges. (Sec. 1002) Amends the Federal Transit Act to authorize additional appropriations and make available additional funding from the Mass Transit Account for certain formula grants and discretionary grants transit programs. Subtitle B: Airports - Amends the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 to make available additional amounts for airport improvement program grants (including grants for airport noise compatibility planning). Subtitle C: Railroads - Amends the Department of Transportation Act to increase and extend the authorization of appropriations for local rail freight assistance. Subtitle D: Water and Sewage Treatment Facilities - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds. Subtitle E: Environmental Restoration - Provides funds for environmental restoration at facilities of the Departments of Defense and of Energy. Sets forth various authorizations of appropriations and makes appropriations for such purposes. Subtitle F: Community Development Assistance - Chapter 1: Community Development Block Grants - Authorizes additional appropriations for community development block grants under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. Chapter 2: Community Banking and Economic Empowerment Act - Community Banking and Economic Empowerment Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide capital, operating, and technical assistance to community development lenders and certain eligible entities in order to: (1) make credit-related services available to low-income persons inadequately served by traditional lending institutions; and (2) promote development and revitalization of low-income neighborhoods. Delineates the purposes for which the Secretary of HUD may provide assistance to community development lenders and to the eligible entities establishing those lenders. Prescribes guidelines for assisted community development lenders, including assistance agreements and auditing procedures. (Sec. 1520) Amends the Community Reinvestment Act to preclude a regulated financial institution from receiving either an "outstanding" or a "satisfactory" rating for meeting community credit needs solely on the basis of its loans or investments in community development lenders. (Sec. 1521) Requires annual reports to the Congress. (Sec. 1524) Authorizes appropriations for: (1) capital and operating assistance for community development lenders; and (2) technical assistance for organizing and operating community development lenders. Subtitle G: Education Infrastructure - Education Infrastructure Act of 1994 - Directs the Secretary of Education to award grants to eligible local educational agencies to meet the National Education Goals through repair, renovation, alteration, and construction of public elementary or secondary school libraries, media centers, or facilities, used for academic or vocational instruction, including certain authorized activities. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1606) Sets forth requirements for: (1) priorities in selection of applications; (2) maintenance of effort, supplementation of non-Federal funds, and general limitations; (3) minority small business participation as project contractors or subcontractors, and payment of wages in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act; and (4) Federal evaluation. (Sec. 1610) Authorizes the comprehensive regional centers to provide technical assistance to such projects. Subtitle H: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency - Authorizes additional appropriations to the Secretary of Energy for renewable energy research, development, and demonstration programs described in specified provisions of the Renewable Energy and Efficiency Technology Competitiveness Act of 1989. (Sec. 1702) Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act to increase and extend the authorization of appropriations for the Federal Energy Efficiency Fund and the new technology demonstration program. Title II: Human Capital Investment - Subtitle A: Job Training - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to establish an allied health professional job training program. Directs the Secretary of Labor to make grants to institutions of higher education to establish job training assistance programs for at-risk youths and long-term welfare recipients to become allied health professionals. Authorizes appropriations. Increases the authorization of appropriations for the following youth job training programs: (1) Youth Fair Chance under JTPA; and (2) Youthbuild under the Homeownership and Opportunity Through HOPE Act. Subtitle B: Education - Extends and increases the authorization of appropriations for certain programs for educational personnel under the Adult Education Act and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Subtitle C: Head Start - Amends the Head Start Act to extend and increase the authorization of appropriations for Head Start programs. Subtitle D: Programs Under Public Health Service Act - Chapter 1: Funding Initiative for Programs Providing Health Services - Authorizes additional appropriations for the following programs under the Public Health Service Act: (1) community health centers; (2) migrant health centers; (3) health care for the homeless; (4) preventive services regarding tuberculosis, breast and cervical cancer, lead exposure, HIV disease, and prostate cancer; (5) immunization; (6) cancer registries; (7) comprehensive school health education; (8) prevention and control of sexually transmitted diseases, diabetes, and injuries; (9) child day care health and safety; (10) asthma; (11) environmental health, including response to urgent environmental threats to public health and environmental services regarding the health of individuals in the United States in the vicinity of the Mexican border; (12) block grants for community mental health services, prevention and treatment of substance abuse, and preventive health services; and (13) scholarship and loan repayment programs of the National Health Service Corps. Authorizes additional appropriations for the maternal and child health block grant program under the Social Security Act. Chapter 2: Community Health Advisor Program - National Community Health Advisor Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, for each State or State-designated entity that submits an appropriate application, to award formula grants for the development and operation of community health advisor (CHA) programs. Requires such States to: (1) operate a clearinghouse to maintain and disseminate information on CHA programs; (2) provide technical assistance for training CHAs; and (3) coordinate all CHA activities carried out by the State under the award. Limits administrative costs to 15 percent of the total award. (Sec. 2314) Provides CHA program objectives and goals. Requires funding agreements for such awards to give priority to developing and operating CHA programs for medically underserved communities (poor rural and inner city areas). (Sec. 2315) Requires a State to provide matching funds of 25 percent of award amounts toward such programs. Requires a CHA program in a State to be carried out in at least one urban area and one rural area. Requires ongoing supervision of CHAs involved in the program. Allows for expenditures under the award for training and continuing education programs. Requires reports from State applicants to the Secretary assessing the effectiveness of CHA programs. (Sec. 2317) Provides for the determination of the amount allotted to each chosen applicant, taking into account the population and poverty level of the area involved. (Sec. 2318) Directs the Secretary to establish guidelines for quality assurance and cost-effectiveness of the CHA programs. (Sec. 2319) Requires evaluations of each such program. (Sec. 2320) Prohibits this chapter from being construed to require the Secretary to modify or terminate the Community Health Representative Program of the Indian Health Service. (Sec. 2322) Authorizes appropriations for the CHA program. Title III: Amendments of Internal Revenue Code of 1986 - Subtitle A: Reduction in Employee Payroll Taxes; Credit for First-Time Homebuyers - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to provide a refundable credit for a portion of social security taxes for taxable years 1995 and 1996, equal to 20 percent of the taxpayer's social security taxes for that year, up to a maximum credit of $200, or $400 for a joint return. (Sec. 3002) Allows a nonrefundable personal credit for purchase of a principal residence by a first-time homebuyer. Sets such maximum overall credit at no more than $6,000. Subtitle B: Revenue Increases - Amends the IRC to establish a stock transfer excise tax. (Sec. 3102) Repeals a preferential rate of tax on capital gains. (Sec. 3103) Repeals a credit for foreign taxes. (Sec. 3104) Repeals provisions for a deferral of income of controlled foreign corporations. (Sec. 3105) Requires the use of a formulaic approach to clearly reflect income of multinational corporations. (Sec. 3106) Repeals an increase in the basis of property acquired from a decedent. Provides that such basis is to be determined under rules applicable to gifts. (Sec. 3107) Phases in a capital gains tax on inherited property. (Sec. 3108) Provides for an additional exclusion of gain on the sale of a principal residence acquired from a decedent. Title IV: Appropriations - Appropriates amounts authorized under this Act. (Sec. 4002) Designates the entire amount appropriated under this Act as an emergency requirement under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

Higher Education Accumulation Program Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1995

Higher Education Accumulation Program Act of 1995 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for amounts paid to a Higher Education Accumulation Program (HEAP) account established to accumulate funds to pay the educational expenses of a child of the taxpayer. Declares such accounts exempt from tax. Allows the deduction in arriving at adjusted gross income. Imposes an excise tax on excess contributions and prohibited transactions. Imposes a penalty for failure to meet reporting requirements.

Domestic Investment Economic Growth Act

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1995

Domestic Investment Economic Growth Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income gain on qualified investments in an enterprise zone business and a domestic business. Excludes 100 percent of such gain from investment in an enterprise zone business or an urban enterprise zone, and 50 percent of such gain from other qualified investments. Provides for the establishment of investment savings accounts. Allows an individual a deduction of 50 percent of the qualified contributions to an investment savings account. Limits the maximum annual deduction to $100,000. Defines qualified contributions. Defines an investment savings account. Provides that any amount distributed out of such an account shall be included in the gross income of the distributee, except for amounts held in the account for at least ten years. Makes such accounts tax-exempt, except for the imposition of the tax on unrelated business income of charitable, etc., organizations. Imposes, in the case of a distribution from an investment savings account, an additional tax of ten percent of the amount of the distribution which is includible in the gross income of the distributee. Makes such tax inapplicable to distributions held in such accounts for at least five years if such distributions were made for: (1) home purchase expenses; (2) automobile purchase expenses; (3) education expenses; and (4) medical expenses. Makes such tax inapplicable if the distribution is made after the individual for whose benefit the account is established attains age 59 and one-half years or becomes disabled. Allows the deduction for contributions to investment savings accounts in computing adjusted gross income. Declares that such contributions are not subject to the gift tax. Subjects such accounts to the tax on excess contributions, the tax on prohibited transactions, and the penalty for failure to provide reports on individual retirement accounts or annuities. Imposes a penalty on any person who promotes a nonqualified investment as eligible under the provisions of this Act.

A bill to amend the Goals 2000: Educate America Act to eliminate the National Education Standards and Improvement Council, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1995

Amends the Goals 2000: Educate America Act to eliminate the National Education Standards and Improvement Council (the Council). Prohibits any Federal agency from expending Federal funds for the development or dissemination of model or national content standards, national student performance standards, or national opportunity-to-learn standards. Eliminates the requirement that the National Education Goals Panel review and approve such standards and criteria. Terminates funding for: (1) the Council; (2) opportunity-to-learn development grants; and (3) assessment development and evaluation grants. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the General Education Provisions Act, and the Education Amendments of 1978.

Voluntary School Prayer Protection Act

United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1995

Voluntary School Prayer Protection Act - Prohibits the provision of funds through the Department of Education to any State or local educational agency which has a policy of denying, or effectively prevents participation in, constitutionally-protected prayer in public schools by individuals on a voluntary basis.

A bill to increase access to, control the costs associated with, and improve the quality of health care in States through health insurance reform, State innovation, public health, medical research, and reduction of fraud and abuse, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Health Insurance Reform Title II: State Innovation Subtitle A: State Waiver Authority Subtitle B: State Laws Title III: Public Health and Rural and Underserved Access Improvement Title IV: Medical and Health Research Title V: Fraud and Abuse Subtitle A: All-Payer Fraud and Abuse Control Program Subtitle B: Revisions to Current Sanctions for Fraud and Abuse Subtitle C: Civil Monetary Penalties Subtitle D: Payments for State Health Care Fraud Control Units Title VI: Revenue Provisions Subtitle A: Financing Provisions Subtitle B: Health Care Reform Trust Fund Health Partnership Act of 1995 - Title I: Health Insurance Reform - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to request the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to develop standards for health insurance plans with respect to: (1) the renewability and portability of coverage; (2) guaranteed issue with respect to all health insurance coverage products; (3) the establishment of an adjusted community rating system with adjustment factors limited to age; (4) solvency; (5) stop-loss standards for self-funded health insurance plans and multi-employer welfare arrangements and association plans; (6) the identification of minimum employer size for self-funding and the interrelationship between self-funding and the community-rated pool of enrollees; and (7) other appropriate areas. Requires the Secretary to develop such standards if the NAIC fails to do so. (Sec. 1002) Revises provisions regarding Medicare supplemental policies. Title II: State Innovation - Subtitle A: State Waiver Authority - Includes within the objectives of the waiver programs approved under this title: (1) achieving the goals of increased health coverage and access; (2) containing the annual rate of growth in health care expenditures; (3) ensuring patients receive high-quality, appropriate health care; and (4) testing alternative reforms. Authorizes States to apply to the Secretary for alternative State health program waivers or limited State health care waivers. Directs the Secretary to establish a State Health Reform Advisory Commission to monitor the status and progress achieved under waivers and to promote information exchange between States and the Federal Government. Requires the Board to make recommendations to the Secretary and the Congress with respect to minimizing the negative effect of State waivers on national employer groups, provider organizations, and insurers because of differing State requirements under waivers. Permits the Secretary to revoke any waiver of Federal law granted under this subtitle and to terminate any alternative State health program for good cause. Authorizes grants to States for carrying out alternative State health programs. Directs the Secretary to: (1) grant priority to State projects that have the greatest opportunity to succeed in providing expanded health insurance coverage and access and in providing children, youth, and vulnerable populations with access to health care items and services; and (2) attempt to link allocations to States to the meeting of goals and performance measures relating to health care coverage, access, costs, and outcomes and vulnerable populations through the State project application process. Permits local governments to submit such applications if a State fails to do so or if a local government can demonstrate unique demographic needs or a significant population size that warrants a substate waiver. Earmarks funds for such grants from the Health Care Reform Trust Fund. Subtitle B: State Laws - Part A: Existing Waivers and Hawaii Prepaid Health Care Act - Continues certain existing waivers for States from requirements of titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Part B: Erisa Review - Amends ERISA to make certain ERISA preemptions of State laws regarding retirement income security inapplicable, upon application of a State, to State programs that: (1) require participation in an uncompensated care pool; (2) provide for the imposition of a specified tax on health care providers; or (3) implement an exemption as provided by this Act. (Sec. 2112) Directs the ERISA Review Commission to make recommendations to the Secretary of Labor with respect to: (1) uniform data collection concerning use, cost, and quality information and requiring common claims processing; (2) the authority of States to establish interim minimum benefits packages until implementation of a national uniform benefits plan; (3) the application of preemption rules only to self-insured employers which have more than a minimum number of employees; (4) the authority of States to regulate the quality of managed care plans which contract with self-insured plans; (5) State health care financing programs, including taxes on health services and employers to provide for coverage; (6) rate setting by hospital reimbursement systems; (7) the authority of States to require employers to pay for or offer health benefits; (8) the authority of the Federal Government to provide remedies and consumer protections to beneficiaries of self-insured plans; (9) the authority of States to require self-insured plans to participate in purchasing cooperatives and risk adjustment systems; (10) a national uniform benefits plan applicable to all health plans; and (11) unresolved issues. Sets forth requirements with respect to the implementation of such recommendations. (Sec. 2113) Establishes the Commission. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Public Health and Rural and Underserved Access Improvement - Public Health and Rural and Underserved Access Improvement Act of 1995 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for grants to States for core functions of public health programs. Includes within such core functions: (1) data collection and analytical activities related to population-based status and outcomes monitoring; (2) activities to reduce environmental risk and to assure the safety of housing, schools, workplaces, day-care centers, and food and water; (3) investigation, control, and public-awareness activities regarding adverse health conditions; (4) public information and education programs to reduce health risks; (5) public health laboratory services that screen for diseases and conditions; (6) training and education in the field of public health; and (7) leadership, policy development, and administration activities. (Sec. 3002) Authorizes appropriations for grants to States for evaluating the extent to which clinical preventive services, health promotion and unintentional injury prevention activities, and interpersonal and community violence prevention activities achieve health care cost reductions and health status improvement. Directs the Secretary to issue practice guidelines that are based on the results of such evaluations. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) scholarships and loan repayment programs for individuals attending schools of public health; (2) grants to expand the capacity of certain educational institutions with public health programs; (3) grants to expand public health training programs in States lacking adequate programs; (4) area health education centers and health education training centers; (5) activities regarding centers for the prevention and treatment of poisoning and control of poisons; (6) certain school-related health services; (7) grants to migrant and community health centers; (8) the National Health Service Corps; (9) satellite clinics to provide primary health care; and (10) community health advisor programs. Title IV: Medical and Health Research - Medical and Health Research Act of 1995 - Establishes a National Fund for Health Research in the Treasury. (Sec. 4003) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to designate overpayments of tax or cash contributions to be paid over to the National Fund for Health Research. Title V: Fraud and Abuse - Health Fraud and Abuse Reduction Act of 1995 - Subtitle A: All-Payer Fraud and Abuse Control Program - Directs the Secretary and the Attorney General to establish: (1) an all-payer fraud and abuse control program; and (2) by regulation, standards to carry out the program. Authorizes appropriations as necessary to conduct investigations and audits of such fraud and abuse and to carry out such program. Establishes the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Account from which funds shall be available to carry out the program. Subtitle B: Revisions to Current Sanctions for Fraud and Abuse - Revises sanctions under the Social Security Act with respect to health care fraud and abuse. Subtitle C: Civil Monetary Penalties - Revises provisions of the Social Security Act regarding civil penalties for health care fraud violations. Subtitle D: Payments for State Health Care Fraud Control Units - Requires each State to establish and maintain a State agency to act as a Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Unit. Sets forth: (1) requirements for such units; and (2) provisions providing for payments to the States for such units. Title VI: Revenue Provisions - Subtitle A: Financing Provisions - Increases the excise tax on the following tobacco and tobacco-related products: (1) cigarettes; (2) cigars; (3) cigarette papers and tubes; and (4) smokeless and pipe tobacco. (Sec. 6001) Imposes a tax on tobacco products and cigarette papers and tubes manufactured or imported into Puerto Rico. Provides a floor stocks tax on tobacco products and cigarette papers and tubes manufactured in or imported into the United States or Puerto Rico which are removed before any tax-increase date and held on such date for sale. Bars a tax on cigarettes held for retail sale on any tax-increase date by any vending machine. Provides a tax credit against floor stocks taxes. Establishes conditions under which articles in foreign trade zones shall be subject to such taxes. (Sec. 6003) Imposes a tax on roll-your-own tobacco manufactured in or imported into the United States. Subtitle B: Health Care Reform Trust Fund - Establishes the Health Care Reform Trust Fund in the Treasury and provides for the deposit into such Fund of amounts received from taxes on tobacco products.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the establishment of, and the deduction of contributions to, education savings accounts.

United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1995

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual income tax deduction for contributions to a savings account established to pay the educational expenses (tuition, supplies, meals, and lodging) of the taxpayer's child or certain other relatives at an institution of higher education or a vocational school. Limits the deduction to $1,500 annually (adjusted for inflation) for each account. Disallows the deduction for contributions to an account maintained for any individual aged 19 or older. Requires any account balance to be distributed after the beneficiary attains age 30. Permits an exclusion from the gross income of the contributor or the beneficiary of account distributions used to pay educational expenses of the latter. Exempts an account from taxation (except for the tax on unrelated business income of a charitable organization), unless a contributor or the beneficiary engages in specified prohibited transactions. Imposes a ten percent surtax on distributions not used for educational purposes. Requires the account trustee to report to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the account's beneficiary concerning the account. Imposes a penalty for failure to report. Allows taxpayers who do not otherwise itemize deductions to deduct for contributions to an education savings account. Imposes penalty taxes in connection with excess contributions or prohibited transactions associated with an account. Exempts from annual contribution limitations distributions from education savings accounts into individual retirement accounts. Excludes from gross income distributions from individual retirement accounts into education savings accounts.

National African American Museum Act

United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1995

National African American Museum Act - Establishes within the Smithsonian Institution the National African American Museum to be operated as a center for scholarship and a location for museum training, public education, exhibits, and collection and study of items and materials relating to the life, art, history, and culture of African Americans. Authorizes the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to plan, design, reconstruct, and renovate the Arts and Industries Building to house the Museum. Establishes a Board of Trustees of the Museum in the Smithsonian Institution. Directs the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to appoint a Director to manage the Museum. Authorizes appropriations.

Fire Safety Education Act

United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1995

Fire Safety Education Act - Authorizes the Administrator of the United States Fire Administration to enter into contracts, cooperative agreements, or grants with entities to obtain and distribute at the State and local level fire safety and prevention education programs and supporting educational resources. Authorizes funds provided to be used to educate the public in all aspects of fire safety and prevention. Requires funded programs to give priority to appropriate public education materials that have already been developed. Authorizes the Administrator to enter into contracts, cooperative agreements, or grants with States for the purpose of implementing the revised National Fire Incident Reporting System to improve the collection and analysis of fire data at the State and local levels. Authorizes appropriations.

AIDS Cure Act

United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1995

AIDS Cure Act - Requires the President to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a project to develop a cure for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Prohibits the program from being administered by any officer or employee of the National Institutes of Health. Requires the Governing Council established in this Act to ensure that the project: (1) pursues comprehensive basic science investigations, based on diverse theories and schools of thought which elucidate the pathogenesis of AIDS; and (2) identifies, based on this work, all promising curatives and oversees their timely and adequate testing. Establishes a Governing Council to set policy and oversee research priorities, ethical standards, conflict of interest rules, and hiring of researchers and administrators. Establishes a coordinating committee to facilitate communication among the different scientists working on the project, evaluate the progress of its work, and convene the entire staff on a regular schedule (or when necessary) to evaluate the progress of the project as a whole, identify gaps in research, reevaluate its direction, and consider newly developed theories emanating from both within and outside the project. Requires the Secretary to convene a one-time national AIDS Congress solely to make recommendations to the President for selecting the Governing Council. Grants the Secretary extraordinary powers in carrying out such project, including the power to exercise the right of eminent domain to obtain samples of potential curatives and data on their development. Vests power in the Congress to reauthorize the project after five years of operation.

Common Sense Welfare Reform Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Capping the Aggregate Growth of Welfare Spending Title II: Empowering Taxpayers to Participate in Poverty Relief Efforts Title III: Promoting Strong Families and Parental Responsibility Common Sense Welfare Reform Act of 1995 - Title I: Capping the Aggregate Growth of Welfare Spending - Establishes a cap on the growth of total Federal spending on certain welfare programs. (Sec. 101) Subjects to such spending limit the following programs: (1) the welfare block grant program established under this Act; (2) Head Start programs under the Head Start Act; (3) cash, medical, and social services assistance programs for refugees and entrants under Immigration and Nationality Act and the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980; (4) the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966; (5) programs providing general assistance to Indians under the Snyder Act; (6) programs providing Indian health services under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act; (7) programs providing Indian housing improvement grants; and (8) programs providing Indian and Native American employment training. Provides for reconciliation of such spending growth limits through specified procedures for allocations and reductions based on spending caps, and through consultation with specified congressional committees. (Sec. 102) Entitles each State to an annual welfare block grant payment based on a specified formula under a five-year program. Establishes the Welfare Revolving Fund. (Sec. 103) Eliminates certain welfare programs, under the following categories: (1) cash aid (Social Security Act (SSA) programs for Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Supplemental Security Income, foster care and adoption assistance, and grants to territories for aid to the aged, blind, or disabled); (2) medical aid (SSA program for maternal and child health services block grants, and Public Health Service Act programs for community health centers and migrant health centers); (3) food aid (the entire Food Stamp Act of 1977 and its food stamp program, the school lunch program under the National School Lunch Act (NSLA), the entire Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 and its emergency food assistance program, nutrition programs for the elderly under the Older Americans Act of 1965, the school breakfast program under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA), and other specified child and adult food programs); (4) housing aid (certain rental assistance and public housing programs under the United States Housing Act of 1937, certain interest reduction assistance under the National Housing Act, rent supplement assistance under the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and Housing Act of 1949 programs for specified rural housing and rental assistance); (5) energy aid (the entire Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 and its low-income home energy assistance programs, and the weatherization assistance program under the Energy Conservation and Production Act); (6) education aid (Higher Education Act of 1965 programs for Pell grants, Federal supplemental educational opportunity grants, Federal TRIO programs, grants to States for State student incentives, and grants to institutions and consortia to encourage women and minority participation in graduate education, and Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 programs for improving local education agency basic programs for disadvantaged and for migratory children); (7) jobs and training aid (Job Training Partnership Act programs for adult training, summer youth employment and training, the Job Corps, and Native Americans and migrant and seasonal farmworkers, the older American community service employment program under the Older Americans Act of 1965, and the JOBS program under SSA); (8) social services (SSA block grants to States for social services, the entire Community Services Block Grant Act (except specified provisions) and its community services block grant program, the entire Legal Services Corporation Act of 1974 and its legal services program, the FEMA emergency food and shelter program under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, PHSA programs of research regarding family planning and population issues and of voluntary family planning projects, and the entire Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973); and (9) community aid (community development block grants and urban development action grants under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, and the entire Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 with its Appalachian regional development program (terminating the Appalachian Regional Development Commission)). Revises the Older Americans Act of 1965 with respect to supportive services for older individuals to include a Senior Opportunities and Services program. (Sec. 104) Requires the use for deficit reduction of all savings to the Federal Government resulting from the spending cap imposed under this Act. Prohibits the use of such savings to fund increased spending under any programs that are not subject to the spending cap. Provides that budgetary effects resulting from enactment of this title shall not be counted under the Balanced Budgetary and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1965 with respect to deficit amounts in excess of the statutory maximum (paygo scorecard) which trigger an offsetting sequestration. Title II: Empowering Taxpayers to Participate in Poverty Relief Efforts - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to allow an individual tax credit for charitable contributions to certain private charities providing assistance to the poor. Title III: Promoting Strong Families and Parental Responsibility - Amends the IRC to allow an additional earned income credit for married individuals. (Sec. 302) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a system for the reporting of information relating to child support obligations of employees. Amends SSA title VI part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to require a State role in such system. (Sec. 303) Amends SSA title VI part D to require: (1) State registries of child support orders; and (2) certain procedures for accessibility of State information relating to child support. (Sec. 304) Expands the Parent Locator Service. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an Interstate Local Network linking the Parent Locator Service and all State databases relating to child support enforcement. Requires prescription of regulations governing information sharing among States, within States, and between States and the Parent Locator Service. (Sec. 305) Requires certain State procedures for collection and distribution of child support through income withholding. Provides for development of a uniform withholding order. Requires States to have laws requiring employers to withhold child support pursuant to uniform withholding orders. (Sec. 306) Requires development of a uniform abstract of a child support order for use by all State courts to record specified information with respect to each child support order in the registry.

Access to Affordable Health Care Act

United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Health Insurance Market Reform Subtitle A: Insurance Market Standards Subtitle B: Establishment and Application of Standards Subtitle C: Definitions Title II: Grants to States for Small Group Health Insurance Purchasing Arrangements Title III: Tax Incentives to Encourage the Purchase of Health Insurance Title IV: Incentives to Increase the Access of Rural and Underserved Areas to Health Care Title V: Quality and Consumer Protection Subtitle A: Quality Improvement Foundations Subtitle B: Administrative Simplification Subtitle C: Privacy of Health Information Subtitle D: Health Care Fraud Prevention Title VI: Malpractice Reform Title VII: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Title VIII: Tax Incentives for Long-Term Care Subtitle A: Tax Treatment of Long-Term Care Insurance Subtitle B: Standards for Long-Term Care Insurance Subtitle C: Incentives to Encourage the Purchase of Private Insurance Subtitle D: Effective Date Title IX: Budget Neutrality Access to Affordable Health Care Act - Title I: Health Insurance Market Reform - Subtitle A: Insurance Market Standards - Prohibits discrimination by a health plan based on health status, except as specified. (Sec. 1002) Provides for guaranteed issue and renewal in both the small and large group market, subject to the following exceptions: (1) capacity limits; (2) nonpayment of premiums; and (3) fraud or misrepresentation. (Sec. 1003) Provides for the development of rating limitations by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). (Sec. 1004) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary), in consultation with the NAIC and others, to establish minimum guidelines for the issuance by each State of delivery system quality standards. (Sec. 1005) Requires each health plan offering coverage in the small group market to participate in a risk adjustment program. Subtitle B: Establishment and Application of Standards - Deems a requirement or standard on a health plan under this Act to be a requirement or standard imposed on the insurer or sponsor of such plan. Prohibits any requirement of this title from being construed as preempting any State law unless such State law directly conflicts with such requirement. Subtitle C: Definitions - Sets forth definitions used in this title and title II. Title II: Grants to States for Small Group Health Purchasing Arrangements - Directs the Secretary to make grants to States that submit applications meeting specified requirements for the establishment and operation of small group health insurance purchasing arrangements. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Tax Incentives to Encourage the Purchase of Health Insurance - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permanently extend and increase to 100 percent the deduction for health insurance costs of self-employed individuals. (Sec. 3002) Provides a credit for a percentage of qualified health insurance expenses. Title IV: Incentives to Increase the Access of Rural and Undeserved Areas to Health Care - Provides for a nonrefundable credit of up to $12,000 annually for a primary health services provider who has not received a National Health Service Corps scholarship and who serves in a health professional shortage area. Increases, by $10,000, the amount which may be expensed in the case of health care property used to provide primary health care services in a health professional shortage area. (Sec. 4003) Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary to make grants to federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and other entities submitting applications for the purpose of providing access to services for medically undeserved populations or in high impact areas not being served by a FQHC. Sets forth grant eligibility requirements. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 4004) Revises the authorizations of appropriations for the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program and area health education centers. (Sec. 4005) Makes the head of the Office of Rural Health Policy an Assistant Secretary. (Sec. 4006) Directs the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission to study the need for legislation or regulations to ensure that vulnerable populations have access to health plans and health care providers and services. Title V: Quality and Consumer Protection - Subtitle A: Quality Improvement Foundations - Directs the Secretary to award demonstration grants for the establishment and operation of quality improvement foundations. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Administrative Simplification - Provides for the establishment of standards and requirements for the electronic transmission of certain health information, including information under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Sets: (1) timetables for the adoption of such standards and requirements; and (2) penalties for failure to comply with such standards and requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Privacy of Health Information - Sets forth provisions concerning the disclosure of health information generally and for: (1) specific disclosures relating to the patient; (2) oversight, public health, and research purposes; (3) judicial, law enforcement, and administrative purposes; (4) disclosure pursuant to a government subpoena or warrant; and (5) disclosure pursuant to party subpoena. (Sec. 5236) Sets forth procedures for ensuring the security of protected information, including standards for electronic disclosures. (Sec. 5256) Sets forth civil and criminal sanctions for privacy violations. Subtitle D: Health Care Fraud Prevention - Health Care Fraud Prevention Act of 1995 - Directs the Secretary and the Attorney General to establish: (1) an all-payer fraud and abuse control program; and (2) by regulation, standards to carry out the program. Authorizes appropriations as necessary to conduct investigations and audits of such fraud and abuse and to carry out such program. Establishes the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Account from which funds shall be available to carry out the fraud and abuse control program. (Sec. 5312) Amends part A (General Provisions) of Title 11 (General Provisions and Peer Review) of the Social Security Act to provide for the application criminal and civil health fraud and abuse sanctions under such Act to any health plan. (Sec. 5331) Directs the Secretary to establish a national health care fraud and abuse data collection program to report final adverse actions against health care providers, suppliers, or practitioners. (Sec. 5351) Amends Federal criminal law to set penalties for health care fraud and related offenses. (Sec. 5361) Requires each State to establish and maintain a State agency to act as a Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Unit. Sets forth: (1) requirements for such units; and (2) provisions providing for payments to the States for such units. Title VI: Malpractice Reform - Directs the Secretary to establish a program of grants to assist States in establishing alternative dispute resolution systems. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth the requirements for such systems. Directs the Secretary to establish an Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Board to advise the Secretary regarding the establishment of such systems. Provides for the establishment of an alternative Federal Dispute Resolution System for States not having a their own certified system. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress concerning such systems. Title VII: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention - Permits an income tax deduction for qualified expenditures for disease prevention and health promotion programs. (Sec. 7002) Directs the Secretary to award grants to States in order to provide assistance to businesses with not to exceed 100 employees for the establishment and operation of worksite wellness programs. (Sec. 7003) Authorizes appropriations to expand comprehensive school health education programs administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the Public Health Service Act. Title VIII: Tax Incentives for Long-Term Care - Private Long-Term Care Family Protection Act of 1995 - Subtitle A: Tax Treatment of Long-Term Care Insurance - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a deduction for qualified long-term medical care services and insurance covering medical care, if such insurance is provided under a qualified long-term care policy. (Sec. 8102) Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, for the treatment of: (1) a qualified long-term care insurance policy as an accident and health insurance contract; (2) amounts received under such a policy as amounts received for personal injuries and sickness; (3) amounts paid for such a policy as amounts payments made for medical insurance; and (4) such a policy as a guaranteed renewable contract. Sets forth provisions for the treatment of long-term care coverage provided as a rider on a life insurance contract. (Sec. 8105) Treats distributions from a life insurance contract on the life of a terminally ill individual as amounts paid by reason of the insured's death. Subtitle B: Standards for Long-Term Care Insurance - Provides for the appointment of a National Long-Term Care Insurance Advisory Council. (Sec. 8202) Imposes a specified tax on the issuer of any qualified long-term care insurance policy which fails to meet certain model regulation and disclosure requirements. Subtitle C: Incentives to Encourage the Purchase of Private Insurance - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide for the disregard of certain assets and resources for the purposes of the Medicaid estate recovery provisions. (Sec. 8302) Provides for the exclusion from gross income of distributions from an IRA, if such distributions are used to purchase long-term care insurance by an individual over the age of 59 and one- half. Allows for distributions from qualified retirement plans, without the imposition of the ten percent penalty, if such distributions are for medical care or for the purchase of long-term care insurance. Subtitle D: Effective Date - Sets forth effective date provisions. Title IX: Budget Neutrality - Provides for the budget neutrality of this Act.

Declaration of Official Language Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1995

Declaration of Official Language Act of 1995 - Declares English to be the official language of the U.S. Government. States that English is the preferred language of communication among U.S. citizens. Requires the U.S. Government to promote and support the use of English for communications among U.S. citizens. Requires communications by officers and employees of the U.S. Government with U.S. citizens to be in English. Directs the Immigration and Naturalization Service to : (1) enforce the established English language proficiency standard for all applicants for U.S. citizenship; and (2) conduct all naturalization ceremonies entirely in English. Allows anyone injured by a violation of such provisions to obtain appropriate relief in a civil action. Authorizes the court in any such action to allow a prevailing party, other than the U.S. Government, a reasonable attorney's fee as part of costs. Repeals the Bilingual Education Act (title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965). Amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to repeal bilingual election ballot requirements.

Welfare to Self-Sufficiency Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Family Investment Program and Other Welfare Reform Title II: Improvements in the Collection of Child Support Title III: Welfare Restrictions for Aliens Welfare to Self-Sufficiency Act of 1994 (sic) - Title I: Family Investment Program and Other Welfare Reform - Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require State AFDC plans in States without a waiver from the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to provide for a program in which the State agency negotiates an agreement with each family on AFDC outlining the steps non-exempt family members must take. Includes among such steps participation in education or job training programs, or in substance abuse treatment or parenting programs, in order to attain self-sufficiency within a certain period. Requires supplemental services, such as transportation and child care, when necessary for achieving such goal, as well as support and case management when adapting such agreement for changing family circumstances. Requires the State agency to offer such families enrollment in a limited benefit plan under which benefits are suspended after six months, and in which families failing to comply with the agreement are automatically enrolled. (Sec. 101) Requires the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, of Labor, and of Education to ensure appropriate coordination in the planning, development, and operation of the family investment program above and other specified programs, including the JOBS program under SSA title IV part F (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program) in order to improve departmental services and reduce program overlap and administrative costs. (Sec. 102) Makes numerous miscellaneous amendments to SSA title IV part A. Provides States with various specified options for moving AFDC recipients towards self-sufficiency, including options for: (1) increasing asset limits and disregards for work expenses, earned income, and automobiles; (2) disregarding interest income and certain earned income of new employees and dependent children as well as certain income and resources related to microenterprise and other employment and self-sufficiency initiatives; and (3) requiring certain unemployed parents to participate in job search and training activities. Eliminates the earned income disregard time limitation and various work-related requirements with regard to unemployed parent households. Provides for the inclusion of microenterprise training and activities in the JOBS program, and makes various specified changes with regard to program job searches, work assignments, and grievance procedures. (Sec. 106) Requires pregnant AFDC recipients to participate in the JOBS program. Changes payment formulae for the JOBS program and child care. Increases the JOBS program's authorization. (Sec. 109) Extends transitional child care benefits and the disregards for earned income and child care to non-recipient stepparents. Provides for timely preventive health care for children of AFDC recipients. (Sec. 110) Directs the Secretary to establish wage supplementation demonstration projects for certain AFDC-eligible individuals to provide an incentive to work. Title II: Improvements in the Collection of Child Support - Amends SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) and the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the establishment of a system under which the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) would collect child support via wage withholding and estimated tax payments and disperse it as appropriate. Requires the entire amount of child support owed to be paid to the IRS by the end of the applicable tax year along with the individual's tax return. Subjects delinquent individuals to generally the same penalties applicable to back taxes. (Sec. 203) Gives States the option of periodically making available for publication the identity of individuals at least three months behind in child support payments. Title III: Welfare Restrictions for Aliens - Declares that no AFDC, Medicaid, food stamp, supplemental security income, or Federal unemployment compensation benefits shall be available to an unlawful alien, except pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act. (Sec. 301) Requires that any lawful alien receiving any such benefits for 12 months be reported to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and be treated as a public charge. Requires attribution of a sponsor's or spouse's income and resources to a family preference alien as unearned income and resources until such alien achieves U.S. citizenship. (Sec. 302) Requires the State AFDC agencies to provide information on illegal aliens to the INS.

Local Government Law Enforcement Block Grants Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1995

Local Government Law Enforcement Block Grants Act of 1995 - Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (VCCLEA) to replace provisions of title I setting forth the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Act of 1994 with a local law enforcement block grant program. Requires the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to pay to qualifying units of local government specified sums for reducing crime and improving public safety, including for: (1) hiring, training, and employing on a continuing basis new, additional law enforcement officers and support personnel; (2) paying overtime to increase the number of hours worked by presently employed officers and support personnel; (3) procuring equipment, technology, and other material directly related to basic law enforcement functions; (4) enhancing school security measures; and (5) establishing crime prevention programs that substantially involve law enforcement officials and are intended to discourage, disrupt, or interfere with the commission of criminal activity. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) the timing of payments; (2) payment adjustments; (3) reservation of sums for adjustments; (4) repayment of unexpended amounts; and (5) requirements that such funds not be used to supplant State or local funds. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Director to: (1) establish procedures under which a local government is required to provide notice to the Director regarding the proposed used of funds made available under this Act; and (2) establish a process for the ongoing evaluation of projects developed with funds made available under this title. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) general qualification requirements; (2) sanctions for noncompliance; (3) allocation and distribution of funds; (4) the use of funds to contract with private, nonprofit entities or community-based organizations; and (5) public participation. Repeals provisions of the VCCLEA regarding: (1) the Ounce of Prevention Council; (2) local crime prevention block grants; (3) model intensive block grants; (4) family and community endeavor schools grants; (5) assistance for delinquent and at-risk youth; (6) police recruitment; (7) the Local Partnership Act; (8) the National Community Economic Partnership; (9) urban recreation and at-risk youth; (10) community-based justice grants for prosecutors; (11) the family unity demonstration project; and (12) gang resistance and education training.

Savings and Investment Incentive Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Retirement Savings Incentives Subtitle A: Restoration of IRA Deduction Subtitle B: Nondeductible Tax-Free IRAs Title II: Penalty-Free Distributions Title III: Aid to Families with Dependent Children Savings and Investment Incentive Act of 1995 - Title I: Retirement Savings Incentives - Subtitle A: Restoration of IRA Deduction - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to restore the deduction for individual retirement plans (IRAs). Provides a phase-up of income limits (from 1995 through 1998) with respect to the limitation on the deductibility of contributions to IRAs by active participants in employer-maintained plans. Removes the spousal rule from such limitation. Terminates income limits after December 31, 1998. Provides an inflation adjustment for deductible amounts after 1995. Allows certain spouses a full deduction for contributions to an IRA. Makes certain coins and bullion ineligible as collectible investments for purposes of distributions from an IRA. Coordinates the limit on such deduction with the elective deferral limit under other pension provisions. Subtitle B: Nondeductible Tax-Free IRAs - Allows individuals to establish individual retirement plus (IRA plus) accounts with tax treatment similar to that for individual retirement plans. Makes contributions to such accounts nondeductible. Excludes distributions from such accounts from the gross income of the distributee, if the assets remain in such accounts for at least five years. Allows qualified transfers to be made to such accounts. Establishes penalties for early withdrawals and excess contributions. Title II: Penalty-Free Distributions - Allows distributions from certain retirement plans without penalty to: (1) purchase first homes; (2) pay higher education expenses; (3) pay long-term care insurance premiums; (4) pay financially devastating medical expenses; and (5) assist certain unemployed individuals. Title III: Aid to Families with Dependent Children - Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC) of title IV of the Social Security Act to exclude from AFDC eligibility determinations certain income and resources that are to be used for education, training, and employability purposes. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to specified congressional committees on the use of qualified asset accounts. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on a revision of the AFDC limit on automobiles in order to increase the employability of AFDC recipients.

Recreational Boating Safety Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1995

Recreational Boating Safety Act of 1995 - Requires the Secretary of Transportation to increase enforcement of boating-while-intoxicated laws in areas where many boating accidents have occurred or where such accidents have involved the use of alcohol. Amends Federal recreational vessel safety law to direct the Secretary to prescribe regulations requiring individuals age 12 or younger to wear a personal flotation device. Requires the Secretary to submit to certain congressional committees plans to: (1) approve fully inflatable life jackets for use as personal flotation devices; and (2) increase reporting of vessel accidents to State law enforcement officials. Directs the Secretary to provide for a three-level State marine casualty reporting system for serious recreational vessel accidents. Includes among the penalties for negligent operation of a recreational vessel a mandatory boating safety course. Requires the Secretary to submit to certain congressional committees a plan to provide mandatory safe boating education and certification to individuals aged 12 or younger who operate recreational vessels.

Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Expansion and Fossil Forest Protection Act

United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1995

Bisti-De-Na-Zin Wilderness Expansion and Fossil Forest Protection Act - Amends the San Juan Wilderness Protection Act of 1984 to incorporate additional lands in New Mexico into the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness. Withdraws such lands from all forms of appropriation under the mining laws and from disposition under laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing and mineral material sales. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to issue coal leases in New Mexico in exchange for any preference right coal lease application on such lands after a determination has been made by the Secretary that the applicant is entitled to a preference right lease and that the exchange is in the public interest. Provides for the exchange of State and Navajo Indian lands located in the wilderness for other lands. Establishes the Fossil Forest Research Natural Area within New Mexico. Makes such area subject to the same withdrawal requirements and coal preference rights as the wilderness area designated under this Act. Prohibits livestock grazing in the Area. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, to develop a baseline inventory of all categories of fossil resources within the Area and to conduct monitoring surveys. Requires the Secretary to submit a management plan for the Area to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs to include: (1) a plan for the implementation of a cooperative program with other agencies for laboratory and field interpretation and public education; (2) provisions for vehicle management; (3) procedures for the excavation and collection of fossil remains; and (4) mitigation and reclamation standards for activities that disturb the surface to the detriment of scenic and environmental values.

Taxpayer Bill of Rights 2

United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Taxpayer Advocate Title II: Modifications to Installment Agreement Provisions Title III: Interest Title IV: Joint Returns Title V: Collection Activities Title VI: Information Returns Title VII: Modifications to Penalty for Failure to Collect and Pay Over Tax Title VIII: Awarding of Costs and Certain Fees Title IX: Other Provisions Title X: Form Modifications; Studies Subtitle A: Form Modifications Subtitle B: Studies Taxpayer Bill of Rights 2 - Title I: Taxpayer Advocate - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) the Office of Taxpayer Advocate, headed by the Taxpayer Advocate, to: (1) assist taxpayers in resolving problems with the IRS; (2) identify areas in which taxpayers have problems in dealings with the IRS; (3) propose changes in the administrative practices of the IRS to mitigate such problems; and (4) identify potential legislative changes which may be appropriate to mitigate such problems. Requires the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to establish procedures requiring a formal response to all recommendations submitted to the Commissioner by the Taxpayer Advocate. Replaces the Office of the Ombudsman with the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate. (Sec. 102) Revises the terms of a Taxpayer Assistance Order to: (1) allow the Order to require the Secretary of the Treasury to act within a specified time period; and (2) require the Secretary to take certain actions (currently, only to cease or refrain from taking certain actions). Title II: Modifications to Installment Agreement Provisions - Grants certain taxpayers the right to an installment agreement for the payment of tax liability less than $10,000. (Sec. 202) Suspends any penalties during the period the installment agreement is in effect. (Sec. 203) Requires prior notification to taxpayers under an installment agreement to pay tax liability before altering, modifying, or terminating such an agreement. (Sec. 204) Provides for administrative review of denials of requests for, or termination of, installment agreements. Title III: Interest - Authorizes the abatement of interest in the case of an assessment due to the unreasonable error or delay of an IRS act. (Sec. 302) Extends from ten to 21 days the period for which interest will not be imposed after notice and demand for payment, if such payment is less than $100,000. Title IV: Joint Returns - Allows the disclosure of collection activities to an individual requesting such information in the case of a joint return where such individual is no longer married to or resides in the same household as the other joint filer. (Sec. 402) Removes limitations on filing a joint return after filing separate returns. Title V: Collection Activities - Authorizes the Secretary, in certain cases, to: (1) withdraw a notice of a lien; (2) return property that has been levied upon; and (3) offer compromises in civil or criminal cases. Requires the Secretary to provide a copy of such notice of withdrawal to the taxpayer and, at the request of the taxpayer, to make reasonable efforts to notify credit reporting agencies and financial institutions of such withdrawal notice. (Sec. 503) Requires prior notification to the taxpayer that the taxpayer is under examination and an explanation of the process, with exceptions. (Sec. 504) Increases the dollar limit on the recovery of civil damages for unauthorized collection actions. (Sec. 505) Revises provisions with respect to a designated summons concerning the standard of review and notice requirements for issuance. Title VI: Information Returns - Requires payee statements to provide the phone number of the person providing payment. (Sec. 602) Establishes civil damages for the fraudulent filing of information returns. (Sec. 603) Requires the Secretary, in any court proceeding where a taxpayer asserts a reasonable dispute with respect to income reported on an information return filed by a third party and the taxpayer has fully cooperated with the Secretary, to present reasonable and probative information concerning such deficiency in addition to such return. Title VII: Modifications to Penalty for Failure to Collect and Pay Over Tax - Establishes preliminary notice requirements for failure to pay tax. (Sec. 702) Directs the Secretary to: (1) disclose certain information where more than one person is liable for a penalty; and (2) ensure that IRS employees are aware of their responsibilities under the tax depository system, the circumstances under which they may be liable for penalties, and reporting responsibilities. (Sec. 703) Exempts unpaid, volunteer board members of tax-exempt organizations who do not have actual knowledge of the failure on which such penalties are imposed from collection penalties. Title VIII: Awarding of Costs and Certain Fees - Authorizes a taxpayer who substantially prevails on a claim to file a motion for an order requiring the disclosure of all information and copies of relevant records in the possession of the IRS regarding such taxpayer's case and the substantial justification for the position taken by the IRS. (Sec. 802) Increases the limit on attorney fees. (Sec. 803) Provides that any failure to agree to an extension of time for the assessment of any tax shall not be taken into account in determining whether a prevailing party has exhausted all administrative remedies. Title IX: Other Provisions - Revises provisions on the required content of tax due, deficiency, and other notices. (Sec. 902) Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) treatment of substitute returns under section 6651 (relating to failure to file a tax return or to pay tax); (2) prospective application of Treasury Department regulations; and (3) required notice to the taxpayer of payments that the Secretary cannot associate with any outstanding tax liability of such taxpayer. (Sec. 905) Authorizes a taxpayer to bring a civil damage suit against the United States if any U.S. officer or employee intentionally compromises the determination or collection of any tax due from an attorney, certified public accountant (CPA), or enrolled agent representing a taxpayer in exchange for information conveyed by the taxpayer for purposes of obtaining advice concerning tax liability, except where conveyed for the purpose of perpetrating a fraud or crime. Title X: Form Modifications; Studies - Subtitle A: Form Modifications - Directs the Secretary to: (1) take steps to ensure that taxpayers are aware of provisions of the Internal Revenue Code permitting payment of tax in installments, extensions, and compromises of tax liability; (2) provide improved procedures for taxpayers to notify the Secretary of changes in names and addresses; and (3) include in the IRS publication entitled "Your Rights As a Taxpayer" a section on the rights and responsibilities of divorced individuals. Subtitle B: Studies - Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a one-year pilot program for appeals of enforcement actions to the Appeals Division of the IRS; (2) study ways to assist the elderly, physically impaired, foreign-language speaking, and other taxpayers with special needs to comply with the internal revenue laws; and (3) report to the tax-writing committees on the IRS's taxpayer-rights education program and on all cases involving complaints about misconduct of IRS employees. (Sec. 1015) Requires the Comptroller General to conduct: (1) a study on IRS efforts to notify taxpayers of tax deficiencies; and (2) annual studies of the accuracy of 25 of the most commonly used IRS forms, notices, and publications.

Taxpayer Bill of Rights 2

United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Taxpayer Advocate Title II: Modifications to Installment Agreement Provisions Title III: Interest Title IV: Joint Returns Title V: Collection Activities Title VI: Information Returns Title VII: Modifications to Penalty for Failure to Collect and Pay Over Tax Title VIII: Awarding of Costs and Certain Fees Title IX: Other Provisions Title X: Form Modifications; Studies Subtitle A: Form Modifications Subtitle B: Studies Taxpayer Bill of Rights 2 - Title I: Taxpayer Advocate - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) the Office of Taxpayer Advocate, headed by the Taxpayer Advocate, to: (1) assist taxpayers in resolving problems with the IRS; (2) identify areas in which taxpayers have problems in dealings with the IRS; (3) propose changes in the administrative practices of the IRS to mitigate such problems; and (4) identify potential legislative changes which may be appropriate to mitigate such problems. Requires the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to establish procedures requiring a formal response to all recommendations submitted to the Commissioner by the Taxpayer Advocate. Replaces the Office of the Ombudsman with the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate. (Sec. 102) Revises the terms of a Taxpayer Assistance Order to: (1) allow the Order to require the Secretary of the Treasury to act within a specified time period; and (2) require the Secretary to take certain actions (currently, only to cease or refrain from taking certain actions). Title II: Modifications to Installment Agreement Provisions - Grants certain taxpayers the right to an installment agreement for the payment of tax liability less than $10,000. (Sec. 202) Suspends any penalties during the period the installment agreement is in effect. (Sec. 203) Requires prior notification to taxpayers under an installment agreement to pay tax liability before altering, modifying, or terminating such an agreement. (Sec. 204) Provides for administrative review of denials of requests for, or termination of, installment agreements. Title III: Interest - Authorizes the abatement of interest in the case of an assessment due to the unreasonable error or delay of an IRS act. (Sec. 302) Extends from ten to 21 days the period for which interest will not be imposed after notice and demand for payment, if such payment is less than $100,000. Title IV: Joint Returns - Allows the disclosure of collection activities to an individual requesting such information in the case of a joint return where such individual is no longer married to or resides in the same household as the other joint filer. (Sec. 402) Removes limitations on filing a joint return after filing separate returns. Title V: Collection Activities - Authorizes the Secretary, in certain cases, to: (1) withdraw a notice of a lien; (2) return property that has been levied upon; and (3) offer compromises in civil or criminal cases. Requires the Secretary to provide a copy of such notice of withdrawal to the taxpayer and, at the request of the taxpayer, to make reasonable efforts to notify credit reporting agencies and financial institutions of such withdrawal notice. (Sec. 503) Requires prior notification to the taxpayer that the taxpayer is under examination and an explanation of the process, with exceptions. (Sec. 504) Increases the dollar limit on the recovery of civil damages for unauthorized collection actions. (Sec. 505) Revises provisions with respect to a designated summons concerning the standard of review and notice requirements for issuance. Title VI: Information Returns - Requires payee statements to provide the phone number of the person providing payment. (Sec. 602) Establishes civil damages for the fraudulent filing of information returns. (Sec. 603) Requires the Secretary, in any court proceeding where a taxpayer asserts a reasonable dispute with respect to income reported on an information return filed by a third party and the taxpayer has fully cooperated with the Secretary, to present reasonable and probative information concerning such deficiency in addition to such return. Title VII: Modifications to Penalty for Failure to Collect and Pay Over Tax - Establishes preliminary notice requirements for failure to pay tax. (Sec. 702) Directs the Secretary to: (1) disclose certain information where more than one person is liable for a penalty; and (2) ensure that IRS employees are aware of their responsibilities under the tax depository system, the circumstances under which they may be liable for penalties, and reporting responsibilities. (Sec. 703) Exempts unpaid, volunteer board members of tax-exempt organizations who do not have actual knowledge of the failure on which such penalties are imposed from collection penalties. Title VIII: Awarding of Costs and Certain Fees - Authorizes a taxpayer who substantially prevails on a claim to file a motion for an order requiring the disclosure of all information and copies of relevant records in the possession of the IRS regarding such taxpayer's case and the substantial justification for the position taken by the IRS. (Sec. 802) Increases the limit on attorney fees. (Sec. 803) Provides that any failure to agree to an extension of time for the assessment of any tax shall not be taken into account in determining whether a prevailing party has exhausted all administrative remedies. Title IX: Other Provisions - Revises provisions on the required content of tax due, deficiency, and other notices. (Sec. 902) Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) treatment of substitute returns under section 6651 (relating to failure to file a tax return or to pay tax); (2) prospective application of Treasury Department regulations; and (3) required notice to the taxpayer of payments that the Secretary cannot associate with any outstanding tax liability of such taxpayer. (Sec. 905) Authorizes a taxpayer to bring a civil damage suit against the United States if any U.S. officer or employee intentionally compromises the determination or collection of any tax due from an attorney, certified public accountant (CPA), or enrolled agent representing a taxpayer in exchange for information conveyed by the taxpayer for purposes of obtaining advice concerning tax liability, except where conveyed for the purpose of perpetrating a fraud or crime. Title X: Form Modifications; Studies - Subtitle A: Form Modifications - Directs the Secretary to: (1) take steps to ensure that taxpayers are aware of provisions of the Internal Revenue Code permitting payment of tax in installments, extensions, and compromises of tax liability; (2) provide improved procedures for taxpayers to notify the Secretary of changes in names and addresses; and (3) include in the IRS publication entitled "Your Rights As a Taxpayer" a section on the rights and responsibilities of divorced individuals. Subtitle B: Studies - Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a one-year pilot program for appeals of enforcement actions to the Appeals Division of the IRS; (2) study ways to assist the elderly, physically impaired, foreign-language speaking, and other taxpayers with special needs to comply with the internal revenue laws; and (3) report to the tax-writing committees on the IRS's taxpayer-rights education program and on all cases involving complaints about misconduct of IRS employees. (Sec. 1015) Requires the Comptroller General to conduct: (1) a study on IRS efforts to notify taxpayers of tax deficiencies; and (2) annual studies of the accuracy of 25 of the most commonly used IRS forms, notices, and publications.

A resolution to prevent the adoption of certain national history standards.

United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1995

Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the National Education Goals Panel should disapprove, and the National Education Standards and Improvement Council should not certify, any voluntary national content or student performance standards, or criteria for the certification of such standards, on the subject of world and U.S. history, developed prior to February 1, 1995; (2) such standards and criteria established under the Goals 2000: Educate America Act should not be based on standards developed primarily by the National Center for History in the Schools prior to February 1, 1995; and (3) if the Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, or any other Federal agency provides funds for the development of such standards and criteria, the recipient of such funds should have a decent respect for the contributions of western civilization and U.S. history, ideas, and institutions, to the increase of freedom and prosperity around the world.

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise certain provisions relating to audits of vocational institutions.

United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1995

Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide that financial and compliance audits of vocational institutions must be made at least once every two years, rather than annually.

To prohibit States from discriminating in the admission to the practice of law of graduates of accredited and certified law schools.

United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1995

Prohibits States from discriminating in the admission to the practice of law on the basis of whether applicants have completed the legal education program of a law school approved by the accrediting or certifying agency of the State in which the school is located, an educational accrediting agency recognized by the State in which the school is located, or the American Bar Association.

Welfare Reforms That Work Act

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Initiatives to Move Welfare Recipients Into the Work Force Title II: Initiatives to Strengthen Families and Break the Cycle of Welfare Dependency Title III: Changes to Federal Laws and State Initiatives to Increase Child Support and Paternal Responsibility Title IV: Initiatives to Diversify and Improve the Performance of Welfare Services Title V: Offsetting Expenditure Reductions Welfare Reforms That Work Act - Establishes general application requirements for States desiring to conduct a five-year demonstration project under this Act. Prohibits disbursement of Federal funds for an approved project until the State submits an evaluation plan developed according to standards prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Requires every such plan to provide for evaluation of the project by an independent expert entity, whose conclusions shall be included in the State's annual and final reports to the Secretary on the project. (Sec. 4) Requires the Secretary to evaluate each project, based on the State reports, and if any of the reforms in the projects is determined likely to achieve the purposes of this Act, to submit proposed legislation to the Congress to: (1) implement such reforms nationally if appropriate; or (2) give States the option of adopting a successful reform in a State plan approved under the Social Security Act, where the reform may be effective in some States but not in others. Directs the Secretary to establish a clearinghouse to collect and disseminate to State officials and the public current information on approved demonstration projects. (Sec. 5) Authorizes appropriations. Title I: Initiatives to Move Welfare Recipients Into the Work Force - Directs the Secretary to provide for demonstration projects which condition Aid to Families With Dependent Children (AFDC) benefits for certain individuals on school attendance or job training, limit the time period for receipt of such benefits, and require teenage parents to live at home. (Sec. 101) Limits such a project to families which: (1) include a parent under age 20; (2) include at least one dependent child of such parent; but (3) do not include a child under six months of age. Prohibits AFDC payments to such a family unless the teenage parent is for at least 35 hours a week: (1) attending school or studying for a general equivalency diploma; or (2) participating in a job, job training, or job placement program. Requires such parent, except in specified circumstances, to reside: (1) with his or her parent, legal guardian, or other adult relative in the latter's own home; or (2) in a foster home, maternity home, or other adult-supervised supportive living arrangement. Requires the AFDC payments, where possible, to be provided to the teenage parent's parent, guardian, or other adult relative on behalf of the individual and the individual's child. Entitles such a family to such aid for a State-determined appropriate period of time which shall, at a minimum, permit the individual to complete the required educational or job-related activities. (Sec. 102) Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to authorize the Secretary of Labor to enter into agreements with Federal, State, or local agencies, or private organizations, for the development of pilot projects to provide services at Job Corps centers to eligible youth whose families receive AFDC and who are mothers of children who have not reached the age of compulsory school attendance. Requires the Job Corps center to: (1) provide child care at or near the center for such individuals; and (2) require each such individual to participate in certain activities through a parents as teachers program operating parent education programs providing group meetings and home visits by experienced parent educators and periodic screening by them of the educational, hearing, and visual development of the children of such individuals. (Sec. 103) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for State demonstration projects requiring a parent or other relative of a dependent child, as part of the application process for AFDC, to undergo 30 days of assisted job search or substance abuse treatment (or both) before the family may receive aid. Limits such demonstration project to families: (1) all of whose dependent children are over six months of age; (2) for whom the State has made adequate child care available, as well as all fee payments for the job search or substance abuse treatment activities; and (3) for whom application of the project does not endanger the welfare and safety of a dependent child member of the family. (Sec. 104) Amends part A (Aid to Families With Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require disregard as a resource for AFDC eligibility (except for a family's initial eligibility determination) of up to $10,000 in a qualified education and employment account established by the State to hold savings from the earned income of a dependent child or the child's parent in an AFDC family, qualified distributions from which may be used for expenses directly related to secondary or postsecondary school attendance or to improving the employability of family members. Requires disregard as income of any qualified distributions from such an account. (Sec. 105) Amends the SSA and the Internal Revenue Code to require a State plan to: (1) permit certain participants in a State self-employment program a one-time election to purchase capital equipment for a small business in lieu of a depreciation deduction for income tax purposes; and (2) treat repayments by such persons of the principal portion of small business loans as business expenses. Directs the Secretary to provide for State demonstration projects under which one or more partnerships are developed between State agencies and community businesses or educational institutions to provide technical assistance to: (1) eligible self-employed AFDC recipients; and (2) eligible participants in the establishment and operation of child care centers in the home or in the community. Directs the Secretary to provide for State demonstration projects to promote the ownership of family-owned businesses by AFDC recipients. (Sec. 106) Amends part F (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program) of SSA title IV to declare that it is the purpose of such part to encourage individuals receiving education and training to enter the permanent work force by developing programs through which they enter the work force and then receive post-employment education and training. (Sec. 107) Directs the Secretary to provide for additional State demonstration projects to better move AFDC recipients into the work force. Title II: Initiatives to Strengthen Families and Break the Cycle of Welfare Dependency - Directs the Secretary to provide for State demonstration projects to establish child-centered programs through conversion of certain AFDC and JOBS payments into block grants. (Sec. 201) Requires the Secretary to make payments, according to a specified formula, to a State for such projects in lieu of all AFDC and JOBS payments to which the State would otherwise be entitled. Specifies the kinds of programs for which such block grants may be used, including: (1) residential programs for teenage mothers with dependent children where education, job training, community service, or other employment is found; (2) certain pilot projects (authorized by this Act) at Job Corps centers providing services to eligible teenage AFDC recipients whose children have not reached the age of compulsory school attendance; (3) programs for adoption of neglected or abused children; (4) expanded child care assistance for children of needy working parents; (5) residential schooling for children from needy families; and (6) other services provided directly to children from needy families. Requires the Secretary to ensure that each State uses its grant to the fullest extent possible to support community-based services. (Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary to provide for demonstration projects: (1) providing no additional benefits with respect to children born while a family is receiving AFDC, but allowing increases in the earned income disregard; (2) waiving certain work history and related requirements for a parent of a dependent child who is married to the child's natural parent; (3) increasing the stepparent earned income disregard; (4) reducing AFDC benefits if school attendance is irregular or preventive health care for dependent children is not obtained; (5) developing community-based programs for teenage pregnancy prevention and family planning; and (6) developing additional programs to strengthen families and break the cycle of welfare dependency. Title III: Changes to Federal Laws and State Initiatives to Increase Child Support and Paternal Responsibility - Directs the Secretary to provide for demonstration projects to: (1) develop a program to increase paternity establishment; and (2) increase child support collection efforts. Title IV: Initiatives to Diversify and Improve the Performance of Welfare Services - Directs the Secretary to provide for demonstration projects to: (1) provide placement of AFDC recipients in private sector jobs; and (2) establish performance-based incentives for State public welfare providers. Amends the Electronic Fund Transfer Act to prohibit the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from applying to electronic benefit transfers established under a State or local governmental entitlement program certain disclosures, protections, responsibilities, and remedies (including, in effect, the liability limits currently applicable to private sector ATM and consumer credit cards), unless the payment under such program is made directly into a consumer's account held by the recipient. Exempts from such prohibition employment-related payments established by Federal, State, or local governments. Title V: Offsetting Expenditure Reductions - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to eliminate the "three-entity" rule (which allows an individual agricultural producer to form two other business entities with two other individuals to multiply the number of maximum agricultural subsidies of which the producer can take advantage). Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, in the case of corporations and other entities, to attribute all Federal agricultural payments to natural persons in proportion to their ownership interests in an entity and in any other entity, or partnership, that owns or controls the entity, or partnership, receiving the payments.

Higher Education Tax Relief Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1995

Higher Education Tax Relief Act of 1995 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction for the sum of qualified higher education expenses and interest on qualified higher education loans. Provides limitations on both amounts. Allows such deduction in computing adjusted gross income.

Menopause Outreach, Research, and Education Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1995

Menopause Outreach, Research, and Education Act of 1995 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute on Aging to provide for the expansion of at least five centers for research on: (1) menopause; and (2) conditions arising from the diminishing or cessation of the functioning of the ovaries, whether occurring naturally or otherwise. Outlines research activities to be performed at each center. Requires the Director to establish a program to develop protocols for the prevention and treatment of menopausal health conditions and other conditions regarding women's midlife health. Requires the Director to provide for an equitable geographical distribution of such centers. Requires each center to be supported for at least five years, with possible renewal after review and recommendation by an appropriate technical and scientific peer review group established by the Director.

Student Loan Evaluation and Stabilization Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1995

Student Loan Evaluation and Stabilization Act of 1995 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 with respect to student loan programs. (Sec. 3) Revises the Federal Direct Student Loan program to limit the proportion of loans made under such program: (1) for academic year 1994-1995, to five percent of the new student loan volume for such year; and (2) for academic year 1995-1996 and any succeeding fiscal year, to loans to students and parents of students attending eligible institutions which have applied and been accepted for institutional participation in such program on or before December 31, 1994. Eliminates provisions for selecting additional institutions to participate in such pilot program. Reduces the maximum amount of funds for administrative expenses of such program allowed for certain periods. Revises the items which such funds must cover, including the costs of annually assessing such program and payment of an administrative cost allowance for the expenses of guaranty agencies in servicing outstanding loans in their portfolios and in guaranteeing new loans. Revises provisions for congressional oversight of program administration, by providing for funding triggers which allow administrative funds to be obligated only in such amounts and according to such schedule as specified in the appropriations Act for the Department of Education after submission by the Department of a detailed proposal for such expenditures. Requires a guaranty agency to: (1) submit a specified application before obtaining an administrative cost allowance from such funds; (2) expend such allowance only for specified purposes; and (3) elect a payment rate on the basis of one of two specified formulas. Provides for ratable reductions of such allowances when total payments exceed a specified level. Directs the Secretary of Education to provide a detailed quarterly report of all such expenditures to specified congressional committee chairs. Requires such report to specifically identify all contracts entered into by the Department for services supporting the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program and the Federal Perkins Loan Program, as well as the current and projected costs of such contracts. Eliminates the transition to the Federal Direct Loan Program. (Sec. 4) Sets forth conditions under which: (1) Federal Perkins Loan borrowers can obtain FFEL consolidation loans; and (2) FFEL borrowers can obtain Federal direct consolidation loans. (Sec. 5) Revises provisions relating to reserve fund programs. (Sec. 6) Sets institutional default rate limitations on direct lending. (Sec. 7) Provides for applications for FFEL loans using the free Federal application form, which is already in use for other types of student aid. Allows such form to be in an electronic or any other format, subject to certain conditions, in order to facilitate use by borrowers and institutions. Provides for authorized guaranty agencies to receive such form. (Sec. 8) Amends the Congressional Budget Act to prescribe a formula for determining the cost of a direct loan on the basis of the net present value, at the time the direct loan is disbursed, of specified types of cash flows for the estimated life of the loan.

Church Retirement Benefits Simplification Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1995

Church Retirement Benefits Simplification Act of 1995 - 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.

Chacoan Outliers Protection Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1995

Chacoan Outliers Protection Act of 1995 - Designates eight new outlying areas as Chaco Culture Archaeological Protection Sites associated with Chacoan Anasazi Indian culture in the San Juan Basin and surrounding areas of New Mexico and Colorado. Expands the boundaries and removes or reduces the acreage of certain existing Sites. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) use a combination of land acquisition authority and cooperative agreements to protect archeological resources at such sites as remain in private ownership; and (2) assist the Navajo Nation in the protection and management of such Sites as are located on lands of the Navajos through a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement entered into pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act.

Chacoan Outliers Protection Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1995

Chacoan Outliers Protection Act of 1995 - Designates nine new outlying areas as Chaco Culture Archaeological Protection Sites associated with Chacoan Anasazi Indian culture in the San Juan Basin and surrounding areas of New Mexico and Colorado. Expands the boundaries and removes or reduces the acreage of certain existing Sites. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to use a combination of land acquisition authority and cooperative agreements to accomplish the purposes of archeological resource protection at such sites. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to assist the Navajo Nation in the: (1) protection and management of such Sites located on lands of the Navajos through a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement entered into pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Act; and (2) development of a Navajo facility to serve those who seek to appreciate the Chacoan Outlier Sites.

Workforce Development Act

United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Streamlining and Consolidation Title II: Market Building Activities Subtitle A: Federal Level Activities Subtitle B: State Level Activities Subtitle C: Local Level Activities Title III: Enhancing Individual Choice Through Training Accounts Title IV: Private-Public Linkages Title V: Integrated Labor Market Information System Workforce Development Act - Consolidates and revises Federal job training programs to create a workforce development system. (Sec. 3) Authorizes appropriations. Title I: Streamlining and Consolidation - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) any budget savings realized through elimination or consolidation of programs under this title should be reinvested in the national job training (or workforce development) system; and (2) elimination or merging of programs should be done without reducing the Federal commitment or level of effort to improve education, employment, and earnings of all workers, particularly hard-to-serve individuals. (Sec. 102) Repeals the provisons of various Federal laws for certain employment training programs, including specified ones under the Food Stamp Act of 1977, Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Federal Transit Act, Displaced Homemaker Self-Sufficiency Assistance Act, Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act, Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), and Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act. (Sec. 103) Repeals provisions for certain adult job training and employment programs under the JTPA, Wagner-Peyser Act, Trade Act of 1974, Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980, and Older Americans Act of 1965. Requires any State receiving an implementation grant (to develop an integrated workforce development system) to include the components of these repealed programs and activities in such system. Allows any such State to include additional programs in such system, under certain conditions. (Sec. 104) Directs the National Workforce Development Board (established under title II) to advise on consolidation of workforce development programs through: (1) recommendations to the President and the Congress for the elimination of Federal workforce development programs, or programs whose functions should be subsumed under other Federal programs; (2) a report and recommendations for proposed reforms to specified congressional committees based on its analysis of the experience of leading edge States and the progress toward establishing an integrated workforce development system; and (3) a draft of a joint resolution to the Congress with provisions to develop a streamlined, integrated, federally supported workforce development system, from listed programs and any other appropriate Federal program (including recommendations for standard program measures and a description of how the new system will maintain services to hard-to-serve populations). (Sec. 105) Directs the President to establish an expedited process to consider and act on requests by States for waivers of laws and regulations for specified programs for: (1) two years to facilitate provision of assistance for workforce development, for States not receiving implementation grants; or (2) the duration of the implementation grant, for States receiving such grants. Title II: Market Building Activities - Subtitle A: Federal Level Activities - Establishes the National Workforce Development Board (the Board). (Sec. 202) Requires the Board to prepare annually the Nation's Workforce Development Report Card (National Report Card), which shall assess the U.S. workforce development system performance and evaluate all workforce development programs that receive Federal funding. Directs the Board to review development, implementation, and matching incentive grant proposals. Terminates the Board after it submits to the President and the Congress the joint resolution to develop a streamlined, integrated, federally supported workforce development system required by title I. Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to repeal the establishment of the National Commission for Employment Policy. Replaces references to such Commission with references to the Board. (Sec. 203) Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make grants to applicant States to: (1) develop strategic plans for development of comprehensive statewide integrated workforce development systems; and (2) if they are leading edge States, implement such systems. Directs the Secretary to use specified information clearinghouses and other entities to: (1) collect and disseminate information to help States and localities to streamline and reform their job training systems; and (2) facilitate exchange of information and ideas among States and localities carrying out job training reform initiatives. Requires the Board to determine whether any proposed Federal job training legislation complies with data reporting, common definitions, and common funding cycles provisions under this Act. Makes it out of order for the Senate or House of Representatives to consider any bill or resolution concerning workforce development that would not comply with the national workforce development system, as determined by the Board. Requires a three-fifths affirmative vote to waive or suspend such requirement in the Senate or House. (Sec. 204) Establishes a quality assurance system. Directs the Secretaries of Labor, of Education, and of Health and Human Services to jointly develop common terms and definitions and a placement accountability system and adjust existing program performance standards. Directs the Board to recommend a system of performance standards in its joint resolution to the Congress that includes standard outcome measures relating to employment, job retention, earnings, and nonemployment outcome measures (such as learning and competency gains). Requires each workforce development program that receives Federal funds to collect, and report to the Governor and State Council, specified information relating to each participant's: (1) quarterly employment status and earnings for one year after no longer receiving program assistance; (2) economic and demographic characteristics; (3) services received and spending for them; (4) program outcomes; and (5) other data that may be added as the Board develops other standard definitions. Requires that program monitoring under these provisions supplant existing monitoring and reporting requirements for program participants. Directs each Federal department and agency with responsibility for a workforce development program to report to the Board on its progress in adopting common terms and definitions for program participants, service activities, and outcomes by program operators and grant recipients. Directs the Board to make recommendations to: (1) the Secretaries and heads of other agencies operating workforce development programs, on common definitions for other terms; and (2) the Congress, on legislative action if any of the proposed common definitions require amendment to existing laws. Establishes a placement accountability system for all federally funded workforce development programs. Requires each such program to: (1) monitor its own performance by measuring quarterly employment status and earnings of each participant for one year after he or she no longer receives program assistance; and (2) provide required information on participants, to be matched by information from the State agency for labor market information which shall be reimbursed by the requesting program with Federal funds. Directs the State agency to submit the results of the matching to the State Council. Requires the Governor to ensure submission of matched data to the State Council, the Board, the Secretary (of Labor), and other Federal entities. Requires that such program quality assurance information be made available to the State Council, local workforce development boards in the State, and consumers of labor market information. Requires all federally funded workforce development programs to be funded on a consistent funding cycle basis. Directs the Board to make recommendations to the Congress on the appropriate funding cycle. Subtitle B: State Level Activities - Requires each State desiring to participate in development of an integrated and accountable workforce development system to: (1) establish a State Workforce Development Council (State Council); or (2) have an existing entity similar to a State Council that includes representatives of employers and workers. Directs each State Council to: (1) serve as principal advisory board to the Governor for all programs in the State's integrated workforce development system; and (2) assume the functions and responsibilities of councils and commissions required under Federal law that are part of such system. (Sec. 214) Directs the State Council to assist the Governor in: (1) preparing a biennial State Workforce Development Policy Blueprint and an annual State Workforce Development Report Card; and (2) certifying each local workforce development board, as well as recommending criteria to judge such local boards' effectiveness. (Sec. 215) Requires the State Council to develop a quality assurance systems to complement and expand upon the one established under subtitle A, in order to provide customers of job training services with consumer reprts on the supply, demand, price, and quality of job training services in each unified service delivery area in the State. Directs each State to select tools and measures appropriate to its needs, including: (1) collecting and organizing service provider performance data; and (2) conducting surveys to ascertain customer satisfaction. Directs the State Council, with the local workforce development boards, to establish mechanisms for collecting and disseminating the quality assurance information to individuals seeking employment, employers, Federal, State, and local policymakers, and training and education providers. Requires each public and private education, training, and career development service provider receiving Federal funds under a program in a State integrated system to collect and provide the quality assurance information. (Sec. 216) Sets forth State Council authorities, including funding and operating special projects for research or improvement of system performance. (Sec. 217) Directs State Councils to make recommendations to Governors for establishment of unified service delivery areas (SDAs). Requires States receiving implementation grants to establish unified SDAs to provide community-wide workforce development assistance in one-stop career centers. Requires consideration of existing labor market areas, local governments, and SDAs under JTPA, as well as distance traveled by individuals to receive services. Allows merger of existing SDAs. Prohibits approval of a total number of such unified SDAs greater than that of the existing SDAs in the State. (Sec. 218) Requires each State to use a portion of its development grant to design a unified financial and management information system. Directs each State receiving an implementation grant to require all programs in the integrated system to use such unified financial and management information system. Sets forth requirements for such systems. (Sec. 219) Requires each State, from its development or implementation grant, to develop a strategy to enhance capacity of institutions, organizations, and staff involved in State and local workforce development activities by providing certain types of services. (Sec. 220) Provides that the Governor of each State implementing an integrated workforce development system: (1) may adjust existing performance standards for programs in such system, using specified criteria; and (2) shall, within parameters established by the Board, prescribe adjustments to such performance criteria for unified SDAs based on certain factors. Requires such developed performance criteria to be used in lieu of similar criteria for programs receiving Federal funding included in the State's integrated system, to the extent determined by the State Council subject to Board approval. Subtitle C: Local Level Activities - Requires the local elected officials of each unified SDA, in each State receiving an implementation grant (except any with a single unified SDA with contiguous borders), to establish a workforce development board (local board) to administer the workforce development assistance provided by all programs in the integrated workforce development system in such area. (Sec. 232) Requires each local board to report to the State Council a biennial workforce development board policy blueprint. (Sec. 233) Requires each local board to submit to the State Council an annual unified SDA report card. (Sec. 234) Requires each local board receiving funds under an implementation grant to develop and implement a network of one-stop career centers in its unified SDA to provide jobseekers, workers, and businesses universal access to a comprehensive array of quality employment, education, and training services. Requires selection of a method for such establishment consistent with specified criteria. Makes eligible for selection as a one-stop career center each entity within the unified SDA that performs specified brokerage services for individuals and employers. Prohibits any entity that performs one-stop career center functions from making an education and training referral to itself; but allows waivers of this prohibition under certain conditions. Allows each one-stop career center to charge fees for certain brokerage services to employers, subject to local board approval. Requires each such center to: (1) adopt core data elements and common definitions; and (2) enter into an operating agreement with the local board. (Sec. 235) Requires each local board to identify capacity building actions to be taken for the workforce development system in its unified SDA. Directs the State Council to make funds available to each local board for capacity building activities from implementation grant funds and other funds within the State's integrated workforce development budget. Lists types of capacity building activities. Title III: Enhancing Individual Choice through Training Accounts - Requires each State receiving an implementation grant under title II to establish a training account system to provide education and training. (Sec. 303) Requires such States to use at least 60 percent of the funds made available under JTPA title III provisions for dislocated workers and certain funds under this Act to provide education and training under the JTPA dislocated worker program only through the training account system. Allows a State, at least one year after it begins administering such system, to provide education and training through it to adults eligible to participate in other workforce development programs, under certain conditions including Board approval. (Sec. 304) Allows an eligible individual to apply to establish a training account only at a one-stop career center. Requires such centers to provide certain assistance and information. Allows an individual to be provided a training account for a maximum of two years within any five-year period. Sets the total amount to be deposited in such an account for any fiscal year at the greater of the maximum amount of a Pell grant for such year established under the Higher Education Act of 1965 or by an appropriations Act. Allows account funds to be used by the individual for education and training services from eligible service providers. Sets forth requirements for administrative procedures. Requires the State blueprint to describe how it will administer such system. (Sec. 305) Makes providers of education and training services eligible to receive funds from such training accounts if they use certain common definitions and performance-based information and are either: (1) eligible to participate in student assistance programs under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965; or (2) determined eligible under alternative eligibility procedures established by State Governors. (Sec. 306) Directs the Board to evaluate the administration and effectiveness of the training account system, and include such evaluation in its National Report Card and draft joint resolution. (Sec. 307) Directs the Secretary of Labor to report, with recommendations, to the Congress on the need for income support to enable dislocated workers and economically disadvantaged adults to participate in long-term job training, and on options for ways of providing such support. Title IV: Private-Public Linkages - Directs the Board to make recommendations on measures (including tax code changes) to: (1) encourage employers and workers to invest in training and skills upgrading; (2) encourage employers to hire and train hard-to-serve individuals; and (3) provide income support to enable job-seekers and workers to participate in long-term training programs. (Sec. 403) Directs the Board to issue an annual report on private-public training programs. (Sec. 404) Establishes a program of incentive grants for incumbent worker training, consisting of competitive matching grants to local boards to respond to the training needs of front-line workers in their communities. Sets forth provisions for applications, selection of grantees by the Secretary according to certain criteria, authorized uses of funds, and Federal and local matching shares of funding. Title V: Integrated Labor Market Information System - Directs the Secretary to oversee and ensure development, maintenance, and continued improvement of: (1) a nationwide integrated system of labor market information that will serve specified functions, include certain information, use common standards, and make certain data and information available to the Board and to consumers in automated delivery systems; and (2) certain mechanisms and programs for dissemination, technical assistance, and research. (Sec. 502) Directs the Board to plan, review, and evaluate the national integrated labor market information system. (Sec. 503) Requires the Secretary to: (1) manage the investment in an integrated labor market information on system in a specified manner; and (2) submit an annual plan for improving such system to the Board for review and recommendations, and to the President and the Congress. (Sec. 504) Directs each Governor and State Council to designate one State agency to be responsible for: (1) managing and overseeing a statewide integrated labor market information system; and (2) developing an annual State unified labor market information budget. Conditions Federal financial assistance under this title on the Governor or State Council's carrying out other specified functions with respect to labor market information. Provides that the State agency is not limited by this Act from conducting additional data collection, analysis, and dissemination activities with funds derived from sources other than this Act.

Fair Health Information Practices Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Fair Health Information Practices Subtitle A: Duties of Health Information Trustees Subtitle B: Use and Disclosure of Protected Health Information Subtitle C: Access Procedures and Challenge Rights Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Provisions Subtitle E: Enforcement Title II: Amendments to Title 5, United States Code Title III: Regulations, Research, and Education; Effective Dates; Applicability; and Relationship to Other Laws Fair Health Information Practices Act of 1995 - Title I: Fair Health Information Practices - Subtitle A: Duties of Health Information Trustees - Requires, subject to stated exceptions, health care providers, health information service organizations, health oversight agencies, health benefit plan sponsors, and health researchers (health information trustees) to permit an individual (protected individual) to examine his or her own medical records (protected health information). Excepts certain mental health or other records which may endanger the protected individual. Sets forth provisions concerning: (1) notice of information practices; (2) accounting for disclosures; and (3) security. Subtitle B: Use and Disclosure of Protected Information - Sets forth the general rule that a health information trustee may use protected information only for a purpose: (1) that is compatible with and directly related to the purpose for which the information was collected or received by the trustee; or (2) for which the trustee has received authorization to disclose such information. Makes exceptions, if proper procedures are followed, for the following situations: (1) next of kin and directory information; (2) public health; (3) health research; (4) emergencies; (5) judicial and administrative purposes; (6) law enforcement; (7) subpoenas, warrants, and search warrants; and (8) health information service organizations. Subtitle C: Access Procedures and Challenge Rights - Sets forth access and challenge procedures for subpoenas, warrants, and search warrants concerning protected health information. Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Provisions - Permits a health information trustee to disclose only such information as is necessary to process a payment when payment is made by a debit, credit, or other payment card. (Sec. 143) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish electronic documents transmission, receipt, and maintenance standards. (Sec. 147) Directs a State to establish a process under which any created or recorded protected health information is delivered to and maintained by the State or its designated entity. Subtitle E: Enforcement - Sets forth civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act's provisions. Directs the Secretary to develop alternative dispute resolution methods to resolve the civil complaints. Title II: Amendments to Title 5, United Sates Code - Amends provisions of title 5 (Government Organization and Employees) of the United States Code concerning agency records maintained on individuals to direct the head of any agency that is a health information trustee to promulgate rules to exempt a system of records within the agency from stated provisions of title 5, to the extent that the such system contains protected health information. Title III: Regulations, Research, and Education; Effective Dates; Applicability; and Relationship to Other Laws - Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to carry out this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to sponsor research concerning protected health information. Directs the Secretary to establish education and awareness programs concerning such information. (Sec. 303) Sets forth provisions concerning: (1) the applicability of the provisions of this Act to protected health information; and (2) the relationship of the provisions of this Act to other laws.

Primary Health Care Education Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1995

Primary Health Care Education Act of 1995 - Amends title VII (Health Professions Education) of the Public Health Service Act to require giving preference, in making grants and contracts under the title, to: (1) schools of medicine or osteopathic medicine that emphasize primary health care training and encourage selection of primary care as a career choice; and (2) entities that operate medical residency training programs that include instruction from primary care faculty and have rotations providing primary care training.

Howard W. Cannon, of Nevada, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation for a term expiring March 3, 1998. (Reappointment)

United States · United States Senate · 5 January 1995

Peggy Goldwater-Clay, of California, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation for a term expiring June 5, 2000, vice Barry M. Goldwater, Jr., term expired.

United States · United States Senate · 5 January 1995

Lieutenant General William W. Quinn, United States Army, Retired, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation for a term expiring October 13, 1999. (Reappointment)

United States · United States Senate · 5 January 1995

Lynda Hare Scribante, of Nebraska, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation for a term expiring October 13, 1999, vice Dean Burch.

United States · United States Senate · 5 January 1995

Niranjan Shamalbhai Shah, of Illinois, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation for a term expiring August 11, 1998, vice Timothy W. Tong, term expired.

United States · United States Senate · 5 January 1995

Herschelle Challenor, of Georgia, to be a Member of the National Security Education Board for a term of four years, vice Steven Muller.

United States · United States Senate · 5 January 1995

Stanley K. Sheinbaum, of California, to be a Member of the National Security Education Board for a term of four years, vice John P. Roche, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 5 January 1995

Cherry T. Kinoshita, of Washington, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund for a term of two years. (New Position)

United States · United States Senate · 5 January 1995

Robert F. Drinan, of Massachussetts, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund for a term of three years. (New Position)

United States · United States Senate · 5 January 1995

Susan Hayase, of California, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund for a term of three years. (New Position)

United States · United States Senate · 5 January 1995

Elsa H. Kudo, of Hawaii, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund for a term of two years. (New Position)

United States · United States Senate · 5 January 1995

Yeiichi Kuwayama, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund for a term of three years. (New Position)

United States · United States Senate · 5 January 1995

Dale Minami, of California, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund for a term of three years. (New Position)

United States · United States Senate · 5 January 1995

Don T. Nakanishi, of California, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund for a term of two years. (New Position)

United States · United States Senate · 5 January 1995