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Bill· HRH.R. 341 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Environmental Priorities Act of 1999 - Makes this Act effective for a consumer sector in any State in the first year after all of a State's regulated and nonregulated electric utilities have established retail electric service choice for customers in such sector, but no earlier than 2002. Requires providers of retail electric services to contribute to the fiscal agent for the Environmental Priorities Board (established by this Act) ten percent of the total consumer savings for the consumer sector for that calendar year. Defines: (1) "consumer savings" as the amount by which the potential rate for electric energy provided to a consumer sector exceeds the current rate for the sector, multiplied by the sector's total consumption (in kilowatt-hours) during a calendar year; and (2) "potential rate" as the average kilowatt-hour rate paid by the provider's customers in that sector during the 12-month period preceding the date on which retail electric service choice was established, adjusted for inflation. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a National Environmental Priorities Board. Directs the Board to: (1) establish regulations governing creation of an Environmental Priorities Program, to include criteria and methods of selecting State projects to receive support; and (2) enter into arrangements with a non-federal fiscal agent to receive and disburse contributions described by this Act. Authorizes States in which retail electric service choice has been established for any consumer sector to establish public purpose programs and apply for matching funding to support environmental priorities programs. Requires the fiscal agent to distribute contributions to States to carry out such programs.
Bill· HRH.R. 343 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Save Social Security First Act of 1999 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, at the end of each fiscal year for which the budget is in surplus, to transfer from the general fund of the Treasury an amount equal to such surplus to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund (social security trust funds). Divides such amount between such funds in the same proportion as all other receipts of such funds in that year. Directs the Board of Trustees of such funds to promulgate guidelines to govern the investment of transferred amounts and to submit them to each House of the Congress. Requires such amounts to be invested in the same manner as other moneys in the funds if the Congress disapproves such guidelines by law. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require, if the budget for the current year or the fiscal year preceding such year was not in surplus, a vote of at least two-thirds of the Members voting for passage of any legislation that repeals, increases, or waives any discretionary spending limit set forth in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) or repeals or waives pay-as-you-go sequestration of such Act. Provides that any transfer of funds required by this Act shall not count as an outlay for purposes of pay-as-you-go requirements and exempts such transfers from sequestration under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 372 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Public Pension Parity Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exclude from gross income any amount received by an individual as a qualified governmental pension which does not exceed the maximum excludable social security benefits of the taxpayer for such year reduced by the social security benefits received during such year which were excluded from gross income; and (2) prohibit applying clause (1) to any qualified governmental pension received during the taxable year unless the taxpayer (or the spouse or former spouse of the taxpayer) performed the service giving rise to such pension. Defines the term "maximum excludable social security benefits."
Bill· HRH.R. 398 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Plant Genetic Conservation Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2000 - Appropriates FY 2000 funds for a plant genetic conservation program to store material from rare and threatened plants in Hawaii and other States.
Bill· HRH.R. 419 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Revises Internal Revenue Code provisions concerning the credit for expenses necessary for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment to make the credit available with respect to all children under the age of five, whether or not there are employment related expenses. (Currently, the credit is available with respect to children under the age of 13, but only if there are employment related expenses.)
Bill· HRH.R. 397 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Elimination of Double Subsidies for the Hardrock Mining Industry Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disallow the percentage depletion allowance for hardrock mines located on land currently subject to the general mining laws, or on land patented under such laws.
Bill· HRH.R. 389 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Child Care Infrastructure Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an employer-provided child care credit for qualified expenses to build, rehabilitate, or expand a qualified child care facility, or subsidize or contract for such services, for an employer's employees.
Bill· HRH.R. 390 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income a Holocaust victims' settlement payment.
Bill· HRH.R. 373 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the household and dependent care services credit to: (1) eliminate the employment-related requirement; (2) increase the credit percentage; (3) change the qualifying age of dependents who are not physically or mentally incapable from under 13 to under 7 years old; and (4) revise allowable amounts considered for credit calculation.
Bill· HRH.R. 339 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Homeowners' Benefit Protection Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for an annual inflation adjustment on the exclusion of the gain on the sale of a principal residence.
Bill· HRH.R. 337 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide an individual with a one-time exclusion from gross income for the sale or exchange of a qualified interest in a closely held business if: (1) the individual has attained the age of 62 before the date of the sale or exchange; (2) the adjusted gross income of the individual for the tax year in which such sale or exchange occurs does not exceed $1 million (determined without regard to such sale or exchange); and (3) the individual so elects.
Bill· HRH.R. 331 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) to add a new title V (Public Funding for House of Representatives Elections) outlining the following: (1) qualifications for public financing; (2) limitations on contributions to qualifying House candidates prohibiting such a candidate from accepting contributions other than contributions from individuals that total not more than $100 per individual per election cycle, with an 80 percent in-State contribution requirement; (3) rules restricting public funding to specified purposes, such as buying broadcast time; (4) limitations on the maximum amount of public funding, which is set at $750,000 for qualifying House candidates; (5) various specified requirements pertaining to television debates and radio and television advertising; (6) reporting requirements for political committees and authorization for the filing of certain State reports in lieu of any required FECA report; (7) provisions regarding soft money of persons other than political parties; and (8) rules for contributions through intermediaries and conduits. Prohibits a national committee of a political party, including the national congressional campaign committees of a political party, and any officers or agents of such party committees from soliciting or receiving any contributions, donations, or transfers of funds, or spending any funds, not subject to the limitations, prohibitions, and reporting requirements of this Act. Imposes similar restrictions generally with regard to any amount expended or disbursed by a State, district, or local committee of a political party for any activity which might affect the outcome of a Federal election. Provides that: (1) no national, State, district, or local committee of a political party shall solicit any funds for or make any donations to any organization that is exempt from Federal income taxation; and (2) no candidate for Federal office, individual holding Federal office, or any agent of such candidate or officeholder, may solicit or receive any funds in connection with any Federal election unless such funds are subject to the limitations, prohibitions, and reporting requirements of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 352 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth provisions for: (1) a small employer (100 or fewer employees) retirement plan; (2) a credit for the expenses of establishing such a plan; and (3) a model small employer retirement plan.
Bill· HRH.R. 323 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Employee Educational Assistance Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) permanently extend the exclusion from gross income of employer-provided educational assistance; and (2) restore the exclusion for such assistance on the graduate level.
Bill· HRH.R. 338 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Employee Participation Incentive Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish a maximum tax rate of 30 percent for certain corporations with both an employee voting and value percentage of at least 20 percent; (2) provide an exclusion, of up to 20 percent of wages, from gross income for compensation paid in stock by certain corporations; and (3) permit a deduction to certain corporations when granting qualified stock options.
Bill· HRH.R. 340 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Public School Rebuilding and Improvement Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise current incentives for education zones into incentives for qualified public school modernization bonds, including (currently existing) qualified zone academy bonds and (newly established) qualified school construction bonds. Allows a limited tax credit to taxpayers holding such public school modernization bonds. Raises the national zone academy bond limitation from $400 million to $1.4 billion for 2000 and 2001, and eliminates the limitation after 2002. Prescribes requirements for national qualified school construction bonds, with a national limitation of $13.7 billion for 2000 and 2001, and no limit after 2001.
Bill· HRH.R. 336 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Domestic Investment Economic Growth Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income gain on qualified investments in an enterprise zone business and a domestic business. Excludes 100 percent of such gain from investment in an enterprise zone business or an urban enterprise zone, and 50 percent of such gain from other qualified investments. Provides for the establishment of investment savings accounts. Allows an individual a deduction of 50 percent of the qualified contributions to an investment savings account. Limits the maximum annual deduction to $100,000. Defines qualified contributions. Defines an investment savings account. Provides that any amount distributed out of such an account shall be included in the gross income of the distributee, except for amounts held in the account for at least ten years. Makes such accounts tax-exempt, except for the imposition of the tax on unrelated business income of charitable, etc., organizations. Imposes, in the case of a distribution from an investment savings account, an additional tax of ten percent of the amount of the distribution which is includible in the gross income of the distributee. Makes such tax inapplicable to distributions held in such accounts for at least five years if such distributions were made for: (1) home purchase expenses; (2) automobile purchase expenses; (3) education expenses; and (4) medical expenses. Makes such tax inapplicable if the distribution is made after the individual for whose benefit the account is established attains age 59 and one-half years or becomes disabled. Allows the deduction for contributions to investment savings accounts in computing adjusted gross income. Declares that such contributions are not subject to the gift tax. Subjects such accounts to the tax on excess contributions, the tax on prohibited transactions, and the penalty for failure to provide reports on individual retirement accounts or annuities. Imposes a penalty on any person who promotes a nonqualified investment as eligible under the provisions of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 330 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Economic Growth and Tax Freedom Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce individual income tax rates.
Bill· HRH.R. 324 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income scholarship amounts received for certain teaching, research, or other services by an individual under the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 20 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Constitutional Amendment - Authorizes the President, in the case of any bill, order, resolution, or vote, to decline to approve in whole any dollar amount of discretionary budget authority, any item of new direct spending, or any limited tax benefit.
Bill· HRH.R. 280 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Prohibition on United Nations Taxation Act of 1999 - Prohibits the United States from paying any voluntary or assessed contributions to the United Nations (UN) or any of its agencies if the UN: (1) attempts to impose a tax on any U.S. person; or (2) borrows funds from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), International Monetary Fund, or any other similar or regional international financial institution. Prohibits the United States from paying any voluntary or assessed contributions to the UN or any of its agencies, including the UN Development Program, unless the President certifies to the Congress 15 days in advance of such payment that the UN or such agency is not engaged in any effort to develop or promote any taxation proposals in order to raise revenue.
Bill· HRH.R. 249 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Personal Retirement Account Act of 1999 - Title I: Contributions to Personal Retirement Accounts - Requires employers to: (1) have personal retirement account payroll deduction programs in effect for their eligible employees; and (2) deduct and pay into such accounts the prescribed employee contribution, together with a prescribed employer contribution. Authorizes eligible individuals to elect to establish a personal retirement account. Requires self-employed individuals to establish and pay into such accounts. Establishes penalties for employers and self-employed individuals who fail to establish and make required deductions and contributions to such accounts. Requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to impose such penalties in a civil action. Title II: Personal Retirement Accounts - Prescribes general requirements for personal retirement accounts, as well as investment, distribution, and insurance requirements. Provides for tax deductible contributions by an eligible individual to a nonworking spousal retirement account. (Sec. 205) Exempts personal retirement accounts from income tax, except the tax on unrelated business income of charitable, etc. organizations. Requires inclusion in the gross income of the account holder for the taxable year of any amount paid or distributed out of such an account, except: (1) amounts used to acquire minimum or more generous immediate annuities; and (2) transfers incident to a divorce. (Sec. 207) Subjects trustees of personal retirement accounts to penalties (for prohibited transactions) for failure to meet investment or distribution requirements. (Sec. 208) Requires the relevant Federal agency to notify the SEC of: (1) the identity of each insured depository institution or credit union; and (2) any termination of such status. Directs the trustee of a personal retirement account to make certain reports regarding such account to the SEC and to the account holder with respect to contributions (and the years to which they relate), distributions, and other matters the SEC may require. (Sec. 210) Directs the SEC to study and report to the President and the Congress on the best means of providing for options under which distributions from a personal retirement account established under this Act may commence in advance of the date on which the account holder attains retirement age. Title III: Certification of Financial Institutions Other Than Insured Depository Institutions - Allows any financial institution to apply to the SEC for certification. (Sec. 302) Authorizes the SEC to require any certified financial institution to file certain reports, including information on the total amount of all liability of the institution for balances maintained in personal retirement accounts for which such institution serves as trustee. (Sec. 303) Provides for voluntary and involuntary revocation of certification status, including judicial review of involuntary revocations. Title IV: Personal Retirement Account Insurance - Requires the SEC, in any case in which it declares an insurable event with respect to a qualified financial institution serving as trustee of a personal retirement account, to guarantee the timely distribution of the balance in such account (but not in excess of the minimum annuity amount) to the account holder in accordance with the terms governing such account and the provisions of this Act. (Sec. 401) Defines as an insurable event with respect to a qualified financial institution serving as trustee of a personal retirement account: (1) termination of the institution's qualified status; (2) the inability of the institution to make full distributions of the balance in the account when due; and (3) termination of the account. Requires the SEC to guarantee a minimum distribution from the account as of the normal retirement date in the amount of the minimum annuity amount, notwithstanding that the balance in the account as of such date is less than the minimum annuity amount, if certain conditions apply. Requires the SEC also to provide for a range of alternative guarantee arrangements providing for timely distribution of all, or a larger portion, of the balance in the personal retirement account to the account holder, which may be elected by the account holder upon payment to the SEC of supplemental premiums. Allows for the substitution of private insurance providing for a guarantee of timely distributions at the election of the account holder which is at least equivalent to the guarantee provided for by this title. Entitles an account holder, in certain cases, to a supplemental minimum benefit payment to their account upon application to the SEC on or after the normal retirement date. (Sec. 402) Directs the SEC to: (1) establish a risk-based assessment system for any qualified financial institution serving as trustee of a personal retirement account; (2) set semiannual assessments for such institutions to achieve and maintain the designated reserve ratio; and (3) notify each qualified financial institution of that institution's semiannual assessment. Sets forth a special rule until the Social Security Savings Insurance Trust Fund established by this title achieves the designated reserve ratio, as well as a special rule for recapitalizing the Trust Fund if it becomes undercapitalized. Provides that, in addition to the other assessments on qualified financial institutions, the SEC may impose one or more special assessments on qualified financial institutions if the amount of any such assessment is necessary: (1) to provide sufficient assessment income to repay amounts borrowed from the Secretary of the Treasury which become due; or (2) for any other purpose the Commission may deem necessary. Requires each qualified financial institution to: (1) file with the SEC a certified statement containing such information as the Commission may require for determining the institution's semiannual assessment; and (2) pay to the Commission the semiannual assessment imposed. Establishes penalties for inaccurate certified statements and for late payments. (Sec. 403) Establishes in the Treasury the Social Security Savings Insurance Trust Fund, made up of various specified funds, assessments, penalties, earnings, attorney's fees, and receipts. Makes the Trust Fund available for: (1) making guaranteed payments; (2) purchasing the assets of a financial institution which ceases to be qualified; (3) repaying borrowed sums to the Secretary of the Treasury; (4) paying the SEC's operational and administrative expenses; and (5) paying account holders the amounts guaranteed with respect to any personal retirement account. Provides for the investment of trust fund assets. Authorizes the SEC to borrow from the Secretary of the Treasury. (Sec. 404) Authorizes the SEC to institute proceedings to terminate a personal retirement account whenever it determines that: (1) the SEC's possible long-run loss with respect to the account may reasonably be expected to increase unreasonably if the account is not terminated; or (2) an insurable event has occurred. Provides for appointment of an alternative trustee pending issuance of a termination decree. (Sec. 405) Makes each person who is the financial institution serving as trustee of the account on the termination date or a member of the financial institution's controlled group jointly and severally liable to the SEC in any case in which a personal retirement account is terminated in a SEC-instituted proceeding. Sets such liability as the total amount of account assets guaranteed by the SEC which are not available for payment. Provides for payment of the liability. (Sec. 406) Requires each qualified financial institution, while serving as trustee for a personal retirement account subject to SEC guarantee, to display at each place of business maintained by such institution a sign with specified declarations relating to such accounts. Title V: Enforcement Authority - Provides for a personal retirement account holder adversely affected by an act or practice of any party other than the SEC in violation of this Act to bring an action in U.S. district court to enjoin such act or practice, or obtain other appropriate equitable relief. Grants the relevant Federal agency and the SEC the right to intervene in any such action. Title VI: Transition from Coverage for Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Benefits Under Title II of the Social Security Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide for primary insurance amounts for transitional eligible individuals under this Act who elect to participate in the personal retirement account payroll deduction programs of their employer. (Sec. 602) Requires the Commissioner of Social Security to provide a written certification to each individual with a social security account number who has been credited with wages or net earnings from self-employment indicating whether such recipient is or is not an eligible individual, together with a description of OASDI benefits available. (Sec. 603) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a reduction in Federal Insurance Contributions Act and Self-Employment Contributions Act of 1954 taxes for wages and self-employment income imposed on an individual who has elected to forego OASDI benefits in favor of a personal retirement account. (Sec. 604) Amends SSA title II to: (1) add a supplemental retirement benefit program for certain individuals with personal retirement accounts; (2) provide for a phased-in increase in the social security retirement age; and (3) place a limitation on cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs), with a reduction in COLA increases applied to higher primary insurance amounts. (Sec. 607) Provides for modification of the Consumer Price Index calculation of such COLAs. (Sec. 608) Amends SSA title II to provide for: (1) a phased-in reduction in spousal benefits other than survivors' benefits to 33 percent of the primary insurance amount; (2) coverage of newly hired State and local employees; and (3) adjustments in the formula for determining primary insurance amounts. (Sec. 611) Amends Federal law to require submission to Congress along with the Federal budget of a statement of the current accrued liability of the Federal Government for future benefit payments under the OASDI program. Title VII: Provisions Relating to Federal Civilian and Military Personnel - Directs the Office of Personnel Management to: (1) study and report to the President and Congress on how to provide for the application of this Act with respect to Federal civilian and military personnel; and (2) draft legislation which, if enacted, would carry out any recommendations in the report. (Sec. 702) Requires such report and draft legislation to address specified aspects of the existing Civil Service and Federal Employees' Retirement Systems for such Federal personnel. (Sec. 703) Specifies matters in the new system for the report and draft legislation to address with respect to the implementation of any other title of this Act. Title VIII: Social Security Transition Commission - Establishes the Social Security Transition Commission to make findings and recommendations about the most appropriate actions which should be taken to minimize, and adequately fund, any increases in budget outlays resulting from implementation of this Act. Requires all recommended reductions in obligational authority to be done in a manner that makes them permanent. (Sec. 805) Sets forth procedures (including expedited procedures) for congressional consideration of such recommendations. (Sec. 807) Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 263 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Structured Settlement Protection Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) impose an excise tax on persons acquiring structured settlement payments in factoring transactions; and (2) set forth related reporting requirements.
Bill· HRH.R. 251 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Strengthening Social Security Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to require covered employers to have a plan for withholding certain contributions from the wages of their eligible employees for investment according to the individual employee's personal investment plan. Defines personal investment plan as: (1) any personal investment retirement plan restricted to certain contribution deposits in the Personal Investment Fund, established in the Treasury by this Act; or (2) any individual retirement plan restricted to certain contribution deposits and administered or issued by a bank. Requires the Personal Investment Fund to be governed by a Personal Investment Fund Board under a system similar to the Thrift Savings Program for Federal employees. Covers self-employed individuals. Applies this Act only to employees who have not attained age 55. Specifies reduced social security tax rates for plan participants. Sets forth civil penalties for employers who fail to establish such a withholding plan or to observe certain requirements with respect to it. Provides for the adjustment of the primary insurance amount for plan participants and for specified graduated increases in normal and early retirement ages. Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics to reduce by .5 percentage point the annual percentage change in the Consumer Price Indexes used with respect to the OASDI cost-of-living adjustment calculations.
Bill· HRH.R. 250 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Strengthening Social Security Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to require covered employers to have a plan for withholding certain contributions from the wages of their eligible employees for investment according to the individual employee's personal investment plan. Defines personal investment plan as: (1) any personal investment retirement plan restricted to certain contribution deposits in the Personal Investment Fund, established in the Treasury by this Act; or (2) any individual retirement plan restricted to certain contribution deposits and administered or issued by a bank. Requires the Personal Investment Fund to be governed by a Personal Investment Fund Board under a system similar to the Thrift Savings Program for Federal employees. Covers self-employed individuals. Applies this Act only to employees who have not attained age 55. Specifies reduced social security tax rates for plan participants. Sets forth civil penalties for employers who fail to establish such a withholding plan or to observe certain requirements with respect to it. Provides for the adjustment of the primary insurance amount for plan participants and for specified graduated increases in normal and early retirement ages. Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics to reduce by .5 percentage point the annual percentage change in the Consumer Price Indexes used with respect to the OASDI cost-of-living adjustment calculations.
Bill· HRH.R. 310 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to make any State with an increase in child poverty of five percent or more in a fiscal year ineligible for a high performance bonus for the next fiscal year under the TANF program.
Bill· HRH.R. 312 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Medicare Contractor Reform Amendments of 1999 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to make specified changes concerning Medicare administration of its administrative operations contracts. Provides chiefly among such changes for: (1) augmenting the types of entities eligible to serve as carriers under the program; (2) allowing service providers their periodic choice of fiscal intermediaries; (3) repealing certain contract termination, cost reimbursement, and non-cost-effective fiscal intermediary requirements; and (4) requiring competition in cases of certain new contracts and in cases involving poor contract performance. Waives competition requirements in specified circumstances.
Bill· HRH.R. 254 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Collegiate Learning and Student Savings Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) permit private higher educational institutions, in addition to currently permitted State institutions, to establish qualified tuition programs; and (2) exclude from gross income such program distributions used for qualified higher education expenses. Amends the Investment Company Act of 1940 to exempt qualified tuition programs from the definition of an investment company.
Bill· HRH.R. 275 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Long-Term Care Advancement Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) except from the penalty tax and exclude from income amounts withdrawn from qualified retirement plans which are used to pay for premiums for qualified long-term care insurance contracts; and (2) provide a limited credit for an individual who maintains a household with a person requiring custodial care.
Bill· HRH.R. 309 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny tax-exempt status to any social club which has been found, pursuant to a determination by a court or government agency, to have a pattern or practice of prohibited discrimination.
Bill· HRH.R. 291 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Seniors Tax Equity Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the requirement that tax-exempt interest be taken into account when determining the amount of social security and railroad retirement benefits subject to tax.
Bill· HRH.R. 289 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the Congress a plan for an appropriate tax incentive to encourage individuals other than military personnel to participate as members of honor guards at funerals for veterans.
Bill· HRH.R. 285 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Child Care Tax Credit Reform Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount of employment-related expenses subject to the dependent care income tax credit. Denies the credit to taxpayers having adjusted gross income of $50,000 or more.
Bill· HRH.R. 290 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit Act of 1999 - 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 on or after January 1, 1999, and before January 1, 2000, or for which a binding contract is entered into during such period.
Bill· HRH.R. 273 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Amends provisions of the Internal Revenue Code concerning the exclusion of gain from the sale of a principal residence to treat lands which are contiguous to a principal residence and which were farmed for five years before the sale of the principal residence as part of such residence.
Bill· HRH.R. 292 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Anti-Retroactive Taxation Act - Prohibits retroactive Federal income tax rate increases.
Bill· HRH.R. 286 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Hazardous Waste Recycling Tax Credit Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a tax credit of two cents per pound for the recycling of hazardous wastes.
Bill· HRH.R. 265 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Shipping Income Reform Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the definition of foreign base company income foreign base company shipping income: (1) derived from a vessel registered in the Bahamas, Honduras, Liberia, Panama, the Marshall islands, or other countries certified by the Secretary of Transportation, if the vessel owner enters into an agreement to operate a U.S.-flag fleet for at least 320 days annually; or (2) the owner does not derive U.S.-source income and has not engaged in the carriage of any cargoes in the U.S. import or export trade for at least 320 days annually.
Bill· HRH.R. 253 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit penalty-free withdrawals from retirement plans to provide medical care for qualified relatives over the age of 55.
Bill· HRH.R. 264 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt an organization from income tax if it is created by a State to provide property and casualty insurance coverage for property for which such coverage is otherwise unavailable.
Bill· HRH.R. 241 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Surviving Spouse Fairness Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a $500,000 exclusion of gain on certain sales of a principal residence by a surviving spouse.
Bill· HRH.R. 260 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish, for the use of clean-fuel vehicles by enterprise zone businesses, an empowerment zone clean fuels credit equal to the sum of the: (1) empowerment zone clean-fuel property credit; and (2) empowerment zone clean-burning fuel use credit.
Bill· HRH.R. 252 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal beginning date requirements for individual retirement account distributions.
Bill· HRH.R. 229 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Free Trade With Cuba Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to repeal the embargo on trade with Cuba. (Sec. 3) Prohibits the exercise by the President with respect to Cuba of certain authorities conferred by the Trading With the Enemy Act and exercised on July 1, 1977, as a result of a specified national emergency. Declares that any prohibition on exports to Cuba under the Export Administration Act of 1979 shall cease to be effective. Authorizes the President to impose export controls with respect to Cuba and exercise certain authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act only on account of an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. national security that did not exist before enactment of this Act. Repeals: (1) the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992; (2) the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996; and (3) the prohibition under the Food Security Act of 1985 against allocation of the annual sugar quota to any country unless its officials verify that it does not import for reexport to the United States any sugar produced in Cuba. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate the denial of foreign tax credit with respect to Cuba. (Sec. 4) Authorizes common carriers to install, maintain, and repair telecommunications equipment and facilities in Cuba, and otherwise provide telecommunications services between the United States and Cuba. (Sec. 5) Prohibits regulation or banning of travel to and from Cuba by U.S. citizens or residents, or of any transactions incident to travel. (Sec. 6) Directs the U.S. Postal Service to provide direct mail service to and from Cuba. (Sec. 7) Urges the President to take all necessary steps to conduct negotiations with the Government of Cuba to: (1) settle claims of U.S. nationals against Cuba for the taking of property; and (2) secure protection of internationally recognized human rights.
Bill· HRH.R. 220 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Freedom and Privacy Restoration Act of 1999 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit any Federal, State, or local government agency or instrumentality from using a social security account number or any derivative as the means of identifying any individual, except for specified social security and tax purposes. Amends the Privacy Act of 1974 to prohibit any Federal, State, or local government agency or instrumentality from requesting an individual to disclose his social security account number on either a mandatory or a voluntary basis. Prohibits any two Federal agencies or instrumentalities from implementing the same identifying number with respect to any individual, except as authorized under this Act. Prohibits a Federal agency from: (1) establishing or mandating a uniform standard for identification of an individual that is required to be used by any other Federal agency, a State agency, or a private person for any purpose other than the purpose of conducting the authorized activities of the Federal agency establishing or mandating the standard; or (2) conditioning receipt of any Federal grant or contract or other Federal funding on the adoption, by a State, a State agency, or a political subdivision of a State, of a uniform standard for identification of an individual. Prohibits a Federal agency from establishing or mandating a uniform standard for identification of an individual that is required to be used within the agency, or by any other Federal agency, a State agency, or a private person, for the purpose of: (1) investigating, monitoring, overseeing, or otherwise regulating a transaction to which the Federal Government is not a party; or (2) administrative simplification.
Bill· HRH.R. 21 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Homeowners' Insurance Availability Act of 1999 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out a program under this Act to make reinsurance coverage available for purchase by: (1) eligible State programs; and (2) private insurers and reinsurers, State insurance and reinsurance programs, and other interested entities through auctions. Requires that such program shall be designed to improve the availability of homeowners' insurance for the purpose of facilitating the pooling, and spreading the risk, of catastrophic financial losses from natural disasters and to improve the solvency of homeowners' insurance markets. Directs the Secretary to offer reinsurance coverage through contracts with covered purchasers which shall: (1) not displace or compete with the private insurance, reinsurance, or capital markets; (2) minimize the administrative costs of the Federal Government; and (3) provide coverage based solely on insured losses within the State of the eligible State program purchasing the contract or within the region for which the auction for contract purchase is held. (Sec. 4) Sets forth: (1) qualified lines of coverage; and (2) covered perils. (Sec. 6) Describes requirements for eligible State programs, including that such programs: (1) be State-operated insurance programs (or reinsurance programs designed to improve private insurance markets) that offer coverage for homes and the contents of apartments based on a finding that such programs are necessary to provide for the continued availability of coverage for all residents; (2) are structured to be exempt from Federal taxation; (3) cover only a single peril; (4) require at least ten percent of net investment income to be used for programs to mitigate disaster losses, with an exception; and (5) meet specified coverage requirements. Establishes one-year contract terms. Sets forth considerations to be made by the Secretary in determining the cost of reinsurance coverage and requires the cost to consist of a risk-based price, risk load, and administrative costs. Grants purchasers whose coverage is exhausted before contract termination the option of making a single purchase for the remaining contract term. Makes State programs eligible to purchase contracts only if a State has in effect laws to prohibit price gouging, during the term of coverage, in disaster areas. (Sec. 7) Sets forth: (1) requirements for regional auctions for the purchase of reinsurance contracts; and (2) contract terms and conditions, including maximum one-year terms and prohibitions on price gouging. (Sec. 8) Requires eligible State programs to sustain an amount of retained losses from a single event of a covered peril of at least the greater of: (1) $2 billion; (2) the program's claims-paying capacity; and (3) an amount determined by the Secretary sufficient to cover eligible losses in the State during a 12-month period for all events having a likelihood of occurrence once every 100 years. Applies the requirements of (1) and (3) above to auctioned contracts as well. Establishes transitional requirements for the minimum level of retained losses applicable to certain existing and new State programs. Authorizes the Secretary to raise the minimum level of retained losses annually. Limits the maximum annual amount paid by the Secretary pursuant to claims under contracts to: (1) $25 billion, as adjusted for inflation; or (2) for any year during the four-year period beginning on the date contracts are first made available for purchase, an amount that the Secretary shall establish and revise, not exceeding $25 billion. Requires claimants to receive prorated portions of the amount available for claims in any year in which claims exceed such maximum amount. Limits contracts to 50 percent of the risk of insured losses in excess of retained losses for States or regions. (Sec. 9) Establishes, within the Treasury, the Disaster Reinsurance Fund. Specifies: (1) the amounts with which the Fund shall be credited; and (2) the uses of the amounts in the Fund. (Sec. 10) Directs the Secretary to establish the National Commission on Catastrophe Risks and Insurance Loss Costs. Requires the Commission to meet for the sole purpose of advising the Secretary regarding the estimated loss costs associated with the reinsurance contracts and carrying out this Act's functions. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for an offset amount to be obtained from purchasers of reinsurance coverage and deposited in the Fund. (Sec. 12) Terminates reinsurance coverage ten years after this Act's enactment. Provides a five-year extension of such deadline if the Secretary determines such coverage necessary because of insufficient growth of capacity in the private homeowners' insurance market. (Sec. 13) Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on the cost and availability of homeowners' insurance for losses resulting from catastrophic natural disasters covered by the reinsurance program under this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 18 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise provisions concerning a corporation, its shareholders, and the transferring of certain assets and liabilities.
Bill· HRH.R. 22 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Redesignation of the Board of Governors, the Postmaster General and the Postal Rate Commission Title II : New System Relating to Postal Rates, Classes, and Services Subtitle A: In General Subtitle B: Related Provisions Title III: General Authority Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to the Budget and Appropriations Process Title V: Provisions Relating to Transportation, Carriage, or Delivery of Mail Title VI: Studies Title VII: Inspectors General Title VIII: Law Enforcement Subtitle A: Amendments to Title 39, United States Code Subtitle B: Other Provisions Postal Modernization Act of 1999 - Title I: Redesignation of the Board of Governors, the Postmaster General and the Postal Rate Commission - Amends Federal law regarding the U.S. Postal Service to redesignate: (1) Governors and the Board of Governors as Directors and the Board of Directors (Board); (2) the Postmaster General as the Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer of the Service (PMG); and (3) the Postal Rate Commission as the Postal Regulatory Commission (Commission). Title II: New System Relating to Postal Rates, Classes, and Services - Subtitle A: In General - Exempts from the amendments of this title the free mailing privileges of: (1) the diplomatic corps of members of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain; (2) the blind and other physically handicapped; and (3) balloting materials under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. (Sec. 201) Requires the Service to request the Commission to make a recommended decision on baseline rates for all products in the noncompetitive and in the competitive categories of mail. Sets forth requirements for the rate for products in the reduced-rate category of mail. Declares null and void any rate case pending as of the date of enactment of this Act. Prescribes limitations on rates for the noncompetitive category of mail, and procedures for determining the adjustment factor to be established for an upcoming five-year ratemaking cycle. Requires the Board to establish rates for competitive products (priority mail, expedited mail, mailgrams, international mail, and parcel post). Authorizes the Commission to order the Service to discontinue any competitive product which persistently fails to cover its costs. Requires rates for competitive products to cover the collective costs for each year for all competitive and noncompetitive products. Authorizes the Service to conduct market (including large-scale market) tests of experimental noncompetitive and competitive products, subject to specified requirements. Prescribes criteria for the identification of noncompetitive and competitive products, and for the transfer of products between categories. Sets forth reporting and auditing requirements. (Sec. 202) Authorizes the Service to enter into negotiated service agreements with postal service users in accordance with specified requirements. Revises procedures for the processing of rate and service complaints. (Sec. 203) Establishes in the Treasury a revolving Postal Service Competitive Products Fund, available without fiscal-year limitation for the payment of all attributable costs, institutional costs, and other expenses incurred by the Service in providing competitive products. (Sec. 204) Authorizes the Board to establish under the laws of a State a private, nongovernmental, for-profit USPS Corporation which may offer any postal or nonpostal product or service offered by the Service, acquire shares of individual private companies, and participate in joint ventures with such companies. Subtitle B: Related Provisions - Sets forth the authority of the Commission to issue subpoenas. (Sec. 212) Revises eligibility requirements for Commissioners and Directors. (Sec. 213) Authorizes appropriations for the Commission. (Sec. 214) Provides for change-of-address orders involving a commercial mail receiving agency (CMRA). (Sec. 215) Provides for the eligibility of certain matter for mailing at specified former rates even though such matter is designed primarily for free circulation or for circulation at nominal rates, or fails to meet certain former requirements. Title III: General Authority - Revises the rulemaking authority of the Service. (Sec. 302) Exempts competitive products from the prohibition against the Service's granting any undue and unreasonable preference to any domestic or international user. (Sec. 303) Authorizes the Service to employ guards for all buildings and areas owned or occupied by, or under the charge and control of, the Service. Specifies that such guards shall have, with respect to such property, the powers of special police officers. Authorizes the Chief Executive Officer to take specified actions with respect to such property. (Sec. 304) Treats the date of postmark as the date of appeal in connection with the closing or consolidation of post offices. (Sec. 305) Specifies unfair competition prohibitions for private for-profit USPS Corporations. (Sec. 306) Revises requirements for international postal arrangements, granting the Secretary of State primary authority for the conduct of foreign policy with respect to international postal and delivery services. Prohibits the Service from tendering exported shipments of international mail to governmental authorities of any country for clearance and importation except in accordance with procedures and laws equally applicable to similar shipments transmitted by private companies. Denies access to special customs procedures to mail shipments imported from a foreign country unless such foreign country makes such special customs procedures available to shipments from the United States by the Service and by private companies. (Sec. 307) Revises requirements for suits by and against the Service. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to the Budget and Appropriations Process - Amends the Postal Reorganization Act to require the Service, regarding anyone receiving benefits as a former Post Office Department officer or employee, to have the same authorities and responsibilities as it has with respect to a Service officer or employee receiving such benefits. Title V: Provisions Relating to Transportation, Carriage, or Delivery of Mail - Repeals postal provisions regarding transportation of mail by surface carrier. (Sec. 501) Repeals the six-year limit on contracts for mail transportation where special conditions apply or special equipment is involved. Allows the Service to determine an advisable or appropriate length of time. (Sec. 502) Revises the contracting authority of the Service for mail transportation by aircraft. (Sec. 503) Repeals the Service's authority to suspend the operation of any letter carriage requirements on any mail route when the public interest requires the suspension. Prescribes requirements for the private carriage of mail. (Sec. 504) Repeals the Service's authority to impose fines for unreasonable or unnecessary delays or other delinquencies in the air transportation of mail on routes extending beyond U.S. borders. Title VI: Studies - Directs the Board to provide, by contract, for the National Academy of Public Administration to study and report to the Service, the President, and the Congress on how employee- management relations within the Service may be improved. (Sec. 602) Directs the Service to study and report to the President, the Congress, and the Commission any recommendations as to the appropriate scope and standards for universal postal services to be assured by the U.S. Government consistent with statutory postal policy and general duties. (Sec. 603) Directs the Department of Justice to: (1) report to the President and Congress on Federal and State laws that apply differently to Service products in the competitive category and similar products provided by private companies; and (2) recommend measures for ending such legal discrimination. (Sec. 604) Directs the Board to study and report to the President and Congress on the extent to which women and minorities are represented in supervisory and management positions within the Service. Requires the Service to take necessary measures to ensure that, for purposes of conducting performance appraisals of supervisory or managerial employees, appropriate consideration be given to: (1) meeting affirmative action goals; (2) achieving equal employment opportunity requirements; and (3) implementing plans designed to achieve greater diversity in the workforce. (Sec. 605) Requires the Service to develop, be prepared to implement, whenever necessary, and report to its Board and Congress a comprehensive plan under which reemployment assistance shall be afforded to employees displaced as a result of the automation or privatization of any of its functions. (Sec. 606) Directs the Board to study and report to the President and Congress on the number and value of contracts and subcontracts the Postal Service has entered into with women, minorities, and small businesses. Title VII: Inspectors General - Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to provide for appointment of an Inspector General of the Postal Regulatory Commission and an Inspector General of the U.S. Postal Service (the latter appointed by the President). Title VIII: Law Enforcement - Subtitle A: Amendments to Title 39, United States Code - Makes Federal assault statutes applicable to postal contract employees. (Sec. 802) Authorizes the court, upon finding that a sexually oriented advertisement has been mailed in violation of postal provisions, to assess a civil penalty. Specifies that each piece of mail sent in violation of such provisions constitutes a separate violation, and any penalty assessed shall be paid to the Service for deposit into the Postal Service Fund. Repeals a prohibition of pandering advertisements. (Sec. 803) Provides for the deposit in the Fund of amounts (including proceeds from the sale of forfeited items) from any civil forfeiture conducted by the Service and from any forfeiture resulting from an investigation in which the Service has primary responsibility, subject to specified requirements. (Sec. 804) Sets civil penalties for prohibited mailing and deficient packaging of hazardous matter. Subtitle B: Other Provisions - Amends the Federal criminal code to set penalties for: (1) stalking Federal and postal officers and employees; and (2) mailing controlled substances, unless in accordance with rules and regulations authorized by the Service. (Sec. 813) Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend its sentencing guidelines to: (1) enhance penalties for stealing or destroying a quantity of undelivered U.S. mail; and (2) establish that the intended loss in a theft of an access device shall be based on the greater of the credit line of such device or the actual unauthorized charges. (Sec. 814) Modifies the Federal criminal code to: (1) set penalties for breaking into a post office box or postal products vending machine and for receiving, possessing, concealing, or disposing of any mail matter, money, or other U.S. property in violation of post office larceny provisions; (2) increase penalties for assaulting with intent to rob persons having lawful custody of mail, money, or other U.S. property (providing for the death penalty under specified circumstances); and (3) prohibit attempting to use or sell forged or counterfeited postage stamps or meter stamps, stamped envelopes, or postal cards, dies, plates, or engraving, and attempting to loan, use, pledge, hypothecate, or convert to personal use postal funds.
Bill· HRH.R. 104 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Taxpayer Relief Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce individual income tax rates by ten percent.
Bill· HRH.R. 45 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1999 - Revises the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to instruct the Secretary of Energy (the Secretary) to: (1) develop and operate a repository for the permanent geologic disposal of spent nuclear fuel and fuel and high-level radioactive waste; (2) accept spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste by no later than January 31, 2003 (3) provide for the transportation of such wastes; and (4) pursue expeditiously the development of each component of the integrated management system. Requires intermodal transfer (rail-to-heavy-haul-truck) of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste pending direct rail access to the interim storage facility site. Authorizes the Secretary use rail transportation to meet the requirements of this Act if direct rail access becomes available to the interim storage facility site. Sets a deadline for the Secretary to develop the capability to commence rail to truck intermodal transfer at Caliente, Nevada. Provides for heavy-haul transportation route and truck transportation. Requires the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Caliente and Lincoln County, Nevada, to provide advice to the Commission regarding intermodal transfer and to facilitate on-site representation. Provides that reasonable expenses of such representation shall be paid by the Secretary. Prescribes requirements in the following areas in order to ensure that the Secretary is able to accept spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste by January 31, 2003: (1) transportation planning and readiness; (2) package certification; (3) technical assistance and funds to jurisdictional entities for training public safety officials, nonprofit employee organizations, voluntary emergency response organizations, and joint labor-management organizations experienced in worker health and safety training; (4) employee protection and training standards applicable to workers directly involved in the removal and transportation of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste; and (5) interim storage facility, permanent disposal, and land withdrawal. Requires the Secretary, after analyzing each specific reactor facility in the order of priority established in the acceptance schedule, to develop a logistical plan to assure the Secretary's ability to transport spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste using routes that minimize transportation through populated areas to the maximum practical extent and consistent with Federal requirements for transportation of hazardous materials. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to establish preferred rail route selection procedures for such transportation to the interim storage site and the repository site. Mandates that training standards ensure the ability of emergency response personnel to protect nearby persons, property or the environment from the effects of accidents involving spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. Instructs the Secretary to: (1) offer Nye County, Nevada, an opportunity to designate an on-site oversight representative; and (2) offer to enter into separate benefits agreements with Lincoln and Nye Counties concerning the integrated management system. Requires the Secretary to make certain initial land conveyances to Nye County. Authorizes the Secretary to grant payments in lieu of taxes to any affected Indian or local jurisdiction until the termination of the integrated management system activities. Authorizes the Secretary to contract with any person generating or holding title to spent nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive waste of domestic origin for the acceptance of title, and possession, transportation, interim storage, and disposal. Sets forth a statutory fee payment schedule for: (1) electricity generated and sold by civilian nuclear power reactors; (2) an adjustable cap placed upon nuclear waste offsetting collection fees, and upon a nuclear waste mandatory fee; and (3) a one-time fee for spent nuclear fuel or solidified high-level radioactive waste derived from spent nuclear fuel which had been used to generate electricity in specified civilian nuclear power reactors. Requires the NRC to suspend the license of any licensee who fails or refuses to pay such one-time fee. Provides that payment of the one-time fee relieves the responsible party from further financial obligation to the Federal Government for its long-term storage or permanent disposal. Authorizes the NRC to require prior agreement with the Secretary for spent fuel and waste disposal as a precondition to the issuance or renewal of a license. Continues the Nuclear Waste Fund and the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management. Directs the Secretary to: (1) issue a final rule establishing the appropriate portion of the costs of managing spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste allocable to the interim storage or permanent disposal of spent nuclear fuel, high-level radioactive waste from atomic energy defense activities, and spent nuclear fuel from foreign research reactors; and (2) advise the Congress annually of the amount of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel from atomic energy defense activities requiring management in the integrated spent nuclear fuel management system. Grants the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and this Act preeminence in the event of a conflict or duplication of laws. Precludes this Act from being construed as: (1) constituting either an express or implied Federal reservation of water rights for any purpose arising under it; (2) authorizing the Federal use of eminent domain to acquire water rights; or (3) limiting the exercise of water rights as provided under Nevada State laws. Grants the U.S. courts of appeals original and exclusive jurisdiction over civil actions under this Act. Prescribes guidelines for NRC licensing hearings. Prohibits the Secretary from conducting site-specific activities for a second repository unless the Congress has specifically authorized and appropriated funds for them. Requires the NRC to promulgate regulatory guidelines for: (1) financial assurances for low-level radioactive waste site closures; and (2) training and qualification of civilian nuclear powerplant personnel. Delineates an acceptance schedule for contract holders' spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. Prohibits: (1) subseabed or ocean water disposal of spent nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive waste; and (2) any obligation of funds for any such related activity. Expresses the sense of the Congress that to the greatest extent practicable all equipment and products purchased with funds made available under this Act should be American-made. Requires each Federal agency to give notice of this policy to any entity to which it provides financial assistance or contracts. Prohibits contracts with persons falsely labeling products as "Made in America." Continues the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to take necessary action to improve the management of the civilian radioactive waste management program to ensure that it is operated to the maximum extent like a private business. Directs the Secretary to employ, on an on-going basis, integrated performance modeling regarding site characterization.
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