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United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal limitations on the deductibility of capital losses.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1993
Dislocated Defense Workers' Job Assistance Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include dislocated defense workers as eligible for the targeted jobs credit.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the deduction for business use of the home to provide that the principal place of business is where substantially all of the management activities of the trade or business occur.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1993
Domestic Timber Production and Manufacturing Incentives Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide taxpayers a deduction from gross income for qualified timber gain as an investment incentive. Allows such deduction in computing adjusted gross income. Provides for applying passive loss limitations to timber activities.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1993
Saving and Investment Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an income tax deduction in the amount of dividends paid by domestic corporations, except S corporations, regulated investment companies, real estate investment trusts, and personal holding companies. Repeals the income tax deductions currently permitted in connection with: (1) dividends received by a corporation; (2) dividends received by a corporation on the preferred stock of a public utility; and (3) dividends paid by a public utility on its preferred stock. Increases from 80 percent to 85 percent the deductible percentage of amounts received by a corporation from a qualified ten-percent owned foreign corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1993
Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions governing the income tax deduction for the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals to: (1) make the deduction permanent; and (2) phase in an increase in the allowable deduction, reaching 100 percent for taxable years beginning in 1997 and thereafter.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1993
Small Business Credit Availability Act of 1993 - Establishes the Venture Enhancement and Loan Development Administration for Smaller Undercapitalized Enterprises (Velda Sue) as a Federal instrumentality to: (1) develop uniform underwriting, security appraisal, and repayment standards for qualified loans; (2) determine the eligibility of certified poolers to contract with Velda Sue for specific mortgage pool guarantees; and (3) provide timely repayment guarantees of the principal and interest on certain qualified obligations. Provides for a Board of Directors to manage Velda Sue. Authorizes Velda Sue to: (1) set conditions under which it will guarantee qualified obligations and securities; and (2) issue securities based on certain pooled interests in qualified obligations. Directs Velda Sue to issue certification and eligibility standards for secondary marketing for loan poolers. Directs Velda Sue to establish fees based upon the risk incurred in providing financial assistance or guarantees for: (1) qualified loans; and (2) securities issued by a qualified loan pooler. Declares that for purposes of the Securities Act of 1933, neither securities nor guarantees issued by Velda Sue shall be deemed to be a security issued by an agent of the Federal Government or a "government security." Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of the Treasury without fiscal year limitation. Provides Federal funding to the Corporation through purchases by the Secretary of Corporation obligations of up to $300 million. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for such purchases.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1993
Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to authorize appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1993 for the Civilian Community Corps Demonstration Program.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require modification of the purchase price limits under the mortgage revenue bond program to reflect housing costs in Westchester County, New York.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1993
Amends Federal law to continue appropriations automatically if a regular appropriations bill covering a project or activity does not become law by the beginning of a fiscal year. Continues appropriations at the funding level of the preceding fiscal year or, if the relevant Act did not become law, in accordance with criteria prescribed in this Act. Declares it to be out of order in the House of Representatives or in the Senate to consider or to vote on the question of agreeing to any continuing appropriations legislation. Permits a waiver of this restriction in the Senate by a three-fifths vote.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1993
Repeals a provision of the Internal Revenue Code that subjects corporations to the accumulated earnings tax regardless of the number of shareholders.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Indian Employment and Investment Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish an Indian reservation credit as a tax credit for investment in qualified Indian reservation property. Treats real estate rentals on an Indian reservation as the active conduct of a trade or business on such reservation. Declares that such credit applies only in the event that the Indian unemployment rate on the applicable reservation exceeds 300 percent of the national average unemployment rate at any time during the taxable year or in the immediately preceding taxable year. Provides for the recapture of such credit in the event such reservation property ceases to be investment property. Sets forth rules with respect to adjusting the basis of such property to reflect the investment credit. Allows businesses an employment credit for the qualified wages and qualified employee health insurance costs paid or incurred during a taxable year. Requires employees to perform substantially all services within an Indian reservation and to reside on or near such reservation. Limits such credit to the first seven years of employment and excludes employees earning more than $30,000 per year. Establishes penalties to be imposed if an employee is terminated before the day one year after the day on which the employee began work for the employer. Applies certain rules for computing the targeted jobs credit to such employment credit.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Repeals provisions of the Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1992 which require 20 percent income tax withholding on eligible rollover distributions of pension plans which are not rolled over into eligible retirement plans. Requires the Internal Revenue Code to be applied as if such provisions had never been enacted. Authorizes the President to offset any loss of revenues by reducing obligations and expenditures for programs, projects, and activities authorized under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, except for allocation of funds for countries specified in law.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Flat Tax Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal corporate taxes. Imposes a ten percent tax on the excess of the earned income of individuals over an exemption amount. Repeals: (1) specific exclusions from gross income; (2) deductions and credits against income tax; and (3) estate and gift taxes.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a taxpayer aged 55 or older to qualify for the one-time income tax exclusion of gain from the sale of a principal residence even if the taxpayer's spouse already took advantage of the exclusion before marrying the taxpayer.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Reauthorization of Government Programs Title II: Program Inventory Title III: Program Reexamination Title IV: Miscellaneous Spending Control and Programs Evaluation Act of 1993 - Title I: Reauthorizations of Government Programs - Requires each Government program to be reauthorized at least once during each sunset reauthorization cycle. (Sunset reauthorization cycle means the period of five Congresses beginning with the 103d Congress and with each sixth Congress following the 103d Congress.) Sets forth the procedure in the House of Representatives and the Senate for the consideration of any legislation which authorizes new budget authority. Subjects to congressional review only those programs which have as their objectives the protection and implementation of civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution and specified social security and retirement pay and benefits. Title II: Program Inventory - Directs the Comptroller General and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, in cooperation with the Director of the Congressional Research Service, to prepare an inventory of Federal programs to advise and assist the Congress in carrying out titles I and III of this Act. Directs the congressional committees, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Congressional Research Service to review the program inventory and to suggest revisions. Requires that the program inventory be revised at the end of each session of the Congress and that such revisions be reported to each House. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office and the Comptroller General to include in certain reports to the Congress an assessment of the adequacy of functional and subfunctional categories for grouping programs of like missions or objectives. Title III: Program Reexamination - Establishes a procedure for each committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives to reexamine selected programs or groups of programs over which it has jurisdiction. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Directs the President, with the cooperation of the head of each appropriate agency, to submit to the Congress a regulatory duplication and conflicts report for all programs scheduled for reauthorization in the next Congress. Requires appropriate congressional committees to introduce a sunset reauthorization bill not later than 15 days after the beginning of the second regular session of the Congress. Sets forth discharge procedures to apply to motions to discharge such bills. Requires specified congressional committees to report on a review of the procedures established under this Act by December 31, 1998, and every five years thereafter. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years ending before October 1, 2003.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the one-time exclusion on gain from the sale of a principal residence to be taken before age 55 if the taxpayer or a family member: (1) is physically or mentally incapable of self-care; and (2) has had such condition, or will have such condition, for at least six months.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Flat Tax Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal corporate taxes. Imposes a ten percent tax on the excess of the earned income of individuals over an exemption amount. Repeals: (1) specific exclusions from gross income; (2) deductions and credits against income tax; and (3) estate and gift taxes.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Repeals provisions of the Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1992 which require 20 percent income tax withholding on eligible rollover distributions of pension plans which are not rolled over into eligible retirement plans. Requires the Internal Revenue Code to be applied as if such provisions had never been enacted. Authorizes the President to offset any loss of revenues by reducing obligations and expenditures for programs, projects, and activities authorized under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, except for allocation of funds for countries specified in law.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Requires that, for pre-1980 tax years, the Federal income tax deductibility of flight training expenses be determined without considering whether the taxpayer received reimbursement through veterans' educational programs.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Local Partnership Act of 1993 - Establishes a revenue sharing program of payments to local governments. Sets forth the framework for the use and timing of payments and for adjustments. Establishes for the Department of Housing and Urban Development a Local Government Fiscal Assistance Fund and authorizes appropriations to finance it. Describes qualifying criteria for and conditions to be met by local governments seeking payments under the program. Requires payments be withheld in cases of noncompliance. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, in accordance with specified formulae, to determine fund allocations to each State for further allocation to local and territorial governments. Permits State variation of certain local government allocations. Sets forth special rules governing adjustments in local government allocations. Specifies the information to be used in making allocations under the program. Requires: (1) public hearings on proposed uses of program payments in relation to the local government's budget; and (2) public disclosure of information on proposed payment uses and budgets both prior to the hearing and after adoption of the budget. Prohibits discrimination under a local government program or activity on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, or religion, if such program or activity is paid for with funds provided under this Act. Prescribes procedures for violations and judicial review of sanctions. Sets forth provisions for enforcement by the Attorney General of prohibitions, civil actions by persons adversely affected by prohibited practices, audits of local government finances, investigations by the Secretary of violations, and other review, reporting, and compliance requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
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.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
House of Representatives Election Campaign Reform Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 with respect to House of Representatives election campaign financing. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require broadcast stations to offer their lowest rates for certain campaign commercials to House candidates who agree to limit personal spending. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a full tax credit for small individual contributions to a House candidate. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish in the Treasury the House of Representatives Campaign Trust Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
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.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Amends Federal law to eliminate the requirement that there be 500 or more persons regularly employed by all Federal agencies in a city or county before the Secretary of the Treasury may enter into an agreement to withhold city and county income and employment taxes from the pay of Federal employees who live or work there.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer who has attained age 45 to compute a maximum one-time exclusion from the sale of a principal residence based on the increase in equity in the new residence. (Current provisions govern the one-time exclusion from sale of a principal residence by an individual who has attained age 55.)
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Family Home-Care Act of 1992 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable tax credit of $10,000 per qualified dependent in the case of a taxpayer who shares a home for more than half the taxable year with a parent, grandparent, dependent, or spouse who is determined by a physician to have an impairment rendering the individual physically or mentally incapable of caring for himself or herself in the long-term. Requires allocation of such credit among multiple eligible taxpayers.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny a deduction for personal income taxes paid to a State which taxes nonresidents on income derived from a Federal area used for Federal military defense purposes which includes portions of Kentucky and Tennessee.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate the windfall profit tax on domestic crude oil. Terminates such tax after the last full month the Resolution Trust Corporation is in existence. Appropriates revenues received from such tax to the Corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
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.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a tax credit of two cents per pound for the recycling of hazardous wastes.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Limits assessments of underpayments with respect to taxable periods beginning before July 1, 1985, in connection with the annual occupational tax on retail liquor and beer dealers. Abates assessments and refunds overpayments of any post-1987 tax.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a fee on crude oil and refined petroleum products imported into the United States, other than oil or products purchased for export. Imposes the fee during any week following a four-week period when the average international price of crude oil has been less than $24 per barrel. Bases the fee on the difference between $24 per barrel and the average international price of a barrel of crude oil.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the excise tax on cigarettes. Transfers to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (Medicare) any revenue resulting from the increase.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disallow an income tax deduction for business air travel expenses on regularly scheduled flights to the extent the cost exceeds normal tourist class air fare.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that for purposes of determining the compensation of highly compensated employees for certain pension plans, the rules attributing compensation between spouses will not apply if both spouses are licensed to perform services in the same professional field and perform such services on a full-time basis for the same employer.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit tax-exempt private foundations and community foundations to establish tax-exempt cooperative service organizations to operate exclusively for charitable purposes. Declares that the excise tax based on investment income applies to such organizations.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for personal interest on loans used to buy highway vehicles. Reduces such deduction for vehicles costing more than $20,000.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Directs the Congress to assure that total fiscal year Federal outlays do not exceed receipts and that Federal indebtedness is eliminated. Presents a mandatory six fiscal year timetable for achieving a balanced budget. Permits waiver of these balanced budget requirements (not to exceed a ten percent receipt to outlay deficit) in times of national emergency, but only by roll call vote of three-fourths of the total membership of both Houses. Requires a surplus budget with total Government receipts exceeding outlays by two and one-half percent of Federal indebtedness during the 40 fiscal years following achievement of a balanced budget. Requires that any indebtedness ensuing after an emergency waiver shall be extinguished within three fiscal years of being incurred.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that any legislation that would provide a short-term economic stimulus to the economy, but would also increase the budget deficit for FY 1993 or 1994, should not be enacted into law.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that in light of the current economic conditions the Federal taxes on gasoline, diesel fuel, and home heating fuel shall not be increased.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Biennial Budget Cycle Title II: Binding Budget Resolution Title III: Enhanced Rescissions Title IV: Supermajority Points of Order Title I: Biennial Budget Cycle - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, the Rules of the House of Representatives and other Federal law to revise the Federal budget process by establishing a two-year timetable. Title II: Binding Budget Resolution - Replaces the concurrent resolution on the budget with a joint resolution on the budget. Title III: Enhanced Rescissions - Modifies the rescission process and provides for expedited consideration in the House and Senate of certain proposed rescissions. Title IV: Supermajority Points of Order - Allows any point of order which concerns the congressional budget process, fiscal procedures, and budget agreement enforcement provisions to be waived or suspended in the House of Representatives by a three-fifths vote in the House.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1993
Emergency Nurse Shortage Relief Act of 1993 - Amends title VIII (Nurse Education) of the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants for programs to: (1) promote nursing as a career, including promotion in public secondary schools; (2) identify and provide internships to students in such schools who show an interest in health care; and (3) recruit nursing students from groups not traditionally well represented in the profession. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for programs to: (1) encourage and assist non-practicing nurses to reenter the profession; (2) train nurses as nurse practitioners or nurse midwives or in areas of needed specialized nursing skills; and (3) provide tuition assistance to students in educational programs designed to facilitate reentry. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for programs to: (1) increase the attractiveness of nursing as a career through changes in wage structures, employment options and benefits, and the role of nurses in health care facilities; and (2) demonstrate innovative methods of providing for career advancement and encourage nurses and nurse assistants to continue nursing education. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary, subject to appropriations, to establish a program to insure educational loans to individuals with a degree as a registered nurse for educational expenses related to training nurses as nurse practitioners or nurse midwives or in areas of needed specialized nursing skills. Makes provisions of the program of Insured Health Educations Assistance Loans to Graduate Students, established by current law in the Public Health Service Act, apply to this program except as inconsistent. Authorizes the Secretary, subject to appropriations, to enter into agreements with eligible individuals to assist in repaying specified amounts of their eligible educational loans. Sets forth criteria for an individual to be eligible to receive assistance, including a requirement that the individual agree to work full-time as a registered nurse in a nursing crisis area. Sets forth a schedule for loan repayment by the Secretary to the holder of the loans based on the number of years of work completed as agreed. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow C corporations a tax credit for 20 percent of the amount paid or incurred as qualified nursing scholarships.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny the use of the medical expense deduction for abortions, except for procedures to prevent the death of either the pregnant woman or her preborn child so long as every reasonable effort is made to preserve the life of each.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the limitation on the one-time exclusion of gain from the sale of a principal residence by an individual who has attained age 55 and provide a cost-of-living adjustment for such amount. Increases the unified credit against the estate tax and the unified credit against the gift tax and provides a cost-of-living adjustment for such credits. Reduces the capital gains tax for a taxpayer other than a corporation by allowing the deduction of 50 percent of the net capital gain. Provides for computing such deduction for estates and trusts. Disallows such deduction against the minimum tax.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an itemized deduction for adoption expenses, including reasonable and necessary legal costs.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Control of Congressional Campaign Spending Subtitle A: Senate Election Campaign Spending Limits and Benefits Subtitle B: General Provisions Title II: Independent Expenditures Title III: Expenditures Subtitle A: Personal Loans; Credit Subtitle B: Provisions Relating to Soft Money of Political Parties Title IV: Contributions Title V: Reporting Requirements Title VI: Federal Election Commission Title VII: Miscellaneous Title VIII: Effective Dates; Authorizations Congressional Campaign Spending Limit and Election Reform Act of 1993 - Makes findings and declarations of the Senate. Title I: Control of Congressional Campaign Spending - Subtitle A: Senate Election Campaign Spending Limits and Benefits - (Sec. 101) Makes Senate candidates eligible to receive benefits under this title if they meet certain contribution (including multicandidate political committee (PAC) contribution) and expenditure limits. Limits Senate primary expenditures for a candidate (or his or her authorized committees) to: (1) 67 percent of the general election expenditure limit; or (2) $2.75 million. Limits runoff expenditures. Sets a threshold contribution amount which triggers application of such primary and runoff limits. Limits the use by a Senate candidate (or authorized committees), during an entire election cycle, of the candidate's personal (or family) funds (including debt). Limits aggregate general election expenditures by an eligible Senate candidate (or authorized committees) to the lesser of: (1) $5.5 million; or (2) the greater of $950,000, or $400,000 plus 30 cents times the voting age population up to 4,000,000 and 25 cents times the voting age population over 4,000,000. Exempts from the general election expenditure limit qualified legal and accounting expenditures from a legal and accounting compliance fund meeting certain requirements. Entitles eligible Senate candidates to certain broadcast media rates, mailing rates, public financing payments, voter communication vouchers (up to a certain amount), and in certain circumstances, payments compensating for independent expenditures and excess expenditures (if any) on behalf of the candidate's opponent. Requires the Federal Election Commission (Commission) to certify an eligible Senate candidate within 48 hours after his or her application to the Secretary of the Senate. Requires the Commission to examine and audit, for FECA compliance, the campaign accounts of ten percent of all Senate candidates, and the campaign accounts of all opponents of such candidates as well. Requires candidates to refund to the Commission any excess payments, expenditures, or voter communication vouchers. Sets civil penalties for excess expenditures and contributions. Requires deposit of all such amounts into the Senate Election Campaign Fund (established by this Act). Provides for judicial review of Commission actions and requires Commission reports to the Senate. Establishes in the Treasury the Senate Election Campaign Fund, for payments to eligible Senate candidates (including voter communication vouchers). Provides for reductions in payments in the event of insufficient funds, and compensatory increases in contribution limits. (Sec. 102) Reduces from $5,000 to $1,000 the maximum aggregate contributions of any PAC to a Senate candidate (or authorized committees). Makes it unlawful for aggregate PACs to contribute to any Senate candidate (or authorized committees) more than the lesser of: (1) $825,000; or (2) the greater of $375,000, or 20 percent of the sum of the general election spending limit plus the primary election spending limit (without regard to the candidate's eligibility for FECA benefits). Requires annual adjustments of such dollar amounts according to a specified price index. (Sec. 103) Sets forth reporting requirements for Senate candidates not eligible for FECA benefits. Requires reports to the Secretary within 24 hours of any contributions raised and expenditures made in excess of FECA limits. Allows the Commission to make its own determination of whether an ineligible candidate exceeds FECA limits. Requires any candidate for the Senate who, during the election cycle, exceeds limits on the use of personal and immediate family funds, and on personal loans incurred by the candidate and the candidate's immediate family, to report to the Secretary of the Senate within 24 hours after such expenditures have been made or loans incurred. Requires certain expenditure reports from any Senate candidate who held Federal, State, or local office during the same election cycle, and made any expenditures, before becoming a Senate candidate, which would have been treated as Senate candidate expenditures. Requires Senate candidates ineligible for FECA benefits to place on every paid or authorized political commercial or communication the declaration: "This candidate has not agreed to voluntary campaign spending limits." Subtitle B: General Provisions - (Sec. 131) Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require a broadcast station to make broadcast time available to all House and Senate candidates in the last 30 (currently 45) days before a primary and the last 45 (currently 60) days before a general election, at the lowest unit charge of the station for the same amount of time (currently, the same class and amount of time) for the same period on the same date. Allows Senate candidates to purchase broadcast time at 50 percent of the lowest unit rate for the 45 days before a general election. Prohibits broadcasters from preempting advertisements sold to political candidates at the lowest unit rate, unless the preemption is beyond the broadcaster's control. (Sec. 132) Amends Federal law to permit eligible House and Senate candidates to mail up to one piece per eligible voter (voting age population) at the lowest third-class non-profit postage rate, during a general election period only. (Sec. 134) Requires a clear statement of responsibility in advertisements with: (1) a clearly readable type and color contrasts for print advertisements; (2) clearly readable type, color contrasts, the candidate's image, and for a duration of at least four seconds, for television advertisements; and (3) a clearly spoken message by the candidate for both television and radio advertisements. (Sec. 136) Amends Federal law to prohibit a Senator who is a candidate for election to any public office from making a mass mailing under the frank during the calendar year of any primary or general election for such office. Restricts mass mailings of a Member of the House to the Member's district. Title II: Independent Expenditures - (Sec. 201) Amends FECA to define "independent expenditure" as an expenditure for an advertisement or other communication that: (1) contains express advocacy; and (2) is made without the participation or cooperation of a candidate or a candidate's representative. Excludes from the meaning of "independent expenditure" any expenditure by: (1) a political committee of a political party; (2) persons who communicate or receive information about activities that have a purpose of influencing a candidate's election; and (3) persons with other specified relationships with a candidate or candidate's agents in the same election cycle. Defines "express advocacy" as any communication that when taken as a whole: (1) expresses support for or opposition to a specific candidate, a specific group of candidates, or candidates of a particular political party; or (2) suggests taking action with respect to an election, such as voting for or against, contributing to, or participating in campaign activity. Title III: Expenditures - Subtitle A: Personal Loans; Credit - (Sec. 301) Amends FECA to prohibit the use of contributions after the date of a general election to repay loans to a candidate (or authorized committee) by the candidate himself or herself or by members of the candidate's family. (Sec. 302) Treats as a contribution any extension of credit of more than $1,000 for more than 60 days to Senate and House candidates (or authorized committees) by vendors of advertising and mass mailing services. Subtitle B: Provisions Relating to Soft Money of Political Parties - (Sec. 311) Amends FECA to limit to an aggregate $10,000 in any calendar year: (1) an individual's contributions to political committees established by a State committee of a political party; and (2) a PAC's contributions to State party committees. Increases the $25,000 per year limit on an individual's contributions to a candidate by the amount of contributions (up to $5,000) made to State party committees. (Sec. 312) Prohibits a State party committee (including any subordinate committees) from making expenditures in connection with the general election presidential campaign of the party nominee which, in the aggregate, exceed a certain indexed amount. Subjects to certain limitations, prohibitions and reporting requirements any amount ("soft money") solicited, received, or expended directly or indirectly by a national, State, district, or local committee of a political party (including any subordinate committee) with respect to an activity (such as voter registration and get-out-the vote activities, among others) which, in whole or in part, is in connection with an election to Federal office. Prohibits a national political party committee from soliciting or accepting contributions not subject to FECA limitations, prohibitions, and reporting requirements. Cites conditions under which any amount received by the national, State, district, or local committee of a political party (including any subordinate committee) from a State or local candidate committee shall be treated as meeting the soft money requirements of this title. (Sec. 313) Places limitations on fundraising by Federal candidates and officeholders and certain political committees for State and local elections. Prohibits Federal candidates or officeholders from soliciting contributions to, or on behalf of, any tax-exempt organization if a significant portion of the organization's activities include voter registration or get-out-the-vote campaigns. (Sec. 314) Requires the national committee of a political party and any congressional campaign committee (and any subordinate committee) to report all receipts and disbursements during the reporting period, regardless of whether or not in connection with a Federal election. Title IV: Contributions - (Sec. 401) Specifies circumstances in which contributions made or arranged to be made directly or indirectly by a person to or on behalf of a particular candidate through an intermediary or conduit shall be treated as contributions from such intermediary or conduit to the candidate (thus subjecting them to the FECA limitations otherwise applicable to that intermediary or conduit). (Sec. 402) Treats contributions by a dependent not of voting age as having been made by the individual on whom that dependent is a dependent. (Sec. 403) Prohibits a candidate for Federal office from accepting, with respect to any election, any contribution from a State or local political party committee (or subordinate committee) if such contribution, when added to the total of contributions previously accepted from all such committees of that political party, exceeds the relevant contribution limitation. (Sec. 404) Excludes from the meaning of "contribution" any campaign expense voluntarily paid for by a campaign worker as an advance to the campaign, provided the amount does not exceed $500 and is reimbursed by the committee within ten days. Title V: Reporting Requirements - (Sec. 501) Requires all Federal candidates and authorized committees to aggregate information on their financial activity reports on an election cycle basis (instead of a calendar year basis, as at present). (Sec. 502) Requires candidates to report any expenditure in excess of the reporting threshold made to a person who provides services or materials for the candidate, whether the payment was made directly or indirectly under subcontract to another person providing personal or consulting services. (Sec. 503) Reduces from $200 to $50 the threshold for reporting certain information by persons other than political committees. (Sec. 504) Requires the Commission to maintain computerized indices of all contributions of at least $50 (currently $200). Title VI: Federal Election Commission - (Sec. 601) Prohibits a political committee that is not an authorized committee from using a candidate's name in a way to suggest that the candidate has authorized such committee. (Sec. 603) Provides for filling any vacancy in the office of general counsel, and revises the general counsel's rate of pay. (Sec. 604) Revises the basis for an enforcement proceeding from "reason to believe that a person has committed or is about to commit a violation of FECA" to "facts have been alleged or ascertained that, if true, give reason to believe that a person may have committed, or may be about to commit" such a violation. Authorizes the Commission to initiate a civil action for a temporary restraining order or a temporary injunction at any time during an enforcement proceeding that it believes there is substantial likelihood a FECA violation is occurring or about to occur, and the need for expeditious action meets certain criteria. (Sec. 606) Authorizes the Commission to conduct random audits of political committees. (Sec. 607) Prohibits contribution solicitation by false representation as a candidate or a representative of a candidate, a political committee, or a political party. (Sec. 608) Directs the Commission to promulgate rules to prohibit devices or arrangements which have the purpose or effect of undermining or evading provisions of FECA restricting the use of non-Federal money to affect Federal elections. Title VII: Miscellaneous - (Sec. 701) Prohibits Federal candidates and officeholders from establishing, maintaining, or controlling any political committee (such as a "leadership committee") other than a principal campaign committee of the candidate, authorized committee, party committee, or other political committee designated as an authorized committee. (Sec. 702) Requires that contributions of polling data to Federal candidates be valued at fair market value on the date of the poll's completion, depreciated at a specified rate. Title VIII: Effective Dates; Authorizations - (Sec. 801) Sets forth the general effective date of this Act. (Sec. 802) Declares the sense of the Senate that: (1) the current presidential checkoff on Federal tax returns should be increased to $5.00 (with individuals permitted to contribute an additional $5.00 in additional taxes), and the designation changed to "Federal Election Campaign Checkoff"; (2) the Internal Revenue Service and the FEC should be required to develop a plan to publicize the fund and the checkoff; and (3) funds to pay for the increase in the checkoff should come from the repeal of the tax deduction for business lobbying activity and the elimination of newsletter franking by the Congress. (Sec. 804) Provides for direct, expedited appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court from any court rulings on the constitutionality of any provision of this Act or amendment made by it.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Health Care Insurance Reform Provisions Subtitle A: Model Health Care Insurance Benefits Plan Subtitle B: Managed Care Subtitle C: Small Employer Purchasing Groups Subtitle D: Insurance Market Reform Subtitle E: Deduction for Health Insurance Costs of Self-Employed Individuals Title II: Primary and Preventive Care Services Title III: Disclosure of Certain Information to Beneficiaries Under the Medicare and Medicaid Programs Title IV: Patient's Right to Decline Medical Treatment Title V: Primary and Preventive Care Providers Title VI: Medicare Preferred Provider Demonstration Projects Title VII: Cost Containment Title VIII: Long-Term Care Subtitle A: Tax Treatment of Qualified Long-Term Care Insurance Policies Subtitle B: Tax Incentives for Purchase of Qualified Long-Term Care Insurance Subtitle C: Medicaid Amendments Comprehensive Health Care Act of 1993 - Title I: Health Care Insurance Reform Provisions - (Sec. 101) Mandates development of: (1) a model health care insurance benefits plan containing standards that entities offering health insurance policies should meet; and (2) recommended standards that insurers offering managed care plans should meet. Establishes the Managed Care Advisory Committee. (Sec. 112) Preempts State laws regarding certain aspects of managed care. (Sec. 121) Sets forth small employer purchasing group requirements. Allows participating carriers to use risk sharing. Requires carriers to offer substantially similar benefits to enrollees. Prohibits carriers from varying rates to employers or enrollees based on claim experience, health status, or issue duration. Mandates a mechanism to collect premiums from employers, including remittance of the enrollee's premium share. Authorizes formation and initial operation grants. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 122) Preempts State mandates for small employer purchasing groups. (Sec. 131) Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to prohibit considering a small employer health insurance contract as a contract (for certain provisions of the IRC relating to insurance companies) unless the contract: (1) provides benefits consistent with the model plan; (2) meets pricing and marketing requirements; (3) is guaranteed issue; and (4) meets rating and renewal disclosure requirements. Sets forth eligibility, preexisting condition, renewability, and rate requirements. Authorizes an agreement between the Secretary of Health and Human Services and a State to: (1) apply the standards set by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) in place of these requirements; and (2) have the State make the initial determination whether a person is in compliance. Requires NAIC to adopt standards substantially similar to these provisions. (Sec. 141) Increases and makes permanent the deduction for the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals. Title II: Primary and Preventive Care Services - (Sec. 201) Authorizes grants: (1) to States for coordinated, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive primary health care and social services for pregnant women and infants; and (2) for the development of model health and nutrition curricula for children in primary and secondary education. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 202) Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for: (1) immunization programs; (2) tuberculosis and sexually transmitted disease prevention programs; (3) migrant and community health centers; (4) health services for the homeless; (5) family planning services; (6) breast and cervical cancer prevention; (7) preventive health and health services block grants; and (8) early intervention services regarding human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease. Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant) of the Social Security Act to authorize appropriations to improve the health of all mothers and children. (Sec. 203) Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to replace provisions relating to school health education with provisions mandating grants to States for local programs of comprehensive health education and prevention, early health intervention, and health education in elementary and secondary schools. Establishes the Office of Comprehensive School Health Education. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 204) Mandates grants to Head Start training agencies for training and technical assistance regarding health education to Head Start teachers and other child care providers. Reserves funds for the development of innovative model health education programs or curricula. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Disclosure of Certain Information to Beneficiaries under the Medicare and Medicaid Programs - (Sec. 301) Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to mandate regulations requiring each provider receiving payment under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to: (1) make available to service recipients an annual report regarding rates of mortality and nosocomial infection, frequently-performed tests, and malpractice claims; (2) make certain information available before an invasive procedure or treatment is performed; and (3) inform individuals of their right to refuse information and treatment, to refuse provider attendance, and to leave the premises. (Sec. 302) Authorizes grants for outreach activities to inform Medicare beneficiaries of the information. Authorizes appropriations. Mandates a Medicaid outreach program. Title IV: Patient's Right to Decline Medical Treatment - (Sec. 401) Prohibits State restrictions, except to protect a third party, on the right: (1) of a competent person to consent to or decline medical treatment; or (2) of an incompetent person to consent to or decline medical treatment through mandated national forms containing advance directives and durable powers of attorney. Requires all health care providers to honor the forms. Shields providers who act in good faith from criminal or civil liability or professional discipline. Denies Medicare and Medicaid payment for services contrary to advance directives. (Sec. 403) Declares that this title does not permit, condone, authorize, or approve suicide or mercy killing or any affirmative act to end a human life. (Sec. 405) Requires conforming changes to policies relating to Medicare and Medicaid advance directives provisions. (Sec. 406) Requires that information on an individual's right to consent to or decline treatment be provided periodically to beneficiaries under titles II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI), XVI (Grants to States for Aid to the Aged, Blind, or Disabled), XVIII (Medicare), and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. (Sec. 407) Mandates recommendations to the Congress concerning the medical, legal, ethical, social, and educational issues related to this title. Title V: Primary and Preventive Care Providers - (Sec. 501) Amends Medicare provisions to modify or establish payment requirements regarding certified nurse midwives, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and physician assistants. Mandates bonus payments for such individuals and for certified registered nurse anesthetists for service in health professional shortage areas. (Sec. 502) Includes physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and certified registered nurse anesthetists in the Medicaid definition of "medical assistance" for which payment will be made. (Sec. 503) Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish grants programs to: (1) provide medical (including osteopathic medical) students for programs to interest high school or college students in careers in general medical practice; and (2) develop strategies for recruiting and placing medical students interested in practicing general medicine. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 505) Amends Medicare provisions to allow entities with approved medical residency training programs (as well as hospitals) to receive payments for direct medical education costs. Mandates payments for indirect costs of medical education. Modifies requirements regarding payments to hospitals for such indirect costs. Title VI: Medicare Preferred Provider Demonstration Projects - (Sec. 601) Provides for up to ten demonstration projects to test the effectiveness of providing payment under Medicare for primary and specialty procedures and services furnished by preferred provider organizations. Allows waiver of Medicare requirements as necessary. Title VII: Cost Containment - (Sec. 701) Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize a program of clinical trials regarding promising new drugs and disease treatments. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 702) Authorizes appropriations for the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on health insurance premiums. Requires that the tax be paid by any person who makes, signs, issues, or sells any of the documents and instruments subject to the tax or for whose use or benefit the same are made, signed, issued, or sold. Establishes, and deposits the resulting taxes in, the Trust Fund for Medical Treatment Outcomes Research. Mandates annual distributions from the Trust Fund for outcomes research. (Sec. 703) Requires a report to the Congress on the establishment of national spending targets for health care and health care services. Establishes the Health Care Cost Control Advisory Committee. Title VIII: Long-Term Care - (Sec. 802) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to define "qualified long-term care premiums" to include dollar premium limits. (Sec. 803) Requires, for provisions relating to insurance companies, references to noncancellable accident or health insurance contracts to be treated as including a reference to qualified long-term care insurance. (Sec. 804) Excludes from gross income amounts paid under a life insurance contract to an individual who is terminally ill, has a dread disease, or is permanently confined to a nursing home. (Sec. 811) Allows a tax credit for a portion of long-term care insurance premiums. (Sec. 812) Allows a deduction for such premiums, including premiums for long-term care insurance for a parent or grandparent. (Sec. 813) Excludes from gross income benefits received under long-term care insurance. (Sec. 814) Provides for the treatment of long-term care insurance with regard to deferred benefits and employer deductions and cafeteria plans. (Sec. 816) Excludes from gross income amounts: (1) distributed from an individual retirement plan or section 401(k) plan if the amounts are used for long-term care premiums or expenses, increasing the maximum amount of individual retirement plan deductions; (2) on the surrender, cancellation, or exchange of a life insurance contract if the individual is at least a specified age and the amount is used to pay for long-term care insurance; and (3) on a home equity conversion sale-leaseback, if a portion of the proceeds are used to purchase long-term care insurance. (Sec. 821) Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to outline eligibility requirements for: (1) nursing facility benefits; and (2) medical assistance for home and community-based long-term care.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Portable and Permanent Private Health Insurance Subtitle A: Portability Subtitle B: Permanence Title II: Affordable Health Insurance Coverage Subtitle A: Equitable Tax Treatment of Individuals Providing Own Health Care Subtitle B: Medical Savings Accounts Title III: Enhanced Efficiency Through Paperwork Reduction Title IV: Meaningful Medical Liability Reform Family Health Care Preservation Act - Title I: Portable and Permanent Private Health Insurance - Subtitle A: Portability - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify required continuation coverage of group health plans by allowing the offering of annual deductibles for such coverage. Terminates such continuation coverage after an individual is eligible for employer-based coverage for more than 90 days. (Sec. 102) Allows penalty-free withdrawals from qualified retirement plans to pay for health insurance during a continuation period. Subtitle B: Permanence - Prohibits an insurer from cancelling an individual or group health insurance plan or denying renewal of coverage except for specified reasons, including premium nonpayment or fraud by the insured. Prohibits an employer from cancelling a self-insured group health plan or denying renewal of coverage except for similar reasons. (Sec. 112) Requires individual health insurance plans and group health plans to offer insureds the option to purchase new health insurance plans after enactment of this Act. Title II: Affordable Health Insurance - Subtitle A: Equitable Tax Treatment of Individuals Providing Own Health Care - Makes inapplicable to qualified health insurance costs under this Act the adjusted gross income limitation on deductibility of medical expenses. Subtitle B: Medical Savings Accounts - Allows individuals covered under a catastrophic health insurance plan a tax deduction for contributions made to a medical care savings account established for the benefit of the individual or such individual's spouse and dependents, if they are also covered under the plan. Allows such deduction whether or not an individual itemizes deductions. Disallows distributions from such accounts as medical expense deductions. Excludes employer contributions to such accounts from employment taxes. Imposes an excise tax for excess contributions to medical care savings accounts and for prohibited transactions. Title III: Enhanced Efficiency Through Paperwork Reduction - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to adopt standards to reduce the administrative and paperwork burdens of all Federal health care programs by 50 percent within the two-year period following the date of this Act's enactment (initial reduction), and by an additional 50 percent over a subsequent three-year period (subsequent reduction), for a total reduction of 75 percent over the five-year period following such date. Requires the Secretary, to achieve the initial reduction, to adopt standards for Federal health care programs relating to: (1) data elements for use in paper and electronic claims processing under health insurance plans, as well as for use in utilization review and management of care; (2) uniform claims forms; and (3) uniform electronic transmission of the data elements, including protections to assure the confidentiality of patient-specific information and to protect against the unauthorized use and disclosure of information. Directs the Secretary, in order to achieve the subsequent reduction, to modify by regulation the standards adopted with respect to the initial reduction. (Sec. 302) Requires each State, to be eligible for Federal funds in connection with any State-administered health care program, to standardize the processing of paper and electronic claims to reduce the administrative and paperwork burdens on such programs by 75 percent during the five-year period following enactment of this Act. Sets forth provisions regarding enforcement of this provision and waivers of payment reductions for noncompliance. Title IV: Meaningful Medical Liability Reform - Makes this title applicable with respect to any medical malpractice liability claim or action brought in State or Federal court, except with respect to certain claims or actions for damages arising from a vaccine-related injury or death. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) preemption; (2) negotiated liability; (3) effect on sovereign immunity and choice of law or venue; and (4) jurisdiction. (Sec. 402) Prohibits such action from being initiated after the expiration of: (1) the two-year period that begins on the latter of the date the alleged injury that is the subject of the claim was discovered or should reasonably have been discovered; and (2) the four-year period that begins on the date on which the alleged injury occurred. Makes an exception for a minor who has not attained age six. (Sec. 403) Provides that: (1) the liability of each defendant in such action, with respect to economic and noneconomic damages, shall be several only and not joint; (2) damages payable by a defendant shall be directly proportional to such defendant's percentage of fault or responsibility for the injury; and (3) the trier of fact shall determine and assign a percentage of responsibility for each such defendant. (Sec. 404) Requires: (1) all requests for discovery pursuant to such action to identify the relevant portion of the complaint, answer, or other pleading to which responses to the discovery requests are expected to relate; and (2) the court, with respect to any motion for discovery, to award the prevailing party reasonable fees and expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees, unless the court finds that the position of the unsuccessful party was substantially justified or that special circumstances make such an award unjust. (Sec. 405) Limits the total amount of noneconomic damages that may be awarded to a claimant and family members to $250,000, regardless of the number of parties against whom the action is brought or the number of actions brought with respect to the injury. (Sec. 406) Specifies that a defendant may not be required to pay damages awarded for any economic losses to be incurred after the date on which the judgment is entered exceeding $100,000, in a single, lump-sum payment, but shall be permitted to make such payments periodically based on projections of the amount of expected damages at intervals, as determined by the court. Permits the court to require that a defendant purchase an annuity or fund a reversionary trust to make periodic payments. Prohibits reopening of a judgment awarding such payments at any time to contest, amend, or modify the schedule or amount of the payments in the absence of fraud or any other basis under which a party may obtain relief from a final judgment. (Sec. 407) Sets forth provisions regarding costs and fees, including limitations on attorneys charging or collecting contingency fees. Establishes recordkeeping requirements as a prerequisite to the receipt of an award of attorney's fees. (Sec. 408) Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) contribution and indemnification; and (2) collateral sources. (Sec. 410) Prohibits the award of noneconomic damages with respect to any medical product liability claim alleged against a medical product producer if: (1) the drug or device that is the subject of such claim was subject to specified approval or premarket approval under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); or (2) the drug or device is generally recognized as safe and effective pursuant to conditions established by the FDA and applicable regulations, including packaging and labeling regulations. Makes exceptions in cases of withheld information, misrepresentation, or illegal payment of FDA officials to secure approval. (Sec. 411) Provides that, in any medical malpractice liability action that is certified as a class action: (1) the share of damages under any final judgment or settlement that is awarded to any party serving as a representative claimant shall be calculated in the same manner as the shares awarded to all other members of the claimant class (but permits the award of reasonable compensation, costs, and expenses relating to the representation of the class); (2) if a party is represented by an attorney who has a beneficial interest in the subject of the litigation, the court shall make a determination of whether such interest constitutes a conflict of interest sufficient to disqualify the attorney; and (3) an attorney may not represent the class if the attorney has paid, or is obligated to pay, a referral fee with respect to the action (and bars an attorney who knowingly violates this provision from representing the party in any other action to which this title applies).
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 - Requires executive agency heads to submit to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a strategic plan for performance goals of their agency's program activities. Requires such plan to cover at least a five-year period and to be updated at least every three years. Requires the inclusion of performance plans in the President's budget. Directs the Director to require each agency to prepare annual performance plans covering each program activity in the agency's budget. Requires executive agency heads to report annually to the President and the Congress on program performance for the previous fiscal year, setting forth performance indicators, actual program performance, and a comparison with plan goals for that fiscal year. Specifies the contents of such reports. Authorizes the Director to exempt any agency with annual outlays of $20 million or less from strategic and performance plan reporting requirements. Allows performance plans to include proposals to waive administrative procedural requirements and controls in return for specific individual or organization accountability to achieve a performance goal. Requires the Director of OMB to designate: (1) no fewer than ten agencies (representing a range of Government functions) as pilot projects in performance measurement; (2) no fewer than five agencies (selected from agencies in performance measurement pilot projects) as pilot projects in managerial accountability and flexibility; and (3) no fewer than five agencies (selected from agencies in performance measurement pilot projects) as pilot projects in performance budgeting. Sets forth provisions with respect to strategic and performance planning at the U.S. Postal Service. Directs the Office of Personnel Management to develop a strategic planning and performance measurement training component for its management training.