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Austria · National Council · 18 April 2002
Dringliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Alfred Gusenbauer, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur betreffend die geplante Beseitigung der Autonomie der österreichischen Universitäten
Austria · National Council · 18 April 2002
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dieter Brosz, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur betreffend Kollegklasse für Berufstätige in Ternitz
Austria · National Council · 18 April 2002
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Heidrun Silhavy, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur betreffend Gefährdung Schulverbund - West in Graz
Austria · National Council · 18 April 2002
Mündliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Christine Muttonen (SPÖ) an die Bundesministerin für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur Elisabeth Gehrer betreffend Zusammenarbeit zwischen Museumsquartier-Betriebsgesellschaft und den Nutzern <br><br>Welche Maßnahmen werden Sie setzen, um im Museumsquartier für eine konstruktive Zusammenarbeit zwischen Museumsquartier Betriebsgesellschaft und den diversen Nutzern des Museumsquartiers zu sorgen?
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 2002
Investing for Tomorrow's Schools Act of 2002 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to enter into cooperative agreements with States to establish State infrastructure banks and multistate infrastructure banks to make loans to: (1) local educational agencies for building or repairing elementary or secondary public schools; and (2) public libraries for building or repairing library facilities. Grants consent of Congress to States to enter into a cooperative agreement with the Secretary, as well as an interstate compact, to establish a multistate infrastructure bank. Prescribes infrastructure bank requirements. Requires infrastructure bank loans to be used to supplement, not supplant, other Federal, State, and local funds. Prohibits construing Federal contributions to such infrastructure banks as a Federal commitment, guarantee, or obligation to any third party. Directs the Secretary to review the financial condition of each infrastructure bank.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 2002
Universal and Portable Pension Act of 2002 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a limited deduction for an individual's qualified universal retirement contributions. Reduces deductible amount based on adjusted gross income. Sets forth special rules for calculating the maximum allowable deduction by certain married individuals. Defines the term "qualified universal retirement contribution." Limits deductions for: (1) persons over age 70 1/2; (2) rollover contributions; and (3) inherited accounts. Defines the term "Universal Retirement Savings Account." Includes Universal Retirement Savings Account distributions in gross income except when the distributions are part of an immediate annuity, rollover, qualified higher education expense, or first home purchase. Requires employers to offer programs which make payments to Universal Retirement Savings Accounts in exchange for salary reductions. Provides a general business tax credit to certain small employers who offer salary reduction arrangements for Universal Retirement Savings Accounts. Establishes a refundable Universal Retirement Savings Account contribution credit for individuals equal to a specified percentage of contributions. Caps such credits at $2,000 per year. Allows a $200 credit maximum for contributions made to Universal Retirement Savings Accounts of dependents. Repeals the $2,000 nonrefundable qualified retirement account credit.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 2002
Designates majority membership on the House Committees on Education and the Workforce, and on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Austria · National Council · 17 April 2002
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Beate Schasching, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur betreffend Leseerziehung in Österreich
Austria · National Council · 17 April 2002
Austria · National Council · 17 April 2002
Austria · National Council · 17 April 2002
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 2002
Cyber Security Research and Development Act - Authorizes appropriations, to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and to the Secretary of Commerce for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to establish new programs and to increase funding for certain current programs for computer and network security research and development and research fellowships. Requires the NSF Director to award grants for computer and network security through the following: (1) basic research in innovative approaches to the structure of their hardware and software; (2) multidisciplinary research centers, through institutions of higher education (IHEs) or their consortia which may partner with government laboratories or for-profit institutions; (3) undergraduate and master's degree programs, as well as education-related grants under the Scientific and Advanced Technology Act of 1992; (4) graduate traineeships; and (5) graduate research fellowships. Amends the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to include among NSF functions leading in supporting research and education activities to improve networked information systems' security. Amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to require the NIST Director to establish a program of assistance to IHEs that enter into partnerships with for-profit entities to support research to improve the security of computer systems. Requires NIST to carry out specified types of intramural computer security research. Requires the NIST Director to arrange with the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to study and report to Congress on critical infrastructure weaknesses.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 2002
Worker Investment Retirement and Education Act of 2002 (or the WIRE Act) - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish, with certain specified exceptions, an excise tax in cases where: (1) administrators of applicable defined contribution plans do not provide, at least once annually, information on basic investment guidelines to participants; and (2) a plan with at least 100 participants does not provide a personalized benefit statement to each participant at least annually. Establishes similar requirements under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Sets forth diversification requirements for certain plans holding employer securities. Establishes a tax for failure of applicable plans to meet certain notice and data requirements, with certain specified exceptions. Permits a waiver of the taxes by the Secretary of the Treasury. Forbids trading of equity securities (other than exempted securities) acquired by an individual through employment (or other specified associations) with an issuer during blackout periods of an applicable plan. Establishes in the Internal Revenue Service an "Office of Pension Participant Advocacy."
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 2002
Community Health Workers Act of 2002 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to promote positive health behaviors for women in target populations, especially racial and ethnic minorities in underserved communities. Permits the use of grant funds for the support of community health workers' education and outreach efforts concerning: (1) prevalent health problems; (2) learning opportunities targeting behavioral risk factors including poor nutrition, obesity, physical activity, and substance abuse; (3) health insurance enrollment, including the State Children's Health Insurance Program, Medicare, and Medicaid; and (4) health care agencies and community-based programs. Sets forth application procedures for State, local or tribal units, granting priority to experienced providers in geographic areas with high percentages of un-or under-insured families where English is the second language, and the U.S.-Mexico border region. Requires the Secretary to establish and monitor quality-control guidelines for community health workers.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 2002
Expresses the sense of Congress that (1) physicians should screen all adolescents and all adult women presenting with severe menorrhagia for von Willebrand's disease; (2) hysterectomy for excessive menstrual bleeding should not be performed without the consideration of a bleeding disorder; (3) referral of women with bleeding disorders to a federally sponsored hemophilia treatment center is critical to comprehensive treatment; (4) physicians should be encouraged to conduct clotting factor assays for carrier diagnosis and to facilitate genotyping of the disorder and patients should be referred for genetic counseling when appropriate; (5) patient advocate organizations and medical specialty societies should continue to collaborate on public education campaigns to educate women about bleeding disorders; (6) the Federal Government has a responsibility to further research on von Willebrand's disease and improve access to hemophilia treatment centers for all individuals with bleeding disorders; (7) the Director of the National Institutes of Health should develop a 5-year research plan concerning women with bleeding disorders; and (8) the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should continue to improve outreach, treatment, and prevention of the complications of women's bleeding disorders.
Germany · Federal statute portal · 16 April 2002
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United States · United States Congress · 16 April 2002
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and maintain within the Veterans Health Administration four centers for research and activities on medical emergency preparedness, including the detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of injuries, diseases, and illnesses arising from the use of chemical, biological, radiological, or incendiary or other explosive weapons or devices, and related education and training. Requires: (1) each center to be established at an existing Department of Veterans Affairs medical center; and (2) the Secretary to select center sites from among competitive proposals, utilizing a peer review panel. Authorizes each center to provide assistance to Federal, State, and local agencies for investigations or inquiries intended to protect the public safety and health with regard to such weapons or devices. Allows Department established research corporations to use funds received by the Secretary for such research purposes. Considers employees of such research corporations to be Federal employees for purposes of Federal tort claims laws.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 2002
Uterine Fibroids Research and Education Act of 2002 - Authorizes appropriations for National Institutes of Health uterine fibroid research. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out a related public awareness program.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 2002
Racial Profiling Education and Awareness Act of 2002 - Directs the Attorney General to establish an education and awareness program on racial profiling and its negative effects on individuals and law enforcement, to be offered at regional centers to State and local law enforcement agencies. Directs the Department of Justice to: (1) evaluate the performance of programs implemented under this Act to assist State and local law enforcement agencies in developing and implementing internal training programs to combat racial profiling and to foster enhanced community relations; (2) identify the programs that represent the best practices and that may be replicated and used to provide assistance to other law enforcement agencies; and (3) assist those State and local law enforcement agencies that would most benefit from the education program and materials developed in implementing a racial profiling prevention plan.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 2002
Access to High Quality Child Care Act - 2002 ACCESS Act - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to extend the authorization of appropriations, and to revise or set forth provisions relating to: (1) lead agency; (2) State plan requirements; (3) activities to improve the quality of child care; (4) parent access to quality child care; (5) child care research and data; (6) child care provider development; (7) activities for infants and toddlers; (8) technical and financial assistance grants; and (9) quality child care, development, and education incentive grants. Federal Employees Child Care Act - Establishes requirements for enhancing security at child care centers in Federal facilities. Directs the Administrator of General Services to: (1) establish health, safety, and facility standards and compliance requirements for child care in executive branch facilities; (2) issue regulations requiring any child care facility sponsor to comply with standards of a child care accreditation entity; (3) establish an interagency council to facilitate cooperation and sharing of best practices; and (4) confirm that at least 50 percent of aggregate enrollment in Federal child care centers Government-wide are children of Federal employees or on-site Federal contractors, or dependent children who live with such employees or contractors. Authorizes a Federal agency without a child care program, or the Administrator upon identifying a need for child care at a Federal agency, to enter into an agreement with a non-Federal, licensed, and accredited child care facility, or a planned facility that will become licensed and accredited. Permits a Federal agency to conduct a pilot project to test innovative approaches to providing more cost-effective alternative forms of child care assistance for Federal employees. Amends the Social Security Act's title IV part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) with respect to child care assistance for TANF recipients.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 2002
Military Education Extension Act of 2002 - Extends the period of entitlement to educational assistance under the All Volunteer Force Program to 15 (currently, ten) years after the date of an individual's last discharge or release from active or Selected Reserve duty. Extends similarly such entitlement period for members who serve a minimum period of active duty, are discharged or released, and subsequently reenlist or enter into an additional period of active duty. Allows individuals whose entitlement period had expired prior to such extension an additional five-year period following the enactment of this Act to use any unexpended entitlement portion.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 2002
Educational Grants for Great Starts Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to establish a pilot program to: (1) support before-school activities that advance student academic achievement and that encourage establishing of, or increasing participation in, school breakfast programs; and (2) evaluate the effect before-school activities have on school breakfast program participation. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, in coordination with the Secretary of Education, to make such program grants to seven State agencies to conduct pilot projects in 17 elementary schools in each such State through subgrants to local educational agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 2002
Expanding Education for Military Families Act of 2002 - Removes the requirement that, in order to be eligible to transfer educational entitlement earned under the Montgomery GI Bill's educational assistance program to one or more military dependents, a member must have, or be participating in, a critical military skill or specialty.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 2002
Working From Poverty to Promise Act of 2002 - Amends title IV part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require State plans to include poverty reduction plans. Requires States to: (1) identify and remedy barriers to employment for TANF recipients; and (2) develop and revise self-sufficiency plans. Repeals the limitation on the number of persons per family who may be treated as engaged in work by reason of participation in educational activities. Specifies as allowable work activities certain limited participation in vocational or educational training (including postsecondary education), work-study, and related internships. Requires State plans to certify that the State will assess its regional economies and share the results with its political subdivisions. Requires States to assess their economies to identify and report to the Secretary on higher-entry level wage opportunities in industries experiencing labor shortages. Requires the Secretary to make bonus grants to States as rewards for providing exceptional economic opportunity and accountability. Revises the meaning of "assistance" (with respect to the five-year limit on TANF) for families with income from employment to exclude any benefit or service for any month if the family includes an adult or minor child head of household who has received at least a certain State-determined amount of income. Revises the hardship exception to the five-year limit on TANF to require a State to define hardship to include mental illness and disability that is not sufficient to make the sufferer eligible for benefits under SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income). Permits the State to authorize additional Secretary-approved hardship exceptions. Requires State plans to provide for case management planning and services for hardship clients with multiple barriers to employment. Authorizes fiscal adjustments for inflation and continuation of waivers.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 2002
Holocaust Education Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to educational organizations to carry out educational programs about the Holocaust.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 2002
Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Recognition Resolution of 2002 - Recognizes the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation on the occasion of its being honored by the Summer Opera Theatre Company, at its 24th Annual Gala Dinner and Musicale, for contributions to the arts and humanities, education, and community and health services in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 2002
Adult Education Instructor Recruitment and Retention Act of 2002 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish student loan forgiveness programs for adult education instructors.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 2002
Martin's Cove Land Transfer Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to offer to convey to the Corporation of the Presiding Bishop specified public lands for the purposes of public education, historic preservation, and enhanced recreational enjoyment of the public. Requires the Corporation to pay the United States the historic fair market value of the property conveyed, including any improvements.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 2002
Working Toward Independence Act of 2002 - Amends title IV part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act to amend State work participation requirements. Revises work or alternative self-sufficiency requirements for a parent or caretaker receiving TANF assistance. Directs States to establish for each recipient family a family sufficiency plan (in lieu of the currently required State Individual Responsibility Plans). Authorizes States to design activities and develop methods for monitoring and reviewing such plans. Revises State plan requirements and directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to establish TANF performance measures. Requires the Secretary to make bonus grants to each State that has achieved formulated employment goals. Caring for Children Act of 2002 - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to specify consumer education information States are required to collect and disseminate. Requires States to certify to child care service quality and demonstrate: (1) child care services coordination; (2) encouragement of partnerships with private and other public entities; and (3) how the State is addressing child care for children with special needs. Specifies State required activities to improve the quality of child care services and authorizes States to determine family income level eligibility requirements for such services. Authorizes the Secretary, the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Education to authorize innovative State demonstration projects involving individual programs, or integrating multiple public assistance, workforce development, and other programs to support working families.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 2002
Equity in Education Act of 2002 - Amends Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to apply to the party denying discrimination the burden of proof to show that a practice is reasonably necessary and appropriate to the purpose of the program or activity in question, if the party claiming discrimination demonstrates that the practice has a disproportionately negative effect on a protected class.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 2002
Multi-Cultural Domestic Violence Minority Education Campaigns Act - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to States and public or private nonprofit entities to carry out public information campaigns for the purpose of educating racial and ethnic minorities about domestic violence, including its effects, prevention or reduction methods, and victim services.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 2002
Global Action and Investments for New Success for Women and Girls Act of 2002 (or GAINS for Women and Girls Act of 2002) - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and other specified Federal law to require administration of such law with particular attention to programs, projects, and activities which integrate women into the national economies of developing countries. Requires the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to appoint a head of the Office of Women in Development (WID) at the Deputy Assistant Administrator level or higher. Authorizes the President to establish a coordinating council to promote the advancement of women and girls in all Federal agency policies and programs. Requires the Secretary of Commerce, the USAID Administrator, and the Secretary of the Treasury to take certain actions with respect to: (1) reducing women's poverty in developing countries; (2) supporting women's businesses through access to resources and financial markets; and (3) improving the terms and conditions of women's work. Women and International Trade Act of 2002 - Directs the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to: (1) establish a Trade, Gender, and Development Policy Advisory Committee to provide policy advice on issues involving trade, gender, and international development; and (2) review (with other specified Federal agency heads) the impacts of trade liberalization on women and their communities. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 with respect to: (1) quality education for women and girls in developing countries; and (2) tuberculosis treatment for very poor, at-risk, and affected populations. Directs the USAID Administrator to carry out programs of: (1) child survival and maternal health assistance to individuals in developing countries; (2) gender-sensitive sexually transmitted infection (STI) and HIV prevention; and (3) topical microbicide development. Requires U.S. international programs to incorporate certain measures with respect to family planning and reproductive health and rights. Urges that funds for programs addressing female genital mutilation be targeted toward certain local nongovernmental organizations. Requires the USAID Administrator and other Federal agency heads to carry out projects to assist: (1) women farmers in accessing global and domestic markets; and (2) governments of developing countries to eliminate de jure discrimination against women. Expresses support for certain international conventions regarding economic, social, and cultural rights of women and girls, children, and migrant workers and their families, as well as civil and political rights. Requires the President to carry out programs in foreign countries to prevent trafficking in women and children. Access for Afghan Women Act of 2002 - Prescribes requirements relating to U.S. activities in Afghanistan and other Central Asian countries, especially with respect to women. Urges the Senate to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Requires U.S. international programs to incorporate activities and measures to: (1) prevent violence against women and girls; (2) support women's efforts in conflict prevention and resolution and post-conflict stability; (3) provide protection and assistance to refugee and internally displaced women; and (4) increase women's leadership and participation in civic life. Supports Senate ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict. Authorizes the President to establish a U.S. International Fund for Women's Leadership to award grants to women's organizations in developing countries. Supports establishment of an International Museum of Women. Requires U.S. international environmental programs to take specified measures with respect to women, children, and men in developing countries. Requires the Secretary of State to take into account women's roles in natural resource management as well as the health impacts of environmental toxins on women's health when negotiating international environmental treaties and protocols. Supports Senate ratification of the United Nations Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. Directs the Secretary of State to the U.S. representatives to the Global Environment Facility Council and Assembly to urge the Facility to integrate women's special needs into its programming in developing and transitional countries.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 2002
Amends: (1) title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to extend the abstinence education funding through FY 2007; and (2) SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to extend grants to States for the transitional medical assistance program through FY 2003.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 2002
Allows a dependent of a Federal employee who is enrolled in an educational program provided by the Secretary of Defense in a U.S. territory, commonwealth, or possession and who is not residing on a military installation to continue such enrollment until the dependent's graduation (currently limited to five consecutive school years). Repeals the requirement that the Secretary be reimbursed by the appropriate agency head for education so provided to a dependent of an employee of a Federal agency outside the Department of Defense.
Austria · National Council · 22 March 2002
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Kurt Grünewald, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur betreffend erzwungener Studienabbruch durch Erwerbstätigkeit
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 22 March 2002
Bill entitled an Act to make further provision for the education of people with disabilities, to provide that, to the greatest extent practicable, people with disabilities shall have the same right to avail of, and benefit from, appropriate education as do their peers who do not have disabilities, to assist children with disabilities to leave school with the skills necessary to participate, to the greatest extent practicable, in an inclusive way in the social and economic activities of society and to live independent and fulfilled lives, to provide for consultation with parents of children with disabilities in relation to the education of those children, to ensure that schools and public bodies involved in the education of people with disabilities act in a co-ordinated way in the interests of those people, for those purposes to establish a body to be known as the National Council for Special Education and to define its functions, to confer certain functions on health boards in relation to the education of people with disabilities, to enable certain decisions made in relation to the education of people with disabilities to be the subject of an appeal to an Appeals Board and to provide for related matters.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 2002
Defend Our Freedom Act of 2002 - Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) to pay a bonus of $18,000 to each individual who: (1) enlists in a service branch; (2) enters into an agreement to perform enlisted service for three years, the first 18 months of which shall be on active duty, and the last 18 months of which shall be with the Selected or Ready Reserve; (3) commences such service at the grade of E-1; and (4) satisfactorily completes such service period. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to employ a retired member as an instructor in a basic training program. Increases the amount of monthly basic educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill. Allows individuals entitled to basic educational assistance who have completed six years of military service to elect to use such entitlement to contribute to a Coverdell education savings account for any child who has not yet attained 18 years of age. Requires the head of each institution of higher education to provide to the Department of Defense the same access to students, and directory information concerning such students, as is generally provided to prospective employers. Outlines procedures to be taken by the Secretary of Defense if such access is denied. Directs the Secretaries of Defense and State to jointly establish a Commission on Military Recruitment and National Service to increase and broaden citizen participation in military and national service.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 2002
Sets forth the congressional budget for the Government for FY 2003, setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for each of FY 2004 through 2012. Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts for FY 2003 through 2012 with respect to: (1) Federal revenues; (2) new budget authority; (3) budget outlays; (4) surpluses; (5) public debt; and (6) debt held by the public. Sets forth specified amounts of revenues and outlays of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors and Disability Insurance Trust Funds. Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority and budget outlays for FY 2003 through FY 2012 for specified major functional categories. Provides for specified budgetary restraints and reserve funds. Expresses the sense of the Senate concerning: (1) estimates of the cost of small business credit programs; (2) Federal employee pay; (3) broadband capabilities for underserved areas; (4) reductions in guaranteed social security benefits; (5) mental health parity; (6) beneficiary access to health services; (7) cost of prescription drugs and competition; (8) equal access to medicare; (9) home health care; (10) medicare equity; (11) access to affordable health care coverage for the uninsured; (11) stockpile for childhood immunizations; (12) a medicaid commission; (13) child care funding; (14) child tax credit; (15) defense science and technology; (16) Department of Defense review of Tail-to-Tooth Commission; (17) the National Guard; (18) concurrent receipt of military retired pay and Veterans' Administration Disability Compensation; (19) full funding for the assistance to Firefighters Grant Program; (20) the National Infrastructure Protection Center; (21) tribal colleges and universities; (22) the Pell Grant; (23) Superfund; (24) PILT funding; (25) State and local costs of providing services to illegal immigrants; and (26) a balanced budget constitutional amendment.
Austria · National Council · 21 March 2002
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dieter Brosz, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur betreffend Diskriminierung von Lesben und Schwulen durch an österreichischen Schulen verwendete Schulbücher
Austria · National Council · 21 March 2002
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Andrea Kuntzl, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur betreffend Verhaltensvereinbarungen <i>(nach § 44 Schulunterrichtsgesetz)</i>
Austria · National Council · 21 March 2002
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten DDr. Erwin Niederwieser, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur betreffend Aufnahmehürden für's Gymnasium <i>(im Wirkungsbereich des Landesschulrates für Tirol)</i>
Austria · National Council · 21 March 2002
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dieter Brosz, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur betreffend Diskriminierung von ausländischen Mitbürger/innen durch ein an österreichischen Schulen verwendetes Schulbuch
Austria · National Council · 21 March 2002
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Beate Schasching, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur betreffend Koedukation im Sportunterricht
Austria · National Council · 21 March 2002
Mündliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Heidrun Silhavy (SPÖ) an den Bundesminister für Finanzen Mag. Karl-Heinz Grasser betreffend budgetäre Kürzungen im Sozial- und Bildungsbereich <br><br>Wie groß sind die budgetären Auswirkungen der von dieser Regierung vorgenommenen Kürzungen im Sozial- und Bildungsbereich?
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2002
Improved Vaccine Affordability and Availability Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize additional appropriations for grants to States to increase influenza immunization rates in high risk populations, including medically underserved adults and adolescents, and extend vaccine availability. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for a program of research, demonstration projects, and education to ensure that immunizations are routinely offered to adults and adolescents by public and private health care providers. Requires such program to collect data on adverse impacts associated with immunizations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop and disseminate information concerning certain diseases and their vaccines, including bacterial meningitis and hepatitis A and B; and (2) maintain a 6 months supply of prioritized vaccines. Revises provisions governing the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, including provisions regarding: (1) equitable relief; (2) third party petitions; (3) jurisdiction to dismiss improperly brought claims; (4) vaccine-unrelated injury; (5) an increase in the award for pain and suffering in the case of a vaccine-related death; (6) the basis for calculating projected lost earnings; (7) compensation for family counseling and establishing guardianship expenses; (8) payment of interim costs; (9) procedures for paying attorney's fees; (10) extending the statute of limitations; (11) the composition and meeting schedule of the Advisory Committee on Childhood Vaccines; and (12) standards of responsibility and the definitions of manufacturer, vaccine-related injury or death, and vaccine. Requires the Secretary to contract with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science to conduct an ongoing, comprehensive review of new scientific data on childhood vaccines.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2002
Access to Affordable Health Care Act - Addresses health care access issues for small businesses, individuals and families, and rural and underserved areas. Addresses issues of the health care safety net, long-term care, the promotion of healthier lifestyles, and Medicare. Targets small businesses through tax credits for employee health insurance expenses and grants for health insurance purchasing groups, information dissemination, and access innovation. Targets individuals and families through health insurance cost credits and full premium deductibility for the self-employed. Renames the State Children's Health Insurance program as the FamilyCare program and revises the program, providing coverage for certain parents and optional coverage of legal immigrants and children through age 20 under the program and Medicaid. Revises restrictions, procedures, and allotments. Amends the Public Health Service Act to award State grants for the creation of high risk pools. Expresses the sense of the Senate that appropriations for consolidated health centers and the National Health Service Corps under the Public Health Service Act should be doubled over the next five fiscal years. Targets rural and underserved areas through revisions to the loan repayment and scholarship programs of the National Health Service Corps. Targets long-term care through Internal Revenue Code amendments concerning specified credits, deductions, and model provisions. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) make grants to States for community partnership healthy lifestyle activities and small business worksite wellness programs; (2) expand comprehensive school health education programs; and (3) establish Medicare demonstration projects providing bonus payments for high-quality, low-cost inpatient hospital or physician's services and clinical practitioners to hospitals serving beneficiaries in underserved areas. .
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2002
Geriatric Care Act of 2002 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to payments to hospitals, rural health clinics, or Federally qualified health centers for direct graduate medical education costs and the limitation on the number of full-time-equivalent residents in allopathic and osteopathic medicine. Provides for the disregard of up to three geriatric residents in applying such limitation. Amends SSA title XVIII, as amended by the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000, to provide for Medicare coverage of care coordination and assessment services to an individual with a serious and disabling chronic condition.
Austria · National Council · 20 March 2002
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Kurt Grünewald, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur betreffend Kulturabkommen für Studierendenaustausch zwischen Österreich und Russland
Austria · National Council · 20 March 2002
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Terezija Stoisits, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur betreffend zweisprachigen Unterricht in Kärnten
Austria · National Council · 20 March 2002
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Kurt Grünewald, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur betreffend Rückgang der Studierendenzahlen nach Einführung der Studiengebühren