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Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act Amendments of 1996

United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: General Program Title II: Community-Based Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Grants Title III: Family Violence Prevention and Services Title IV: Adoption Opportunities Title V: Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 1986 Title VI: Reauthorization of Various Programs Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act Amendments of 1995 - Title I: General Program - Revises the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to replace provisions directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect with provisions authorizing the Secretary to establish an Office on Child Abuse and Neglect to execute and coordinate functions and activities under the Act. (Sec. 104) Replaces provisions directing the Secretary to appoint the Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect with provisions authorizing the Secretary to appoint an advisory board to submit to the Secretary and the appropriate congressional committees a report or interim report containing: (1) recommendations on coordinating Federal, State, and local child abuse and neglect activities with similar activities pertaining to family violence prevention; (2) specific modifications needed in Federal and State laws and programs to reduce the number of unfounded or unsubstantiated reports of child abuse or neglect; and (3) recommendations for modifications needed to facilitate coordinated national data collection. (Sec. 105) Repeals a provision establishing the Interagency Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect. (Sec. 106) Revises provisions regarding the National Clearinghouse for Information Relating to Child Abuse to direct the Secretary, through the Department of HHS or by one or more contracts, to establish such a clearinghouse. (Sec. 107) Directs the Secretary to: (1) carry out a continuing interdisciplinary program of research to provide information needed to better protect children from abuse or neglect and to improve the well- being of abused or neglected children, with at least a portion of such research being field initiated; and (2) conduct specified research, including research on the incidence of substantiated and unsubstantiated reported child abuse cases. Repeals provisions requiring the publication and dissemination of information regarding child abuse and neglect by the Secretary. (Sec. 108) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and enter into contracts with, public or nonprofit private agencies or organizations for time limited, research based demonstration programs and projects for specified purposes, including: (1) the training of professional and paraprofessional personnel in relevant fields who are engaged in the field of prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect; (2) the establishment or maintenance of a national network of mutual support and self-help programs to strengthen families in partnership with their communities; and (3) other innovative programs and projects. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) preferred placement for children removed from their homes; and (2) project evaluation. (Sec. 109) Repeals certain discretionary program provisions and requires that the Secretary make grants to assist States in improving their child protective service systems in specified ways. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) compliance and education grants; (2) eligibility requirements; (3) restrictions relating to child welfare services; and (4) annual State data reports. (Sec. 110) Repeals provisions regarding technical assistance to States for child abuse prevention and treatment programs. (Sec. 111) Defines "child abuse and neglect" to mean, at a minimum, any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which results in death or serious physical, sexual, or emotional harm, or presents an imminent risk of serious harm (but excludes harm resulting primarily from the parent or caretaker's lack of financial resources or from causes linked to such lack of resources). (Sec. 112) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1996 through 2000 to carry out child abuse and neglect program activities, including specified allocations for discretionary activities and demonstration projects. (Sec. 113) Specifies that nothing in such Act shall be construed: (1) to require that a parent or legal guardian provide a child any medical service or treatment, nor require a State to find abuse or neglect in cases in which a parent or legal guardian treats a child's health condition solely or partially by spiritual or non-medical means; and (2) as precluding a State from intervening to protect a child or find abuse or neglect in a case involving the failure or refusal to provide a medical service or treatment where such failure or refusal will lead to imminent risk of severe harm to the child. Title II: Community-Based Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Grants - Revises provisions of the Act regarding community-based child abuse and neglect prevention grants. Directs the Secretary to make grants on a formula basis to the entity designated by the State as the lead entity for the purpose of: (1) developing, operating, expanding, and enhancing statewide networks of community-based, prevention-focused, family resource and support programs that provide specified services (statewide networks); (2) fostering the development of a continuum of preventive services for children and families through State and community-based collaborations and partnerships; (3) financing the start-up, maintenance, expansion, or redesign of specific family resource and support program services identified as an unmet need; (4) maximizing funding for specified activities for establishing, operating, or expanding a statewide network; and (5) financing specified public information activities. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) eligibility for grants; (2) grant amounts; (3) existing and continuation grants; (4) application requirements; (5) local program requirements; and (6) performance measures. Authorizes the Secretary to allocate funds to support the activities of the State network to: (1) create, operate, and maintain a peer review process, an information clearinghouse, and a computerized communication system between lead entities; (2) fund a yearly symposium on State system change efforts that result from the operation of the statewide networks; and (3) fund State-to-State technical assistance through biannual conferences. Authorizes appropriations for such grant programs for FY 1996 through 1998. Repeals the Temporary Child Care for Children with Disabilities and Crisis Nurseries Act of 1986 and provisions of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act regarding family support centers. Title III: Family Violence Prevention and Services - Revises the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to prohibit a grant to an entity other than a State or an Indian tribe unless the entity provides for a non-Federal matching local share: (1) of not less than 20 percent with respect to an entity operating an existing program; and (2) of not less than 35 percent with respect to an entity intending to operate a new program. (Sec. 303) Directs that each State be allotted not less than one percent of amounts available for grants for the fiscal year in which the allotment is made or $400,000 (currently, $200,000), whichever is the lesser amount. (Sec. 304) Requires that, of amounts appropriated for family violence prevention and services in a fiscal year, not less than: (1) 70 (currently, 80) percent be used for making grants to States; and (2) ten percent be used by the Secretary for making grants for State domestic violence coalitions. Directs that Federal funds made available to a State be used to supplement and not supplant other Federal, State, and local public funds expended. Title IV: Adoption Opportunities - Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978 to direct the Secretary to study: (1) the nature, scope, and effects of the placement of children in kinship care arrangements, pre-adoptive, or adoptive homes; and (2) the efficacy of States contracting with public or private nonprofit agencies, organizations, or sectarian institutions to recruit potential adoptive and foster families and to provide assistance in the placement of children for adoption. Requires each State entering into an agreement regarding grants for improving State efforts to increase the placement of foster care children legally free for adoption to submit an application that describes the manner in which the State will use funds during the three fiscal years subsequent to the date of the application to accomplish the purposes of the Act. Directs the Secretary to provide: (1) technical assistance and resource and referral information to assist State or local governments with termination of parental rights issues, recruiting and retaining adoptive families, placing children with special needs, and providing pre- and post-placement services; and (2) other assistance to help State and local governments replicate successful adoption-related projects from other areas in the United States. (Sec. 404) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1996 and 1997. Title V: Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 1986 - Reauthorizes the Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 1988 through FY 2000. Title VI: Reauthorization of Various Programs - Reauthorizes through FY 1997: (1) the Missing Children's Assistance Act (directs that not more than five percent of the amount appropriated for a fiscal year be used to conduct an evaluation of the effectiveness of specified programs and activities established and operated under the Act); and (2) activities under the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990.

Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1996

United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1995

Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1996 - Appropriates funds for FY 1996 for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure functions administered by the Department of Defense (DOD) in specified amounts for: (1) military construction for the Army, Navy, and Air Force; (2) military construction, DOD (including a transfer of funds); (3) military construction for the Army and Air National Guards; (4) military construction for the Army, Navy, and Air Force Reserves; (5) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Security Investment Program; (6) family housing for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force; (7) family housing, DOD; (8) the DOD Family Housing Improvement Fund (including a transfer of funds); (9) the Homeowners Assistance Fund, Defense; and (10) the Base Realignment and Closure Accounts, Parts II through IV. (Sec. 101) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated by this Act for payments under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract for work to be performed within the United States, except Alaska, where cost estimates exceed $25,000, without the approval of the Secretary of Defense, except for contracts for environmental restoration at an installation that is being closed or realigned where payments are made from a Base Realignment and Closure Account. (Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary of Defense to notify specified congressional committees 30 days in advance of the plans and scope of any proposed military exercise involving U.S. personnel if construction amounts for such exercise are expected to exceed $100,000. (Sec. 118) Provides for the transfer of lapsed unobligated military construction and family housing funds into the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Construction, Defense account. (Sec. 119) Directs the Secretary to report to the congressional appropriations committees on actions proposed by DOD to encourage other member nations of NATO, Japan, Korea, and U.S. allies in the Arabian Gulf to assume a greater share of the common defense burden of such nations and the United States. (Sec. 120) Authorizes a specified transfer of funds from the DOD Base Closure Account. (Sec. 121) Requires entities receiving assistance under this Act to comply with the Buy American Act in expending such funds or in purchasing equipment or products. (Sec. 123) Authorizes the transfer of funds among specified accounts under the DOD homeowners assistance program to homeowners at or near closed military installations. (Sec. 125) Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to: (1) the Lake County Forest Preserve District, Illinois, all rights and interest to a specified portion of real property at Fort Sheridan, Illinois; and (2) the Fort Sheridan Joint Planning Committee the remaining surplus property at the Fort.

Nutrition Assistance Reform Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Food Stamp Program Title II: Child Nutrition Programs Subtitle A: Reimbursement Rates Subtitle B: Grant Programs Subtitle C: Other Amendments Title III: Reauthorization Nutrition Assistance Reform Act of 1995 - Title I: Food Stamp Program - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (Act) to establish a maximum 24-month food stamp program (program) authorization period. (Sec. 103) Authorizes States to establish additional criteria for separate household determinations. (Sec. 104) Revises thrifty food plan adjustment requirements. (Sec. 105) Revises the definition of "homeless individual" to limit the length of time a person may temporarily live in another person's residence. (Sec. 106) Revises household income exclusion provisions regarding: (1) students; and (2) Federal energy assistance. (Sec. 108) Revises household income deduction provisions regarding: (1) standard deductions; (2) earned income; (3) dependent care; (4) child support payments; (5) homeless shelter assistance; (6) excess medical expenses; and (7) excess shelter expenses. (Sec. 109) Eliminates specified excludable auto value increases. (Sec. 110) Revises the scope of sponsor-attributed income and resources regarding alien program eligibility. (Sec. 111) Revises work requirement and employment and training provisions. Extends employment and training funding authorizations. (Sec. 114) Authorizes comparable program disqualification based upon welfare or public assistance disqualification. (Sec. 115) Requires at State option: (1) cooperation with child support agencies in order to maintain program eligibility; and (2) program disqualification for child support arrears. (Sec. 117) Disqualifies permanently an individual who participates in the program in two or more States. (Sec. 118) Defines "work program." (Sec. 120) Eliminates annual minimum allotment adjustments. (Sec. 122) Authorizes a combined allotment for expedited households. (Sec. 123) Authorizes program reductions for failure to comply with a public assistance reduction requirement. (Sec. 124) Authorizes program assistance for households residing in a homeless shelter or drug or alcohol treatment center. (Sec. 125) Revises: (1) food stamp office operating provisions; and (2) expedited coupon service requirements. (Sec. 126) Eliminates certain certification personnel training requirements. (Sec. 128) Authorizes a family to withdraw a fair hearing request. (Sec. 129) Permits States to use income and eligibility verification systems other than the system used in part A (General Provisions) of title XI (General Provisions and Peer Review) of the Social Security Act. (Sec. 130) Directs program overissuances to be collected by: (1) allotment reduction; (2) unemployment compensation withholding; or (3) Federal pay or Federal income tax refund recovery. (Sec. 131) Terminates Federal matching requirements for program informational activities. (Sec. 133) Authorizes States to use funds otherwise available to a participating household for a work supplementation or support program. Sets forth program provisions. (Sec. 134) Authorizes waiver of program requirements as necessary to conduct related pilot projects. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 137) Authorizes States to carry out private sector employment initiatives. Sets forth program provisions. (Sec. 138) Authorizes appropriations for: (1) program operations; and (2) Puerto Rico block grants. (Sec. 140) Authorizes States to carry out a Simplified Food Stamp Program in lieu of existing program requirements. Sets forth Program provisions. Title II: Child Nutrition Programs - Subtitle A: Reimbursement Rates - Amends the National School Lunch Act to terminate the additional lunch payment for schools with high percentages of free or reduced price lunches. (Sec. 202) Revises annual adjustment provisions for: (1) value of food assistance; and (2) lunches, breakfasts, and supplements. (Sec. 204) Revises service institution payment provisions for the summer food service program for children. (Sec. 205) Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to revise annual adjustment provisions for: (1) the special milk program; and (2) the school breakfast program. Subtitle B: Grant Programs - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to: (1) terminate school breakfast startup grants; and (2) reduce annual authorizations of appropriations for nutrition education and training programs. Subtitle C: Other Amendments - Amends the National School Lunch Act to revise provisions regarding day care home reimbursements. Obligates funds for family or group day care homes assistance. Title III: Reauthorization - Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to authorize appropriations for the commodity distribution program. (Sec. 302) Amends the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to extend and authorize appropriations for the emergency food assistance program. (Sec. 303) Amends the Hunger Prevention Act of 1988 to authorize appropriations for the soup kitchens program. (Sec. 304) Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to extend authority for reprocessing of agricultural commodities into food products.

Legal Services Reform Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1995

Legal Services Reform Act of 1995 - Revises the Legal Services Corporation Act, including authorizing appropriations for the Legal Services Corporation for FY 1996 through 2000. (Sec. 4) Prohibits the use of Corporation funds for redistricting activity. (Sec. 5) Applies to the Corporation: (1) Federal criminal laws against theft, fraud, and embezzlement with respect to Corporation funds; (2) the Federal criminal statute against obstructing a Federal audit; and (3) certain provisions of the False Claims Act. (Sec. 6) Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) restrictions on solicitation of clients; and (2) procedural safeguards for litigation. (Sec. 8) Revises lobbying restrictions, including requiring the Corporation to ensure that Corporation funds are not used to pay for publicity or propaganda intended to support or defeat legislation. (Sec. 9) Directs the Corporation to require each recipient of financial assistance to maintain records of time spent on cases. (Sec. 10) Requires the board of directors of each nonprofit organization furnishing legal assistance and receiving Corporation funds to set specific priorities for the types of matters it handles. (Sec. 11) Revises financing provisions to require that non-Federal funds received by the Corporation be accounted for and reported as receipts and disbursements separate and distinct from Corporation funds. (Sec. 12) Prohibits the use of Corporation funds in certain cases involving eviction from public housing for drug violations. (Sec. 13) Requires all Corporation grants and contracts to be awarded under a competitive bidding system. Sets forth provisions governing such system. (Sec. 14) Authorizes the Corporation to provide assistance to substate regional planning and coordination agencies composed of substate areas whose governing boards are controlled by locally elected officials. Repeals provisions authorizing the Corporation to provide certain research and training and technical assistance and to serve as an information clearinghouse. Prohibits a financial assistance recipient, or any client of such recipient, from claiming or collecting attorney fees from nongovernmental parties to litigation initiated by such client with the assistance of such recipient. Directs the Corporation to create a fund to pay defendants or clients under specified circumstances involving retaliation or harassment. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 15) Sets forth restrictions on the use of Corporation funds for: (1) abortion litigation; (2) class actions against the Federal Government or any State or local government; and (3) legal assistance to aliens. (Sec. 18) Revises provisions regarding: (1) the support or conduct of training programs; and (2) fee-generating cases. (Sec. 19) Directs the Corporation to study the feasibility of using client copayments to assist in setting service priorities. Authorizes the Corporation to adopt a permanent system of client copayments for its legal assistance programs. (Sec. 21) Prohibits the use of Corporation funds involving: (1) efforts to reform welfare; and (2) prisoner litigation. (Sec. 23) Directs the President (currently, the board) to appoint the president of the Corporation. (Sec. 24) Prohibits the creation or use of "alternative corporations." (Sec. 25) Limits pay for officers and employees of the Corporation to the rate of level III (currently, V) of the Executive Schedule. (Sec. 26) Requires the Corporation to maintain its principal office in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area (currently, in the District of Columbia). (Sec. 27) Specifies that "attorney client privilege" protects only a communication made in confidence to an attorney by a client for the purpose of seeking legal advice and does not protect from disclosure to Federal auditors.

United States Health Service Act

United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Establishment and Operation of the United States Health Service Part A: Initial Organization Part B: Organization of Area Health Boards Part C: General Provisions Regarding Health Boards Title II: Delivery of Health Care and Supplemental Services Part A: Patients' Rights in Health Care Delivery Part B: Eligibility for, Nature of, and Scope of Services Provided by the Service Part C: Health Care Facilities and Delivery of Health Care Services Title III: Health Labor Force Part A: Job Categories and Certification Part B: Education of Health Workers Part C: Employment and Labor-Management Relations Within the Service Title IV: Other Functions of Health Boards Part A: Advocacy, Grievance Procedures, and Trusteeships Part B: Occupational Safety and Health Programs Part C: Health and Health Care Delivery Research Part D: Health Planning, Distribution of Drugs and Other Medical Supplies, and Miscellaneous Functions Title V: Financing of the Service Part A: Health Service Taxes Part B: Health Service Trust Fund Part C: Preparation of Plans and Budgets Part D: Allocation and Distribution of Funds Part E: General Provisions Title VI: Miscellaneous Provisions United States Health Service Act - Title I: Establishment and Operation of the United States Health Service - Part A: Initial Organization - Establishes, as an independent entity within the executive branch, the United States Health Service (Service). Vests authority of the Service in the appropriate National Health Board and area health boards. Grants the Service the power of eminent domain. Directs the President to appoint individuals to serve as members of the Interim National Health Board of the Service. Declares that the members of the Interim National Board shall serve until the National Health Board holds its initial meeting in accordance with certain provisions of this Act. Sets forth the duties of the Interim National Board. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: Organization of Area Health Boards - Requires the Interim National Board to establish health care delivery regions throughout the United States which meet specified requirements. Sets forth procedures regarding election and appointment of members and certain officers of: (1) interim national, interim regional, and interim district health boards; and (2) initial and subsequent national, regional, district, and community health boards. Part C: General Provisions Regarding Health Boards - Sets forth the membership and terms of office of health boards. Provides for recall of board members for specified reasons and for filling vacancies on health boards. Sets forth procedures for the establishment by the National Board of guidelines and standards required by or in furtherance of the objectives of this Act. Requires each regional board to provide orientation, education, and technical assistance to district and community boards. Requires the appropriate national board to provide such assistance to regional boards. Title II: Delivery of Health Care and Supplemental Services - Part A: Patients' Rights in Health Care Delivery - Requires the Service to ensure that every user is given the right to receive high quality care and supplemental services without charge and without discrimination. Sets forth a list of other basic health rights. Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1973 to entitle certain employees to health leave compensation, subject to specified exceptions which exist in current law as exceptions to minimum wage and maximum hours provisions. Part B: Eligibility for, Nature of, and Scope of Services Provided by the Service - Declares all individuals, while within the United States, to be eligible to receive health care and supplemental services under this Act. Excludes personal comfort or cosmetic services unless they are necessary for health-related reasons. Requires the Service to provide in the United States specified services in or through facilities established by the Service. Prohibits the Service from providing such services in a region, district, or community other than under the auspices of a regional, district, or community board established in accordance with this Act. Requires the Service to provide specified supplemental services in or through health care facilities established by the Service. Provides for reimbursement by the Service of the cost of emergency health care services under certain circumstances. Part C: Health Care Facilities and Delivery of Health Care Services - Requires each community board to establish and maintain such health care facilities as are necessary for efficient and effective delivery of comprehensive primary health care services, specialized health care services, special services, and community-oriented health measures which are provided, as much as possible, through a single comprehensive health center. Requires each district board to establish and maintain in its district a general hospital, such other health care facilities as are necessary, and such health care services of a specialized nature as may be provided most effectively and efficiently at the district level. Requires each regional board to establish and maintain: (1) a regional medical facility for highly specialized health care services; (2) health care and supplemental services for individuals whose needs cannot be met by community or district boards; and (3) such other facilities as are necessary. Requires each area health board to: (1) hire health workers; (2) purchase or lease necessary premises; and (3) seek to minimize fragmentation and duplication in delivery of health care. Requires each regional board to provide for affiliation and coordination within its region and with adjacent regions. Requires the National Board to establish guidelines for distribution and coordination of the delivery of health care services and plan and facilitate the transition to the new distribution of facilities and workers. Requires regional boards, if a community or district board fails to provide health services, to provide the services. Requires each health board to establish policies and organizational plans consistent with provisions of this Act. Requires such boards, in establishing, implementing, and modifying such policies and plans, to seek participation of affected workers and users. Provides for a health board, if it determines that it cannot itself effectively manage the operation of all facilities, to establish a health care facility board or boards. Specifies elements to be provided for in the policies and organizational plans established by health boards. Prohibits a health board, on and after three years after the effective date of health services, from permitting its health care facilities to be used for the private delivery of health services. Prohibits individuals employed by a health board from engaging in the private delivery of health services. Requires each health board to ensure that health facilities it operates which provide outpatient services are open during hours which permit all users to make use of such services. Sets forth requirements for facilities providing inpatient services for 30 continuous days or longer. Requires each health board to provide that, at least once each year, the inpatients of facilities providing inpatient services for 30 continuous days or longer shall elect, from among themselves and representatives of certain user associations, a review committee of not less than three members. Provides for recall and proxies with respect to such committees. Requires various health boards to conduct regular inspections of specified facilities. Requires area health boards to provide: (1) contraception information and materials; (2) evaluation and treatment for venereal diseases and diseases of the reproductive organs; (3) information and counseling regarding pregnancy, child bearing, and possible genetically induced anomalies; (4) pregnancy testing; (5) prenatal services; (6) abortion services; and (7) counseling by women for specified services and counseling by men for specified services. Requires all such services to be delivered without coercion or harassment, with confidentiality, and without prior approval of individuals other than the individual receiving the services. Requires that individuals be permitted to be accompanied by a person of their choice during the provision of such services, subject to exception. Sets forth restrictions and requirements for informed consent regarding: (1) treatments or procedures which could affect an individual's reproductive capacity; and (2) mastectomy or other breast cancer treatment. Requires that women giving birth have the right to choose from a complete range of childbirth options. Title III: Health Labor Force - Part A: Job Categories and Certification - Declares that, notwithstanding State laws to the contrary, the Service shall be the sole judge of the qualifications of its employees. Requires each area health board to insure that work is performed by certified health workers. Requires the National Board to establish guidelines for classification, certification, and employment of health workers. Requires that such guidelines: (1) permit alternative approaches to healing, when such approaches have not been shown to be injurious to health; (2) have both flexibility and uniformity to meet stated objectives; and (3) require that each health worker employed by a community board work part of the time in a facility operated by a district or regional board and each health worker employed by a district or regional board work part of the time in a health care facility operated by a community board. States that each regional board, for job categories requiring advanced specialty training, shall establish certification standards. Part B: Education of Health Workers - Requires each regional board, in consultation with community and district boards, to establish a health team school (school) to provide initial and continuing basic education in health care delivery and initial and continuing advanced education in health care specialties and health science specialty fields. Requires that the schools be funded exclusively by the Service, prohibits them from charging or accepting tuition or fees, and requires them to provide each student with an allowance for living expenses, educational supplies, and any child care. Requires each regional board to establish and implement for the school: (1) admissions policies with certain required elements; (2) curriculum policies with stated elements; (3) faculty hiring procedures which will create a faculty which approximates the population of the region by race, sex, and language; and (4) a governance plan for the management of its school which gives significant decision making powers to staff and students. Prohibits enrolling any individual unless the individual agrees to perform health care services as an employee of the Service, in a job category for which training is being provided, for a period of time equal to the period of enrollment, but not less than two years, and subject to other terms and conditions. Entitles the Service, if an individual fails to start or fails to complete such service, to recover damages. Mandates that each area board periodically assess the ratio of the health workers employed by the board in each job category to the number of residents in the area. Gives priority in hiring individuals obligated to perform service to health worker shortage areas and, as a second level of priority, to the regional, district, or community board for the region, district, or community in which the program was completed. States that the National Board shall establish a program to match the preferences graduates have for locations with the needs and preferences of various boards. Requires the National Board to make payments of principal and interest on certain loans incurred by individuals for an educational program in health care delivery, health care specialties, or health science fields which is outstanding on the day that individual begins to work for the Service. Establishes a schedule for such payments. Part C: Employment and Labor-Management Relations Within the Service - Requires health boards to employ, classify, and fix the salaries and benefits of all employees of the Service. States that health boards shall give hiring preference to individuals employed as health workers before enactment of this Act. Requires the National Board to ensure that all such individuals desiring employment in the Service find appropriate employment in the Service. Places restrictions on hiring relating to the: (1) ratio of health workers to residents; and (2) existence of a health worker shortage area in the same region. Declares that employees of the Service are covered by specified Federal laws. Requires compensation, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment to be the same on the effective date of health services as for Federal Government employees until changed by the Service. Prohibits changes in fringe benefits which result in a program which is less favorable to employees of the Service than fringe benefits for employees of the Federal Government on the effective date of health services. Declares that the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act shall apply to the Service and its employees, subject to specified exceptions. Declares that provisions of Federal law relating to participation in a strike shall not apply to employees of the Service. Amends the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to include the Service in the definition of the term "employer" under that Act. Provides that the remedies provided by stated Federal laws regarding jurisdiction and tort claims shall be exclusive of any other civil action or proceeding. Declares that assault or battery arising out of negligence in various health care functions is not an exception under specified Federal law to tort claims and jurisdiction provisions of Federal law. Authorizes the National Board to hold harmless or provide liability insurance for any employee of the Service under certain circumstances. Title IV: Other Functions of Health Boards - Part A: Advocacy, Grievance Procedures, and Trusteeships - Requires each area health board to establish a program of health advocacy with specified elements. Requires the National Board to establish a health rights legal services program, for users and health workers, providing specified elements. Requires each appropriate regional board to provide that any user, health worker, user association, or specified health board may commence grievance proceedings before specified health boards with respect to alleged violations of this Act. Provides for review of adverse decisions. Authorizes, in certain circumstances, the entity before which a grievance proceeding is commenced or reviewed to: (1) set aside an election of a community board and require a new election; and (2) if not involving a community board, require that a new election be conducted or a new appointment be made. Requires such entity to transfer such functions as necessary to the appropriate higher health board until a new election is conducted or a new appointment is made. Authorizes a health board which receives functions under such a transfer to appoint a trustee or trustee committee to carry out transferred functions. Part B: Occupational Safety and Health Programs - Requires the National Board to oversee occupational safety and health programs conducted at the regional level and to participate in the establishment and administration of occupational safety and health standards under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, with the advice and comments of regional occupational safety and health action councils established under this Act. Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to substitute references to the National Health Board for references to the Secretary of Health and Human Services throughout such Act, with one specified exception. Adds references to the National Health Board to existing provisions in such Act regarding promulgation, modification, and revocation of safety and health standards. Requires the National Board to establish guidelines for: (1) its participation in the establishment and administration of safety and health standards; (2) the election of community occupational safety and health action councils; (3) the establishment of regional occupational safety and health programs; (4) the establishment and operation of work place health facilities; and (5) the provision of assistance by various health boards to various safety and health councils, and to work place safety and health committees. Requires each community board to provide for the operation of a community occupational safety and health action council (COSHAC). Gives a formula for election of the members of COSHACs. Specifies the duties of each COSHAC. Requires each regional board to establish an occupational health and safety program for its region with specified elements, including staffing and supporting the operation of the regional occupational safety and health action council (ROSHAC). Specifies the responsibilities of each ROSHAC. Requires the employer in each work place to establish and maintain a health facility in or near the work place to meet occupational and emergency health care needs of employees, to be operated either by the community board or by the employer, and the cost, in either case, to be borne by the employer. Grants employees in each work place having 25 or more employees the right to establish work place occupational safety and health committees. Grants the members of such committees rights to engage in certain activities relating to inspections without loss of pay or other job rights. Authorizes employees to monitor conditions and to remove themselves from the site of any hazard without loss of pay or other job rights. Requires employers to minimize hazards and furnish employees with or reimburse employees for needed equipment or clothing. Specifies rights of employees regarding: (1) inspection of medical records maintained by their employers; (2) provision to employees of copies of all reports, studies, and data concerning health and safety in that work place; and (3) the seeking, through collective bargaining, of standards more restrictive than those established under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. Part C: Health and Health Care Delivery Research - Requires the Service to conduct a program of research concerning health and health care delivery. Transfers the National Institutes of Health from the Department of Health and Human Services to the National Health Board. States that the National Board shall establish five new national institutes: Epidemiology, Evaluative Clinical Research, Health Care Services, Pharmacy and Medical Supply, and Sociology of Health and Health Care. Specifies the duties of each such institute. Part D: Health Planning, Distribution of Drugs and Other Medical Supplies, and Miscellaneous Functions - Requires each area board to collect data on supply and demand regarding health workers and health care delivery. Requires each regional board to coordinate the planning and administration of health care delivery, health worker education, and health research in its region. Requires the National Board to formulate one-year and five-year national plans and budgets. Requires the National Board, after consultation with regional boards, to publish, and regularly update, a National Pharmacy and Medical Supply Formulary. Specifies the contents of the Formulary. Requires each regional board to establish a program for the purchase and distribution of drugs and other medical supplies. Authorizes the National Board to establish and operate drug and medical supply manufacturing facilities in certain circumstances. Title V: Financing of the Service - Part A: Health Service Taxes - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to add a new part imposing on individuals and corporations an additional tax of specified percentages of the normal tax and surtax imposed by a specified section of such code. Ends the income tax exclusion from gross income of amounts paid by third parties for medical care. Excludes from gross income employer contributions to accident or health plans to the extent that such contributions do not provide for health care available to such employees under the Health Service Act. Prohibits income tax deductions for: (1) health care expenses as a trade or business expense; and (2) contributions to certain medical and hospital facilities. Repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to: (1) medical and dental expenses; (2) hospital insurance tax imposed on employment and self-employment income; and (3) receipts for railroad employees. Declares that no contractual or other nonstatutory obligation of any employer to pay or provide for health care for present or former employees and their dependents and survivors shall apply on or after the effective date of health services under this Act to the extent such individuals are eligible to receive such services under this Act. Prohibits Federal, State, or private workers' compensation programs from paying for or providing any health care on or after the effective date of health services under this Act to the extent such care is available under this Act. Part B: Health Service Trust Fund - Creates in the Treasury the Health Service Trust Fund (Trust Fund). Appropriates to the Trust Fund amounts equal to 100 percent of the expected net receipts from specified provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Appropriates to the Trust Fund a Government contribution equal to 40 percent of the amount appropriated under such 100 percent provision. Transfers to the Trust Fund all assets and liabilities of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. Creates the Board of Trustees of the Trust Fund. Requires the investment of specified portions of the Trust Fund. Extends the purposes for which obligations of the United States may be issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, to authorize the issuance at par of public debt obligations for purchase by the Trust Fund. Part C: Preparation of Plans and Budgets - Requires the National Board to annually fix the maximum amount of funds which may be expended from the Trust Fund during the fiscal year. Specifies criteria to be considered in determining such amount's maximum value. Authorizes the National Board to refix such maximum amount in certain circumstances. Authorizes the National Board to exceed such maximum amount as necessary because of epidemic, disaster, or other occurrence which was not and could not have been planned for. Authorizes the National Board to allocate, in addition to such maximum amount, funds borrowed under specified provisions of this Act. Requires each community, district, and regional board to annually submit fiscal year and five-year plans and budgets to the next higher level health board. Part D: Allocation and Distribution of Funds - Requires the National Board to annually transmit to regional boards a national health budget dividing the total funds available into funds for ordinary operating expenses, preventive health measures, capital expenses, research expenses, and special operating expenses. Requires funds for ordinary operating expenses, preventive health measures, and research expenses to be allocated to the regional boards on the basis of population. Requires funds for capital expenses to be allocated according to stated criteria. Declares the budget submitted to the regional boards by the National Board to be adopted upon the approval by a majority of the regional boards. Sets forth requirements, similar to those for the national health budget, for preparation and adoption of regional and district budgets. Defines "special operating expenses" to mean operating expenses associated with: (1) care and treatment for users 65 years of age and older; (2) care and treatment of persons confined to full-time residential institutions, including nursing homes and facilities for the treatment of mental illness; (3) the special health care needs of low-income users; (4) the special health care needs of rural users; (5) special health care needs arising from environmental or occupational health conditions; (6) special health care needs arising from unexpected occurrences, including epidemics and natural disasters; and (7) the conduct of environmental health inspection and monitoring services. Sets forth rules for allocation of special operating expenses. Requires funds allocated under the national health budget to be distributed by the National Board from the Trust Fund. Prohibits health boards from requesting or receiving funds from any other source. Mandates annual financial statements by area health boards. Part E: General Provisions - Authorizes the National Board to borrow money and to issue and sell obligations as necessary for this Act, but only in amounts specified in appropriations Acts. Limits the aggregate amount of such obligations outstanding at any one time. Authorizes the National Board to pledge the assets of the Trust Fund and pledge its revenues and receipts for various purposes related to such obligations. Authorizes the National Board to enter into a variety of covenants as necessary or desirable to enhance the marketability of such obligations. Declares that such obligations: (1) shall be negotiable or nonnegotiable, bearer or registered; (2) shall contain a recital that they are issued under a specified provision of this Act; (3) shall be lawful investments; (4) shall be exempt from State taxes; and (5) shall not, subject to exception, be obligations of the U.S. Government. Requires the National Board to advise the Secretary of the Treasury of the proposed sale of obligations. Authorizes such Secretary to elect to purchase the obligations. Authorizes the National Board, if the Secretary elects not to buy such obligations, to issue and sell them to a party or parties other than the Secretary, upon notice to the Secretary and consultation regarding various terms and conditions. Empowers the National Board to require the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase obligations of the Service. Prohibits any required purchase which would result in a holding by the Secretary in excess of a specified amount. Makes obligations issued by the Service obligations of the U.S. Government under certain circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, for the purpose of any purchase of the obligations of the Service, to use as a public debt transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act. Extends the purposes of such Act to include any purchases of the obligations of the Service under this part. Title VI: Miscellaneous Provisions - Repeals, on the effective date of health services, the Public Health Service Act, except for specified provisions relating to: (1) its short title and definitions; (2) licensing, quarantine, and inspections authority; and (3) safety of public water systems. Delays, until four years after the effective date of health services, repeal of portions of the Public Health Service Act regarding provision of assistance to educational institutions and their students, in areas which have not established health team schools under part A of title III of this Act. Repeals specified provisions of the Social Security Act relating to maternal and child health, Medicare, Medicaid, professional standards review, entitlement to hospital insurance benefits, uniform health reporting systems, limitation on Federal participation for capital expenditures, the program for determining qualification for certain health care personnel, disclosure of ownership and related information, disclosure of certain convictions, and payments to States for health care and supplemental services. Repeals specified provisions of Federal law relating to health insurance for Federal employees, medical benefits and programs relating to veterans, and the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services. Repeals the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1970, the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1974, and a specified provision of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 relating to medical treatment of narcotic addiction. Repeals Federal law relating to hospitals, community hospitals, and other health facilities for Indians. Repeals the District of Columbia Medical Facilities Construction Act of 1968 and the District of Columbia Medical and Dental Manpower Act of 1970. Repeals specified provisions of the National Housing Act relating to mortgage insurance for nursing homes, hospitals, and group practice facilities. Repeals the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963, the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act of 1970, the National Arthritis Act of 1974, and the National Diabetes Mellitus Research and Education Act. Repeals specified provisions of the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act relating to grant, demonstration, and research programs for lead-based paint poisoning prevention. Repeals the Act of March 2, 1897, relating to tea importation. Repeals specified provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 relating to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Requires the President to prepare and submit to the Congress legislation to repeal or amend provisions of laws which are inconsistent with this Act, including the transfers of authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, under specified provisions of Federal law, to the Service. Sets forth various requirements regarding review and reporting to the President and the Congress concerning how the Service is carrying out the purposes of the various programs authorized to be conducted by provisions repealed by this Act. Transfers to the Health Service Trust Fund amounts appropriated to carry out the purposes of any law repealed by this Act. Provides transition rules regarding contracts entered into or rights or obligations arising before the effective date of such repeals. Amends the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921 to require that each budget submitted by the President set forth items relating to the Health Service Trust Fund separately from other operations of the Government. Declares that, if any provisions of this Act are declared invalid, the remainder of the Act shall not be affected.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit for the cleanup of certain contaminated industrial sites.

United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1995

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish an environmental remediation credit program that allows businesses a credit for 40 percent of the costs incurred for: (1) environmental remediation with respect to any qualified contaminated site; and (2) an approved environmental remediation plan. Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to designate States for participation in the credit program. Establishes the overall credit limitation and provides for its allocation among eligible States. Allows the issuance of tax-exempt bonds for qualified contaminated site remediation, with limitations.

Public Housing Safety Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1995

Public Housing Safety Act of 1995 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to: (1) expand public housing expedited eviction procedures (existing procedures apply to certain criminal activities); and (2) require evictions for felony convictions.

A bill to provide for the conveyance of the Radar Bomb Scoring Site, Forsyth, Montana.

United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1995

Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to convey specified property that has served as a support complex and recreational facilities for the radar bomb scoring site in Forsyth, Montana, to that city for housing and recreation purposes.

Federally Supported Health Centers Assistance Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1995

Federally Supported Health Centers Assistance Act of 1995 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to remove provisions ending, on a specified date, the application of provisions: (1) deeming health care practitioner officers, employees, or contractors of certain entities (migrant and community health centers and grant recipients for health services to the homeless and to residents of public housing) to be employees of the Public Health Service (PHS); and (2) making a malpractice action against the United States the sole remedy against such practitioners. Adds governing board members to the list of practitioners deemed to be PHS employees. Allows, in certain circumstances, deeming the practitioners to be PHS employees while treating individuals who are not patients of such entities. Requires approval of an application for the deeming. Sets forth an application process. Directs the Attorney General to appear in State court actions to advise the court whether an officer, governing board member, employee, or contractor has been deemed to be an employee of the Public Health Service. Provides for the application of coverage to managed care plans. Revises the requirements: (1) to be considered a contractor of such an entity; and (2) of due process regarding exclusion of specific individuals from coverage. Reduces the maximum limit on the fund set up to cover annual estimated claims.

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to revise the authorization for long-term leasing of military family housing to be constructed.

United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1995

Authorizes the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard to enter into a contract for the lease of family housing units to be constructed or rehabilitated to military (currently, residential) use near a military installation in the United States at which there is a shortage of family housing. Terminates a requirement that information concerning proposed lease contracts for such housing be included in the annual budget materials submitted by the Secretaries of Defense and Transportation. Provides for the budget scoring of such contracts for purposes of their impact on defense budgets.

Homesteading and Neighborhood Restoration Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1995

Homesteading and Neighborhood Restoration Act of 1995 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make equal grants to Habitat for Humanity International and other national or regional organizations or consortia for the construction of new, safe, and sanitary dwellings in the United States, including land acquisitions and infrastructure improvement. Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to extend the time period in which the Secretary is authorized to insure and make commitments to insure loans made under the multifamily rural housing program. Allows any interest in the ownership of a project for which a loan is made or insured under to be transferred only if the Secretary determines that such a transfer would be in the best interest of the tenants of the housing. Repeals provisions which prohibit the Secretary from denying loans because an area is excessively remote. Requires the Secretary to establish objective procedures to identify the counties and communities that have the greatest need for rental housing assistance and designate those counties and communities to receive assistance. Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to deny equity loans to extend low income use unless the Secretary determines that other incentives available are not adequate to provide a fair return on the investment of the borrower, to prevent prepayment of the loan, or to prevent displacement of tenants of the housing for which the loan was made. Authorizes the Secretary to make commitments to nonprofit organizations, an agency or body of any State government, or a private entity to guarantee loans from lenders approved by the Secretary for the development costs of housing and related facilities that consists of five or more adequate dwellings available for occupancy only by low or moderate income families or persons, and will remain available according to commitments required by the Secretary. Terminates guarantee authority after September 30, 1995. Authorizes appropriations.

Credit Opportunity Amendments Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1995

Credit Opportunity Amendments Act of 1995 - Amends the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 to repeal the requirement that the appropriate Federal financial supervisory agency: (1) evaluate a financial institution's record of meeting the credit needs of its entire community; and (2) take such record into account in its evaluation of the institution's application for a deposit facility. Requires each financial institution to prepare and make available to the public a written description of its lending programs and other activities designed to enhance the availability of credit in the community, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods served by the institution. Amends the Consumer Credit Protection Act and the Fair Housing Act to prohibit: (1) creditors from discriminating against any applicant with respect to any aspect of a credit transaction on the basis of the racial or ethnic characteristics of the neighborhood surrounding the person's dwelling or business; (2) the Attorney General from initiating a civil enforcement action regarding matters pursuant to the Consumer Credit Protection Act except upon referral; and (3) the use of statistical data indicating a disparate impact on various classes of applicants of a creditor's credit decisions as evidence that the creditor engaged in any practice in violation of this title, unless such evidence is accompanied by additional evidence demonstrating actual discrimination and intent to discriminate.

Federal Mortgage Insurance Corporation Charter Act

United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Organization of Corporation Title II: Business of Corporation Title III: Provisions Relating to Government National Mortgage Association and Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight Title IV: FHA Improvements Federal Mortgage Insurance Corporation Charter Act - Title I: Organization of Corporation - Establishes the Federal Mortgage Insurance Corporation (the Corporation) as a tax-exempt, self-supporting, wholly owned Government corporation to promote the single family housing market through expanded opportunities for full mortgage insurance and housing credit. (Sec. 104) Charges the Director of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) with regulatory supervision over the financial safety and soundness of the Corporation. Requires the Corporation to submit an annual budget and business plan to OFHEO. (Sec. 109) Places the Corporation within the purview of the Inspector General of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Requires the Corporation to establish an annual business plan for review by the Congress and the President. (Sec. 112) Directs the Comptroller General to report to the President and the Congress on the impact upon the Corporation of statutory limitations and safety and soundness requirements. (Sec. 113) Authorizes appropriations in an amount each fiscal year equal to the amount of net income from Corporation operations. Title II: Business of Corporation - Limits Corporation authority to provide mortgage insurance or credit enhancement to property that is a one- to four-family dwelling located in the United States. (Sec. 202) Prescribes guidelines for the Corporation to implement a mortgage insurance program under the same statutory limitations applicable to family dwellings carried out by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Prescribes guidelines under which the Secretary shall transfer to the Corporation all assets and obligations relating to the mortgage insurance program for family dwellings. Sets a termination date for the Secretary's mortgage insurance authority. (Sec. 203) Authorizes the Corporation to: (1) provide full mortgage insurance for family dwellings that is not subject to the National Housing Act strictures; and (2) engage in any other method of enhancing credit for mortgages involving family dwellings. (Sec. 204) Subjects the Corporation to certain limitations on business activity. Title III: Provisions Relating to Government National Mortgage Association and Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight - Amends the National Housing Act to make technical changes reflecting the provisions of this Act. (Sec. 302) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to provide for the supervision and regulation of the Corporation. Vests the OFHEO Director with exclusive supervisory and regulatory authority over the safety and soundness of the Corporation, including a mandate to review any proposed new business activity to determine any potential for undercapitalization. Sets forth the Director's supervisory and enforcement parameters. Title IV: FHA Improvements - Amends the National Housing Act to: (1) modify the mortgage insurance eligibility formula for family dwellings; and (2) prescribe guidelines under which the Secretary may delegate the authority to insure mortgages for family dwellings to a mortgagee.

Community and Homeless Cooperation Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1995

Community and Homeless Cooperation Act of 1995 - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to: (1) require public notice and local hearings before property is made available under such Act; and (2) share the proceeds from the sale of an unused or underutilized property with existing facilities and the Treasury.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat academic health centers like other educational institutions for purposes of the exclusion for employer-provided housing.

United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1995

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude any employer-provided housing from the gross income of employees of academic health centers. Defines an "academic health center" as an organization which: (1) is a tax-exempt charitable organization providing medical care, hospital care, medical education, or medical research; (2) receives payments under the Social Security Act for either direct or indirect costs of graduate medical education; and (3) has as one of its principal functions the providing and teaching of basic and clinical medical science and research with the organization's own faculty.

Work and Gainful Employment Act

United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Transitional Aid Program Title II: Work and Gainful Employment (Wage) Program Title III: Working Parents Child Care Block Grant Title IV: Child Support Responsibility Subtitle A: Improvements to the Child Support Collection System Subtitle B: Child Support Enforcement and Assurance Demonstrations Subtitle C: Demonstration Projects to Provide Services to Certain Noncustodial Parents Subtitle D: Severability Title V: Transitional Medicaid Title VI: Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Title VII: Children's Eligibility for Supplemental Security Income Title VIII: Financing and Food Assistance Reform Subtitle A: Treatment of Aliens Subtitle B: Revenue Provision Subtitle C: Food Assistance Provisions Subtitle D: Supplemental Security Income Title IX: Legislative Proposals; Effective Date Work and Gainful Employment Act - Title I: Transitional Aid Program - Amends title IV part A (Aid to Families With Dependent Children) (AFDC) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to repeal the current AFDC program and replace it with a program of transitional aid to families with needy children to: (1) enhance the well-being of such children; and (2) enable their parents to obtain and retain work and become self-sufficient. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 101) Prescribes requirements for State transitional aid program plans, including requirements that parents or caretaker relatives enter into a Parental Responsibility Agreement (as well as a WAGE Plan if participating in the WAGE program). Makes qualified aliens eligible for such State programs, except temporarily certain newly legalized aliens. Sets forth guidelines for payments to States, including payment stoppage for substantial noncompliance with plan requirements. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to submit recommendations to the Congress to streamline the system for: (1) monitoring the accuracy of transitional aid payments to families; and (2) transforming the transitional aid program into a system that measures a State's performance in moving aid recipients into permanent employment. Deems the income and resources of a sponsor and spouse to be the unearned income and resources of an alien, unless the alien is a needy child and the sponsor is the child's parent. Authorizes a State to elect to establish a fraud control program operated according to specified guidelines. Declares that an Assistant Secretary for Family Support within HHS shall administer the transitional aid, child support and paternity establishment, and Work and Gainful Employment (WAGE) programs. Title II: Work and Gainful Employment (WAGE) Program - Amends part F (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills) (JOBS) of SSA title IV to replace the current JOBS program with a Work and Gainful Employment (WAGE) program. (Sec. 201) Entitles each State operating a WAGE program to a block grant for each fiscal year, including a performance award equal to the sum of the full-time and part-time employment savings of the State, determined according to specified formulae. Prescribes participation rate percentages a State must meet each fiscal year between FY 1996 and 2000 in order to avoid a five percent reduction of its base Federal payment. Prescribes requirements for flexible State WAGE programs, including a priority for private sector job creation. Requires the State agency to develop, together with the individual participant, a WAGE plan: (1) setting forth an employment goal; (2) requiring that the participant spend at least 20 hours per week in certain activities, including job search and mandatory acceptance of any bona fide offer of unsubsidized full-time employment; (3) specifying educational obligations; (4) describing State-provided child care services and assistance; and (5) providing, at State option, for conditioning transitional aid on the number of hours spent on job-related activities, and for requiring participants to undergo substance abuse treatment. Applies special requirements to WAGE programs for Indian tribes and Alaska Native organizations. Title III: Working Parents Child Care Block Grant - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to authorize appropriations for child care and development block grants to States. Changes from discretionary to mandatory the Secretary's authority to make such grants. Requires set-aside of at least 50 percent of a State's grant funds to carry out child care activities to support low- income working families residing in the State. Sets forth a matching formula for non-Federal contributions to a State's program. (Sec. 302) Directs the Secretary to establish a child care quality enhancement bonus to States demonstrating progress in the implementation of innovative teacher training programs or enhanced child care quality standards and licensing and monitoring procedures. Revises reserve requirements with respect to Territories and possessions and Indian tribes as well as State allotments. Title IV: Child Support Responsibility - Child Support Responsibility Act of 1995 - Subtitle A: Improvements to the Child Support Collection System - Part I: Eligibility and Other Matters Concerning Title IV-D Program Clients - Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of SSA title IV to require States to adopt procedures under which: (1) every child support order established or modified on or after October 1, 1998, is recorded on a central case registry; and (2) child support payments are collected through a centralized collections unit. (Sec. 401) Repeals certain paternity establishment requirements with respect to State plans for child and spousal support. Requires services under a State plan to be made available to nonresidents on the same terms as to residents. (Sec. 402) Revises requirements for the distribution of support payments through the State child support enforcement agency. (Sec. 403) Requires States to provide child support service applicants and recipients with: (1) notice of all proceedings in which support obligations might be established or modified; and (2) access to a fair hearing or other formal complaint procedure. Declares that a State may not provide a noncustodial parent with representation relating to support order establishment or modification unless it makes provision outside the State agency. (Sec. 404) Requires States to establish privacy safeguards against: (1) unauthorized disclosure of information on paternity or support proceedings; and (2) release of information on the whereabouts of one party to another party against whom a protective order has been entered, or where there is reason to believe release may result in physical or emotional harm to the former party. (Sec. 405) Requires State procedures to provide that the State agency will: (1) determine whether an individual is cooperating with efforts to establish paternity and child support; and (2) advise individuals of the grounds for good cause exceptions to the cooperation requirement. Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) with respect to good cause exceptions to the cooperation requirement under the Medicaid program. Part II: Program Administration and Funding - Amends part D of SSA title IV to prescribe increasing Federal base matching rates over three fiscal years for State child support collection programs. Revises requirements for performance-based incentive payments, with respect to paternity establishment, and for administrative penalties. (Sec. 413) Requires State agencies to establish a process for annual reviews of and reports to the Secretary on the State program. Revises requirements for State reporting procedures. (Sec. 415) Requires a State to operate a single statewide automated data processing and information retrieval system capable of performing specified tasks. Sets forth a special Federal matching rate for the development costs of such automated systems. (Sec. 416) Directs the Secretary, directly or by contract, to study and report to the Congress on the staffing of each State child support enforcement program. (Sec. 417) Makes funds available to the Secretary for information dissemination and technical assistance to States, training of State and Federal staff, and specified related activities, as well as operation of the Federal Parent Locator System (FPLS). Part III: Locate and Case Tracking - Requires the automated system established under this subtitle to perform the functions of a single central registry of child support records. (Sec. 422) Requires a State agency, on and after October 1, 1998, to operate a centralized, automated unit for the collection and disbursement of support payments. (Sec. 423) Requires each State, by the same deadline, to establish a State Directory of New Hires containing employer-supplied names, addresses, and social security numbers of each newly hired employee, which shall also be transmitted to the National Directory of New Hires (established under this Act). (Sec. 424) Requires States to establish procedures for mandatory withholding of child support payments from an employee's income. (Sec. 425) Requires State procedures that ensure that a State will neither fund nor use any automated interstate network or system for locating individuals for motor vehicle or law enforcement purposes unless all Federal and State agencies administering child support programs have access to information in such network or system to the same extent as any other user. (Sec. 426) Revises FPLS requirements to include an automated Federal Case Registry of Child Support Orders and a National Directory of New Hires. (Sec. 427) Requires State procedures requiring the recording of social security numbers on marriage licenses, divorce decrees, birth records, child support and paternity orders and acknowledgements, motor vehicle and professional licenses, and death certificates. Part IV: Streamlining and Uniformity of Procedures - Requires States to adopt in its entirety the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, as approved by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in August 1992. (Sec. 432) Specifies rules a court shall apply if one or more child support orders have been issued in the court's State or another State with regard to an obligor and a child. (Sec. 433) Specifies expedited State procedures for establishing paternity and establishing, modifying, and enforcing child support obligations without judicial or other administrative order. (Sec. 434) Prescribes requirements for administrative enforcement in interstate cases. Part V: Paternity Establishment - Requires State procedures: (1) under which the State agency shall pay the costs of genetic testing, subject to recoupment from the putative father if paternity is established; and (2) for a simple civil process for voluntary acknowledgement of paternity. (Sec. 442) Requires States to publicize the availability and encourage the use of procedures for voluntary acknowledgement of paternity and child support through a specified variety of means. Part VI: Establishment and Modification of Support Orders - Establishes the National Child Support Guidelines Commission, which shall, if it decides it is appropriate, develop a national child support guideline or needed improvements on any existing guideline models. (Sec. 452) Requires States to provide for a simplified process for triennial review (upon request by either parent of a child) and adjustment of child support orders. Part VII: Enforcement of Support Orders - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and SSA title IV part D to revise: (1) the order of tax refund distribution with respect to reductions of a refund for overdue child support payments; (2) Internal Revenue Service collection of support payment arrearages; and (3) authority to collect support from Federal employees and military retirees. (Sec. 464) Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a centralized personnel locator service containing the address of each member of the armed forces (including, upon the Secretary of Transportation's request, Coast Guard members). Requires the Secretary of each military department (including the Secretary of Transportation for the Coast Guard) to prescribe regulations to facilitate the granting of leave to armed forces members to attend a paternity or child support establishment hearing. (Sec. 465) Amends SSA title IV part D to require State procedures for placing liens for child support arrearages on motor vehicle titles. (Sec. 466) Requires States to: (1) enact specified uniform laws specifying indicia of fraud which create a prima facie case for the voiding of any income or property transfer where overdue child support is owed; (2) authorize suspension of the driver's, professional and occupational, and recreational licenses of individuals owing overdue child support; (3) require periodic reporting of child support delinquents to consumer credit bureaus; (4) extend the statute of limitations for collection of child support arrearages; and (5) charge interest or penalties for arrearages. (Sec. 471) Requires the HHS Secretary to transmit any State certification that an individual owes more than $5,000 (or over 24 months' worth) of child support to the Secretary of State, who shall refuse to issue such individual a passport, or may revoke, restrict, or limit a previously issued passport. (Sec. 472) Requires any State to treat international child support cases in the same manner that it treats interstate cases. Declares the sense of the Congress that the United States should ratify the United Nations Convention of 1956. Part VIII: Medical Support - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) with respect to enforcement of medical child support orders. Part IX: Access and Visitation Programs - Authorizes appropriations for grants to States for access and visitation programs. Subtitle B: Child Support Enforcement and Assurance Demonstrations - Directs the HHS Secretary to make grants to three States for demonstrations, lasting from seven to ten years, to determine the effectiveness of programs to provide assured levels of child support to custodial parents of children for whom paternity and support obligations have been established. (Sec. 494) Specifies eligibility requirements for child support assurance payments. Sets the range of benefit levels: (1) $1,500 to $3,000 (indexed annually) for a family with one child; and (2) $3,000 to $4,500 (indexed annually) for a family with four or more children. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Demonstration Projects to Provide Services to Certain Noncustodial Parents - Directs the Secretary to make grants to up to five States to conduct demonstration projects providing services to noncustodial parents unable to meet child support obligations due to unemployment or underemployment. Specifies the services to be provided, including: (1) referrals to job training and education programs; and (2) court monitored job search. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: Severability - Sets forth severability provisions. Title V: Transitional Medicaid - Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to give State Medicaid plans the option to extend for an additional year Medicaid enrollment for former transitional aid program recipients. Title VI: Teenage Pregnancy Prevention - Amends SSA title IV part A to require State plans to prescribe a residency condition for transitional aid to families with needy children for an individual under age 18 who has never been married but is pregnant or has a dependent child in his or her care. Requires such an individual to reside in the home of the individual's parent, legal guardian, or other adult relative. Requires that the transitional aid be provided to such parent, legal guardian, or other adult relative on behalf of the individual and child. (Sec. 601) Requires State assistance to such an individual in locating appropriate adult-supervised supportive living arrangements in exceptional cases. (Sec. 602) Entitles each State to funds for the establishment and support of second chance houses for custodial parents under age 19 and their children. Describes a second chance house as a supportive and supervised living arrangement in which such parents would be required to learn parenting skills, including child development, family budgeting, health and nutrition, and other skills to promote their long-term economic independence and the well-being of their children. (Sec. 603) Requires State plans to prescribe specified high school or alternative educational or training requirements for teenage custodial parents. Gives States the option to provide additional incentives and penalties to encourage teenage parents to complete high school and participate in parenting activities. (Sec. 604) Authorizes State agencies to provide for projects to reduce teenage pregnancy. Requires the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the relative effectiveness of the different approaches for preventing teenage pregnancy used in such projects. Authorizes appropriations. Entitles States and Indian tribes to certain payments to defray the costs of such projects. (Sec. 605) Directs the Secretary, within an existing HHS office, to establish a National Clearinghouse on Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Programs. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 606) Prohibits Federal housing assistance to individuals under age 18 who bear children out-of-wedlock. Sets forth conditions for obtaining such assistance, including marriage to the child's biological father. (Sec. 607) Declares the sense of the Congress that the President should lead a national campaign against teenage pregnancy according to specified guidelines. Title VII: Children's Eligibility for Supplemental Security Income - Children's SSI Eligibility Reform Act - Amends SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) to revise SSI benefit eligibility criteria for disabled children. (Sec. 703) Directs the Commissioner of Social Security to modify specified regulations with respect to individualized functional assessments and to medical criteria for evaluation of mental and emotional disorders (especially destructive behavior requiring protective intervention). (Sec. 704) Prescribes administrative penalties for coaching children to feign impairments in order to obtain benefits. Revises representative payee requirements, including documentation of expenditures. Provides for downwardly graduated benefits for certain additional eligible children. Requires continuing disability reviews at least: (1) every year for a disability for which medical improvement is expected; (2) every three years for a disability for which medical improvement is possible; and (3) every seven years for a disability for which medical improvement is not expected. Requires a disability review: (1) after 12 months for a low birth weight baby receiving SSI disability benefits; and (2) for all disabled children turning 18. Authorizes the Commissioner, at a representative payee's request, to pay any lump sum payment for a child's benefit into a dedicated savings account exclusively for the child's education, job training, or other special needs and therapy. Directs the Commissioner to establish a system of information and referral for treatment and services available to eligible children receiving SSI benefits. Title VIII: Financing and Food Assistance Reform - Subtitle A: Treatment of Aliens - Amends SSA title XI (General Provisions and Peer Review) to make a uniform definition of qualified alien for all social security assistance programs. (Sec. 802) Extends, with specified exceptions, through the date (if any) an alien becomes a U.S. citizen the deeming period during which the sponsor's income and resources are attributed to the alien for purposes of eligibility for the transitional aid, SSI, and food stamp programs. (Sec. 803) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow the admission, at the Attorney General's discretion, of an otherwise excludable alien if: (1) the alien has received a sponsor-signed guarantee of financial responsibility that meets certain criteria; and (2) it is reasonable to expect that the sponsor has the financial capacity to meet the guarantee's obligations. Extends the requirement for affidavits of support to specified family-related and diversity immigrants. Subtitle B: Revenue Provision - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require social security numbers on a claim for the earned income tax credit (thus denying such credit to individuals not authorized to be employed in the United States). Subtitle C: Food Assistance Provisions - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to allow recovery of any coupon overissuance from Federal tax refunds. (Sec. 822) Reduces the basic food stamp benefit level by revising the annual adjustment to the cost of the thrifty food plan from 103 percent to 100 percent of such cost for FY 1996 and thereafter. (Sec. 824) Requires disqualification for benefits, with specified exceptions, of an individual who has received an allotment for six consecutive months during which the individual has not been employed at least an average of 20 hours per week, unless such individual is employed at least 20 hours per week or is participating in a workfare program, or an approved employment and training program. Provides for development of a WAGE plan for such a participant. (Sec. 825) Extends current claims retention rates, with respect to administrative cost-sharing and quality control, from FY 1995 through FY 2002. (Sec. 826) Prohibits for FY 1996 and 1997 the annual adjustment of the standard deduction from household income for purposes of food stamp eligibility. (Sec. 827) Authorizes FY 1996 appropriations for nutrition assistance to Puerto Rico. (Sec. 828) Repeals the special rule qualifying as an individual household certain disabled persons over age 60 who live with others but do not purchase and prepare food separately. (Sec. 829) Reduces from 21 to 18 the maximum age of children whose income is excluded from computation of household income. (Sec. 830) Includes State energy assistance as well as vendor payments for transitional housing in the computation of household income. (Sec. 832) Makes ineligible for food stamp benefits for ten years certain individuals found to have fraudulently misrepresented residence to obtain benefits. (Sec. 833) Authorizes a State plan to deny food stamp benefits to certain individuals during any period they have child support payments overdue. (Sec. 834) Requires the annual adjustment to a household allotment to the nearest $10 instead of (as currently) the nearest $5. (Sec. 835) Prohibits increase of a household allotment to the extent that its income has been decreased as the result of a penalty for failure to comply with the work requirements of other programs. (Sec. 836) Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to authorize FY 1996 appropriations for discretionary grants to States for nutrition education and training programs. (Sec. 837) Amends the National School Lunch Act to revise requirements governing reimbursement of organizations sponsoring family or group child or adult day care homes for the cost of obtaining and preparing food and prescribed labor costs, especially with respect to low- or moderate-income homes. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to provide census data to each State agency administering a child and adult care food program, and each such agency in turn to provide such data to family or group day care home sponsoring organizations. Requires certain allotments of appropriations to provide grants to States for grants to family and group day care home sponsoring organizations, including funds to assist low- and moderate-income family or group day care homes, to become licensed, registered, or overcome other barriers to the program. Subtitle D: Supplemental Security Income - Amends SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) to mandate periodic eligibility review of certain recipients of SSI disability benefits. (Sec. 842) Disqualifies from receipt of SSI disability benefits individuals for whom alcohol or drug addiction would be a contributing factor material to the disability determination. Title IX: Legislative Proposals; Effective Date - Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a legislative proposal for technical and conforming amendments in Federal law required by this Act. (Sec. 902) Specifies the effective date of this Act.

Dwight P. Robinson, of Michigan, to be Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, vice Terrence R. Duvernay, Sr., resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 19 May 1995

Real Welfare Reform Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Welfare Spending Cap and Block Grants Subtitle A: Capping the Aggregate Growth of Welfare Spending Subtitle B: Welfare Block Grant Program Title II: Work Program-Related Requirements on States in Expending Certain Block Grant Funds Subtitle A: Workfare and Dependency Reduction Program Subtitle B: Work Requirement for Food Stamp Equivalent Households Subtitle C: Evaluation of Training Programs Title III: Promoting Families Subtitle A: Eligibility for Certain Welfare Block Grant Funds Subtitle B: Additional Earned Income Tax Credit for Married Individuals Subtitle C: Expansion of Abstinence Education Title IV: Recommendations Title V: Child Support Enforcement Title VI: Miscellaneous Provisions Title VII: Severability and Effective Date Real Welfare Reform Act of 1995 - Title I: Welfare Spending Cap and Block Grants - Subtitle A: Capping the Aggregate Growth of Welfare Spending - Places a cap on the growth of Federal spending on certain welfare programs, including the welfare block grant program established below and the head start program, starting in FY 1996, with the resulting savings used for deficit reduction. Subtitle B: Welfare Block Grant Program - Replaces various specified current welfare programs, including the cash aid component of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, child welfare and nutrition programs, the food stamp and supplemental security income programs, and housing, energy, and job training programs, with a single program of block grants to the States to provide: (1) aid to low-income households in the State, with food assistance provided, at the strong encouragement of the Congress, through food commodities directly purchased by the State, while providing for the Medicaid-eligibility of low-income individuals; (2) appropriate services and activities to discourage out-of-wedlock pregnancies; and (3) care for the children of such pregnancies. Sets forth special rules and reporting requirements regarding the use of program funds, including a prohibition on their use for abortion to plan families and aid to noncitizen and fugitive felons and probation or parole violators. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Work Program-Related Requirements on States in Expending Certain Block Grant Funds - Subtitle A: Workfare and Dependency Reduction Program - Requires that if a State uses grant funds received above to provide direct cash or food assistance to certain populations of AFDC families and dependent children, it must establish and operate a program to reduce welfare dependence and ensure that welfare recipients participate, according to specified guidelines and participation requirements, in State community work service or wage subsidy programs, nonsubsidized private sector employment, or supervised job search activities and, at the State's option, in educational or job skills training as well, with single- adult families with young children generally not required to participate in such program except under certain circumstances. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 215) Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to provide for a special rule with respect to certain employers under the wage subsidy program relating to employee earned income eligibility certificates. (Sec. 216) Provides for penalties for parents who fail to participate in State community work service programs. (Sec. 217) Eliminates work requirements above for groups which no longer receive benefits. Subtitle B: Work Requirement for Food Stamp Equivalent Households - Provides that if a State uses grant funds received above to provide direct food assistance to a population of food stamp equivalent households, the State shall require members of such a population to perform successfully at least 32 hours of work per month on behalf of a State or political subdivision through a program it establishes prior to the furnishing of direct food assistance for such month. Establishes certain exemptions from such requirement, such as in the case of a parent residing with a dependent child under age 18 or in the case of a member who is under age 18 or is mentally or physically unfit. (Sec. 222) Provides for similar elimination of work requirements for specified groups under this subtitle no longer receiving food benefits. Subtitle C: Evaluation of Training Programs - Requires States using grant funds to assist low-income households to conduct ongoing evaluations of job training programs to determine whether such programs raise the hourly wage rates of individuals receiving training through such programs. Title III: Promoting Families - Expresses the sense of the Congress with regard to the importance of marriage in society and the negative consequences of out-of-wedlock births, making the reduction of such births an important government interest. Subtitle A: Eligibility for Certain Welfare Block Grant Funds - Denies certain welfare assistance to certain young unwed parents and their children, including assistance to additional children of recipients. (Sec. 313) Ties a family's receipt of assistance to the establishment of paternity for each of their children born on or after January 1, 1995, with certain exceptions. Subtitle B: Additional Earned Income Tax Credit for Married Individuals - Amends the IRC to establish additional earned income tax credit for married individuals. Subtitle C: Expansion of Abstinence Education - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to States and public and private entities for promoting sexual abstinence. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Recommendations - Recommends that a State providing direct cash assistance from welfare block grant funds to: (1) custodial parents under age 19 without a high school education who belong to an AFDC equivalent family must require them to participate in an educational activity and, at the State's option, may require them to participate in training or work activities in lieu of such educational activities under certain conditions; (2) an AFDC equivalent family without any children under age five with sufficient liquid assets to meet its basic needs for a one-month period beginning when it applies for such assistance must not provide it with such assistance until any member aged 18 has conducted appropriate job search activities for such period; (3) an AFDC equivalent family not described above without any children under age five must require a member aged 18 to conduct similar activities during the first one month period in which it receives aid; and (4) an AFDC equivalent family must reduce by a certain amount monthly assistance payments to any family in a subsidized housing unit in the State. (Sec. 403) Recommends that a State providing direct cash assistance from welfare block grant funds to an AFDC equivalent family, in determining eligibility for such assistance, consider as income of the applicant family, any rent or housing subsidy provided by the State, to the extent that the value of such subsidy is equivalent to the amount for housing included in the maximum amount payable to a family of the same composition with no other income. Title V: Child Support Enforcement - Establishes a national system for reporting information on employee child support obligations through modified W-4 form reporting. (Sec. 502) Provides for: (1) child support order registries maintained by designated State agencies of each child support order being enforced in the State; (2) accessibility of State locate information to other States and private parties; (3) expansion of the Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS); (4) an Interstate Locate Network linking FPLS and all State databases relating to child support enforcement for State use in handling locate requests; (5) Federal regulations governing the sharing of locate information among States, within States, and between the States and FPLS; and (6) State systems for collecting child support through employer withholding of employee income owed for child support pursuant to a uniform withholding order for distribution to the individual or State to whom the withheld income is to be paid. (Sec. 506) Makes various specified changes with regard to paternity establishment, including allowing simple civil consent procedures for voluntary acknowledgement of parentage by unmarried parents. (Sec. 507) Prohibits the imposition of any fee for child support collection or paternity establishment services provided with respect to an individual denied low-income housing aid as a result of this Act. Title VI: Miscellaneous Provisions - Repeals the Davis-Bacon Act (which requires Federal contractors to pay prevailing wages). (Sec. 601) Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), upon enactment of this title, to make downward adjustments in discretionary spending limits under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA) for FY 1996 through 2000 by the amount of discretionary savings attributable to each such fiscal year resulting from enactment. Reduces allocations in effect under CBA for FY 1996 for House and Senate appropriations committees by the amount of discretionary savings in outlays and budget authority determined above. Provides for appropriations committee suballocations for such fiscal year to reflect the lower allocations provided by this paragraph. (Sec. 602) Makes fugitive felons and probation and parole violators ineligible for Medicaid benefits and provides for the exchange of Medicaid locate information with Federal, State, and local law enforcement officers. (Sec. 603) Restricts judicial and administrative review of this Act and any laws or regulations enacted or promulgated thereunder as a result of challenges by certain legal services providers. (Sec. 604) Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to: (1) tie its definition of "poverty line" to OMB's official poverty line revised annually under the Community Services Block Grant Act that is applicable to a particular family; (2) authorize State agencies electing to provide supplemental foods to women, infants, and children (WIC) program participants in the form of commodities rather than vouchers to use any resulting savings for certain low-income assistance; and (3) require the Secretary of Agriculture to ensure that the amount of WIC funds allocated to a State agency is not reduced because it makes such an election. Title VII: Severability and Effective Date - Sets forth severability provisions and the effective date of this Act.

Federal Acquisition Reform Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Competition Title II: Commercial Items Title III: Additional Reform Provisions Title IV: Streamlining of Dispute Resolution Title V: Effective Dates and Implementation Federal Acquisition Reform Act of 1995 - Title I: Competition - Amends Federal law to require Federal agency heads to obtain a maximum practicable number of competitors when procuring property and services for the armed forces or an executive agency. Revises requirements for the use of other than competitive procedures to allow them only when use of competitive procedures is not feasible or appropriate. (Sec. 101) Mandates the creation of simplified procedures for procurements valued below a certain amount ("simplified acquisition threshold"). Amends OFPPA to revise public notice requirements for all Government contracts valued between $10,000 and $25,000. (Sec. 104) Entitles an excluded offeror, who has submitted a competitive proposal, to request in writing and receive a debriefing about such proposal's merits from the contracting officer prior to award, unless it is not in the Government's best interests to conduct a debriefing at that time. (Sec. 105) Repeals the small business set-aside requirements with respect to the award of architectural and engineering contracts for military construction, family housing project, or other Department of Defense or military department purposes. Subjects such awards to the Brooks Architect-Engineers Act. (Sec. 106) Requires the creation of a contractor verification system of competitive procedures to verify the eligibility of an executive agency's repetitive contractors. Title II: Commercial Items - Amends Federal law with respect to exceptions to the requirement that certain offerors, contractors, and subcontractors submit cost or pricing data. Specifies that such submissions shall not be required for the acquisition of a commercial item (currently, any contract for which the price agreed upon is based on established catalog or market prices of commercial items sold in substantial quantities to the general public). (Sec. 201) Limits the collection of information used to determine the fairness of a price by eliminating the Government's authority to: (1) audit books and records related to cost and pricing; and (2) demand data other than certified cost or pricing data. Repeals the requirement that cost and pricing data be sought from the offeror, contractor, or other sources when competition is not practicable. (Sec. 202) Requires the Federal Acquisition Regulation to provide for special simplified procedures for the purchase of commercial items. (Sec. 204) Repeals the requirement that mandatory cost accounting methods be used in Federal acquisition of commercial goods. Title III: Additional Reform Provisions - Eliminates certain certification requirements for Government suppliers and prohibits future creation of such certification requirements unless: (1) specifically imposed by statute; or (2) approved by the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy. (Sec. 303) Permits Federal agency testing of alternative and innovative procurement policies for five years. (Sec. 304) Repeals mandatory charges for research, development, and production costs of U.S. defense products in sales abroad. (Sec. 305) Establishes civil and criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosures or acquisitions of bid, proposal, or source selection information regarding a government procurement. Eliminates: (1) anti-bribery provisions; (2) requirements for reports by defense contractors; (3) restrictions on private employment of former Federal employees by private entities to assist in obtaining Government contracts; and (4) criminal penalties for retired military officers who within two years after release from active duty receive compensation for representation in the sale of anything to the United States through the military department in which the officer is retired. (Sec. 306) Eliminates the requirement that the Office of Federal Procurement Policy report to the Congress annually and before the effective date of any policy or regulation. Title IV: Streamlining of Dispute Resolution - Replaces the various executive agency boards of contract appeals with a single United States Board of Contract Appeals ("Board"). Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 421) Requires the Board to provide voluntary alternative dispute resolution services upon request of all parties in conflict over specific granted or prospective Government contracts for the procurement of commercial and non-commercial property and services. (Sec. 424) Requires the Board, upon the request of an interested party, to review: (1) a decision of an executive agency head that allegedly violates a statute or regulation; and (2) the consistency of such a regulation with applicable statutes. Requires that, unless a contract significantly affects the interests of the United States, the Board suspend an executive agency's authority to award it, or to fulfill a contract already awarded, when the related procurement is to be reviewed by the Board. Limits the parties' discovery and creates a time-frame for certain specified Board procedures. Requires that specified simplified procedures be followed in disputes over contracts valued below $1 million. Requires the dismissal of frivolous protests and, in specified circumstances, the payment of costs by a protesting party. Permits the Board to implement specified corrective actions deemed necessary and appropriate to arrest the violation of a regulation or statute. Permits: (1) the granting of relief authorized by regulation or statute in addition to those specified; (2) the filing of a protest or an action in a specified alternative forum; and (3) appeal of the Board's judgement according to specified procedures. (Sec. 425) Limits the authority of the Boards to contracts for the procurement of commercial items. (Sec. 443) Amends the Contract Disputes Act of 1978 and other Federal law to conform to this Act. Title V: Effective Dates and Implementation - Establishes the effective date of this Act and a schedule for implementing regulations.

A bill to amend the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation Act of 1972 to authorize appropriations for implementation of the development plan for Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol and the White House, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1995

Amends the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation Act of 1972 to authorize appropriations for FY 1996 and 1997 for operating and administrative expenses of the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation.

A resolution establishing a special committee administered by the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs to conduct an investigation involving Whitewater Development Corporation, Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association, Capital Management Services, Inc., the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, and other related matters.

United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1995

Establishes the Special Committee to Investigate Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters to be administered by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Includes as purposes of the Special Committee to investigate, hold public hearings, and report to the Congress on: (1) White House handling of documents in the office of White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster following his death; (2) handling of Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) confidential information, criminal referrals, and employees in relation to Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association or such Corporation; (3) disclosure of the Office of Government Ethics report of July 31, 1994,or related transcripts; (4) such Association, such Corporation, and RTC policies, practices, and actions regarding such Association; (5) funding and lending practices of Capital Management Services, Inc.; (6) bond underwriting contracts between Arkansas Development Finance Authority and Lasater & Company; and (7) lending activities of Perry County Bank, Perryville, Arkansas, in connection with the 1990 Arkansas gubernatorial election.

Federal Home Loan Bank System Restructuring and Modernization Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Amendment of Federal Home Loan Bank Act Title II: Employee Provisions Title III: Conforming Amendments Federal Home Loan Bank System Restructuring and Modernization Act of 1995 - Title I: Amendment of Federal Home Loan Bank Act - Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to declare its purpose is to support residential mortgage lending and community development lending through a program of collateralized advances to Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System members. (Sec. 103) Revises Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB) membership to include: (1) the Secretary of the Treasury; (2) part-time directors, one of whom shall represent consumer or community interests; and (3) a term reduced from seven years to six. (Sec. 104) Abolishes the Office of Finance. (Sec. 106) Specifies additional requirements for the readjustment of FHLB districts and banks through merger or otherwise. (Sec. 107) Modifies FHLB membership eligibility criteria to require maintenance of at least ten percent of total assets in whole first mortgages on improved residential property (excluding either a partial interest in a residential mortgage loan or any security representing such an interest from the definition of "whole first mortgage"). Denies advances and provides for removal after four consecutive quarters for failure to maintain such asset requirement. (Sec. 108) Modifies procedural guidelines with respect to: (1) subscriptions to capital stock; (2) stock redemptions, withdrawals, or cancellations; (3) member removal by FHFB; (4) member undercapitalization; and (5) a transitional withdrawal period. (Sec. 110) Sets forth a statutory enforcement scheme for prompt corrective action by the FHFB with respect to inadequately capitalized member banks. Mandates capital measures that include a leverage limit and a risk-based capital requirement. Prescribes capital measurement components for credit risk, interest rate risk, and capital for a source of earnings. Restricts: (1) capital distributions; (2) asset growth; (3) senior executive officers' compensation; and (4) activities of critically undercapitalized FHLBs. (Sec. 111) Modifies the guidelines governing: (1) FHLB directors; (2) eligibility to secure advances; (3) advances to member banks; (4) advances to nonmember mortgagees; (5) borrowing money and issuance of FHLB bonds; (6) general banking business transactions; and (7) FHLB audits. (Sec. 115) Directs the FHLB System to establish a central office to implement issuance of consolidated obligations. Repeals FHLB authority to issue consolidated FHLB debentures. (Sec. 116) Revises procedural guidelines affecting: (1) incorporation of FHLBs, corporate powers, and housing project loans; (2) reserves and dividends; and (3) payments by FHLBs to the Funding Corporation. Repeals guidelines pertaining to eligibility of State organizations to membership in the FHLB System. (Sec. 123) Empowers the Board to: (1) require an FHLB to merge with another; and (2) issue cease and desist orders to an FHLB or affiliated party believed by the Board to be engaged in unsafe or unsound banking practices. Title II: Employee Provisions - Requires FHFB directors to assess the staffing needed to implement FHFB duties, and to complete within one year of the enactment of this Act the personnel actions necessary to ensure that the FHFB will be staffed appropriately. Title III: Conforming Amendments - Amends the following Acts to make conforming amendments to reflect this Act: (1) the Federal Credit Union Act; (2) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act; (3) Home Owners' Loan Act; (4) Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983; (5) Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978; (6) Thrift Institutions Restructuring Act; and (7) the Federal criminal code.

Reserve Forces Revitalization Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Findings and Purposes Title II: Reserve Component Structure Title III: Reserve Component Accessibility Title IV: Reserve Component Resources Title V: Reserve Forces Sustainment Reserve Forces Revitalization Act of 1995 - Title I: Findings and Purposes - States that the purpose of this Act is to revise statutory authorities governing the reserve components of the armed forces in order to recognize the realities of reserve component partnership in the Total Force and to better prepare the American citizen-soldier in peace for duties in war. Title II: Reserve Component Structure - Establishes within the appropriate military departments the Army, Naval, and Air Force Reserve Command, as well as the Marine Forces Reserve. Provides for a commander and deputy commander within each of the Commands and Reserve. Requires the Secretary of each military department (Commandant, with respect to the Marine Corps) to assign to the Command or Reserve all of their reserve forces (specified portions with respect to the Marine Corps). Requires an implementation report and schedule. Establishes in each military department an Office of Army, Naval, Marine Forces, and Air Force Reserve, as well as a Chief of each such Reserve. Outlines administrative provisions with respect to each such office, including terms of office, budgets, and a required annual report to the Congress. (Sec. 203) Requires the Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau to serve in the grade of lieutenant general (currently, major general). (Sec. 204) Provides the grades of the commanders of the reserve personnel centers. (Sec. 205) Exempts from annual active-duty officer end strength limitations general officers responsible for reserve affairs within the military departments. (Sec. 206) Limits the total reduction in the number of positions authorized for military (civilian) technicians of the Army and Air National Guard and the Army and Air Force Reserve. Title III: Reserve Component Accessibility - Authorizes the President to order to active duty members of the Ready Reserve: (1) in time of national emergency declared by the Congress; (2) when necessary to provide Federal disaster relief to a State upon request; and (3) when otherwise authorized by law. Requires 48 hours' prior notification to the Congress before exercising such authority. Provides time limitations with respect to such activations. Requires quarterly reports to the Congress by the President with respect to the exercise of such authority and the necessity for retention of the reserves on active duty. Limits to one million the total number of personnel authorized to be on such duty at any one time without their consent. Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe policies and procedures for the release of such members from such duty. Prohibits any member of the Ready Reserve from being ordered to such duty more than once in any 24-month period, with a waiver by the President when it is determined that such service is urgently required and not otherwise available. (Sec. 302) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress concerning possible legislation: (1) providing tax incentives to employers of reserve personnel to compensate for employee absences due to the performance of involuntary training or required or involuntary active duty; (2) to establish an income insurance program to provide replacement income to reserve personnel called to active duty or active Federal service; and (3) to establish a small business loan program to provide to reserve personnel ordered to active duty or active Federal service during a contingency operation low-cost loans to assist such members in retaining or rebuilding businesses affected by such service. Title IV: Reserve Component Resources - Directs the Secretary to include in the annual budget report to the Congress a report on any actual or anticipated shortfall in funding for reserve component personnel, operations and maintenance, equipment, or military construction in the budget for that fiscal year. (Sec. 402) Requires funds appropriated to the reserve components to be allocated by the Secretary to the use of that component for the purposes provided by the Congress. Requires amounts intended for military or civilian active personnel performing service in support of the reserves to be shown separately in budget justification documents. Title V: Reserve Forces Sustainment - Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress concerning possible legislation to restore the tax deductibility of nonreimbursable expenses incurred by reserve personnel in connection with military service. (Sec. 502) Authorizes the Secretary to pay transient housing charges for reserve personnel performing active duty for training at locations which are more than 50 miles from their current residence. (Currently, such authority is limited to annual training duty performed at such locations.) (Sec. 503) Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States should continue to pay reserve personnel appropriate quarters allowances during periods of service on active duty for training; and (2) current reserve component military leave policies should not be changed. (Sec. 505) Directs the Secretary to seek to arrange for the establishment by a private insurance carrier of a group dental plan for members of the Selected Reserve and their dependents which would enable such individuals to obtain dental care at a low cost. (Sec. 506) Directs the Secretary to seek to enter into an agreement with a national organization representing retail merchants under which such organization would sponsor a program for the provision of price discounts by participating retail merchants to members of the armed forces. (Sec. 507) Commends the Reserve Forces Policy Board for its past work as an independent source of advice to the Secretary on all matters pertaining to the reserves. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Board and the reserve forces policy committees for the individual military departments should continue to perform the vital role of providing the civilian leadership of the Department of Defense with independent advice on such matters.

Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act

United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1995

Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act - Requires the U.S. Government to: (1) disable and dismantle all its nuclear weapons and refrain from replacing them at any time with weapons of mass destruction; (2) undertake vigorous good faith efforts to eliminate war, armed conflict, and all military operations; (3) actively promote policies to induce all other countries to join in these commitments for peace on earth; and (4) redirect resources that are currently being used for nuclear weapons programs to constructive, ecologically beneficial peacetime activities and to address human needs such as housing, health care, education, agriculture, and environmental protection. Makes this Act effective when the President certifies to the Congress that all foreign countries possessing nuclear weapons have established legal requirements comparable to those set forth in this Act.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend certain veterans housing provisions, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1995

Extends through December 31, 1998, the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) establish the fees to be charged to eligible veterans for housing loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (guaranteed loans); (2) guarantee loans made to veterans for energy efficiency improvements; (3) guarantee the payment of principal and interest in a pool of mortgage loans made in connection with the sale of Department-guaranteed properties; (4) carry out real property appraisals in connection with the guaranteed loan program; and (5) carry out a program providing housing assistance for homeless veterans. Extends through FY 1998 the Secretary's authority to carry out a demonstration program providing adjustable rate mortgages for guaranteed loans.

Come Home, Corporate America, Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1995

Come Home, Corporate America, Act of 1995 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate the foreign tax credit. Allows the deduction of foreign taxes for which the credit is made unallowable by this Act. (Sec. 3) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations regarding allocation of income and deductions which use a formulaic approach to clearly reflect income of multinational corporations. (Sec. 4) Treats the gain or loss of a nonresident alien individual or foreign corporation that is a ten-percent shareholder in a domestic corporation upon disposition of such a corporation's stock as if the taxpayer were engaged during the taxable year in a trade or business within the United States and as if such gain or loss were attributable to a permanent U.S. trade or business establishment. Treats such gain or loss as from sources within the United States, notwithstanding source rules for personal property sales. Imposes a 26-percent minimum tax on nonresident alien individuals. Treats as stock, for purposes of these provisions, options or other rights to acquire a domestic corporation's stock, conversion features of debt instruments, and other interests in a domestic corporation other than those solely as a creditor. Treats as a dividend attributable to a domestic corporation's stock any gain which would be subject to tax but for a treaty and which results from a distribution in liquidation or redemption. Provides for the withholding of tax on such dispositions. Penalizes, and treats as tax evasion, the failure to pay the tax established by this Act where amounts were not deducted and withheld. Excepts such gain from the branch profits tax imposed on foreign corporations. Requires notice to the Secretary upon distributions by a U.S. person to a foreign person in redemption of stock or complete liquidation of a subsidiary. (Sec. 5) Removes the exemption of ten-percent shareholders from the tax on interest of nonresident alien individuals received from portfolio debt investments. Redefines portfolio interest as only interest paid on obligations issued by governmental entities. (Sec. 6) Terminates, effective with taxable years beginning January 1, 1996, the exclusion of foreign earned income and the housing cost amounts of U.S. citizens or residents living abroad. (Sec. 7) Terminates, effective with taxable years beginning January 1, 1996, the exclusion from gross income of exempt foreign trade income of foreign sales corporations. (Sec. 8) Revises rules for the determination of the income of controlled foreign corporations. Repeals provisions which reduce the controlled foreign corporation income of export trade corporations. (Sec. 9) Allows the Secretary to extend for an additional three years the limitation period for assessment of a foreign-related deficiency if the deficiency cannot be accurately assessed before the expiration of the usual three-year period because of delay or other taxpayer actions which prevented timely assessment of the deficiency. Defines a foreign-related deficiency as one: (1) of a 25-percent foreign-owned domestic corporation to the extent the deficiency is attributable to a transaction with a related party who is a foreign person; and (2) of a foreign corporation with respect to the tax on income for foreign corporations connected with U.S. business or the branch profits tax. (Sec. 10) Reduces from $75 billion to $37.5 billion the aggregate loan, guarantee, and insurance authority of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Requires the Bank to charge and collect a fee (based on credit risk and not less than a fee that would be charged for a similar arms-length transaction in the private sector) for the provision of a guarantee, insurance, extension of credit, or for its participation in an extension of credit. (Sec. 11) Abolishes the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and transfers its functions relating to obligations effective on October 1, 1995, to the Department of State. Terminates all such remaining obligations when they expire.

Adult Education and Family Literacy Reform Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Amendment to the Adult Education Act Amendment Title II: Effective Date; Transition Title III: Repeals of Other Acts Adult Education and Family Literacy Reform Act of 1995 - Title I: Amendment to the Adult Education Act Amendment - Adult Education and Family Literacy Act - Amends the Adult Education Act (AEA) to revise and rename it the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act. Provides for a performance partnership with States and localities for provision of adult education and family literacy services. Consolidates the following current programs under a single funding mechanism of State grants for adult education and family literacy: (1) Library Literacy Program; (2) Workplace Literacy Partnerships; (3) Literacy Training for Homeless Adults; (4) Literacy Program for Prisoners; (5) Even Start; (6) State grants for adult education; (7) Gateway grants for adult education in public housing; (8) State literacy resource centers; (9) Literacy for Institutionalized Adults; (10) an education coordination program serving adults with basic education needs under the Job Training Partnership Act; (11) the National Institute for Literacy; and (12) aid for research, evaluation, and technical assistance. Authorizes appropriations for State grants for adult education and family literacy. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to reserve limited amounts for: (1) awards for national excellence; (2) national leadership activities and the National Institute for Literacy; and (3) Even Start family literacy programs for migratory families and Indian families. Establishes a new title I, Adult Education and Family Literacy, with provisions for: (1) program authority and priorities; (2) State grants for adult education and family literacy; (3) Even Start literacy programs and grants; (4) State administration requirements; (5) State plans; (6) applications from eligible applicants; (6) State-established performance goals and indicators and technical assistance for their establishment; (7) evaluation, improvement, and accountability; (8) allotments to States and reallotment; and (9) a study of statistics on the number of immigrants and limited English proficient individuals in each State, and a report on the feasibility and advisability of including such populations in the State allotment formula. Establishes a new title II, National Leadership, with provisions for: (1) national leadership activities; (2) awards for national excellence; and (3) the National Institute for Literacy. Revises the Institute's current duties, including establishment of a national electronic database and cooperation with the National Education Goals Panel. Sets forth provisions for the Institute's Advisory Board, adult education and literacy career fellowships, and biennial reports to the Congress and the Interagency Group (the Secretaries of Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services). Establishes a new title III, General Provisions, with provisions for State requests for and Federal granting of waivers of statutory or regulatory provisions under specified education and job training laws. Title II: Effective Date; Transition - Sets forth effective date and transition provisions. Title III: Repeals of Other Acts - Repeals: (1) provisions for the Even Start program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (2) the National Literacy Act; and (3) provisions for grants to States for workplace and community transition training for incarcerated youth offenders under the Higher Education Act of 1965.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to assist in alleviating housing shortages for active duty personnel through interest rate buy downs, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1995

Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make periodic assistance payments on behalf of an eligible veteran for the purpose of buying down the interest rate charged on a housing loan that is guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Outlines veteran eligibility requirements. Limits to three years the interest rate buy-down period. Requires the Secretary to: (1) promulgate underwriting standards for loans for which the interest rate assistance payments may be made; and (2) provide comprehensive prepurchase counseling to eligible veterans explaining the features of the interest rate buy-downs. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Defense to reimburse the Secretary for amounts paid to veteran mortgagees for such buy-down assistance. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to indemnify a lender who makes a loan which is subject to the interest rate buy-down provisions. Authorizes the Secretaries to enter into an agreement to carry out this Act. Authorizes appropriations.

National Senior Citizens Pet Ownership Protection Act

United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1995

National Senior Citizens Pet Ownership Protection Act - Amends the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 to prohibit owners and managers of federally assisted rental housing from preventing elderly and disabled tenants from owning or having household pets.

Jesse Gray Housing Act

United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1995

Jesse Gray Housing Act - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to carry out a program to construct new public housing units. Requires the Secretary to make financial assistance available for public housing projects, especially those likely to be disposed of or demolished. Prohibits the Secretary from approving a project demolition application. Requires public housing agencies to carry out job training and employment programs in connection with certain housing construction and revitalization projects. Reduces lower income rent contribution amounts under the National Housing Act, the United States Housing Act of 1937, the Housing Act of 1949, the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, and the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983. Excludes welfare or social security cost-of-living adjustments from such adjusted income determinations.

Adult Education and Family Literacy Reform Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Amendment to the Adult Education Act Amendment Title II: Effective Date; Transition Title III: Repeals of Other Acts Adult Education and Family Literacy Reform Act of 1995 - Title I: Amendment to the Adult Education Act Amendment - Adult Education and Family Literacy Act - Amends the Adult Education Act (AEA) to revise and rename it the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act. Provides for a performance partnership with States and localities for provision of adult education and family literacy services. Consolidates the following current programs under a single funding mechanism of State grants for adult education and family literacy: (1) Library Literacy Program; (2) Workplace Literacy Partnerships; (3) Literacy Training for Homeless Adults; (4) Literacy Program for Prisoners; (5) Even Start; (6) State grants for adult education; (7) Gateway grants for adult education in public housing; (8) State literacy resource centers; (9) Literacy for Institutionalized Adults; (10) an education coordination program serving adults with basic education needs under the Job Training Partnership Act; (11) the National Institute for Literacy; and (12) aid for research, evaluation, and technical assistance. Authorizes appropriations for State grants for adult education and family literacy. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to reserve limited amounts for: (1) awards for national excellence; (2) national leadership activities and the National Institute for Literacy; and (3) Even Start family literacy programs for migratory families and Indian families. Establishes a new title I, Adult Education and Family Literacy, with provisions for: (1) program authority and priorities; (2) State grants for adult education and family literacy; (3) Even Start literacy programs and grants; (4) State administration requirements; (5) State plans; (6) applications from eligible applicants; (6) State- established performance goals and indicators and technical assistance for their establishment; (7) evaluation, improvement, and accountability; (8) allotments to States and reallotment; and (9) a study of statistics on the number of immigrants and limited English proficient individuals in each State, and a report on the feasibility and advisability of including such populations in the State allotment formula. Establishes a new title II, National Leadership, with provisions for: (1) national leadership activities; (2) awards for national excellence; and (3) the National Institute for Literacy. Revises the Institute's current duties, including establishment of a national electronic database and cooperation with the National Education Goals Panel. Sets forth provisions for the Institute's Advisory Board, adult education and literacy career fellowships, and biennial reports to the Congress and the Interagency Group (the Secretaries of Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services). Establishes a new title III, General Provisions, with provisions for State requests for and Federal granting of waivers of statutory or regulatory provisions under specified education and job training laws. Title II: Effective Date; Transition - Sets forth effective date and transition provisions. Title III: Repeals of Other Acts - Repeals: (1) provisions for the Even Start program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (2) the National Literacy Act; and (3) provisions for grants to States for workplace and community transition training for incarcerated youth offenders under the Higher Education Act of 1965.

Economic Opportunity and Family Responsibility Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Work-Related Reforms Title II: Reforms of AFDC and Treatment of Teenage Parents Subtitle A: AFDC Reforms Subtitle B: Teenage Parents Title III: Strengthening Parental Responsibility and Family Stability Subtitle A: Federal Responsibilities Subtitle B: Paternity Establishment Subtitle C: Enforcement Subtitle D: State Responsibilities Subtitle E: Demonstrations, Grants, and Miscellaneous Subtitle F: Tax Reforms Title IV: Child Care Reforms Title V: Equity Investment Subtitle A: Equity Investment Development Zones Subtitle B: Equity Investment in Qualified Companies Subtitle C: Assistance to Qualified Companies Receiving Equity Investments Title VI: Effective Date Economic Opportunity and Family Responsibility Act of 1995 - Title I: Work-Related Reforms - Amends parts A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC) and F (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program) (JOBS) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) increase JOBS funding as well as matching and participation rates; (2) revise JOBS participation requirements, among other changes establishing a minimum period under AFDC for participating in JOBS, and including certain child-related volunteer work and higher education and vocational training costs as JOBS activities; (3) allow State JOBS programs to use limited JOBS funding for conducting training and employment opportunity programs for noncustodial parents; (4) require State AFDC plans to provide for one-stop centers at which low-income individuals can obtain information on and help in applying for various specified types of public assistance, including housing and transportation assistance, unemployment insurance, and health and child care; and (5) require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish guidelines for staffing State agencies operating or overseeing such public assistance. (Sec. 107) Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with an eligible entity to conduct a demonstration project to provide certain AFDC recipients with a private sector job and employment-related support services. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Reforms of AFDC and Treatment of Teenage Parents - Subtitle A: AFDC Reforms - Amends SSA title IV part A to: (1) increase the earned income disregard; (2) give States the option of allowing families on AFDC to disregard as a resource up to $10,000 in a qualified asset account for education, training, employability, home buying, or change of residence purposes; and (3) repeal certain provisions creating a disincentive to marry, such as those requiring the parent who is the principal wage earner to have a recent work history, and those allowing States to limit the participation of families in AFDC to only six months in any 12-month period. Subtitle B: Teenage Parents - Modifies AFDC and JOBS provisions with regard to minor teenage parents, among other changes: (1) requiring them to live with their parents or in an adult-supervised living arrangement in order to receive AFDC, except under circumstances similar to those under current law, including those added by this Act which prohibit application of such requirement when it would prevent the individual's continued participation in an approved substance abuse treatment program; and (2) requiring State JOBS programs to impose certain educational and job-related activity requirements with respect to such parents who have not completed high school. (Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the use of qualified asset accounts established pursuant to this Act. Title III: Strengthening Parental Responsibility and Family Stability - Subtitle A: Federal Responsibilities - Amends SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to make various specified changes, chief among them changes with respect to: (1) expansion of Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS) functions and systems; (2) establishment of a Federal child support order registry composed of all child support orders in State registries established below for comparison with information from W-4 forms provided by employers on the child support obligations of employees for forwarding to the appropriate State under a national system established by the Secretary of Treasury for reporting employees and child support information; and (3) incentive and other payments to the States, including incentive adjustments to the Federal matching rate, an increased base matching rate, and increased Federal financial participation for States with unified child support enforcement programs. (Sec. 308) Requires the Secretary to promulgate new criteria and standards which emphasize program outcomes for: (1) auditing State child support programs; and (2) establishing a system for reporting relevant audit data. (Sec. 309) Establishes the National Child Support Guidelines Commission to develop a national child support guideline to recommend to the President and the Congress for consideration. (Sec. 310) Directs the Secretary to establish the Child Support Audit Advisory Committee to assist the Secretary in developing revised audit criteria and standards for use above. Subtitle B: Paternity Establishment - Provides for the following, among other things, in order to further paternity establishment: (1) State procedures for a simple civil process for voluntary acknowledgement of paternity that include a hospital-based program for making such acknowledgements and require the State agency responsible for birth records to offer voluntary paternity establishment services; (2) outreach programs at hospitals and other facilities to encourage voluntary paternity acknowledgement; (3) expedited State procedures for ordering genetic tests as part of the State's civil procedures for establishment of paternity; and (4) reduced State payments as penalties for failing to establish paternity promptly. Subtitle C: Enforcement - Provides for the following, among other things, in order to further enforcement efforts under child support programs: (1) State procedures for obtaining access to financial records maintained by financial institutions in the State, and for requiring State courts and administrative agencies with final authority over support or parentage orders to require each party subject to such order to file with it certain identifying information on where the party can be reached at home and at work; (2) additional benefits subject to garnishment; (3) State hold on occupational, professional, and business licenses based on a warrant or delinquency related to child support; (4) Federal holds based on support delinquency; (5) State denial of driver's licenses and vehicle registrations to noncustodial parents failing to appear in child support cases; (6) liens by the State on personal property for child support arrearages; (7) reporting of the total amount of monthly support obligations to credit bureaus; (8) denial of passports to noncustodial parents subject to State arrest warrants in cases of nonpayment of child support; (9) extension of the age through which a State could pursue back child support; and (10) expanded use of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to collect delinquent child support using tax collection authority. (Sec. 323) Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to allow access to credit reports for an appropriate State agency for use in establishing, modifying, or enforcing a child support award. Subtitle D: State Responsibilities - Provides for the following, among other things, in order to facilitate enforcement efforts under child support programs: (1) State procedures for establishment of automated central child support order registries for use in the national system above; (2) State transmission of wage withholding orders for overdue child support to the employer of the individual owing the support in order for the employer to withhold the appropriate amount from the employee's wages for forwarding to the State registry for support and health insurance premium payments due; (3) State child support enforcement agency access to various data bases with information regarding absent parents; (4) uniform terms in support orders; (5) State laws adopting the officially approved version of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act; and (6) outreach to persons eligible for State child support services. (Sec. 347) Provides for cost-of-living adjustment of child support awards as well as for new procedures for adjusting certain child support orders and preventing conflicts of interest. (Sec. 350) Requires the Secretary to conduct staffing studies of each State child support enforcement program for a report to the Congress, reducing payments to a State failing to meet performance standards and recommended staffing levels. (Sec. 351) Provides for State and Federal training for State child and spousal support enforcement personnel. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 352) Revises requirements for the distribution of proceeds. (Sec. 353) Gives States the authority to waive temporarily the right to collect child support obligations of teen noncustodial parents who are participating in a State educational or employment preparation program. Requires State guidelines for child support awards to provide that if the State agency determines that a noncustodial parent who has not attained 20 years of age owes but is unable to pay child support, then the State may, in lieu of enforcing the right to such support for such period as it considers appropriate, allow the parent to choose to comply with an educational or job training program. Subtitle E: Demonstrations, Grants, and Miscellaneous - Directs the Secretary to make grants to a limited number of States to conduct demonstration projects for the purpose of: (1) establishing or improving a system of assured minimum child support payments in order to encourage States to provide a guaranteed minimum level of child support for every eligible child not receiving such support; (2) establishing a simple process for the modification of child support orders based on changed family circumstances; and (3) providing services to noncustodial parents unable to meet child support obligations due to unemployment or underemployment. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 364) Authorizes appropriations for grants to States for programs to support and facilitate absent parents' access to and visitation of their children. (Sec. 365) Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to make a technical correction to its definition of medical support order. Subtitle F: Tax Reforms - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the quarterly lump sum advance payment of the earned income tax credit. Directs the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to expand the Tax Counseling for the Elderly program to include assistance to certain low-income families, with outreach targeted to families on AFDC, food stamps, and child care assistance through SSA title IV part G. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Child Care Reforms - Amends SSA title IV to add a new part G (Child Care for Needy Families Block Grant) for the purpose of encouraging and enabling each State to develop, establish, or expand, and to operate a program to provide child care services. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 403) Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to give States the option of extending Medicaid enrollment for an additional year for former AFDC recipients making the transition from welfare to work. Title V: Equity Investment - Equity Investment Development Act of 1995 - Subtitle A: Equity Investment Development Zones - Requires the appropriate Secretaries (the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the case of any area nominated for designation located in an urban area and the Secretary of Agriculture in the case of any area nominated that is in a rural area) to designate ten areas as equity investment development zones in accordance with the designation process and eligibility criteria outlined in this title. Subtitle B: Equity Investments in Qualified Companies - Requires the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to: (1) establish a single rate of interest applicable to all reserves, making any necessary adjustments on a quarterly basis; and (2) on March 1 of each year, calculate the imputed earnings on all reserves during the preceding calendar year, based on the rate of interest established above, and any adjustments to such rate effected prior to March 1, and then, with certain exceptions, issue a certificate to each insured depository institution to make an equity investment in one or more qualified companies, transfer to the Community Equity Investment Corporation established below, or sell to a third party. Requires the face value of such certificate to equal the imputed earnings on the reserves maintained by that insured depository institution during the applicable calendar year. Establishes procedures for reimbursement relating to direct investment. Provides for the transferability of certificates, with certain exceptions. States that each certificate shall expire two years after the certificate is issued. (Sec. 531) Establishes the Community Equity Investment Corporation as a for-profit corporation incorporated in Delaware. (Sec. 533) Prohibits the common stock of the Corporation from being transferable before expiration of the five-year period beginning with the Corporation's incorporation. Provides that during the five-year period beginning on the expiration of the five year period above, the common stock of the Corporation shall be transferable only among insured depository institutions that own common stock in the Corporation on or before the expiration of such five-year period. (Sec. 534) Establishes procedures for the dissolution of the Corporation. Subtitle C: Assistance to Qualified Companies Receiving Equity Investments - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a wage supplementation program. Describes such program, allowing it to operate at the option of a State which would use the funds available to pay the benefits to families on AFDC or food stamps to instead pay participating employers as an incentive for such families to work in lieu of receiving such benefits. Title VI: Effective Date - Specifies effective dates of this Act and the amendments made by it.

Foreign Aid Reduction Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Division C: Foreign Assistance Authorizations Title XXXI (sic): Defense and Security Assistance Chapter 1: Military and Related Assistance Chapter 2: International Military Education and Training Chapter 3: Antiterrorism Assistance Chapter 4: Narcotics Control Assistance Chapter 5: Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund Chapter 6: Other Provisions Title XXXII: Economic Assistance Chapter 1: Economic Support Assistance Chapter 2: Assistance for Private Sector Programs and Activities Chapter 3: Development Assistance Chapter 4: Public Law 480 Chapter 5: Housing Guarantee Program Chapter 6: Peace Corps Chapter 7: International Disaster Assistance Chapter 8: Other Provisions Title XXXIII: Regional Provisions Title XXXIV: Special Authorities and Other Provisions Chapter 1: Special Authorities Chapter 2: Other Provisions Chapter 3: Repeals Title XXXV: Effective Date Division C: Foreign Assistance Authorizations - Foreign Aid Reduction Act of 1995 - Title XXXI (sic): Defense and Security Assistance - Chapter 1: Military and Related Assistance - Authorizes appropriations for the foreign military financing program under the Arms Export Control Act for FY 1996 and 1997. Earmarks amounts of assistance for Israel, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. (Sec. 3121) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the aggregate value of defense articles and services that may be drawn down under emergency circumstances. Revises authorities with respect to drawdowns for non-military assistance purposes. (Sec. 3122) Limits the value of additions to stockpiles in foreign countries in FY 1996 and 1997. Makes amounts available for such stockpiles in South Korea and Thailand. (Sec. 3123) Revises conditions on the transfer of excess defense articles and repeals specified provisions of existing law regarding such transfers. Chapter 2: International Military Education and Training - Authorizes appropriations for international military education and training for FY 1996 and 1997. Permits such assistance to Indonesia only for specified military education and training for civilian personnel. (Sec. 3143) Authorizes the attendance without charge of foreign military and civilian defense personnel at test flight pilot schools in the United States pursuant to agreements providing for the exchange of students between U.S. and comparable foreign pilot schools. Chapter 3: Antiterrorism Assistance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1996 and 1997 for antiterrorism assistance. (Sec. 3152) Repeals provisions that require certain congressional notifications and reports regarding antiterrorism assistance. Chapter 4: Narcotics Control Assistance - Authorizes the President to accept contributions from foreign governments to carry out international narcotics control activities. Repeals specified reporting and certification requirements with respect to international narcotics control currently applicable to years after FY 1995 and applies FY 1995 reporting and certification requirements to such years. (Sec. 3164) Permits international narcotics-related assistance to be provided notwithstanding any law (with specified exceptions) that restricts assistance to foreign countries if the President notifies the appropriate congressional committees in advance. Chapter 5: Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1996 and 1997 for a nonproliferation and disarmament fund established under the Freedom for Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets Support Act of 1992. Chapter 6: Other Provisions - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to revise congressional review procedures with respect to specified arms transfers. (Sec. 3182) Provides that presidential consent shall not be required for the transfer by a foreign country or international organization of defense articles sold by the United States if specified conditions are met. (Sec. 3184) Repeals specified reporting requirements with respect to price and availability estimates relating to proposed sales, and acquisitions, of defense articles or services. (Sec. 3188) Designates Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand as major non-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies. (Sec. 3189) Raises the threshold on amounts of defense articles and services that trigger certification requirements prior to transfer. (Sec. 3191) Prohibits funds from being available to facilitate the sale of M-833 antitank shells or shells containing a depleted uranium penetrating component to any country other than a NATO member country, a major non-NATO ally, or Taiwan. Subjects such prohibition to a national security interest waiver. Title XXXII: Economic Assistance - Chapter 1: Economic Support Assistance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1996 and 1997 for economic support fund (ESF) assistance. Earmarks amounts for Israel, Egypt, the International Fund for Ireland, and law enforcement assistance. Chapter 2: Assistance for Private Sector Programs and Activities - Authorizes the President to provide funds and support to private sector enterprise funds for countries eligible to receive development assistance on the same basis as such funds and support are provided to Enterprise Funds for Poland and Hungary under the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989. Makes development and ESF assistance available for such funds. (Sec. 3212) Authorizes the President to provide funds and support to Enterprise Funds that are or have been established for purposes of promoting private sector development of countries in the Trans- Caucasus region. (Sec. 3213) Replaces provisions regarding the Private Sector Revolving Fund with provisions authorizing credit and training to micro- and small enterprises. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1996 and 1997 for such purposes. (Sec. 3214) Authorizes grant assistance to microenterprises in developing countries. Chapter 3: Development Assistance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1996 and 1997 for specified development assistance, including: (1) the Development Fund for Africa; (2) assistance for the independent states of the former Soviet Union (independent states); (3) assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic states; (4) the Inter-American Foundation; and (5) the African Development Foundation. (Sec. 3222) Prohibits development assistance for voluntary population planning from being made available for organizations that support or participate in coercive abortions or involuntary sterilizations. (Sec. 3223) Makes ineligible for assistance (except humanitarian assistance or assistance for democratic political reform) any independent state that directs any action in violation of territorial integrity or national sovereignty of any other independent state. Prohibits assistance for purposes of enhancing the military capability of any independent state, with exceptions. Bars assistance to the Government of Russia if such government: (1) is not making progress in implementing comprehensive economic reforms based on market principles; and (2) applies or transfers assistance to any entity for purposes of expropriating or seizing ownership or control of assets, investments, or ventures. Provides for a permanent waiver of certain provisions of law with respect to assistance to the independent states. (Currently, such waiver is only applicable with respect to FY 1993 assistance.) (Sec. 3224) Requires the President to report to the Congress every three years on the impact and effectiveness of development assistance on a country-by-country basis. (Sec. 3231) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1996 and 1997 for operating expenses of the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance and for such agency's office of inspector general. Chapter 4: Public Law 480 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1996 and 1997 for the provision of agricultural commodities under title II of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954. Prohibits funding for providing such commodities under title III of such Act. Chapter 5: Housing Guarantee Program - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1996 and 1997 for administrative expenses to carry out worldwide shelter guaranteed loan programs. Chapter 6: Peace Corps - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1996 and 1997 to carry out the Peace Corps Act. Earmarks a maximum amount for Peace Corps activities in the independent states. (Sec. 3263) Prohibits the use of Peace Corps funds for abortions. Chapter 7: International Disaster Assistance - Authorizes the President to provide international reconstruction assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1996 and 1997 for international disaster assistance. Chapter 8: Other Provisions - Prohibits funds under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 from being available to private and voluntary organizations which: (1) fail to provide documents to meet auditing requirements of the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance; or (2) are not registered with such agency. (Sec. 3284) Withholds from obligation an amount equivalent to 110 percent of the total unpaid fully adjudicated parking fines owed to the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and New York by the government of a foreign country in a fiscal year until the Secretary of State certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that such fines are fully paid. Title XXXIII: Regional Provisions - Prohibits foreign assistance to any foreign government that has provided economic assistance to or engaged in nonmarket-based trade with the Government of Cuba. Waives such prohibition under specified conditions. (Sec. 3302) Permits development or ESF assistance for FY 1996 and 1997 to be made available to Nicaragua only if the Secretary of State certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that specified conditions regarding investigations of weapons caches and certain murders, prosecution of those involved in international terrorist or kidnapping rings, expropriation of U.S. property, civilian control over the military and police, and reforms in the judicial system have been met. (Sec. 3303) Makes Panama eligible to purchase defense articles and services under the Arms Export Control Act. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should negotiate a new base rights agreement with the Government of Panama. (Sec. 3305) Sets forth U.S. policy with respect to free passage through, and claims to territory in, the South China Sea. (Sec. 3306) Prohibits ESF, international military education and training, foreign military financing, and development assistance to the Government of Zaire for FY 1996 and 1997. Title XXXIV: Special Authorities and Other Provisions - Chapter 1: Special Authorities - Increases the amount authorized to be transferred between specified accounts under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms Export Control Act. (Sec. 3402) Authorizes the President, in order to provide for unanticipated contingencies in programs for which funds are provided under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, to use funds made available to carry out any provision of such Act for purposes of providing assistance authorized by other provisions. Repeals current provisions regarding contingencies and raises the ceiling on the amount provided for such authority. (Sec. 3403) Revises special authority provisions to authorize the President to provide assistance and loans under foreign assistance laws and the Arms Export Control Act, notwithstanding laws restricting such assistance, if to do so is vital to national interests. Retains specified annual ceilings with respect to such waivers and raises country limits. (Sec. 3404) Authorizes the President, for purposes of making an equitable settlement of termination claims under extraordinary contractual relief standards, to adopt as a contract or other obligation of the U.S. Government and assume any liabilities arising thereunder, any contract with a U.S. or third-country contractor to carry out any program of foreign assistance that was subsequently terminated. Chapter 2: Other Provisions - Prohibits funds made available to carry out the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or the Arms Export Control Act from being provided to any foreign government engaged in intelligence activities harmful to U.S. national security. (Sec. 3413) Authorizes the President to reduce amounts owed to the U.S. Government as a result of loans or guarantees issued under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or credits or guarantees extended under the Arms Export Control Act. Makes eligible for such debt reduction countries with a heavy debt burden that are eligible to borrow from the International Development Association but not from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and countries that meet other specified conditions concerning military expenditures, terrorism, narcotics control, and human rights. Permits such authority only to implement multilateral debt relief ad referendum agreements (the Paris Club Agreed Minutes) and only to the extent that appropriations for the modifications are made in advance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1996 and 1997. (Sec. 3414) Authorizes the President, subject to certain conditions, to sell to an eligible purchaser concessional loans made before January 1, 1995, to the government of an eligible country or reduce or cancel such loans on receipt of payment from an eligible purchaser for purposes of facilitating debt-for-equity, -development, or -nature swaps or debt buybacks by eligible countries to support specified activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1996 and 1997. (Sec. 3415) Prohibits the use of funds under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide: (1) any financial incentive to a business for purposes of inducing it to relocate outside the United States if it will reduce the number of employees in the United States; (2) assistance for developing an export processing zone or designated area in which a country's tax, tariff, labor, environment, and safety laws do not apply to activities in the area, unless the President certifies that such assistance is not likely to cause a loss of jobs within the United States; or (3) assistance for any project that contributes to the violation of workers' rights. Exempts assistance for microenterprises, small-scale enterprises, or small-holder agriculture in the informal sector of the foreign country from such prohibition. (Sec. 3416) Prohibits assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or the Arms Export Control Act to any foreign government that provides lethal military equipment to a country whose government supports international terrorism. Waives such prohibition if such assistance is important to national security interests. Chapter 3: Repeals - Repeals specified foreign assistance laws. Title XXXV: Effective Date - Makes the effective date of this Act the later of the enactment date or October 1, 1995.

Commercial Revitalization Tax Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1995

Commercial Revitalization Tax Act of 1995 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an investment tax credit equal to a percentage of expenditures for depreciable property in connection with the rehabilitation or reconstruction of a nonresidential building located in: (1) an empowerment zone or enterprise community; (2) an area established pursuant to a consolidated planning process for the use of Federal housing and community development funds; or (3) a low-income commercial revitalization district specially designated by a State or local government which is not primarily a nonresidential central business district. Requires, for qualification of such expenditures, that they exceed 25 percent of the fair market value of the building before rehabilitation. Imposes a State ceiling on the availability of the credit.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend certain expiring authorities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to authorize medical construction projects for that Department for fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1995

Extends through December 31, 1997, the following authorities of the Department of Veterans Affairs: (1) the authority to provide outpatient services to Persian Gulf veterans exposed to toxic substances or environmental hazards during such service; (2) the authority to contract with community-based treatment facilities for the care of eligible veterans suffering from alcohol or drug dependence or abuse disabilities (also extends a certain evaluation in connection with such treatment); (3) the authority to enter into agreements with States and nonprofit organizations for the provision of housing assistance for homeless veterans ( requires a report); (5) the Department's health professionals scholarship program (requires a report); (6) the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into enhanced-use leases of Department real property; (7) the authority under the Veterans' Benefits and Services Act of 1988 for a pilot program providing community-based residential care for homeless chronically mentally ill veterans; and (8) the Department's compensated work therapy and therapeutic transitional housing program. Extends through December 31, 1996, a pilot program for determining noninstitutional alternatives to veterans' nursing home care (requires a report). Repeals the authority of the Secretary to make contracts and grants for providing care and treatment for veterans at the Department's Veterans Memorial Medical Center in the Philippines. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out the Department's major medical facility projects and leases for which funds are requested in the President's FY 1996 budget and for which authorization is required. Authorizes FY 1996 appropriations to the Secretary for such projects and leases, with limitations.

Housing Co-op Tax Correction Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1995

Housing Co-op Tax Correction Act of 1995 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude cooperative housing corporations from the limitations on deductions incurred by certain membership organizations in transactions with their members. Prohibits patronage losses of an organization from being used to offset earnings which are not patronage earnings. Specifies earnings to be treated as patronage earnings in the case of cooperative housing corporations.

Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996

United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title XXI: Army Title XXII: Navy Title XXIII: Air Force Title XXIV: Defense Agencies Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations Title XXVIII: General Provisions Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes Subtitle B: Base Closure and Realignment and Environment Subtitle C: Land Conveyances Subtitle D: Other Matters Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 - Title XXI: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units, to carry out architectural planning and design activities, and to improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after 1995 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Army. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXII: Navy - Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under the previous title. Title XXIII: Air Force - Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements to construct, acquire, and improve family housing units at or near military installations for the purpose of encouraging private investments, in a specified amount. Authorizes the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units and to carry out certain energy conservation projects. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for fiscal years after 1995 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program and authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1995 for such contributions. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1995 for the Guard and Reserve forces for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities. Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in the preceding titles of this Act on October 1, 1998, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1999, whichever is later, with exceptions. Extends certain FY 1992 and 1993 military construction projects. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes - Increases from 300 to 450 the number of units of family housing authorized to be leased in foreign countries for U.S. military family housing purposes. (Sec. 2803) Extends permanently the authority of the Secretary to increase the maximum square footage of military family housing units acquired for military personnel of certain pay grades when determined to be cost effective. (Sec. 2804) Authorizes the Secretary of any military department (currently, only the Navy) to enter into limited partnerships with private developers for the construction of military family housing at or near a military installation. Renames the Navy Housing Investment Account (used for partnership purposes) as the Defense Housing Investment Account. Terminates the Navy Housing Investment Board created to oversee such partnerships. Directs each Secretary of a military department to establish a Housing Investment Board to: (1) advise such Secretary as to financially sound limited partnerships; and (2) administer allocations from the Account. Extends through FY 2000 the authority to enter into such partnerships. (Sec. 2805) Provides that certain cost increase limits with respect to military family housing construction projects do not apply to the settlement of a contractor claim. Subtitle B: Base Closure and Realignment and Environment - Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to allow funds in the Defense Environmental Restoration Account to be used in FY 1996 for environmental restoration activities for military installations approved for closure or realignment in 1995 under such Act. (Sec. 2808) Amends the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act as well as the above Act to authorize the Secretary to enter into agreements (currently, only contracts) with local governments for the provision of certain services (police, fire, airfield operations) at military installations to be closed under such Acts when determined to be in the best interests of DOD. Subtitle C: Land Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to: (1) Burlington County, New Jersey, all rights and interest to the Fort Dix Resource Recovery Facility; (2) Augusta, Georgia, all rights and interest to several parcels of land containing water and wastewater treatment plants at Fort Gordon, Georgia; and (3) the Southern California Edison Company all rights and interest to the electrical distribution system at Fort Irwin, California. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to sell to a public or private utility company electricity generated from energy production facilities (currently, only from alternate energy or cogeneration production facilities) that are under the jurisdiction of such Secretary. (Sec. 2815) Requires water conservation savings and water costs of DOD to be included within a required DOD energy performance goal for FY 1991 through 2000. (Sec. 2816) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey all rights and interest to the primate research laboratory at Holloman Air Force Base, as well as ownership of certain chimpanzees used in connection with such research, to the Coulston Foundation or another nonprofit entity determined appropriate by the Secretary. Requires the grantee to utilize the laboratory for scientific or medical research and provide adequate care for the chimpanzees. (Sec. 2817) Requires the Secretary to submit annual reports to specified congressional committees with respect to the acquisition of leasehold interests in land for use in special operations activities. (Sec. 2818) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out school facilities activities, including the construction of elementary and secondary schools on military installations, under provisions of Federal law allowing the provision of education by the Federal Government when local educational agencies are unable to provide adequate educational facilities.

Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996

United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Division B (sic): Military Construction Authorizations Title XXI: Army Title XXII: Navy Title XXIII: Air Force Title XXIV: Defense Agencies Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations Title XXVIII: General Provisions Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes Subtitle B: Base Closure and Realignment and Environment Subtitle C: Land Conveyance Subtitle D: Other Matters Division B (sic): Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 - Title XXI: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units, to carry out architectural planning and design activities, and to improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after 1995 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Army. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXII: Navy - Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under the previous title. Title XXIII: Air Force - Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements to construct, acquire, and improve family housing units at or near military installations for the purpose of encouraging private investments, in a specified amount. Authorizes the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units and to carry out certain energy conservation projects. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for fiscal years after 1995 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program and authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1995 for such contributions. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1995 for the Guard and Reserve forces for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities. Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in the preceding titles of this Act on October 1, 1998, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1999, whichever is later, with exceptions. Extends certain FY 1992 and 1993 military construction projects. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to sell military family housing which has deteriorated beyond economical repair, along with the land on which such housing is located. Requires notification to the appropriate congressional committees and a waiting period of 21 days after such notice. Requires sale proceeds to be deposited into military family housing accounts and used for their purposes. (Sec. 2802) Increases from 300 to 450 the number of units of family housing authorized to be leased in foreign countries for U.S. military family housing purposes. (Sec. 2803) Extends permanently the authority of the Secretary to increase the maximum square footage of military family housing units acquired for military personnel of certain pay grades when determined to be cost effective. (Sec. 2804) Authorizes the Secretary of any military department (currently, only the Navy) to enter into limited partnerships with private developers for the construction of military family housing at or near a military installation. Renames the Navy Housing Investment Account (used for partnership purposes) as the Defense Housing Investment Account. Terminates the Navy Housing Investment Board created to oversee such partnerships. Extends through FY 2000 the authority to enter into such partnerships. (Sec. 2805) Provides that certain cost increase limits with respect to military family housing construction projects do not apply to the settlement of a contractor claim. Subtitle B: Base Closure and Realignment and Environment - Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to allow funds in the Defense Environmental Restoration Account to be used in FY 1996 for environmental restoration activities for military installations approved for closure or realignment in 1995 under such Act. (Sec. 2808) Amends the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act as well as the above Act to authorize the Secretary to enter into agreements (currently, only contracts) with local governments for the provision of certain services (police, fire, airfield operations) at military installations to be closed under such Acts when determined to be in the best interests of DOD. (Sec. 2809) Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1990 (CERCLA) to: (1) provide that certain environmental cleanup responsibilities of the United States with respect to Federal facilities transferred under such Act shall not apply to leases; and (2) authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency or the governor of the affected State to defer such responsibilities upon determination that the property is suitable for transfer or upon assurance that releases caused by the United States will be otherwise addressed. Subtitle C: Land Conveyance - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to: (1) Burlington County, New Jersey, all rights and interest to the Fort Dix Resource Recovery Facility; (2) Augusta, Georgia, all rights and interest to several parcels of land containing water and wastewater treatment plants at Fort Gordon, Georgia; and (3) the Southern California Edison Company all rights and interest to the electrical distribution system at Fort Irwin, California. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to sell to a public or private utility company electricity generated from energy production facilities (currently, only from alternate energy or cogeneration production facilities) that are under the jurisdiction of such Secretary. (Sec. 2815) Requires water conservation savings and water costs of DOD to be included within a required DOD energy performance goal for FY 1991 through 2000. (Sec. 2816) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey all rights and interest to the primate research laboratory at Holloman Air Force Base, as well as ownership of certain chimpanzees used in connection with such research, to the Coulston Foundation or another nonprofit entity determined appropriate by the Secretary. Requires the grantee to utilize the laboratory for scientific or medical research and provide adequate care for the chimpanzees. (Sec. 2817) Requires the Secretary to submit annual reports to specified congressional committees with respect to the acquisition of leasehold interests in land for use in special operations activities. (Sec. 2818) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out school facilities activities, including the construction of elementary and secondary schools on military installations, under provisions of Federal law allowing the provision of education by the Federal Government when local educational agencies are unable to provide adequate educational facilities.

Veterans Community-Based Care Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1995

Veterans Community-Based Care Act of 1995 - Extends through December 31, 2000, the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) provide treatment and rehabilitation to veterans for alcohol or drug dependence or abuse; (2) conduct a pilot program for the provision to eligible veterans of noninstitutional alternatives to nursing home care; (3) conduct a pilot program of community-based residential care for homeless chronically mentally ill and other veterans; (4) carry out a compensated work therapy and therapeutic transitional housing demonstration program; and (5) enter into enhanced-use leases of real property under the Secretary's jurisdiction or control.

USA Tax Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Findings; Need to Replace the Income Tax Title II: USA Tax for Individuals Title III: New Business Tax Title IV: Deferred Compensation Plans Title V: Technical and Administrative Changes USA Tax Act of 1995 - Title I: Findings; Need to Replace the Income Tax - States the findings of the Congress regarding the replacement of the current income tax with a new USA Tax and outlines features of the new system. Title II: USA Tax for Individuals - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace the current individual income tax with a new USA Income Tax. Imposes the tax only upon individuals who are U.S. citizens or resident aliens. Excludes from gross income the following: (1) returns or benefits from certain previously taxed income, including social security benefits and insurance (including health plan) amounts; (2) compensation for certain kinds of service, including as a minister, a member of the military, or a foster care provider; (3) certain gratuitous, charitable, and governmental transfers, including public assistance program benefits; (4) state and local bond interest; (5) injury and sickness compensation; (6) certain fringe benefits and other benefits furnished primarily for the convenience of an employer; (7) borrowing proceeds and other receipts the taxpayer is legally obligated to return; (8) certain income and housing costs of citizens and residents abroad; (9) discharges of indebtedness; (10) rollovers of savings on which tax is deferred under this Act and of gain from principal residence sales; (11) certain amounts paid by an employer as savings on behalf of an employee; (12) a business entity's receipts that are taxable under the business tax provisions; and (13) casualty and property insurance proceeds. Reduces gross income by the amount deducted for alimony, child support, and separate maintenance payments and by the Unlimited Savings Allowance established by this Act (Allowance). Allows deductions of the following in computing taxable income: (1) personal and dependency exemptions; (2) a sum known as the Family Living Allowance, to be adjusted for inflation beginning in 1997; (3) interest paid on indebtedness to acquire a principal residence; (4) qualified educational expenses; (5) philanthropic transfers (charitable contributions); and (6) a transition basis amount, calculated using the savings assets that determine the Unlimited Savings Allowance. Sets forth tax rate schedules for married individuals filing joint returns and surviving spouses, heads of households, unmarried individuals, and married individuals filing separate returns. Prescribes rules for the tax treatment of unearned income of a child under the age of 14. Allows the following credits against income tax: (1) the foreign tax credit, with respect only to foreign taxes on amounts included in gross income; (2) a payroll tax credit equal to the sum of the employee's share of basic social security taxes, the Tier 1 railroad retirement tax, and one-half of the social security taxes imposed on self-employment income; (3) an earned income tax credit; and (4) a taxes-paid credit equal to the sum of withholding tax amounts, special refunds of social security taxes, overpayments of prior-year tax obligations applied to the current tax year, and estimated tax payments. Establishes a tax-deferred Unlimited Savings Allowance, comprised of deductible additions to savings (including payments of life insurance premiums and retirement account contributions). Prescribes rules for the treatment of deferred income withdrawn from savings, borrowing, and qualification of additions to the Allowance. Grants each taxpayer a general basis account into which may be withdrawn amounts saved that had been includible in income before the Allowance was made applicable or because the savings were considered nondeductible for certain reasons. Defines the basis of property sold or exchanged and nonrecognition transactions, including sale of a principal residence and involuntary conversions. Excludes from the Allowance contributions to a business entity (business) of personal-use property. Taxes a withdrawal of such property from business use only to the extent of the value of changes or repairs made by the business entity. Treats the rental of real estate (except for property rented not more than 14 days during the taxable year) as a business activity to which the business tax applies and ineligible for deductions other than those owing to savings additions. Excludes from the Allowance contributions to a hobby activity. Provides a rule for the tax treatment of ownership interests in land companies. Makes the taxable year for all individuals, except in cases of birth or death during the year, the calendar year. Requires use of the cash receipts and disbursements method of accounting by all individual taxpayers. Imposes the greater of the following on nonresident aliens: (1) a tax on the nonbusiness income (with exceptions) and capital gains of such aliens; or (2) an alternate tax without exceptions (based on the rate of tax on unmarried individuals) if the alien lost U.S. citizenship within the ten previous years, unless the loss of citizenship was not principally to avoid the income or estate and gift taxes. Provides rules for treatment of community income. States the intention of the Internal Revenue Code (renamed the USA Tax Code by this Act) to promote a worldwide system in which each nation taxes under an individual tax and a business tax, respectively, only the income of individuals who are residents or citizens and only the business activity in such nation. Gives effect to exemptions of nonresident aliens from tax under treaty with the United States and provides reciprocity when a nation with a tax information sharing agreement with the United States exempts a U.S. resident or citizen from its income and withholding taxes. Provides rules for the tax treatment of contributions to and distributions from trusts and estates. Title III: New Business Tax - Replaces the current corporate income tax with a new tax on corporations and businesses. Imposes a business tax on the sale of goods and services in the United States equal to 11 percent of the gross profits of the business entity less a payroll tax credit (a credit for the social security, railroad retirement, and hospital insurance taxes paid by an employer. Defines gross profits as the excess of the business entity's taxable receipts over its deductible amounts. Excludes from taxable receipts, for purposes of calculating gross profits, certain receipts resulting from investments and financial transactions. Makes the following amounts deductible: (1) the cost of business purchases, consisting of amounts expended, including specified production and consumption taxes, for acquisition of property (or its use) and services; (2) a loss carryover for the taxable year; and (3) the sum of allowances for amortization of bases of depreciable property determined ratably beginning January 1, 1996 (the "transition basis deduction"). Provides rules for the treatment of: (1) capital contributions to a business entity by an individual or another business which becomes a partial or full owner; (2) distributions of property by a business to its owners, to a controlling business, or to an individual who contributed personal use property; and (3) consideration received for asset transfers by a business. Treats consideration allocable to savings assets as generally not included in the transferor's taxable receipts and not a business purchase of the purchaser. Allows an election to treat a substantial sale of a business's assets as if it were a stock acquisition having no direct consequences under the business tax. Treats mergers of one business into another or two into a third business or spinoffs, splitoffs, or split-ups or similar transactions as also having no direct business tax consequences. Requires all businesses to use an accrual method of accounting, except that a business that was permitted to use the cash receipts and disbursements method under the Internal Revenue Code and one which has the permission of the Secretary of the Treasury to use such method shall be permitted to do so. Sets forth accounting rules for: (1) determination of taxable year; (2) long-term contract expenses and receipts; and (3) treatment of post-sale price adjustments and refunds and bad debts. Disallows as a business purchase (and thus makes nondeductible) acquisition of unimproved land if the land is not acquired for use in a business activity or is acquired for speculation, development, temporary leasing or other use not commensurate with the land's value, indefinite future business use, or use in compensating employees. Makes the cost of land not used in business its tax basis. Includes as business purchases (thereby making deductible) fees paid for financial intermediation services (including lending, insurance, market making, and other services in which a person acts as an intermediary in property or financial transfers or risk pooling and derives gross receipts from financial flows associated with such transfers) but not costs of financial instruments. Prescribes rules for the treatment and allocation of "implicit" fees for such services. Makes deductible the cost of insurance premiums on business loss policies and includes proceeds from such insurance as taxable receipts. Provides for the taxation of a financial intermediation business by substituting financial receipts (all receipts other than amounts received as contributions to capital) for taxable receipts and including financial expenses as business purchases in the calculation of gross profits. Defines receipts and expenses for such purpose differently in the case of banks, insurance companies, and financial pass-thru entities. Provides rules for the treatment of tax-exempt organizations, including governmental entities, and imposition of the tax on unrelated business activity. Provides rules for the treatment of patronage dividends of supply and marketing cooperatives. Provides rules for determining the source of business income, including that: (1) amounts received for exports of property or services for use or consumption outside the United States shall be excluded from a business's taxable receipts; (2) imports of property or services for use in the United States in a business activity (including sale or retail) shall be treated as a business purchase; (3) communications services shall be treated as provided at the point of origin and not as imported or exported; and (4) insurance services shall be treated as provided at the location of the insurance company when both the services are provided and the risk is located in the United States. Makes payment of any import tax nondeductible. Provides rules for the treatment of receipts from the international transportation of property and passengers. Requires the Secretary to prescribe regulations regarding the location and source of banking services. Treats U.S. possessions as not part of the United States for purposes of the business tax. Prohibits the claiming of a payroll tax credit for payroll taxes paid with respect to income of residents of U.S. possessions. Allows business entities a payroll tax credit equal to the sum of the employer's share of old-age, survivors and disability insurance and hospital insurance and railroad retirement taxes and one-half of the allocable portion of the self-employment tax. Provides rules for the crediting of tax on the income of partnerships and proprietorships and a 15-year carryover of the payroll credit. Imposes a tax on all property entered into the United States for consumption (except property granted a personal exemption under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States) and all services treated as imported. Applies C corporation rules on tax administration to business entities until the Internal Revenue Code procedural and administrative provisions are amended to reflect this Act. Permits individuals engaged in business activities on their own or with their spouses, under rules prescribed by the Secretary, to file business tax returns with their individual returns and subjects such taxpayers to the estimated tax rules for individual returns. Provides rules for the filing of consolidated returns by business entities and financial intermediation businesses. Repeals Internal Revenue Code consolidated return provisions. Title IV: Deferred Compensation Plans - Redesignates Code provisions regarding deferred compensation plans, stating that: (1) they are included in the income tax provisions primarily for purposes of cross reference and determining the exemption of plans from the business tax; and (2) none of the deferred compensation provisions operates to create an individual or business income tax deduction or credit or disqualify an addition to savings under this Act. Title V: Technical and Administrative Changes - Redesignates the Internal Revenue Code as the USA Tax Code. States a rule for the general application of the procedural and administrative provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to the USA Income Tax and the business tax until such provisions are amended to reflect this Act.

Balanced Budget Enforcement Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Balancing the Budget Title II: Technical and Conforming Amendments Balanced Budget Enforcement Act of 1995 - Title I: Balancing the Budget - Part A: Purpose - Repeals parts C (Emergency Powers to Eliminate Deficits in Excess of Maximum Deficit Amount), D (Budgetary Treatment of Social Security Trust Funds), and E (Miscellaneous and Related Provisions) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Part B: The Deficit Elimination Act of 1995 - Sets, for FY 1996 through 2002: (1) deficit reduction targets for direct spending and receipts legislation; and (2) discretionary funding limits, measured in terms of new budget authority. Permits adjustments, whenever appropriate, to discretionary funding limits to reflect the following: (1) changes in concepts; (2) changes in inflation; (3) expiring housing contracts; (4) emergencies; (5) new limits for 2002 and thereafter; and (6) transportation trust funds. Makes provisions: (1) for balancing the budget in 2002; and (2) preventing deficits after 2002. Provides for: (1) a spin-off law, if required, to balance the budget in 2002 and to prevent deficits after 2002; and (2) targeted sequestration if a spin-off law is in effect for a year on the date of the final sequestration report for that year. (Sec. 106) Establishes a scorecard for: (1) FY 1996 through 2002 upon which shall be entered the estimated increase or decrease in the deficit; (2) FY 2003 and thereafter upon which shall be entered the estimated increase or decrease in the deficit or surplus; and (3) years after 1996 upon which shall be entered the amount of discretionary appropriations. (Sec. 109) Provides that the amount to be sequestered: (1) for a budget year in which a spin-off law is not in effect shall be the amount (if any) by which the sum of all budget-year entries on the direct spending and receipts scorecard is greater than zero; and (2) if any, shall be increased whenever the average out-year change in direct spending and receipts, combined, achieved during that budget- year session would result in higher deficits than if that average change had equaled the amount targeted for the budget year, with that budget-year target being the amount that the sequestration preview report for the budget year shows was needed to bring the budget-year entries on the direct spending and receipts scorecard to zero. Provides that: (1) within 15 days after the Congress adjourns to end a session and on the same day as a sequestration, if any, under sec. 110 there shall be a sequestration to reduce the amount of receipts in the current policy baseline sum by the sum of the amounts specified in subsection (1) and (2), unless that sum is less than $500 million; and (2) the amount to be sequestered shall be achieved by reducing each non-exempt direct spending account by the uniform percentage necessary to achieve 80 percent of that sum and increasing receipts to achieve the other 20 percent of that sum through tax sequestration surtaxes as enacted under sec. 113 of this Act. (Sec. 110) Provides for an across-the-board reduction of discretionary programs , if there is a sequestration. (Sec. 111) Describes and lists programs and activities which shall be exempt from sequestration. (Sec. 112) Sets forth general and special sequestration rules, including provisions concerning sequestration and: (1) the non-jobs portion of AFDC; (2) the jobs portion of AFDC; (3) the Child Support Enforcement Program; (4) the Commodity Credit Corporation; (5) the Conservation Reserve Program; (6) extended unemployment compensation; (7) the Federal Employees Health Benefits Fund; (8) the Federal Housing Finance Board; (9) Federal pay; (10) Federal insurance programs; (11) Medicaid; (12) Medicare; (13) the Postal Service Fund; (14) power marketing administration funds and the TVA; and (15) veterans' housing loans. (Sec. 113) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the imposition of tax sequestration surtaxes on individuals and corporations. (Sec. 114) Requires both OMB and CBO to prepare both sequestration preview and final reports. Directs the Board of Estimates (established by sec. 119) to choose one of each of the reports as the official report. Directs the President, on the day that the Board chooses the final sequestration report, to issue an order fully implementing without change all required sequestrations and tax actions. (Sec. 115) Provides for the determination of the current policy baseline and the baseline assuming deficit reduction. (Sec. 117) Establishes in the Treasury a Stabilization Reserve Fund in order to accumulate balances during years of comparative prosperity, which balances may later be used to cover the loss of receipts and the increase in outlays that occur during times of comparative economic distress. (Sec. 118) Provides for the suspension of sequestration procedures: (1) upon the declaration of war; and (2) during periods of low economic growth. Sets forth procedures for the consideration of a low growth joint resolution by the Congress. (Sec. 119) Establishes a Board of Review to report to the President and the Congress concerning the selection of the OMB and CBO sequestration preview and final reports. (Sec. 120) Provides for expedited judicial review in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for any Member of Congress or other individual seeking declaratory judgment and injunctive relief with respect to provisions of this Act. Permits review, by the Supreme Court, of any order of such court issued pursuant to provisions of the previous sentence. Title II: Technical and Conforming Amendments - Sets forth technical and conforming amendments to; (1) the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act of 1974; (2) the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990; (3) the Rules of the House of Representatives and the Standing Rules of the Senate; and (4) other Federal law provisions concerning, among other things, the President's budget and the public debt limit.

National Property Reinsurance Act

United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1995

National Property Reinsurance Act - Amends the National Housing Act to extend program authority for: (1) FAIR plans; (2) riot and civil disorder insurance; (3) market availability review; and (4) actions to recover premiums. Establishes: (1) a national property reinsurance program for underserved areas; and (2) a National Property Reinsurance Fund in the Treasury. Reestablishes, and revises the membership of, the Advisory Board established under the National Housing Act.

Low Income Community Development Tax Credit Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1995

Low Income Community Development Tax Credit Act of 1995 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow, as part of the general business credit, a tax credit (equal to a percentage of its basis) for placing a nonresidential building in service in a distressed area, with a greater credit allowed for a new building than an existing building. Provides for calculation of the basis of such buildings according to the rules governing the low-income housing credit. Defines a distressed area as one in which at least 70 percent of the households have an income that is no more than 80 percent of the area median gross income. Increases the credit with respect to buildings in areas in which income is lower. Treats rehabilitation expenditures, provided they are above a certain threshold, as a separate new building. Imposes an annual State distressed area building credit ceiling.

Veterans Health Improvements Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Women Veterans Health Improvements Title II: Care for Veterans Exposed to Toxic Substances Title III: Readjustment Services Title IV: Services for Mentally Ill Veterans Title V: Construction Planning Title VI: General Health Administration Subtitle A: Health Care Administration Subtitle B: Personnel Administration Subtitle C: Health Care Resource Agreements Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Veterans Health Improvements Act of 1995 - Title I: Women Veterans Health Improvements - Women Veterans Health Improvements Act of 1995 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that each health care facility under the direct jurisdiction of the Department of Veterans Affairs is able to provide in a timely and appropriate manner all authorized health care services to women veterans. Requires the provision of women's health services by direct Department care (rather than by contract or other agreement) when cost effective. Includes women's health services within the medical services authorized to be provided through the Department. Extends through 1998 a reporting requirement under the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992 concerning the Department's provision of women's health care services and research and adds to the information required in such report. (Sec. 104) Prohibits mammograms from being performed at a Department facility unless such facility is accredited for such purpose by a private nonprofit organization designated by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to prescribe mammogram quality assurance and control standards and to perform periodic inspection of Department mammogram equipment and facilities. Requires the Secretary to ensure that mammograms performed for the Department on a contractual basis with a non-Department facility or provider conform to the quality standards for such procedures as prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under the Public Health Service Act. Provides for: (1) a deadline for prescribing the standards; (2) transition provisions; and (3) a standards implementation report from the Secretary to specified congressional committees. (Sec. 105) Amends the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992 to require each coordinator of women's services to serve in such position on a full-time basis. Requires the Secretary to ensure that: (1) sufficient Department funding is provided to allow such coordinators to fully carry out their responsibilities at such facilities; and (2) each coordinator has direct access to the Chief of Staff at their respective facility. (Sec. 106) Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a survey to identify deficiencies relating to women patient privacy in Department medical centers; (2) correct any such deficiencies; and (3) report to the Congress annually through 1997. Title II: Care for Veterans Exposed to Toxic Substances - Extends eligibility for hospital, nursing home, or outpatient medical care through the Department to: (1) a herbicide-exposed veteran if the National Academy of Sciences has, in a report issued under the Agent Orange Act of 1991, made specified determinations regarding an association between exposure to a herbicide agent and the occurrence of the veteran's disease; (2) a radiation-exposed veteran if the Secretary, based on the advice of the Advisory Committee on Environmental Hazards, determines that there is credible evidence of a positive association between exposure to ionizing radiation and the veteran's disease; and (3) a veteran who the Secretary finds may have been exposed to a toxic substance or environmental hazard during service in the Persian Gulf War, for any disability that becomes manifest before October 1, 1996. Provides time limits to the provision of such services. Title III: Readjustment Services - Authorizes the Secretary to furnish counseling in a vet center to assist any veteran who served in combat during World War II or the Korean conflict in overcoming the effects of such combat experience. Requires a report. (Sec. 302) Establishes in the Department the Advisory Committee on Veterans Readjustment Counseling to perform advisory services with respect to veterans' readjustment, taking into special account Vietnam era veterans. Requires reports. Title IV: Services for Mentally Ill Veterans - Authorizes the Secretary to establish at any Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facility a nonprofit corporation to: (1) arrange for therapeutic work for patients of such facility or other Department facilities; and (2) provide a funding mechanism to achieve such purposes. Outlines provisions concerning: (1) the establishment of a board of directors for each corporation; (2) the deposit of excess corporation funds; (3) annual reports by the corporation and the Secretary; (4) a prohibition against the establishment of such corporations after FY 1999; and (5) required recognition of such corporation within four years as a tax-exempt organization under Internal Revenue Service rules. (Sec. 402) Extends through FY 1998 (currently 1995) the Department compensated work therapy and therapeutic transitional housing demonstration program. (Sec. 403) Directs the Secretary to establish in the VHA a Committee on Care of Severely Chronically Mentally Ill Veterans to carry out a continual assessment of the Department's ability to meet the treatment and rehabilitation needs of severely, chronically mentally ill veterans and to provide appropriate advice and recommendations after such assessment. Requires annual reports. (Sec. 404) Directs the Secretary to establish and operate centers for mental illness research, education, and clinical activities (centers). Directs the Secretary to ensure that designated centers are located in diverse geographic areas. Limits to five the total number of centers authorized for designation. Requires the prior appropriation of funds for such purpose. Requires interested facilities to submit written proposals containing specified requirements, including an arrangement by the facility with an accredited medical school, school of psychology, or medical training facility for appropriate research, education, and clinical activities. Requires the official within the VHA responsible for mental health and behavioral sciences matters (official) to establish a peer review panel to assess the scientific and clinical merit of proposals submitted to the Secretary. Requires the Under Secretary for Health to ensure that: (1) at least three centers designated under this section emphasize research into means of improving the quality of care for veterans suffering from mental illness through the development of community-based alternatives to institutional treatment; and (2) information produced through such centers that may be useful for other VHA activities is appropriately disseminated. Requires the official to supervise the operation of the centers and provide for ongoing center evaluations. Authorizes appropriations to the Department for the centers for FY 1997 through 2000. Authorizes the Under Secretary to allocate other Department funds for such purpose. Requires annual reports. Requires at least one center to be so designated by January 1, 1997. (Sec. 405) Authorizes the Secretary to provide to homeless, chronically mentally ill veterans currently eligible for hospital and nursing home care additional care and treatment and rehabilitative services in halfway houses, therapeutic communities, psychiatric residential treatment centers, and other community-based treatment facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to also provide such care and services to: (1) veterans being furnished hospital or nursing home care by the Secretary for a chronic mental illness disability; and (2) veterans with service-connected chronic mental illness disabilities. Requires approval by the Secretary of the quality and effectiveness of a program providing such services through non-Department facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to provide in-kind and other forms of assistance to non-Department facilities providing such care, treatment, and services. Title V: Construction Planning - Directs the Secretary to develop and implement a plan to promote the efficient delivery of health care services and to reduce unnecessary duplication of health care resources. Requires an implementation report. (Sec. 502) Adds additional information to be required in a prospectus sent from the Secretary to specified congressional committees concerning proposed medical facilities to be constructed, leased, or acquired by the Department for the provision of Department medical care and services. (Sec. 503) Requires the Secretary to submit to specified congressional committees a report showing the current Department priorities for proposed major medical construction projects. (Sec. 504) Prohibits the appropriation or obligation of funds for the design of major medical facility projects (projects in excess of $5 million) unless such funds have been specifically authorized by law. Title VI: General Health Administration - Subtitle A: Health Care Administration - Includes within authorized Department medical services overnight lodging in Department facilities when necessary for the provision of services on an outpatient basis. (Sec. 602) Extends through FY 1997 the pilot program for noninstitutional alternatives to nursing home care. Extends similarly certain reporting dates with respect to such program. (Sec. 603) Extends through December 31, 1997, the authority of the Secretary to provide treatment and rehabilitation to veterans for alcohol or drug dependence or abuse disabilities. (Sec. 604) Increases the amounts required to be paid by the Secretary to a State per diem for each veteran receiving domiciliary, nursing home, hospital, or adult day health care. (Sec. 605) Includes the provision of adult day health care within authorized purposes for Department assistance to States for the construction of medical facilities for the care of veterans. Subtitle B: Personnel Administration - Places an additional limitation on authorized Department reductions in the number of full-time equivalent positions in the Department before the end of FY 1999. (Sec. 612) Extends permanently (currently expired as of December 31, 1994) the authority of the Secretary to waive certain reductions in retirement pay for Department registered nurses. (Sec. 613) Authorizes the Secretary to employ in the VHA certain persons in health care positions as the Secretary considers necessary. (Sec. 614) Extends to individuals appointed as employees in the VHA certain Federal provisions (whistleblower laws) providing protection against certain prohibited personnel practices. (Sec. 615) Extends through December 31, 1998, the Department's health professional scholarship program (offering educational scholarships to certain health care students in return for post-graduate service in the VHA). Subtitle C: Health Care Resource Agreements - Repeals a provision of the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992 which terminates at the end of FY 1995 the authority of the Department to expand the availability of health-sharing arrangements between the Department and the Department of Defense. (Sec. 622) Authorizes the director of a Department health care facility located in a State that has established a State health care reform plan to contract with any entity or individual to procure or furnish any health care resource for veterans. Authorizes such director to contract for the procurement of such resources for non-veterans only under specified conditions. Terminates the authority to enter into such contracts at the end of FY 2000. (Sec. 623) Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements with medical schools, health-care facilities, and research centers for the shared use of health care resources for the treatment of veterans. (Currently, the Secretary is authorized to enter into such agreements with such entities for the shared use of specialized medical resources.) Changes the payment method under such agreements from reciprocal reimbursement to one which provides appropriate flexibility to negotiate payment which is in the best interest of the Government. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into such agreements for the furnishing of health care services to non-veterans only in certain limited circumstances. Subtitle D: Miscellaneous - Designates various current veterans' committees and boards as veterans' research advisory committees. Prohibits the Secretary from terminating any such committee unless the Secretary: (1) finds that such committee is no longer needed; and (2) notifies specified congressional committees of such intention at least 120 days prior to such termination. (Sec. 633) Changes from December 1 to April 1 of each fiscal year a reporting date concerning Department admission policies with respect to veterans' hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care. (Sec. 634) Authorizes the Secretary to provide for the operation of child care centers at Department facilities when practicable and in the best interests of the Department. Requires priority to be given, in the provision of such services, to employees of: (1) the Department; (2) other Federal departments and agencies; and (3) schools affiliated with the Department and Department research corporations. Allows the Secretary, after such priorities, to provide such services to members of the public when necessary to assure the financial success of the center. Requires the Secretary to establish reasonable charges for all child care services provided, with conditions. (Sec. 635) Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts for the provision of utilities (including steam and chilled water) to the Audie L. Murphy Memorial Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. Requires available appropriations. (Sec. 636) Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a long-term lease or similar agreement with The Caring Place at Loyola, Inc., a nonprofit organization, to allow such organization to establish on the grounds of the Edward Hines, Jr., Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital, Hines, Illinois, a facility to provide temporary accommodations for family members of severely ill children who are being treated at the Loyola University of Chicago Medical Center and other hospitals.

Insurance Tax Fairness and Small Insurance Company Economic Growth Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1995

Insurance Tax Fairness and Small Insurance Company Economic Growth Act of 1995 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the method for determining the limitation on the deduction of policyholder dividends by mutual life insurance companies. Exempts small life insurance companies from the required capitalization of certain policy acquisition expenses. Expresses the sense of the Congress that revenues resulting from this Act shall be dedicated to the funding of: (1) deficit reduction; (2) tax incentives for the economic growth of small life insurance companies; and (3) programs benefiting the nutrition, early education, housing, and family support of the Nation's children.

Federal Home Loan Bank System Modernization Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1995

Federal Home Loan Bank System Modernization Act of 1995 - Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act (FHLBA) to declare that the mission of the Federal Home Loan Bank System is to: (1) be a profit-making enterprise whose purpose is to support residential mortgage lending (including low- and moderate-income housing), and related community and economic development lending through a program of collateralized advances and other financial services; and (2) facilitate such lending by providing long-term credit and liquidity and other financial services to members of Federal home loan banks (FHLBs). Establishes 12 regional FHLB districts. (Currently, the Federal Housing Finance Board (Board) is required to establish between eight and 12 such districts.) Prescribes guidelines for FHLB mergers. Modifies from annual to periodic the congressional reporting requirements of the Board regarding the safety and soundness of the FHLB system. Alters the makeup of the Board to: (1) reduce its membership from five to three directors; and (2) repeal the statutory mandate that it consist of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and at least one consumer representative. States that two directors constitutes a quorum. Establishes the Office of Finance Corporation (the Corporation) as a federally chartered instrumentality to issue FHLB bonds and debentures. Transfers to the Corporation the functions of the Office of Finance of the FHLBs. Vests Corporation management in a board of directors composed of elected representatives from each FHLB. Treats the Corporation as an FHLB for purposes of any law. Revises the parameters for subscription and retirement of FHLB stock. Revises the procedure for termination of FHLB membership. Reduces from ten years to five years the period of time before a withdrawn member may resume membership. Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act to repeal: (1) the proscription against granting cash advances to savings associations that have failed to acquire or maintain qualified thrift lender status; and (2) the requirement that such associations repay outstanding FHLB advances in a prompt and prudent manner. Revises the FHLB membership guidelines to change membership status from mandatory to voluntary for each Federal savings association. Amends the FHLBA to direct the Finance Board to establish a uniform capital requirement for FHLBs which takes into consideration interest rate risk, credit risk, and all other risks and obligations associated with bank operations. Prescribes bank capital guidelines. Revises the guidelines for: (1) bank management; (2) FHLB annual contributions to the Resolution Funding Corporation; and (3) FHLB contributions to the Affordable Housing Program. Provides that any member which receives a rating of satisfactory or better in its most recent examination in connection with the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 shall be treated as having satisfied specified statutory requirements. Revises incorporation guidelines to: (1) declare the Finance Board custodian of FHLB organizational certificates; and (2) instruct the Finance Board to prohibit FHLBs from providing excessive compensation to employees.

Medicare Mental Health Improvement Act

United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1995

Medicare Mental Health Improvement Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) include under Medicare coverage inpatient hospital services for up to 60 days during a year when furnished primarily for the diagnosis or treatment of mental illness or substance abuse; (2) require patient payment for services rendered beyond such limit; and (3) make such changes effective on January 1, 1996 (with exceptions and transition provisions). (Sec. 3) Includes under Medicare coverage the following "intensive residential services" for up to 120 days in a year: (1) residential detoxification centers; (2) crisis or mental illness residential treatment programs; (3) therapeutic family or group treatment homes; and (4) residential centers for substance abuse treatment. Requires facilities providing such services to be authorized to do so and to meet quality standards imposed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Allows additional days to be taken for intensive residential services from the 60 days permitted for inpatient hospital services (with an actuarial cost limit), requiring at least 15 days to be retained yearly for the latter services. Provides for the determination of payment amounts for intensive residential services. (Sec. 4) Subjects inpatient hospitalization and intensive residential services to the same deductibles and copayment as inpatient hospital services for physical disorders. (Sec. 5) Makes mental health case management services available with no copayment and for an unlimited duration for an adult with serious mental illness, a child with a serious emotional disturbance, or an adult or child with a serious substance abuse disorder. Makes day treatment available for up to 180 days annually for children under 19. Allows additional days for day treatment services for such children to be taken from intensive residential services (with an actuarial cost limit). Authorizes coverage for up to 90 days annually, with a 20 percent copayment requirement, for: (1) partial hospitalization; (2) psychiatric rehabilitation; (3) day treatment for substance abuse and for children under age 19; (4) in-home services; (5) case management; and (6) ambulatory detoxification. Permits non-physician mental health or substance abuse professionals to supervise an individual plan of treatment to the extent permitted under State law. Requires any program furnishing mental health or substance abuse services to be legally authorized under State law or accredited by an organization approved by the Secretary in consultation with the State. Requires such programs to meet standards established by the Secretary for the management of such services.

Middle Class Flexible Savings Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1995

Middle Class Flexible Savings Act of 1995 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $2,000 to $3,000 the maximum deduction allowed to individuals for contributions to individual retirement accounts (IRAs). Increases the income phaseout limits on the deduction for active participants in employer-maintained pension plans. Provides an inflation adjustment for deductible amounts and the phaseout limits beginning after 1995. Allows the full IRA deduction to a spouse who had less than $1,000 of compensation and who has a child under the age of six who is the taxpayer's dependent. Allows distributions from qualified retirement plans without penalty to: (1) pay higher education expenses or business start-up expenditures; (2) pay for certain medical expenses; (3) assist certain unemployed individuals; and (4) purchase first homes. Imposes a minimum tax on certain foreign-owned and foreign corporations.

Providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 660) to amend the Fair Housing Act to modify the exemption from certain familial status discrimination prohibitions granted to housing for older persons.

United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1995

Sets forth the open rule for the consideration of H.R. 660 (housing for the aged familial status discrimination).

Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Reductions in Government Overregulation Subtitle A: The Home Mortgage Process Subtitle B: Amendments to the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 Subtitle C: Payment of Interest Act Title II: Streamlining Government Regulation Subtitle A: Eliminating Unnecessary Regulatory Requirements and Procedures Subtitle B: Eliminating Unnecessary Costs and Paperwork Burdens Subtitle C: Eliminating Unnecessary Reporting Requirements Subtitle D: Regulatory Micromanagement Title III: Regulatory Impact on Cost of Credit and Credit Availability Subtitle A: Lowering Compliance Costs to Promote Credit Availability Subtitle B: Disincentives to Risk-Taking Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Nonsupervisory Reforms Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 - Title I: Reductions in Government Overregulation - Subtitle A: The Home Mortgage Process - Part I: Regulatory Simplification and Uniformity - Amends the Truth in Lending Act (TLA) and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) to require the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Board) to: (1) eliminate, modify, or simplify disclosure requirements if such action results in uniformity with other statutory disclosure requirements relating to credit transactions; and (2) proscribe imposition of any disclosure requirement unless its effect is to eliminate, modify, or simplify any disclosure required under this Act. (Sec. 103) Exempts from TLA disclosure requirements transactions that the Board determines: (1) are not necessary to effectuate its purposes; or (2) do not provide a measurable benefit in the form of useful information or consumer protection. (Sec. 104) Amends RESPA to repeal requirements that: (1) a federally related mortgage lender disclose to a mortgage loan applicant the servicing of any such mortgages the lender has assigned, sold or transferred during the most recent three calendar years; and (2) a lender that does not service federally related loans similarly disclose any intention to assign, sell or transfer such servicing. Repeals the mandate for model disclosure statements. Excises from the definition of "federally related mortgage loan" any loan secured by a subordinate lien on residential real property (thereby removing second mortgages from RESPA requirements). Directs the Board to ensure that regulations pertaining to the business credit exemption from RESPA jurisdiction include all business credit exempted from the TLA. Part II: Clarifications to Reduce Costs and Regulatory Burdens - Amends the TLA to exempt from its disclosure requirements any credit transactions involving consumers with an annual earned income of more than $200,000 or having net assets in excess of $1,000,000 at the time of the transaction. (Sec. 112) Revises disclosure requirements for adjustable rate home mortgages to permit as an alternative to the currently required table illustration, a statement that a monthly payment may increase or decrease significantly due to annual percentage rate increases. Grants creditors the option of disclosing, in any variable interest rate residential mortgage transaction that is not an open end credit plan, either a statement that the monthly payment may change substantially, or an historical example illustrating the effects of interest rate changes implemented according to the loan program. (Sec. 113) Excludes from the determination of the finance charge for any consumer credit transaction fees imposed by third party closing agents (including settlement agents, attorneys, escrow and title companies) that are neither expressly required nor retained by the creditor (thereby exempting such amounts from TLA disclosure requirements). Exempts from the computation of a finance charge, if they are otherwise itemized and disclosed, certain: (1) taxes on security instruments or evidences of indebtedness; and (2) fees for preparation of loan-related documents and attending or conducting settlement. (Sec. 114) Exempts from the right of rescission certain refinancings or consolidations of debt that are secured by a lien on a consumer's principal dwelling. (Sec. 115) Permits finance charge disclosures for certain consumer credit transactions secured by real property or a dwelling to vary within an accuracy tolerance range of $100. Sets guidelines for per diem interest rate disclosures consumer credit transactions. (Sec. 116) Shields a creditor or assignee from liability in connection with disclosures of: (1) certain fees and charges; and (2) finance charges that fall within certain statutory tolerance limits. (Sec. 117) Modifies the guidelines delimiting an obligor's period of rescission to preclude a consumer from asserting rescission in any action after the earlier of: (1) expiration of the three-year period beginning on the transaction consummation date; or (2) the date of the sale of the property securing an extension of credit. (Sec. 118) Modifies assignee liability guidelines to provide that a violation is apparent on the face of the disclosure statement if the disclosure does not use the format required by law. Prescribes guidelines under which the servicer of a consumer obligation arising from a consumer credit transaction shall not be treated as the assignee of such obligation. (Sec. 119) Repeals the bona fide personal financial emergency condition placed upon exercise of the Board's authority to modify or waive rescission rights arising from a consumer credit transaction. Subtitle B: Amendments to the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 - Amends the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (CRA) to prohibit the appropriate Federal regulatory agency, in the course of examining a financial institution, from imposing recordkeeping or reporting requirements that do not have the effect of eliminating, streamlining, or reducing regulatory burdens upon such institution. (Sec. 132) Exempts small-sized banks with total assets under $250 million from CRA jurisdiction. (Sec. 133) Prescribes guidelines under which each appropriate Federal regulatory agency shall: (1) publish its examination schedule; and (2) provide opportunity for community comment. Authorizes the agency to reconsider, upon request, the rating of an institution. (Sec. 134) Defines a "special purpose bank" as one that does not generally accept deposits from the public in amounts less than $100,000, such as a credit card bank or a trust bank. Mandates that, in assessing the record of special purpose banks in meeting community credit needs, the appropriate Federal regulatory agency: (1) take into consideration the nature of the businesses of such banks; and (2) develop standards under which they may be deemed to comply with CRA requirements consistent with the specific nature of such businesses. Requires the agency, in assessing any financial institution, to give positive consideration to investments and loans made by such institutions that provide benefits to distressed communities, regardless of whether or not the communities are located within the service area of the financial institution. Subtitle C: Payment of Interest Act - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 to retitle the Truth in Savings Act as the "Payment of Interest Act". Repeals: (1) the finding of the Congress that uniform disclosure of interest and fees charged on consumer deposit accounts strengthens consumer ability to make informed decisions and verify deposit accounts; and (2) the stated purpose of the Truth in Savings Act requiring clear, uniform disclosure of interest rates payable on deposit accounts and the fees assessable against them. Declares instead that: (1) the Truth in Savings Act created unnecessary paperwork, compliance, and liability burdens for depository institutions without enhancing consumer ability to make informed decisions; and (2) the purpose of the Payment of Interest Act is to repeal unnecessary disclosure requirements while retaining the requirement that interest be paid on the full amount of principal in the account for each day of the stated calculation period at the interest rate disclosed by the depository institution. Repeals: (1) the uniform disclosure requirements for interest rates and fees, including annual percentage yields, minimum account and time requirements, and interest penalties; and (2) the proscription against misleading descriptions of free or no-cost accounts, and misleading or inaccurate advertisements. Repeals current law that a depository institution: (1) maintain and distribute a schedule of fees, interest rates, and account restrictions written in readily understood format for each class of accounts being offered; (2) notify account holders of any changes in the schedule; and (3) clearly and conspicuously disclose with each periodic statement to account holders the annual percentage yield earned, the amount of interest earned, the amount of fees or charges imposed, and the number of days in the reporting period. Repeals civil liability guidelines governing class actions. Modifies depository institution liability regarding: (1) notification and adjustment for errors; and (2) continuing and subsequent depository institution failure to pay interest. Title II: Streamlining Government Regulation - Subtitle A: Eliminating Unnecessary Regulatory Requirements and Procedures - Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (BHCA) to set forth financial and managerial criteria under which an acquisition of shares by a bank holding company, or a merger or consolidation between registered bank holding companies, shall be deemed to be approved. (Current law requires prior Board approval). (Sec. 202) Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) to set forth conditions under which prior approval is not required for any merger, consolidation, asset acquisition, or liabilities assumption, involving only insured depository institutions subsidiaries of the same depository institution holding company. (Sec. 203) Permits any insured depository institution to participate in optional conversion transactions between members of the Bank Insurance Fund and the Savings Association Insurance Fund without the prior written approval of the responsible agency. Repeals: (1) agency guidelines for approval; and (2) the prohibition against transactions which result in the transfer from one Federal deposit insurance fund to the other. Makes the sole criterion for authorization of a conversion transaction without approval that the acquiring, assuming, or resulting depository institution will meet all applicable capital requirements upon consummation of the transaction. (Sec. 204) Amends the Revised Statutes, the Federal Reserve Act (FRA), and the FDIA to delineate conditions under which prior approval is not required for banks under their purview to establish and operate a branch or seasonal agency. (Sec. 205) Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act to remove from its regulatory purview a bank holding company subject to the BHCA. Revises the definition of "savings and loan holding company" to exclude a bank holding company under BHCA jurisdiction. Provides that acquisition of a savings association by a bank holding company under BHCA jurisdiction obviates approval by the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision. (Sec. 206) Amends the Revised Statutes to repeal the aggregate minimum capital requirements imposed upon a national banking association and its branches. (Sec. 207) Amends the Revised Statutes and the FDIA to exclude from the definition of "branch" an automated teller machine or remote service unit (thus exempting those entities from the approval requirements of such Acts). (Sec. 208) Amends the FRA to prescribe regulatory approval guidelines for investments in bank premises by well capitalized and well managed banks. (Sec. 209) Amends the BHCA to repeal the provision that shares transferred by a bank holding company to a transferee under its control are deemed to be under the holding company's control (thus subject to specified approval requirements). (Sec. 210) Amends the FDIA to repeal the requirement that the appropriate Federal banking agency be notified prior to the appointment or addition of a new director or senior executive officer if the affected insured depository institution or depository institution holding company: (1) has been chartered less than two years; or (2) has undergone a change in control within the preceding two years. Retains such prior notice requirement for troubled insured depository institutions or depository institution holding companies only if the agency determines that prior notice is appropriate. Extends from 30 days up to 90 days the period during which, following notice, the agency may disapprove board of directors or senior executive officer appointments by such institutions or companies. (Sec. 211) Amends the Depository Institutions Management Interlocks Act to revise the prohibition on dual service of management officials to raise the asset-size thresholds of the depository institutions or depository holding companies to which the prohibition applies. Authorizes Federal banking regulatory agencies to adjust such thresholds for inflation. Repeals the 20-year exemption from the dual service prohibition for certain grandfathered directors and management officials (thus permitting them to continue their dual service permanently). Repeals the requirement that each appropriate Federal depository institutions regulatory agency: (1) review according to prescribed criteria the petition of a management official to serve in more than one position (interlocking directorate); and (2) determine whether continuation of such dual service produces an anti-competitive effect. Repeals the criteria governing regulatory approval of management interlocks. (Sec. 212) Amends the FRA to exempt from its proscription against preferential terms in credit extensions to executive officers, directors, or principal shareholders (insider lending) any credit extensions made pursuant to a benefit or compensation program widely available to employees of the member bank. Includes such credit extensions in the Board's authority to waive the proscription against such preferential terms for certain executive officers and directors of controlling nonbank affiliates. Repeals the reporting requirement that: (1) an executive officer of a member bank indebted to another bank submit a written report of such debt to the member bank's board of directors; and (2) a member bank include in its statutory condition of report all loans made since its previous report. Amends the FDIA to repeal Federal banking agency authority to require banks to disclose credit extensions made to their executive officers or principal shareholders. Amends the Bank Holding Company Act Amendments of 1970 to repeal the requirement that bank executive officers and stockholders who own more than a ten percent controlling interest report to the bank's board of directors regarding any credit extensions made to them by a bank maintaining a correspondent account. (Sec. 213) Amends the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Act of 1978 to abolish the Appraisal Subcommittee. Amends the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 to transfer the functions of the Appraisal Subcommittee to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council. (Sec. 214) Amends the FDIA to exclude automated teller machines and specified bank branches from the definition of "banking branch" (thus exempting them from Federal bank closure notification requirements). Makes such exemption retroactive to the effective date of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991. (Sec. 215) Amends the International Banking Act of 1978 to replace the Board's authority to order a foreign bank to terminate its branch activities in the United States with authority to recommend to the appropriate Federal or State bank official that such branch's license be terminated. Revises the examination guidelines for foreign banks to: (1) direct the Board to rely upon reports of examinations made by the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and State bank supervisors (currently the Board coordinates such examinations); and (2) subject a foreign bank to the same on-site examination schedules and cost-of-examination assessments as are imposed upon U.S. banks. Modifies procedural guidelines for Board review of foreign bank applications to establish a U.S. presence. Subtitle B: Eliminating Unnecessary Costs and Paperwork Burdens - Amends the FDIA to: (1) expand from 18 months to 24 months the discretionary timeframe for mandatory on-site examinations of certain small-sized depository institutions; and (2) increase from $175 million to $250 million the asset-size ceiling on the meaning of "small depository institution" which Federal banking agencies may in their discretion determine for examination purposes. (Sec. 222) Amends the Right to Financial Privacy Act to require a Government authority to reimburse a financial institution for assembling or providing financial records pertaining to corporate customers. (Sec. 223) Directs the Federal Financial Institutions Examinations Council, and each Federal banking agency represented on it, to review and report to the Congress on Federal banking regulations at least every ten years to identify unnecessary regulatory requirements imposed upon insured depository institutions.Requires the Council or the pertinent banking agency to eliminate unnecessary regulations to the extent appropriate. Subtitle C: Eliminating Unnecessary Reporting Requirements - Amends the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (CRA) to prohibit the imposition upon financial institutions of: (1) recordkeeping requirements that do not result in eliminating, streamlining or reducing regulatory burdens upon the institutions; or (2) loan data collection and reporting requirements. Prohibits public disclosure of loan data by any Federal financial supervisory agency. (Sec. 232) Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act (FHLBA) to exempt financial institutions meeting specified criteria from its community support requirements. (Sec. 233) Amends Federal monetary law to: (1) reduce mandatory identification procedures for monetary transactions; and (2) repeal identification reporting requirements regarding certain financial institution customers of depository institutions. (Sec. 235) Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 to repeal the mandate that: (1) insured depository institutions include information on small businesses and small farm lending in their annual reports of condition; and (2) the Board publish annually information on credit availability to small businesses. (Sec. 236) Amends the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975 to increase from $10 million to $50 million the maximum asset-size of institutions exempt from its purview. Authorizes the Board to exempt from the Act's disclosure requirements institutions whose asset-size is at least $50,000000 if the burden of compliance outweighs the usefulness of the requisite information. Declares that a depository institution shall be deemed to have satisfied the public availability requirements with respect to its mortgage loan transactions if its branch offices provide notice of the availability upon request of such information from the home office. (Sec. 237) Amends FDIA guidelines governing a change in control of insured depository institutions to repeal mandatory reporting by financial institutions (or affiliates) of any loans secured by 25 percent or more of any class of shares of an insured depository institution (stock loans). Subtitle D: Regulatory Micromanagement - Amends the Revised Statutes regarding national banking association director qualifications to extend to all such associations the Comptroller of the Currency's authority to waive citizenship requirements for a minority of the association's directors. Allows the Comptroller to waive State residency requirements. (Sec. 242) Sets a deadline by which each Federal banking agency and the National Credit Union Administration Board must eliminate regulations which require insured depository institutions and credit unions to produce unnecessary internal written policies. (Sec. 243) Amends the FDIA to increase the number of members of the FDIC Board of Directors from five to six. Mandates that one director be appointed from among individuals serving as State bank commissioners or supervisors. Limits such appointment to a single two-year term served without compensation. Limits eligibility to serve as Chairperson or Vice Chairperson of the FDIC Board to residentially appointed directors. Title III: Regulatory Impact on Cost of Credit and Credit Availability - Subtitle A: Lowering Compliance Costs to Promote Credit Availability - Amends FDIA guidelines for improved accountability in financial management to: (1) eliminate the use of an independent public accountant to detect and report violations of law by an insured depository institution or depository institution holding company; (2) alter independent audit committee composition from one composed entirely of outside directors independent of institution management, to one composed of a majority of such independent directors; and (3) require each appropriate Federal banking agency to exempt from the independent audit committee requirement any insured depository institution that has encountered hardships in retaining competent directors on such committee. (Sec. 302) Amends the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and the Fair Housing Act to prohibit an enforcing agency from acquiring or using reports generated by any creditor-conducted review of lending operations to determine compliance with such Acts (thereby encouraging creditors to self-test for compliance with the Acts). (Sec. 303) Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act to revise the exemption from certain non-qualified thrift lender restrictions of specialized savings associations serving transient military personnel to repeal a specified requirement with respect to the association's savings and loan holding company. (Sec. 304) Repeals Federal savings association (association) authority to issue credit cards or engage in credit card operations. Permits an association to deal in credit card loans or education loans without being subject to a percentage-of-assets limitation. Raises from ten percent to 20 percent the percentage-of-assets-limitations ceiling placed upon commercial and agricultural loans offered by an association. Restricts loan amounts exceeding ten percent of an association's total assets to loans made to small businesses. Repeals the five-percent-of-assets loan restriction upon education loans offered by an association. Expands the scope of "qualified thrift lender" to include a domestic building and loan association. Redefines "qualified thrift investment" to cover, as assets includible without limit, educational loans, small business loans, and loans made through credit cards or credit card accounts. Removes the ten-percent-of-assets loan restriction placed upon certain personal, family, household or education loans. (Sec. 305) Amends the FRA, with respect to regulations governing payment system risk or intraday credit, to: (1) require them to include net debit caps appropriate to the credit quality of each Federal Home Loan (FHL) Bank (together with normal fees for daylight overdrafts); or (2) exempt FHL Banks from such regulations. (Sec. 306) Amends the FHLBA to: (1) revise the location requirements for FHL Banks to provide for membership-based-on-convenience; (2) mandate that the FHL Banks contract annually for an annual audit with a single auditor; and (3) preclude the Board from participation in any audit or audit contracting process (other than to establish contract and accounting requirements). (Sec. 308) Amends the BHCA to lift the growth cap restrictions placed upon banks controlled by certain bank holding companies not statutorily treated as bank holding companies. Subtitle B: Disincentives to Risk-Taking - Amends the FDIA and the Federal Credit Union Act to: (1) reinstate the requirement of a showing of irreparable and immediate harm as a prerequisite to attachment of assets and other injunctive relief when the FDIC or the National Credit Union Administration Board acts as conservator or receiver; and (2) confer oversight authority to prohibit removal of assets in cease and desist proceedings if it results in immediate and irreparable harm. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Nonsupervisory Reforms - Amends the TLA to hold a cardholder liable for unauthorized use of a credit card if the liability exceeds $50 and the cardholder fails to timely notify the card issuer of any unauthorized transaction that appears on the account statement. Amends the Electronic Fund Transfer Act to raise from $50 to $500 a cardholder's liability for unauthorized electronic fund transfers if the cardholder substantially contributed to the unauthorized transfer, including writing on or keeping with the card or other means of access a personal identification or other security code.