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Bill· HRH.R. 2137 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1991
Aid for Trade Act of 1991 - Title I: Use of Foreign Assistance Funds - Allocates, on a percentage basis, bilateral economic assistance for FY 1993 through 1997 and thereafter for the construction, design, or servicing of developmentally sound capital projects. Limits the use of such assistance to the procurement of U.S. goods and services. Establishes a program for the combined use of credits, loans, and guarantees by the Export-Import Bank and the private sector and grants from the Agency for International Development (AID) under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to support the construction, design, or servicing of such capital projects. Directs the President to establish an interagency capital projects coordinating committee composed of specified Federal officials to ensure a strategic approach to the support of such projects. Requires the committee to submit to the Congress a report with respect to the support and coordination of such projects and the extent to which they and tied aid programs have affected U.S. exports. Sets specified percentage limits on cash transfers with respect to Economic Support Funds for FY 1993 through 1997. Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to the Congress on cash payment assistance. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require the Administrator of each agency, in determining the geographic code for the purchase of goods and services, not to grant any waivers from Geographic Codes 000 (United States only) or 941 (United States and least-developed countries) except for specified reasons. Requires the Administrator of AID to report annually to the Congress on such waivers. Title II: Increase in Credit Authority - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to direct the Export-Import Bank to increase its direct loans and reserve funds for loan guarantees for FY 1993 through 1997 by 15 percent per year. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 and 1994 to the Tied Aid Credit Fund. Amends the Trade and Development Enhancement Act of 1983 to authorize appropriations for FY 1993 and 1994 to support preliminary engineering and design work for capital projects. Title III: Eastern Europe Recovery Program - Authorizes the President, acting through the Administrator of AID, to provide technical assistance to assist in the revision of public policy and administrative reforms to effect the evolution of free-market economics among the Eastern European nations. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes within the Export-Import Bank an Eastern European Loan Guarantee Program which shall provide guarantees to U.S. lenders and exporters to export U.S. products and services to Eastern Europe. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the amount of direct investment loans that the Overseas Private Investment Corporation must make each fiscal year. Earmarks a specified amount of such loans to promote the activities of U.S. small businesses in Eastern Europe. Title IV: General Provisions - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury and the President of the Export-Import Bank to report to the Congress on the status of negotiations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with respect to reducing the levels of concessional financing by its member countries (other than the United States) if a new agreement has not been reached by December 31, 1991.
Bill· HRH.R. 2135 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1991
Redesignates the Maritime Act of 1981 as the Maritime Act of 1991 and adds a new title: the Port Improvement Act of 1991. Directs the Secretary of Transportation, through the Federal Maritime Administration and the Secretary of Commerce (the Secretaries), to jointly establish a program to make loans to port agencies for financing and refinancing improvements to facilities at deep-draft ports. Limits the aggregate amount of loans to: (1) a specified dollar amount in a five-fiscal-year period; and (2) 50 percent of the cost of the improvements. Requires the remaining percentage to come from non-Federal sources. Prohibits loans for any activity which is eligible for assistance as a water resource project carried out by the Secretary of the Army through the Chief of Engineers. Sets forth procedures and criteria for selection of loan recipients. Requires a set-aside of 20 percent of amounts appropriated from the Port Improvement Revolving Loan Fund each year for improvements at small deep-draft ports. Limits loans to a maximum of 20 years. Requires repayment at an interest rate which: (1) will ensure that the amount in the Fund will increase at approximately the rate of inflation; and (2) is less than market rates for such loans. Establishes in the Treasury the Port Improvement Revolving Loan Fund, to consist of amounts: (1) transferred to the Fund equal to specified percentages of customs duties collected during specified fiscal years; (2) deposited in the Fund as repayment of loans made under this Act; and (3) credited to the Fund from interest on and proceeds from the sale or redemption of investment of amounts in the Fund. Directs the Secretaries to establish a permanent advisory board to advise the Secretaries on matters related to this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2146 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the determination of eligible basis in difficult development areas for the low-income housing credit by taking into account the adjusted basis of the real property upon which buildings are located.
Bill· HRH.R. 2149 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1991
Open Space Preservation Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the estate tax to exclude from the gross estate the value of land subject to a qualified conservation easement. Defers the reduction in estate tax rates from 1993 until 1998.
Bill· HRH.R. 2133 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude deductions for business expenses, interest on indebtedness, and taxes from calculations to determine the passive loss limitation in connection with rental real estate activity in which a noncorporate taxpayer actively or materially participates.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 136 (102nd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1991
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 1455 (intelligence activities and services funding).
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 139 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1991
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Federal law governing the taxation of State and local government bonds should not be changed in order to increase Federal revenues.
Bill· HRH.R. 2121 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1991
Health Insurance Reform Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on insurance companies which do not meet mandatory policy and guaranteed issuance requirements and specific contractual requirements concerning coverage with respect to accident and health insurance. Imposes an excise tax on each accident and health insurance contract, self-insured plan, and health maintenance organization to generate revenues for a stop-loss pool. Establishes the Health Reinsurance Trust Fund consisting of the excise taxes imposed by this Act. Makes such Fund available: (1) to reimburse a plan for core benefits for any individual after $25,000 has been expended on such individual; and (2) for administrative expenses incurred by such Fund.
Law· HRH.R. 2123 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1991
District of Columbia Budgetary Efficiency Act of 1991 - Amends the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act to increase the annual Federal payment to the District of Columbia for FY 1985 through 1992. Establishes a formula for determining the amount of such payment for each fiscal year from FY 1993 through 1995. Amends the District of Columbia Code to include in the annual independent audit of the District of Columbia's financial operations, a report on its revenues for the fiscal year, broken down by revenues derived from the Federal Government and those derived from other sources during such fiscal year. Requires the Comptroller General to submit an annual review to specified congressional committees of the annual report of such breakdown of the independently audited revenues of the District of Columbia for the preceding fiscal year.
Bill· HRH.R. 2129 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) defer the deduction for depreciation and amortization with respect to any Japanese-constructed building for ten years; (2) defer the recognition of any loss with respect to such building for 15 years; and (3) deny the use of tax-exempt bonds to provide Japanese-constructed facilities. Defines "Japanese-constructed building" as a building of which one percent or more of the cost is attributable to services performed by Japanese persons.
Bill· SS. 976 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Amendments of 1991 - Title I: General Amendments - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to revise congressional findings, objectives, and national policy provisions. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Solid Waste Disposal Act through FY 1996. Sets forth procedures for the administrative review of regulations. Title II: Toxics Use and Source Reduction - Encourages the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in promulgating requirements or taking actions under specified environmental Acts, to make toxics use and source reduction an integral part of the planning and decisionmaking process. Integrates specified provisions of the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 into the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Requires the Administrator, as part of a source reduction strategy, to: (1) convey to EPA offices the impediments to toxics use and source reduction; (2) review and comment upon toxics use and source reduction strategies developed by other Federal agencies; (3) provide assistance to the educational community to promote the introduction of toxics use and source reduction principles into design, engineering, management, and environmental sciences curricula; and (4) provide for opportunities to educate Federal, State, and local government staff of opportunities for cross-media environmental protection. Extends the authorization of appropriations for grants to States to promote toxics use and source reduction by businesses through FY 1996. Requires the Administrator to survey a representative sample of owners and operators of facilities within Standard Industrial Code Classifications 20 through 39 to determine the nature and extent of: (1) the production, use, and consumption of hazardous substances and the generation of solid and hazardous wastes; and (2) toxics use and source reduction that has occurred or is planned. Directs the Administrator to: (1) establish guidelines for hazardous substance accounting practices; and (2) publish toxics use and source reduction goals for industrial categories required to report pursuant to the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act. Requires owners or operators of facilities required to submit toxic chemical release forms pursuant to the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act to submit to the Administrator or an authorized State a toxics use and source reduction plan. Directs the Administrator to establish a schedule for the submission of such plans. Sets forth minimum requirements for such plans. Requires owners or operators of such facilities to submit biennially to the State a toxics use and source reduction performance report documenting reduction activities. Sets forth minimum requirements for such reports. Permits persons who can show that a facility is not making a good faith effort to comply with a toxics use and source reduction plan to request EPA or an authorized State to certify whether the facility is in compliance. Authorizes the Administrator or an authorized State to require a facility audit and requires plan modifications if a facility fails to implement or achieve objectives of the plan. Applies plan requirements to Federal facilities that conduct operations comparable to facilities required to submit toxic chemical release forms. Authorizes the Administrator to adopt regulations for exempting categories of facilities from such requirements where toxic use and source reduction opportunities do not reasonably exist for such facilities. Requires the Administrator to establish a Products and Packaging Advisory Board to report on the development of a voluntary program to: (1) minimize the quantity of packaging and other material in the waste stream; (2) minimize the consumption of scarce natural resources in the production and use of packaging; (3) maximize the recycling and reuse of packaging; (4) reduce litter; and (5) assure that human health and the environment will not be affected adversely as a result of the use and disposal of packaging and products. Authorizes the Administrator, after considering the Advisory Board's report, to publish guidelines to take the steps covered by the proposed program. Requires the Administrator to: (1) determine the extent to which hazardous substances are contained in products distributed in commerce; and (2) submit to the Congress a list of products containing hazardous substances which may present a health or environmental risk when disposed or incinerated. Provides for annual revisions of such list. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate regulations for the disposal or incineration of listed products. Requires the Administrator, if such regulations will not adequately protect human health and the environment, to regulate the manufacture and distribution in commerce of such products. Authorizes the Administrator to establish a research program at the Hazardous Substance Research Centers (created pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act) to assist the EPA Office of Pollution Prevention. Requires the Administrator to report to the Congress on the criteria that would be used in establishing a program of regulatory incentives to promote toxics use and source reduction and to evaluate the benefits to human health and the environment that can be achieved from such program. Title III: Recycling - Declares it to be a national goal that at a minimum the generation of municipal solid waste be reduced by at least ten percent by the year 2000 and that at least 25 and 50 percent of such waste stream be recycled by 1995 and the year 2000, respectively. Requires the Administrator to promulgate commodity specific recovery and utilization standards for paper, glass, metals, plastic products, and other commodities. Provides for the review of such standards at least every five years and for revisions, as necessary. Requires the annual minimum recovery and utilization rate (by December 31, 1995) to be at least: (1) 52 percent for newsprint; (2) 66 percent for corrugated paper products; (3) 20 percent for mixed paper grades; (4) 50 percent for high-grade deinking paper; and (5) 100 percent for pulp substitutes; or (6) 40 percent for all grades of paper products. Directs the Administrator, if such rates have not been achieved by such date, to establish specified minimum recycled materials content standards. Requires the minimum annual recovery and utilization rate for plastic bottles or containers having a thickness of seven mils or greater and which retain shape when unsupported to be at least 25 percent by December 31, 1995. Directs the Administrator, if such rate has not been achieved, to require the annual minimum recycled content in such bottles and containers to be 30 percent by December 31, 2000. Requires the annual average percentage of cullet in glass bottles and containers to be at least 65 percent by January 1, 2005. Directs paper manufacturers and manufacturers of glass, metal, and plastic bottles or containers to report annually to the Administrator on the amount produced, the amount of recycled material used, and the average annual percentage of recycled content used in production. Requires the Administrator to compile an annual list indicating the average annual amount of recycled material used by commodities and the percentage of recycled content for each manufacturer and commodity. Directs publishers of daily newspapers with annual circulations of 25,000 or more to publish the average annual recycled content used in the production of the newspaper. Requires the Administrator to report to the Congress on enforcing commodity specific recycling requirements. Directs the Administrator to conduct demonstration projects and to develop model programs for the collection of materials for recycling in urban and rural areas. Requires such programs to identify collection methods, recycling techniques and technologies, markets for recycled materials, methods for stimulating such markets, methods of financing, and education and training programs that are adapted for recycling in rural areas. Authorizes States to develop model programs or establish their own programs for collecting materials for recycling purposes. Sets forth minimum requirements for State programs. Requires procuring agencies to give preference in procurement to items produced with the highest percentage of recovered materials practicable. Directs such agencies to purchase a quantity of recovered materials, the value of which constitutes 20 percent of the total dollar amount spent on procurement. Increases such percentage by two percentage points every second fiscal year. Provides that the percentage of total procurement reached at the end of the tenth year shall be required for every succeeding fiscal year. Prohibits agencies from paying more than ten percent above the price of a similar item not meeting guidelines for recovered materials. Sets forth a schedule for the preparation of final guidelines for the procurement of recovered glass, ferrous and nonferrous metals, lead-acid batteries, compost, plastic, used tire fragments, and rubber. Requires the Administrator to provide technical assistance to procuring agencies for compliance purposes. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program to assure that purchases of fertilizer by the Department of Agriculture include fertilizer made with composted solid waste or secondary materials. Requires the Secretary of Defense to review specifications for military procurement items and to make necessary modifications to eliminate requirements that discriminate against the use or acquisition of items containing recovered materials. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to take actions to stimulate the development of new markets for recovered materials and products containing such materials. Requires the Secretary and the U.S. Trade Representative to identify foreign markets for such materials and products and to assist exporters of such materials and products in selling in such markets. Directs the Secretary to: (1) acquire and disseminate information regarding the world demand and competition for recyclable materials and products containing recovered materials, the marketing and distribution of such materials and products in foreign countries, and the factors influencing the export of such materials and products from the United States; and (2) undertake demonstrations abroad of the standards of quality of such materials and products. Provides that Federal contracts for $1,000,000 or more shall require at least 50 percent of materials (for which there are procurement guidelines) used in such contracts to be produced from recycled materials. Permits any person to petition a Federal agency to undertake a waste reduction action and requires such action to be undertaken if: (1) the action would bring about at least a five percent increase in recycled content of an item or would reduce by at least five percent the total volume or toxic constituents of solid waste described in the petition; (2) the action would be consistent with existing law or policies can be modified to accommodate the action and remain in accordance with statutory requirements; and (3) the action would bring about a net saving in cost to the Federal Government or would be neutral in effect or cost. Requires Federal agencies to designate waste reduction officers to oversee compliance with Federal waste reduction requirements. Title IV: Waste and Secondary Materials Management - Revises minimum requirements for State solid waste management plans. Requires States, as part of such plans, to submit to the Administrator capacity management reports that identify or estimate: (1) the amount of municipal waste generated annually within the State; (2) the amount of such waste that is exported annually to other States for recycling, incineration, or disposal; and (3) the amount of such waste that is transported annually into the State from other States for incineration or disposal. Directs States with exports of solid waste in excess of amounts imported to provide for specified reductions of waste exports in their plans. Revises plan approval procedures. Requires the Administrator to review plans at least once every five years. Directs owners or operators of facilities that store, treat, or dispose of solid waste or facilities that recycle solid waste or secondary material to notify States. Prohibits transportation of solid waste for storage, treatment, incineration, or disposal to any facility that has not notified a State. Treats units as having satisfied the notification requirement if: (1) in States with an existing solid waste management permitting system, existing units obtain permits 12 months after this Act's enactment and new units obtain permits prior to commencing construction; and (2) in States without an existing permit system, the units submit to the Administrator a notification and exposure assessment. Prohibits, 48 months after this Act's enactment or on the date of issuance of a permit, whichever is sooner, the storage, treatment, or disposal of solid waste and the recycling of such waste or secondary material, except in accordance with a permit. Authorizes States to exempt recycling facilities from permit requirements if a permit is not necessary to protect human health and the environment. Requires State Governors to submit to the Administrator certifications that State laws provide the regulatory authority and personnel to implement permit requirements. Authorizes States, after the submission of such certifications, to issue permits to facilities in compliance with requirements. Prohibits permits from being issued by any agency or person responsible for the design and construction or operation of a unit. Requires the Administrator to issue or deny permits to solid waste management facilities if a State: (1) has failed to submit the certification or a management plan; or (2) lacks or has failed to exercise regulatory powers to implement permitting requirements. Provides that permits shall contain provisions specifying: (1) the types of wastes handled by a facility, their potential to affect human health and the environment, and measures to mitigate such potential; (2) design of the facility in relation to its location; (3) air and groundwater monitoring to identify adverse effects from a discharge from a facility; (4) financial assurance for closure and postclosure care; (5) measures necessary to prevent the unlawful disposal of hazardous waste and to control precipitation run-on and run-off; (6) restrictions on the receipt of liquids or measures to mitigate the adverse effects of liquids; and (7) the authority to require any corrective action to prevent adverse effects on health and the environment. Limits permits to five-year periods. Authorizes the issuance of a single permit for facilities with multiple units. Requires the owners or operators of facilities subject to permit requirements (except recycling facilities) to pay a fee to cover costs of administering the permit program. Sets forth requirements with respect to fees collected by permitting authorities. Authorizes the Administrator, if the fee provisions of a permit program do not meet specified requirements, to collect fees from facilities. Requires sources that fail to pay fees to pay a penalty of 50 percent of the fee amount plus interest. Directs the Administrator to promulgate guidelines establishing minimum requirements (pursuant to a specified schedule) for facilities that manage solid waste in the following categories: (1) municipal solid waste; (2) municipal waste combustion ash; (3) medical wastes; and (4) industrial solid wastes. Requires the Administrator to identify other solid waste categories for which guidelines are appropriate and specify a schedule for the promulgation of such guidelines. Sets forth minimum requirements for municipal solid waste landfills with respect to groundwater and gas monitoring, hazardous waste disposal, illegal dumping of wastes, run-on and run-off controls, closure and postclosure, financial responsibility, corrective action, liners, leachate collection and removal, and location. Provides that guidelines shall establish requirements for the management of municipal incinerator ash. Requires that landfills into which such ashes are disposed provide for groundwater monitoring and: (1) have a double liner and a leachate collection system above and between such liner; or (2) place such ashes in a monofill having a single composite liner and designed to assure that there will be no future migration of any constituent into ground or surface water. Provides that landfill design requirements shall not apply to owners or operators of solid waste management units utilizing alternative designs if demonstrated that such designs prevent such migration. Provides that the regulations may allow disposal of ash from units in sanitary landfills if such ash and any treated fly ash so disposed are tested and meet current criteria. Directs the Administrator, in developing regulations for the management of municipal incinerator ash, to issue criteria and testing procedures for identifying the characteristics of such ash which may pose a hazard to human health or the environment. Requires the owner or operator of a municipal incinerator or any facility involved in ash management to test the ash in accordance with such criteria and testing procedures. Requires that any ash which is identified as posing a hazard to human health or the environment be disposed of in a landfill which has two or more liners and a leachate collection system above and between such liners. Directs the Administrator to validate such criteria and testing procedures by conducting an analysis of leachate at facilities disposing or reusing ash from municipal incinerators. Authorizes the Administrator to issue a corrective action order or commence an enforcement action against a facility when there has been a release of a hazardous constituent. Authorizes the Administrator or States, under certain conditions, to grant variances from ash disposal requirements pursuant to this Act to owners or operators of municipal incinerators. Limits such variances to specified time periods. Repeals a provision of the Solid Waste Disposal Act which exempts facilities burning household and specified nonhazardous waste from regulation requirements under such Act. Sets forth requirements for guidelines governing the management of medical wastes. Requires the Administrator to establish: (1) an education and outreach program to provide information and assistance for non-hospital sources of medical wastes; and (2) a process for approval and certification of treatment technologies capable of rendering medical waste harmless. Makes it unlawful to treat, store, or dispose of industrial waste in any new surface impoundment unit at an existing facility, any replacement of such unit, or any lateral expansion of such unit, unless the unit is equipped with: (1) two or more liners and a leachate collection system between such liners; and (2) groundwater monitoring. Exempts from such prohibition: (1) alternative design and operating practices for surface impoundments that prevent the migration of hazardous constituents into water at least as effectively as liners and leachate collection systems; and (2) industrial wastewater if such wastewater is noncontact, freshwater cooling water used in the industrial process. Prohibits the placement of bulk liquids and liquids in containers into any landfill containing industrial waste. Applies standards and requirements for hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities to hazardous waste recycling facilities. Deems hazardous secondary material to be hazardous waste for purposes of relevant requirements unless the Administrator promulgates requirements for the recycling, recovery, and reuse of hazardous waste and secondary material. Sets forth minimum requirements. Applies specified requirements for recycling materials set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) to hazardous waste and secondary material recycling facilities. Requires regulations under the Solid Waste Disposal Act applicable to hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (in lieu of the CFR requirements) to facilities generating or receiving hazardous secondary material or waste where: (1) such material or waste is burned for energy recovery or where the main purpose is the destruction of the material; (2) such material or waste is inherently waste-like; (3) the products of facilities receiving such material or waste will be used in a manner constituting disposal; or (4) the material or waste is speculatively accumulated. Directs owners or operators of facilities recycling, recovering, or reusing hazardous material in a closed loop manufacturing process or directly reusing hazardous waste or secondary material to certify to the Administrator that such facilities meet the requirements of a closed loop system or direct use process and are exempt from requirements for hazardous waste facilities. Directs the Administrator to provide for permits for facilities which store and recycle hazardous waste or secondary material. Provides for: (1) public notice and comment prior to construction and commencement of operations at such facilities; (2) a demonstration by facility owners or operators that the facility is in compliance with applicable requirements; (3) annual on-site inspection of such facilities by the permitting authority; and (4) such other information to verify compliance with the permit. Authorizes the Administrator to revoke permits if compliance with standards cannot be verified. Makes such requirements inapplicable to land disposal units or incinerators. Permits a class of facilities or recycling units to be eligible for such permits by rule only if no single facility or recycling unit has the potential for significant damage to human health and the environment and will have minimal cumulative adverse effects. Requires the Administrator to promulgate standards for: (1) recycling facilities for solid wastes and secondary materials (other than hazardous wastes and secondary materials); and (2) the reuse or use of products from recycling or resource recovery activities other than raw materials for manufacturing processes and for the use and composition of compost made from solid waste. Sets forth minimum requirements for such standards. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations for collecting, transporting, recycling, and managing lead-acid batteries and tires. Prohibits: (1) the disposal or incineration of lead-acid batteries; and (2) the disposal of tires in land disposal facilities. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations for the collection, storage, transportation, or recycling of used oil. Provides that used oil that is not managed in accordance with such regulations shall be managed as a hazardous waste. Requires the Administrator, in developing such regulations, to conduct an analysis of the economic impact of such regulations on the used oil recycling industry. Provides that regulations for used oil collectors shall: (1) prohibit the storage of used oil in an underground storage tank unless such tank meets requirements under the Solid Waste Disposal Act; (2) prohibit the storage of used oil for more than 12 months; (3) require collectors to transfer such oil to specified permitted used oil recycling or disposal facilities or transporters; and (4) require collectors to keep specified records on such oil. Requires used oil transporter regulations to provide that such transporters: (1) acquire identification numbers from EPA; (2) meet applicable financial responsibility requirements; and (3) keep specified records. Includes intermediate storage requirements in transporter regulations. Provides that used oil recycler regulations shall require recyclers to: (1) keep specified records; and (2) test fuel produced from the recycling process before departure from the facility. Prohibits mixing used oil with hazardous waste identified or listed under the Solid Waste Disposal Act except when: (1) the resulting mixture does not exhibit hazardous waste characteristics;and (2) the mixture is burned to recover useful energy in a device that ensures protection of health and the environment. Prohibits the recycling of used oil except in accordance with a permit. Sets forth requirements to be effective if the Administrator fails to promulgate used oil regulations by the applicable deadline. Requires the Administrator to implement education programs to inform the public and small businesses about the environmental and safety hazards associated with improper handling and disposal of used oil and the benefits derived from used oil recycling. Authorizes appropriations. Deems used oil recyclers to have interim permits if they submit specified information to the Administrator or an authorized State. Authorizes a State to prohibit the transportation of municipal solid waste into such State for disposal or incineration from a State with an intrastate restriction on the movement of such waste if the importing State has closed or upgraded all open dumps. Permits a State to enact and enforce laws to collect fees for the incineration and disposal of municipal solid wastes generated in another State if such fees: (1) are applicable throughout the State and do not discriminate against a disposal or incineration site or point of waste generation; and (2) do not apply to any municipal solid waste and recyclable materials that have been separated from municipal solid waste that is transported to a recycling facility. Sets forth a fee scale. Provides for annual increases in such fees, based upon the Consumer Price Index. Authorizes a State to impose fees on municipal solid waste generated in another State only upon certification that the importing State is in compliance with an approved solid waste management plan. Permits a State to restrict or prohibit the transportation of solid waste generated in another State if: (1) the importing State has, and is in compliance with, an approved solid waste management plan; and (2) the exporting State is not in compliance with, or does not have, an approved plan. Authorizes persons adversely affected by State laws or regulations governing the transportation of municipal solid waste to petition the Administrator for relief. Permits the Administrator to suspend State authority for a specified time period. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations prescribing recycling practices which shall be exempt from State authorities governing the transportation of municipal solid waste. Prohibits the disposal (pursuant to a specified schedule) of municipal solid waste originating in another State without the prior consent of the Governor of the receiving State, if the receiving State is in compliance with solid waste management requirements. Prohibits the disposal in any State of solid waste generated in another State without the prior consent of the Governor of the receiving State, if the receiving State is in compliance with solid waste management requirements. Prohibits the disposal in any State of solid waste generated in another State if such disposal constitutes the open dumping of solid waste. Prescribes civil and criminal penalties for specified violations of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Extends the authorization of appropriations for solid waste planning, solid and hazardous waste management and resource recovery programs, and solid waste management assistance for rural communities. Title V: Underground Storage Tanks - Authorizes the Administrator to guarantee principal and interest on loans made to qualified small businesses for the closure and replacement of underground storage tanks. Sets forth amounts and conditions of such guarantees. Permits the Administrator to make principal and interest payments on behalf of the borrower if: (1) the borrower is unable to make such payment and it is in the public interest to continue the project; and (2) the probable net cost to the Government in making such payments would be less than that resulting from the borrower's default. Authorizes the Administrator, in the event of a default by a borrower, to make payments in accordance with the guarantee. Requires the Attorney General to recover payments from the defaulting borrower. Terminates the authority to make loan guarantees or payment contracts seven years after this Act's enactment. Permits the Administrator or a State to undertake corrective action with respect to threatened releases of petroleum from underground storage tanks.
Bill· SS. 965 (102nd)reported
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 - Title I: Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1991 - Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1991 - Declares that: (1) the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways is completed; (2) the principal purpose of Federal highway assistance shall henceforth be to improve the efficiency of the existing surface transportation system; and (3) it is U.S. policy to facilitate innovation and competition in transportation modes through Federal and State initiative and to increase productivity in the transportation sector of the economy through systematic attention to costs and benefits. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Account of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) for the following programs: (1) surface transportation; (2) congestion mitigation and air quality improvement; (3) bridge; (4) interstate maintenance; (5) interstate construction (but repeals the existing FY 1993 authorization and a provision regarding minimum apportionments); (6) interstate substitution; (7) Federal lands highway; (8) territorial highway; (9) national magnetic levitation design; (10) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) research; (11) university transportation center; (12) highway use tax evasion; and (13) safety belt and motorcycle helmet use. Sets forth provisions with respect to obligation ceilings for Federal-aid highway programs and redistribution of unused obligation authority. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a surface transportation program to fund projects such as: (1) construction, restoration, and operational improvements for highways and bridges; (2) capital and operating costs for mass transit, rail, and magnetic levitation systems; (3) carpool projects and parking and bicycle facilities and programs; and (4) surface transportation research and development programs. Sets forth requirements and administrative provisions with respect to such program. Provides that 50 percent of the funds authorized for the next five years shall go to such program. Specifies that the Federal/State cost share ratio for such program shall be 80/20 for projects to maintain existing facilities or use them more efficiently, and 75/25 for projects to build new facilities for use by single occupant vehicles. Requires: (1) each State to spend eight percent of the funds received under this program on "transportation enhancement activities" (defined to include highway safety programs, scenic and historic preservation, billboard control, and environmental mitigation); and (2) that funds be distributed under this program so that each State receives a share of total Federal funds distributed equal to the percent of Federal funds from 1987 to 1991, with exceptions. Repeals a provision authorizing the Secretary to approve as a project on any Federal-aid system the construction of exclusive or preferential truck lanes. Authorizes: (1) the Secretary to establish a congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program; and (2) funds under such program to be spent on projects that will contribute to attainment of air quality standards as determined by the guidance to be issued under the Clean Air Act (CAA) by the Environmental Protection Agency, a State implementation under such Act, or the Secretary. Provides for the apportionment of funds to States based on their non-attainment area population, adjusted for the severity of the non-attainment problem. Specifies that the Federal/State match shall be 80/20. Specifies that the Federal/State match to repair or replace existing bridges without increasing capacity shall be 80/20, but the match for construction of new capacity on existing bridges or construction of new bridges shall be 75/25 (currently, the match is 80/20 in any case). Makes bridge painting an eligible use of Federal funds. Repeals the discretionary bridge program. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop and make available to the States criteria for determining what share of a project is attributable to the expansion of bridge capacity where the new capacity is available to single occupant vehicles; and (2) establish "level of service" criteria for the bridge program. Bars the use of interstate maintenance funds to widen existing interstate highways. Authorizes States to transfer up to 20 percent of interstate maintenance money to the surface transportation program and larger amounts if the State can demonstrate to the Secretary that they are adequately maintaining their interstate highways. Changes the Federal/State match for interstate maintenance from 90/10 to 80/20. Authorizes the Secretary to develop and make available to the States criteria for determining the share of an interstate maintenance project that is attributable to the expansion of the capacity of an interstate highway and what constitutes adequate maintenance. Specifies that segments added to the Interstate System (IS) before January 1, 1984, shall be counted towards a State apportionment of interstate maintenance funds. Directs the Secretary to make apportionments to the States to finish outstanding IS projects, except that specific amounts are specified for Massachusetts. Combines the public lands highways and forest highways accounts of the current Federal lands program. Provides for the apportionment of funds based on the existing formula for the Forest Highways Program. Repeals the current national policy against tolls on roads built or maintained with Federal funds. Authorizes the use of Federal funds to: (1) build new toll roads at a 35/65 Federal/non-Federal cost share; and (2) convert existing non-tolled facilities to toll facilities at an 80/20 cost share. Prohibits the imposition of new tolls on the IS. Authorizes the Secretary to permit Federal participation in the construction of ferryboats and ferry approaches, subject to specified conditions. Directs the Secretary to solicit participation of State and local governments and public authorities for one or more congestion pricing pilot projects. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with up to five such State or local governments or public authorities to establish, maintain, and monitor congestion pricing projects. Specifies the Federal share (100 percent for not more than three years). Directs the Secretary to fund all development and startup costs of such projects for at least one year and thereafter until sufficient revenues are generated by the program to fund its operating costs without Federal participation. Sets forth monitoring and reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary to renegotiate specified agreements to permit the continuance of existing toll facilities without repayment of Federal funds. Requires (currently, authorizes) the designation of a metropolitan planning organization (MPO) for each urbanized area of a State of over 50,000 population, including representatives of local communities and the State. Specifies that: (1) plans developed by an MPO shall take into account the requirements of the CAA, local land use or energy plans, and other factors; (2) the MPO shall develop a transportation improvement program (and decide how to split Federal funds between highway and transit projects); and (3) the Secretary shall make an annual certification with respect to whether each MPO is carrying out it responsibilities under Federal law. Increases the current Federal set-aside for metropolitan planning from .5 to one percent of Federal highway funds. Requires each State to have management systems for bridges, pavement, safety, and congestion, and a traffic monitoring system, as well as a planning process that takes into account land use, energy requirements, transportation needs, and other factors. Requires States that contain non-attainment areas under the CAA to produce an annual State transportation plan, incorporating without amendment the provisions of any metropolitan area plan developed pursuant to this Act. Directs the FHWA to conduct research on Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems and other new technologies, and develop indicators to measure the performance of the surface transportation system with respect to productivity, efficiency, energy use, air quality, and other factors. Directs the Secretary to create a Dwight D. Eisenhower transportation research fellowship program. Changes the Federal/State match for State research activities from 85/15 to 80/20. Allows States to program research funds without approval of the Department of Transportation (DOT). Establishes within DOT a Bureau of Transportation Statistics to collect, analyze, and disseminate information about the condition and performance of the entire transportation system. Specifies that such Bureau shall: (1) be headed by a Director who is appointed by the President; and (2) produce annual reports. Establishes a National Magnetic Levitation Design Program to be managed jointly by the Secretary of DOT and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works. Requires such officials to establish a National Maglev Joint Project Office to carry out such program and to solicit bids from the private sector to design and construct a prototype magnetic levitation system. Specifies that: (1) phase one grants shall be given to up to six applicants to develop a conceptual design for the system at a 90/10 cost share; (2) phase two grants shall be given to up to three participants to develop detailed plans at an 80/20 cost share (and a contract for construction awarded at a 75/25 cost share); and (3) the prototype shall be constructed and ready for operational testing within three years after the award of the grant, and shall be converted to commercial operation after testing is complete. Directs the Secretary, in any case where sufficient land exists within the publicly acquired rights-of-way of any highway constructed in whole or in part with Federal-aid highway funds to accommodate needed passenger or commuter high speed ground transportation (including magnetic levitation) systems and highway and non-highway public mass transit facilities, to authorize a State to make such lands and rights-of-way available without charge to a publicly or privately owned authority or company for such purposes. (Under current law, the Administrator may make such authorization to a publicly owned mass transit authority when in the public interest with respect to rights-of-way of any Federal-aid highway to accommodate needed rail or nonhighway public mass transit facilities where this can be accomplished without impairing automotive safety or future highway improvements). Grants the States with a right to income from airspace rights-of-way contingent upon such State's permitting governmental use, use by public or private entities for high speed ground transportation systems, or other transit, utility use, and occupancy where such use or occupancy is necessary for an authorized transportation project, or use for transportation projects eligible for assistance, without charge. Directs the Secretary, by October 1, 1993, to update the findings of the report required by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 to determine the amount the United States could pay the States to reimburse them for segments incorporated into the IS that were constructed at non-Federal expense. Continues current law with respect to disadvantaged business enterprises. Modifies the dollar amount used to define a small business to adjust for inflation. Makes funds under Federal highway provisions available in the year in which they are apportioned or allocated and in the next three years. Authorizes States to: (1) design, construct, and maintain specified highway projects without Federal engineering review; (2) set their own occupancy requirements for high occupancy vehicle lanes; (3) have up to ten years before they must refund to the HTF sums for engineering costs on projects that have not yet been built; and (4) authorize the transportation department of any city of over 1,000,000 people to deal directly with the FHWA. Specifies that projects that affect historic and scenic values may be designed to protects such values. Requires States that do not adopt laws mandating the use of safety belts and motorcycle helmets to set aside a portion of funds received under the surface transportation program for highway safety programs (1.5 percent for noncompliance in FY 1994 and three percent thereafter). Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for safety education, training, monitoring, and enforcement to States that adopt safety belt and helmet laws. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of differences in injuries, medical costs, payor mix, and unreimbursed costs of restrained and unrestrained helmeted and nonhelmeted victims of motor vehicle and motorcycle crashes. Makes public education and information activities in support of State and community motorcycle safety and safety belt programs eligible for funds authorized to be appropriated for such study. Directs the States and U.S. territories to complete a functional reclassification, to be updated periodically, of all public roads by September 30, 1993. Continues the authorization for the DOT's public information program, Operation Lifesaver. Title II: National Recreational Trails Trust Fund Act - National Recreational Trails Fund Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish the National Recreational Trails Trust Fund (Fund). Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to pay into the Fund an amount equivalent to 0.3 percent of total Highway Trust Fund receipts, to be adjusted by the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to use such amounts in the Fund to make grants to the States for constructing and maintaining recreational trails. Establishes the National Recreational Trails Act Advisory Committee. Sets forth reporting requirements.
Bill· SS. 973 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
School-Based Meals for Older Individuals and Intergenerational Programs Act of 1990 - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to establish a program for school-based meals for volunteer older individuals and intergenerational activities for volunteer older individuals and elementary and secondary school students. Directs the Commissioner on Aging to make grants to States for the establishment and operation of projects that: (1) are carried out in elementary and secondary schools; (2) provide hot meals to volunteer older individuals while such schools are in session, during the summer, and (unless waived by the State) on weekdays in the school year when the schools are not in session; (3) provide intergenerational activities in which volunteer older individuals and students interact; (4) provide social and recreational activities for older individuals; (5) develop skill banks that maintain and make available to school officials information on the skills and preferred activities of such individuals so that they may serve as tutors, teacher aides, living historians, special speakers, playground supervisors, and lunchroom assistants and in other roles; and (6) provide opportunities for volunteer older individuals to participate in school activities and use school facilities. Sets forth application procedures. Requires annual program evaluation reports by: (1) States receiving such grants, to the Commissioner; and (2) the Commissioner, summarizing such State reports, to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits program funding for a fiscal year unless certain other programs receive funding for that year which exceeds their FY 1990 levels.
Bill· SS. 978 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the deposit of highway-related taxes in the Highway Trust Fund. Removes provisions which required a portion of gasoline excise taxes (including diesel and special motor fuels) to be used for deficit reduction.
Bill· SS. 966 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Contraceptive and Infertility Research Centers Act of 1991 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Institute of Child Health and Human Development to make grants or enter into contracts for centers for improving methods of contraception and centers for diagnosing and treating infertility. Requires the Director, subject to appropriations, to provide for three centers with respect to contraception and two centers with respect to infertility. Requires each center to: (1) conduct clinical and other applied research; (2) develop training protocols for and conduct training of physicians, scientists, nurses, and other health and allied health professionals; (3) develop model continuing education programs; and (4) disseminate information to professionals. Allows a center to use the funds to provide: (1) stipends for health and allied health professionals enrolled in the training programs; and (2) fees to individuals serving as subjects in the clinical trials. Requires each center to use the facilities of a single institution, or be formed from a consortium of cooperating institutions, meeting requirements as prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Allows support for a center to be for a period of up to five years, with extensions of one or more periods of up to five years if the center's operations have been reviewed by a peer review group and the group has so recommended. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary to establish a program of entering into agreements with health professionals, including graduate students, under which the professionals agree to conduct research with respect to contraception or infertility in consideration of the Government agreeing to repay, for each year of such service, not more than a specified amount of the principal and interest of their educational loans. Applies provisions of the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program to this program, except as inconsistent. Authorizes appropriations. Requires amounts appropriated to remain available until the end of the second fiscal year after they are appropriated.
Bill· SS. 954 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the determination of eligible basis in difficult development areas for the low-income housing credit by taking into account the adjusted bases of the real property upon which buildings are located.
Bill· SS. 946 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Amends Federal law to require the Postal Service to file with the Postal Rate Commission, at the time of filing its request for a rate or fee change, all workpapers and Library References to be used and/or to support the evidence presented by each Postal Service witness. Provides that not less than 30 nor more than 60 days before requesting a rate or fee change the Postal Service shall: (1) publish a notice of intent to file such a request; and (2) file with the Commission, and subsequently make available to persons who have given notice of intent to participate in the rate-changing proceeding, a statement of costs, revenues, and mail volume covering the year for which the data will form the basis of the request. Requires the Commission to provide for discovery, under the most expeditious schedule possible, from the Postal Service and the parties to the proceedings. Requires the Commission to assign a filing date to any request by the Postal Service for a recommended postage rate or service fee change. Sets forth the formula for determining such date. Requires the Commission to transmit its recommended decisions to the Governors within 265 days (eight and a half months) after such filing date. (Current law requires a decision within ten months). Authorizes the Commission to allow: (1) interested persons to file, at any time between the publication of notice of a rate or fee change request and the request filing date, a notice of intent to participate in the proceedings; and (2) for expeditious grant of party status to them. Authorizes the Commission to extend the 265-day period for transmitting its recommended decisions to the Governors under specified circumstances. Directs the Postal Service to file annually with the Postal Rate Commission certain nonconfidential data for each fiscal year.
Bill· SS. 934 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Health Insurance Deduction Equity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code relating to the income tax deduction for the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals to: (1) increase the allowable deduction from 25 percent to 50 percent; and (2) extend the deduction until December 31, 1992 (currently, such deduction expires December 31, 1991).
Bill· SS. 956 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
International Cooperation Act of 1991 - Title I: Statement of Policy; Economic Assistance Programs - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to revise policy provisions. Declares that it should be U.S. policy that the financial, material, and human resources authorized by this Act should serve the following goals: (1) to promote and consolidate democratic values, market principles, and peace; (2) to protect against transnational threats; and (3) to meet humanitarian needs. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) concentrate development assistance in countries which will make the most effective use of such assistance; (2) focus development assistance on activities which the United States can provide most effectively and which meet the particular economic assistance requirements of a country; and (3) not provide assistance if the relevant sector or economic policies of a country are unfavorable to the sustainability or impact of the assisted project. Authorizes the President to provide development assistance to support economic growth and democratic development and to address humanitarian needs and global problems. Authorizes appropriations for development assistance for FY 1992. Permits the President to use development assistance funds for: (1) capital and infrastructure assistance; (2) development education programs to educate U.S. citizens about developing countries; and (3) assistance to nongovernmental organizations to strengthen their capacity to carry out programs for the economic and social development of developing countries. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the well-being of countries is affected by how the world's environment and physical resource base are managed and that consumption patterns, systems of industrial and agricultural production, and the use of natural resources have an impact on long-term development and growth and survival of all countries; (2) environmentally responsible management of physical resources is necessary by countries to insure their availability for future generations and to assure that the burdens of improved resource management do not fall disproportionately on the poor; and (3) economic assistance programs should assist countries in carrying out programs and policies that promote environmentally sound economic development. Declares that recipient countries should bear a share of the costs of development assistance programs under this Act. Prohibits economic assistance from being used for military or paramilitary purposes or for the purchase of Stingers and mules to transport them. Exempts from such prohibition assistance involving the participation of military personnel in training activities and conferences. Authorizes the President to: (1) make investments in, loans for, and guarantees assuring against losses incurred in, projects in developing countries that meet specified private sector criteria; and (2) make loans (currently, issue guarantees against losses incurred in connection with loans) for housing and urban projects. Revises provisions concerning the housing and urban development guarantee program. Prohibits assistance for such projects if the credit subsidy associated with the borrower would exceed 25 percent. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the President to furnish assistance to countries and organizations to strengthen administration of justice in developing countries and emerging democracies. Permits the President to provide such assistance if a country: (1) has recently emerged or is in the process of emerging as a democracy; or (2) has recently emerged or is emerging from civil strife and has a democratically elected government or is making substantial progress toward a democratic form of government. Authorizes appropriations. Revises provisions concerning international narcotics control. Permits funds for economic support assistance, foreign military financing, or international military education and training to be transferred and consolidated with funds for international narcotics control if: (1) such assistance is withheld from the country for which it was allocated because of laws that require the withholding of assistance from countries that have not cooperated with the United States or taken steps to halt illicit drug production and trafficking; and (2) such funds are used for assistance to countries that have taken significant steps to halt illicit drug production or trafficking. Makes provisions of law that prohibit assistance to countries in default on obligations owed to the United States inapplicable with respect to narcotics-related assistance. Revises congressional reporting requirements with respect to international narcotics production and trafficking. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 for such assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 for American schools, libraries, and hospital centers abroad. Permits the President to use funds available under this title for grants to, or contracts with, nongovernmental organizations to enable such organizations to: (1) purchase debt obligations owed by developing countries to commercial lending institutions, foreign governments, or other parties; and (2) cancel such obligations subject to the President's approval, to the extent that such country makes available assets or policy commitments to promote the goals of this Act. Authorizes grantees or contractees to retain interest earned on the proceeds of debt-for-development or debt-for-environment purchases or exchanges pending the disbursement of such proceeds and interest for the purposes for which assistance was provided. Authorizes Federal agencies to: (1) furnish services and commodities on an advance-of-funds or reimbursement basis to friendly countries, international organizations, and nongovernmental organizations; and (2) contract with individuals for personal services abroad or in the United States to perform such services in lieu of Federal employees. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 for international disaster assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 for grants to international organizations. Permits the President to withhold contributions from an organization if such organization is denying Israel or other designated countries the right to participate in such organization's activities. Withholds contributions from Libya, Iran, Cuba, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Authorizes the withholding of contributions from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East unless the Agency assures that no U.S. contribution is used to assist any refugee who: (1) is receiving military training as a member of the PLO or any other guerrilla organization; or (2) has engaged in any act of terrorism. Declares that the President should (currently, requires) seek evaluation and auditing of programs of the United Nations, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Inter-American Investment Corporation, the African Development Bank, the African Development Fund, the Asian Development Fund, and the Asian Development Bank. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 for operating expenses of the agency (administering agency) designated by the President to administer this title and of the Office of Inspector General of such agency. Permits such agency to expend funds in advance of appropriations to maintain operations at posts abroad for up to three days. Declares that the President should establish a program performance evaluation capacity to: (1) develop a program performance information system to afford such agency's managers a means for monitoring achievement of impact and interim performance of the agency's major programs; (2) prepare and disseminate reports on the agency's progress in meeting development objectives for major assistance categories and recipient countries; (3) strengthen the implementation of foreign assistance projects; and (4) coordinate with the Inspector General of such agency to ensure complementarity of efforts. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the sustained participation of U.S. private voluntary organizations, cooperatives, and credit unions that are engaged in development activities serves as an important means of improving the lives of the poor in developing countries; (2) sustained participation of U.S. colleges and universities in the economic development programs of developing countries is vital to such countries' achievement of economic growth and open democratic political systems; and (3) such sustained participation would be enhanced by providing such organizations the opportunity to participate in the planning, development, and implementation of programs involving such organizations. Encourages the President to establish a partnership with such organizations to achieve the attainment of goals concerning development assistance. Title II: Military Assistance and Related Assistance and Sales Programs - Chapter 1: Consolidation and Revision of Accounts - Revises policy provisions concerning military assistance. Revises the President's authority to furnish military assistance to friendly countries to permit the President to: (1) finance the sale of defense articles or services; or (2) finance the procurement of such articles (under certain circumstances) by any member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) or any major non-NATO ally through leases from U.S. commercial suppliers. Requires sales under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act (formerly, the Arms Export Control Act) which are wholly paid from funds made available on a grant basis under this Act or were transferred or made available under former authorities prior to this Act's enactment to be priced to exclude the costs of salaries of members of the U.S. armed forces (other than members of the Coast Guard) and unfunded estimated costs of civilian retirement and other benefits. Permits the financing of the procurement of defense articles and services not sold by the U.S. Government only if the country or international organization proposing to make such procurement has signed an agreement with the United States specifying the conditions under which the procurement may be financed. Requires such agreements to grant the U.S. Government the right to deobligate any furnished funds that have not been committed for an approved use three years after the effective date of such an agreement. Authorizes assistance provided under this chapter to be on a grant, credit, or guarantee basis. Outlines criteria to be considered by the President in determining the terms of assistance. Outlines disbursement procedures for funds used to finance the procurement of defense articles and services. Makes such assistance available to a foreign country to make payments to the United States for credits or loans for defense articles or services granted under predecessor military sales or foreign assistance legislation. Revises provisions concerning eligibility for the receipt of defense articles or services and makes them applicable to the financing of such articles or services. Makes defense articles sold or leased under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act or furnished under predecessor foreign assistance or military sales legislation subject to the eligibility provisions of this title. Raises the ceiling on the value of defense articles and services authorized to be made available under certain emergencies. Revises and combines provisions concerning transfers of excess defense articles. Authorizes the transfer of: (1) excess defense articles (currently, nonlethal articles) to countries for which a foreign military financing program was justified in the fiscal year in which the transfer is authorized; and (2) excess property of the Coast Guard on the same basis as Department of Defense property is transferred. Declares that decisions to furnish foreign military financing assistance should take into account whether such assistance will: (1) contribute to an arms race; (2) increase the possibility of outbreak or escalation of conflict; or (3) prejudice the development of multilateral arms control arrangements. Permits such assistance to be provided for civic action in Africa. Authorizes appropriations for such assistance for FY 1992. Revises provisions concerning the location of stockpiles. Places a ceiling on the value of additions to stockpiles during FY 1992. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 for: (1) international military education and training; and (2) peacekeeping activities. Removes conditions on the type of arms on the U.S. Munitions List that may be provided for antiterrorism assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 for antiterrorism assistance. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Arms Export Control Act. Revises a provision regarding the Guaranty Reserve Fund and redesignates the Fund as the Foreign Military Loan Liquidating Account. Repeals a provision concerning the availability of funds for procurement of defense articles and services outside the United States. Permits the President to waive requirements under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 concerning the disposition of defense articles and services furnished before the effective date of this title. Chapter 2: Foreign Military Sales Program - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to rename such Act as the Defense Trade and Export Control Act. Repeals a provision concerning purposes for military sales or leases. Deems references to the Arms Export Control Act to be references to the Defense Trade and Export Control Act. Authorizes the President, by notifying the Congress, to designate a country as a major non-NATO ally or terminate such a designation. Deems Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, and the Republic of Korea to have been so designated by the President. Revises provisions concerning presidential certifications and congressional procedures for certain arms transfers. Raises the threshold on the dollar amount of defense equipment or services on which the President is required to submit specified certifications. Deems to be defense articles or services (for purposes of import and export controls) articles or services having military or intelligence applications. Requires articles and services that have gained a predominant civil application to be removed from the U.S. Munitions List. Disqualifies for financing under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for 12 months any contracts of a person convicted or debarred for a violation of international traffic in arms regulations under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act. Authorizes the President to impose controls to prevent the proliferation of nuclear-capable missiles and chemical, biological, and related weapons. Permits charges for defense articles sold or licensed or approved for export after September 30, 1991, to exclude nonrecurring costs of research on or development or production of such articles. Replaces the authorities of specified Federal officials under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act with the authority of the President. Repeals an exemption to a prohibition on the resale of military firearms furnished to foreign governments. Repeals provisions concerning: (1) reports and price availability estimates; (2) discrimination; (3) restraint in arms sales to Subsaharan Africa; (4) foreign military sales credit standards; (5) foreign military sales to less developed countries; and (6) the crediting of registration fees. Title III: Overseas Private Investment Corporation; Trade and Development Agency - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to revise provisions concerning the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). Limits the amount of OPIC's equity investments under a pilot program to 49 percent per project for projects in Eastern Europe. Directs OPIC to give preferential consideration in its investment insurance, reinsurance, and guarantee activities to investment projects sponsored by or involving U.S. small business or cooperatives. Permits OPIC to establish a revolving fund to be available solely for a pilot equity finance program. Authorizes (currently, requires) OPIC to charge fees for any service performed under this title. Provides for annual (currently, triennial) financial audits of OPIC. Authorizes the Inspector General of the administering agency (currently, the Agency for International Development) to conduct audits, investigations, and security activities with respect to OPIC. Eliminates OPIC's exemption from Federal taxation. Revises the authorities of the Director of the Trade and Development Agency (replaces the Trade and Development Program). Requires the Agency to disseminate information about its activities to the private sector. Sets forth the duties of the Inspector General of the administering agency with respect to the Agency. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992. Title IV: Special Authorities, Restrictions on Assistance, and Reports - Revises provisions concerning special authorities of the President with respect to the furnishing of assistance and arms export sales, credits, and guaranties. Raises the ceilings on the amount of arms sales or leases, foreign assistance, and foreign currencies authorized to be furnished or used under the President's special authority to waive restrictions on assistance. Raises the ceilings on the amounts of such assistance that may be provided to any one country. Exempts from such limitation assistance for countries that are the victims of active (currently, Communist or Communist-supported) aggression. Authorizes the President to use funds (other than funds for foreign military financing or international military education and training) under this Act for unanticipated contingencies. Places an annual ceiling on such assistance. Prohibits such assistance from being used for gifts to foreign officials. Makes specified amounts of economic support and foreign military financing assistance available for emergency use to promote economic, political, or military stability. Authorizes the President to adopt as a U.S. contract or obligation any contract with a U.S. or third-country contractor that had been funded with assistance prior to the termination of such assistance. Applies assistance termination provisions to any provision of law concerning such terminations. Revises provisions concerning prohibitions on assistance. Adds to the list of restrictions prohibitions on assistance for: (1) a country whose government engages in a consistent pattern of human rights violations; (2) a country whose elected head of government is deposed by a military coup; and (3) a country that is a major drug producing or transit country if the country has not cooperated with the United States and has not taken adequate steps to control the illicit cultivation, production, trafficking, and abuse of narcotic and psychotropic drugs. Exempts from such prohibition assistance: (1) that is important to U.S. national interests, provided that such assistance will further U.S. nonproliferation objectives; (2) for the alleviation of suffering resulting from a natural or manmade disaster; (3) that benefits needy people; and (4) that will be furnished through nongovernmental organizations to promote respect for human rights and democracy. Prohibits the provision of such assistance until the President reports to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Requires the President to maintain a list of Communist countries for purposes of restricting assistance. Authorizes the President to remove or exempt a country from the list or prohibitions on assistance, provided that such removal or exemption is reported to the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Directs the President to report to such individuals on the rescission of a determination that a country provides support for international terrorism. Prohibits assistance to any country which is more than one year in arrears to the U.S. Government on loan payments under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or former authorities of the Arms Export Control Act. Prohibits economic assistance from being made available to: (1) any organization or program which supports or manages a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization; or (2) any foreign nongovernmental organization which performs or promotes abortion as a method of family planning. Requires funds for voluntary family planning services to be available only for projects which offer a broad range of family planning methods and services. Declares that the President should consider, in determining whether to provide economic assistance, whether assistance would be furnished to support any project designed to increase exports of agricultural, textile, or apparel commodities from developing countries that: (1) would be in direct competition with U.S. exports; and (2) can be expected to cause injury to U.S. exporters of the same or a similar commodity. Prohibits economic assistance from being used to influence the outcome of any election. Prohibits U.S. armed forces detailed to provide defense services, military education and training, or management of overseas military assistance programs from performing combat duties outside the United States in connection with such services. Outlines required elements of annual congressional presentation documents on foreign assistance. Revises provisions regarding U.S. assistance policies and human rights. Directs the President to report annually to the Congress on human rights practices in countries that are members of the United Nations. Revises provisions concerning congressional notification for program changes. Title V: General Provisions - Revises provisions regarding presidential authorities under this Act. Authorizes the President to designate an agency to administer economic assistance under this Act. Revises provisions regarding general authorities. Permits contracts which entail commitments for the expenditure of funds under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to be extended for up to ten (currently, five) years. Revises provisions regarding administrative uses of funds. Permits funds to be used for programs under the Agricultural Act of 1949 and the Food for Progress Act of 1985. Removes funding limitations on assistance for the construction of living quarters, offices, schools, and hospitals abroad and for assistance to schools educating dependents of personnel abroad. Permits economic assistance funds to be used to reimburse Federal or State agencies or institutions of higher education that detail employees for economic assistance programs that require specialized technical skills. Provides that if an amount appropriated for any fiscal year to carry out a provision of this Act is less than the authorization amount and the provision calls for earmarked funds, such funds shall be deemed to be reduced to an amount bearing the same ratio to such funds as the amount appropriated bears to the authorization amount. Sets forth provisions concerning the generation and use of local currencies. Revises provisions concerning the use of local currencies owned by the United States. Authorizes nongovernmental organizations to invest local currencies accrued as a result of economic assistance provided by this Act and other specified Acts and to use interest earned on investments for assistance purposes. Revises provisions concerning the use of private enterprise for the procurement of commodities and defense articles. Authorizes the use of Federal facilities for technical assistance purposes when such facilities are not competitive with private enterprise. Revises provisions concerning procurement standards and procedures. Allows (currently, requires) the use of excess personal property or property already owned by a Federal agency (if a substantial savings would occur) in lieu of, or supplementary to, the procurement of new items for U.S.-assisted programs. Revises provisions concerning the use of excess property. Removes a ceiling on the amount of domestic excess property that may be held. Prohibits excess property from being used for economic assistance purposes unless approval is given and the President makes specified determinations regarding such property. Authorizes the use of economic assistance funds to pay transportation charges on shipments by the American National Red Cross and by registered U.S. private voluntary organizations. Revises provisions concerning personnel. Permits personnel detailed to foreign governments or international organizations to be assigned on a leave without pay status. Authorizes the detailing of Department of Defense personnel to any civil office to carry out this Act. Revises provisions concerning discrimination against U.S. personnel. Title VI: Technical and Conforming Provisions - Prohibits U.S. courts from declining on the ground of the Federal Act of State Doctrine to make a determination on the merits of international law in any case in which claim of title or right to property is asserted by any party, based upon a confiscation after January 1, 1959, by a state in violation of international law. Exempts from such prohibition cases in which: (1) an act of a foreign state is not contrary to international law or cases with respect to a right to property acquired pursuant to an irrevocable letter of credit issued in good faith prior to the time of taking; or (2) the President determines that application of such doctrine is required by U.S. foreign policy interests. Amends Federal provisions governing coins and currency to grant the Secretary of the Treasury: (1) responsibility with respect to foreign credits owed to or by the United States; and (2) sole authority to establish for all foreign currencies or credits the exchange rates at which such currencies are to be reported by Federal agencies. Authorizes the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, at the request of the President, to report on the value of any property of any U.S. person expropriated by a foreign government. Prohibits Federal employees from effecting arrests in foreign countries as part of foreign police actions with respect to narcotics control. Lists exceptions to such prohibition. Prohibits Federal employees from interrogating or being present during the interrogation of any U.S. person arrested in a foreign country with respect to narcotics control efforts without such person's written consent. Exempts from such prohibition members of the U.S. armed forces carrying out responsibilities under Status of Forces arrangements. Makes technical and conforming amendments to specified Acts. Repeals specified Acts. Title VII: Special Assistance Initiatives - Chapter 1: Development Fund for Africa - Authorizes project and program assistance for development in Subsaharan Africa. Requires the purpose of such assistance to be to help the poor majority of men and women in Subsaharan Africa to participate in a process of long-term development through economic growth that is equitable, participatory, environmentally sustainable, and self-reliant. Provides that such assistance should also promote sustained economic growth, encourage private sector development, promote individual initiatives, and help to reduce the role of central governments in areas more appropriate for the private sector. Declares that: (1) the local-level perspective of the rural and urban poor in Subsaharan Africa should be taken into account during the planning process for project assistance under this Act; and (2) consultations should be undertaken with private and voluntary organizations which have demonstrated effectiveness in or commitment to the promotion of local grassroots activities on behalf of development in Subsaharan Africa; (3) local people should be consulted and involved in projects that have a local focus; and (4) the President should ensure that development activities expand the participation and integration of African women in certain critical sectors. Requires assistance provided by this Act to emphasize projects to address critical sectoral priorities for development. Authorizes assistance to promote national economic policy reforms. Requires such reforms to include provisions to protect vulnerable groups, especially poor farmers and the urban poor, from possible negative consequences of such reforms. Designates as the critical sectoral priorities for long-term development: (1) increased agricultural production and the maintenance and restoration of renewable natural resources; (2) improved health conditions; (3) voluntary family planning services; (4) improved relevance and efficiency of education; and (5) development of income generating opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed. Imposes minimum levels of assistance for certain critical sectors. Declares that assistance provided under this Act should be concentrated in countries that will make the most effective use of such assistance. Allows assistance to be made available to: (1) assist Subsaharan African countries to increase their capacity to participate in donor coordination mechanisms at the country, regional, and sector levels; and (2) assist sector projects supported by the Southern African Development Coordination Conference. Authorizes assistance to South Africa for: (1) grants to nongovernmental organizations promoting efforts to foster a just society and help the victims of apartheid; (2) assistance to political detainees and prisoners and their families and to support actions of black community organizations to resist, through nonviolent means, the enforcement of apartheid policies; and (3) activities to assist in an end to apartheid and in the establishment of a society based on nonracial principles. Permits such grants to be only for organizations whose character and membership reflect the objective of a majority of South Africans for an end to apartheid and for interracial cooperation and justice. Authorizes appropriations. Expresses the sense of the Congress that there should be periodic evaluations of the progress of the administering agency in achieving assistance goals in Subsaharan Africa. Chapter 2: Assistance for Eastern Europe - Sets forth U.S. policy and objectives with respect to assistance for Eastern Europe. Declares that the United States should provide assistance for eligible East European countries that are taking steps toward: (1) political pluralism; (2) economic reform; (3) respect for human rights; and (4) a willingness to build a friendly relationship with the United States. Defines an eligible East European country as Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and any other East European country taking such steps. Requires the basic objectives of such assistance to be the promotion of democracy and the encouragement of free market systems. Lists authorized types of assistance. Permits the President to furnish assistance to eligible East European countries. Provides that any authority in the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 to furnish assistance for Poland or Hungary may be deemed to authorize assistance for any eligible East European country. Permits the President to use any funds made available for assistance for Eastern Europe under the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991 to provide balance of payments support with respect to eligible East European countries. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should use the authorities provided under the SEED Act and this Act to provide stabilization assistance to assist Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and other East European countries the President deems appropriate. Authorizes appropriations. Permits the President to: (1) designate Enterprise Funds for any country in Eastern Europe in the same manner and with the same authorities and limitations applicable to the Enterprise Funds for Poland and Hungary established pursuant to the SEED Act; and (2) provide funding and support to the Funds. Authorizes U.S. agencies that are authorized to provide assistance or conduct programs for Poland or Hungary pursuant to the SEED Act to provide such assistance or conduct such programs for eligible East European countries. Permits the President to authorize agencies to implement programs for management and technical assistance for governments and private enterprises in Eastern European countries. Makes appropriations to carry out this chapter available for contracting with individuals for personal services. Chapter 3: Multilateral Assistance Initiative for the Philippines - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States should participate with multilateral financial institutions and other bilateral donors in an economic reform and development program in the Philippines; and (2) a commitment of resources by the United States, donors, and such institutions and a reform effort and leadership role by the Government of the Philippines will be necessary to ensure economic growth in the Philippines and enhanced participation of the Filipino people in the democratic process. Authorizes the President to provide assistance to promote the goals of this Act. Links such assistance to progress by the Government of the Philippines in implementing its economic, structural, judicial, and administrative reform program. Authorizes appropriations. Limits the amount of appropriations for FY 1992. Expresses the sense of the Congress that prior to requesting additional amounts to carry out this Act, the President should take into account: (1) the progress being made by the Philippines toward achieving reform objectives; (2) the extent of participation by the bilateral donors and multilateral financial institutions; and (3) the efforts to coordinate the assistance program. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the coordination of objectives and programs by donors, institutions, and the Government of the Philippines is critical to the success of the multilateral assistance program; (2) all donors should simplify procurement and disbursement procedures to ensure that conditions on the provision or use of assistance are complementary; and (3) the Philippines should establish internal procedures that will ensure the most effective use of such assistance. Title VIII: Presidential Contingency Fund - Authorizes appropriations to the President for FY 1992 for unanticipated contingencies in programs within the International Affairs Budget Function. Title IX: Authorizations for Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 to carry out programs for which appropriations for FY 1992 are authorized by this Act.
Bill· SS. 940 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Economic Growth Act of 1991 - Title I: Industrial Recapitalization Funds - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer engaged in manufacturing to establish an industrial recapitalization fund. Restricts deposits to such fund to the sum of: (1) depreciation allowances with respect to eligible plant and equipment; (2) net proceeds from the sale or other disposition of such plant and equipment, or insurance or indemnity attributable to such plant and equipment; and (3) receipts from investment of amounts in such fund. Allows deposits to such fund during the five-year period after its establishment. Allows tax-free withdrawals for a ten-year period for: (1) acquisition, construction, reconstruction, modernization, or refurbishment of eligible plant and equipment; (2) the payment of principal on indebtedness incurred in connection with plant and equipment acquisition and so forth; or (3) the payment of expenditures for approved job training programs for employees of the taxpayer. Makes such fund exempt from taxation and sets forth favorable tax treatment regarding a deduction for deposits, the nonrealization of gain, and the exclusion of fund earnings from gross income. Provides for taxation of nonqualified withdrawals. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the Congress annually on such funds. Title II: Investment Incentives - Subtitle A: Investment in Stock of Manufacturers - Establishes a deduction for net capital gains on stock of manufacturers that is held for more than three years. Subtitle B: Savings Incentives - Allows a taxpayer to designate an overpayment of tax to be paid to the taxpayer's individual retirement account. Title III: Incentives for Research and Educational Assistance - Makes permanent the credit for increasing research activities. Makes such credit applicable to the development and improvement of commercial products. Allows the credit for research after commercial production and for adaptation of existing business components. Makes permanent the tax exclusion for employee educational assistance programs. Title IV: Amendments to National Cooperative Research Act of 1984 - National Cooperative Production Amendments of 1991 - Amends the National Cooperative Research Act of 1984 to: (1) apply such Act to joint ventures for the development or production of any product, process, or service; and (2) require consideration of the worldwide capacity of suppliers to provide a product, process, or service in determining the relevant market for judging the reasonableness of conduct under a joint venture. Makes this Act inapplicable with respect to any activity in connection with a joint production venture if at any time substantially all such activities are not conducted within the United States or its territories. Title V: Advanced Research and Development - National Advanced Research and Development Act of 1991 - Subtitle A: Declaration of Policy - Sets forth congressional findings on the need for a strong technology base in the United States. Subtitle B: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - Establishes in the Department of Defense the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to oversee all functions involving advanced research and development projects. Authorizes the Agency to conduct research projects for other Federal departments and agencies on a reimbursable basis. Establishes the Defense Advanced Research Projects Revolving Fund to carry out the Agency's purposes. Requires the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Advanced Research (head of the Agency) to report to the Congress recommendations for any legislation necessary to carry out the Agency's purposes. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: National Technology Policy Coordinating Council - Establishes in the Department of Commerce the National Technology Policy Coordinating Council to act as a forum for the study and discussion of how the Federal Government and the private sector can utilize advanced technology to help meet the economic and security needs, improve the industrial competitiveness, and improve the general welfare of the United States. Directs the Council to make a report to the President, the Congress, and the National Advanced Technology Trust Fund addressing the relative priority of the funding allocations made for federally-sponsored research and development. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: National Advanced Technology Fund - Establishes the National Advanced Technology Trust Fund to support advanced basic and applied technological research and development in the civilian economy. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· SS. 936 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Foreign Tax Simplification Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt foreign corporations that are not doing business in the United States from the uniform capitalization rules in determining earnings and profits. Makes a technical correction to the definition of passive foreign investment company. Applies a separate foreign tax credit limitation for foreign corporations in which U.S. parent companies do not own a controlling interest. Requires that foreign tax credits claimed on foreign income be translated in U.S. dollars at the same rate as the income. Provides that the look-through rules for controlled foreign corporations do not apply to companies with less than $1,000,000 in all of their separate categories.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 133 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Reaffirms the commitment of the Congress embodied in the National Cancer Act of 1971, specifically that: (1) cancer research should be a national priority to address the scope of the cancer epidemic; (2) the public and private sectors should join forces to provide the necessary fiscal and human resources to establish, maintain, and strengthen the National Cancer Program; and (3) this public-private partnership should strive to provide effective treatment to every American with cancer.
Law· HRH.R. 2100 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1992/1993 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for FY 1992 and 1993 for: (1) aircraft; (2) missiles; (3) weapons; (4) tracked combat vehicles; (5) ammunition; (6) shipbuilding and conversion; and (7) other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) FY 1992 and 1993 for the defense agencies and the chemical demilitarization program; and (2) FY 1992 for the Defense Inspector General. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering, and the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation for research, development, test, and evaluation. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for operation and maintenance for the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components of the armed forces, the National Guard, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Defense Inspector General, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration, and humanitarian assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for working capital funds of the armed forces and the defense agencies. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Authorizes end strength variation and reductions for the Selected Reserve components of the armed forces for each such fiscal year. Authorizes end strengths for FY 1992 and 1993 for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Authorizes increases for each such fiscal year in the number of certain personnel authorized to be on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1992 and 1993. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2114 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Comprehensive Health Care Improvement Act of 1991 - Title I: Qualified Health Insurance Plans - Part A: Definitions and Standards for Qualified Plans - Defines a "plan of health coverage" as any plan or combination of plans, including combinations of self-insurance, individual accident and health insurance policies, group accident and health insurance policies, coverage under a nonprofit health service plan, or coverage under a health maintenance organization (HMO) subscriber contract. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish standards for qualified plans and procedures for the review and certification of plans of health coverage as qualified plans. Provides that a plan shall be certified as an "A" qualified plan if it meets State requirements and meets the following minimum standards: (1) the minimum benefits for a covered individual equal at least 80 percent of the covered expenses in excess of an annual deductible not exceeding $250 per person or $250 for each of two members of a covered family; (2) the coverage includes a limitation of $3,000 per person and $6,000 for a covered family on total annual out-of-pocket expenses for covered expenses; (3) the coverage is subject to a $1,000,000 maximum life-time benefit; and (4) the $3,000, $6,000, and $1,000,000 limitations are not subject to change or substitution by use of an actuarially equivalent benefit. States that covered expenses are the usual and customary charges of a physician or chiropractor. Lists covered and excluded services. Deems HMOs providing certain services to be providing an "A" qualified plan. Certifies as a "B" qualified plan a plan which meets the requirements of an "A" plan, except that the annual deductible does not exceed $1,000 per person. Directs the Secretary, to the extent feasible, to provide for the review and certification by the insurance commissioner of each State of qualified plans to be offered in the State. States that the sale of plans is in and affects interstate commerce and that, in order to properly regulate such sales, it is necessary to regulate such sales in intrastate, as well as interstate, commerce. Requires every plan of health coverage sold to be labelled as "qualified" or "nonqualified" on the front of the policy. Requires each advertisement or promotion for a plan to specify whether the plan is "qualified" or "nonqualified." Part B: Requiring Offering of Certain Qualified Plans - Requires each employer employing an average of ten or more employees annually to make available a plan or combination of plans of health coverage which: (1) has been certified as an "A" or supplemental plan; (2) is a qualified convertible plan; and (3) permits either coverage of an employee's spouse and children or coverage of an employee's children. Defines a "qualified convertible plan" as a plan of health coverage which: (1) permits each enrolled individual to continue coverage for 36 months and then to convert the plan to any individual qualified plan without the addition of underwriting restrictions if, for any reason, the individual leaves the group; and (2) permits, in the case of the death of the individual in whose name the contract was issued, other individuals covered under the plan to continue coverage without the addition of underwriting restrictions. Sets forth civil penalties for noncompliance. Excludes from the term "employee," for purposes of this provision, certain new, part-time, part-year, young, bargaining unit, and nonresident alien employees. Part C: Offering of Comprehensive Health Insurance by States - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require the establishment and creation of a health insurance pool available to uninsured and uninsurable individuals and businesses in each State and a comprehensive health plan in each State, in accordance with this part of this Act. Defines a "comprehensive health insurance plan" to mean policies of insurance and contracts of HMO coverage offered by the State through the contractee in the State. Defines the "contractee" as the insurers and HMOs in the State selected by the State to administer the comprehensive health insurance plan. Provides for the authorities and responsibilities of each State commissioner of insurance. Requires each State to provide for the establishment of a comprehensive health insurance plan. Requires each State, through its comprehensive health insurance plan, to offer: (1) policies which provide the benefits of "A" and "B" qualified plans; and (2) HMO contracts in those areas of the State where an HMO has agreed to make the coverage available. Provides that upon certification the individual can enroll in a State's comprehensive health insurance plan by payment of the State plan premium to the contractee. Requires that the premium schedule be set by the State. Allows the State to subsidize the premium with all or part of its Federal payment to be self-supporting. Limits agent referral fees. Requires any surplus to be held at interest and used to offset losses or reduce premiums. Exempts premiums received by the contractee from State taxation. Requires the comprehensive health insurance plan for a State to be open for enrollment by individuals residing in the State, who can enroll by submitting a certificate of eligibility to the State which certifies the applicant's name, address, age, length of residence, dependents to be insured, and type of coverage desired. Requires each State to disseminate information to State residents regarding the existence of the comprehensive health insurance plan and the means of enrollment. Requires each contractee to pay an agent's referral fee, in an amount to be determined by the State, to each insurance agent referring an applicant to the State comprehensive health insurance plan, if the application is accepted. Requires each State to adopt a method for judging the quality of health care provided by providers who are eligible for reimbursement under the plan. Title II: Program of Assistance to States for Assisting Low-Income Individuals to Purchase Comprehensive Health Insurance - Comprehensive Health Insurance Assistance Act of 1991 - Adds a new title XXI to the Social Security Act entitled "Grants to States for Assistance to Low-Income Individuals in the Purchase of Comprehensive Health Insurance." Authorizes appropriations under title XXI to enable each State to provide assistance to low-income individuals in the purchase of comprehensive health insurance under title XXI. Requires the sums made available under this title to be used to make payments to States which have submitted, and have had approved by the Secretary, State plans for comprehensive health insurance assistance to low-income individuals. Directs the Secretary to pay each State with an approved plan, from the Low-Income Health Insurance Assistance Account, an amount determined under a specified formula. Title III: Medicare Tax Fairness - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make unlimited the amount of the applicable contribution base for hospital insurance taxes imposed by specified provisions. Amends the Social Security Act to establish within the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund the Catastrophic Health Insurance Reserve Account. Requires that the account be credited for all receipts of the Fund attributable to amendments made by this Act. Prohibits amounts credited or appropriated to the account from being expended, transferred, or appropriated. Requires that such amounts be reserved to carry out catastrophic health insurance programs for elderly individuals which are established by law after enactment of this Act. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax (the health insurance enhancement tax) on a specified percentage of an individual's health insurance enhancement unearned income, defined as adjusted gross income minus wages or self-employment income taxable under provisions relating to hospital insurance. Establishes in the Treasury the Low-Income Health Insurance Enhancement Trust Fund and appropriates to it all taxes received under the health insurance enhancement tax imposed by this Act. Makes amounts in the Fund available for payments to States under the new title of the Social Security Act added by this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2097 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the income tax deduction for the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals to: (1) increase the allowable deduction from 25 percent to 50 percent; and (2) make the deduction permanent (under current law it will expire after tax year 1991).
Bill· HRH.R. 2103 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide an exemption from the nonincreasing benefits requirement of deferred compensation plans of State and local governments and tax-exempt organizations for participants who separated from employment before January 1, 1987.
Bill· HRH.R. 2096 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the fuel deficit reduction rate in connection with the excise taxes on gasoline, diesel fuel, and aviation fuel. Makes such rates permanent law. (Currently, such rates expire after October 1, 1995.)
Bill· SS. 922 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income the value of any subsidy provided by a public utility to a customer for the purchase or installation of energy conservation measures.
Bill· SS. 913 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1991
Tax Exempt Bond Simplification Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to raise from $5,000,000 to $25,000,000 the threshold amount of tax-exempt bonds that a small governmental unit may issue and still remain within the exception from arbitrage rebate requirements. Makes the exception from such rebate for construction bonds effective as if included under the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Permits elections concerning such bonds to be made until 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act. States that any rebates paid shall not be refunded. Increases from $10,000,000 to $25,000,000 the amount of tax-exempt obligations excepted from the pro rata allocation of interest expense of financial institutions to tax-exempt interest for qualified small issuers. Repeals the five percent unrelated and disproportionate private use rules for private activity bonds. Provides that a bond shall not be treated as an arbitrage bond by reason of any failure to meet any requirements of temporary period investments if all earnings which would cause such bond to be an arbitrage bond are paid to the United States by the issuer by the required due dates. Reduces from 100 percent to 90 percent the amount of arbitrage to be rebated to the United States if certain State and local bonds are not to be treated as arbitrage bonds. Provides that an advance refunding bond will not be tax-exempt if it results in amounts becoming available which are invested in substantially guaranteed higher yielding investments.
Bill· SS. 918 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt manufacturers, producers, and importers of less than 50 firearms per year from the firearms excise tax.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 128 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1991
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits, except in time of war, Federal fiscal year expenditures from exceeding: (1) Federal revenues (except those derived from borrowing) for that fiscal year; and (2) 20 percent of the gross national product for the preceding calendar year. Authorizes the Congress to suspend these prohibitions by concurrent resolution.
Bill· HRH.R. 2059 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1991
Veterans' Homeless Pilot Project Amendments of 1991 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct and report to the Congress on a pilot project using real property acquired by the Department of Veterans Affairs through foreclosures of home loans guaranteed by the Department to provide transitional housing for homeless veterans. Directs the Secretary to select properties that have no significant likelihood of being sold for a price sufficient to reduce the liability of the Department or the veteran who had defaulted on the loan guaranteed by the Department. Authorizes the Secretary to maintain, repair, and improve any property used in the pilot program, pay utilities, and purchase household furnishings using funds from appropriations for veterans' readjustment benefits. Requires major structural repairs, alterations, or improvements to be paid from the appropriate revolving fund (either the Loan Guaranty Revolving Fund or the Guaranty and Indemnity Fund). Authorizes the Secretary to charge rent to occupants of such housing. Exempts property used for the pilot project from State and local taxation. Authorizes the Secretary to furnish information, counseling, and guidance regarding benefits and opportunities to veterans participating in the pilot project.
Law· HRH.R. 2038 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1991
Intelligence Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1992 - Title I: Intelligence Activities - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities in specified departments and agencies of the U.S. Government, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Declares that the authorized amounts and personnel ceilings for such intelligence activities are those specified in the classified schedule of authorizations. Authorizes the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) to employ civilian personnel in excess of the ceiling for such personnel when necessary to the performance of important intelligence functions. Title II: Intelligence Community Staff - Authorizes appropriations for the Intelligence Community Staff for FY 1992. Establishes an end strength ceiling of 240 full-time Intelligence Community Staff employees. Provides that such staff shall be administered in the same manner as the CIA. Title III: Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System and Related Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund for FY 1992. Title IV: General Provisions - Permits appropriations authorized by this Act for benefits for Federal employees to be increased as may be necessary for increases in compensation or benefits authorized by law. Prohibits the authorization of appropriations by this Act from constituting authority for the conduct of any illegal intelligence activity.
Bill· HRH.R. 2071 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1991
Authorizes additional appropriations for increased border patrol personnel. Makes amounts from the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund available for such purpose.
Bill· HRH.R. 2040 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1991
Adoption Amendments of 1991 - Replaces Public Health Service Act provisions authorizing appropriations for adolescent family life demonstration projects with provisions requiring set-aside, for such projects, of a specified amount appropriated for the Health Resources and Services Administration. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for a limited amount of adoption expenses. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 to extend to October 1, 1993, the termination date of a test program for reimbursement of adoption expenses of members of the armed forces. Amends Part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance Program) of title IV of the Social Security Act to prohibit payments to a State under provisions relating to foster care and adoption assistance if any public agency responsible for adoption placement has failed to fully disclose to prospective adoptive parents all information regarding the child's health. Amends the Public Health Service Act to mandate grants to two States to establish demonstration programs to provide maternal health certificates to low-income pregnant females residing or awaiting residence in a maternity home. Requires eligible maternity homes to provide specified services, including room and board, medical care, and counseling and services concerning health, adoption, education, vocation, or employment. Requires that such homes accept the certificates as full payment. Directs the Secretary of Education to develop a model curriculum for educating individuals on issues of adoption that are relevant to the field of social work. Requires the curriculum to be appropriate for secondary, postsecondary, and continuing education settings. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 2064 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1991
Congestion Relief and Clean Air Act of 1991 - Establishes a strategic urbanized program (SUP) to fund projects: (1) on Federal-aid systems located in urbanized areas with 50,000 population or more; and (2) to plan, acquire, construct, and improve facilities, equipment, and associated capital maintenance items for use in mass transportation service in such areas. Specifies that such projects shall be designed to help reduce traffic congestion and traffic flow problems in such areas and may include projects to improve the condition, physical capacity, efficiency, or management of the Federal-aid systems. Requires the Secretary of Transportation, on October 1 of each fiscal year (and after making specified set-asides for discretionary and other projects), to apportion the remainder of the sums authorized under this Act in the ratio which the population in urbanized areas with 50,000 population or more bears to the total population in such areas in all States, as shown by the latest available Federal census. Specifies that no State shall receive less than one-half of one percent of each year's apportionment. Sets forth requirements and formulas for the expenditure of funds by the States. Requires municipalities located in ozone or carbon monoxide nonattainment areas under the Clean Air Act to spend at least 50 percent of their SUP funds on transit capital projects. Directs the Secretary to require that projects be selected by appropriate local government officials in concurrence with the State highway department of each State and in accordance with specified planning process requirements. Authorizes the transfer of not more than 25 percent of the amount appportioned in a fiscal year to a State under the SUP to other programs if such transfer is requested by the State highway department and approved by the Governor of such State and the Secretary as being in the public interest. Directs the Secretary to set aside $300,000,000 for discretionary projects to fund high-cost projects on Federal-aid systems located in urbanized areas with 50,000 population or more which address extraordinary traffic flow and congestion problems. Sets forth requirements for the use of such funds and factors to be considered in selecting projects to fund, such as project cost, traffic congestion levels, importance of a project to a congestion relief planning effort, and impact on economic development. Limits the Federal share for such projects to 50 percent of the cost of the project. Limits the Federal share payable for any mass transportation project under the SUP to 75 percent of the cost of the project. Directs the Secretary, before making specified apportionments for a fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1991, to set aside $300,000,000 for expenditure for projects on Federal-aid systems located in municipalities with 500,000 population or more (Federal-aid urban system). Sets forth requirements with respect to apportionment and the expenditure of funds. Authorizes appropriations of $2,000,000,000 each for each of FY 1992 through 1995 for: (1) the Federal-aid urban system; and (2) the SUP. Makes available funds appropriated under this Act for use in the development, improvement, and use of public mass transportation systems, railway-highway crossing hazard elimination, carpool and vanpool projects, bicycle transportation and pedestrian walkway development and improvement, and highway research and planning.
Bill· HRH.R. 2048 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code and title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to revise the employment tax treatment of certain crew members on fishing vessels with a crew of ten or fewer individuals.
Bill· HRH.R. 2086 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1991
Public Pension Parity Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an individual amounts received as a pension or annuity under a public retirement system to the extent they are not attributable to services covered under the social security system. Limits the tax exclusion based upon calculations relating to income tax treatment of social security benefits.
Bill· HRH.R. 2091 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1991
Social Security Tax Reduction Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce social security taxes for 1991 and thereafter.
Bill· HRH.R. 2073 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1991
Savings and Investment Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require indexing, based on the gross national product deflator, of the adjusted basis of certain assets (corporate stock and tangible property that is a capital asset of property used in a trade or business) that have been held for more than one year at the time of sale or other transfer, solely for the purpose of determining gain or loss. Excludes from gross income dividends received by individuals from domestic corporations.
Bill· HRH.R. 2046 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the limitation on expense allowance arrangements does not apply to such arrangements with respect to the living expenses of State legislators. Repeals the 50-mile limitation on State legislators' travel expenses away from home.
Bill· HRH.R. 2047 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Secretary of the Treasury to abate any interest attributable to erroneous advice of the Internal Revenue Service. Requires the Secretary to waive interest on underpayment, nonpayment, or extensions of time for payment, of tax to the extent that the imposition of such interest would be against equity and good conscience.
Bill· SS. 890 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1991
Amends the Star Schools Program Assistance Act (the Act, which provides for demonstration grants to eligible telecommunications partnerships for telecommunications facilities and equipment, instructional programming, and technical assistance, to improve instruction in mathematics, science, foreign languages, and other subjects such as vocational education) to broaden the program to include improvement of instruction in literacy skills and service to underserved populations including the disadvantaged, illiterate, limited English proficient, and disabled. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to award program grants for a two-year period, and allows such grants to be renewed for additional two-year periods in accordance with continuing eligibility provisions added by this Act. Extends through FY 1998 the authorization of appropriations for Star Schools Program Assistance. Eliminates certain limitations on the period and aggregate amount of program grants to any one eligible telecommunications partnership (while retaining a maximum limit on the amount of such a grant for any one fiscal year). Requires that, of the funds available to the Secretary in any fiscal year under this Act, at least: (1) 25 percent be used for the cost of instructional programming; and (2) 25 percent be used for telecommunications facilities and equipment. Makes 75 percent the maximum limit on the Federal share of program costs (rather than the exact amount of such share). Requires the Department of Education and any other Federal agency operating a Star Schools program to coordinate assisted activities under such programs. Adds to the list of eligible telecommunications partnerships under the Act private (as well as public) entities with experience and expertise in planning and operating a telecommunications network, including those involved in telecommunications through cable, telephone, or computer. Directs the Secretary to permit applicants for funds under the Act and applicants for funds under the Classrooms of the Future Act to submit a single application for such assistance. Revises application requirements to include provisions for: (1) training of instructors in using the facilities and equipment and in integrating programs into class curriculum; (2) assurances that instructional and training programming will be designed in consultation with professionals who are expert in the subject matter and grade level; (3) specific inclusion of students who are disadvantaged, limited English proficient, disabled, or illiterate among traditionally underserved students who will benefit; (4) use of existing telecommunications equipment, where available, in benefitting traditionally underserved students; (5) coordination of funds under the Act with those received under the Classrooms of the Future Act (if a single application is submitted for both); and (6) descriptions of activities and services. Includes as examples of activities or services to be assisted: (1) making programs accessible to individuals with disabilities through mechanisms such as closed captioning, as much as possible; (2) linking networks together around issues of national importance such as elections; (3) sharing curriculum materials between networks; (4) providing teacher and student support services; (5) incorporating community resources such as libraries and museums into instructional programs; and (6) providing teacher training to early childhood development and Head Start teachers and staff. Requires that a telecommunications company (such as a cable, telephone, computer, or public or private television network) will participate in the partnership and will donate in-kind equipment for telecommunications linkages (under grant application requirements). Provides that describing how traditionally underserved students will participate in the benefits of the assisted telecommunications facilities, equipment, technical assistance, and programming is required only of applicants who have not previously received funds under the Act. Sets forth provisions for continuing eligibility. Requires, for grant renewal, that an eligible telecommunications partnership demonstrate in their application that they will both continue to provide services in the subject areas and geographic areas previously assisted and use all such grant funds to provide expanded services by: (1) increasing the number of students, schools, or school districts served; (2) providing new courses of instruction; or (3) serving new populations of underserved individuals, including children or adults who are disadvantaged, limited English proficient, disabled, illiterate, lacking high school diplomas or equivalents, or incarcerated individuals, or older individuals. Requires renewed grant funds to supplement and not supplant services provided previously. Allows renewed grant funds to be used to provide programs for adults at times other than the school day, in order to maximize the use of telecommunications facilities and equipment. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed to reduce the rights and protections provided to individuals with disabilities under the Americans With Disabilities Act or the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act.
Bill· SS. 906 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1991
Social Security State and Municipal Bond Fund Act of 1991 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to authorize the limited investment of Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund amounts in bonds issued by qualified State or local governments under supervision of the Social Security Investment Board established pursuant to this Act. Appropriates to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Fund for deposit in the State and Municipal Bond Fund established pursuant to this Act, for each fiscal year, any extra amounts the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund would have earned had its investments been limited to Treasury obligations.
Bill· SS. 900 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1991
Farm Debt Tax Reform Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income up to $300,000 (lifetime total) of capital gain from the transfer of property in complete or partial satisfaction of qualified farm indebtedness of a taxpayer: (1) whose modified gross income is below the national median adjusted gross income median; (2) whose gross receipts for six of the preceding ten years are at least 50 percent attributable to farming; and (3) whose equity in all property held after the transfer in question is less than the greater of $25,000 or 150 percent of income tax liability. Applies a comparable exclusion with respect to the discharge of qualified farm indebtedness of solvent farmers who meet these requirements and whose indebtedness both before and after the relevant transfer equals at least 70 percent or more of equity. Permits both tax exclusions retroactively with respect to taxable years 1987 and thereafter. Grants a one-year period after enactment of this Act for claims of credit or refund of overpayment of tax resulting from such Act.
Bill· SS. 887 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1991
Wetlands and Green Space Preservation Assistance Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for determining the environmental use value of sensitive environmental areas for estate tax purposes. Requires the estate to grant an environmental preservation easement for a period of ten years after the death of the decedent. Imposes an additional estate tax if an heir fails to maintain the easement.
Bill· SS. 903 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1991
Children's Security Trust Fund Act - Establishes the Children's Security Trust Fund (the Fund) in the Treasury, to be used to expand certain Federal programs that provide assistance to children. Provides that all funds transferred to the Fund shall be voluntary contributions by retirees from their Federal retirement benefits (from Social Security, civil service, military, or railroad retirement programs). Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to invest the portion of the Fund not required for current withdrawals, and to credit the Fund with interest and proceeds from such investments. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to obligate available amounts in the Fund, including any not obligated in previous fiscal years, for programs and services under: (1) the Head Start Act; (2) the supplemental food program under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966; or (3) the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant Act. Directs the Secretary of HHS to refer individuals receiving Federal retirement benefits (of the types described in provisions for voluntary contributions) who desire to volunteer to provide services under the children's programs that receive assistance under this Act to the appropriate State and local officials and community organizations responsible for such programs.
Bill· SS. 895 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual an income tax deduction for qualified home health care and adult day and respite care expenses with respect to a dependent who: (1) resides with the taxpayer; (2) suffers from Alzheimer's disease or a related organic brain disorder; and (3) is physically or mentally incapable of self-care.
Bill· SS. 891 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1991
Cancer Screening Incentive Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable tax credit for expenditures (not paid by insurance or otherwise) incurred by the taxpayer for qualified cancer screening tests.
Bill· SS. 879 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the tax-exempt status of a cooperative telephone company to provide for the tax treatment of income received from a nonmember telephone company for services by the cooperative which are indirectly paid for by members of the cooperative. Includes billing and collection services for a nonmember telephone company under such treatment.
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