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Bill· HRH.R. 958 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1997
Prohibits U.S. assistance to Mexico for FY 1998 unless the President determines and certifies to the Congress by September 1, 1997, that the Government of Mexico meets specified narcotics control requirements. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of each multilateral development bank to vote against any loan or other funds utilization for Mexico for 1998 if the President does not so certify by the deadline.
Bill· HRH.R. 940 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1997
Amends the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to revise the formula for the extended benefits trigger. Amends the Social Security Act (SSA) to require increases and decreases in the earnings allocated to State accounts when States meet or fail to meet funding goals. Amends SSA to restrict interest-free advances to State accounts in the Unemployment Trust Fund to States which meet funding goals. Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the Federal Unemployment Tax Act to allow certified States to elect to collect Federal unemployment taxes. Requires States to distribute to unemployed individuals State-specific information packets explaining unemployment insurance eligibility conditions.
Bill· HRH.R. 955 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1997
Family Freedom Home Office Deduction Act of 1997 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the deduction for home office expenses if a portion of a dwelling unit is used as the sole fixed location of business for a taxpayer who has no other fixed location of business, regardless of: (1) the amount of time or type of work performed in such location; or (2) the proportion of the total income from the business attributable to such location.
Bill· HRH.R. 961 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1997
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate the requirement that States pay unemployment compensation on the basis of services performed by election officials or workers if remuneration for a calendar year is expected to be less than $1,000.
Bill· HRH.R. 937 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1997
Unemployment Tax Repeal Act of 1995 (sic) - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the requirement to include unemployment compensation in gross income and the provision concerning the voluntary withholding on unemployment benefits.
Bill· HRH.R. 933 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1997
Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to revise the definition of limited tax benefit under the Line Item Veto Act to: (1) repeal exceptions; and (2) redefine it to mean any tax provision that has the practical effect of providing a benefit in the form of different treatment to a particular taxpayer or a limited class of taxpayers, regardless of whether such provision is limited by its terms to a particular taxpayer or class of taxpayers.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 83 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1997
Biomedical Research Commitment Resolution of 1997 - Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that appropriations for the National Institutes of Health should be increased by 100 percent over the next five fiscal years.
Law· SS. 391 (105th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1997
Mississippi Sioux Tribes Judgment Fund Distribution Act of 1997 - Provides for distribution to, and use of certain funds by, the Sisseton and Wahpeton Tribes of Sioux Indians. (Sec. 4) Directs the Secretary of the Interior, one year after enactment of this Act, to distribute specified amounts to the tribal governing body of the: (1) Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe of North Dakota; (2) Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; and (3) Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana. Designates the Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux Council of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes as the tribal governing body of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation. (Sec. 5) Directs each tribal governing body, as a condition for receiving the distributed funds, to establish a tribal trust fund for the benefit of the covered Indian tribe under its jurisdiction. Requires that each tribal governing body serve as the trustee of, and administer, the trust fund. (Sec. 6) Prohibits funds distributed to a covered Indian tribe from being used to make per capita payments to members of the covered Indian tribe. Allows funds distributed to be used by a tribal governing body only for the purpose of making investments or expenditures that the tribal governing body determines to be related to: (1) economic development that is beneficial to the covered Indian tribe; (2) the development of resources of the covered Indian tribe; or (3) the development of a program that is beneficial to members of the covered Indian tribe, including educational and social welfare programs. Directs the Secretary to conduct an annual audit. (Sec. 7) Sets forth provisions concerning the effect of payments to a covered Indian tribe or an individual on eligibility for, or the reduction or denial of, Federal benefits. Prohibits subjecting a payment made to a covered Indian tribe or individual under this Act to Federal or State income tax. (Sec. 8) Directs the Secretary, not later than one year after enactment, to distribute a specified amount to the lineal descendants of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Tribes of Sioux Indians.
Bill· HRH.R. 909 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1997
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title XXI (sic): Army Title XXII: Navy Title XXIII: Air Force Title XXIV: Defense Agencies Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations Title XXVIII: General Provisions Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes Subtitle B: Other Matters Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 - Title XXI (sic): Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units, to carry out architectural planning and design activities, and to improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after 1997 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Army. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXII: Navy - Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under the previous title. Title XXIII: Air Force - Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army. (Sec. 2305) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to increase the authorized amount for a military construction project at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out architectural planning and design activities and to improve existing military family housing units, in specified amounts. (Sec. 2404) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out specified energy conservation projects. (Sec. 2405) Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for fiscal years after 1997 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions. Limits the total cost of authorized construction projects. (Sec. 2406) Reallocates specified funds made available due to the closure of the McClellan Air Force Base, California, to fund medical construction projects at Andersen Air Base, Guam, and Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. (Sec. 2407) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to increase the funding for military construction projects at the Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas, and the Umatilla Army Depot, Oregon. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Security Investment Program. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1997. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1997 for the Guard and Reserve forces for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities. Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in the preceding titles of this Act on October 1, 2000, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for FY 2001, whichever is later, with exceptions. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. (Sec. 2704) Extends until a specified conditional date the authorization of appropriations for the Over-the-Horizon Radar at the Naval Station Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, as authorized under a prior military construction authorization Act. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Military Program and Military Family Housing Changes - Repeals a current Federal provision prohibiting the Secretary of a military department (Secretary concerned) from entering into certain real property transactions of over $200,000 until 30 days after a report concerning the proposed transaction is submitted to the Senate and House Armed Services and National Security Committees. Subtitle B: Other Matters - Increases from $200,000 to $500,000 the maximum amount of real property that the Secretary concerned may acquire in the interest of national defense. (Sec. 2803) Authorizes DOD to accept funds from a non-Federal party for expenses incurred whenever the Secretary concerned exchanges real property with, or grants an easement, lease, or license to, such a party. (Sec. 2804) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to lease in Naples, Italy, structures and real property associated with a regional hospital complex that are needed for military purposes. Provides a lease term of up to 20 years. Terminates such authority on September 30, 2002.
Bill· HRH.R. 919 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1997
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: General Provisions Title II: Revenue from Mining Claims Title III: Use or Disposal of Federal Natural Resources Title IV: National Park Concessions Public Resources Deficit Reduction Act of 1997 - Title I: General Provisions - Prohibits the disposal of federally-owned natural resources at less than fair market value (including forage, timber, minerals, water and hydroelectric energy generated at a Federal facility). Authorizes a presidential waiver of this proscription whenever the President determines it is in the national interest. (Sec. 102) Authorizes the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to impose user fees upon program beneficiaries. (Sec. 103) Requires the President's budget message to include a separate statement, asset by asset and aggregated by major functional category, identifying: (1) projected revenues from the anticipated sale, lease, or transfer of any physical asset; and (2) the estimated price at which it would be sold in an arms length transaction in the private sector. Title II: Revenue from Mining Claims - Requires the payment of a royalty to the Federal government of five percent of the net smelter return from the production of locatable minerals or mineral concentrates produced from any mining claim located under the general mining laws. Establishes the Abandoned Minerals Mine Reclamation Fund, into which all such royalty receipts shall be deposited for the reclamation and restoration of land and water resources adversely affected by past minerals activities (other than coal and fluid minerals activities). Identifies the kinds of land and waters eligible for reclamation expenditures. Authorizes appropriations for the Fund. Restricts the issuance of any patents for mining or mill site claims to those for which applications were filed, and certain statutory requirements governing vein or lode claims, placer claims, and mill site claims were complied with, before September 30, 1994. Sets forth annual claim maintenance fee requirements (which shall not apply to oil shale claims subject to claim maintenance fees under the Energy Policy Act of 1992). Title III: Use or Disposal of Federal Natural Resources - Amends the Federal Land Policy Management Act of 1976 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to National Forest lands in the 16 contiguous Western States, and the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to public domain lands, where domestic livestock grazing is permitted under applicable law, to establish and implement an annual domestic livestock grazing fee equal to fair market value, based on a specified formula. Abolishes grazing advisory boards. Dedicates the U.S. share of grazing fee receipts to: (1) fish and wildlife habitat restoration and enhancement; (2) restoration and improved management of riparian areas; and (3) enforcement of applicable land management plans, allotment plans, and regulations. (Sec. 302) Amends the National Forest Management Act of 1976 to prohibit below-cost timber sales from National Forest System Lands. Requires sale revenues to exceed costs. (Sec. 303) Amends the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 to require the Secretary of Agriculture in revising land management plans to take into account the economic suitability of lands for timber production. (Sec. 304) Amends the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to require that irrigation water from the Bureau of Reclamation used to produce crops on production flexibility contract acreage be paid for at the full cost for delivery. (Sec. 305) Amends the Food Security Act of 1995 and the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to provide for the reduction of payment limitations for persons who receive Federal irrigation water for agricultural purposes. (Sec. 308) Amends the Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act of 1988 to repeal the livestock feed assistance program. (Sec. 309) Requires that right-of-way permits for the use and occupation of public lands or National Forests be established at fair market value. (Sec. 310) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to require that oil and gas rental prices for leases on public lands be established at fair market value. (Sec. 311) Amends the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Simplification and Fairness Act of 1996 to identify circumstances under which the Secretary of the Interior may make an assessment of 20 percent of the amount of underreported royalties from any lease for any production month. Title IV: National Park Concessions - Repeals the Concessions Policy Act of 1965. (Sec. 404) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to award concession contracts that authorize private persons, corporations, or other entities to provide services to park visitors and to utilize facilities if it is determined that such award is appropriate. (Sec. 405) Requires a concession contract to be awarded to the person submitting the best proposal through a competitive selection process to be established by the Secretary. Allows noncompetitive award of a temporary contract to avoid interruption of services. Requires the Secretary to publish a notice of availability for a prospectus soliciting proposals for contracts for concessions at a Park specifying minimum contract requirements and contract terms and conditions. Requires congressional notification for any proposed contract with anticipated gross receipts exceeding $1 million or of a duration of over ten years. Prohibits the Secretary from granting a preferential right to a concessioner to renew concession contracts under this Act, except for certain outfitting and guide contracts and certain contracts with annual gross receipts of under $500,000. (Sec. 406) Sets forth criteria for determining franchise fees, including fees for multiple franchise contracts within a park. (Sec. 407) Requires all fees to be: (1) covered into a special Treasury account established for reallocation to NPS units for resource management and protection, maintenance activities, interpretation, and research; or (2) deposited into a Park Improvement Fund established by the concessioner (as directed by the Secretary) from which expenditures shall be made for park activities and projects. Requires: (1) an annual statement from the concessioner to the Secretary reflecting total activity in the Fund for the preceding fiscal year; and (2) an annual report from the Secretary to specified congressional committees concerning Fund expenditures. (Sec. 408) Establishes a maximum: (1) ten-year duration for a concessions contract, provided that the Secretary may award a contract for up to 20 years if determined necessary; and (2) two-year duration for a temporary contract. (Sec. 409) Requires the approval of the Secretary and congressional notification before a concession contract can be transferred, assigned, sold, or conveyed. Sets forth conditions that preclude such approval. (Sec. 410) Grants possessory interest to: (1) concessioners who have commenced acquisition or construction of any structure on Federal land within a park before the enactment of this Act; and (2) concessioners who construct or acquire an improvement on U.S. land within a Park after enactment of this Act. (Sec. 411) Places limitations on a concessioner's rates and charges to the public. (Sec. 412) Directs the Secretary to: (1) evaluate periodically the performance of each concessioner under contract; (2) terminate a contract if a concessioner fails, within the prescribed time, to meet minimum requirements identified in a notice of unsatisfactory performance; and (3) notify specified congressional committees of each unsatisfactory rating and each contract terminated. (Sec. 413) Grants the Comptroller General of the United States access to and the right to examine any pertinent books, documents, papers, and records of the concessioner related to the contracts. (Sec. 414) Exempts contracts awarded by the Secretary under this Act from certain provisions of Federal law with respect to the leasing of U.S. buildings and properties. (Sec. 416) Requires the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior to submit biannual reports to specified congressional committees on the implementation of this Act and its effect on facilities operated pursuant to concession contracts and on visitor services. (Sec. 417) Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 918 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1997
Infrastructure Improvement Act of 1997 - Directs the Federal Communications Commission to conduct competitive bidding for licenses and permits for portions of the public electromagnetic spectrum allocated for commercial use that become available for licenses and construction during FY 1998 through 2002 and that result in specified proceeds. Requires such proceeds to be deposited into the Infrastructure Improvement Trust Fund established by this Act. Makes such funds available to the Secretary of Transportation to be apportioned among the States during FY 1998 through 2002 based on the percentage of estimated tax payments attributable to highway users in a State paid into the Highway Trust Fund for the latest fiscal year. Permits such funds to be used only for the construction and maintenance of State highways. Allows a State to be eligible for such funds only if it submits annually to the Secretary a plan describing its use of such funds. Requires a Federal share of 80 percent of the total cost of a project or activity conducted using funds apportioned under this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 921 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1997
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income any amount paid as a survivor annuity on account of the death of a law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty, subject to specified qualifications.
Bill· SS. 386 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1997
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Promoting Competition, Quality, and Beneficiary Choice in Medicare Title II: Increasing Medicare Coverage Options Subtitle A: Risk Plan Improvements Subtitle B: Maintaining Fee-for-Service Program Title III: Promotion of Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) and of Social Health Maintenance Organizations (SHMOS) Title IV: Other Medicare Changes Title V: Prospective Payment for Home Health Services Title VI: Prospective Payment System for Nursing Facilities Title VII: Telemedicine Medicare Modernization and Patient Protection Act of 1997 - Title I: Promoting Competition, Quality, and Beneficiary Choice in Medicare - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Office of Plan Improvement and Competition within the Health Care Financing Administration to: (1) collect and distribute certain data, including research on improvement in health care quality and best-practice information; (2) monitor and supervise Medicare supplemental health insurance (Medigap) policy advertising; and (3) publish and distribute certain quality and comparative reports. (Sec. 102) Directs the Secretary to conduct demonstration projects in applicable areas for the purpose of establishing competitive pricing for eligible organizations with risk-sharing contracts. (Sec. 103) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) guarantee the issue of Medigap policies regardless of preexisting health conditions to certain eligible individuals who seek to enroll under the policy within a certain period of time after their current organization enrollment or policy coverage is terminated; (2) prohibit exclusion from coverage due to pre-existing health conditions during the initial open enrollment period; (3) revise non-discrimination requirements for initial enrollment periods; and (4) extend the six-month initial enrollment period to nonelderly Medicare beneficiaries. Title II: Increasing Medicare Coverage Options - Subtitle A: Risk Plan Improvements - Amends SSA title XVIII (Medicare) with respect to Medicare managed care arrangements. Revises the formulae for determining the annual reimbursement rates for health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and competitive medical plans. Requires the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), beginning FY 1998, to pay no less than 80 percent of the national average for payments to all plans in 1997, with annual payment increases according to a specified formula. (Sec. 201) Provides for additional enrollee protections involving provision of emergency services and renal dialysis. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study for a report to the Congress on increased portability of items and services under organization plans. Provides for intermediate sanctions against plans for program violations, short of termination. Requires an HMO to meet quality standards the Secretary establishes in consultation with private quality accreditation entities. Requires coordinated enrollment and disenrollment periods. Requires an HMO's service area to include an entire metropolitan area if it includes any part of such area. Authorizes certain additional (outlier) payments for 50 percent of imputed reasonable costs in certain circumstances. Directs the Secretary to develop a model of the agreement that an eligible organization must enter into with an entity providing peer review services. Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to the Congress on the costs incurred by eligible organizations in complying with the requirement that any agreement it makes with an entity providing peer review services be in writing. Eliminates organization "gag clauses" on health care providers which have prohibited them from openly communicating within the scope of their license with any of their patients. (Sec. 202) Provides for quality report cards on eligible organizations and comparative reports on their plans in order to assist Medicare beneficiaries' decisionmaking regarding health care and treatment. (Sec. 203) Preempts certain State laws mandating benefits and restricting managed care. (Sec. 204) Amends SSA title XVIII to require eligible organizations to: (1) designate an independent ombudsman to assist members enrolled with such organization in exercising their right to file grievances and appeals; and (2) provide to enrollees a clear and understandable statement regarding such right. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations intended to expedite determinations and appeals regarding covered items and services for individuals entitled to them under Medicare parts A and B. (Sec. 205) Requires the Secretary to coordinate an annual enrollment fair in each Medicare payment area in order for eligible organizations to inform eligible individuals about their plans. Requires such organizations to participate in such fairs in each Medicare payment area in which the organization offers a plan. Subtitle B: Maintaining Fee-for-Service Program - Requires adjustment in applicable payment rates or payments for items and services in each excess spending sector of Medicare services for a fiscal year if the fee-for-service expenditures for all sectors for the fiscal year will exceed the sum of their allotments ("failsafe budget mechanism"). Specifies the sectors of Medicare services, as well as the formula for determining each sector's fiscal year allotment. (Sec. 212) Provides for maintenance of the part B Medicare premium at the current percentage of part B program costs. Title III: Promotion of Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) and of Social Health Maintenance Organizations (SHMOS) - Directs the Secretary to establish PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) provider status for public and nonprofit community-based organizations to enable them to provide comprehensive health care services of proper quality on a cost-effective, capitated basis to at-risk frail elderly patients under the Medicare or Medicaid programs or under any other applicable SSA program. (Sec. 302) Requires the terms and conditions of PACE provider status to include those of the On Lok waiver under the Social Security Amendments of 1983, and those under the PACE Protocol, as published by On Lok, Inc. (Sec. 303) Applies Medicaid spousal impoverishment rules to individuals receiving services from any organization that is a PACE provider under this Act. (Sec. 304) Declares that there shall be no limitations on how many Social Health Maintenance Organizations (SHMOS) demonstration projects the Secretary may approve, how many individuals may participate in any such project, or on the period of applicable waivers. Title IV: Other Medicare Changes - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) provide for a competitive acquisition process for awarding contracts for specified items and services under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Services), including durable medical equipment and related supplies; (2) provide for new procedures for inherent reasonableness determinations; (3) revise requirements for the promotion of advance directives, especially in individual medical charts; (4) extend the benefit period for hospice care to an unlimited number of 60-day periods, and allow contracting with independent physicians and physician groups for such services; and (5) specify the entitlement structure for up to 32 hours of respite services per year. (Sec. 404) Amends the Federal criminal code to establish criminal penalties for Medicare fraud, including forfeiture of real or personal property derived from such fraud. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the feasibility and desirability of establishing a standardized Medicare claims administration process, implementing other measures to improve recordkeeping, and taking other appropriate steps to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse in making Medicare payments. Directs the Vice President's Commission on Reinventing Government to report to the Congress on the effectiveness of current Federal Government efforts to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in the Medicare program and on whether they would be enhanced by establishment of a coordinated, all-payer, multijurisdiction antifraud program. (Sec. 406) Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on providing pharmacy services to Medicare beneficiaries. Title V: Prospective Payment for Home Health Service - Amends SSA title XVIII to direct the Secretary to: (1) require reimbursement for specified home health services under a prospective payment system (PPS), with a specified national per visit payment rate for each type of service, and per patient and per episode limits; and (2) implement a medical review process for such PPS providing an assessment of the pattern of home health service care furnished to individuals to ensure such services are appropriate. Directs the Medicare Prospective Payment Review Commission to report annually to the Congress on the effectiveness of the payment methodology. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop a method of payments for home health services in accordance with an episodic PPS; (2) initiate development of a data base upon which a fair and accurate case mix adjustor can be developed and implemented. Grants home health agencies receiving prospective payments the right to obtain a hearing by the Provider Reimbursement Review Board with respect to such payment. (Sec. 502) Amends SSA title XI to provide for: (1) utilization and quality control peer review organization (PRO) review of the level of care and quality of services provided to individuals receiving home health services; and (2) hearing and judicial review rights for affected parties with respect to PRO determinations concerning home health services with which they are dissatisfied. Amends SSA title XVIII to eliminate certain fiscal intermediary responsibilities with regard to denied claims for home health services. Title VI: Prospective Payment System for Nursing Facilities - Establishes a PPS for nursing facilities reflecting specified payment objectives (and specifically exempting skilled nursing facilities under Medicare). Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a resident classification system modelled after the updated RUG-II system, grouping residents into classes according to similarity of assessed condition and required services; and (2) determine payment rates for nursing facilities using specified cost- service groupings, adjusted at mid-year. (Sec. 607) Requires nursing facilities, in order to be eligible to receive payments under such system, to perform a resident assessment within 14 days after admission of the resident and at such other times as required. (Sec. 608) Establishes per diem reimbursement systems with respect to: (1) enrolled residents; (2) facility administrative and general costs, subject to geographic ceilings the Secretary shall formulate; and (3) property costs. (Sec. 610) Requires the Secretary to: (1) pay for ancillary services on a prospective fee-for-service basis; but (2) reimburse for selected ancillary services on a retrospective basis as pass-through costs. (Sec. 614) Provides payment rate exceptions for new and low volume nursing facilities. (Sec. 615) Establishes a process for appealing decisions by the Secretary regarding payments in the amount of $10,000 or more. Title VII: Telemedicine - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission to adopt rules requiring telecommunications carriers to provide access (including requisite infrastructure and bandwidth) to the Internet or other interactive computer service necessary for the provision of health care services in rural areas at certain rates. (Sec. 702) Establishes the Commission on Telemedicine to study, develop recommendations, and report to the President and the Congress on all matters relating to which telemedicine services should be covered under Medicare. Authorizes funds to the Commission.
Bill· SS. 387 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1997
Software Export Equity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify software, whether or not patented, for Foreign Sales Corporation treatment.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 19 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1997
Disapproves the President's determination contained in the foreign assistance certification submitted to the Congress on February 28, 1997, that Mexico has cooperated fully with the United States to achieve full compliance with the goals and objectives established by the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 20 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1997
Disapproves the President's determination contained in the foreign assistance certification submitted to the Congress on February 28, 1997, that Mexico has cooperated fully with the United States to achieve full compliance with the goals and objectives established by the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 21 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1997
Disapproves the President's determination contained in the foreign assistance certification submitted to the Congress on February 28, 1997, that Mexico has cooperated fully with the United States to achieve full compliance with the goals and objectives established by the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances. Provides that provisions relating to the withholding of bilateral assistance and opposition to multilateral development assistance shall cease to apply to Mexico during FY 1997 if the President submits to the Congress a certification that the vital national interests of the United States so require.
Bill· HRH.R. 907 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1997
Revises specified provisions regarding minimum allocations of Federal aid highway funds and provisions of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) to direct the Secretary of Transportation, in FY 1998 and thereafter, to ensure that each State's percentage of the total apportionments in each such fiscal year and allocations for the prior fiscal year from funds made available out of the Highway Trust Fund is not less than the percentage of estimated tax payments to the Fund by highway users in the State in the latest fiscal year for which data are available. Repeals ISTEA provisions specifying the percentage of total apportioned and allocated funds to be allocated to each State for the surface transportation program.
Bill· HRH.R. 906 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1997
Requires the U.S. Postal Service to establish a discount presort first-class postage rate for specified local governmental mailings that are mandated by Federal or State law, such as property tax statements, summonses, and jury-duty pay, but for which no Federal or State funds are provided to local governments to defray the associated administrative costs.
Bill· HRH.R. 902 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1997
Family Heritage Preservation Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the estate tax, gift tax, and tax on generation-skipping transfers.
Bill· SS. 377 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1997
Promotion of Commerce On-Line in the Digital Era (Pro-CODE) Act of 1997 - Prohibits the Secretary of Commerce (acting through the National Institute of Standards and Technology or otherwise) from promulgating or enforcing regulations, or otherwise adopting standards or carrying out policies: (1) that result in encryption standards intended for use by businesses or entities other than Federal computer systems; or (2) in a manner inconsistent with this Act, or that have the effect of imposing Government-designed encryption standards on the private sector by restricting the export of computer hardware and computer software with encryption capabilities. (Sec. 5) Prohibits the Federal and State governments from: (1) restricting or regulating the interstate sale by any person of any product designed to provide encryption capabilities; or (2) requiring, as a condition of such a sale, that a decryption key, or access to a decryption key, be given to any other person (including a Federal agency or a private entity certified or approved by the Federal or a State government). Grants the Secretary exclusive authority to control exports of all computer hardware, software, and technology with encryption capabilities, except that which is specifically designed or modified for military use, including command, control, and intelligence applications. Requires only a general license (with limited exceptions) for the export or reexport of any: (1) computer software, including that with encryption capabilities, that is generally available, as is, and designed for installation by the purchaser, or (2) that is available on enactment of this Act or becomes legally available thereafter in the public domain (including on the Internet) or publicly available because it is generally accessible to the public in any form; or (3) computing device or computer hardware solely because it incorporates or employs in any form such computer software (including that with encryption capabilities). Directs the Secretary to authorize the export or reexport of computer software with encryption capabilities under a general license for nonmilitary end-uses in any country to which exports of software or hardware of similar capability are permitted for use by financial institutions not controlled in fact by U.S. persons, unless there is substantial evidence that such software and hardware will be diverted to a military end-use or an end-use supporting international or domestic terrorism, modified for military or terrorist end-use, including acts against the national security, public safety, or the integrity of the transportation, communications, or other essential systems of interstate commerce in the U.S., or reexported without requisite Federal authorization, or intentionally used to evade enforcement of U.S. law or taxation by the U.S. or by any State or local government. Requires that the publisher or manufacturer of computer software or hardware with encryption capabilities shall disclose (for reporting purposes only) within 30 days after export, to the Secretary such information regarding a program's or product's encryption capabilities as would be required for an individual license to export that program or product. Prohibits requiring or permitting the Secretary to impose any conditions or reporting requirements as a precondition to the exportation of any such product or program. (Sec. 6) Establishes an Information Security Board comprised of representatives of agencies within the Federal Government responsible for or involved in the formulation of information security policy, including export controls on products with information security features (including encryption) to: (1) provide a forum to foster communication and coordination between industry and the Federal Government; and (2) foster the aggregation and dissemination of general, nonproprietary, and nonconfidential developments in important information security technologies, including encryption. Requires that the Board shall regularly report such information to appropriate Federal agencies to keep law enforcement and national security agencies abreast of emerging technologies so they are able effectively to execute their responsibilities and cause such information (other than classified, proprietary, or confidential information) to be published from time to time and made available to the public. Directs the Secretary to establish quarterly meetings between the Board and representatives from the private sector with interest or expertise in information security, including cryptographers, engineers, and product managers. Permits the Board to meet at any time with one or more representatives of any person involved in the development, production, or distribution of encryption technology or of computing devices containing encryption technology. Declares that nothing in this Act may be construed to affect any law intended to prevent the: (1) distribution of descramblers and any other equipment for illegal interceptions of cable and satellite television signals; (2) illegal or unauthorized distribution or release of classified, confidential, or proprietary information; or (3) enforcement of Federal or State criminal law.
Bill· SS. 379 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1997
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat certain expenses incurred by whaling captains while carrying out sanctioned activities for Native Alaskan subsistence whaling as a charitable contribution deduction.
Bill· HRH.R. 888 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1997
Amends the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, FY 1997 to direct the President to take appropriate action to ensure that there is no increase in the procurement of service contracts, except in cases in which a cost comparison demonstrates such contracts would be to the financial advantage of the Federal Government. Prohibits the performance, by any person under contract with the United States, of the duties and responsibilities of any individual who separates from Government service in order to receive a specified voluntary separation incentive payment.
Bill· HRH.R. 876 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1997
Self-Employed Health Fairness Act of 1997 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the deduction allowed for health insurance costs for self-employed individuals to 100 percent.
Bill· HRH.R. 856 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1997
United States-Puerto Rico Political Status Act - Declares it is the policy of the Congress that: (1) English shall be the common language of mutual understanding in the United States, and this policy shall apply in all of the States freely admitted to the Union; and (2) if the referenda under this Act result in approval of sovereignty leading to Statehood for Puerto Rico, it is anticipated that English would become the official language of the Federal Government in Puerto Rico. Declares that Congress has the authority to expand existing English language requirements in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Requires a referendum to be held by December 31, 1998, on Puerto Rico's political status, for either: (1) retention of its present Commonwealth status; (2) full self-government through separate sovereignty leading to independence or free association; or (3) full self-government through U.S. sovereignty leading to statehood. Requires the President to develop and submit to the Congress for approval legislation for: (1) a transition plan of at least ten years which leads to full self-government for Puerto Rico; and (2) a recommendation for the implementation of such self-government consistent with Puerto Rico's approval. Requires the transition plan, if the vote favors statehood, to include proposals and incentives to increase the opportunities of the people of Puerto Rico to learn English, including the teaching of English in public schools, fellowships, and scholarships. Requires another referendum within four years, and every four years thereafter (but not in a general election year), if the referendum conducted under this Act, and any subsequent referendum, does not result in a majority vote for separate sovereignty or statehood. Sets forth specified requirements with respect to the referendum and congressional procedures for consideration of legislation. Makes funds available for the referendum, including those derived from the Federal excise tax on foreign rum. Requires the Government of Puerto Rico to make grants to the State Elections Commission of Puerto Rico for referenda held under this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 891 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1997
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the: (1) maximum deduction for individual retirement account contributions; and (2) income amount at which phase-out of that deduction begins. Exempts from the early distribution penalty: (1) distributions from certain types of retirement plans for first-time home buyer, education, or adoption expenses; and (2) for unemployed individuals (currently, for unemployed individuals for health insurance premiums). Modifies requirements regarding penalties for medical care early distributions.
Law· HRH.R. 867 (105th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1997
Adoption Promotion Act of 1997 - Amends the Social Security Act with respect to State plans for foster care and adoption assistance to: (1) revise the requirements, as applied to cases of child abuse, for mandatory reasonable efforts under the plan to eliminate the need to remove a child from the child's home; and (2) make it possible for the child to return home, as a prerequisite to placing a child in foster care. (Sec. 3) Provides for earlier status reviews and permanency hearings, notice of reviews and hearings, and opportunity to be heard. (Sec. 5) Requires a State to initiate proceedings to terminate parental rights for children under age ten who have been in foster care under State responsibility for 18 months. (Sec. 6) Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) report and make recommendations to specified congressional committees on the extent to which children in foster care are placed in the care of a relative (kinship care); and (2) establish an advisory panel to review such report. (Sec. 7) Authorizes use of the parent locator service in termination of parental rights proceedings. (Sec. 8) Instructs the Secretary to: (1) develop a set of outcome measures to assess the performance of States in operating child protection programs; and (2) report annually to the Congress on the performance of each State on each outcome measure. (Sec. 9) Increases from 10 to 15 the authorized number of State child protection demonstration projects. (Sec. 10) Prescribes technical assistance guidelines for the Secretary to help States and local communities to reach their targets for increased numbers of adoptions and alternative permanent placements for children in foster care. (Sec. 11) Directs the Secretary to make bonus grants to States for the number of foster child adoptions and special needs adoptions that exceed the base number of such adoptions for the fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 865 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1997
Amends Federal law to limit the power of the State of Kentucky to tax the compensation of Federal employees at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to those employees who are Kentucky residents.
Bill· HRH.R. 874 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1997
Amends Federal law to state that compensation paid by the United States for personal services as a U.S. employee at a U.S.-owned Columbia River hydroelectric facility, portions of which are within Oregon and Washington, shall be subject to taxation by Oregon or any political subdivision of that State only if such employee is an Oregon and subdivision resident.
Bill· HRH.R. 883 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1997
Government Credit Card Reform Act - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to provide for the acceptance of payment by credit card for taxes, criminal fines, civil penalties, motor vehicle and other registration fees, and fees for performance of certain government functions. Limits the amount of fees which a governmental entity may impose for its acceptance of payments by credit card. Mandates fee disclosure by the governmental entity.
Bill· HRH.R. 881 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1997
Medical Education Trust Fund Act of 1997 - Amends the Social Security Act (SSA) to add a new title XXI (Medical Education Trust Fund) establishing in the Treasury the Medical Education Trust Fund, consisting of various specified accounts. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make annual payments from the Fund to eligible medical schools and teaching hospitals applying for assistance to: (1) maintain and develop quality educational programs in an increasingly competitive health care system; and (2) meet the indirect and direct costs of graduate medical education. Outlines requirements for Fund investments and determination of payments. Amends SSA titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) to provide for annual transfers to the Fund. Makes specified appropriations to the Fund. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax equal to 1.5 percent of premiums received under accident or health insurance policies (including applicable self-insured plans), and equal to 1.5 percent of the amount received for certain health-related administrative services, payable by the policy issuer and the service provider, respectively. Makes specified appropriations and transfers of such amounts collected to the Fund for allocation among the various specified accounts. Establishes the Medical Education Advisory Commission to study and report on Fund operations and other specified matters, including recommendations for demonstration projects. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to prescribe guidelines for the establishment and operation of such demonstration projects.
Bill· HRH.R. 889 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1997
District of Columbia Tax Revenue Nondiscrimination Act of 1997 - Repeals various District of Columbia Code property tax exemptions for specified organizations located in the District of Columbia. Amends specified Federal laws to permit the District of Columbia Government to tax: (1) the Federal National Mortgage Association (FANNIE MAE); (2) the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FREDDIE MAC); and (3) the Student Loan Marketing Association (SALLIE MAE).
Bill· HRH.R. 869 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1997
Child Support Enforcement Act - Prohibits construing this Act to affect: (1) the right of an individual or State to receive child support payments; or (2) the obligation of an individual to pay child support. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require that taxable child support payments the taxpayer is required to pay and that are unpaid be treated as included in gross income by reason of discharge of indebtedness. Allows a taxpayer entitled to receive such payments a deduction for unpaid payments. Allows the deduction for those who do not itemize deductions. Requires that net revenues received in the Treasury under this Act be applied, as provided in appropriations Acts, solely to the retirement of outstanding public debt.
Bill· HRH.R. 886 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1997
Reduces by $5.7 billion the amount of FY 1998 executive branch appropriations available for entering into service contracts and increases by the same amount the funds available for pay schedule adjustments and locality-based comparability payments. Requires: (1) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to allocate the reductions and increases among the appropriate accounts and to report to the Congress on such allocations; (2) each department, agency, and instrumentality in the executive branch to submit to the Director, within 90 days after the end of FY 1998, a certification of compliance with this Act in accordance with the required allocations; and (3) the Director to report to the Congress on such certifications.
Bill· HRH.R. 862 (105th)open
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1997
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the long term capital gains rate from 28 percent by two percent (but not below 14 percent) for each year the asset was held beyond two years. Reduces the net capital gain by the amount the taxpayer elects to take into account as investment income under specified provisions.
Bill· HRH.R. 898 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1997
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Balancing the Budget Title II: Technical and Conforming Amendments Balanced Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 - Title I: Balancing the Budget - Part A: Purpose - Repeals parts C (Emergency Powers to Eliminate Deficits in Excess of Maximum Deficit Amount), D (Budgetary Treatment of Social Security Trust Funds), and E (Miscellaneous and Related Provisions) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Part B: The Deficit Elimination Act of 1997 - Deficit Elimination Act of 1997 - Sets for FY 1998 through 2002: (1) deficit reduction targets for direct spending and receipts legislation; and (2) discretionary funding limits, measured in terms of new budget authority. Permits adjustments, whenever appropriate, to discretionary funding limits to reflect: (1) changes in concepts; (2) changes in inflation; (3) expiring housing contracts; (4) emergencies; (5) new limits for FY 2002 and thereafter; and (6) transportation trust funds. (Sec. 103) Provides for: (1) balancing the budget in FY 2002; (2) preventing deficits after FY 2002; (3) enactment of a spin-off law, if required, to achieve such goals; and (4) targeted sequestration if a spin-off law is in effect for a fiscal year on the date of the final sequestration report for that fiscal year. (Sec. 106) Establishes a scorecard upon which shall be entered: (1) for FY 1998 through 2002 the estimated increase or decrease in the deficit; (2) for FY 2003 and thereafter the estimated increase or decrease in the deficit or surplus; and (3) for fiscal years after FY 1998 the amount of discretionary appropriations. (Sec. 109) Declares that, for a budget year in which a spin-off law is not in effect, the amount to be sequestered: (1) shall be the amount (if any) by which the sum of all budget-year entries on the direct spending and receipts scorecard is greater than zero; and (2) shall be increased whenever the average out-year change in direct spending and receipts, combined, achieved during that budget-year session would result in higher deficits than if that average change had equaled the amount targeted for the budget year, with that budget-year target being the amount that the sequestration preview report for the budget year shows was needed to bring the budget-year entries on the direct spending and receipts scorecard to zero. Provides that, within 15 days after the Congress adjourns to end a session, and on the same day as an across-the-board reduction of discretionary programs, such a sequestration shall take place to reduce the amount of receipts in the current policy baseline, unless the sum computed for the sequestration is less than $500 million. Mandates that sequestration be achieved by reducing each non-exempt direct spending account by the uniform percentage necessary to achieve 80 percent of the sequestration sum, and increasing receipts to achieve the other 20 percent through surtaxes as enacted under this Act. (Sec. 110) Provides for an across-the-board reduction of discretionary programs, if there is a sequestration. (Sec. 111) Lists programs and activities which shall be exempt from sequestration, including optional exemptions of military personnel. (Sec. 112) Sets forth general sequestration rules, including permanent sequestration of direct spending and receipts, as well as special rules for: (1) block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) under the Social Security Act; (2) the Child Support Enforcement Program; (3) the Commodity Credit Corporation; (4) the Conservation Reserve Program; (5) extended unemployment compensation; (6) the Federal Employees Health Benefits Fund; (7) the Federal Housing Finance Board; (8) Federal pay; (9) guaranteed student loans; (10) Federal insurance programs; (11) Medicaid; (12) Medicare; (13) the Postal Service Fund; (14) power marketing administration funds and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) fund; and (15) veterans' housing loans. (Sec. 113) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the imposition of tax sequestration surtaxes on individuals and corporations. (Sec. 114) Requires both the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to prepare both sequestration preview and final reports. Directs the Board of Estimates (established under this Act), at specified appropriate times, to choose one report from each pair as the official preview or final report. Directs the President, on the day that the Board chooses the final sequestration report, to issue an order fully implementing without change all required sequestrations and tax actions. (Sec. 115) Provides for determination of the current policy baseline and the baseline assuming deficit reduction. (Sec. 117) Establishes in the Treasury a Stabilization Reserve Fund in order to accumulate balances during years of comparative prosperity, which balances may later be used to cover the loss of receipts and the increase in outlays that occur during times of comparative economic distress. (Sec. 118) Provides for the suspension of sequestration procedures: (1) upon the declaration of war; and (2) during periods of low economic growth. Sets forth procedures for the consideration of a low growth joint resolution by the Congress. (Sec. 119) Establishes a Board of Estimates to report to the President and the Congress concerning the selection of the OMB and CBO sequestration preview and final reports. (Sec. 120) Provides for: (1) expedited judicial review of the constitutionality of provisions of this Act in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in an action by any Member of Congress or other adversely affected individual seeking declaratory judgment and injunctive relief; and (2) direct appeal to the Supreme Court of any court order issued pursuant to such an action. Title II: Technical and Conforming Amendments - Sets forth technical and conforming amendments to: (1) the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act of 1974; (2) the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990; (3) the Rules of the House of Representatives and the Standing Rules of the Senate; and (4) other Federal law provisions concerning, among other things, the President's budget and the public debt limit.
Bill· HRH.R. 878 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1997
Commuter Choice Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the limits on the value of certain employer-provided commuting benefits that are excluded from gross income. Allows the exclusion only if the employer offers an employee the option of a cash payment in lieu of the benefit. Modifies the inflation adjustment requirements, including starting the adjustments after 2002 (currently, after 1993).
Bill· SS. 366 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1997
Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to prohibit the House of Representatives or the Senate from considering any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that increases a tax and applies such increase to taxable years beginning before the date of the enactment of the law (retroactive tax increases). Provides that a point of order raised under any such measure may be waived only by a three-fifths vote in the Senate.
Bill· SS. 365 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1997
Internal Revenue Service Accountability Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to mandate a fine or imprisonment for any U.S. officer or employee who willfully and maliciously disregards any revenue law or related regulation relating to any proceeding against a taxpayer. Allows, if litigation costs are awarded, a portion of the costs to be assessed against any current or former Internal Revenue Service officer or employee (prohibiting Government reimbursement) if the proceeding resulted from any arbitrary, capricious, or malicious act of the officer or employee. Allows Government defense of the officer or employee, but makes the officer or employee liable for defense costs if the employee is found liable for litigation costs. Imposes similar liabilities regarding civil damages for a failure to release a lien or for certain unauthorized collection actions. Amends provisions allowing civil damages for disclosure of returns and return information to allow the damages for access as well as disclosure and apply the provisions to former as well as current officers and employees. Provides for dismissal from office or discharge from employment, a fine or imprisonment, and costs of prosecution for unauthorized access. Prohibits unauthorized access and, on discovery of unauthorized access, requires immediate taxpayer notification. Requires reasonable justification (not random selection) for examining a return. Prohibits, except on court approval, a second examination of a return or extending an examination back beyond three taxable years. Extends from 21 to 90 calendar days after notice and demand the deadline to pay a tax required to be shown on certain returns but not shown. Allows a district court to rule on a decision by the Secretary of the Treasury to not acquiesce regarding conclusions of law in identical, similar, or previously-decided cases. Requires court consent for a levy to collect a tax. Prohibits interest on assessable penalties, additional amounts, or additions to tax. Sets the interest rate for overpayments and underpayments (the same rate for both). Modifies requirements regarding abatement of interest, penalties, additional amounts, or additions to tax attributable to a mathematical or clerical error.
Bill· SS. 367 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1997
Battered Women's Employment Protection Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to unemployment tax to require appropriate State laws to provide for unemployment compensation for an individual separated from employment due to circumstances directly resulting from the individual's experience of domestic violence. Amends the Social Security Act to require State laws approved under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act to provide for training for claims reviewers and hearing personnel in the nature of domestic violence, and in methods of ascertaining its existence, so that employment separations stemming from domestic violence are reliably screened, identified, and adjudicated. (Sec. 4) Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act to entitle an employee to such leave: (1) in order to care for the employee's child or parent, if such child or parent is addressing domestic violence and its effects; or (2) because the employee is addressing domestic violence and its effects, the employee is unable to perform any of the functions of the employee's position. Allows leave, in such cases, to be taken intermittently or on a reduced leave schedule. Allows the employee to elect, or the employer to require, substitution of accrued paid leave for such leave. Sets forth provisions Provides for certification and confidentiality of domestic violence information involved in such cases. (Sec. 5) Amends specified Federal law to provide for entitlement to leave for Federal employees in such domestic violence situations. (Sec. 6) Allows unemployment compensation or leave benefits under other laws, collective bargaining agreements, or employment benefit programs greater then those provided by this Act; but prohibits diminishment of the rights and benefits established by this Act.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 17 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1997
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits any Federal tax from being imposed for the period before the date of enactment of the tax.
Bill· HRH.R. 851 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1997
Battered Women's Employment Protection Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to unemployment tax to require appropriate State laws to provide for unemployment compensation for an individual separated from employment due to circumstances directly resulting from the individual's experience of domestic violence. Amends the Social Security Act to require State laws approved under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act to provide for training for claims reviewers and hearing personnel in the nature of domestic violence, and in methods of ascertaining its existence, so that employment separations stemming from domestic violence are reliably screened, identified, and adjudicated. (Sec. 4) Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act to entitle an employee to such leave: (1) in order to care for the employee's child or parent, if such child or parent is addressing domestic violence and its effects; or (2) because the employee is addressing domestic violence and its effects, the employee is unable to perform any of the functions of the employee's position. Allows leave, in such cases, to be taken intermittently or on a reduced leave schedule. Allows the employee to elect, or the employer to require, substitution of accrued paid leave for such leave. Sets forth provisions Provides for certification and confidentiality of domestic violence information involved in such cases. (Sec. 5) Amends specified Federal law to provide for entitlement to leave for Federal employees in such domestic violence situations. (Sec. 6) Allows unemployment compensation or leave benefits under other laws, collective bargaining agreements, or employment benefit programs greater then those provided by this Act; but prohibits diminishment of the rights and benefits established by this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 840 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1997
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disregard $10 million of capital expenditures in applying the $10 million limitation on the face amount of qualified small issue bonds. Excludes any qualified small issue bond from the limitation on use for land acquisition. Repeals the percentage limitation on directly related and ancillary facilities which may be financed by qualified small issue bonds. Changes the private activity bond volume cap State ceiling maximum amount.
Bill· HRH.R. 853 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1997
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to the Congress on the effect: (1) that a tax system comprised of a ten percent Federal consumption tax and a ten percent flat Federal income tax would have on Government revenues and the U.S. economy; and (2) those rates would have if varied over time but raise the same revenue as the tax system in effect at the time of enactment of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 854 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1997
Foreign Subsidiary Tax Equity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include as taxable income of U.S. shareholders in controlled foreign corporations the foreign base company manufacturing related income attributable to manufacturing operations in a tax holiday (tax haven) plant or in a runaway plant.
Bill· HRH.R. 841 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1997
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt specified entertainment industry pension plan recipients from certain reductions in unemployment compensation payable which would otherwise be applicable because of the receipt of pension benefits.
Bill· HRH.R. 846 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1997
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that if there is a constructive sale of an appreciated financial position: (1) a taxpayer shall recognize gain as if such position were sold for its fair market value on the date of the constructive sale; and (2) for purposes of the treatment of gains and losses for periods after the constructive sale, proper adjustment shall be made in the amount of any gain or loss subsequently realized with respect to such position for any gain taken into account by reason of the above and the holding period of such position shall be determined as if such position were originally acquired on the date of such constructive sale. Sets forth a special rule for investment companies.
Bill· HRH.R. 842 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1997
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt any qualified small issue bond from the restrictions on the deduction by financial institutions for interest.
Bill· SS. 355 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1997
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax credit for research activities.
Bill· HRH.R. 834 (105th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1997
Amends the Revenue Act of 1987, with respect to tax-exempt bonds issued by Indian tribal governments, to declare that certain Internal Revenue Code provisions concerning such obligations shall not apply if: (1) such obligation is issued to refund an obligation issued on or before such date; (2) the average maturity date of issue is not later than the average maturity date of the obligation to be refunded by such issue; (3) the amount of the refunding obligation does not exceed the outstanding amount of the refunded obligation; and (4) the net proceeds of the refunding obligation are used to redeem the refunded obligation not later than 90 days after the date of the issuance of the refunding obligation.
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