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Community Improvement Volunteer Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1994

Community Improvement Volunteer Act of 1994 - Provides for waivers of the prevailing-wage-setting requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act with respect to volunteers who perform services under the Library Services and Construction Act, the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, or migrant health centers or community health centers provisions of the Public Health Service Act. Prohibits approval of any expense, benefit, or fee being paid to such volunteers which has the effect of undermining labor standards by creating downward pressure on prevailing wages in the local construction industry. Directs the Secretary of Labor to report to the appropriate congressional committees on such waivers for volunteers on such projects and make recommendations with respect to other Davis-Bacon-related Acts that could be addressed to permit volunteer work.

A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to facilitate the immigration to the United States of certain aliens born in the Philippines or Japan who were fathered by United States citizens.

United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1994

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend preferential immigration treatment to certain children fathered by U.S. citizens and born in the Philippines or Japan.

To prohibit the admission to the United States as refugees individuals who served in the armed forces of Iraq during the Persian Gulf conflict, and to deport any such individuals who have been so admitted.

United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1994

Prohibits the refugee admission into the United States of persons who served in the Iraqi armed forces during the Persian Gulf conflict. Revokes refugee status and provides for deportation of such persons already admitted to the United States.

To designate temporary protected status under the Immigration and Nationality Act for Rwandan students in the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1994

Grants temporary protected status under the Immigration and Nationality Act to qualifying Rwandan students in the United States.

Entschließungsantrag zum Gesetz zur Erleichterung der Einbürgerung und Hinnahme der Doppelstaatsangehörigkeit (G-SIG: 12002060)

Germany · German Bundestag · 27 April 1994

Gesetzliche Regelung zur Gleichstellung von Einwanderern und Flüchtlingen: Einbürgerung nach fünfjährigem Aufenthalt, bei Eheschließung mit einem deutschen Staatsbürger nach einem Jahr, Wiedereinbürgerung auf Antrag bei Eheschließungen mit einem Ausländer vor 1953, Erwerb der deutschen Staatsbürgerschaft durch eheliche Kinder ausländischer Eltern und nicht-eheliche Kinder einer ausländischen Mutter bei der Geburt

Labor Law Enforcement Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1994

Labor Law Enforcement Act of 1994 - Increases, within the Wage and Hour Division of the Employment Standards Administration of the Department of Labor, the number of full-time positions assigned to investigate violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Amends the Service Contract Act to make applicable to contracts subject to liability for specified violations certain enforcement provisions of Federal law and regulations of the Secretary of Labor under the Copeland Act. Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase damages for violations of information and recordkeeping requirements. Amends the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act to increase damages for violations of information and recordkeeping requirements.

... Gesetz zur Änderung des Ausländergesetzes (G-SIG: 12020829)

Germany · German Bundestag · 21 April 1994

<b>Bezug:</b> Siehe auch B48 und B109 <br><br><b>Inhalt:</b> Übernahme der Hälfte der Kosten der Aufnahme von Kriegs- und Bürgerkriegsflüchtlingen durch den Bund; Änderung § 32a Abs. 1 Ausländergesetz. Bund und Ländern entstehen Kosten in nicht quantifizierbarer Höhe. <br><br><b>Nebenschlagwörter:</b> Finanzhilfe/Kostenbeteiligung des Bundes bei der Aufnahme von Bürgerkriegsflüchtlingen * Flüchtling/Kostenbeteiligung des Bundes bei der Aufnahme von Bürgerkriegsflüchtlingen

... Gesetz zur Änderung des Ausländergesetzes (G-SIG: 13020007)

Germany · German Bundestag · 21 April 1994

<b>Bezug:</b> Wiedervorlage des bereits in der 12.WP eingebrachten Gesetzentwurfs (s. GESTA 12.WP 2b-B98) Siehe auch B010, B018 und B070 <br><br><b>Inhalt:</b> Übernahme der Hälfte der Kosten der Aufnahme von Kriegs- und Bürgerkriegsflüchtlingen durch den Bund; Änderung § 32a Abs. 1 Ausländergesetz. Bund und Ländern entstehen Kosten in nicht quantifizierbarer Höhe. <br><br><b>Nebenschlagwörter:</b> Flüchtling/Kostenbeteiligung des Bundes bei der Aufnahme von Bürgerkriegsflüchtlingen

9 Mrs. Owen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will lobby the United States Congress to ensure the passage of Congressman McCloskey's amendment to the Technical Corrections Bill (Immigration and Nationality Act) HR 783 which will result in the waiving of visa requirements for all EU countries including Ireland for visits of 90 days or less.

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 April 1994

9 Mrs. Owen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will lobby the United States Congress to ensure the passage of Congressman McCloskey's amendment to the Technical Corrections Bill (Immigration and Nationality Act) HR 783 which will result in the waiving of visa requirements for all EU countries including Ireland for visits of 90 days or less.

To express United States policy regarding the restoration of democratic constitutional government in Haiti, to grant temporary protected status to Haitians until such a government is restored, and to terminate the migrant interdiction agreement between the United States and Haiti.

United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1994

States that it shall be U.S. policy to: (1) favor the return and reinstatement of President Aristide of Haiti; (2) extend humanitarian assistance to fleeing Haitians; and (3) cease their forcible return to Haiti. Grants temporary protected status under the Immigration and Nationality Act to qualifying Haitians. Directs the President to terminate the bilateral migrant interdiction agreement with Haiti.

Human Services Amendments of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1994

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Head Start Programs Title II: Community Services Block Grant Amendments Title III: Low-Income Home Energy and Assistance Amendments Title IV: Community-Based Family Resource Programs Title I: Head Start Programs - Head Start Act Amendments of 1994 - Amends the Head Start Act to reauthorize and revise its provisions. (Sec. 103) Includes parental involvement among Head Start program services. (Sec. 104) Extends the authorization of appropriations to carry out such Act and its Head Start program. Reserves specified amounts for a longitudinal study of Head Start participants, the Head Start Transition Project Act, and transition coordination with schools and parent involvement activities. (Sec. 105) Allocates at least 25 percent of certain excess funds to specified quality improvement activities. Includes, under discretionary payments, payments for the costs of reviewing Head Start agencies and programs and of developing and implementing quality improvement plans. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) (the Secretary) to make collaboration grants, from certain reserved funds, to States to facilitate collaboration between Head Start activities and other activities targeted to low-income children and families. Directs the Secretary to take certain factors into consideration in allocating funds for program expansion. Provides for flexibility in satisfying the requirement that a certain number of hours be provided to children in Head Start programs. Requires migrant Head Start programs to give priority to eligible children of migrant families whose work requires them to relocate most frequently. (Sec. 106) Repeals outdated provisions for a comprehensive report to the Congress. (Sec. 107) Revises provisions for designation of Head Start agencies to provide that those on Indian reservations include members of Indian tribes living near the reservation. Revises conditions for giving priority in designations. Revises parental involvement considerations with respect to designation of new Head Start agencies. Requires agencies to offer family literacy services and parenting skills training to parents of participating children. Allows agencies also to opt to offer such parents social self-sufficiency training, substance abuse counseling, or other partnership in education activities. Requires a family needs assessment, including consultation with the parents, for each participating family. (Sec. 108) Requires the Secretary to establish quality standards for Head Start agencies and programs, including standards for performance in providing required health, education, parental involvement, nutritional, social, and other services, for administrative and financial management, and for facilities' condition and location. Provides for monitoring and for corrective actions or terminations if minimum standards are not met. (Sec. 109) Requires each Head Start agency to coordinate with schools and promote parental involvement to facilitate children's transition from program to school. Directs the Secretaries of HHS and of Education to assess results of demonstration projects under the Head Start Transition Project Act and provide technical assistance to communities to implement promising practices from those demonstrations. (Sec. 110) Authorizes the Secretary to use certain reserved funds to purchase facilties owned by Indian tribes and make necessary capital expenditure to provide suitable Head Start facilities for such tribes. Provides for personnel preferences for and recruitment of Indian tribe members for the American Indian Programs Branch of the Head Start Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families. (Sec. 111) Revises participation provisions. Allows Indian tribes to enroll additional children who do not meet low-income criteria if the Head Start program predominantly serves children who do meet such criteria. (Sec. 112) Establishes programs for families with infants and toddlers. Directs the Secretary to make grants for: (1) programs providing family-centered services for low-income families with very young children, designed to promote child development, parental role fulfillment, and movement toward self-sufficiency; and (2) evaluation of, and training and technical assistance for, projects under the Comprehensive Child Development Act. Gives time-limited priority to certain entities, including Parent-Child Centers receiving assistance under the Head Start Act and programs receiving assistance under the Comprehensive Child Development Act, and provides for selection of other grant recipients. (Repeals the Comprehensive Child Development Centers Act of 1988 and the Comprehensive Child Development Act because their functions are being consolidated under the Head Start Act.) (Sec. 113) Provides for mediation of disputes with delegate agencies to avoid the need for administrative hearing. Eliminates a provision freezing regulations. Provides that terminations, reductions, or suspensions of financial assistance upheld in administrative hearings shall not be stayed pending any judicial appeal. (Sec. 114) Sets forth goals and priorities for training and technical assistance. (Sec. 115) Revises classroom teacher qualifications and waiver requirements. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide technical assistance and training to enable Head Start agencies to establish positions for mentor teachers; and (2) review and revise standards for family service workers, and promote model curricula and credentials for such workers. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a program of Head Start Fellowships for staff in local Head Start programs and other individuals working in the field of child development and family services. Provides for placement in appropriate settings. Directs the Secretary to develop model staffing pattern plans to guide local Head Start agencies and programs. (Sec. 116) Directs the Secretary to carry out a continuing program of research, demonstrations, and evaluations of Head Start programs, including longitudinal studies, and to report on such activities. (Sec. 117) Repeals provisions for certain announcements, a longitudinal study, and poverty line criteria (a definition of which is added elsewhere). Revises provisions on reports, adding a study of availability and delivery of Head Start programs to Indian children living on or near reservations and children of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. (Sec. 120) Directs the Secretary to consult with the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service regarding the dissemination of information on the Corporation's programs to Head Start programs. (Sec. 121) Directs the Secretary to study, and report to the appropriate congressional committees on, benefits available to Head Start employees. (Sec. 122) Amends the State Dependent Care Development Grants Act to extend the authorization of appropriations. (Sec. 123) Amends the Child Development Associate Scholarship Assistance Act of 1985 to extend the authorization of appropriations. Title II: Community Services Block Grant Amendments - Community Services Block Grant Amendments of 1994 - Amends the Community Services Block Grant Act to extend the authorization of appropriations to carry out such Act and its community services block grant program. (Sec. 202) Reserves certain funds for training, technical assistance, planning, and evaluation. Revises provisions for applications and requirements, community action agency plans, public inspections of plans, audits, and evaluations involving waivers. (Sec. 203) Authorizes the Secretary of HHS to provide grants for a Community Initiatives Program for community and economic development of economically distressed areas and rural areas. (Sec. 204) Extends the authorization of appropriations for community food and nutrition programs. (Sec. 205) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to service providers to administer national or regional programs to provide instructional activities for low-income youth. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 206) Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the emergency community services homeless grant program. (Sec. 207) Amends the Human Services Reauthorization Act of 1986 to revise providions and extend the authorization of appropriations for demonstration partnership agreements addressing the needs of the poor. Authorizes the Secretary also to make competitive grants to community action agencies to demonstrate new approaches to dealing with the problems associated with urban gangs or similar antisocial activities of urban youth. Title III: Low-Income Home Energy and Assistance Amendments - Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Amendments of 1994 - Amends the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to extend the authorization of appropriations for: (1) such Act and its low-income home energy assistance program (LIHEAP); and (2) the incentive program for leveraging non-Federal resources. (Sec. 304) Authorizes appropriations for additional payments to meet the additional home energy assistance needs of one or more States arising from a natural disaster or other emergency. Designates such funds as emergency requirements, but makes them available only after submission of a formal budget request by the President. Set forth considerations for allotment of such emergency funds by the Secretary of HHS. (Sec. 305) Provides that LIHEAP funds may be used for: (1) outreach activities and assistance to low-income households in meeting their home energy costs, particularly if such costs are a high proportion of household income; (2) intervention in energy crisis situations; (3) low-cost residential weatherization and other cost-effective energy-related home repair; and (4) State program planning, development, and administration, including leveraging programs. Exempts from certain limitations on use of program funds services that encourage and enable households to reduce their home energy needs. (Sec. 306) Authorizes States to give priority to households with the highest home energy costs or needs in relation to household income. Requires State plans to describe additional steps to target assistance to households with high home energy burdens. (Sec. 307) Revises audit requirements and matters to be described in annual applications. Provides for use of Department of Energy weatherization rules to achieve program consistency. Requires reports on any amount of a State's allotment that will not be obligated for the fiscal year. Lowers the maximum amount that the Secretary may reserve for technical assistance and training. (Sec. 312) Expresses the sense of the Congress that LIHEAP maintenance should be a higher priority, all FY 1995 appropriations for LIHEAP should be expended, and LIHEAP expenditures for FY 1996 should ensure provision of services at or above the FY 1995 level. Title IV: Community-Based Family Resource Programs - Amends the Claude Pepper Young Americans Act of 1990 to change the Family Resource and Support Program to Community-Based Family Resource Programs. Directs the Commissioner on Children, Youth, and Families (in the Department of HHS) to make formula grants to States for: (1) statewide networks of community-based family resource programs; (2) promoting child abuse and neglect prevention activities; (3) promoting State trust funds or other mechanisms for integrating child and family services funding streams; (4) community-based collaboration to develop a continuum of preventive services for children and families; and (5) encouraging public and private partnerships in family resource programs. Revises provisions for grant eligibility, amounts, State applications, and local program requirements. Provides that a State which has an existing grant under the Family Resource and Support Program or the Temporary Child Care and Crisis Nurseries Program shall continue to receive such funds through the end of the grant cycle. Extends the authorization of appropriations for State coordination of services for children, youth, and families. (Does not extend such authorization of appropriations for the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families or for supportive services.) Authorizes appropriations for Community-Based Family Resource Programs. Repeals: (1) community-based child abuse and neglect prevention grants and emergency child abuse prevention services grants under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment act; and (2) the Temporary Child Care for Children with Disabilities and Crisis Nurseries Act of 1986. (Sec.402) Extends the authorization of appropriations and the termination date for the Federal Council on Children, Youth, and Families. Adds to Council duties. (Sec. 403) Extends the authorization of appropriations for the National Center on Family Resource and Support Programs and for evaluation of family resource and support programs.

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the land border inspection fee program for the California southern border of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1994

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend: (1) the land border inspection fee program for the California southern border of the United States; and (2) the related quarterly reporting requirement.

Haitian Adjustment Equity Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1994

Haitian Adjustment Equity Act of 1994 - Amends Federal law to extend specified Cuban adjustment provisions to Haitians. Directs the Attorney General to report on any disparate immigration-related treatment between Haitians and Cubans.

Opinion of Mr Advocate General Jacobs delivered on 14 April 1994. # Lio Bettaccini v Fonds National de Retraite des Ouvriers Mineurs. # Reference for a preliminary ruling: Tribunal du travail de Mons - Belgium. # Social security for migrant workers - Increase in invalidity pension - Application of national rules against overlapping of benefits. # Case C-301/93.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 14 April 1994

Opinion of Mr Advocate General Lenz delivered on 14 April 1994. # Deutsche Angestellten-Krankenkasse v Lærerstandens Brandforsikring G/S. # Reference for a preliminary ruling: Østre Landsret - Denmark. # Social security for migrant workers - Rights of institutions responsible for benefits against liable third parties - Article 93 (1) of Regulation (EEC) Nº 1408/71. # Case C-428/92.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 14 April 1994

For the relief of William P. Van Keymeulen.

United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1994

Waives certain naturalization requirements under the Immigration and Nationality Act with regard to a named individual.

Ausländerfeindliche und rechtsextremistische Ausschreitungen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Monat März 1994 (G-SIG: 12012039)

Germany · German Bundestag · 13 April 1994

Anzahl der Ermittlungsverfahren, U-Haft, Verurteilungen, verletzte bzw. getötete Personen

Zusammenhang zwischen dem Kurdenproblem in der Türkei und dem Kurdenproblem in Deutschland (G-SIG: 12012043)

Germany · German Bundestag · 13 April 1994

Gravierende Menschenrechtsverletzungen gegenüber Kurden in der Türkei, Autobahnblockaden und Gewalttätigkeiten von Kurden in Deutschland, menschenrechtspolitische Einflußnahme der Bundesregierung auf die türkische Regierung, Lieferung von Kriegsgerät an die Türkei und Vereinbarungen über den Einsatz, friedliche Lösung des Kurdenproblems

Entschließungsantrag zur Abgabe einer Erklärung der Bundesregierung betr. Bericht der Bundesregierung zu den deutsch-türkischen Beziehungen (G-SIG: 12002026)

Germany · German Bundestag · 13 April 1994

Keine Abschiebung gewalttätiger Kurden mit türkischer Staatsangehörigkeit, keine Verhandlungen mit der Türkei über einen Abschiebevertrag, Abschiebestopp für kurdische Flüchtlinge

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize appropriations for refugee and entrant assistance for fiscal years 1995 and 1996.

United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1994

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize FY 1995 and 1996 appropriations for refugee and entrant assistance.

Health Centers Reauthorization Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1994

Health Centers Reauthorization Act of 1994 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize migrant, community, and homeless health center programs, and health services programs for residents of public housing.

Immigration Enforcement Reform Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1994

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Labor Exploitation Task Force Title II: Citizenship Promotion Title III: Immigration Enforcement Practices Immigration Enforcement Reform Act of 1994 - Title I: Labor Exploitation Task Force - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish within the Employment Standards Administration the Labor Exploitation Task Force. Title II: Citizenship Promotion - Establishes within the Department of Justice a Citizenship Promotion Bureau to assist in the rapid naturalization of eligible immigrants. Transfers citizenship and naturalization functions and personnel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to such Bureau. Authorizes the establishment of a national citizenship advisory board. Establishes in the Treasury a Naturalization Fee Account. Redesignates the INS as the Immigration Service. Title III: Immigration Enforcement Practices - Establishes in the Department of Justice the Office of Immigration Enforcement Complaints. Authorizes appropriations.

REPORT ON THE EDUCATION OF MIGRANTS' CHILDREN IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

European Union · European Commission · 25 March 1994

To require the Attorney General and the Secretary of State to designate Ireland as a pilot program country for purposes of the visa waiver pilot program.

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994

Includes Ireland in the visa waiver pilot program under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 24 March 1994.#Guido Van Poucke v Rijksinstituut voor de Sociale Verzekeringen der Zelfstandigen and Algemene Sociale Kas voor Zelfstandigen.#Reference for a preliminary ruling: Arbeidshof Gent - Belgium.#Social security for migrant workers - Determination of the legislation applicable.#Case C-71/93.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 24 March 1994

Governors Island Reinforcement Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1994

Governors Island Reinforcement Act of 1994 - Sets forth trade, assistance, and air transport sanctions against Haiti, and against other nations not cooperating with U.S. or international sanctions. Terminates such sanctions upon the reinstatement of the democratically elected President of Haiti and the military's meeting its obligation under the Governors Island Agreement. States congressional support for: (1) the return of human rights observers to Haiti; (2) the creation of a multinational border patrol between Haiti and the Dominican Republic; and (3) socioeconomic and peacekeeping assistance to Haiti. Directs the President to terminate the bilateral migrant interdiction agreement with Haiti. Provides for the nonrefoulement of Haitians by the United States. Grants temporary protected status under the Immigration and Nationality Act to qualifying Haitians. Excludes from U.S. admission, and blocks U.S. assets of, certain Haitians connected with the military or related activities.

Criminal Alien Deportation and Native Country Confinement Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1994

Criminal Alien Deportation and Native Country Confinement Act of 1994 - Requires the Federal Government to incarcerate, or to reimburse State and local governments for the cost of incarcerating, specified criminal aliens. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the expedited deportation or exclusion of convicted criminal aliens. Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to prisoner transfer and in-country incarceration agreements.

For the relief of Jacques H. Mims.

United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1994

Waives a specified requirement under the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow a named individual, if otherwise qualified, to be eligible for naturalization.

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal years 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1994

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Levels and Amounts Title II: Budgetary Procedures Title III: Sense of Congress Provisions Title I: Levels and Amounts - Establishes the budget for FY 1995 and sets forth appropriate budgetary levels for FY 1996 through 1999. (Sec. 2) Sets forth recommended budgetary levels of Federal revenues, new budget authority, budget outlays, deficits, public debt, and credit activity. (Sec. 3) Sets forth the increase in the public debt subject to limitation. Displays Federal retirement trust fund balances. Sets forth Social Security trust fund revenues and outlays for Senate enforcement purposes. (Sec. 6) Sets forth funding levels for each major functional category. Title II: Budgetary Procedures - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Government should sell assets from time to time; and (2) the amounts realized from such sales will not recur on an annual basis and do not reduce the demand for credit. (Sec. 22) Limits the levels of social security outlays and revenues for this resolution to the current services levels. (Sec 23) Establishes Senate enforcement procedures to continue pay-as-you-go enforcement procedures through FY 2003. (Sec. 24) Allows budget authority and outlay allocations for legislation that increases funding for certain purposes when legislation has been reported that will not, if enacted, increase the deficit for FY 1995 through 1999. Describes such purposes as funding: (1) to improve the well-being of families through welfare or other reforms, to provide for services to support or protect children, or to improve the health, nutrition or care of children; (2) to provide comprehensive training or job search assistance or to reform unemployment compensation; (3) to make continuing improvements in ongoing health care programs and comprehensive health care reform; (4) to preserve and rebuild the United States maritime industry; (5) to reform the financing of Federal elections; (6) to implement trade-related legislation; (7) for reforms relating to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (8) to provide for simplified collection of employment taxes on domestic services; (9) to reform the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980; (10) to consolidate the supervision of depository institutions insured under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act; and (11) to preserve United States energy security. (Sec. 25) Establishes Senate enforcement procedures to extend the system of discretionary spending limits to budget resolutions for FY 1996 through 1998 and enforce pay-as-you-go spending. Title III: Sense of Congress Provisions - Expresses the sense of the Senate with respect to budgetary accounting of health care reform, reimbursing State and local governments for illegal immigration costs, using Blue Chip projections for economic assumptions, and the cost to State and local governments of unfunded Federal mandates.

Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1994

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Victims of Crime Subtitle A: Victims of Crime Subtitle B: Crime Victims' Fund Subtitle C: Report on Battered Women's Syndrome Title II: Applicability of Mandatory Minimum Penalties in Certain Cases Title III: Assaults Against Children Title IV: Consumer Protection Title V: Mandatory Life Imprisonment for Persons Convicted of Certain Felonies Title VI: Violent Repeat Offender Incarceration Title VII: Death Penalty Title VIII: Habeas Corpus Reform Title IX: Racially Discriminatory Capital Sentencing Title X: Crime Prevention and Community Justice Subtitle A: Model Intensive Grant Programs Subtitle B: Ounce of Prevention Grant Programs Subtitle C: Police Partnerships for Children Subtitle D: Midnight Sports Subtitle E: Drug Courts Subtitle F: Assistance for Delinquent and At-Risk Youth Subtitle G: Police Recruitment Subtitle H: National Triad Program Subtitle I: Local Partnership Act Subtitle J: Employment and Skills Crime Prevention Subtitle K: Miscellaneous Title XI: Youth Violence Title XII: Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Act of 1994 Title XIII: Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children Registration Act Title XIV: Community Policing Title XV: DNA Identification Title XVI: Violence Against Women Subtitle A: Safe Streets for Women Subtitle B: Safe Homes for Women Subtitle C: Domestic Violence Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Provisions Subtitle E: Equal Justice for Women in the Courts Title XVII: Hate Crimes Sentencing Enhancement Title XVIII: Use of Formula Grants to Prosecute Persons Driving While Intoxicated Title XIX: Youth Handgun Safety Title XX: Substance Abuse Treatment in Federal Prisons Title XXI: Alternative Punishments for Young Offenders Title XXII: Juvenile Drug Trafficking and Gang Prevention Grants Title XXIII: Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 - Title I: Victims of Crime - Subtitle A: Victims of Crime - Amends Rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to give victims of violent crimes and sexual abuse the right to address the court concerning the sentence to be imposed on convicted offenders. Permits such right to be exercised by a parent or guardian if the victim is under 18, or by one or more family members if the victim is deceased or incapacitated. Subtitle B: Crime Victims' Fund - Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to revise the formula for allocation of sums in the Crime Victims Fund for costs and grants. Requires the retention of any portion of the Fund that was deposited during a fiscal year that is in excess of 110 percent of the total amount deposited in the Fund during the preceding fiscal year as a reserve for use in a year in which the Fund falls below the amount available in the previous year. Limits such reserve to $20,000,000. Allows any sums awarded as part of a grant that remains unspent at the end of a fiscal year in which the grant is made to be expended for grant purposes at any time during the succeeding two fiscal years, at the end of which year any remaining unobligated funds shall be returned to the Fund. (Sec. 112) Provides that if the compensation paid by an eligible crime victim compensation program would cover costs that a Federal, or a federally financed State or local, program would otherwise pay: (1) such victim compensation program shall not pay such compensation; and (2) the other program shall make its payments without regard to the existence of the crime victim compensation program. (Sec. 113) Limits to five percent of: (1) a grant the amount that may be used for the administration of the State crime victim compensation program receiving the grant; and (2) sums received for the State crime victim assistance program for the administration of such program. (Sec. 114) Authorizes grants for demonstration projects. (Sec. 116) Requires each entity receiving sums made available under the Act for administrative purposes to certify that such sums will not be used to supplant State or local funds, but to increase the amount of such funds that would, in the absence of Federal funds, be made available for such purposes. Subtitle C: Report on Battered Women's Syndrome - Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to specified congressional committees on the medical and psychological basis of "battered women's syndrome" and the extent to which evidence of the syndrome has been considered in a criminal trial. Title II: Applicability of Mandatory Minimum Penalties in Certain Cases - Amends the Federal criminal code to require the court, with respect to specified drug-related offenses, to impose a sentence pursuant to U.S. Sentencing Commission guidelines, without regard to any statutory minimum sentence, if the court finds at sentencing that: (1) the defendant does not have more than one criminal history point under the Commission's Guidelines Manual; (2) the defendant did not use violence or credible threats of violence, or possess a firearm or other dangerous weapon (or induce another participant to do so), in connection with the offense; (3) the offense did not result in death or serious bodily injury to any person; (4) the defendant was not an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of others (as determined under the Manual) in the offense; and (5) no later than the time of the sentencing hearing, the defendant has provided to the Government all information the defendant has concerning the offense or offenses that were part of the same course of conduct or of a common scheme or plan (without regard to whether the defendant has relevant or useful information). Authorizes the Commission to: (1) make such amendments as deemed necessary to harmonize the sentencing guidelines and policy statements with, and the amendment made by, such provisions; and (2) promulgate policy statements to assist in the application of such provisions and such amendment. (Sec. 202) Directs the Commission to promulgate or amend existing sentencing guidelines with respect to cases where statutory minimum sentences would apply but for such provisions to carry out the purposes of such provisions, so that the lowest sentence in the guideline range is not less than two years in those cases where a five-year minimum would otherwise apply. (Sec. 203) Specifies that, with respect to a prisoner the court determines has demonstrated good behavior while in prison, the changes in sentencing made as a result of this Act shall be deemed to be changes in the sentencing ranges by the Commission pursuant to provisions of the Federal judicial code regarding revision of the sentencing guidelines. Title III: Assaults Against Children - Increases penalties for simple assault. Sets penalties for assault resulting in substantial bodily injury. Removes dollar limitations on various types of assaults. Includes assaults against individuals under age 16 committed in Indian country among offenses which are subject to the same law and penalties as all other persons committing such offenses within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States. Title IV: Consumer Protection - Sets penalties for insurance industry crimes, including embezzling from insurance companies, making false entries in insurance company books with intent to deceive, and corruptly influencing or obstructing proceedings before State insurance regulatory agencies or insurance examiners. Prohibits persons convicted of criminal felonies involving dishonesty or breach of trust from engaging in the insurance business without the written consent of an insurance regulatory official authorized to regulate the insurer. Title V: Mandatory Life Imprisonment for Persons Convicted of Certain Felonies - Requires that a person convicted in a court of the United States of a serious violent felony be sentenced to life imprisonment if: (1) the person has been convicted (and those convictions have become final) on two or more prior occasions in a court of the United States or of a State of a serious violent felony, or of one or more serious violent felonies and one or more serious drug offenses; and (2) each serious violent felony or serious drug offense used as a basis for sentencing under such provision, other than the first, was committed after the defendant's conviction of the preceding serious violent felony or serious drug offense. (Sec. 502) Limits the authority of a court to modify an imposed term of imprisonment to include a requirement that the defendant be at least age 70 and have served at least 30 years in prison for the offense or offenses for which the defendant is currently imprisoned, and that a determination has been made by the Director of the Bureau of Prisons that the defendant is not a danger to the safety of any other person or the community. Title VI: Violent Repeat Offender Incarceration - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to individual States and to States organized as multi-State compacts to develop, expand, modify, or improve correctional facilities and programs to ensure that prison cell space is available for the confinement of violent repeat offenders. Sets forth provisions regarding State eligibility and matching requirements, technical assistance and training, and evaluation. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII: Death Penalty - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide for the imposition of the death penalty for specified drug-related offenses committed as part of a continuing criminal enterprise, and where a defendant has been found guilty of treason or espionage, or of specified other offenses involving the intentional: (1) killing of the victim; (2) infliction of serious bodily injury resulting in death; (3) participation in an act contemplating that the life of a person would be taken or intending that lethal force would be used and the victim died as a direct result; or (4) specifically engaging in an act of violence, knowing that the act created a grave risk of death, that constituted a reckless disregard for human life and the victim died as a direct result of the Act. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) mitigating and aggravating factors to be considered in determining whether a sentence of death is justified; (2) the conduct of a special hearing to make such determination; (3) procedures for the imposition, review, and implementation of such sentence; (4) use of State facilities to carry out such sentence; and (5) special provisions for Indian country. (Sec. 703) Authorizes the death penalty for various offenses, including, where death results: (1) hostage taking; (2) murder for hire; (3) racketeering; (4) genocide; (5) carjacking; (6) rape and child molestation murders; (7) sexual exploitation of children; (8) homicides involving firearms in Federal facilities; (9) murder of Federal witnesses; (10) foreign murder of U.S. nationals; (11) civil rights murders; (12) murder by a Federal prisoner, or by escaped prisoners; (13) drive-by shootings; (14) gun murders during Federal crimes of violence and drug trafficking crimes; (15) murder of State or local officials assisting Federal law enforcement officials and State correctional officers; (16) use of weapons of mass destruction; (17) violence at international airports; (18) violence against maritime navigation or fixed platforms; (19) torture; and (20) genocide. (Sec. 715) Makes an exception to the requirement that the court furnish to a defendant a list of the veniremen and witnesses if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that providing the list may jeopardize the life or safety of any person. Title VIII: Habeas Corpus Reform - Amends the Federal judicial code to impose a one-year period for the filing of Federal habeas corpus petitions for applicants under sentence of death, beginning after the date of: (1) denial of a writ of certiorari, if a petition for such writ to the highest court of the State on direct appeal or unitary review of the conviction and sentence is filed, within the time limits established by law, in the Supreme Court; (2) issuance of the mandate of the highest court of the State on direct appeal or unitary review of the conviction and sentence, if a petition for a writ of certiorari is not filed within such time limits in such Court; or (3) issuance of the mandate of the Supreme Court, if on a petition for a writ of certiorari the Supreme Court grants the writ and disposes of the case in a manner that leaves the capital sentence undisturbed. Tolls such time limits during: (1) any period in which the State has failed to provide counsel as required by this Act; (2) the period from the date the applicant files an application for State postconviction relief until final disposition of the application by the State appellate courts, if all filing deadlines are met; and (3) an additional period not to exceed 90 days, if counsel moves for an extension in the district court that would have jurisdiction of a habeas corpus application and makes a showing of good cause. (Sec. 802) Provides an automatic stay of execution through the consideration of the first Federal habeas corpus petition. Permits a stay of execution to be granted thereafter only if the petition on its face satisfies the requirements for successive petitions. (Sec. 803) Prohibits a Federal court from applying a new rule to grant relief to a habeas corpus petitioner, except where the new rule places the claimant's conduct beyond the power of the criminal law-making authority to proscribe or punish with the sanction imposed or requires the observance of procedures without which the likelihood of an accurate conviction or valid capital sentence is seriously diminished. (Sec. 804) Prohibits the court from either presuming a finding of fact made in a State court proceeding to be correct or declining to consider a claim on the ground that it was not raised in such proceeding at the time or in the manner prescribed by State law unless: (1) the relevant State maintains a mechanism for providing legal services to indigents which meets specified requirements; (2) the applicant was eligible for the appointment of counsel and did not waive such appointment, and the State actually appointed counsel to represent the applicant in the State proceeding in which the finding of fact was made or the default occurred; and (3) the attorney or attorneys so appointed substantially met specified qualification and performance standards. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) State establishment of a counsel authority; (2) claims of the ineffectiveness or incompetence of counsel; and (3) attorney compensation, reimbursement for expenses incurred in representing clients, and support services for staff attorneys of a defender organization or resource center. (Sec. 805) Requires that a claim presented in a second or successive application be dismissed unless: (1) the applicant shows that the basis of the claim could not have been discovered by the exercise of reasonable diligence before the applicant filed the prior application, or the failure to raise the claim in the prior application was due to action by State officials in violation of the U.S. Constitution; and (2) the facts underlying the claim would be sufficient, if proven, to undermine the court's confidence in the applicant's guilt of the offense or offenses for which the capital sentence was imposed, or in the validity of that sentence under Federal law. (Sec. 806) Prohibits an appeal from being taken to the court of appeals from the final order in a habeas corpus proceeding where the detention complained of arises out of process issued by a State court, unless the justice or judge who rendered the order or a circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of probable cause. Grants an applicant under sentence of death a right of appeal without a certification of probable cause, except after denial of a second or successive application. (Sec. 807) Sets forth duties of the district court in adjudicating the merits of claims, in handling claims of innocence, and in declining to consider claims under specified circumstances. Title IX: Racially Discriminatory Capital Sentencing - Amends the Federal judicial code to prohibit the execution of a sentence of death imposed on the basis of race. Specifies that: (1) an inference that race was the basis of a death sentence is established if valid evidence is presented demonstrating that, at the time the sentence was imposed, race was a statistically significant factor in decisions to seek or to impose the death sentence in the jurisdiction in question; and (2) evidence relevant to establish such an inference may include proof that death sentences were, at the pertinent time, being imposed significantly more frequently in the jurisdiction in question upon, or as punishment for capital offenses against, persons of one race than persons of another race. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) validity of evidence presented to establish such inference, and rebuttal of such inference; and (2) access to data on death eligible cases. Title X: Crime Prevention and Community Justice - Subtitle A: Model Intensive Grant Programs - Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to not more than 15 chronic high intensive crime areas to develop comprehensive model crime prevention programs that: (1) involve and utilize a broad spectrum of community resources and appropriate State and Federal agencies; (2) attempt to relieve conditions that encourage crime; and (3) provide meaningful and lasting alternatives to involvement in crime. (Sec. 1002) Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) uses of grant funds; and (2) program, application, and reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Ounce of Prevention Grant Programs - Part I: Ounce of Prevention Grant Programs - Directs: (1) the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to convene an interagency task force to be known as the Ounce of Prevention Council, chaired by the Attorney General, the Secretary of Education, and the Secretary; (2) the Council to advise and counsel the Secretary regarding administration of the programs established by this title; and (3) the Secretary to adopt regulations or guidelines to ensure that funding under this title shall be used primarily for assistance in distressed communities and for individuals in any area who are particularly in need of assistance. (Sec. 1011) Requires the Secretary to make grants to States, local governments, and other public and private entities for: (1) summer and after-school programs; (2) mentoring, tutoring, and other programs involving participation by adult role models; (3) programs assisting and promoting employability and job placement; and (4) substance abuse treatment and prevention, including outreach programs for at-risk families. Part II: Family and Community Endeavor Schools Grant Program - Authorizes grants for community-based organizations to assist in carrying out programs in public school facilities, where appropriate, and in certain other locations, for specified uses, including: (1) supervised sports programs and extracurricular and academic programs, offered after school and on weekends and holidays during the school year, and as daily full-day or part-day programs, during the summer months, including curriculum-based supervised education programs, health education and service programs, tutorial and mentoring programs, and other related activities (required use of funds by such organizations); and (2) renovation of facilities and development or expansion of school programs designed to improve academic and social development of at-risk children (permissible use of such funds). (Sec. 1017) Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) eligible community identification (to be eligible to receive a grant, a community-based organization shall identify an eligible community to be assisted, meeting criteria such as significant poverty and juvenile delinquency); (2) application requirements and priorities in awarding grants; and (3) participant eligibility. (Sec. 1020) Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) establish a peer review panel comprised of individuals with demonstrated experience in designing and implementing community-based programs; and (2) conduct such investigations and inspections as necessary to ensure compliance under this part. (Sec. 1022) Sets forth provisions regarding the Federal share and regarding program evaluation. Part III: Administration - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to: (1) provide technical assistance, training, and evaluations to further the purposes of this subtitle through grants, contracts, or other cooperative agreements with other entities; and (2) conduct or support evaluations of programs that receive support under this subtitle. (Sec. 1026) Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Police Partnerships for Children - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to partnerships (defined as cooperative arrangements or associations involving one or more law enforcement agencies (LEAs), and one or more public or private agencies that provide child or family services) for: (1) teams or units involving participants from both the law enforcement and child or family services components of the partnership that respond to or deal with violent incidents in which a child is involved as a perpetrator, witness, or victim; (2) training for law enforcement officers in behavior, psychology, family systems, and community culture and attitudes that is relevant to dealing with children who are involved in violent incidents or at risk of involvement in such incidents, or with families of such children; and (3) programs for children and families that are designed jointly by the law enforcement and child or family services components of the partnership. Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make grants to units of State or local government, public housing authorities, owners of federally assisted housing, and owners of housing in high crime areas in order to provide dwelling units to law enforcement officers without charge or at or substantially reduced rent for the purpose of providing greater security for residents of high crime areas. (Sec. 1032) Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) administration; and (2) technical assistance, training, and evaluation. (Sec. 1033) Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: Midnight Sports - Directs the Secretary of HUD to make grants, to the extent that sums are approved in appropriations Acts pursuant to this subtitle, to eligible entities (i.e., certain entities under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, and nonprofit organizations providing crime prevention, employment counseling, job training, or other educational services, or federally-assisted low-income housing) to assist such entities in carrying out midnight sports league programs. Sets forth program, application, selection, and reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary of HUD to make a grant to one qualified entity to carry out a study of the effectiveness of midnight sports league programs and require such entity to report its conclusions and recommendations to the Congress, the Secretary of HUD, and the Attorney General. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle E: Drug Courts - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to units of State and local government, and to other public and private entities, for programs that involve continuing judicial supervision over specified categories of persons with substance abuse problems, and that involve the integrated administration of other sanctions and services including: (1) testing for the use of controlled substances or other addictive substances; (2) substance abuse treatment; (3) diversion, probation, or other supervised release involving the possibility of prosecution, confinement, or incarceration based on noncompliance with program requirements or failure to show satisfactory progress; and (4) programmatic or health related aftercare services. (Sec. 1043) Authorizes the Attorney General to provide technical assistance and training in furtherance of the purposes of, and to carry out or make arrangements for evaluations of programs that receive support under, this subtitle. (Sec. 1044) Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle F: Assistance for Delinquent and At-Risk Youth - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to public or private nonprofit organizations to support the development and operation of projects to provide residential services to youth aged 11 to 19 who have dropped out of school, come into contact with the juvenile justice system, or are at risk of doing so. Requires that such services include, with respect to such youth, activities designed to increase self-esteem, assist in making healthy and responsible choices, improve academic performance pursuant to a plan jointly developed by the applicant and the school which each such youth attends or should attend, and provide vocational and life skills. Sets forth application and reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle G: Police Recruitment - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to qualified community organizations to assist in meeting the costs of qualified programs designed to recruit and retain applicants of police departments. Sets forth requirements regarding qualified community organizations, qualified programs, applications, grant disbursement, grant period, and grantee reporting. Directs the Attorney General to prescribe guidelines on content and results for programs receiving grants under this subtitle. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle H: National Triad Program - Requires the Director of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to conduct a qualitative and quantitative national assessment of: (1) the nature and extent of crimes committed against older Americans and the effect of such crimes on the victims; (2) the numbers, extent, and impact of violent crimes and nonviolent crimes against older Americans and the extent of unreported crimes; (3) the collaborative needs of law enforcement, health, and social service organizations, focusing on prevention of crimes against older Americans, to identify, investigate, and provide assistance to victims of those crimes; and (4) the development and growth of strategies to respond effectively to such matters. (Sec. 1068) Requires the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to make grants to coalitions of local LEAs and older Americans to assist in the development of programs and execute field tests of particularly promising strategies for crime prevention and related services based on the Triad model (which calls for the participation of the sheriff, at least one police chief, and a representative of at least one older Americans' organization within a county, and which may include participation by general service coalitions of law enforcement, victim service, and senior citizen advocate second service organizations), which can then be evaluated and serve as the basis for further demonstration and education programs. Sets forth provisions regarding application requirements, distribution of grant awards, and post-grant period reporting. (Sec. 1069) Requires, in conjunction with the national assessment, the Director of: (1) the BJA to make awards to organizations with demonstrated ability to provide training and technical assistance in establishing crime prevention programs based on the Triad model for purposes of aiding in the establishment and expansion of pilot programs under this subtitle, and to public service advertising coalitions for purposes of mounting a program of public service advertisements to increase public awareness and understanding of the issues surrounding crimes against older Americans and promoting ideas or programs to prevent them; and (2) NIJ to make awards to research organizations for purposes of evaluating the effectiveness of selected pilot programs and conducting the research and development identified through the national assessment as being critical. (Sec. 1070) Sets forth reporting requirements. (Sec. 1071) Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle I: Local Partnership Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make specified payments to units of local government to carry out programs related to education to prevent crime or substance abuse treatment to prevent crime. Requires that, of such payments, not less than ten percent of the total combined amounts obligated by the unit for contracts and subcontracts be expended with small business concerns controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals and women, and colleges and universities which are historically Black and which have a student body in which more than 20 percent of the students are Hispanic Americans or Native Americans, with exceptions. Authorizes appropriations to a Local Government Fiscal Assistance Fund of the Department of the Treasury. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) qualification for payment; (2) State area allocations, and allocations and payments to territorial governments; (3) local government allocations; (4) income gap multipliers; (5) State variation of local government allocations; (6) adjustments of local government allocations; (7) information used in allocation formulas; (8) public participation; (9) prohibited discrimination; (10) discrimination proceedings and related issues (including enforcement by the Attorney General of prohibitions against discrimination and civil actions by adversely affected persons); (11) judicial review; (12) audits, investigations, and reviews; and (13) reporting requirements. Subtitle J: Employment and Skills Crime Prevention - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make grants to local governments to fund targeted youth employment and skills development projects to help reduce crime in target areas (defined as neighborhoods which are high crime areas with high unemployment among young adults and other serious economic and social problems). (Sec. 1084) Makes young adults residing or attending school in target areas eligible to participate in programs funded under this subtitle if they are between 16 and 25 years of age (and, in certain circumstances, young adults up to age 30 and youth age 14 and 15). Sets conditions for continued participation in such programs, including avoiding crime, regular attendance and satisfactory performance at work, paying child support when paternity has been established and the participant has income, in-school young adults remaining in school until graduation, and requiring young adults ages 16-17 who have dropped out of high school and who have not obtained a General Equivalency Diploma to return to school or an alternative education program. (Sec. 1085) Authorizes the expenditure of funds for crime prevention related activities (subject to specified requirements), such as: (1) apprenticeship programs linking work and learning; (2) youth conservation and service corps; (3) work experience in private nonprofit organizations and public agencies; (4) initiatives to increase educational attainment, occupational skills, and career aspirations of target area young adults; and (5) job placement and related case management, followup, and other supportive services. (Sec. 1086) Sets forth requirements regarding: (1) grant applications; (2) award priorities; and (3) grant duration and number. (Sec. 1087) Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a system of performance measures for assessing programs established pursuant to this subtitle. Authorizes the Secretary to provide appropriate technical assistance to carry out youth employment and skills crime prevention programs under this subtitle. (Sec. 1090) Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1091) Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to terminate or suspend financial assistance, in whole or in part, to a recipient or refuse to extend a grant for a recipient, if the Secretary determines that the recipient has failed to meet specified requirements. (Sec. 1092) Makes labor standards under the Job Training Partnership Act applicable to programs under this subtitle. (Sec. 1093) Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) regulations or guidelines; (2) waivers; (3) private rights of action; and (4) acceptance of gifts. Subtitle K: Miscellaneous - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Omnibus Act) to permit the award of drug control and system improvement grants to State and local governments for the purpose of participating in multijurisdictional gang task forces. Title XI: Youth Violence - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide for the prosecution as adults of juveniles age 13 or older for specified crimes of violence and crimes where the juvenile possessed a firearm during the offense, with exceptions regarding persons subject to the criminal jurisdiction of an Indian tribal government. Repeals restrictions on the Attorney General proceeding in Federal court against such juveniles with respect to such crimes. (Sec. 1102) Specifies that a juvenile shall not be transferred to adult prosecution nor shall a hearing be held under section 5037 (disposition after a finding of juvenile delinquency) (currently, proceedings against a juvenile or as an adult shall not be commenced) until specified conditions are met. (Sec. 1103) Provides that no juvenile committed, whether pursuant to an adjudication of delinquency or conviction for an offense (currently, no juvenile committed) to the custody of the Attorney General may be placed or retained in an adult jail or correctional institution in which he has regular contact with adults incarcerated because they have been convicted of a crime or are awaiting trial on criminal charges. Title XII: Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Act of 1994 - Sets penalties for: (1) international trafficking in child pornography; and (2) traveling in interstate or foreign commerce with intent to engage in a sexual act with a juvenile. (Sec. 1202) Expresses the sense of the Congress that each State that has not yet done so should enact legislation prohibiting the production, distribution, receipt, or simple possession of materials depicting a person under age 18 engaging in sexually explicit conduct and providing for a maximum imprisonment of at least one year and for the forfeiture of assets used in the commission or support of, or gained from, such offenses. Title XIII: Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children Registration Act - Directs the Attorney General to establish guidelines for State programs requiring any person convicted of a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor to register a current address with a designated State law enforcement agency for ten years after release from prison, or being placed on parole, supervised release, or probation. Subjects to criminal penalties a person required to register under a State program who knowingly fails to register and keep such registration current. Title XIV: Community Policing - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the Attorney General to make grants and provide technical assistance to units of State and local government, and to other public and private entities, to increase police presence (including the rehiring of law enforcement officers laid off as a result of State and local budget reductions, as well as the hiring and training of new, additional career law enforcement officers, for deployment in community-oriented policing), expand and improve cooperative efforts between LEAs and members of the community, and otherwise enhance public safety. Sets forth matching fund, application, and related requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Title XV: DNA Identification - DNA Identification Act of 1994 - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the use of drug control and system improvement grants to develop or improve in a forensic laboratory a capability to analyze deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) for identification purposes. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1503) Requires the Director of the FBI to appoint in advisory board on DNA quality assurance methods and issue standards for quality assurance. Authorizes the Director to establish an index of DNA identification records of persons convicted of crimes, and of analyses of DNA samples recovered from crime scenes and from unidentified human remains. (Sec. 1505) Sets forth proficiency testing and privacy protection requirements, and penalties for violations. (Sec. 1506) Authorizes appropriations. Title XVI: Violence Against Women - Violence Against Women Act of 1994 - Subtitle A: Safe Streets for Women - Safe Streets for Women Act of 1994 - Amends the Omnibus Act to: (1) authorize the Director of the BJA to make grants to reduce the rate of violent crime against women to States, Indian tribes, units of local government, tribal organizations, and nonprofit nongovernmental domestic violence and sexual assault victims services programs in the States or Indian country; and (2) the Attorney General to request any Federal agency, with or without reimbursement, to use its authorities and resources to support such State, tribal, and local efforts. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1603) Specifies that no State is entitled to funds under this title unless the State: (1) incurs the full cost of forensic medical exams for victims of sexual assault; (2) certifies that their laws, policies, and practices do not require, in connection with the prosecution of any domestic violence offense, that the abused bear costs associated with the filing of criminal charges or with the issuance or service of a warrant, protection order, or witness subpoena; and (3) can certify that its laws and policies treat sex offenses committed by offenders who are known to, cohabitants or social companions of, or related by blood or marriage to, the victim no less severely than sex offenders committed by offenders who are strangers to the victim. (Sec. 1606) Authorizes the Director to make education and prevention grants to reduce sexual assaults against women. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1607) Directs: (1) the NIJ to establish criteria and develop training programs to assist probation and parole officer and other personnel who work with released sex offenders in the areas of case management, supervision, and relapse prevention; and (2) the Attorney General to compile information regarding sex offender treatment programs and ensure that information regarding treatment programs in the community into which a convicted sex offender is released is made available to persons imprisoned in Federal penal or correctional institutions for sexual abuse offenses, including halfway houses and psychiatric institutions. (Sec. 1609) Amends the Federal criminal code to require that a court order restitution for violations of Federal sexual abuse laws, with exceptions. (Sec. 1610) Directs the Attorney General to provide for a baseline study to examine the scope of the problem of campus sexual assaults and the effectiveness of institutional and legal policies in addressing such crimes and protecting victims. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Safe Homes for Women - Safe Homes for Women Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for traveling across a State line with intent to: (1) contact that person's spouse or intimate partner and, in the course of such contact, intentionally committing a crime of violence causing bodily injury to such spouse or partner; and (2) engage in conduct that violates a protection order, any portion of which involves protection against credible threats of violence, repeated harassment, or bodily injury, to the person or persons for whom the protection order was issued and violates that portion of such order, or that would violate such order if the conduct occurred in the jurisdiction in which the order was issued and engaging in such conduct. Requires that, in any proceeding for the purpose of determining whether a defendant charged shall be released pending trial, or the conditions of such release, the alleged victim be given an opportunity to be heard regarding the danger posed by the defendant. Mandates that a court order restitution to the victim of an offense under this Act, with exceptions. Requires, provided that certain conditions are met, that a protection order issued by the court of one State or Indian tribe be accorded full faith and credit by the court of another State or tribe. (Sec. 1623) Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the Director to make grants to eligible States, Indian tribes, or units of local government to encourage arrest policies in domestic violence cases, including mandatory arrest programs for protective order violations and improving judicial handling of such cases. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Domestic Violence - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit the sale or other disposal of firearms or ammunition to, or the receipt of firearms of ammunition by, persons convicted of offenses involving domestic abuse. (Sec. 1626) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow an alien spouse to self-petition for immediate relative or second preference status if the alien demonstrates to the Attorney General that the alien is residing in the United States: (1) the marriage between the alien and the spouse was entered into in good faith by the alien, and during the marriage the alien or child of the alien has been battered by or has been the subject of extreme cruelty perpetrated by the alien's spouse; or (2) with the alien's spouse, the alien has been married to and residing with the spouse for not less than three years, and the alien's spouse has failed to file such a petition on behalf of the alien. Provides that, in the case of abused spouses and abused children who are self-petitioning, divorce may not be the basis for revocation of the petition. (Under current law and regulations, divorce results in the automatic revocation of an immediate relative and a second preference petition.) (Sec. 1627) Directs the Attorney General, in acting on spousal waiver applications, to consider any credible evidence submitted in support of the application (whether or not the evidence is supported by an evaluation of a licensed mental health professional). Specifies that the determination of what evidence is credible and the weight to be given the evidence shall be within the sole discretion of the Attorney General. (Sec. 1628) Waives the current seven-year residence requirement to apply for suspension of deportation. Makes suspension of deportation available to alien spouses and children who have been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty in the United States by a spouse or parent who is a citizen or lawful permanent resident, provided that the alien spouse or child proves that he or she is a person of good moral character and that deportation would result in extreme hardship. Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) conduct a study of the means by which abusive spouses may obtain information concerning the addresses or locations of estranged or former spouses, and transmit to the Congress a report based on the study; and (2) submit to the Congress a report and recommendations on problems of recordkeeping of criminal complaints involving domestic violence. (Sec. 1643) Directs the Attorney General to establish an Attorney General's Task Force on Violence Against Women to review Federal, State, and local strategies for preventing and punishing violent crimes against women and to make recommendations to improve the response to such crimes. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1652) Amends the Victims' Rights and Restitution Act of 1990 to direct the Attorney General to authorize the Director of the Office of Victims of Crime to provide for the payment of the cost of up to two tests of the victim for sexually transmitted diseases during the 12 months following sexual assaults that pose a risk of transmission, and the cost of a counseling session by a medically trained professional on the accuracy of such tests and the risk of transmission of such diseases to the victim as the result of the assault. (Sec. 1653) Directs the Attorney General to provide a grant to a nonprofit private organization to establish and operate a national, toll-free telephone hotline to provide information and assistance to victims of domestic violence. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1654) Amends the Omnibus Act to require the Director of the BJA to provide grants to establish projects in local communities involving many sectors of each community to coordinate intervention and prevention of domestic violence. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle E: Equal Justice for Women in the Courts - Authorizes the State Justice Institute (SJI) to award grants for the purpose of developing, testing, presenting, and disseminating model programs to be used by States in training judges and court personnel in the laws of the State on rape, sexual assault, domestic violence, and other crimes of violence motivated by gender. (Sec. 1663) Directs the SJI to ensure that such model programs are developed with the participation of law enforcement officials, public and private nonprofit victim advocates, legal experts, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and recognized experts on gender bias in the courts. (Sec. 1664) Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1665) Encourages the circuit judicial councils to conduct studies of the instances of gender bias in their respective circuits. Directs the: (1) Judicial Conference of the United States to designate an entity within the judicial branch to act as a clearinghouse to disseminate any reports and materials issued by gender bias task forces; and (2) Federal Judicial Center to disseminate information on issues relating to gender bias in the courts. (Sec. 1666) Authorizes appropriations to the: (1) Salaries and Expenses Account of the Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and other Judicial Services; (2) Federal Judicial Center; and (3) Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Directs the Judicial Conference to allocate funds to Federal circuit courts that undertake their own studies of gender bias or implement reforms recommended as a result of such studies in their own or other circuits. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the executive branch, working through the SJI, should examine programs which would allow the States to consider whether expert testimony regarding battered women's syndrome should be admissible by the defendant in criminal trials and specified related issues. Title XVII: Hate Crimes Sentencing Enhancement - Directs the Sentencing Commission to promulgate or amend existing guidelines to provide sentencing enhancements of not less than three offense levels for offenses that the finder of fact at trial determines beyond a reasonable doubt are hate crimes (assuring reasonable consistency with other guidelines, avoiding duplicative punishments for substantially the same offense, and taking into account any mitigating circumstances which might justify exceptions). Title XVIII: Use of Formula Grants to Prosecute Persons Driving While Intoxicated - Amends the Omnibus Act to permit the use of drug control and system improvement grant funds for programs for the prosecution of driving while intoxicated and the enforcement of other laws relating to alcohol use and the operation of motor vehicles. Title XIX: Youth Handgun Safety - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit the possession of a handgun or ammunition by, or the private transfer of a handgun or ammunition to, a juvenile, with exceptions. Sets penalties for violations. Directs the Attorney General to: (1) evaluate existing and proposed juvenile handgun legislation in each State; (2) develop model juvenile handgun legislation that is constitutional and enforceable; (3) prepare and disseminate to State authorities the findings made as the result of the evaluation; and (4) report to the Congress findings and recommendations concerning the need or appropriateness of further Federal action. Title XX: Substance Abuse Treatment in Federal Prisons - Amends the Federal criminal code to direct the Bureau of Prisons to provide residential substance abuse treatment for not less than 50 percent of eligible prisoners by the end of FY 1995, for not less than 75 percent by the end of FY 1996, and for all eligible prisoners by the end of 1997 and thereafter. Grants priority for such treatment based on an eligible prisoner's proximity to release date. Permits sentence reductions of up to a year for a prisoner's successful completion of a residential substance abuse treatment program. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Title XXI: Alternative Punishments for Young Offenders - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the Director of the BJA to make grants to States, for use by States and local government, for the purpose of developing alternative methods of punishment for young offenders to traditional forms of incarceration and probation. Sets forth provisions regarding State and local applications, review of State applications, allocation and distribution of funds, and evaluation. (Sec. 2102) Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 2103) Expresses the sense of the Congress that States should impose mandatory sentences for crimes involving the use of a firearm or other weapon on, or within a 100-yard radius of, school property. Title XXII: Juvenile Drug Trafficking and Gang Prevention Grants - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the Director of the BJA to make grants to States and units of local government, or combinations thereof, to assist them in planning, establishing, operating, coordinating, and evaluating projects for the development of more effective programs to reduce the formation or continuation of juvenile gangs and the use and sale of illegal drugs by juveniles. Sets forth provisions regarding permissible uses of grant funds and application requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Title XXIII: Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the Director of the BJA to make grants to States, for use by States and local government, for the purpose of developing and implementing residential substance abuse treatment programs within State correctional facilities in which inmates are incarcerated for a period of time sufficient to permit substance abuse treatment. Sets forth provisions regarding State application requirements, review of applications, allocation and distribution of funds, and evaluation. Authorizes appropriations.

Gesetz über das Ausländerzentralregister (AZR-Gesetz) (G-SIG: 12020781)

Germany · German Bundestag · 18 March 1994

<strong>Bezug:</strong> Volkszählungsurteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 15.12.1983 (BVerfGE 65, 1); siehe auch den textidentischen Gesetzentwurf der Fraktionen der CDU/ CSU und F.D.P. B85 (BT-Drs 12/6938)<br /> <br /> <strong>Inhalt:</strong> Behördliche Erfassung von gesetzlich festgelegten Daten von Ausländern in einer zentralen, vom Bundesverwaltungsamt geführten Datei, Regelung der Datenübermittlung an und durch die Registerbehörde, des Datenschutzes und der Rechte der Betroffenen; Aufhebung § 6 Gesetz über die Errichtung des Bundesverwaltungsamtes und § 2 Gesetz über Maßnahmen für im Rahmen humanitärer Hilfsaktionen aufgenommene Flüchtlinge. Dem Bund entstehen Kosten von ca. 2,3 Mio DM, Ländern und Gemeinden entstehen keine Kosten.<br /> <br /> <strong>Änderungen aufgrund der Ausschußempfehlung:</strong> Titeländerung (eingebracht als: Ausländerzentralregistergesetz (AZR- Gesetz)); zusammengeführt mit der BT-Initiative auf BT-Drs 12/6938 (s. GESTA B85).<br /> <br /> <strong>Nebenschlagwörter:</strong> Datenübertragung/Datenübermittlung an das Ausländerzentralregister * Datenschutz/Datenschutz gem. Ausländerzentralregistergesetz * Informationelle Selbstbestimmung/Rechte des Ausländers gem. Ausländerzentralregistergesetz * Bundesverwaltungsamt/Aufhebung § 6 Gesetz über die Errichtung des Bundesverwaltungsamtes betr. Ausländerzentralregistergesetz * Flüchtling/Aufhebung § 2 Gesetz über Maßnahmen für im Rahmen humanitärer Hilfsaktionen aufgenommene Flüchtlinge betr. Ausländerzentralregistergesetz

Ausländerfeindliche und rechtsextremistische Ausschreitungen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Monat Februar 1994 (G-SIG: 12012023)

Germany · German Bundestag · 17 March 1994

Anzahl der Ermittlungsverfahren, U-Haft, Verurteilungen, verletzte bzw. getötete Personen

Criminal Alien Control Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1994

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Deportation of Criminal Aliens Title II: Local Cooperation with Federal Officials and Procedures Title III: Miscellaneous Criminal Alien Control Act of 1994 - Title I: Deportation of Criminal Aliens - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that an alien who is convicted of any felony, not just specified felonies as under current law, may be deported. (Sec. 102) Presumes conclusively that an alien convicted of a felony is deportable. Eliminates the administrative hearing process for criminal aliens not lawfully admitted for permanent residence or those with conditional permanent resident status. (Sec. 103) Permits a U.S. district court or a State court to enter a judicial order of deportation at the time of sentencing an alien. (Sec. 105) Restricts certain defenses to deportation available for certain criminal aliens. (Sec. 106) Requires the deportation of a criminal alien after the issuance of the deportation order, even if an appeal is made. Permits review of the order by such alien while outside the United States. (Sec. 107) Increases penalties for deported criminal aliens who return to the United States. (Sec. 108) Places restrictions on asylum claims for criminal aliens. (Sec. 109) Requires the Federal incarceration of an undocumented criminal alien under specified circumstances. Title II: Local Cooperation with Federal Officials and Procedures - Denies funding under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1993 to a State or local government that will not provide requested information to Federal immigration officials. Title III: Miscellaneous - Provides for the detention of undocumented criminal aliens on closed military installations.

Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1994

Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 1994 - Waives the English language naturalization requirement for certain aliens (or their spouses or widows) who served with special guerrilla units in Laos. Provides for naturalization under the Immigration and Nationality Act through such service.

To provide for Federal incarceration of undocumented criminal aliens.

United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1994

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the Federal incarceration of undocumented criminal aliens, with priority given to aliens convicted of aggravated felonies.

To require a report on the timeliness of processing applications for naturalization.

United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1994

Directs the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization to report on the timeliness of processing naturalization applications.

Immigration Reform Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1994

Immigration Reform Act of 1994 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) provide for expedited deportation and exclusion of convicted aliens; (2) expand the grounds for health-related alien exclusions; (3) prohibit direct Federal financial benefits to unlawful aliens; and (4) provide for detention of aliens applying for asylum.

Immigration-Related Employment Anti-Discrimination Enhancement and Enforcement Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1994

Immigration-Related Employment Anti-Discrimination Enhancement and Enforcement Act of 1994 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to expand the scope of unfair immigration related employment provisions, including: (1) disparate impact claims; (2) compensatory and punitive damage remedies; and (3) back pay limitations. Authorizes appropriations for related enforcement and outreach activities.

To confer United States citizenship posthumously on Rudolph Salli.

United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1994

Confers citizenship posthumously on a named individual.

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that no person born to parents who are unlawfully in the United States at the time of the birth shall be a United States citizen on account of birth in the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1994

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that a person born in the United States shall not be a U.S. citizen unless the person's mother or father at the time of birth is a U.S. citizen, is lawfully in the United States, or has lawful immigration status.

Zutreffende Besteuerung der in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland tätigen osteuropäischen Werkvertragsunternehmen (G-SIG: 12012021)

Germany · German Bundestag · 16 March 1994

Umfang der illegalen Beschäftigung osteuropäischer Arbeitnehmer im Bausektor, Steuerausfall, Bußgelder, Kontrolle durch die Finanzbehörden, Verfolgung der Steuerhinterziehung, Kündigung der Werkvertragsabkommen

Situation der Straßenkinder in Albanien und albanischer Flüchtlingskinder (G-SIG: 12012018)

Germany · German Bundestag · 15 March 1994

Lage der Straßenkinder in Albanien, deutsche Unterstützung für Einrichtungen der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe in Albanien, minderjährige Flüchtlinge aus Albanien in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pädagogische und soziale Betreuung, Abschiebungen

Interview des Bundesministers Carl-Dieter Spranger (G-SIG: 12012027)

Germany · German Bundestag · 15 March 1994

Aussagen von Bundesminister Spranger zur Ausländerproblematik, zur Bekämpfung der Ursachen der weltweiten Wanderungs- und Flüchtlingsbewegungen durch die deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, zu Demonstrationen gegen Ausländerfeindlichkeit und Rassismus, Verbleib von Spranger im Kabinett

Food Stamp Program Improvements Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1994

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Reporting and Staggered Issuance for Households on Reservations Title II: Access to Retail Food Stores by Food Stamp Households Food Stamp Program Improvements Act of 1994 - Title I: Reporting and Staggered Issuance for Households on Reservations - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to: (1) permit a State to require periodic reporting by migrant or seasonal farmworker households; and (2) set forth conditions under which a State may require such reporting for reservation households. Provides for staggered food stamp issuances on reservations. Requires a General Accounting Office study and report on tribal organization administration of the food stamp program. Title II: Access to Retail Food Stores by Food Stamp Households - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to: (1) redefine "retail food store"; and (2) define "staple foods." Expands the use and disclosure of information provided by retail and wholesale food concerns to include Federal and State law enforcement and investigative agencies. Requires demonstration projects to test innovative activities directed at coupon trafficking. Continues program eligibility for establishments or house-to-house trade routes currently authorized to accept food stamps. Requires a report on the impact of this Act on retail store program participation.

Immigration Enforcement Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1994

Immigration Enforcement Act of 1994 - Increases: (1) Border Patrol personnel and funding levels; and (2) personnel levels for the Immigration and Naturalization Service antismuggling program. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Attorney General to provide cultural awareness training for Border Patrol personnel. Authorizes appropriations.

Bericht der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für die Belange der Ausländer über die Lage der Ausländer in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1993 (G-SIG: 13000294)

Germany · German Bundestag · 11 March 1994

(Bericht gem. Beschluß des Bundestages vom 23. September 1993) Daten zur ausländischen Wohnbevölkerung, Integration von Ausländern im Bereich Lernen und Arbeiten, soziale Situation und Alltagsleben der ausländischen Bevölkerung, Alltagsstrukturen, Ausländerfeindlichkeit, Ausländer- und Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht

Immigration Stabilization Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1994

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Admission of Immigrants Title II: Admission of Refugees Title III: Asylum Reform Title IV: Criminal Aliens Title V: Financial Responsibility Title VI: Employer Sanctions Title VII: Border Security Title VIII: Alien Smuggling Title IX: Effective Date Immigration Stabilization Act of 1994 - Title I: Admission of Immigrants - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to reduce annual immigration ceilings. (Sec. 103) Revises immigration preference allocations. Title II: Admission of Refugees - Limits nonemergency refugee admissions in any fiscal year to 50,000. (Sec. 202) Requires congressional approval for additional emergency refugee admissions. (Sec. 203) Repeals the Cuban Adjustment Act (P.L. 94-571). Title III: Asylum Reform - Amends provisions with respect to: (1) alien inspection and exclusion by immigration officers; (2) asylum; and (3) judicial review. Title IV: Criminal Aliens - Expands the definition of "aggravated felony." (Sec. 402) Provides for the expedited deportation of certain nonpermanent resident aliens convicted of an aggravated felony. (Sec. 403) Authorizes judicial deportation for an alien convicted of a felony. (Sec. 405) Increases penalties for reentry or failure to depart. (Sec. 406) Authorizes the deportation of an alien prisoner prior to sentence completion under specified circumstances. (Sec. 407) Amends Federal criminal law to require the issuance of a judicial order of deportation in the case of an alien being sentenced for an aggravated felony. (Sec. 408) Authorizes Federal incarceration and deportation of certain State-convicted aliens. (Sec. 409) Amends Federal criminal law to increase penalties for specified visa and passport related crimes. (Sec. 410) Requires State or local law enforcement agencies to notify the district Immigration and Naturalization Service office upon the felony arrest of an alien. (Sec. 412) Authorizes the exclusion of an alien in violation of any immigration law or any Federal or State fraud law, including income tax evasion. Title V: Financial Responsibility - Authorizes the admission of an alien otherwise excludable as a public charge (as defined by this Act) if such alien has a sponsor guarantee of financial responsibility. (Sec. 503) Limits benefits, including unemployment benefits, for illegal aliens. Title VI: Employer Sanctions - Revises employer sanction provisions, including: (1) work eligibility documents; and (2) social security telephone verification. (Sec. 603) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a national electronic network linking State vital statistics records. Title VII: Border Security - Increases Border Patrol personnel levels. Establishes: (1) a border crossing fee; and (2) a Border Control Trust Fund. (Sec. 704) Amends the Act to establish increased penalties or a required pilot program for international carriers that bring in more than specified numbers of undocumented aliens. Title VIII: Alien Smuggling - Directs the Secretary of State to enter into cooperative foreign arrangements to prevent the unlawful entry of aliens into the United States. (Sec. 802) Directs the Secretary of Defense to instruct the Coast Guard with respect to preventing the illegal entry of aliens into the United States by sea. (Sec. 803) Amends Federal criminal law to bring specified alien related activities under the purview of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) provisions. (Sec. 804) Increases alien smuggling penalties. (Sec. 805) Expands forfeiture provisions for smuggling or harboring aliens. (Sec. 806) Amends Federal criminal law to authorize wiretaps for alien smuggling investigations. Title IX: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date for provisions of this Act.

For the relief of Anil K. Sharma.

United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1994

Waives the two-year foreign residence requirement for a named individual and deems him eligible to apply for any benefit under the Immigration and Nationality Act for which he qualifies.

Gesetz zur Änderung des Ausländergesetzes (G-SIG: 12020798)

Germany · German Bundestag · 9 March 1994

<strong>Bezug:</strong> Siehe auch B90 <br /> <br /> <strong>Inhalt:</strong> Änderung des Ausländergesetzes: Schaffung eines eigenständigen Ehegatten-Aufenthaltsrechts unter besonderer Berücksichtigung mißhandelter ausländischer Ehefrauen (§ 19), Verbesserung der Rechtslage für Ausländer in den Bereichen Wiederkehrrecht (§§ 16 und 44), Familiennachzug (§§ 17 und 23), Ehegattennachzug (§ 18), Aufenthaltsbefugnis (§§ 30, 35 und 99) und Zugang zur Aufenthaltsberechtigung (§§ 27 und 94a). Behörden, Gerichte und Petitionsausschüsse werden von Kosten entlastet. <br /> <br /> <strong>Nebenschlagwörter:</strong> Aufenthaltserlaubnis/Eigenständiges Aufenthaltsrecht für ausländische Ehefrauen * Ehegatte/Eigenständiges Aufenthaltsrecht für ausländische Ehefrauen

Setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.

United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1994

Establishes the congressional budget for FY 1995 and sets forth appropriate budgetary levels for FY 1996 through 1999. Sets forth recommended budgetary levels of Federal revenues, new budget authority, budget outlays, deficits, public debt, and credit activity, including funding for each major functional category. Provides for adjusting total levels of budget authority, outlays, and revenues if health care reform legislation is reported. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the following legislation should be enacted: (1) enforceable limits to control the growth of entitlement or mandatory spending; (2) a regular procedure to provide assistance for disasters and other emergencies without adding to the deficit; and (3) expedited rescission authority over appropriations measures for the President. Expresses the sense of the Committee on the Budget that all financial transactions associated with health reform legislation relying on mandated payments to a Government entity be treated as part of the Federal budget. Expresses the concerns of the Committee on the Budget with respect to the costs to State and local government because of the Federal Government's failure to enforce immigration laws. Expresses the sense of the Congress on the need for reserve funds for emergencies. Expresses the sense of the Congress on imposing unfunded mandates on State and local government. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should submit a budget that compares proposed spending levels for the budget year with the current year; and (2) the starting point for deliberations on a budget resolution should be the current year.