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Bill· HRH.R. 493 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1993
Enhanced Rescission/Receipts Act of 1993 - Grants the President legislative line item veto rescission authority over appropriation bills and targeted tax benefits in revenue bills. Authorizes the President to rescind all or part of any budget authority if the President determines that such rescission: (1) would reduce the Federal budget deficit; (2) will not impair any essential Government functions; and (3) will not harm the national interest. Requires the President to notify the Congress of such a rescission by special message not later than 20 calendar days after enactment of appropriations or revenue legislation. Makes such a rescission effective unless the Congress, during a review period of 20 calendar days, enacts a rescission/receipts disapproval bill. Describes: (1) information to be included in the President's message; and (2) procedures to govern consideration of rescission/receipts disapproval legislation in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Bill· HRH.R. 462 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permanently extend the period during which qualified mortgage bonds and mortgage credit certificates may be issued.
Bill· HRH.R. 478 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a general business credit for severance taxes and personal property taxes imposed by an Indian tribal government, when such taxes are imposed by any other State or local government. Allows such credit as part of the general business credit and against the regular tax and the alternative minimum tax.
Bill· HRH.R. 463 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow penalty-free withdrawals from individual retirement accounts or certain retirement plans by farmers who reside in disaster areas or who have had a substantial drop in farm income for the five preceding years.
Bill· HRH.R. 456 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1993
Individual Development Account Demonstration Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for contributions made to an individual development account (IDA) by or on behalf of a qualified individual to pay qualified expenses of such individual. Limits such contributions to $2,000 per year. Defines qualified expenses as those for: (1) postsecondary educational expenses; (2) a first-home purchase; and (3) retirement. Allows such deduction in arriving at adjusted gross income. Declares that contributions to IDAs are not subject to the gift tax or the tax on prohibited transactions. Provides for the establishment of demonstration projects designed to determine: (1) the social, psychological, and economic effects of providing to individuals with limited means an opportunity to accumulate assets; and (2) the extent to which an asset-based welfare policy may be used to enable individuals with low income to achieve economic self-sufficiency. Makes an individual eligible for assistance under a demonstration project if such individual is a member of a household that meets: (1) the income test of not more than 200 percent of the poverty threshold; and (2) the net worth test of not more than $20,000.
Bill· HRH.R. 481 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to modify the full-funding limitation of a multiemployer plan by eliminating the 150 percent test. (Currently, employer contributions to a pension plan, whether a single-employer or a multiemployer plan, are not deductible to the extent that they produce funding in excess of 150 percent of the plan's current liability.)
Bill· HRH.R. 450 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1993
National Public Works Corporation Act - Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to establish the National Public Works Corporation. Authorizes appropriations for the capitalization of the Corporation for fiscal years following 1993. Authorizes States electing to participate in the Corporation to make certain contributions. Authorizes the Corporation to make loans to participating States and local governments for projects for the construction, rehabilitation, and repair of public facilities. Prohibits the Corporation from making a loan for a public facility project unless such facility will generate sufficient fees to repay principal and interest and create sufficient reserves for operation and maintenance. Requires the Governor of a State and local officials to submit applications for public facility project loans for the State and local governments, respectively. Requires Governors to ensure a proper distribution of available loan funds in a State between urban and rural areas according to a certain allocation formula. Requires the Corporation to require all contracts made with such loan proceeds to be awarded on the basis of competitive bidding. Authorizes appropriations to the Corporation for fiscal years after FY 1993, in order to reduce interest rates paid by borrowers under this Act. Declares that the Corporation, its assets, and certain property shall be exempt from State, local, or Federal taxes, except for certain real property and tangible personal property.
Bill· HRH.R. 482 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt personal service corporations which use an accrual method of accounting for their last taxable year ending before the date of enactment of this Act from restrictions on deducting year-end regular compensation paid to any employee who is not a key employee.
Bill· HRH.R. 483 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on self-dealing asset transactions between a disqualified person and a medical service organization. Describes such a transaction as any direct or indirect sale or exchange, or leasing, of any medical asset to: (1) any organization manager; (2) any person who performs substantial professional medical services for the organization pursuant to an employment or other contractual arrangement; (3) any family member of such persons; or (4) any 35-percent controlled entity of such persons.
Bill· HRH.R. 479 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make members of the armed forces serving on extended active duty and stationed outside the United States eligible for the earned income credit.
Bill· HRH.R. 461 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a three-year depreciable life for semiconductor manufacturing equipment and equipment used to manufacture advanced materials or to develop advanced technologies. Reduces the individual and corporate capital gains rates and the minimum tax rate on capital gains. Imposes a minimum tax on domestic corporations which are 25-percent foreign-owned and foreign corporations engaged in a trade or business within the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 460 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1993
Fairness and Equity Tax Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an additional minimum tax on: (1) a domestic corporation which is 25 percent foreign-owned; or (2) a foreign corporation engaged in a trade or business within the United States.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 61 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits in any fiscal year total Federal outlays from exceeding total receipts and Federal outlays from exceeding 19 percent of the Nation's gross national product. Allows such prohibitions to be suspended by a three-fifths roll call vote of each House of Congress. Grants the President the authority to separately approve, reduce, or disapprove any spending provision of a bill.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 62 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits in any fiscal year total Federal outlays from exceeding total receipts, unless a three-fifths vote of both Houses authorizes a specific excess. Directs the President to submit a balanced budget to the Congress. Waives these provisions when a declaration of war is in effect.
Bill· HRH.R. 410 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Intergovernmental Mandate Relief Act of 1993 - Prohibits a Federal agency or court from requiring compliance in any fiscal year by State or local governments with any intergovernmental regulation unless provisions of law have been enacted which compensate such governments for additional direct costs incurred by such compliance. Declares that the compensation requirement may be waived by the enactment of a joint resolution of the Congress. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to estimate such additional direct costs and include such estimates in annual reports to the President and the Congress. Requires congressional committees to propose amendments to significant laws for which regulations will be promulgated containing provisions to compensate State and local governments for additional direct costs of complying with any intergovernmental regulation which takes effect on or after enactment of this Act. Establishes procedures for Federal agencies to reimburse State governments for additional direct costs and for State governments to reimburse local governments for such costs. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require CBO to prepare cost estimates for bills or resolutions which are likely to cost State and local governments $100 million (currently, $200 million) or more annually.
Bill· HRH.R. 430 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
National Dividend Act of 1993 - Establishes a program for the distribution of certain corporate tax revenues to the registered voters of each State in the form of dividend payments. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the chief financial officer of each State, in accordance with a prescribed schedule, an amount equal to the National Dividend Payment, as computed under this Act, multiplied by the number of registered voters in the State. Establishes in the Treasury the National Dividend Payment Trust Fund. Authorizes payment into the Fund of specified amounts from revenue received from: (1) the corporate income tax; (2) the tax on the unrelated business income of certain tax-exempt organizations; (3) the capital gains tax; (4) the tax on insurance company income; and (5) the alternative minimum tax on corporations. Establishes a National Dividend Review Board to review the manner in which payments are made from the Fund and to make investments of Fund amounts. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income all dividend income received by a taxpayer from domestic corporations, including dividends received under this Act. Increases the corporate income tax deduction for dividends received by a corporation on the preferred stock of a public utility. Prohibits corporate income tax rates from exceeding 34 percent. Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to declare it out of order in either the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider budget resolutions for fiscal years 1994 and thereafter that would increase the level of total budget outlays beyond those budgeted for FY 1994.
Bill· HRH.R. 436 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the personal exemption for a dependent child who has not attained age 18 from $2,000 to $3,500. Provides for rounding inflation adjustments to tax tables to the nearest multiple of $10 (currently rounded to the next lowest multiple of $50).
Bill· HRH.R. 429 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Taxpayer Debt Buy-Down Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow every individual with adjusted income tax liability to designate on their tax returns that a portion of such liability (not to exceed ten percent) be used to reduce the public debt. Establishes a Public Debt Reduction Trust Fund for the deposit of designated amounts. Makes amounts in such Trust Fund available only to pay at maturity, or to redeem or buy before maturity, any obligation of the Federal Government included in the public debt. Prohibits the reissuance of any obligation which is paid, redeemed, or bought with amounts from the Trust Fund. Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to provide for the sequestration of amounts designated to the Trust Fund. Specifies accounts exempt from such sequestration. Includes aggregated amounts designated to the Trust Fund and amounts sequestered to reduce the public debt in sequestration preview and final reports.
Bill· HRH.R. 418 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the luxury excise tax on passenger vehicles, boats, aircraft, jewelry, and furs.
Bill· HRH.R. 414 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the treatment of rental and nonrental real estate activities under the limitations on losses from passive activities.
Bill· HRH.R. 406 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide special rules with respect to the nonrecognition of gain for principal residences compulsorily or involuntarily converted as a result of a presidentially-declared disaster. Requires the nonrecognition of gain of insurance proceeds for the contents of such residences. Allows insurance proceeds from personal property and real property to be lumped together into one common fund. Extends the time to replace a principal residence from two years to four years.
Bill· HRH.R. 428 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Open Space Preservation Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross estate the value of land subject to a qualified conservation easement for estate tax purposes. Includes in the gross estate the value of each development right retained by the donor in the conveyance of such easement. Excludes from the gift tax the transfer by gift of land subject to a qualified conservation easement. Defers the reduction in estate tax rates from 1993 until 1998. Excludes from gross income any gain from the sale or exchange of eligible farmland that is subject to an irrevocable covenant binding all future owners to use the land as farmland.
Bill· HRH.R. 402 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a first-time homebuyer who purchases a principal residence a tax credit of ten percent of the purchase price of such residence. Limits the credit to $5,000. Requires married individuals filing jointly to both be first-time homebuyers. Allows the use of 50 percent of the credit in the first taxable year in which the residence is purchased and the remaining 50 percent in the succeeding taxable year. Makes this credit applicable to residences acquired after January 1, 1993, and before January 1, 1994, or for which a binding contract is entered into during such period.
Bill· HRH.R. 435 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers a credit for each child who has not attained the age of 19. Disallows the use of such credit together with the credit for dependent care expenses.
Bill· HRH.R. 306 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Individual Social Security Retirement Account Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the social security taxes on employees, employers, and the self-employed for 1995 and thereafter. Amends title II (Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to require employers to have in effect a social security payroll deduction plan for employees. Requires such plan to provide for employers to deduct the prescribed social security employee contribution for transfer, together with the prescribed social security employer contribution, to an individual social security retirement account of the employee. Provides for self-employed individuals to pay into such accounts the prescribed social security self-employment contribution. Sets forth penalties for failure to establish and maintain such accounts. Requires amounts deducted from employee wages to be shown on wage receipts for employees. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to exempt social security payroll deduction plans from provisions governing employee benefit plans. Provides for the tax treatment of individual social security retirement accounts in a manner similar to individual retirement accounts.
Bill· HRH.R. 237 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Provisions Relating to Physicians' Services Subtitle A: Incentives Under Medicare Subtitle B: Increasing Number of Physicians Practicing in Rural Areas Subtitle C: Expansion of Exceptions to Limitations on Physician Self-Referrals Title II: Provisons Relating to Hospitals Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions Subtitle A: Administrative Simplification Subtitle B: Other Provisions Rural Health Care Access Improvement Act of 1993 - Title I: Provisions Relating to Physicians' Services - Subtitle A: Incentives Under Medicare - (Sec. 101) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to modify requirements regarding payments to new physicians and other new health care practitioners for rural area services. (Sec. 102) Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from failing to make Medicare payments on the basis of an individual's failure to complete a questionaire concerning a primary plan. (Sec. 103) Regulates the use of extrapolation by carriers administering Medicare benefits. (Sec. 104) Prohibits certain fees by carriers and the Secretary. (Sec. 105) Requires consideration, in applying standards and criteria for carrier contracts, of evaluations by medical societies representing physicians served by the carrier. (Sec. 106) Provides for appeals of carrier actions. (Sec. 107) Directs carriers to provide for review (of denial of payments for physicians' services) by a physician in the same medical specialty. (Sec. 108) Amends SSA titles XVIII and XIX (Medicaid) to modify the circumstances in which payments may be made to a physician for services provided by another physician. (Sec. 109) Amends SSA title XI to exclude surgical procedures performed in a rural area from utilization and quality control review requirements. Subtitle B: Increasing Number of Physicians Practicing in Rural Areas - (Sec. 111) Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to allow a personal interest deduction for qualified medical education loan interest which accrues while the physician is providing primary care to medically underserved rural area residents. (Sec. 112) Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to add the ratio of medically underserved individuals in a health professional shortage area to the aggregate population of all such areas to the exclusive factors considered in determining the greatest shortages in the assignment of National Health Service Corps members. Subtitle C: Expansion of Exceptions to Limitations on Physician Self-Referrals - (Sec. 121) Amends SSA title XVIII to revise the exceptions to prohibitions on physician self-referrals. (Sec. 122) Mandates a study and report to the Congress on the changes in aggregate costs, under Medicare and other health plans, resulting from this subtitle. Title II: Provisions Relating to Hospitals - (Sec. 201) Amends SSA title XVIII to require rural hospital prospective payment system amounts for capital-related costs of inpatient services to be based on either reasonable costs or the payment methodology used for other hospitals, as elected by the hospital. (Sec. 202) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OMBRA) of 1989 to extend referral centers. Removes Medicare provisions relating to exceptions and adjustments in certain payments for regional and national referral centers. Provides that the disproportionate share adjustment percentage be determined, in certain circumstances, as though such provisions had not been removed. (Sec. 203) Shields from certain antitrust laws specified actions of hospitals meeting described requirements. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Subtitle A: Administrative Simplification - (Sec. 301) Requires health benefit plans to: (1) issue health claims cards; (2) provide information to appropriate health claims clearinghouses on individual eligibility for benefits; and (3) accept clearinghouse determinations on clean claims. (Sec. 302) Requires health service providers to submit claims only to the appropriate clearinghouse in a manner consistent with this Act. Imposes civil penalties for violation of such requirements. Requires each hospital, as a Medicare participation agreement requirement, to report information in a manner consistent with OMBRA of 1987. (Sec. 303) Requires: (1) designation of certain clearinghouse areas; and (2) a separate contract in each area with an organization to perform clearinghouse functions. (Sec. 304) Mandates standards for: (1) uniform health claims cards; and (2) information required for claims acceptance and payment. Requires the Secretary to develop computer software for provider inquiries, responses, and electronic claims submission and for uniform hospital reporting. (Sec. 305) Amends IRC to impose a tax on the failure of any group health plan to meet certain requirements of this title. Subtitle B: Other Provisions - (Sec. 311) Amends PHSA to require certain demonstration projects in rural areas invovling trauma care to include specified elements. (Sec. 312) Authorizes the use of certain funds for grants to nursing schools for the establishment of clinics to provide primary care services in medically underserved rural areas and related training. Requires a study on reducing the burden of federally conducted or sponsored health care services information collection requests.
Bill· HRH.R. 196 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Tax Incentives for Health Care Access Title II: Health Care 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: Uniform Standards for Reporting Services and Processing Claims Title III: Medical Liability Reform Subtitle A: Definitions and Findings Subtitle B: Expedited Medical Malpractice Settlements Subtitle C: Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures Subtitle D: Uniform Standards for Medical Malpractice Cases Subtitle E: Uniform Disciplinary Reforms Subtitle F: Medical Products Subtitle G: Community Health Centers Subtitle H: Miscellaneous Provisions Title IV: Public Health Provisions Subtitle A: New Basic Health Care Program Subtitle B: Medicaid Provisions Title V: Medically Underserved Areas Subtitle A: Public Health Service Act Provisions Subtitle B: Provision Relating to Social Security Title VI: Incentives to Encourage Preventive Services Title VII: Tax Treatment of Long-Term Care Insurance And Plans Subtitle A: Treatment of Long-Term Care Insurance Subtitle B: Employer Funding of Medical Benefits Subtitle C: Reverse Mortgage Insurance for Older Americans Subtitle D: Income Tax Credits Subtitle E: Treatment of Accelerated Death Benefits Subtitle F: Federal National Long-Term Care Reinsurance Corporation Title VIII: Improvements in Portability of Private Health Insurance Health Equity and Access Improvement Act of 1992 - Title I: Tax Incentives for Health Care Access - (Sec. 101) Amends the Internal Revenue Code regarding: (1) health expense credits; (2) health premium deductions; (3) small employer health credits; (4) health premium deductions for self-employed individuals; and (5) credits for primary health service providers in rural health professional shortage areas. (Sec. 105) Excludes from gross income payments made for a taxpayer by the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program. Permits a rural health professional shortage area physician to expense certain property. Allows deductions for rural medical professionals' student loan interest. Title II: Health Care Reform Provisions - (Sec. 201) Mandates: (1) a model health care insurance benefits plan with standards that carriers should meet; and (2) standards that managed care plan insurers should meet. Establishes the Managed Care Advisory Committee. Preempts State law provisions as applied to managed care plans meeting the recommended standards. (Sec. 221) Provides for contracts between small employer purchasing groups and carriers. Title III: Medical Liability Reform - (Sec. 311) Regulates settlement offers in medical malpractice cases. (Sec. 321) Establishes an Alternative Dispute Resolution Board of Advisers to make recommendations concerning establishing a model voluntary medical malpractice dispute resolution program. (Sec. 332) Caps future losses, noneconomic damages, and attorneys' fees. Prohibits joint liability in civil actions for noneconomic damages. Establishes a medical malpractice statute of limitations. (Sec. 342) Imposes requirements on States regarding: (1) allocation of medical licensing fees; (2) disciplinary board membership; (3) risk management programs; and (4) health care disciplinary trust funds. (Sec. 351) Protects a drug or device producer from punitive damages if the drug or device was subject to approval or premarket approval. (Sec. 361) Amends the Public Health Service Act to mandate a grant to an entity representing recipients of assistance at migrant and community health centers to develop a business plan and establish a nationwide risk retention group. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Public Health Provisions - (Sec. 401) Amends the Social Security Act to create the BasiCare program. Authorizes appropriations for basic health care benefits for low-income uninsured individuals ineligible for coverage under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. (Sec. 412) Establishes the Federal Medical Waiver Demonstration Board, permitting it to waive provisions of: (1) the Public Health Service Act; (2) title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act; (3) Medicaid and BasiCare; (4) veterans' health care programs; and (5) the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Title V: Medically Underserved Areas - (Sec. 501) Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program and the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program. (Sec. 502) Mandates allotments to States for grants for community based primary health care entities providing services to pregnant women and children. (Sec. 503) Mandates grants to federally-qualified health centers (FQHCs) and other entities for services for medically underserved populations or in high impact areas not currently served by a FQHC. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 504) Authorizes grants for a plan for mental health outreach programs in rural areas. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 505) Mandates priority, in awarding grants regarding the research, teaching, and training activities of health personnel educational entities, to entities that demonstrate a commitment to serving medically underserved communities. Mandates grants for: (1) expanded training for individuals desiring to serve medically underserved communities; and (2) coordination among health professions programs, particularly in medically underserved rural areas. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 506) Authorizes grants: (1) to rural communities for stipends to physicians, nurses, or other health professional trainees; (2) for networks among rural and urban providers to preserve and share health care resources and enhance rural care; and (3) for cooperatives in rural areas to establish a case management and reimbursement system. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 511) Amends: (1) the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 to authorize appropriations for the Rural Health Care Transition Grant Program; and (2) Medicare to authorize appropriations for the Essential Access Community Hospital Program. Title VI: Incentives to Encourage Preventive Services - (Sec. 601) Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to provide credits for preventive services. (Sec. 602) Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for immunization grants. Title VII: Tax Treatment of Long-Term Care Insurance and Plans - (Sec. 701) Amends the IRC to provide for the treatment of long-term care insurance regarding: (1) taxation of life insurance companies; (2) taxation of fringe benefits; (3) amounts withdrawn from individual retirement accounts or qualified pension plans for purchasing insurance; and (4) the exchange of life policies for long-term policies. (Sec. 711) Revises provisions governing medical benefits for retired employees. Allows deductions for employer contributions to health benefits accounts. Defines funded reserve accounts and vesting requirements to qualify for such a deduction. (Sec. 712) Establishes a penalty on early distributions of medical benefits and an excise tax on allocated assets not used to provide retiree health benefits. (Sec. 721) Amends the National Housing Act to modify limits on the insurance benefits under an existing program concerning home equity conversion mortgages for elderly homeowners. (Sec. 731) Allows tax credits for: (1) households including a parent, grandparent, dependent, or spouse who requires custodial care; and (2) long-term care expenses of certain independent persons. (Sec. 741) Provides for: (1) the treatment of amounts paid to an individual who is terminally ill or permanently confined to a nursing home as death benefits; (2) accelerated death benefit riders on life insurance contracts; and (3) incorporation of the Federal National Long-Term Care Reinsurance Corporation. Title VIII: Improvements in Portability of Private Health Insurance - (Sec. 801) Imposes an excise tax on group health plans for failure to provide coverage for a preexisting condition.
Bill· HRH.R. 191 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Immediate Health Care Reforms Title II: National Health Care Reform Proposals American Consumers Health Care Reform Act of 1993 - Title I: Immediate Health Care Reforms - (Sec. 101) Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to modify eligibility, coverage, and cost-sharing requirements and the Federal medical assistance percentage. Terminates certain payments to States. Mandates standards for long-term care plans. Establishes an assistance program for Medicaid acute care services and cost-sharing. Requires Medicaid payments for certain services to be the same as under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Mandates encouragement of managed care. (Sec. 111) Provides for the consolidation of Medicare parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) administration. (Sec. 121) Preempts State mandatory benefits and anti-managed care laws. Restricts preexisting condition limitations. Institutes small employer insurance market reforms. (Sec. 127) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on the failure of carriers or small employers to comply with standards. (Sec. 131) Provides for medical malpractice reforms. (Sec. 171) Amends the Social Security Act to authorize appropriations regarding research on outcomes of health care services and procedures. (Sec. 181) Amends Medicare and Public Health Service Act provisions to provide for primary care physician education. (Sec. 183) Mandates health care delivery system reforms. (Sec. 187) Provides for the consolidation of Federal nutrition activities. (Sec. 188) Establishes demonstration projects on informed decision making regarding the use of expensive life-sustaining technology. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 191) Mandates standards for the collection and disclosure of health care data. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 198) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow businesses, employees, and self-employed individuals deductions for health coverage, up to the minimum benefit package. Title II: National Health Care Reform Proposals - (Sec. 201) Establishes the National Health Care Reform Commission to develop national health care goals to improve access to health care, safeguard and improve quality, and control costs. (Sec. 211) Establishes demonstration projects on alternative structures for the U.S. health care financing and delivery system.
Bill· HRH.R. 350 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Title II: Improved Wetlands Permitting; Revisions to Wetlands Delineation Procedures Title III: Wetlands Restoration Program Title IV: Tax Incentives for Wetlands Conservation Wetlands Reform Act of 1993 - Title I: Amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to make any pollutant discharge or alteration of navigable waters unlawful. Authorizes the issuance of permits for other alterations of navigable waters. Prohibits the issuance of permits if there is a practical alternative to the proposed activity that would have less adverse impact on navigable waters. Title II: Improved Wetlands Permitting; Revisions to Wetlands Delineation Procedures - Directs the Comptroller General to submit to the Congress an analysis of needs of the Corps of Engineers and Environmental Protection Agency for additional personnel, administrative resources, and funding to improve implementation of the wetlands permit program. Requires funds to be used for specified wetlands delineation and education programs. Requires the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service to use funds for wetlands mapping and for the delineation of wetlands in watersheds and ecosystems for which the need for delineation is particularly acute. Prohibits revisions to or clarifications of any Federal manual for identifying and delineating jurisdictional wetlands or regulations related to the definition, delineation, or identification of wetlands until a specified National Academy of Sciences study has been completed. Title III: Wetlands Restoration Program - Directs the Secretary of the Army to initiate a pilot program of wetlands restoration. Title IV: Tax Incentives for Wetlands Conservation - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to designate a nonprofit organization to be a Wetlands Stewardship Trust if such organization conforms to certain regulations, and includes among its primary purposes the acquisition of interests in wetlands, former wetlands, and associated real property for preservation purposes. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth special rules for charitable contributions of wetlands to such trusts. Excludes from gross income amounts received by the owner of wetlands for allowing any person to use such lands in a compatible use (one that does not degrade the functions or values of such lands).
Bill· HRH.R. 326 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the exclusion from gross income of amounts received under qualified group legal services plans.
Bill· HRH.R. 200 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Cost Containment Subtitle A: National Health Budget Subtitle B: State Provider Payment Control System Subtitle C: Maximum Payment Rates for Services Not Subject to State Provider Payment Control Systems or Provided by Staff or Group Model Health Maintenance Organizations Title II: Managed Care And Managed Competition Subtitle A: Managed Care Subtitle B: Managed Competition Subtitle C: National Patient Outcomes and Enrollee Satisfaction Data Reporing Program Subtitle D: Study of Universal Health Insurance Coverage and Cost Containment Title III: Health Systems Reform Subtitle A: Health Insurance Reform Subtitle B: Administrative Simplification Subtitle C: Fraud and Abuse Subtitle D: Other Provisions Title IV: Expansions Of Health Benefits And Other Health Initiatives Subtitle A: Medicaid Benefit Improvements Subtitle B: Expansion of Medicare Benefits Subtitle C: Health Insurance Deduction for the Self-Employed Subtitle D: Health Insurance Program for Children Health Care Cost Containment and Reform Act of 1993 - Title I: Cost Containment - Subtitle A: National Health Budget - (Sec. 101) Establishes a national health expenditure budget for each calendar year beginning with 1995 that is composed of separate budgets for both Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act (SSA)) and non-Medicare related health care expenditures. Sets forth guidelines for the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to use in computing budget baselines for 1994. (Sec. 102) Provides for the establishment of classes of health care services. (Sec. 103) Requires the Secretary to allocate such respective budgets each year among such classes. (Sec. 104) Requires the Secretary to adjust budgets and allocations for changes in Medicare coverage under title IV of this Act that have resulted in increased expenditures for Medicare services. (Sec. 105) Requires the Secretary to establish a national health expenditures reporting system for purposes of carrying out this title. Subtitle B: State Provider Payment Control Systems - (Secs. 121 and 122) Gives States the option of establishing systems (State systems) to provide payment rates for hospital, physician, and other services covered under the State system (for which the maximum payment rates established below shall not apply) and provided in the State. Allows States to permit health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to negotiate directly with providers of covererd services with respect to the HMO's rate of payment for such services. (Sec. 123) Makes approval of a State system depend on State assurances that: (1) aggregate Medicare expenditures for a covered class of services will not exceed a certain limit; and (2) the sum of aggregate Medicare and non-Medicare expenditures for the class (or classes) will not exceed a specified maximum. (Sec. 124) Authorizes sanctions against State systems with aggregate expenditures in excess of specified applicable limits. Subtitle C: Maximum Payment Rates for Services Not Subject to State Provider Payment Control Systems or Provided by Staff or Group Model Health Maintenance Organizations - (Secs. 140, 141, 142, and 143) Provides for the establishment and general application and enforcement of maximum non-Medicare payment rates in States which have not opted to participate in State systems. Exempts services provided by staff or group model (S/GM) HMOs from such rates. (Secs. 151 and 152) Details various methodologies for determining maximum non-Medicare rates of payment for inpatient hospital services, class of physicians' services and other professional medical services. (Secs. 155, 161, and 162) Provides for: (1) development of prospectively-determined payment methodologies for each class of services for which non-Medicare payment rates are not specified and are not determined on a prospective basis; (2) conforming Medicare payment rates to Medicare health expenditure allocations; and (3) adjustments to Medicare payments for graduate medical education. Title II: Managed Care and Managed Competition - Subtitle A: Managed Care - (Sec. 203) Repeals the termination date set under the Health Maintenance Organization Amendments of 1988 for dual choice requirements under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA). (Sec. 204) Amends PHSA to revise such requirements to provide for multiple options of HMO membership. Provides that health benefit plans shall make available, to each individual eligible to enroll with a qualified HMO under such an option, such marketing materials as the HMO provides to the plan. (Sec. 205) Requires the Secretary to provide for grants for the establishment and initial operation of S/GM HMOs. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 206) Preempts State law provisions that restrict the ability of an HMO to negotiate reimbursement rates with providers (except in States with payment provider control systems) or to contract selectively with one provider or a limited number of providers. (Sec. 207) Amends SSA to provide for adjustment in Medicare capitation payments to account for regional variations in application of secondary payor provisions. (Sec. 208) Requires a General Accounting Office (GAO) study and report to the Congress on additional measures for HMO development and expansion. Subtitle B: Managed Competition - (Secs. 221, 223, and 224) Provides for grants to States for the establishment of a new system of health plan purchasing cooperatives (HPPCs) in each State through which coverage under qualified managed-care health plans is made available for an employee whose employer has entered into an agreement with the HPPC for the area where the employee resides. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: National Patient Outcomes and Enrollee Satisfaction Data Reporting Program - (Secs. 271, 272, and 273) Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish national data bases on patient outcomes and enrollee health plan satisfaction from information reported annually to the Secretary by health benefit plans; (2) publish and distribute annual reports regarding patient outcomes and enrollee health plan satisfaction; and (3) provide for various research and demonstration projects. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: Study of Universal Health Insurance Coverage and Cost Containment - (Sec. 291) Requires the Congressional Budget Office to study and report to specified congressional committees on options for providing universal health insurance coverage. Title III: Health Systems Reform - Subtitle A: Health Insurance Reform - (Sec. 301) Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to impose an excise tax on any health benefit plan that is not certified under this Act or is providing coverage in violation of certain requirements discussed below. Specifies the amount of and liability for such tax. (Sec. 302) Amends SSA to provide that no health benefit plan may be issued unless it has been certified as meeting specific standards established by the Secretary. Requires such standards to implement specified requirements relating to: (1) health benefit plan coverage and health status; (2) premium charges within self-insured health benefit plans; (3) small employer plans; (4) insured health benefit plan enrollment, issuance, and renewal; (5) use of community-rated premium rates for insured plans; (6) minimum insured plan periods; (7) payment of commissions; and (8) insured plans that are multiple employer welfare arrangements. (Sec. 303) Prohibits States from establishing or enforcing any law or regulation that prevents the health benefit plan of a college or university from offering eligible individuals continuation of coverage under the plan. Subtitle B: Administrative Simplification - (Secs. 321, 322, 323, 324, and 325) Requires each health benefit plan to issue to each U.S. resident entitled to benefits under the plan a uniform health claims card that meets specified requirements. Mandates: (1) entitlement verification systems; and (2) uniform electronic claims submission and hospital cost reporting. Provides for standards for entitlement verification systems and uniform electronic claims submission and hospital medical records transmission. Sets forth enforcement provisions. Subtitle C: Fraud and Abuse - (Sec. 341) Requires the Secretary to establish in the Office of Inspector General a program to coordinate law enforcement programs to control health care fraud and abuse and facilitate SSA and other statutory enforcement of health care fraud and abuse prohibitions. Creates in the Treasury the Anti-Fraud and Abuse Trust Fund. Authorizes appropriations. (Secs. 341 and 342) Amends SSA title XI to: (1) permit the exclusion from participation in Medicare and any State health care program (SHCP) for any failure under such Inspector General program to supply requested information; (2) provide for the application of Federal anti-fraud and abuse sanctions to all fraud and abuse involving any health benefit plan; (3) add treble damages to the list of criminal penalties for acts involving Medicare, SHCPs, or health benefit plans; and (4) require the Secretary to make law enforcement officers aware of opportunities that may satisfy court imposed community service obligations for Medicare or SHCP fraud and abuse convictions. (Sec. 343) Subjects to SSA civil monetary penalties any offer of inducements to individuals enrolled under or employed by Medicare or other health programs or plans. (Sec. 344) Provides for intermediate sanctions for HMO Medicare violations. Requires: (1) agreements between HMOs and peer review organizations (PROs) to be written; and (2) a GAO study and report to the Congress on the cost of HMO and PRO agreements. (Sec. 351 and 352) Extends the ban on Medicare payment for physician self-referrals to all payors and additional specified services. (Sec. 353) Makes changes in exceptions and other provisions relating to compensation arrangements under Medicare. Subtitle D: Other Provisions - (Sec. 361) Requires the Physician Payment Review Commission to study and report to the Congress on: (1) tort reforms needed with respect to medical malpractice liability claims; and (2) the impact of such reforms on health care expenditures and access. Title IV: Expansions of Health Benefits And Other Health Initiatives - Subtitle A: Medicaid Benefits Improvements - (Sec. 401) Sets a floor on Medicaid payment levels for inpatient hospital services and physician services. (Sec. 402) Provides for expanded Medicaid eligibility for certain low-income individuals. (Sec. 403) Provides for full Federal payment for newly mandated Medicaid expenditures. Subtitle B: Expansion of Medicare Benefits - (Secs. 411, 412, 413, 414, and 421) Provides for Medicare coverage of annual breast cancer screening for women over age 64, colon cancer screening, child immunizations, prescription drugs, and well-child care. (Sec. 421) Authorizes demonstration projects for coverage of other specified preventive services under Medicare. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 422) Requires the Director of the Office of Technology Assessment to provide for a Prescription Drug Payment Review Commission which shall report annually to the Congress on methods for prescription drug payment. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 423) Provides for coverage of prescription drugs for qualified Medicare beneficiaries and qualified disabled and working individuals. (Sec. 431) Requires the Secretary to: (1) determine whether newly eligible Medicare beneficiaries are eligible for Medicaid (SSA title XIX) payment of their out-of-pocket Medicare expenses; and (2) enroll in Medicaid those beneficiaries determined to be so eligible. Amends SSA to require annual notices of Medicare benefits to contain information on Medicaid payment of out-of-pocket Medicare expenses. Subtitle C: Health Insurance Deduction for the Self-Employed - (Sec. 441) Amends the IRC to make permanent and increase the deduction for self-employed individuals' health insurance costs. Subtitle D: Health Insurance Program for Children - (Sec. 451) Amends SSA to make children under age 19 who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents eligible to enroll for specified health benefits (generally the same as those under Medicare for the aged and disabled, plus well-child services). Creates in the Treasury the Children's Health Insurance Fund. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 298 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Amendments to Pension Plan Funding Requirements Title II: Required Security for Certain Plan Amendments Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions Pension Funding Improvement Act of 1993 - Title I: Amendments to Pension Plan Funding Requirements - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to revise minimum funding standards for pension plans. Revises the additional funding requirements for pension plans that are not multiemployer plans to provide for an underfunding reduction requirement and solvency maintenance requirement. Title II: Required Security for Certain Plan Amendments - Amends IRC and ERISA to increase required funding percentages and required security under provisions for pension plan termination insurance. Applies such required funding and security provisions to multiemployer plans, as well as to other pension plans. Applies specified criminal penalties to violations of such requirements. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Requires the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to submit separate reports to the Congress setting forth alternative increases in premiums that would be required for the assets of the single-employer program (established under ERISA provisions for pension plan termination insurance) to equal or exceed such program's current and expected liabilities by 2002. Amends ERISA to require inclusion in annual PBGC reports of actuarial evaluations of pension benefit guaranty funds for the next five, ten, twenty, and thirty years. (Currently, inclusion of such evaluations for the next five years only is required.) Requires such evaluations to set forth alternative premium schedules to assure that PBGC assets equal or exceed its liabilities during such periods. Authorizes the CBO to transmit a separate report analyzing and commenting upon the actuarial evaluation (and premium schedules) prepared by the PBGC, for any fiscal year the CBO deems appropriate. Authorizes the PBGC to require certain plan sponsors or members of a sponsor's controlled group to provide it with records or other information necessary to determine liabilities and assets of plans covered by ERISA plan termination insurance provisions, or the financial condition of sponsors or members of sponsors' controlled groups maintaining such plans. Applies such information requirements to a plan if: (1) its underfunding exceeds $10,000,000; (2) it has more than 2,000 participants; or (3) it has been granted minimum funding waivers in excess of $1,000,000. Treats all plans maintained by the same sponsor (or any member of such sponsor's controlled group) as one plan for purposes of such information requirements.
Bill· HRH.R. 245 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, during each fiscal year, to assign up to 12,000 civilian officers and employees of the Department of Defense and members of the armed forces to temporary duty with: (1) the Immigration and Naturalization Service to assist in preventing the entry into the United States of terrorists, drug traffickers, and illegal aliens; and (2) the U.S. Customs Service to assist in the inspection of cargo, vehicles, and aircraft at points of entry into the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 415 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the luxury excise tax on passenger vehicles, boats, aircraft, jewelry, and furs.
Bill· HRH.R. 373 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the luxury excise tax on boats. Repeals provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 with respect to modifications of percentage depletion in the case of oil and gas wells.
Bill· HRH.R. 360 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the provisions permitting small issues of tax-exempt bonds to finance manufacturing facilities and farm property.
Bill· HRH.R. 348 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Boating Industry Jobs Preservation Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the luxury excise tax on boats.
Bill· HRH.R. 325 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the targeted jobs credit permanent. Increases the maximum age requirement for employment of economically disadvantaged youth from 23 years to 25 years. Establishes economically disadvantaged veterans as members of targeted groups for purposes of the credit.
Bill· HRH.R. 335 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the luxury excise tax on boats.
Bill· HRH.R. 264 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 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 1996 and thereafter.
Bill· HRH.R. 220 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Repeals Internal Revenue Code provisions that permit an income tax exemption for interest earned on certain portfolio debt investments and received from U.S. sources by nonresident alien individuals and foreign corporations. Requires tax withholding in connection with such income.
Bill· HRH.R. 162 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 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 1996 and thereafter.
Bill· HRH.R. 219 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the issuance of tax-exempt bonds by volunteer fire departments to acquire ambulances or other emergency response vehicles.
Bill· HRH.R. 323 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Common Sense Budget Act of 1993 - Amends Federal law to require both the President and the Congress to draft a budget based on estimates of current fiscal year spending, proposing increases or decreases based on this level (rather than on an estimated baseline). Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Congressional Budget Office to use such a current fiscal year baseline in its report to the congressional budget committees, projecting growth for entitlement and discretionary spending based on current fiscal year spending.
Bill· HRH.R. 170 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Allows penalty-free distributions from an individual retirement account, an individual retirement annuity, or a qualified cash or deferred arrangement for the one-year period beginning after the date of enactment of this Act. Excludes from gross income ten percent of the portion of such distribution which would have been includible but for enactment of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 192 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Deductibility of Health Insurance Expenses for the Self-Employed Title II: Medical Savings Accounts Title III: Uniform Claims; Electronic Cards, Electronic Billing Title IV: Health Insurance Portability Provisions Title V: Improved Access to Rural Health Services Subtitle A: Rural Emergency Medical Services Amendments Subtitle B: Extension of Special Treatment Rules for Medicare-Dependent, Small Rural Hospitals Subtitle C: Outreach Grants Program Farm and Rural Medical Equity Reform Act of 1993 - Title I: Deductibility of Health Insurance Expenses for the Self-Employed - (Sec. 101) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the deduction for health insurance costs of self-employed individuals from 25 percent to 100 percent and make the deduction permanent. Title II: Medical Savings Accounts - (Sec. 201) Allows individuals a tax deduction for contributions to a medical care savings account established for the benefit of an individual who: (1) is not covered by an employer-provided group health plan; or (2) is covered by such a plan which is a qualified catastrophic coverage health plan and is not covered by an other health plan. Makes such accounts exempt from taxation, but subject to taxes imposed on unrelated business income of charitable, etc. organizations. Allows such deduction in arriving at adjusted gross income. Establishes an excise tax for excess contributions to medical care savings accounts and subjects such accounts to the tax on prohibited transactions. (Sec. 202) Allows the transfer of unused amounts in flexible spending accounts of cafeteria plans to medical savings accounts. Provides special rules for transfers to cash or deferred arrangements. (Sec. 203) Allows the full deduction for medical, dental, etc., expenses for amounts paid for qualified catastrophic coverage health plans. Title III: Uniform Claims; Electronic Cards; Electronic Billing - (Sec. 301) Establishes the Advisory Council on Health Claim Processing Standardization to submit recommendations concerning: (1) standards for uniform health claim reimbursement forms for hospitals and physicians; (2) standards for electronic cards containing insurance information and medical records; and (3) billing computerization and electronic transmission of billing information from hospitals and physicians to insurers and the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Mandates uniform claim reimbursement forms for hospitals and physicians. Title IV: Health Insurance Portability Provisions - (Sec. 401) Prohibits pre-existing condition limitations or exclusions. Provides for continuity of coverage. Limits the amount by which premiums previously charged a small employer may be increased for a newly covered employer. (Sec. 404) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax for violation of such provisions. Title V: Improved Access to Rural Health Services - (Sec. 501) Amends title XII (Trauma Care) of the Public Health Service Act to apply the title to emergency medical services (including trauma care) and to modify the Secretary's duties. Establishes the Office of Emergency Medical Services. (Sec. 502) Authorizes grants to States to improve the availability and quality of emergency medical services through the operation of State offices of emergency medical services. (Sec. 503) Requires projects under existing provisions to include demonstration projects to establish telecommunications between rural medical facilities and other medical facilities. (Sec. 504) Authorizes appropriations for carrying out specified provisions of the title. (Sec. 511) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend through March 31, 1994 (currently, 1993) special payments under part A of Medicare for the operating costs of inpatient services of small, rural Medicare-dependent hospitals. (Sec. 521) Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to demonstrate new and innovative models of outreach and health care services delivery in rural areas that lack basic health services. Conditions grants on formation of consortia of at least three health care providers or at least three social service providers. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 411 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends Federal law to prohibit any State from imposing an income tax on the pension income of any individual who is not a resident or domiciliary of that State.
Bill· HRH.R. 193 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Judicial Taxation Prohibition Act - Amends the Federal judicial code to deny to inferior Federal courts jurisdiction to issue any remedy, order, writ, or other judicial decree requiring the Federal Government or any State or local government to impose any new tax or to increase any existing tax or tax rate.
Bill· HRH.R. 372 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations to carry out certain economic development programs for FY 1993. Amends the Small Business Act to increase the program levels of the Small Business Administration for FY 1993. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the targeted jobs credit for every individual hired within one year after the date of enactment of this Act. Increases the amount of such credit. Excludes from gross income distributions from individual retirement accounts used to purchase or refinance a principal residence. Exempts such distributions from the penalty tax on early distributions from retirement plans. Provides for the delay or suspension of obligations for certain defense, foreign assistance, space, and energy research programs.
Bill· HRH.R. 203 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Prohibits States and localities from receiving certain Federal economic development assistance if the State or locality offers, permits, or grants any tax abatement, money payment, or payment of property for the location of businesses or other organizations within the State or locality. Creates an exception to such prohibition for enterprise zones.
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