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Bill· SS. 1097 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Designation of Rural Development Investment Zones Title II: Federal Income Tax Incentives Subtitle A: Credits for Employers Subtitle B: Credits for Investment in Tangible Property in Rural Development Investment Zones Subtitle C: Rural Development Investment Zone Bonds Title III: Establishment of Foreign-Trade Zones in Rural Development Investment Zones Title IV: Responsibilities of Federal Agencies in Rural Development Investment Zones; Regulatory Flexibility Rural Development Investment Zone Act of 1993 - Title I: Designation of Rural Development Investment Zones - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to designate rural development investment zones for purposes of providing tax and regulatory relief and improving local services. Limits choices to areas nominated by States and local governments. Limits the total number of areas that may be designated, and the time period of the designation. Authorizes the Secretary to designate an investment zone only if the area meets certain locational, demographic, unemployment, and poverty criteria. Requires nominating local governments, as a condition of the Secretary's designation, to agree in writing to follow a course of action that may include reducing tax rates, improving local services, simplifying or streamlining regulation of business, and providing job training to area residents. Describes areas to which the Secretary must give preference in selecting areas for designation. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress every four years on the effects of such investment zones' designation in accomplishing the purposes of this Act. Title II: Federal Income Tax Incentives - Subtitle A: Credits for Employers - Allows employers located in investment zones a nonrefundable income tax credit for qualified increased employment expenditures. Subtitle B: Credits for Investment in Tangible Property in Rural Development Investment Zones - Allows businesses an additional investment tax credit for investments made in certain investment zone construction property. Limits the credit to ten percent for new property, including rental property. Requires the recapture of credit amounts upon the early disposition of the property. Subtitle C: Rural Development Investment Zone Bonds - Provides for the issuance of rural development investment zone bonds as qualified small issue bonds. Title III: Establishment of Foreign-Trade Zones in Rural Development Investment Zones - Requires the Foreign-Trade Zone Board to consider on a priority basis and to expedite the processing of applications for the establishment of foreign-trade zones within investment zones. Requires the Secretary to give priority to, and expedite applications for, the establishment of ports of entry necessary to establish such zones. Title IV: Responsibilities of Federal Agencies in Rural Development Investment Zones; Regulatory Flexibility - Requires Federal agencies to seek to provide special assistance to designated rural development investment zones. Amends Federal law to revise "small entity" with regard to the analysis of regulatory functions to include qualified business, government, and nonprofit enterprises operating with investment zones. Authorizes Federal agencies, upon request by a designating government, to waive or modify rules and regulations pertaining to the implementation of projects or activities within an investment zone. Requires agencies to approve a request if the resulting benefits of job creation, community development, or economic revitalization outweigh the public interest in maintaining the rule unchanged. Disallows waiver or modification of a rule that would directly violate a statutory requirement or present a danger to the public health and safety.
Bill· SS. 1109 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
Investment Tax Incentive Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the depreciation deduction to be computed based on a neutral recovery basis for property placed in service after December 31, 1992. Repeals the special depreciation rules applicable under the adjusted current earnings provisions of the minimum tax.
Bill· SS. 1105 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the establishment of individual medical savings accounts. Declares individual medical savings accounts exempt from taxation, except for the tax on unrelated business income. Limits contributions to such accounts to $3,000 plus $600 for each dependent of the individual for whom the account is created. Adjusts such amounts for inflation beginning after 1993. Allows distributions from such accounts for qualified medical expenses and qualified long-term care expenses. Provides for the tax treatment of nonqualified distributions, excess contributions, and an account that ceases meeting applicable requirements or engages in prohibited transactions. Requires the taxation of any portion of an account used as security for a loan. Sets forth additional taxes for nonqualified distributions and disqualification cases. Declares that contributions to individual medical savings accounts are not to be considered gifts for gift tax purposes. Establishes a penalty for failure to make required reports on such accounts. Excludes qualified distributions from such accounts from gross income. Excludes employer contributions to such accounts from gross income. Requires the same tax treatment for qualified long-term care insurance as that provided for accident or health insurance for purposes of: (1) taxation of life insurance companies; and (2) exclusion for benefits received under, and for employer contributions for, medical insurance.
Bill· SS. 1099 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Department of State Title II: Department of State Organization Title III: Torture and Terrorism Offenses and Sanctions Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 - Title I: Department of State - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Secs. 101 through 105) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 and 1995 for: (1) the Department of State for the administration of foreign affairs; (2) international organizations, peacekeeping activities, and conferences; (3) international commissions; (4) migration and refugee assistance; (5) bilateral science and technology agreements; and (6) the Asia Foundation. (Sec. 106) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds authorized by this Act for contracts with any firm that complies with the Arab League boycott of Israel or discriminates in the award of subcontracts on the basis of religion. Part B: Department of State Authorities and Activities - (Sec. 113) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize the Secretary of State to procure the services of experts for use in prosecuting a proceeding before an international tribunal or a claim by or against a foreign entity. Establishes an International Litigation Fund for meeting expenses related to such proceedings. (Sec. 121) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and otherwise support activities to conduct research and promote international cooperation on environmental and scientific issues. Part C: Diplomatic Reciprocity and Security - (Sec. 131) Authorizes the admission into the United States for safety purposes of a limited number of aliens who provide information regarding international terrorism under a rewards program. Part D: Personnel - (Sec. 141) Amends the Federal Insurance Contributions Act to provide that service by a Government employee in an international organization shall constitute employment for purposes of employment tax provisions if such individual is entitled to retain certain Federal retirement benefits during such service. (Sec. 142) Permits the Secretary, if exceptional circumstances so warrant, to waive a limitation (up to a specified amount) on claims for losses incurred by Government personnel subject to a chief of mission in a foreign country in cases of a natural disaster or emergency evacuation. Makes such waiver retroactive to claims made as of October 31, 1988. (Secs. 143 and 144) Makes chiefs of mission salaries and performance pay subject to limitations on certain payments under Federal civil service provisions. Part E: International Organizations - (Sec. 151) Authorizes the President to bring into force the Agreement on State and Local Taxation of Foreign Employees of Public International Organizations. (Sec. 152) Permits the President to withhold 20 percent of the funds appropriated for the U.S. assessed contribution to the United Nations if the United Nations has failed to implement consensus-based decisionmaking procedures on budgetary matters which assure that sufficient attention is paid to the views of the United States and other states who are major financial contributors. (Sec. 154) Authorizes the President to maintain membership in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Organization. Part F: Miscellaneous Provisions - (Sec. 161) Authorizes the Secretary to determine that the publication of certain international agreements is not required if certain criteria are met. (Sec. 162) Amends the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 to raise the ceiling on the amounts of funds authorized to be appropriated for the Emergency Refugee Migration and Assistance Fund. Title II: Department of State Organization - (Sec. 201) Requires the Department of State to notify the Congress of its intention to abolish or create units at or above the bureau level. (Sec. 202) Revises the organization of the Department of State to eliminate certain positions and to transfer certain authorities from subordinate officials to the Secretary. Title III: Torture and Terrorism Offenses and Sanctions - (Secs. 301 through 305) Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for: (1) performing or attempting an act of violence against a person at an airport serving international civil aviation which causes or is likely to cause serious injury or death; (2) destroying or seriously damaging the facilities of, or a civil aircraft not in service at, such airport; (3) disrupting the services of such airport, if such an act endangers safety; (4) committing acts of violence against maritime navigation and fixed platforms; (5) committing, or attempting to commit, torture outside the United States; and (6) providing material support to terrorists.
Bill· HRH.R. 2418 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the special rules for gifts or qualified appreciated stock to certain tax-exempt private foundations for purposes of the itemized deduction of charitable contributions. Includes grants to certain foreign organizations as qualified distributions by private foundations for purposes of the tax on failure to distribute income.
Bill· HRH.R. 2417 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act - Amends the Federal judicial code to exclude from the customs and tax exemption under tort claims procedures any claim based on the negligent destruction, injury, or loss of goods or merchandise (including real property) while in the possession of any customs or other law enforcement officer. Extends the period for filing claims in certain in rem proceedings. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide that: (1) in all suits or actions brought for the forfeiture of any vessel, vehicle, aircraft, merchandise, or baggage seized under the provisions of any law relating to the collection of duties on imports or tonnage, with exceptions, and for the recovery of the value of any forfeited property because of violation of any such law, the burden of proof is on the Government to establish by clear and convincing evidence that the property was subject to forfeiture; (2) any person claiming such property may at any time within 60 days from the date of the first publication of the notice of seizure file a claim with the appropriate customs officer, who shall transmit such claim to the U.S. attorney for the district in which seizure was made; and (3) if the person filing such claim (or a claim regarding seized property under any other provision of law that incorporates by reference the seizure, forfeiture, and condemnation procedures of the customs laws) is financially unable to obtain representation, the court may appoint counsel, subject to specified requirements. Specifies that a claimant is entitled to immediate release of seized property if continued possession by the Government would cause the claimant substantial hardship. Sets forth procedures regarding the request for release, return of property, and time for decision by the court on a complaint for such return. Makes sums in the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund available for the payment of court-awarded compensation for representation of claimants under the Tariff Act, with respect to seizure claims by individuals financially unable to obtain representation of counsel.
Bill· HRH.R. 2415 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
Reserve Account for Administrative Savings Act of 1993 - Amends Federal law to require that appropriated salaries and expenses be apportioned. Requires the establishment of reserve accounts equal to five percent of the actual amount incurred for those salaries and expenses in the immediately preceding fiscal year. Provides procedures for such funds to be permanently rescinded, released and spent, or used to offset supplemental appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 2402 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Army Title II: Navy Title III: Air Force Title IV: Defense Agencies Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure Title VI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities Title VII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations Title VIII: General Provisions Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes Subtitle B: Defense Base Closure and Realignment Subtitle C: Land Transactions Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 - Title I: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units, to carry out architectural planning and design activities, and to improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for FY 1994 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Army. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title II: Navy - Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under Title I. Title III: Air Force - Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under Title I. Title IV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out certain energy conservation projects. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for FY 1994 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program and authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1993 for such contributions. Title VI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1993 for the Guard and Reserve forces for acquisition, architectural planning and design activities, and construction of facilities. Title VII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles I through VI of this Act on October 1, 1996, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1997, whichever is later. Extends certain FY 1991 military construction projects. Title VIII: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes - Makes miscellaneous changes with respect to military construction and family housing programs. Subtitle B: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Amends the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act and the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to authorize the Secretary to: (1) contract with local governments for the provision of community services at military installations to be closed; and (2) receive further funding for environmental restoration activities at such installations. Subtitle C: Land Transactions - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to: (1) Washington Gas Company, Virginia, the natural gas distribution system at Fort Belvoir, Virginia; (2) American Water Company, Virginia, the water distribution system at Fort Lee, Virginia; and (3) Blackstone, Virginia, the waste water treatment facility at Fort Pickett, Virginia.
Bill· HRH.R. 2404 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Reform of Foreign Assistance Programs Title II: Authorizations for Foreign Assistance Programs Title III: Regional Provisions Title IV: Provisions Relating to Arms Transfers Title V: Other Foreign Assistance Provisions Title VI: Bosnia-Hercegovina Foreign Assistance Authorization Act of 1993 - Title I: Reform of Foreign Assistance Programs - (Sec. 101) Requires the President to submit to the Congress a plan for comprehensive reform of U.S. foreign assistance programs and of the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance. (Sec. 102) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require the President to establish a program performance, monitoring, and evaluation capacity with respect to such agency and to report annually to the Congress on: (1) the progress of the agency in achieving sustainable development objectives; and (2) the impact on economic development of U.S. economic assistance on a country-by-country basis. Title II: Authorizations for Foreign Assistance Programs - (Sec. 201) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for: (1) specified development assistance; (2) international disaster assistance; (3) American schools, libraries, and hospitals abroad; (4) assistance for the Philippines; (5) economic assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States; (6) assistance for the independent states of the former Soviet Union; (7) the Inter-American Foundation; (8) the African Development Foundation; (9) the International Fund for Ireland; (10) foreign military financing and international military education and training; (11) economic support fund (ESF) assistance; (12) anti-terrorism assistance; (13) a nonproliferation and disarmament fund; and (14) the Peace Corps. Reduces the amount previously authorized for international narcotics control for FY 1994. (Sec. 202) Declares that the Congress expects that certain amounts of assistance will be allocated for child survival activities and the Vitamin A deficiency program and related activities. (Sec. 203) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for worldwide housing guarantees and raises the ceiling on the amount of loans available under such program. (Sec. 204) Raises the ceiling on insurance and guarantees issued by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and extends OPIC programs through FY 1995. (Sec. 205) Authorizes the President to reduce the debt owed by an eligible country as a result of housing guarantees or credits or guarantees extended under the Arms Export Control Act. Defines an "eligible country" as a country with a heavy debt burden that is eligible to borrow from the International Development Association but not from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Title III: Regional Provisions - (Sec. 302) Amends the African Development Foundation Act to authorize the African Development Foundation to employ persons who are not U.S. citizens. (Sec. 303) Allocates assistance for establishing conflict resolution capabilities within specified African organizations and for facilitating reductions in the size of armed forces of Subsaharan African countries. (Sec. 305) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to remove restrictions on assistance to nongovernmental organizations financed or controlled by the South African Government if they meet certain conditions relating to promotion of democracy and assistance to disadvantaged South Africans. (Secs. 306 and 307) Bars specified economic and military assistance for Sudan and Zaire. (Sec. 308) Makes humanitarian assistance available to Afghanistan. (Sec. 311) Directs the President to report to the Congress on progress towards the withdrawal of personnel of any independent state of the former Soviet Union from the Cienfuegos nuclear facility in Cuba. Makes ineligible for assistance any independent state that: (1) is providing assistance for, or engaging in nonmarket based trade with Cuba; or (2) knowingly transfers sophisticated conventional weapons to Iran in numbers and types that are destabilizing. Directs the President to study and report to the Congress on: (1) the possible use of barter or exchange of resources as methods of reimbursement for assistance provided to the independent states; and (2) the collateralization of loans and investment guarantees provided by the U.S. Government for project financing in such states using resources or prospective revenues. (Sec. 312) Authorizes the President to use funds for the independent states to provide assistance to Mongolia. (Sec. 313) Bars international military education and training assistance for Malta. (Sec. 314) Extends the administration of justice assistance program. Makes such assistance available for Panama. (Sec. 317) Earmarks ESF and foreign military financing assistance for Israel and Egypt and ESF assistance for Middle East cooperative programs. Title IV: Provisions Relating to Arms Transfers - (Sec. 402) Amends the Arms Export Control Act to increase the aggregate ceiling on excess defense articles for delivery to foreign countries or international organizations. (Sec. 403) Makes East European countries eligible to receive excess defense articles. (Sec. 406) Establishes limits on additions to stockpiles in South Korea, Israel, and Thailand. (Sec. 407) Prohibits the sale or lease of defense articles or services to any country or international organization which is known to have sent letters to U.S. firms requesting, or soliciting information about, compliance with the secondary or tertiary Arab boycott. Provides for presidential waivers, subject to certain conditions. Title V: Other Foreign Assistance Provisions - (Sec. 503) Provides that certain restrictions with respect to foreign assistance shall not restrict assistance in support of a nongovernmental organization's programs (with exceptions). (Sec. 504) Prohibits the use of funds authorized for foreign assistance programs for FY 1994 for: (1) financial incentives to businesses for inducing them to relocate outside the United States if it will reduce the number of individuals employed in the United States; (2) establishing any export processing zone or designated area in which the tax, tariff, labor, environment, and safety laws of a country do not apply to activities in such area, unless the President certifies that such assistance is not likely to cause a loss of jobs within the United States; or (3) assistance for a project that contributes to the violation of workers' rights. (Sec. 505) Requires the Director of the Trade and Development Agency to carry out a capital projects pilot program in developing countries and countries making the transition from a nonmarket to a market economy. (Sec. 506) Provides for the establishment of a Microenterprise Development Fund within the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance. (Sec. 507) Requires the administrator of such agency to report to the Congress on the incorporation of the Agenda 21 principles of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development into foreign assistance activities. (Sec. 509) Requires the annual deobligation of specified unexpended foreign assistance funds that have been obligated for more than four years. Title VI: Bosnia-Hercegovina - Bosnia-Hercegovina Self-Defense Act of 1993 - (Sec. 603) Authorizes the President to terminate the arms embargo of Bosnia-Hercegovina upon receipt of a request for assistance in exercising its right of self-defense under the United Nations Charter. (Sec. 604) Authorizes the President, if such request is made, to direct the drawdown of defense articles and services and military education and training to provide assistance. Bars members of the armed forces who provide such assistance abroad from performing combatant duties.
Bill· HRH.R. 2406 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1993
Diesel Fuel Tax Enforcement Act of 1993 - Expresses the sense of the Congress that outlays for Internal Revenue Service criminal investigation and other enforcement activities should be increased and such increase shall be funded with offsetting spending reductions in other program areas. Makes permanent the authority for the Internal Revenue Service to conduct undercover operations. Requires additional information in reports to the Congress concerning such operations. Requires the Attorney General to report to the Congress on: (1) the feasibility of additional Federal task forces dealing with organized crime's involvement in diesel fuel tax evasion; and (2) other steps that could be taken to reduce criminal evasion of such taxes.
Bill· HRH.R. 2408 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the increases in the wine tax enacted as part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. Repeals the credit allowed to small domestic producers of wine.
Law· HRH.R. 2401 (103rd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Procurement Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations Subtitle B: Other Matters Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Title III: Operation and Maintenance Subtitle A: Authorization Appropriations Subtitle B: Other Matters Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations Subtitle A: Active Forces Subtitle B: Reserve Forces Subtitle C: Military Training Student Loads Title V: Military Personnel Policy Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy Subtitle B: Reserve Component Matters Subtitle C: Service Academies Subtitle D: Education and Training Subtitle E: Other Matters Title VI: Compensation and Other Peronnel Benefits Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances Subtitle B: Retired Pay and Survivor Benefits Subtitle C: Other Matters Title VII: Health Care Provisions Subtitle A: Health Care Management Subtitle B: Other Matters Title VIII: Department of Defense Organization and Management Subtitle A: Office of the Secretary of Defense Subtitle B: Professional Military Education Subtitle C: Other Matters Title IX: General Provisions Title X: Matters Relating to Allies and Other Nations National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for FY 1994 for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and for other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the Defense Health Program; and (4) the chemical demilitarization program. Repeals a separate budget account requirement for the chemical demilitarization program. Subtitle B: Other Matters - Repeals the current requirement for a separate budget request for the procurement of reserve equipment. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D). Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of the Department of Defense (DOD) for operation and maintenance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for DOD working capital and revolving funds. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to include within the funding provided by the Defense Business Operations Fund the activities of the Defense Contract Audit Agency and the Defense Contract Management Command. Authorizes the obligation during FY 1994 of a specified amount from the National Security Education Trust Fund. Subtitle B: Other Matters - Repeals a current limitation on the number of military and civilian employees assigned or detailed to headquarters and non-management headquarters and headquarters support activities. Limits the authorized FY 1994 sale of stockpiled materials in the National Defense Stockpile (NDS). Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to impose a moratorium on new material acquisition in order to reduce existing excess NDS materials. Authorizes the Commandant of the Marine Corps to provide minor maintenance and repairs to Pacific battle monuments with specified operation and maintenance funds. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Provides for the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of FY 1994. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Provides the authorized end strengths for reserve personnel as of FY 1994 and for certain reserves on active duty in support of the reserves. Subtitle C: Military Training Student Loads - Provides the authorized FY 1994 military training student loads. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to delete from certain reports and promotion lists the names of officers erroneously considered for promotion by promotion selection boards. Provides for the involuntary separation of certain regular warrant officers. Subtitle B: Reserve Component Matters - Provides certain reserve personnel call-up authority for the Secretary and the Secretary of Transportation when the Coast Guard is not under the jurisdiction of the Navy. Repeals the current requirement for physical examinations in the Army and Air National Guard. Requires each member of the Ready Reserve to be examined every five years (currently four). Subtitle C: Service Academies - Revises provisions concerning the procedure for nominating candidates for admission to the service academies. Subtitle D: Education and Training - Revises the eligibility requirements for advanced training in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Repeals the statutory restriction on the assignment of women in the Navy and Marine Corps. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, in times of war, hostilities, or national emergency, to limit the direct pay to military personnel serving in prescribed areas. Makes permanent the authority for certain bonuses and special pay for nurse officer candidates, registered nurses, and nurse anesthetists serving in the armed forces. Extends specified expiring authorities for certain other special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces. Subtitle B: Retired Pay and Survivor Benefits - Provides disability coverage for certain officer candidates granted excess leave. Subtitle C: Other Matters - Provides permanent authority for former prisoners of war to claim payments because of violation of the Geneva Conventions (inhumane treatment). Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Subtitle A: Health Care Management - Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to: (1) revise, and extend until October 1, 1995, the authority to provide nonemergency inpatient hospital care to certain spouses and dependents of military personnel who reside outside of a 40-mile radius of a military medical facility; (2) revise and codify changes to the CHAMPUS physician payment program; (3) award constructive service credit for certain advanced health degrees obtained by defense health personnel; and (4) authorize the Secretary to obtain additional distinguished pathologists and scientists (currently limited to six) if determined to be in the best interests of DOD. Subtitle B: Other Matters - Repeals the statutory restriction on the use of DOD funds for abortions. Title VIII: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Subtitle A: Office of the Secretary of Defense - Authorizes certain organizational and administrative changes within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, including establishing the position of Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness and renaming the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition as the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology. Subtitle B: Professional Military Education - Authorizes the President of the National Defense University to confer master of science degrees in national security strategy and national resource strategy. Subtitle C: Other Matters - Authorizes payment of escort and flag expenses incident to the death of a civilian employee who dies while serving with an armed force in a contingency operation. Title IX: General Provisions - Authorizes the award of gold star lapel buttons to survivors of service members killed by terrorist acts. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to establish and maintain an Aviation Leadership Program to provide undergraduate pilot and related training to selected air force personnel of friendly, less-developed foreign countries. Title X: Matters Relating to Allies and Other Nations - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to exchange U.S. military and civilian defense personnel with the defense departments or ministries of allied and friendly foreign governments. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to the Republic of Korea certain excess or obsolete defense articles. Authorizes the Secretary to accept cash or other contributions from Japan, Kuwait, and the Republic of Korea as defense burdensharing payments.
Law· HRH.R. 2403 (103rd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Department of the Treasury Title II: Postal Service Title III: Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the President Title IV: Independent Agencies Title V: General Provisions Title VI: Governmentwide General Provisions Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1994 - Title I: Department of the Treasury - Treasury Department Appropriations Act, 1994 - Makes appropriations to the Department of the Treasury and its related agencies for FY 1994. Sets forth provisions on the uses of such appropriations, including specified directives to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Title II: Postal Service - Postal Service Appropriations Act, 1994 - Makes appropriations to the Postal Service Fund for FY 1994. Title III: Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the President - Executive Office Appropriations Act, 1994 - Makes appropriations for FY 1994 for the Executive Office of the President and related offices and programs. Title IV: Independent Agencies - Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994 - Makes appropriations for FY 1994 for the following independent agencies: (1) the General Services Administration; (2) the Office of Personnel Management; (3) the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; (4) the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled; (5) the Federal Election Commission; (6) the Federal Labor Relations Authority; (7) the Merit Systems Protection Board; (8) the National Archives and Records Administration; (9) the Office of Government Ethics; (10) the Office of Special Counsel; and (11) the United States Tax Court. Title V: General Provisions (this Act) - Sets forth certain prohibitions and limitations on the use of appropriations made under this Act. (Sec. 524) Facilitates a transfer of property in Suitland, Maryland, to enable the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to construct a metrorail station and related surface facilities. Title VI: Governmentwide General Provisions - Sets forth certain requirements for and prohibitions and limitations on the use of appropriations by departments, agencies, and corporations.
Bill· HRH.R. 2407 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1993
Partnership for Long-Term Care Act of 1993 - Title I: Medicaid Program Improvements - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require States to cover certain primary care for pregnant women and children, and nursing facility services for other individuals, whose incomes are below the Federal poverty level. Requires States to establish a subsidy program to assist individuals whose incomes are no less than the Federal poverty level and no more than twice such level in paying long-term care insurance premiums. Provides larger subsidies as individuals' incomes approach the Federal poverty level. Prohibits States from establishing a subsidy resource eligibility limit at less than twice the resource limit under (SSA) title XVI (Supplemental Security Income). Title II: Medicaid Amendments Relating to Treatment of Payments Under Qualified Long-Term Care Insurance Policies - Subtracts long-term care insurance payments from an individual's assets in determining his or her Medicaid eligibility. Title III: Tax Treatment of Long-Term Care Insurance - Requires that, for the purpose of determining the income tax liability of life insurance companies, qualified long-term care insurance be treated as accident or health insurance. Applies this provision to policies which provide coverage for at least 12 consecutive months of diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance, or personal care services provided in a setting other than the acute care unit of a hospital and for an individual's loss of functional capacity. Provides that for the purpose of determining whether a tax exclusion applies to employer contributions to, or an employee's receipt of benefits from, qualified long-term care insurance, such contributions and benefits shall be considered to be for coverage under an accident or health plan. Makes the penalty tax on early distributions from qualified retirement plans inapplicable when such distributions are used to pay for qualified long-term care insurance. Treats an individual's qualified long-term care expenses as deductible medical care expenditures. Provides for the deduction of employer contributions to a reserve fund providing employees with post-retirement qualified long-term care benefits. Permits inclusion of qualified long-term care insurance in cafeteria plans. Excludes it from a cafeteria plan participant's gross income.
Bill· HRH.R. 2405 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1993
Amends the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 to authorize appropriations for the Merit Systems Protection Board without fiscal year limitation (currently, appropriations are authorized through FY 1994).
Bill· SS. 1090 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Agriculture Appropriations Title II: Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subtitle A: Department of Commerce Subtitle B: Related Agencies Subtitle C: Department of State Title III: Defense Appropriations Subtitle A: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Subtitle B: Other Department of Defense Programs Subtitle C: Operations and Maintenance Title IV: Energy and Water Appropriations Subtitle A: Corps of Engineers Subtitle B: Department of Energy Title V: Interior Appropriations Title VI: Transportation Appropriations Title VII: Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Title VIII: Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Subtitle A: Department of Veterans Affairs Subtitle B: Independent Agencies Subtitle C: Department of Housing and Urban Development Title IX: Blue Smoke and Mirrors Spending Priority Reform Act of 1993 - Expresses the sense of the Congress that any money returned to the Treasury as a result of this Act should be deposited in the General Fund to be applied against the Federal budget deficit. Title I: Agriculture Appropriations - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the Department of Agriculture for certain special research grants and for the construction of buildings and facilities of the Cooperative State Research Service which were not authorized, not awarded on a competitive basis, or not subjected to congressional hearings ("unauthorized"). Title II: Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations - Subtitle A: Department of Commerce - Rescinds FY 1993 specified appropriations to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the International Trade Administration. Subtitle B: Related Agencies - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the Small Business Administration for unauthorized grants for specified miscellaneous projects. Subtitle C: Department of State - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the Department of State for an unauthorized grant for the North/South Center at the University of Miami, Miami, Florida, and certain educational and cultural exchange programs. Title III: Defense Appropriations - Subtitle A: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation - Rescinds unauthorized FY 1993 appropriations made to the Department of Defense for: (1) university grants; (2) electrical vehicle demonstration projects; (3) Army industrial preparedness and manufacturing technology development programs; (4) medical research; (5) naval research, development, testing, and evaluation; and (5) the Space Surveillance Network Improvement Program. Subtitle B: Other Department of Defense Programs - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations for efforts to prevent brown tree snakes from entering Hawaii from Guam. Subtitle C: Operations and Maintenance - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations for the following projects: (1) self-powered locks; (2) grants for World University and 1996 Summer Olympics games and World Cup 1994; (3) Army procurement of extended cold weather clothing systems; (4) study of nuclear disposal by the former Soviet Union and for Project Peace; and (5) the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Title IV: Energy and Water Appropriations - Subtitle A: Corps of Engineers - Rescinds unauthorized FY 1993 appropriations for funding of surveys and planning activities and construction of water resource projects. Subtitle B: Department of Energy - Rescinds unauthorized FY 1993 appropriations made under the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1993, for funding certain energy supply, research, and development activities. Title V: Interior Appropriations - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations for unauthorized funding of: (1) certain National Park System projects; (2) certain construction projects of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and (3) certain National Forest Service projects. Title VI: Transportation Appropriations - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the Department of Transportation for unauthorized funding of: (1) certain airway science programs; (2) a certain highway research, development, and technology project; (3) certain construction and maintenance projects; (4) certain Federal Highway Administration demonstration projects; and (5) transit planning and research. Title VII: Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the General Services Administration for certain unauthorized grants for projects funded through the Federal Buildings Fund. Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the Office of Personnel Management for the establishment of health promotion and disease prevention programs. Title VIII: Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations - Subtitle A: Department of Veterans Affairs - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to be Department of Veterans Affairs for unauthorized construction projects. Subtitle B: Independent Agencies - Rescinds 1993 appropriations to: (1) the Environmental Protection Agency for certain unauthorized projects; (2) the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network; and (3) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for certain unauthorized research and development projects and construction projects. Subtitle C: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the Department of Housing and Urban Development for unauthorized funding of certain housing projects and assistance programs. Title IX: Blue Smoke and Mirrors - Expresses the sense of the Congress that, with regard to the appropriations process, "forward funding" tactics should no longer be utilized and Congress should operate within the funding limits prescribed for each fiscal year.
Bill· SS. 1093 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the special rule that limits the amount of foreign trade income derived from the disposition of military property which a foreign service corporation ]may treat as exempt foreign trade income to 50 percent of the amount which would otherwise be treated as such income.
Bill· SS. 1095 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Hunger Emergency Assistance and Relief Trust Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals to designate on their income tax returns a contribution of all or part of their tax refund to the Hunger Emergency Assistance and Relief Trust. Establishes in the Treasury the Hunger Emergency Assistance and Relief Trust to distribute hunger relief funds to qualified nonprofit hunger relief services organizations. Describes standards and procedures for the distribution of trust fund monies. Specifies a number of restrictions with respect to the activities of recipient organizations, including limitations on administrative expenses. Requires the Hunger Commission (established by this Act) to submit to specified congressional committees an annual report detailing trust fund expenditures. Establishes a Hunger Commission to administer the distribution of funds to qualified hunger relief services organizations on a matching grant basis. Permits a maximum award of $100,000 to any single qualified organization in any fiscal year. Requires that: (1) at least 50 percent of amounts received into the trust fund in any year be paid to qualified organizations; and (2) monies in the trust fund be distributed within 180 days of their receipt. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· SS. 1091 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
International Organized Crime Control Act of 1993 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to conclude agreements with, and furnish assistance to, other countries to control international organized crime. Prohibits U.S. officers or employees from: (1) directly effecting arrests in foreign countries as part of foreign police actions to control such crime, except in exigent circumstances or, with the agreement of a country, in maritime law enforcement operations; and (2) interrogating or being present during the interrogation of any U.S. person arrested in a foreign country without such person's written consent. Withholds 50 percent of U.S. assistance allocated each fiscal year for each major organized crime source country. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of specified international financial institutions to oppose funding for such countries. Releases assistance if the President certifies to the Congress that a country has taken steps to address law enforcement, narcotics control, money laundering, and public corruption issues. Amends the Federal criminal code to require the death penalty or life imprisonment for a death caused during a kidnapping. Directs the Attorney General to report to the Congress and the President on effors made to recruit and hire former Royal Hong Kong Police officers into Federal law enforcement positions. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report on Secret Service efforts to combat credit card counterfeiting with ties to the U.S. region. Directs the Attorney General and the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to report on the status of organized crime task forces, including proposed Asian Crime Task Forces. Provides increased penalties for passport and visa fraud. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for penalties against carriers delivering undocumented aliens into the United States. Requires the U.S. Sentencing Commission to promulgate or amend guidelines to provide for increased penalties for alien smuggling if certain circumstances (related to number of aliens or specified criminal activities) exist. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States should encourage the development of a United Nations Convention on Organized Crime.
Bill· HRH.R. 2367 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Health Care Accessibility Expansion Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the allowable deduction for health insurance costs of self-employed individuals from 25 percent to 100 percent; and (2) make the deduction permanent. Allows a tax credit for a medical practitioner who commences a medical practice in a rural area. Allows such credit for the year such commencement occurs and the four succeeding taxable years. Limits such credit to $5,000. Requires the taxpayer to practice medicine in the rural area for at least nine months in a taxable year. Allows a deduction on medical education loan interest of a physician which accrues while the physician is living in and providing medical care to residents of a rural area. Allows individuals a tax deduction for contributions made to a medical care savings account established for the benefit of an eligible individual. Defines an eligible individual as: (1) one who is not covered by an employer-provided group health plan; or (2) one who is covered by such a plan which is a qualified catastrophic coverage health plan and is not covered by any other health plan. Exempts such accounts from taxation. Allows such deduction in arriving at adjusted gross income. Establishes an excise tax for excess contributions to medical care savings accounts and makes such accounts subject to the tax on prohibited transactions. Allows the transfer of unused amounts in flexible spending accounts of cafeteria plans to medical savings accounts. Establishes a program under which eligible participants in medical savings accounts may obtain health insurance vouchers to make payments for qualified medical expenses. Allows a tax credit for the amount of such vouchers. Declares that it shall not be considered a violation of antitrust laws for hospitals to jointly undertake the purchasing, contracting for, or sharing of high technology equipment and services. Amends the Public Health Service Act to require demonstration projects to assist hospitals in acquiring and sharing such equipment and services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1996 for such projects.
Bill· HRH.R. 2380 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Maritime Trust Fund Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the tax on transportation of passengers by water on a covered voyage to five percent of the amount paid by each passenger. (Currently, such tax is three dollars per passenger). Requires such voyages to have a port of call not located in the United States or its possessions. Imposes an excise tax on the loading of certain containers used to import or export commercial cargo on commercial vessels. Establishes the Maritime Trust Fund consisting of the maritime taxes imposed by this Act. Requires such Fund to support the maritime security fleet proposed by the Maritime Security and Competitiveness Act of 1993.
Law· HRH.R. 2399 (103rd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Land Claims Settlement Act of 1993 - Restores and extends Federal recognition, rights, and services to the Catawba Nation (Tribe). Repeals the Termination Act (of 1959). Authorizes settlement appropriations. Provides for: (1) ratification of prior transfers and extinguishment of aboriginal title, rights, and claims; (2) tribal membership; (3) transitional and provisional government; (4) tribal and reservation governance, jurisdiction, and trust funds; and (5) taxation. Provides for: (1) the conveyance of the Catawba Reservation by South Carolina to the United States as trustee; and (2) the expansion of the Reservation as prescribed by the Settlement Agreement. Makes the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act inapplicable to the Tribe. Applies the Indian Tribal Government Tax Status Act to the Tribe and Reservation.
Bill· HRH.R. 2392 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Investment Tax Credit Title II: Capital Gains Tax Reduction Title III: Incentives For Redevelopment of Closed Military Bases Title IV: Use of Transferred Defense Funds For Provision of Services to Certain Dislocated Defense Workers Under Job Training Partnership Act Economic Resurgence and Jobs for America Act - Title I: Investment Tax Credit - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate a five-percent investment tax credit for property placed in service after December 31, 1992. Repeals provisions of the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1990 concerning the elimination of expired or obsolete investment tax credit provisions. Title II: Capital Gains Tax Reduction - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the individual and corporate capital gains rate from 34 percent to 15 percent. Reduces such tax to 7.5 percent for low- and middle-income taxpayers. Provides for the phaseout of personal exemptions and the overall limitation on itemized deductions to take into account adjusted gross income which has been reduced by net capital gain. Requires indexing, based on the gross national product deflator, of the adjusted basis of certain assets (corporate stock and tangible property that is a capital asset of property used in a trade or business) that have been held for more than one year at the time of sale or other transfer, solely for the purpose of determining gain or loss. Provides for indexing the limitation on capital losses of noncorporate taxpayers. Title III: Incentives for Redevelopment of Closed Military Bases - Excludes from gross income 100 percent of any qualified capital gain recognized on the sale or exchange of a qualified closed base asset held for more than five years. Excludes property acquired after November 30, 1997. Excludes rental real estate activity near a closed base from passive loss rules. Increases the deduction for expensing depreciable business assets in the case of a closed base business. Treats loss on a closed base asset as an ordinary loss. Provides special rules for redevelopment bonds that provide financing for closed military bases. Imposes penalties in cases of loans made to businesses that cease to be closed based businesses. Title IV: Use of Transferred Defense Funds for Provision of Services to Certain Dislocated Defense Workers Under Job Training Partnership Act - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to require the use of defense funds in the program for employment and training assistance to individuals who have been terminated, laid off, or so notified, due to a closure of a military base. Provides for the transfer of defense reinvestment and economic growth funds for such program.
Bill· HRH.R. 2368 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Older Americans Economic Security Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction for qualified elderly care expenses which exceed five percent of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income. Allows a charitable deduction to physicians and registered professional nurses for medical services or goods donated to elderly individuals. Allows tax-free withdrawals from individual retirement accounts to pay long-term care expenses or to purchase insurance covering such expenses.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 194 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the proposed increase in tax on social security benefits should not be enacted and if enacted should be repealed.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 110 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Urges the President to recognize the influential role rail, bus, air passenger service, highway, and byway investments and other transportation initiatives have in the development of tourism opportunities in the United States by convening a White House Conference on Tourism to address critical issues which highlight the interdependence of transportation and tourism. Declares that transportation infrastructure and the Scenic Byways Program are key components of economic development and should be addressed by the Conference.
Bill· HRH.R. 2352 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 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. Terminates spending authority, effective October 1, 1993, for unearned entitlements and high-cost discretionary spending programs unless such spending authority is reauthorized. Terminates spending authority, effective October 1, 1994, for each discretionary spending program (not including high-cost discretionary spending programs) unless such spending authority is reauthorized. Provides for terminating such spending authorities after the year 2000 unless appropriately reauthorized.
Bill· HRH.R. 2361 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1993
Amends the Federal judicial code to make the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund available for purposes of the payment of State and local property taxes on forfeited real property, beginning on the date of the offense giving rise to the forfeiture and ending on the day before the date of the order of forfeiture.
Bill· HRH.R. 2355 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1993
Child Support Enforcement Act - Declares that nothing in this Act should be construed to affect the right of an individual or State to receive child support payments or the obligation of an individual to pay child support. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require any taxable unpaid child support payments of a taxpayer to be treated as amounts includible in gross income by reason of the discharge of indebtedness of the taxpayer. Allows a deduction for subsequently made payments. Allows a nonbusiness bad debt deduction for unpaid child support payments. Limits such deduction to $5,000 per child. Allows such deduction to taxpayers whose gross income does not exceed $5,000 and who are owed payments of at least $500. Requires payments to be delinquent during the entire taxable year. Provides a cost-of-living adjustment for amounts under this Act. Requires subsequent payments to be included in the gross income of the recipient. Requires net revenues from this Act to be applied to the retirement of outstanding public debt obligations.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 192 (103rd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1993
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 2348 (making appropriations for the legislative branch for FY 1994).
Bill· SS. 1083 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1993
Veterans' Tax Fairness Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income any veterans' allowance or benefit administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Law· HRH.R. 2333 (103rd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Division A: State Department, USIA, and Related Agencies Title I: Department of State, USIA, and Related Agencies Title II: United States Informational, Educational, and Cultural Programs Title III: Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Division B: Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Title XI (sic): Reform of Foreign Assistance Programs Title XII: Authorizations for Foreign Assistance Programs Title XIII: Regional Provisions Title XIV: Provisions Relating to Arms Transfers Title XV: Other Foreign Assistance Provisions International Relations Act of 1993 - Division A: State Department, USIA, and Related Agencies - State Department, USIA, and Related Agencies Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 - Title I: Department of State and Related Agencies - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations for the Department of State for FY 1994 and 1995 for the administration of foreign affairs. (Secs. 102 through 107) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 and 1995 for: (1) the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; (2) international organizations, programs, and conferences; (3) international commissions; (4) offsetting adverse fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; (5) migration and refugee assistance; (6) U.S. bilateral science and technology agreements; (7) the Asia Foundation; and (8) carrying out the Arms Control and Disarmament Act. (Sec. 103) Earmarks funds for the United Nations Population Fund. Bars the use of such funds for programs in China and applies restrictions on funding for abortions and involuntary sterilization. Part B: Authorities and Activities - (Sec. 113) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize the Secretary of State to procure the services of experts for use in prosecuting a proceeding before an international tribunal or a claim by or against a foreign entity. Establishes an International Litigation Fund for meeting expenses related to such proceedings. (Sec. 115) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit certain reprogrammings of funds for the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance unless specified congressional committees are notified in advance. (Sec. 116) Prohibits the Department of State from contracting with: (1) any foreign person who complies with the Arab League boycott of Israel; or (2) any foreign or U.S. person who discriminates in the award of subcontracts on the basis of religion. Provides for waivers of such prohibition if in the national interest. Requires potential contractors to submit certain statements concerning Israel, the Arab boycott, and discriminatory actions. (Sec. 117) Establishes limits on the number of Foreign Service personnel in the Department of State, the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), and the Agency for International Development (AID). (Sec. 121) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit funds for the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance from being available for obligation or expenditure: (1) unless they are appropriated pursuant to an authorization of appropriations; or (2) in excess of the authorized level of appropriations. (Sec. 122) Requires the Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, together with other specified officials, to report to specified congressional committees on the feasibility of consolidating domestic administrative operations for the Department of State, AID, and USIA. (Sec. 124) Directs the Secretary to implement an upgrade of all overseas visa lookout operations to computerized systems with automated multiple-name search capabilities. Establishes procedures for the processing of visas for admission into the United States and provides for appropriate disciplinary action of consular officers in connection with the issuance of visas to excludable aliens. Part C: Department of State Organization - (Sec. 132) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to revise the organization of the Department of State and eliminate specified bureaus and official positions. Part D: Personnel - (Sec. 142) Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial incentives during FY 1994 and 1995 to certain members of the Foreign Service and Department of State who are eligible for retirement. (Sec. 143) Permits the Secretary, if exceptional circumstances so warrant, to waive a limitation on claims for losses incurred by Government personnel subject to a chief of mission in a foreign country in cases of emergency evacuation. Makes such waiver retroactive to claims made as of October 31, 1988. (Secs. 144 and 145) Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to make chiefs of mission salaries and performance pay subject to limitations on certain payments under Federal civil service provisions. Prohibits performance pay awards to Senior Foreign Service members by any agency subject to an agency-wide reduction in force for budgetary reasons. (Sec. 147) Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to conduct a classification audit of all Senior Foreign Service positions in Washington, D.C., assigned to the Department of State, AID, and USIA and to review the methods of classification of such positions. (Sec. 148) Limits the number of Senior Foreign Service personnel serving under career extensions. Part E: International Organizations - (Sec. 161) Requires the President to direct the U.S. representatives to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to work toward the early adoption of specified reforms in the implementation of the IAEA's safeguards responsibilities. (Sec. 162) Authorizes the President to bring into force the Agreement on State and Local Taxation of Foreign Employees of Public International Organizations. (Sec. 163) Permits the President to withhold 20 percent of the funds appropriated for the U.S. assessed contribution to the United Nations if the United Nations has failed to implement consensus-based decisionmaking procedures on budgetary matters which assure that sufficient attention is paid to the views of the United States and other member states who are major financial contributors. (Sec. 165) Authorizes the President to maintain membership in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation organization. Part F: Miscellaneous Provisions - (Sec. 181) Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to steps to be taken to address international women's human rights, including the creation of a position within the Department of State to promote such rights. (Sec. 183) Amends the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 to raise the ceiling on the amount of funds authorized to be appropriated for the Emergency Refugee Migration and Assistance Fund. (Sec. 186) Reduces the amount authorized to be appropriated annually for the Mexico-United States Interparliamentary Group. Increases the amount authorized for the Canada-United States Interparliamentary Group. (Sec. 187) Sets forth U.S. policy on providing assistance for, and protecting, refugee women and children. (Sec. 190) Expresses the sense of the Congress that U.S. citizens who were victims of crimes against humanity committed by the German Government from 1939 to 1945 should have remedies against Germany in U.S. courts for damages. Title II: United States Informational, Educational, and Cultural Programs - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 201) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 and 1995 to carry out specified international information activities and educational and cultural exchange programs. Part B: International Broadcasting Authorities and Activities - International Broadcasting Act of 1993 - (Sec. 213) Sets forth standards for Government-supported international broadcasting. (Secs. 215 and 216) Authorizes the President to: (1) assign responsibility for the functions of such broadcasting to any Federal agency; (2) make grants to carry out specified functions to any public or private entity; and (3) delegate specified USIA satellite and television authorities to any Federal agency. (Sec. 217) Repeals the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973. (Sec. 220) Sets the same obligation and expenditure restrictions on international broadcasting funds as are applicable to funds for the agency responsible for administering development assistance under title I. (Sec. 221) Directs Government agencies which carry out international broadcasting to report to the Congress on efforts to sell advertising. Part C: USIA and Related Agencies Authorities and Activities - (Sec. 233) Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to establish a Buying Power Maintenance Account for USIA to offset fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates or changes in overseas wages and prices. (Secs. 239 and 240) Permits the USIA Director to: (1) establish collections at university libraries abroad to further the study of the United States; and (2) provide for a South Pacific exchange program. (Sec. 244) Provides for USIA educational and cultural exchanges with Tibet. Part D: Mike Mansfield Fellowships - Mike Mansfield Fellowship Act - (Sec. 252) Establishes the Mike Mansfield Fellowship Program to provide for USIA grants to the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs to award fellowships to eligible Federal employees. Requires Mansfield Fellows to: (1) study the Japanese language and political economy; and (2) serve in an agency of the Government of Japan, or, subject to Center approval, a nongovernmental Japanese institution associated with their interests. Part E: Facilitation of Private Sector Initiatives - Free Trade in Ideas Act of 1993 - (Secs. 262 through 267) Amends specified Federal laws to permit the exchange of certain information, as well as cultural and educational exchanges, with citizens in countries subject to U.S. export restrictions or embargoes. Title III: Arms Control and Disarmament Agency - (Sec. 302) Amend the National Security Act of 1947 to grant the Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency membership on the National Security Council. (Sec. 304) Amends the Arms Control and Disarmament Act to grant the Director primary responsibility for the preparation and management of U.S. participation in all international negotiations and implementation forums in arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation. (Sec. 305) Amends the Arms Export Control Act to provide for the participation of the Director in specified arms export and licensing activities. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to provide for consideration of the Director's judgment in specified nuclear export activities. (Secs. 306 and 307) Applies the same requirements for congressional notification for reprogramming and restrictions on obligations and expenditures of Agency funds as are applicable to development assistance funds under this Act. Division B: Foreign Assistance and Related Programs - Foreign Assistance Authorization Act of 1993 - Title XI (sic): Reform of Foreign Assistance Programs - (Sec. 1101) Requires the President to submit to the Congress a plan for comprehensive reform of U.S. foreign assistance programs and of the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance. (Sec. 1102) Requires the President to establish a program performance, monitoring, and evalation capacity with respect to such agency and to report annually to the Congress on: (1) the progress of the agency in achieving sustainable development objectives; and (2) the impact on economic development of U.S. economic assistance on a country-by-country basis. Title XII: Authorizations for Foreign Assistance Programs - (Sec. 1201) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for: (1) specified development assistance; (2) international disaster assistance; (3) American schools, libraries, and hospitals abroad; (4) assistance for the Philippines; (5) economic assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States; (6) assistance for the independent states of the former Soviet Union; (7) the Inter-American Foundation; (8) the African Development Foundation; (9) the International Fund for Ireland; (10) foreign military financing and international military education and training; (11) economic support fund (ESF) assistance; (12) anti-terrorism assistance; (13) a nonproliferation and disarmament fund; and (14) the Peace Corps. Reduces the amount previously authorized for international narcotics control for FY 1994. (Sec. 1202) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for worldwide housing guarantees and raises the ceiling on the amount of loans available under such program. (Sec. 1203) Raises the ceiling on insurance and guarantees issued by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and extends OPIC programs through FY 1995. (Sec. 1204) Authorizes the President to reduce debt owed by eligible countries as a result of housing guarantees or credits or guarantees issued under the Arms Export Control Act. Title XIII: Regional Provisions - (Sec. 1302) Amends the African Development Foundation Act to authorize the African Development Foundation to employ persons who are not U.S. citizens. (Sec. 1303) Authorizes the President to provide assistance to establish a permanent conflict resolution capability within the Organization of African Unity, subject to certain conditions. Allocates funding for such purpose. Allocates specified assistance for establishing conflict resolution capabilities within subregional organizations in Subsaharan Africa and to facilitate reductions in the size of armed forces of Subsaharan African countries. (Sec. 1305) Removes certain restricitons on assistance to nongovernmental organizations financed or controlled by the South African Government if they meet certain conditions relating to promotion of a nonracial democracy and assistance to disadvantaged South Africans. (Secs. 1306 and 1307) Bars specified economic and military assistance for Sudan and Zaire. (Sec. 1308) Makes humanitarian assistance available to Afghanistan. (Sec. 1311) Makes ineligible for assistance any independent state of the former Soviet Union that knowingly transfers sophisticated or destabilizing conventional weapons to Iran. (Sec. 1312) Authorizes the President to use funds for the independent states for Mongolia. (Sec. 1313) Bars international military education and training assistance for Malta. (Sec. 1314) Extends the administration of justice assistance program. Makes such assistance available for Panama. (Sec. 1317) Earmarks ESF and foreign military financing assistance for Israel and Egypt and ESF assistance for Middle East regional cooperative programs. Title XIV: Provisions Relating to Arms Transfers - (Sec. 1402) Amends the Arms Export Control Act to increase the aggregate ceiling on excess defense articles for delivery to foreign countries or international organizations. (Sec. 1403) Makes East European countries eligible to receive excess defense articles. (Sec. 1406) Establishes limits on funding for stockpiles in South Korea, Israel, and Thailand. Title XV: Other Foreign Assistance Provisions - (Sec. 1503) Provides that certain restrictions with respect to foreign assistance shall not restrict assistance in support of a nongovernmental organization's programs (with exceptions). (Sec. 1504) Prohibits the use of funds authorized for foreign assistance programs for FY 1994 for: (1) financial incentives to businesses for purposes of inducing them to relocate outside the United States if it will reduce the number of individuals employed in the United States; (2) establishing any export processing zone or designated area in which the tax, tariff, labor, environment, and safety laws of a country do not apply to activities in such area, unless the President certifies that such assistance is not likely to cause a loss of jobs within the United States; or (3) assistance for a project that contributes to the violation of workers' rights. (Sec. 1505) Requires the Director of the Trade and Development Agency to carry out a capital projects pilot program in developing countries and countries making the transition from a nonmarket to a market economy. Makes funds available for such program. (Sec. 1506) Provides for the establishment of a Microenterprise Development Fund within the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance. (Sec. 1507) Requires the administrator of such agency to report to the Congress on the incorporation of the Agenda 21 principles of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development into foreign assistance activities.
Bill· HRH.R. 2334 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth rules for filing returns with respect to domestic service employment taxes and requires such returns to be made on a calendar year basis. Subjects such taxes to estimated tax provisions. Makes filing requirements inapplicable to any employer liable for tax concerning remuneration for services other than domestic service in a private home. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into agreements with States to collect the State unemployment tax imposed on remuneration for domestic service and transfers such amounts to a State's account in the Unemployment Trust Fund. Treats such taxes as domestic service employment taxes. Requires the Secretary to inform domestic service employers in private homes of their tax obligations. Adjusts the threshold (from $50 a calendar quarter to $800 a year) for paying and withholding social security taxes on wages paid for domestic service in a private home.
Law· HRH.R. 2330 (103rd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Intelligence Activities Title II: Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Title III: General Provisions Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 - Title I: Intelligence Activities - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities in specified departments and agencies of the U.S. Government, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Declares that the authorized amounts and personnel ceilings for such intelligence activities are those specified in the classified schedule of authorizations. Authorizes the Director of Central Intelligence to employ civilian personnel in excess of the ceiling for such personnel when necessary to the performance of important intelligence functions. Title II: Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System - Authorizes appropriations for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund for FY 1994. Title III: General Provisions - Permits appropriations authorized by this Act for benefits for Federal employees to be increased as may be necessary for increases in compensation or benefits authorized by law. Prohibits the authorization of appropriations by this Act from constituting authority for the conduct of any intelligence activity not otherwise authorized by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 2340 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish an environmental remediation credit program that allows businesses a credit for 25 percent of the costs incurred for: (1) environmental remediation with respect to any qualified contaminated site; and (2) an approved environmental remediation plan. Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to designate eligible jurisdictions that may participate in such credit program. Establishes the overall credit limitation and provides for its allocation among eligible cities and States. Allows the issuance of tax-exempt bonds for qualified contaminated site remediation, with limitations.
Bill· HRH.R. 2336 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent, and to increase to 100 percent, the deduction for the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals.
Bill· SS. 1077 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1993
Amends the Arms Control and Disarmament Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1994 and 1995.
Bill· SS. 1058 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Investment and Savings Incentives Subtitle A: Reductions in Cost of Capital and Tax Penalties on Investment Subtitle B: Investment in Business Subtitle C: Increased Savings Through Individual Retirement Accounts Subtitle D: Incentives for Private Businesses to Hire New Employees Title II: Deficit Reductions Subtitle A: Extension of the Caps on Discretionary Spending Subtitle B: Spending Cuts Real Jobs for America Act of 1993 - Title I: Investment and Savings Incentives - Subtitle A: Reductions in Cost of Capital and Tax Penalties on Investment - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require indexing of certain assets (corporate stock, certain tangible property, and a principal residence) that have been held for more than three years at the time of sale or other transfer, solely for the purpose of determining gain or loss. Modifies the method of determining the depreciation deduction for certain personal property placed in service after June 30, 1993. Eliminates the depreciation adjustment for computing adjusted current earnings for such property. Subtitle B: Investment in Small Business - Increases the dollar limitation, with an inflation adjustment, on the deduction for expensing depreciable business assets. Subtitle C: Increased Savings Through Individual Retirement Accounts - Removes the limitation on the retirement savings deduction for active participants in certain pension plans. Provides a cost-of-living adjustment for such deduction. Allows individuals to establish individual retirement plus accounts with tax treatment similar to that for individual retirement plans. Makes contributions to such accounts nondeductible. Allows distributions from certain retirement plans without penalty to purchase first homes, pay higher education expenses and financially devastating medical expenses, and assist certain unemployed individuals. Treats certain disaster victims as first-time homebuyers. Requires contributions to an individual retirement plan (other than an individual retirement plus account) to be held for five years prior to distribution. Subtitle D: Incentives for Private Businesses to Hire New Employees - Allows employers a refundable credit for the employment taxes paid on the qualified wages of new employees hired during July 1, 1993, and June 30, 1994. Repeals the luxury excise tax on passenger vehicles, boats, aircraft, jewelry, and furs. Exempts from such tax parts for accessories installed for use on passenger vehicles by disabled individuals. Provides for the treatment of rental and nonrental real estate activities under the limitation on losses from passive activities. Title II: Deficit Reductions - Subtitle A: Extension of the Caps on Discretionary Spending - Reduces discretionary spending limits for the defense, international, and domestic categories for FY 1993 through 1995. Establishes the level of such limits for FY 1996 through 1998. Subtitle B: Spending Cuts - Rescinds a specified amount of budgetary resources for Federal administrative expenses. Eliminates the lump sum retirement benefit for Federal employees unless such employees have a life-threatening affliction or other critical medical condition. Requires employers to report group health plan information on wage forms. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish a data bank for the collection of information on Medicare secondary payer situations and health insurance information. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the reductions in discretionary spending required by this Act be achieved by reducing, modifying, eliminating, closing, or terminating specified Federal programs.
Bill· SS. 1068 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the gasoline deficit reduction rate and the diesel fuel deficit reduction rate by ten cents a gallon beginning after December 31, 1993, and ending before January 1, 1999. Increases the earned income credit and includes families without qualifying children.
Bill· SS. 1060 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a general business credit for metallurgical coal mining. Declares such credit to consist of: (1) the lesser of a percentage of coal industry health benefit premiums; or (2) a percentage of the sale of metallurgical coal. Allows such credit to offset a percentage of the minimum tax.
Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 27 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1993
Every Fifth Child Resolution - Expresses the sense of the Congress that funding should be provided to: (1) begin a phase-in toward full funding of the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC) and of Head Start programs; and (2) expand the Job Corps program. Suggests specified amounts that should be made available for such programs in certain fiscal years.
Bill· SS. 1057 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Eligibility and Enrollment Title II: Administration by Federal Medicore Board Title III: Core Services Title IV: Federal Medicore Guidelines Title V: Approval and Oversight of State Programs Title VI: Medicore Budget Title VII: Preparation and Submission of Medicore Budget to Congress Title VIII: Effective Date; Repeals; Transition; Relation to ERISA MediCORE Health Act of 1993 - Title I: Eligibility and Enrollment - Makes each legal resident of the United States eligible for CORE SERVICES through a MediCORE card under a State program. Title II: Administration by Federal MediCORE Board - Establishes within the Department of Health and Human Services a Federal MediCORE Board to be responsible for the overall administration of this Act and for the oversight of State compliance with this Act, as well as the development of CORE SERVICES and of specific State guidelines. Requires the Board to: (1) publish and make available to each State a Model MediCORE Administration Manual; and (2) establish and administer the operation of a National Data Bank System with health care data and information. Specifies various health care studies to be conducted by the Board. Requires an annual report to the appropriate congressional committees on the state of the Nation's health care services. Title III: CORE SERVICES - Requires the Board to provide for CORE SERVICES that include: medically necessary services, Medicare services, preventive health care services, long-term health, custodial or personal assistance, and catastrophic care. Amends the Child Nutrition Act to authorize appropriations for the special supplemental food program. Title IV: Federal MediCORE Guidelines - Establishes requirements for Federal MediCORE guidelines to be developed and implemented by the Board. Title V: Approval and Oversight of State Programs - Grants approval and oversight authority to the Board over State programs. Title VI: MediCORE Budget - Requires the Board to prepare an annual MediCORE Budget which provides each approved State program with health care revenue sharing payments. Established the MediCORE Trust Fund to make such payments. Provides funding for such Trust Fund through appropriations, the transfer of certain taxes, and the transfer of funds from social security trust funds. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on employees and employers to provide for health care revenue sharing. Imposes a MediCORE tax on individuals. Makes other tax changes to conform to provisions of this Act. Title VII: Preparation and Submission of MediCORE Budget to Congress - Requires the Board to annually submit a MediCORE budget report to the Congress. Title VIII: Effective Date; Repeals; Transition; Relation to ERISA - Establishes the effective date for the MediCORE program. Repeals certain Acts and laws to conform to such program. Authorizes appropriations. Supersedes provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act to the extent inconsistent with this Act.
Law· HRH.R. 2295 (103rd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Multilateral Assistance Title II: Bilateral Economic Assistance Title III: Military Assistance Title IV: Export Assistance Title V: Fiscal Year 1993 Supplemental Title I: Multilateral Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 1994 for the U.S. contribution to the: (1) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; (2) International Development Association; (3) International Finance Corporation; (4) Inter-American Development Bank; (5) Asian Development Fund; (6) African Development Fund; (7) European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; and (8) Enterprise for the Americas Multilateral Investment Fund. Makes appropriations for FY 1994 for international programs and organizations. Title II: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 1994 for: (1) development assistance (including development assistance for Subsaharan Africa); Special Fund; (2) international disaster assistance; (3) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (4) operating expenses of the Agency for International Development (AID) and the AID Office of Inspector General; (5) worldwide housing guarantees and for administrative expenses of such program; (6) debt reduction; (7) economic support fund assistance; (8) the Multilateral Assistance Initiative for the Philippines; (9) economic assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States; (10) assistance for the independent states of the former Soviet Union; (11) the African Development Foundation; (12) the Inter-American Foundation; (13) Overseas Private Investment Corporation direct and guaranteed loans and administrative expenses; (14) the Peace Corps; (15) international narcotics control; (16) migration and refugee assistance, salaries and expenses authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1980, and specified allowances and the hire of passenger motor vehicles; (17) the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund; and (18) antiterrorism assistance. Title III: Military Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 1994 for: (1) international military education and training; (2) foreign military financing and direct loans; (3) international peacekeeping operations; and (4) a Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to redesignate the Guaranty Reserve Fund as the Foreign Military Loan Liquidating Account. Title IV: Export Assistance - Prohibits the use of Export-Import Bank funds for nuclear exports to a non-nuclear weapon state. Makes appropriations for FY 1994 for: (1) direct loans, tied-aid grants, loan guarantees, and insurance under Export-Import Bank programs; (2) administrative expenses; and (3) the Trade and Development Agency. Title V: Fiscal Year 1993 Supplemental - Makes appropriations for FY 1993 for additional assistance for: (1) the independent states of the former Soviet Union; and (2) the defense agencies for providing assistance to such states.
Bill· HRH.R. 2317 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Tax Treatment of Long-Term Care Insurance Title II: Refundable Tax Credit for Certain Custodial Care Title III: Protection of Assets Under Medicaid Through Use of Qualified Long-Term Care Insurance Long-Term Care Insurance Incentive Act of 1993 - Title I: Tax Treatment of Long-Term Care Insurance - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the treatment of qualified long-term care insurance as accident and health insurance for purposes of insurance company taxation. Excludes from gross income benefits provided under a long-term care insurance contract. Includes in gross income employer-provided coverage for long-term care services. Allows a tax credit for a percentage of qualified long-term care premiums. Includes amounts paid for qualified long-term care services as medical expenses for individual itemized deductions. Includes any parent or grandparent as a dependent for purposes of such expenses. Provides for the nonrecognition of gain or loss on the exchange of any life insurance contract or an endowment or annuity contract for a long-term care insurance contract. Excludes from gross income certain amounts withdrawn from individual retirement accounts and certain employer cash or deferred arrangements to pay long-term care premiums. Provides for the exclusion as a death benefit of any amount paid or advanced to an individual under a life insurance contract because such individual is terminally ill, chronically ill, or has been permanently confined to a qualified facility. Allows insurance companies to issue accelerated death benefit riders on life insurance contracts. Title II: Refundable Tax Credit for Certain Custodial Care - Allows a $2,000 per qualified person tax credit for taxpayers who maintain a household which includes a chronically ill dependent. Title III: Protection of Assets Under Medicaid Through Use of Qualified Long-Term Care Insurance - Amends title XIX of the Social Security Act (Medicaid) to disregard assets which are attributable to coverage under a qualified long-term care insurance contract for purposes of eligibility.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 186 (103rd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 2264 (budget reconciliation).
Bill· SS. 1029 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993
Youth Job Opportunities through Business Act (The Youth JOBS Act) - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to give priority to placement in private sector jobs under the summer youth employment and training program. Provides that retention in unsubsidized employment shall not be considered an appropriate factor in prescribing performance standards for such program. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the targeted jobs tax credit with respect to qualified summer youth employees by: (1) revising the age limitation to age 14 to 22 (currently 16 to 18); (2) increasing the amount of creditable wages from $3,000 to $3,500; (3) coordinating the credit with Federal summer youth employment programs; and (4) reducing certain paperwork burdens.
Bill· SS. 1026 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an individual taxpayer an income tax deduction for travel, meals, lodging, transportation, and uniform expenses paid or incurred in connection with the taxpayer's performance of services as a member of the armed forces reserves or the National Guard.
Bill· SS. 1031 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993
United States Information Agency Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 - Authorizes appropriations for the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) for FY 1994 and 1995. Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize the USIA Director to: (1) carry out projects involving security construction and related improvements for USIA facilities not collocated with Department of State facilities abroad; and (2) contract with individuals for personal services abroad (currently, employ aliens by contract for such services). Repeals a specified provision of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 which sets limitations on reductions of USIA employees abroad. Provides that nothing shall preclude USIA from keeping the U.S. public informed of its operations, policies, or programs. Authorizes USIA to enter into contracts of up to seven years for circuit capacity to distribute radio and television programs. Permits USIA to receive funds from international organizations of which the United States is a member. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the issuance of up to 100 conditional immigrant visas per fiscal year to USIA employees. Makes 150 visas available to current employees upon enactment of this Act. Sets forth conditions for the removal of conditional status and for termination of such status. Confers special immigrant status on such individuals.
Bill· SS. 1028 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993
Requires the Internal Revenue Service to provide the same relief for distributions received in 1990 under a governmental plan that were erroneously treated as eligible for rollover treatment as is being provided for such distributions received in 1987, 1988, and 1989.
Bill· HRH.R. 2271 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993
Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to give priority to placement in private sector jobs under the summer youth employment and training program. Provides that retention in unsubsidized employment shall not be considered an appropriate factor in prescribing performance standards for such program. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the targeted jobs tax credit with respect to qualified summer youth employees by: (1) revising the age limitation to age 14 to 22 (currently 16 to 18); (2) increasing the amount of creditable wages from $3,000 to $3,500; (3) coordinating the credit with Federal summer youth employment programs; and (4) reducing certain paperwork burdens.