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Bill· HRH.R. 2276 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993
Firearm Victims Prevention Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the excise tax on manufacturers of certain handguns, assault weapons, and ammunition. Imposes a retail excise tax on the sale, transfer, or other disposition of such weapons and ammunition. Establishes the Health Care Trust Fund to make grants to facilities providing medical care to gunshot victims. Amends the Federal criminal code to increase the license application fees for dealers in firearms. Appropriates to the Trust Fund certain revenue from the excise taxes and the increased fees.
Bill· HRH.R. 2278 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993
Permits qualified air carriers that make an election in a taxable year with respect to any portion of their net operating loss carryforwards to apply such a carryforward against any tax imposed upon such carrier on the date its return is filed, or the date such election is made. Limits such tax credit to the lesser of a certain percentage of such portion or the carrier's aggregate transportation excise taxes deposited during calendar 1992.
Bill· HRH.R. 2274 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993
Factory Trawler Equitable Tax Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on Pacific whiting caught on a fish processing vessel in a fishery regulated under the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Bases the tax on the weight of the unprocessed fish and makes the owner or operator of the vessel liable for the tax. Establishes a Pacific Whiting Fisheries Research Trust Fund for expenditures for habitat restoration, restoration and rebuilding of fisheries and fishing stock, and by-catch gear selectivity and reduction research. Appropriates taxes imposed by this Act to such Fund.
Bill· HRH.R. 2291 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the deduction for home office expenses where the taxpayer's sole fixed location of business is in the home of the taxpayer.
Bill· SS. 1019 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1993
Requires the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) to notify the Congress in advance of any meeting of the UN Security Council held to decide whether to call upon member countries to participate in international peacekeeping activities, if participation by the United States in such activities would require an obligation of funds in excess of amounts made available to the UN for that fiscal year.
Bill· SS. 1023 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1993
Prohibits expending FY 1994 funds for preleasing and leasing activities in the Atlantic for a certain Outer Continental Shelf Lease sale specified in a proposal for the Outer Continental Shelf Natural Gas and Oil Resource Management Comprehensive Program, 1992-1997.
Bill· HRH.R. 2255 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: State Water Pollution Control Revolving Funds Title II: Excise Taxes on Substances Contributing to Water Pollution, Etc. Polluter Pays Clean Water Funding Act - Title I: State Water Pollution Control Revolving Funds - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to add to the list of projects eligible for State water pollution control revolving fund assistance: (1) watershed planning and management; (2) public water conservation and reuse; and (3) low-income water and sewer assurance programs. Establishes conditions on a State's authority to make grants from such funds. Makes eligible for grant assistance projects: (1) to be carried out in political subdivisions with 5,000 people or fewer or in communities where water and sewer bills exceed a specified percentage of median family income; (2) to control nonpoint source pollution; and (3) to establish a low-income water and sewer assurance program. Revises allotment provisions concerning State revolving funds to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to publish an allotment formula based on State populations. Directs the Administrator to establish minimum standards for low-income water and sewer assurance programs eligible for assistance under this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Excise Taxes on Substances Contributing to Water Pollution, Etc. - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on the discharge of any taxable chemical pollutant to water or any publicly owned treatment works. Exempts from such tax discharges of chemical pollutants used exclusively for any residential or farming use or any use by any Federal, State, or local agency. Imposes a tax on any fertilizer, pesticide, or animal feed which is: (1) manufactured or produced in the United States or entered into the United States for consumption use or warehousing; and (2) sold or used by the manufacturer, producer, or importer. Exempts articles which are to be exported or sold for export from such tax. Imposes a tax of 1.95 cents on each thousand gallons of water sold for use or used by the ultimate consumer in a taxable use. Makes persons using the water liable for the tax. Establishes the Clean Water Trust Fund to make expenditures to carry out State water pollution control revolving fund activities.
Bill· HRH.R. 2258 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1993
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to apply the definition of disposable retired pay, as used under such Act for the determination of a former spouse's share of such pay, to all divorces, dissolutions, annulments, and legal separations that become effective at any time. (Currently, such definition is applicable to such actions that occur after November 5, 1990.)
Law· HRH.R. 2264 (103rd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Committee on Agriculture Title II: Committee on Armed Services Title III: Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Title IV: Education and Labor Title V: Committee on Energy and Commerce Title VI: Committee on Foreign Affairs Title VII: Committee on the Judiciary Title VIII: Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Title IX: Committee on Natural Resources Title X: Committee on Post Office and Civil Service Title XI: Committee on Public Works and Transportation Title XII: Committee on Veterans Affairs Title XIII: Committee on Ways and Means-Savings Title XIV: Revenue Provisions Title I: Committee on Agriculture - Agricultural Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Subtitle A: Commodity Programs - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to reduce payment acres for wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice. (Sec. 1101) Extends specified loan, payment, and acreage reduction programs for wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, rice, milk and dairy products, tobacco, sugar, oilseeds, peanuts, honey, and wool and mohair. Sets forth maximum purchase prices for butter and nonfat dry milk. Increases marketing assessments for tobacco and sugar. Establishes an additional marketing assessment for peanuts. (Sec. 1109) Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide temporary additional customs duties on peanut butter and peanut paste. Subjects peanut butter to import quotas. (Sec. 1110) Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to reduce the support rate and annual payments for honey. Eliminates marketing assessments. (Sec. 1111) Reduces annual payments for wool and mohair. Eliminates marketing assessments. Subtitle B: Restructuring of Loan Programs - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to restructure current Rural Electrification Administration (REA) electric and telephone loan programs, including creation of categories of hardship loans and municipal (electric) loans. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1202) Transfers REA authority to the Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Administration. Subtitle C: Food Stamp Program - Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief Act - Chapter 1: Ensuring Adequate Food Assistance - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to increase the basic food stamp program (program) benefit to 104 percent of the thrifty food plan. (Sec. 1312) Increases the age for students whose income is excluded from consideration as program income. (Sec. 1313) Removes (with an interim increase) the excess shelter cap. (Sec. 1314) Eliminates food stamp reductions for certain reapplying households. (Sec. 1315) Excludes third party payments for transitional housing for the homeless from consideration as program income. (Sec. 1318) Increases funding for the nutrition assistance program in Puerto Rico. (Sec. 1316) Excludes general assistance vendor payments from consideration as program income. Chapter 2: Promoting Self Sufficiency - Excludes education assistance and certain child support from consideration as program income. (Sec. 1324) Increases dependent care deductions and participant and State agency reimbursements in connection with employment and training activities. (Sec. 1325) Increases annually the fair market value limits of vehicles that program recipients may own. (Sec. 1326) Excludes from financial resources the value of a household vehicle used to carry heating fuel or water for home use. (Sec. 1327) Authorizes resource accumulation demonstration projects. Chapter 3: Simplifying the Provision of Food Assistance - Permits related adults living in the same household to apply for separate program benefits. (Sec. 1332) Makes children living with parents who are partcipating in drug or alcohol treatment programs eligible for food stamps. (Sec. 1333) Permits a participating family made up of, or including, an elderly or disabled member to own $3,000 in allowable financial resources. (Sec. 1334) Repeals provisions authorizing benefit reductions due to funding. Chapter 4: Improving Program Integrity - Expands: (1) the permitted use and disclosure of information provided by retail and wholesale food concerns; and (2) claims collections alternatives. (Sec. 1343) Authorizes demonstration projects aimed at coupon trafficking. Chapter 5: Improving Food Stamp Program Management - Excludes from categorical eligibility any household disqualified from participation because of workfare noncompliance. (Sec. 1353) Disqualifies program participants for trading food stamp coupons for controlled substances or for firearms, ammunition, or explosives. (Sec. 1356) Modifies the program's quality control system. Requires an error measurement study. Chapter 6: Uniform Reimbursement Rates - Revises State reimbursement rates. Chapter 7: Implementation and Effective Dates - Sets forth implementation and effective dates. Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to extend and reduce expenditure levels for the market promotion program. (Sec. 1402) Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to improve admission and recreation fees at specified public use areas. (Sec. 1403) Requires reduction of Department of Agriculture expenditures through personnel and office consolidations. (Sec. 1404) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to: (1) reduce the conservation reserve program acreage requirement; and (2) revise and make mandatory wetlands reserve program acreage requirements. (Sec. 1405) Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to direct the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to make available four levels of commodity insurance based upon percentage of loss in yield. Title II: Committee on Armed Services - Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a limited increase in the military retired pay of any former military personnel who became a member of the armed forces before August 1, 1986. (Sec. 2002) Waives the automatic FY 1994 increase in the rates of basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic subsistence allowance. Provides that if the General Schedule pay rates for Federal employees is increased during any of FY 1995 through 1998, then military pay rates shall be increased. Title III: Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to prescribe an order of priority for the distribution of amounts realized from the resolution of any insured depository institution. Requires distributions in connection with certain claims to be accompanied by an accounting report. (Sec. 3002) Amends the Federal Reserve Act to mandate that for FY 1994 through FY 1998 specified percentages of the surplus fund of any Federal reserve bank be transferred to the Treasury. Prohibits a Federal reserve bank from replenishing its surplus fund by the amount of such transfer. (Sec. 3003) Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 to: (1) require that certain income disclosure consent forms be submitted for verification of eligibility for benefits; and (2) amend applicant, participant, and public housing agency protections. (Sec. 3004) Amends the National Housing Act to direct the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) to: (1) charge fees in connection with its multiclass securities guarantee program; (2) assure that a portion of program benefits accrue to mortgagors who execute eligible mortgages; and (3) summarize program activities to the Congress. (Sec. 3005) Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to increase the rate at which the Secretary earns the single premium payment collected at the time of insurance of a mortgage that is an obligation of the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund. Title IV: Education and Labor - Subtitle A: Federal Direct Loan Program - Student Loan Reform Act of 1993 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to replace the Federal Family Education Loan Program, under which loans made by private lenders are guaranteed by the Government, with a Federal Direct Student Loan Program. Chapter 1: Amendments to Part D of Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Amends HEA to change the Federal Direct Loan Demonstration Program to the Federal Direct Student Loan Program (FDSL). (Sec. 4002) Sets forth program authority for making sums available for FDSL loans to all eligible students (and parents). Directs the Secretary of Education to provide funds for such student and parent loans on the basis of need and eligibility of students and parents at each participating institution. Declares that no institution shall have a right to participate in FDSL programs. Provides for application of the requirements of the Cash Management Improvement Act of 1990 on a transition schedule. Sets forth selection criteria for an institution's participation in the FDSL program and in origination agreements. Allows consortia to apply to originate FDSL loans. Sets forth terms and conditions for FDSL loans, including certain parallels with Stafford, supplemental, parent, and unsubsidized Stafford loans under the FFEL program. Sets interest rates. Sets minimum and maximum loan fees. Provides for standard, extended, graduated, and income contingent (EXCEL account) repayment plan options. Sets forth deferment and forbearance possibilities (including national service). Authorizes the Secretary to award contracts under the FDSL program for: (1) alternative origination of loans; (2) servicing and collection of loans; (3) data systems for records maintenance; and (4) services to assist in orderly transition from FFEL to FDSL programs. Authorizes the use of funds for research on FDSL program aspects, including flexible repayment plans. Chapter 2: Conforming Amendments - Amends HEA with respect to FFEL program student and parent loans during the transition to the FDSL program. (Sec. 4021) Provides for advances to guaranty agencies for lender-of-last-resort services. Requires the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) to begin making FFEL loans as lender-of-last-resort and to cease such lending when the triggering conditions have ceased. (Sec. 4028) Requires a study of alternatives for Sallie Mae during and after the transition to FDSL, including its own transition from a Government-sponsored enterprise to a private corporation. (Sec. 4030) Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to provide that any reductions in the FDSL program required by a sequestration order shall be achieved only through a specified increase in the loan fee. Chapter 3: Effective Dates; Study - Sets forth effective dates for amendments made by this Act. (Sec. 4032) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the feasibility of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collection of student loan repayments. (Sec. 4033) Expresses the preference of the House Committee on Education and Labor for an IRS collection mechanism. Subtitle B: Cost Sharing by States - Amends HEA to require any State in which there are higher education institutions with cohort default rates exceeding 20 percent to pay portions of costs related to such loan defaults. Allows States to charge institutions fees based on their cohort default rate and the State's risk of loss. Subtitle C: ERISA Amendments Relating to Group Health Plans - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to coordinate ERISA preemption rules with Medicaid provisions for liability of third parties. (Sec. 4202) Prohibits a group health plan from reducing its coverage of the costs of pediatric vaccines below that provided as of May 1, 1993. (Sec. 4203) Sets forth rules whereby: (1) ERISA preemption of State laws shall be inapplicable to certain State laws (of Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, and New York); or (2) the Secretary of Labor can assist such States in effectuating the policies of certain provisions superseded by ERISA. Title V: Committee on Energy and Commerce - Subtitle A: Medicare Program - Chapter 1: Provisions Relating to Part B - Subchapter A: Physicians' Services - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to, among other things: (1) reduce the default update for the conversion factor otherwise applicable to surgical and non-surgical services (except primary care services) in 1994; (2) increase the performance standard factor; (3) provide for classification of primary care services as a separate category of services with respect to volume performance standards and updates in conversion factors for physicians' services; (4) phase-in reductions to the practice expense relative value units; (5) revise the payment policy for anesthesia care teams; (6) repeal the prohibition on separate billing for the interpretation of electrocardiograms (EKGs); (7) require adjustments in the relative value units for services in order to ensure budget neutrality; (8) require Medicare carriers to screen unassigned claims; (9) include antigens prepared by a physician on the physician fee schedule; and (10) specify the conditions under which the Secretary can recognize substitute billing arrangements between two physicians. (Sec. 5011) Requires the Secretary to develop relative values for pediatric physicians' services. Subchapter B: Outpatient Hospital Services and Ambulatory Surgical Services - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) extend the ten percent reduction in payments for capital-related costs of outpatient hospital services, as well as the 5.8 percent reduction in payments for other costs of such services; and (2) extend special payment rates for certain eye or eye and ear hospitals. (Sec. 5023) Directs the Secretary to suspend the annual update for ambulatory surgery payments for FY 1994. (Sec. 5025) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OMBRA '90) to extend the cap on payments for intraocular lenses. Subchapter C: Durable Medical Equipment - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) revise payment rules for items of durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies; (2) remove aspirators and nebulizers from the category of DME items requiring frequent and substantial servicing, and specifically provide for payment of related accessories; (3) set forth requirements which suppliers of medical equipment and supplies must satisfy in order to qualify for Medicare reimbursement; (4) require development of standardized certificates of medical necessity forms; (5) require DME suppliers to submit claims to the carrier with jurisdiction over the geographic area including the patient's permanent residence; (6) place restrictions on certain DME supplier marketing and sales practices; (7) specify circumstances under which Medicare beneficiaries are not financially liable for covered items and services furnished by a supplier; (8) address adjustments made to unreasonable DME payment amounts; (9) determine payments for surgical dressings; and (10) reduce the DME fee schedule amount for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation devices. (Sec. 5032) Freezes payments during 1994 for parenteral and enteral nutrients, supplies, and equipment at 1993 levels. (Sec. 5034) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on: (1) the effect of the uniform criteria established pursuant to this Act for DME items; and (2) appropriate methodology for determining payment under Medicare for prosthetic devices and orthotics. (Sec. 5037) Amends SSA title XI to modify anti-kickback provisions. (Sec. 5042) Requires a report to the Congress on variations in DME supplier costs. Subchapter D: Part B Premium - Amends SSA title XVIII to extend current law with respect to the monthly Medicare part B premium for beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare. Subchapter E: Other Provisions - Revises provisions of SSA title XVIII, including: (1) to revise payments for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests; (2) to address the provision of x-ray services by rural health clinics and federally-qualified health centers; (3) to condition payment for mammograms on the certification status of the facility; and (4) to provide Medicare coverage of oral cancer drugs. (Sec. 5064) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986 (OMBRA '86) to extend the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration. (Sec. 5066) Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COMBRA '85) to extend certain municipal health service demonstration projects. (Sec. 5069A) Requires a report to the Congress on annual payment limitations for outpatient physicial and occupational therapy services. Chapter 2: Provisions Relating to Parts A and B - Amends Medicare part C (Miscellaneous) provisions relating to Medicare parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) to: (1) eliminate requirements for special adjustments for administrative costs of hospital-based home health agencies; (2) make changes with regard to Medicare as secondary payor; (3) reduce payment for erythropoientin; (4) require nursing facilities and home health agencies to inform Medicare beneficiaries of the hospice benefit; and (5) require revision of the capitation payment methodology for health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to account for regional variations in application of Medicare secondary payor provisions. (Sec. 5073) Amends Medicare part B with regard to use of carriers to recover erroneous payments from primary payers. (Sec. 5072, 5074, and 5078) Requires: (1) a report on Medicare payments to hospitals for medical residency training program costs; (2) a report on the use of the new shared facility arrangement exception to ownership and compensation arrangements under the ban on certain referrals by physicians; and (3) establishment of a method of outreach to newly eligible Medicare beneficiaries qualifying for Medicaid payment of out-of-pocket expenses. (Sec. 5077) Amends OMBRA '86 to extend certain waivers under Medicare for the Watts Health Foundation. (Sec. 5079) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OMBRA '87) to extend the waivers under Medicare for social health maintenance organization (SHMO) demonstration projects. Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to require additional SHMO demonstration projects and permit one project to enroll Medicare end stage renal disease beneficiaries. (Sec. 5082) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OMBRA '90) to revise the payment methodology for organizations under a risk-sharing contract with the Secretary. Chapter 3: Provisions Relating to Medicare Supplemental Insurance Policies - Amends OMBRA '90 and Medicare to make changes to Federal standards respecting the sale of Medicare supplemental insurance policies. Subtitle B: Medicaid Program and Other Health Care Provisions- Chapter 1: Medicaid Program - Subchapter A: Program Savings Provisions - Amends SSA title XIX to, among other things: (1) repeal the mandate that States cover personal care services under their Medicaid programs for all individuals entitled to nursing facility benefits; (2) allow States to establish formularies limiting coverage of prescription drugs under their Medicaid programs; (3) prohibit States from disregarding assets in cases where an individual has received payments under a long-term care policy; (4) address the liability of third parties to pay for care and services provided to Medicaid eligibles; (5) require States to have in effect certain laws relating to medical child support; and (6) make changes with regard to payments for disproportionate share hospitals. (Sec. 5117) Amends SSA to add a new title XXI requiring establishment of a Health Coverage Clearinghouse to identify third parties which may be liable for payment of health care items and services furnished to Medicare, Medicaid, Indian Health Service, and Maternal and Child Health Service beneficiaries. Subchapter B: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends SSA title XIX to, among other things: (1) provide for the application under Medicaid of the physician self-referral prohibitions currently under Medicare; (2) require State maintenance of annual expenditures (adjusted) for State Medicaid fraud control units; (3) change treatment of HMO enrollees in determining the Medicaid inpatient utilization rate of a hospital seeking to qualify as a disproportionate share hospital; (4) raise, with respect to eligible States, Federal Medicaid matching payments for State expenses incurred in the provision of bona fide emergency medical services to undocumented aliens; (5) establish an option for States to make TB-infected individuals eligible for limited TB-related services; (6) require that mammographies paid for under Medicaid be conducted by a facility certified under the Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992; and (7) make permanent the current law requirement for continued Medicaid coverage of families who lose eligibility for cash assistance under the Aid to Families with Dependent Chidren Program because they work. (Sec. 5132 and 5144) Amends SSA title XI to: (1) authorize an alternative intermediate remedy for redressing kickback offenses; (2) change procedures for initiation of a civil monetary penalty action; and (3) raise the ceiling on Federal Medicaid matching payments to Puerto Rico and other specified territories. (Sec. 5137) Extends the period during which the Secretary is required to waive application of the enrollment mix requirement under Medicaid for certain HMOs under the Dayton Area Health Plan, Inc. (Sec. 5138, 5146, and 5150) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 with respect to the Tennessee Primary Care Network, certain demonstration projects for low-income pregnant women and children, and the Kent Community Hospital Complex and the Saginaw Community Hospital. (Sec. 5139) Directs the Secretary to waive application of the enrollment mix requirement under Medicaid with respect to the District of Columbia Chartered Health Plan, Inc.. (Sec. 5140) Amends the Family Support Act of 1988 to extend the period during which the Secretary is required to waive application of certain provisions of Medicaid law for the Minnesota Prepaid Demonstration Project. Subchapter C: Miscellaneous and Technical Corrections Relating to OMBRA '90 - Amends OMBRA '90 to make miscellaneous and technical corrections to various specified Medicaid-related provisions. Chapter 2: Universal Access to Childhood Immunizations - Amends the Public Health Service Act to entitle each State to the Federal purchase of enough pediatric vaccines to immunize each child in the State who is: (1) covered under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act; (2) uninsured, or has insurance which does not cover vaccinations; or (3) an Indian. (Sec. 5181) Establishes the National Childhood Immunization Trust Fund. Exempts the vaccine program from reduction under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Mandates State allotments for a registry of information on every child, including immunization data. Authorizes appropriations. Mandates grants to States to achieve objectives for immunizing U.S. children. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 5182) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconcilation Act of 1989 to authorize appropriations from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Funds to administer certain provisions of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Amends the Public Health Service Act to modify provisions regulating the effect on the statute of limitations of revisions to the Vaccine Injury Table. (Sec. 5183) Amends Medicaid provisions to require notifying all Medicaid-eligible persons under 21 of the need for immunizations. Adds grant entities under Public Health Service Act health provisions for residents of public housing to the list of entities within the definition of "Federally-qualified health center." (Sec. 5184) Allows Medicaid payments directly to vaccine manufacturers under certain programs. (Sec. 5185) Authorizes grants for demonstration projects providing comprehensive services to reduce the incidence of infant mortality and morbidity, fetal deaths, maternal mortality, fetal alcohol syndrome, and low birth weight. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 5186) Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant) of the Social Security Act to authorize appropriations to carry out specified provisions. (Sec. 5187) Modifies compensation requirements regarding members of the National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps. Allows certain entities that are migrant, community, homeless, and public housing health services providers to elect certain treatment under the Public Health Service for purposes of malpractice actions. Removes provisions allowing waiver of rights to recover National Health Service Corps scholarship or loan repayment amounts after default. Subtitle C: Communications Licensing Improvement - Chapter 1: Competitive Bidding Authority - Licensing Improvement Act of 1993 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to empower the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to use a system of competitive bidding in the granting of licenses involving the use of the electromagnetic spectrum (public airwaves). Outlines certain provisions, including: (1) uses to which such bidding may apply; (2) establishment by the FCC of a competitive bidding methodology; (3) alternative payment schedules for the use of airwaves; and (4) bidder and licensee qualifications. (Sec. 5205) Revises the FCC's regulatory authority in the mangagement of mobile communications services. Considers a person engaged in the provision of commercial mobile services to be a common carrier and, therefore, required to establish physical connections as required under the Communications Act. Prohibits State or local government imposition of any rate or entry regulation on commercial mobile service, but allows the FCC to grant a State petition to regulate rates under certain conditions. Chapter 2: Emerging Telecommunications Technologies - Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Act of 1993 - Amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and the FCC Chairman to conduct joint electromagnetic spectrum planning with respect to future spectrum requirements and promotion of efficient use of the spectrum. (Sec. 5222) Directs the Secretary to report to the President and the Congress identifying bands of frequencies that are allocated primarily for Government, are eligible for licensing, and are not required by the Government. Requires a report to the Congress on preliminary identification of reallocable bands of frequencies. Requires that an advisory committee be convened to assist in carrying out this Chapter. Directs certain actions after receipt of the advisory committee report on reallocation of band frequency assignments between Government and private uses. Authorizes the President to substitute alternative frequencies in the interest of national defense, governmental needs, public health or safety, or financial considerations. Directs the FCC to submit a plan for the distribution of reallocated frequency bands. Authorizes the President to reclaim reassigned frequencies. Chapter 3: Communications Technical Amendments - Sets forth corrections and technical amendments to communications provisions. Subtitle D: Energy Programs - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to extend from September 30, 1995, to September 30, 1998, the authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to collect annual charges. Title VI: Committee on Foreign Affairs - States that the Committee on Foreign Affairs recommends changes in Federal law which would reduce direct spending under the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund and the Foreign Service Pension System by requiring a three-month delay in cost-of-living adjustments for each year, FY 1994 through 1996. Title VII: Committee on the Judiciary - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to extend through FY 1998 the authorization for the collection of surcharges for use of the Patent and Trademark Office. Title VIII: Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries - Amends Federal shipping law to extend the years during which certain tonnage duties are imposed. (Sec. 8002) Declares the sense of the Congress that the inland waterways fuel tax should not be increased beyond those increases already mandated by law. Title IX: Committee on Natural Resources - Amends specified Federal law regarding the political union of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (Commonwealth) with the United States to repeal the direct grant asssitance for such Islands. Prescribes guidelines under which the United States commits its full faith and credit for specified payments to certain U.S. possessions and territories, including payments for capital improvements projects. Requires reports on the minimum wage and immigration policies of the Commonwealth. (Sec. 9002) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to provide that, in calculating the amount to be paid to States of revenues derived from Federal onshore mineral and geothermal steam leasing receipts, 50 percent of the portion of the appropriation allocable for administration and enforcement shall be deducted from those receipts in approximately equal amounts each month prior to their division and distribution between the States and the United States. (Sec. 9003) Mandates the payment of a specified minimum flat claim maintenance fee and location fee by the holder of an unpatented mining claim, mill, or tunnel site in lieu of the assessment work and related filing requirements under certain Federal mining law. Exempts certain oil shale claims from the fee requirement. Waives fees under certain conditions. (Sec. 9004) Amends Federal reclamation laws to mandate that non-Federal recipients of water delivered by way of Federal facilities pay an operation and maintenance charge to the United States. Establishes the Natural Resources Restoration Fund for the benefit of fish and wildlife resources and habitat affected by Federal reclamation projects. (Sec. 9005) Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to prohibit recreation user fees for campgrounds lacking specified amenities. Revises the terms of "Golden Age" passports in the National Park System. Establishes user fees for rights-of-way, tour vehicles or aircraft, and commercial telephone transmission facilities on Federal lands. (Sec. 9007) Directs the Secretaries of Energy and of the Interior adjust fees and other charges in order to recover the cost of Government services and establish a fee mechanism to recover Government costs of providing services which are currently free. (Sec. 9008) Directs the President to transmit in the annual budget an estimate of unfunded future Federal liabilities that are not accounted for in the budget itself. Title X: Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - Subtitle A: Civil Service - Delays the cost-of-living adjustments scheduled to take effect under certain Federal employee retirement systems during FY 1994 through 1996. (Sec. 1002) Amends the Civil Service and Federal Employees' Retirement Systems and the Foreign Service and Central Intelligence Agency systems to permanently eliminate the lump sum retirement option except for employees with a critical medical condition. (Sec. 1003) Eliminates the 1994 annual cost-of-living adjustment for Members of Congress and Federal employees. Amends the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 and other Federal law to modify the formulae for computing such adjustments for 1995 through 1997. (Sec. 1004) Amends Federal law to delay locality-based comparability payments until July of 1994. Limits the total amounts payable for locality payments between July 1, 1994, and September 30, 1998. Authorizes the President to specify locality payments less than the minimum amounts which would otherwise be required if necessary to comply with such limitations. Delays annual cost-of-living adjustments for Federal employees and Members of Congress until July of each year for the period between January 1, 1995, and December 31, 2003. Repeals provisions excluding senior executives from the limitation on the accumulation of annual leave. Prohibits cash awards during FY 1994 through 1998. Limits the average total number of civilian employees in the executive branch (except employees of the U.S. Postal Service and Postal Rate Commission) during FY 1994 through 1998. Requires the Director of the Administrative Office of United States Courts to apply the prohibitions and limitations of this Act with respect to annual cost-of-living adjustments and locality-based comparability payments to employees under the separate system of the Office. (Sec. 1005) Requires certain Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) plans to apply the Medicare part B limiting charges for physicians' services to enrolled retirees who are 65 or older and do not participate in Medicare part B. (Sec. 1006) Extends the proxy premium formula for determining Government contributions under FEHBP through contract year 1998 in the absence of a Government-wide indemnity benefit plan. Expresses the sense of the Congress that such extension should not be considered to reflect any view on the appropriateness, merits, or timing, or any other aspect of any comprehensive health care reform legislation. Subtitle B: Postal Service - Directs the U.S. Postal Service to make a specified additional payment into the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund and the Employee Health Benefits Fund to cover increases due to retirement cost-of-living adjustments and increases in health benefits costs. Subtitle C: Revenue Forgone Reform - Revenue Forgone Reform Act - Amends Federal postal service law to repeal the authorization of appropriations under the Overseas Citizens Voting Rights Act of 1975 and the Federal Voting Assistance Act of 1955 for mail sent at reduced postage rates. Revises provisions relating to the treatment of reduced-rate categories of mail. (Sec. 10203) Repeals certain Federal provisions authorizing appropriations to the Postal Service for certain accumulated operating indebtedness and directing the Postal Service to provide door or curbline delivery to certain permanent addresses. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 through 2035 to cover losses. (Sec. 10205) Prohibits reduced mailing rates for mail adverstising or offering products or services if: (1) the sale is not related to the purposes allowing mail at such rates; or (2) the mail matter involved is part of a cooperative mailing with a person not authorized to mail at reduced rates. Revises provisions with respect to the mailing rates of books. (Sec. 10207) Expresses the sense of the Congress that any legislation enacted after September 30, 1994, which would expand the class of mail eligible for reduced rates should provide for funding ensuring no losses to the Postal Service nor increases in rates for other classes of mail. Title XI: Committee on Public Works and Transportation - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to revise fees charged for aircraft registration, designation as an aviation medical examiner, issuance of an airman's certificate to be a pilot and costs associated with processing forms for fuel system repairs. Requires fees be deposited in the Airport and Airway Trust Fund. (Sec. 11002) Amends the Flood Control Act of 1968 to authorize the Secretary of the Army to collect fees for the use of developed recreation facilities, including campsites, beaches, and boat launching ramps. Requires fees to be deposited into the Treasury account for the Corps of Engineers. Title XII: Committee on Veterans Affairs - Veterans Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Amends the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1990 to extend through September 30, 1998, the requirement that veterans with a certain minimum income level make copayments in exchange for receiving certain health care benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs. Extends: (1) the requirement of a minimal copayment for medications received by veteran outpatients; (2) authority to recover the cost of veterans' services from third party insurers; (3) the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to provide certain financial information for income verification purposes; (4) a monthly pension limitation for certain recipients of nursing home care covered under Medicaid; and (5) procedures applicable to liquidation sales on defaulted home loans to veterans. (Sec. 12006) Prohibits any FY 1994 cost-of-living adjustment in the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation paid to surviving spouses. (Sec. 12008) Increases the home loan fee charged to veterans for loans guaranteed by the Department, closed after September 30, 1993, and before October 1, 1998. (Sec. 12009) Reduces by one percentage point the FY 1994 cost-of-living adjustment for educational assistance benefits payable to active duty and reserve personnel under the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program. (Sec. 12010) Excludes a person who is not the natural or legally adopted child of the parent from eligibility for survivors' and dependents' educational assistance. Title XIII: Committee on Ways and Means: Savings - Subtitle A: Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Programs - Amends OMBRA '90 to require the Secretary to reestablish and maintain in service the same number of telephone lines to each local social security office that were in place as of September 30, 1989. (Sec. 13003) Makes amendments to SSA title II, including to: (1) permit States collecting social security numbers to use those numbers to eliminate duplicate names and names of convicted felons from jury source lists; (2) extend to all States the option to provide police officers and firefighters with social security coverage; (3) disregard the windfall elimination provision in computing any U.S. totalization benefit and the amount of a regular U.S. benefit of an individual who receives a foreign totalization benefit based in part on U.S. employment, and who does not receive any other pension based on noncovered employment; (4) provide that military pensions based wholly on service in the military reserves before 1988 shall not trigger application of the Government pension offset or windfall elimination provision to the individual's social security benefits; (5) permit the Department of Agriculture to share its list of names, social security numbers, and employer identification numbers of the owners of retail grocery stores which redeem food stamps with other Federal agencies for the purpose of investigating food stamp fraud and other crimes; and (6) prohibit a State from using social security numbers in the administration of any driver's license or motor vehicle registration law where the State has not contracted to provide death certificate and related information to the Secretary, or where use of death information is restricted. (Sec. 13005) Exempts from payment liability and penalties ministers who were American citizens and residents of Canada prior to the 1984 totalization agreement between the United States and Canada and failed to file a tax return or pay self-employment taxes. (Sec. 13010) Amends IRC to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose information from tax returns on individuals' mortality status to the Secretary for eipdemiological research purposes; (2) coordinate the collection of domestic service employment taxes with the collection of income taxes; and (3) change threshold requirements with respect to social security employment taxes on domestic services. (Sec. 13015) Requires the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the rising costs of disability benefits. (Sec. 13016) Amends the Social Disability Amendments of 1980 to extend the Secretary's authority to conduct disability work incentive demonstration projects. Subtitle B: Human Resources Amendments - Chapter 1: Child Welfare Services, Foster Care, and Adoption Assistance - Amends SSA title IV part B (Child-Welfare Services) to, among other thing: (1) create a capped entitlement program to provide child welfare services designed to strengthen and preserve families; (2) repeal provisions linking the payment of title IV part B funds to the implementation of protections for children in foster care; (3) require State part B plans to contain a description of the specific measures taken by the State to comply with the Indian Child Welfare Act; and (4) provide for child welfare traineeships. (Sec. 13212) Directs the Secretary to provide grants for State courts to improve foster care placement and adoption proceedings. (Sec. 13216) Amends SSA title IV part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) (FCAA) to change the reimbursement policy with respect to foster care maintenance payments made on behalf of certain children whose adoption has been set aside by a court or whose voluntary placement in foster care has been judicially determined to be in the best interests of the child. Requires States to review their foster care maintenance payment and adoption assistance levels. Requires the health and education records in each child's case plan include a record that the foster care provider was advised (where appropriate) of the child's eligibility for certain Medicaid services. Makes permanent the authorization for the independent living program. Sets forth case plan requirements for children placed in foster care a substantial distance from their homes or in a different State. (Sec. 13218) Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the ways in which States implement the reasonable efforts requirements for State part E plans. (Sec. 13225) Amends OMBRA '89 to extend permanently (and retroactively to October 1, 1992) the level of Federal reimbursement under part E for the training of personnel employed by the State or local child welfare agency, and for the training of foster and adoptive parents. (Sec. 13227) Amends SSA title XI part A to overturn certain limitations in Suter v. Artist M. on private enforceability of State plan requirements. (Sec. 13232) Prohibits the Secretary, until October 1, 1994, from reducing any payment to any State under parts B or E because of State noncompliance with part B foster care protections. (Sec. 13233) Requires the Secretary to make grants to eligible institutions to train individuals to deliver culturally sensitive and bilingual child welfare services in border areas with Mexico. Authorizes approprations. Chapter 2: Child Support Enforcement - Amends SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to set up new paternity establishment performance standards and procedures for State child support enforcement programs. Outlines State plan requirements. Requires State child support enforcement agencies to periodically report, at no charge, the names and amounts of obligors at least two months delinquent in child support payments to bona fide consumer reporting agencies. Chapter 3: Supplemental Security Income - Amends SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) and other Federal law to require the Social Security Administration to charge States fees for the Federal cost of administering supplemental SSI payments. (Sec. 13252) Amends OMBRA '90 to make permanent the exclusion of State and local relocation assistance from countable income under SSI. (Sec. 13253-13256) Amends SSA title XVI to: (1) deem to be living in a household a spouse or parent of family members on SSI who is absent because of active duty military assignment; (2) exclude hazardous duty pay from countable income; (3) continue SSI benefits to children who are U.S. citizens if they received SSI in the United States and then accompanied their parents on military assignment to a U.S. territory or possession; and (4) extend the SSI definition of disability for children under 18 to any person under age 18. (Sec. 13257) Exempts income of up to $2,000 per year received by individual Indians that is derived from leases on trust or restricted Indian lands in determining eligibility and benefit levels under AFDC (SSA title IV part A) and SSI. Chapter 4: Aid to Families with Dependent Children - Amends SSA title IV part A to: (1) reduce to 50 percent the enhanced Federal matching available for certain categories of State administrative expenses; (2) make optional a State's verification of an individual's immigration status with the Immigration and Naturalization Service through an immigration status verfication system; (3) delay Federal requirements regarding AFDC-UP participation rates; and (4) increase the amount of stepparent earnings disregarded in determining the eligibility and benefit amounts of AFDC recipients and applicants. (Sec. 13263) Amends part F (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program) (JOBS) to require development of criteria for performance standards in the JOBS program, rather than performance standards themselves. (Sec. 13264) States that the Congress declares: (1) it is the responsibility of the Federal Government to reduce family dependence on income from welfare programs, to assist them toward self-sufficiency, and to increase the living standards of low-income families; and (2) the Federal Government should help welfare recipients and individuals at risk of welfare participation to improve education and job skills, to obtain access to child care and support services, and to take other steps as may assist them to become financially independent. Directs the Secretary to develop welfare participation measures and predictors, and report annually on welfare participation to specified congressional committees. Establishes the Advisory Board on Welfare Participation. (Sec. 13265) Directs the Secretary to provide for a demonstration project offering low-income residents of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, employment, wage supplements, health and child care, and job counseling and training. (Sec. 13266 and 13270) Amends the Family Support Act of 1988 to: (1) delay the requirement for implementation of the Unemployed Parent program in Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa until the limitations on Federal matching payments with respect to AFDC and FCAA maintenance payments are repealed; and (2) extend the authorization for early childhood development projects. (Sec. 13269) Amends OMBRA '87 to extend New York State's Child Assistance Program demonstration. (Sec. 13267) Amends SSA title XI to provide that, with respect to AFDC, one adult member of a household may sign a declaration attesting to the citizenship or satisfactory immigration status of other household members. Chapter 5: Unemployment Insurance - Amends IRC and SSA title III (Unemployment Compensation) to provide for the treatment of short-time compensation programs under which individuals whose workweeks have been reduced by at least ten percent (especially as an alternative to a temporary layoff) are eligible for unemployment compensation, under certain conditions. (Sec. 13275) Amends the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to increase the reimbursement rate and repeal special eligibility requirements under the extended unemployment program. (Sec. 13276 and 13277) Amends IRC to extend the current Federal unemployment tax rate and require disclosure of tax information to the Railroad Retirement Board for administration of the Railroad Retirement and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Acts. Chapter 6: Technical Provisions - Makes technical corrections related to the income security and human resources provisions of OMBRAs '89 and '90. (Sec. 13283) Amends SSA title XVI to repeal certain obsolete provisions relating to treatment of the earned income tax credit. Subtitle C: Medicare Program - Chapter 1: Provisions Relating to Part A -Subchapter A: Elimination of Inflation Update for Services Provided under Part A: - Amends SSA title XVIII (Medicare) to eliminate updates for inpatient hospital services and hospice care under Medicare part A in FY 1994 and 1995. (Sec. 13402) Prohibits the Secretary from applying an update factor to the cost limits for skilled nursing facility cost reporting periods beginning in FY 1994 and 1995. Subchapter B: Other Provisions Relating to Part A - Amends SSA title XVIII to, among other things: (1) provide that a change in classification of hospitals from one area to another cannot result in a reduction in the wage index for an urban area if the area has an age index below the rural wage index for the State or if the area is the only urban area in a State with no rural areas; (2) change certain standards for designating metropolitan statistical areas that are used in determining treatment of hospitals in rural counties adjacent to urban areas; (3) require the phase out of payments for day outlier cases starting in FY 1995; (4) authorize appropriations for the Essential Access Community Hospital (EACH) demonstration program; (5) provide for a prospective payment system for outpatient rural primary care hospital services; (6) continue special payments for Medicare-dependent, small rural hospitals for discharges occurring through FY 1994, with reduced payments for certain discharges; (7) allow to participate in Medicare hospitals where the care of patients receiving qualified psychologist services is under a clinical psychologist; (8) require skilled nursing facilities to inform beneficiaries of the hospice benefit under Medicare; (9) reduce the part A premium, on a phase-in basis, for individals with 30 or more quarters of social security coverage (and their spouses); (10) require periodic updating of salary equivalency guidelines for physical therapy and respiratory therapy services; and (11) provide that diagnosis-related group (DRG) window provisions will not apply to hospitals that are not paid on a DRG basis. (Sec. 13414) Amends OMBRA '87 to: (1) reauthorize and extend the rural health transition grant program; and (2) provide that all hospitals classified as regional referral centers on September 30, 1992, shall retain such status through FY 1994. (Sec. 13418) Amends OMBRA '90 to require the Secretary to continue limited-service rural hospital demonstration projects through calendar 1995. (Sec. 13419) Amends OMBRA' 89 to extend the hemophilia pass-through program. (Sec. 13420) Declares that, in the case of a State with a Medicare-approved payment system, no other provision of law shall be construed as preventing the system from providing that payment for covered services be made on the basis of rates provided for under such system. (Sec. 13423) Prohibits the Secretary from taking action to recover certain amounts paid by Medicare to uniformed services treatment facilities in Boston, Baltimore, and Seattle for services provided between October 1, 1986, and December 31, 1989, except to the extent that funds are made available for that purpose under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1993. Requires a report to the Congress on establishment of joint medical facilities among the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans' Affairs, and other entities. (Sec. 13424 and 13425) Requires the Secretary to: (1) review ]the DRGs assigned to discharges of patients with intractable epilepsy; (2) revise the assignment of discharges to such groups as the Secretary considers appropriate to account for the resource requirements of such patients; and (3) begin collecting data necessary to compute a skilled nursing facility wage index adjustment to the routine service cost limits required under Medicare. Requires the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission to report to the Congress on the impact of applying routine per diem cost limits for skilled nursing facilities on a regional basis. (Sec. 13429) Allows hospitals that have been reclassified from urban to rural as a result of revisions to metropolitan statistical area definitions issued by the Office of Management and Budget on December 28, 1992, to apply to the Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board for reclassification in FY 1994. Chapter 2: Provisions Relating to Part B: Subchapter A: Elimination of Inflation Update - Amends SSA title XVIII part B to eliminate the inflation update for physician and related professional services and other items and services. (Sec. 13432) Freezes payments for enteral and parenteral nutrients, supplies and equipment, rural health clinic, federally qualified health center, and comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility services, dialysis services, and other part B items and services. Subchapter B: Physicians' Services - Amends SSA title XVIII part B to, among other things: (1) repeal the OMBRA '90 prohibition on separate payments for EKG interpretations; (2) repeal the reductions in payments to new physicians and practitioners; (3) prohibit changing the methodology in effect as of January 1, 1992, for calculating anesthesia time in the fee schedules; (4) revise requirements with respect to geographic adjustment factors and beneficiary liability for amounts billed above the limiting charge; (5) require pre-payment screening by carriers of unassigned claims submitted by nonparticipating physicians; (6) require the Explanation of Benefits form to contain information on amounts billed in excess of the applicable limiting charge; (7) specify the practitioners who may only bill for services on an assignment-related basis; (8) include antigens prepared by a physician on the physician fee schedule; (9) prohibit the imposition of user fees in specified circumstances in the administration of claims relating to physicians' services; and (10) specify the conditions under which the Secretary can recognize substitute billing arrangements between two physicians. (Sec. 13444) Requires the Secretary to revise and report to specified congressional committees on the data necessary to revise geographic indices. Requires the Physician Payment Review Commission to develop criteria for use in redefining the localities used within States for adjusting physicians' fees. (Sec. 13446) Requires the Secretary to develop relative values for the full range of pediatric physicians' services and report to the Congress. Subchapter C: Ambulatory Surgical Center Services - Makes amendments identical to those made above to the Medicare program and OMBRA'90 under subchapter B of chapter 1 of title V of this Act with respect to eye and eye and ear hospitals and intraocular lenses. (Sec. 13452) Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on the costs to providers of intraocular lenses provided to individuals enrolled under Medicare part B. Subchapter D: Durable Medical Equipment - Makes amendments similar to those made above to the Medicare program and SSA title XI under subchapter C of chapter 1 of title V of this Act with respect to durable medical equipment and kick-backs. (Sec. 13468) Subjects ostomy supplies, tracheostomy supplies, and urologicals to national payment limits. Subchapter E: Other Provisions - Makes amendments similar to those made above to the Medicare program, OMBRA '86, and COMBRA '85 under subchapter E of chapter 1 of title V of this Act with respect to oral cancer drugs and the treatment of certain Indian health programs and facilities as federally-qualified health centers, and the extension of Alzheimer's disease and municipal health service demonstration projects. (Sec. 13471) Amends SSA title XVIII to, among other things: (1) freeze at the 1992 level the conversion factor used to determine payments to medically directed certified registered nurse anesthetists; (2) cap the part B premium penalty for late enrollment for Federal employees who meet certain conditions; and (3) establish statutory definitions for speech language pathologist and audiologists. (Sec. 13473) Provides for uniform coverage of "off-label" drugs used in anti-cancer therapy. Requires a report to specified congressional committees on Medicare coverage of patient care costs associated with clinical trials of new cancer therapies. Subchapter F: Part B Premiums - Duplicates the amendment to the Medicare program made above under subchapter D of chapter 1 of subtitle A of title V of this Act with respect to the monthy Medicare part B premium. Chapter 3: Provisions Relating to Parts A and B -Subchapter A: Elimination of Updates - Amends SSA title XVIII to eliminate updates in payments to hospitals for the direct costs of graduate medical education for cost reporting periods beginning during FY 1994 and 1995. (Sec. 13502) Prohibits the Secretary from providing any update in the cost limits for home health services for cost reporting periods beginning during FY 1994 and 1995. Subchapter B: Medicare Secondary Payer Provisions - Makes amendments similar to those under chapter 2 of subtitle A of title V of this Act with respect to Medicare as secondary payer. Subchapter C: Physician Ownership and Referral - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) apply the ban on certain referrals by physicians to all payers, extending it to cover additional specified health services as well as new exceptions; (2) expand current standards used to define a group practice; and (3) provide that Federal law shall not preempt State laws that related to referrals not covered under the ban, or that relate to referrals covered under the ban but are even more restrictive. Subchapter D: Other Provisions - Sets forth measures similar to those under chapters 1 and 2 of subtitle A of title V of this Act with respect to: (1) interest payments on clean claims; (2) payments for erythropoietin; (3) qualified Medicare beneficiary outreach; (4) social health maintenance demonstrations; (5) the second surgical opinion program under SSA title XI; (6) hospice notification; and (7) Medicare capitation payments. (Sec. 13551) Requires the Secretary to redetermine the full-time-equivalent (FTE) resident amount to reflect the amount that would be allowed if the hospital had been liable to pay FICA taxes or make other specified retirement contributions for residents during the base year, but did not make such payments, yet now must do so as a result of OMBRA '90. Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) provide for adjustments for certain publicly funded family residency programs; (2) extend on a graduated basis to three years (after 1997) the current one-year period following a transplant procedure during which Medicare covers immunosuppressive drug therapy for beneficiaries who have received organ transplants; and (3) provide that user fees imposed under the Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act of 1967 are not subject to the general ban on user fees for determining compliance with any requirement of Medicare. (Sec. 13560) Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to provide that to the extent that appropriations are enacted providing budget authority for Medicare administrative costs above a base level spending in FY 1992 of $1.526 billion, the appropriate discretionary spending limits shall be adjusted to accommodate additional budget authority in FY 1994 and 1995. Chapter 4: Medicare Supplemental Insurance Policies - Amends OMBRA '90 and Medicare to make specified changes to Federal standards respecting the sale and regulation of Medicare supplemental insurance policies. Chapter 5: Treatment of Certain State Health Care Programs - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide that: (1) the Hawaii Prepaid Health Care Act will not be preempted by ERISA unless the Secretary of Labor notifies the Governor of Hawaii that certain conditions exist; and (2) State tax laws relating to employee benefit plans will continue to be preempted. Subtitle D: Customs and Trade Provisions - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to authorize appropriations for FY 1994 and 1995 for the United States International Trade Commission (ITC). Prohibits use of funds for any special study, requested by the executive branch unless the ITC is reimbursed. (Sec. 13601) Amends the Customs Procedural Reform and Simplification Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for FY 1994 and 1995 for the United States Customs Service for noncommercial and commercial operations, and the air and marine interdiction programs. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for FY 1994 and 1995 for the Office of the United States Trade Representative. (Sec. 13602) Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) to extend the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to collect customs user fees through September 30, 1998. (Sec. 13603) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to remove the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from the list of countries ineligible for designation as a beneficiary developing country under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). Extends duty-free treatment provided under the GSP through September 30, 1994. (Sec. 13604) Extends the worker trade adjustment assistance program (trade adjustment assistance benefits for workers adversely affected by import competition or the relocation of U.S. production facilities abroad), and authorization of appropriations, from FY 1993 through FY 1996. (Sec. 13605) Amends the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to extend the authority of the President, for a specified period of time, to enter into trade agreements with foreign countries for the reduction or elimination of tariff or nontariff barriers if the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has not resulted in such trade agreements by May 31, 1993. Provides that implementing bills involving tariff and nontariff trade agreements shall be effective only if, among other things, the President, at least 120 calendar days (currently, 90 days) before he enters into such an agreement, notifies the Congress of his intention and publishes such intention in the Federal Register. Extends congressional "fast track procedures" to such implementing bills through April 16, 1994. (Sec. 13606) Amends the Federal Trade Act of 1974 to eliminate the East-West Trade Statistics Monitoring System. Subtitle E: Customs Officer Pay Reform - Revises the pay system for United States Customs Service inspectors. (Sec. 13701) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to prohibit merchandise or passengers from foreign places, or merchandise being transported from one port to another, from being unladen from carrying vehicles during overtime hours (currently, at night). (Sec. 13702) Authorizes cash awards to customs officers for foreign language proficiency. (Sec. 13703) Amends COBRA to provide for reimbursement of appropriations from the Customs User Fee Account for agency retirement contributions. (Sec. 13704) Amends Federal law with regard to the treatment of certain pay of customs officers for retirement purposes. (Sec. 13705) Revises COBRA congressional reporting requirements respecting Account reimbursements. Requires additional General Accounting Office reports to the Congress on financing of overtime inspectional services through user fees. Title XIV: Revenue Provisions - Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Subtitle A: Training and Investment Incentives - Part I: Provisions Relating to Education and Training - Makes permanent after June 30, 1992: (1) the tax exclusion of employer-provided educational assistance; and (2) the targeted jobs credit. Allows the use of the targeted jobs credit, with limitations, for the hiring of a qualified participant in an approved school-to-work program. Part II: Investment Incentives - Subpart A: Research Credit - Makes permanent the credit for increasing research activities. Modifies the fixed base percentage of such credit for startup companies for taxable years after 1993. Subpart B: Capital Gain Provisions - Allows a taxpayer other than a corporation to exclude from gross income 50 percent of gain from the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock held for more than five years. Set forth rules and limitations for such exclusion. Treats one-half of such exclusion as an item of tax preference for minimum tax purposes. (Sec. 14114) Allows the rollover of gain from the sale of publicly traded securities into specialized small business investment companies. Subpart C: Modifications to Minimum Tax Depreciation Rules - Modifies the method of determining the depreciation deduction for certain personal property placed in service after 1993. Eliminates the depreciation adjustment for computing adjusted current earnings for such property. Subpart D: Increase in Expense Treatment for Small Business - Increases the dollar limitation on the election to expense certain depreciable small business assets. Part III: Tax-Exempt Bond Provisions - Provides a complete tax exemption (currently a 75 percent tax exemption) for bonds used to finance high-speed intercity rail facilities. (Sec. 14122) Permanently extends the authority to issue qualified small issue bonds to finance manufacturing facilities and farm property. Part IV: Expansion and Simplification of Earned Income Tax Credit - Repeals certain interaction rules with respect to the medical expense deduction, the deduction for health insurance, and the dependent care credit. Revises credit and phaseout percentages for 1994. Part V: Incentives for Investment in Real Estate - Subpart A: Extension of Qualified Mortgage Bonds and Low-Income Housing Credit - Makes permanent: (1) the authority to issue qualified mortgage bonds and qualified mortgage credit certificates; and (2) the low-income housing credit. (Sec. 14142) Provides that assistance under the HOME Investment Partnerships Act should not result in certain buildings being federally subsidized. Subpart B: Modification of Passive Loss Rules - Provides for the treatment of rental real estate activities under the limitations on losses from passive activities. Subpart C: Provisions Relating to Real Estate Investments by Pension Funds - Modifies exceptions to the exclusion of real property acquired by a qualified organization from the meaning of acquisition indebtedness. Makes certain exceptions inapplicable to sales out of foreclosure by a financial institution. (Sec. 14145) Repeals the special rule for publicly traded partnerships with respect to the treatment of unrelated business taxable income. (Sec. 14146) Permits a tax-exempt title-holding company to receive unrelated business taxable income if the unrelated income is incidentally derived from the holding of real property. (Sec. 14147) Excludes from unrelated business taxable income: (1) gains from the sale, exchange, or other disposition of real property acquired from financial institutions that are in conservatorship or receivership; and (2) loan commitment fees and certain option premiums. Provides for the tax treatment of pension fund investments in real estate investment trusts. Subpart D: Discharge of Indebtedness - Excludes from gross income the income from the discharge of qualified real property business indebtedness. Subpart E: Increase in Recovery Period for Nonresidential Real Property - Increases the depreciation recovery period for nonresidential real property. Part VI: Luxury Tax - Repeals the luxury excise tax on boats, aircraft, jewelry, and furs. (Sec. 14162) Modifies the luxury excise tax on automobiles to index the threshold for inflation occurring after 1990 and make such tax applicable to the first retail sale. Exempts from the luxury excise tax parts for accessories installed for use of passenger vehicles by disabled individuals. (Sec. 14163) Extends the current diesel fuel excise tax to diesel fuel used by noncommercial motorboats. Retains such taxes in the General Fund of the Treasury. Part VII: Other Changes - Repeals the tax preferences for the appreciated property charitable deduction. Disallows an adjustment related to the earnings and profits effects of any charitable contribution from being made in computing adjusted current earnings. (Sec. 14171) Requires Secretary of the Treasury to report to specified congressional committees on the development of a procedure for taxpayers to seek an agreement with the Secretary on the value of tangible personal property prior to the donation of such property to a qualifying charitable organization. (Sec. 14172) Amends the Railroad Retirement Solvency Act of 1983 to make permanent the treatment of certain railroad retirement benefits as received under employer plans. (Sec. 14173) Provides for the temporary extension of the deduction of health insurance costs of self-employed individuals. Subtitle B: Revenue Increases - Part I: Provisions Affecting Individuals- Subpart A: Rate Increases - Lowers the tax rates for certain taxpayers and increases the tax rate for certain higher incomes. Imposes a surtax on certain higher incomes. (Sec. 14203) Increases the tentative minimum tax for taxpayers other than corporations. (Sec. 14204) Makes permanent the overall limitation on itemized deductions and the phaseout of personal exemptions for high-income taxpayers. (Sec. 14206) Sets forth provisions to prevent the conversion of ordinary income to capital gain in certain financial transactions. Repeals certain exeptions to market discount rules. Provides for the treatment of purchases of stripped preferred stock after April 30, 1993. Revises methods of: (1) computing the limitation on the deductibility of investment interest; and (2) determining substantial appreciation of partnership inventory items. Subpart B: Other Provisions - Repeals the limitation on the amount of wages subject to the health insurance employment tax. (Sec. 14208) Increases and makes permanent the highest estate and gift tax rate. (Sec. 14209) Reduces the deduction for business meals and entertainment expenses. (Sec. 14210) Disallows a tax deduction for social club membership dues, except for employee recreational expenses. (Sec. 14211) Disallows a deduction as a trade or business expense remuneration to certain employees in excess of $1 million. (Sec. 14212) Reduces the compensation taken into account in determining contributions and benefits under qualified retirement plans. (Sec. 14213) Removes qualified residence sales, purchases, or leases and meals from the deduction for moving expenses. (Sec. 14214) Revises the limitation on using the preceding year's tax to calculate an individual's estimated tax payments. (Sec. 14215) Increases the amount of social security and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits to be included in the gross income of certain taxpayers. Part II: Provisions Affecting Business - Increases the tax rate for corporate income in excess of $10 million and the tax rate on personal service corporations. (Sec. 14222) Denies a tax deduction for lobbying expenses. Subjects lobbying organizations to special reporting requirements. (Sec. 14223) Requires any security which is inventory in the hands of the dealer to be included in inventory at its fair market value. Requires any dealer in securities that holds any security which is not in inventory at the close of any taxable year to: (1) recognize gain or loss as if the security were sold on the last business day of the taxable year; and (2) take into account any such gain or loss for such year (the mark-to-market requirement). (Sec. 14224) Requires taking into account: (1) certain Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) assistance as compensation for loss; and (2) FSLIC assistance for any debt for determining whether such debt is worthless and the amount of any addition to a reserve for bad debts. (Sec. 14225) Increases the required annual payment for corporations that fail to pay estimated income tax. Modifies the periods for applying such annualization. (Sec. 14226) Limits the Puerto Rico and possession tax credit to 60 percent of the possession corporation's qualified possession wages. (Sec. 14227) Modifies the limitation on corporate deductions for interest paid to related persons to take into account disqualified guarantees of indebtedness and the imposition of a gross basis tax. Part III: Foreign Tax Provisions - Subpart A: Current Taxation of Certain Earnings of Controlled Foreign Corporations - Requires U.S. shareholders of controlled foreign corporations to include in gross income a pro rata share of the corporation's excess passive assets. Modifies the rule on taxation of investment in U.S. property and takes into account excessive passive assets. Requires a report on investments by controlled foreign corporations in U.S property. (Sec. 14233) Excepts from foreign personal holding income dividends attributable to earnings and profits of the distributing corporation accumulated during any period which the person receiving such dividend did not hold such stock. Requires the establishment of an excess limitation account by taxpayers who receive foreign tax credits in a year they receive previously taxed earnings and profits. Subpart B: Allocation of Research and Experimental Expenditures - Reduces the amount allowed as allocation and apportionment of research and experimental expenditures from sources within the United States. Subpart C: Other Provisions - (Sec. 14235) Excludes passive dividends or interest income from foreign oil and gas income. (Sec. 14236) Modifies accuracy-related penalties for tax underpayments. (Sec. 14237) Denies the inclusion of certain contingent interest in the exemption for portfolio interest for nonresident aliens. (Sec. 14238) Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations recharacterizing any multiple-party financing transaction as a transaction directly among any two or more of such parties when appropriate to prevent tax avoidance. Part IV: Energy Tax Provisions - Subpart A: Energy Tax Based on Btu Content - Imposes an excise tax on the following energy products: (1) taxable refined petroleum products removed from a U.S. refinery or terminal entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing, and sold to a nonregistered person; (2) natural gas removed from any U.S. pipeline, entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing, and entered into any nonregistered pipeline; (3) coal received at any facility for use as a fuel at such facility; and (4) the sale of electricity to ultimate users in the United States and the use of electricity which was not subject to such tax. Bases the rate of tax on such products on the applicable Btu factor and content. (Sec. 14241) Provides for refunding certain amounts to ultimate vendors of petroleum used for heating oil and international commercial transportation. Repays certain sums to persons who use petroleum to produce calcined coke. Provides excise tax exemptions for certain uses. Refunds the tax paid by certain users of methane recovered from biomass or coal mining. Imposes a tax on the use of any fossil fuel: (1) in the manufacture or production of a fuel other than at a U.S. refinery; or (2) as a fuel. Imposes a tax on floor stock of taxable fuels held on the date of the tax increase. Allows a credit against such tax. Provides for such tax increases to begin July 1, 1994. Imposes a Btu tax on certain imported products that contain significant levels of direct energy inputs that would be taxable if the products were manufactured in the United States. Imposes a penalty on persons who sell dyed fuel for taxable uses. Subpart B: Modifications to Tax on Diesel Fuel - Imposes an excise tax on diesel fuel. Exempts from such tax diesel fuel: (1) used by trains and intercity, local, or school buses; and (2) which is dyed or marked in accordance in regulations. (Sec. 14242) Provides that the Airport and Airway Trust Fund financing rate does not apply to aviation fuel sold by a producer or importer for use by the purchaser in a nontaxable use. Imposes a civil penalty on persons who use reduced-rate fuel for a taxable use. (Sec. 14243) Imposes a floor stocks tax on any person holding diesel fuel April 1, 1994. Subpart C: Extension of Motor Fuel Tax Rates; Increased Deposits Into Highway Trust Fund - Increases the tax on gasoline and diesel fuels for purposes of the Highway Trust Fund financing rate. Increases the amount to be transferred to the Mass Transit Account from such Fund. Part V: Compliance Provisions - Requires information reporting on payments to corporations for services. (Sec. 14252) Modifies provisions concerning substantial understatement and return-preparer penalties to allow reasonable cause exceptions. (Sec. 14253) Requires certain financial entities (including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Resolution Trust Corporation, and the National Credit Union Administration, and their successors or subunits) to file information returns regarding discharges of indebtedness of $600 or more. Part VI: Treatment of Intangibles - Allows an amortization deduction with respect to certain intangible property, including goodwill, that is acquired and held by a taxpayer in connection with the conduct of a trade or business or an activity engaged in for the production of income. Part VII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Establishes substantiation requirements for charitable contributions of $750 or more. (Sec. 14272) Sets forth disclosure requirements for an organization that receives a quid pro quo contribution (payment made partly as a contribution and partly in consideration for goods or services provided to the payor by the donee organization). Imposes a penalty for failure to make such disclosure. (Sec. 14273) Expands the 45-day interest-free period for refunding tax overpayments to all returns, amended returns, and claims for refunds. Provides that if interest is not refunded within 45 days after the taxpayer files an amended return or claim for refund, interest will be paid only for periods after the date on which the return or claim is filed. (Sec. 14274) Denies the business travel expense deduction for spouses, dependents, or others. (Sec. 14275) Increases the withholding rate for supplemental wage payments. Subtitle C: Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities - Part I: Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities, Etc. - Provides for the designation of 100 tax enterprise communities and ten enpowerment zones between 1993 and 1996: (1) by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for urban areas; (2) by the Secretary of Agriculture for rural areas; and (3) by the Secretary of the Interior for Indian reservations. (Sec. 14301) Sets forth eligibility criteria. Makes certain buildings in such communities or zones eligible for the low-income housing credit applicable to buildings in high-cost areas. Provides for the issuance of enterprise zone facility bonds in enterprise communities and enpowerment zones in a manner similar to exempt facility bonds. Excludes enterprise zone facility bonds from the interest deduction limitations on financial institutions. Provides States an additional housing credit ceiling for each zone and community through 1996. Allows a limited empowerment zone employment credit to employers for a percentage of qualified zone wages paid during calendar years 1994 through 2004. Allows businesses a zone resident empowerment savings credit of 50 percent of the qualified savings contributions made by an employer to a defined contribution plan on behalf of a zone employee. Limits the credit amount based on the employee's compensation. Increases the limitation on expensing certain depreciable business assets. Increases the volume cap applicable to enterprise zone facility bonds if the business owners meet specified ownership requirements with regard to abiding in such zones. (Sec. 14302) Allows use of the targeted jobs credit for hiring empowerment zone residents. Part II: Credit for Contributions to Certain Community Development Corporations - Allows a general business tax credit for contributions to selected community development corporations for low-income individuals who are residents of the operational area of the community. Subtitle D: Other Provisions - Part I: Disclosure Provisions - Extends the authority to disclose tax return information to the Department of Veterans Affairs through September 30, 1998. (Sec. 14402) Authorizes the disclosure of certain tax return information to the Department of Education to implement the direct student loan program and to the Department of Housing for income verification. Part II: User Fee Provisions - Requires establishment of a program requiring the payment of user fees for the processing of applications for certificates of alcohol label approval and exemption, formula reviews, and statements of process (including laboratory tests). (Sec. 14412) Removes authority to use the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for administrative expenses of certain customs fee collections. (Sec. 14413) Increases the tax on fuel used on commercial transportation on inland waterways. Part III: Public Debt Limit - Increases the public debt limit and repeals the temporary limit on such increase. Part IV: Vaccine Provisions - Makes permanent: (1) the excise tax on certain vaccines; and (2) the authority to pay compensation from the Vaccine Trust Fund under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program for certain damages resulting from vaccines administered after September 30, 1988. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report to specified congressional committees on uses of such Fund. (Sec. 14431) Imposes a floor stocks tax on taxable vaccines. (Sec. 14432) Requires contribution coverage under group health plans of the costs of pediatric vaccines. (Sec. 14433) Establishes the Childhood Immunization Trust Fund for the entitlement program under the Public Health Service Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2250 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: National Community Development Administration Title II: Certification Programs Title III: Assistance to Community Development Financial Institutions Subtitle A: Assistance to Existing Community Development Financial Institutions Subtitle B: Assistance to Establish Community Development Financial Institutions Title IV: Assistance for Community Development Secondary Market Institutions Title V: Community Development Individual Investment Certificates Community Development Financial Institutions Act of 1993 - Title I: National Community Development Administration - Establishes the National Community Development Administration (Administration) to: (1) assist financial institutions in providing credit and promoting comprehensive community development in low-income communities; (2) assist secondary market institutions to purchase and securitize loans, increase investment liquidity, and improve the distribution of investment capital for community development financing; and (3) promote the use of community Development Individual Investment Certificates (authorized by this Act). Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Certification Programs - Requires the Administration to implement a certification program for: (1) community development financial institutions; and (2) technical assistance providers to community development financial and secondary market institutions. Title III: Assistance to Community Development Financial Institutions - Subtitle A: Assistance to Existing Community Development Financial Institutions - Directs the Administration to assist existing community development financial institutions in implementing financing initiatives and obtaining technical assistance for broad-based, long-range community development in target communities. Identifies: (1) activities eligible for such assistance; and (2) criteria for financial initiatives. Requires community development financial institutions to contribute matching funds from non-Federal sources. Subtitle B: Assistance to Establish Community Development Financial Institutions - Directs the Administration to assist nonprofit and for-profit organizations to establish community development financial institutions whose purpose shall be to finance specified community development activities. Title IV: Assistance for Community Development Secondary Market Institutions - Directs the Administration to assist secondary market institutions to: (1) establish a secondary market for community development loans; (2) increase the liquidity of community development investments; and (3) improve the distribution of investment capital available for community development financing. Prescribes eligible use of such assistance. Requires such secondary market institutions to contribute matching funds from non-Federal sources. Authorizes the Administration to issue tax-exempt bonds to finance such secondary market institutions. Title V: Community Development Individual Investment Certificates - Prescribes guidelines for the issuance by any community development bank or credit union of certificates of indebtedness to be known as Community Development Individual Investment Certificates.
Bill· HRH.R. 2263 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1993
Social Security Tax Fairness Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable credit for a portion of an individual's employee OASDI taxes. Requires payment for the costs of such credit to the general fund of the Treasury from amounts in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Railroad Retirement Account. Repeals the dollar limitation on the amount of wages subject to employee OASDI taxes.
Bill· HRH.R. 2246 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the designation of one border empowerment zone and five border enterprise communities: (1) by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in the case of an urban area; (2) by the Secretary of Agriculture, in the case of a rural area; and (3) the Secretary of the Interior for an Indian reservation. Describes a border area as one located in one or more counties each of which is located adjacent to an international border. Sets forth the eligibility criteria for such designations. Makes buildings in such areas eligible for the low-income housing credit applicable to buildings in high-cost areas. Provides for the issuance of enterprise zone facility bonds in border enterprise communities and empowerment zones in a manner similar to exempt facility bonds. Excludes enterprise zone facility bonds from the interest deduction limitations on financial institutions. Allows an empowerment zone employment credit to employers for a percentage of qualified zone wages paid during calendar years 1994 through 2004. Limits the amount of such credit. Allows a zone resident empowerment savings credit to employers as a general business credit of 50 percent of the qualified savings contributions made to a defined contribution plan on behalf of an employee. Limits the amounts of such contributions. Increases the limitation on expensing certain depreciable business assets. Increases the volume cap applicable to enterprise zone facility bonds if the business owners meet specified ownership requirements with regard to abiding in such zones. Allows the use of the targeted jobs credit for hiring economically disadvantaged border empowerment zone residents. Excludes from the penalty on early distributions from retirement plan distributions for first home purchases, higher educational expenses, or investment in an enterprise zone business.
Bill· HRH.R. 2253 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1993
Foreign Aid Impact Assessment Act - Requires the President to submit triennially to the Congress a report (on a country-by-country basis) analyzing the impact and effectiveness of U.S. economic assistance provided during the preceding three fiscal years. Requires that each report: (1) be submitted to the Congress as a separate document; and (2) identify those countries in which economic assistance has been most and least successful, explain why the assistance was not more successful, and specify what the United States has done as a result.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 183 (103rd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1993
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 2244 (supplemental appropriations). Waives all points of order against the consideration of H.R. 2118 (supplemental appropriations).
Bill· SS. 1010 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1993
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to authorize appropriations for the Federal Election Commission.
Bill· SS. 1013 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1993
Rural Land Conservation Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross estate tax the value of land subject to a qualified conservation easement (less the amount of any indebtedness secured by such land). Includes in the gross estate tax the value of each development right retained by the donor in the conveyance of the easement. Makes such tax due upon the disposition of the property. Provides that such land subject to the exclusion will have a carryover basis for purposes of determining gain or loss. Excludes from the gift tax transfers by gift of land subject to a conservation easement. Imposes an additional gift tax on the disposal of such land if the donor retains any development right. Removes the allowance for a tax deduction in the case of a contribution of property where mining rights are retained if the surface estate and mining interests were separated before June 13, 1976, and remain separated. Declares that for purposes of the alternative estate valuation method: (1) a qualified conservation contribution is not a disposition; and (2) land subject to a conservation easement is not disqualified.
Bill· HRH.R. 2238 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Enhancement of Competition in Contracting Subtitle A: Acquisition of Commercial Items Subtitle B: Miscellaneous Title II: Amendments to Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 Title III: Amendments Relating to Title 10, United States Code Title IV: Brooks Act Amendments Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions Title VI: Provisions Relating to General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Improvement Act of 1993 - Title I: Enhancement of Competition in Contracting - Subtitle A: Acquisition of Commercial Items - Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to include the implementation of a preference for the acquisition of commercial items among the procurement responsibilities of the head of each executive agency. Requires executive agencies, before beginning a procurement, to conduct market research to determine if commercial items can meet the needs of the executive agency. Renames the position of Advocate for the Acquisition of Commercial Products in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy the Advocate for the Acquisition of Commercial Items. Requires revision of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to implement the amendments made by this title. Requires such revision to include issuance of one or more simplified uniform contracts for the acquisition of commercial items. Sets forth other requirements for FAR relating to warranties, market acceptance, and past performance. Subtitle B: Miscellaneous - Revises requirements pertaining to contractor submission of cost or pricing data. Requires additional revisions of FAR in order to implement specified requirements. Title II: Amendments to Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 - Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to permit executive agencies to award multiple contracts for the same supply or service when the agency head determines it is in the best interests of the Government to maintain a continuous source for the supply or service. Sets forth provisions generally analogous to those contained in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 concerning an agency's responsibilities regarding statements of evaluation factors in a contract solicitation. Revises evaluation and award provisions. Raises temporarily the cost and pricing data threshold under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. Repeals commercial pricing requirements. Title III: Amendments Relating to Title 10, United States Code - Amends the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 and other Federal law relating to the armed forces with respect to source selection factors and contractor submission of cost or pricing data. Title IV: Brooks Act Amendments - Provides that specified provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 may be cited as the Brooks Automatic Data Processing Act and the Brooks Architect-Engineers Act. Amends the Brooks Automatic Data Processing Act to: (1) allow the General Services Administration's (GSA) board of contract appeals to dimiss protests that are frivolous or have been brought in bad faith; and (2) provide for GSA oversight of agency automatic data processing equipment procurements. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 to revise provisions authorizing the General Accounting Office's (GAO) Comptroller General to award bid and proposal preparation and protest costs to companies that file bid protests. Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to provide for post-award debriefings for certain procurements and an increase in the small purchase threshold. Provides for implementation of electronic data interchange systems for procurement information. Makes development of procurement policies with respect to small businesses a function of the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy. Authorizes the Administrator to conduct a program of tests of alternative and innovative procurement procedures. Amends the Brooks Architect-Engineers Act to prohibit agency preaward audits to evaluate proposed contract costs where the objectives of the audit can be met by accepting the results of a previous Government audit. Requires the GSA Administrator to ensure that requirements of the Buy American Act apply to all procurements made with funds authorized under title VI. Provides for debarment of persons convicted of falsely labeling products as made in America. Title VI: Provisions Relating to General Services Administration - Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to authorize appropriations. Adds previous management experience requirements for appointments to senior GSA positions.
Bill· HRH.R. 2244 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Supplemental Appropriations Title II: Rescissions Title III: General Provisions Second Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1993 - Title I: Supplemental Appropriations - Makes supplemental appropriations available to: (1) the Employment and Training Administration of the Department of Labor; (2) the Environmental Protection Agency for construction grants; (3) the Farmers Home Administration of the Department of Agriculture; (4) the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice; (5) the Federal Railroad Administration of the Department of Transportation; and (6) the Small Business Administration through a fund transfer. Title II: Rescissions - Rescinds specified appropriations made to: (1) the Department of Agriculture for the Farmers Home Administration; (2) the Department of Commerce for the Economic Development Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; (3) the Department of Justice for Office of Justice Programs and the Thomas Jefferson Commemoration Commission; (4) the Department of the Interior for the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, and the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; (5) the Department of Labor for the Employment and Training Administration and departmental management; (6) the Department of Education for certain programs; (7) the Department of Transportation for the Coast Guard, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; (8) the Department of the Treasury for the U.S. Customs Administration, the Bureau of the Public Debt, and the Internal Revenue Service; (9) the General Services Administration for the Federal Buildings Fund; (10) the Department of Veterans Affairs for departmental administration; (11) the Department of Housing and Urban Development for certain housing programs; (12) the Environmental Protection Agency for the Hazardous Substance Superfund; and (13) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research and development. Title III: General Provisions - Prohibits appropriations in this Act from remaining available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided. Restricts the availability of funds for the Community Investment Program until September 30, 1993. Prohibits the use of any funds to pay for the relocation of the Human Nutrition Information Service.
Bill· HRH.R. 2240 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1993
Higher Education Savings Plan Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt distributions from a higher education expenses annuity contract from the ten-percent penalty on premature distributions from annuity contracts. Excludes the premium to purchase such a contract from gift tax liability.
Bill· SS. 993 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
Community Regulatory Relief Act - Provides that any requirement under a Federal statute or regulation which creates a Federal mandate shall apply to State or local government only if all funds necessary to pay the direct costs incurred by the government in conducting the activity are provided by the Federal Government for the fiscal year in which the direct cost is incurred. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to analyze the effects of each bill or resolution on each state and local government's compliance with a Federal mandate. Requires each measure reported or considered in either House of the Congress to be accompanied by such an analyses. Requires reports by the Director to the President and the Congress estimating the direct costs of such compliance for each fiscal year in which a Federal mandate will be in effect.
Bill· SS. 1001 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
International Sanctions Enforcement Act of 1993 - Authorizes the President to prohibit U.S. persons from procuring, importing, selling, or exporting goods or services to or from any foreign person who has knowingly violated United Nations Security Council Resolution 748 imposing sanctions against Libya. Urges the President to initiate consultations with foreign governments with jurisdiction over such persons with respect to the imposition of sanctions. Requires the President to impose the sanctions unless he certifies to the Congress that a government has taken actions to terminate the involvement of a person in such activities. Exempts the procurement of vital defense articles by the U.S. Government and medical or other humanitarian items from sanctions under this Act. Aplies sanctions for at least 12 months and terminates sanctions only if the President certifies to the Congress that a person has ceased to, and will not in the future, violate the Resolution. Permits the President to waive sanctions after such period if he certifies to the Congress that continued imposition would have a serious adverse effect on U.S. interests. Applies enforcement authorities and penalty provisions of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to sanctions and violations under this Act. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act to authorize the issuance of residence visas for protection purposes to up to 25 aliens (per fiscal year) who furnish information concerning acts of international terrorism against U.S. persons or property. Increases criminal penalties for the misuse of passports. Directs the President to certify to the Congress whenever he determines that a country is not complying with the Resolution. Suspends service of such countries' air carriers to or from the United States and authorizes the revocation of their rights to engage in air transportation to or from the United States. Amends the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to regulate or prohibit the importation or exportation of informational materials containing technical or commercial data of value to the economy of a foreign country whose transactions are otherwise regulated or prohibited. Increases the amount of civil penalties authorized for violations of such Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2217 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Death Penalty Title II: Habeas Corpus Reform Subtitle A: General Habeas Corpus Reform Title III: Exclusionary Rule Title IV: Firearms and Related Amendments Title V: Terrorism and International Matters Title VI: Sexual Violence, Child Abuse, and Victims' Rights Subtitle A: Sexual Violence and Child Abuse Subtitle B: Victims' Rights Subtitle C: Crime Victims Fund Subtitle D: National Child Protection Act Subtitle E: Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children Registration Act Subtitle F: Domestic Violence Subtitle G: Other Provisions Title VII: Equal Justice Act Title VIII: Public Corruption Title IX: Federal Prisons Title X: Violent Crime Title XI: International Parental Kidnapping Violent Crimes Control Act of 1993 - Title I: Death Penalty - Federal Death Penalty Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish criteria for the imposition of the death penalty for Federal crimes. (Sec. 102) Allows the defendant and the Government to present any information relevant to sentencing (including victim impact statements), but permits evidence to be excluded where its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of creating unfair prejudice, confusing the issues, or misleading the jury. Sets forth: (1) procedures for the implementation of, and appeal from, a sentence of death; and (2) provisions regarding the appointment of counsel, deadlines for collateral attacks on judgments imposing a death sentence, and stays of execution. (Sec. 110) Provides for the imposition of the death penalty for various offenses, including: (1) murder committed by prisoners in Federal prisons; (2) murder for hire; (3) murder in the aid of racketeering activity; (4) specified violations of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA); (5) murder of Federal witnesses; (6) rape and child molestation murders; and (7) murders in the District of Columbia. Title II: Habeas Corpus Reform - Subtitle A: General Habeas Corpus Reform - Habeas Corpus Reform Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal judicial code to establish a one-year statute of limitations for habeas corpus actions brought by State prisoners. (Sec. 204) Vests authority to issue certificates of probable cause for appeal of habeas corpus orders exclusively in the courts of appeals. Subtitle B: Death Penalty Litigation Procedures - Death Penalty Litigation Procedures Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal judicial code to set forth special habeas corpus procedures in capital cases. Subtitle C: Equalization of Capital Habeas Corpus Litigation Funding - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Omnibus Act) to require the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to provide grants to the States to support litigation pertaining to Federal habeas corpus petitions in capital cases. Title III: Exclusionary Rule - Amends the Federal criminal code to bar the exclusion of evidence obtained as a result of a search or seizure carried out under circumstances justifying an objectively reasonable belief that it was in conformity with the fourth amendment. Title IV: Firearms and Related Amendments - Sets forth various firearms-related provisions, including the following. Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) increase mandatory minimum sentences for knowingly possessing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime; and (2) establish penalties for smuggling firearms in aid of drug trafficking and for theft of firearms and explosives. (Sec. 402) Increases penalties for: (1) a second offense of using an explosive to commit a felony; (2) making knowingly false, material statements in connection with the acquisition of a firearm from a licensed dealer; and (3) interstate gun trafficking. (Sec. 406) Authorizes the summary destruction of explosives subject to forfeiture under specified circumstances. Sets forth requirements for reimbursement of the value of destroyed property. (Sec. 410) Prohibits: (1) the receipt of firearms by non-residents of the State in which the transferor resides, unless such receipt is for lawful sporting purposes; (2) transactions involving stolen firearms which have moved in interstate or foreign commerce; and (3) the possession of explosives by felons and specified others. (Sec. 418) Amends: (1) the Internal Revenue Code regarding the disposition of forfeited firearms; and (2) the Federal criminal code regarding the definitions of "burglary" and "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984. Title V: Terrorism and International Matters - Repeals the Antiterrorism Act of 1990. Establishes a civil remedy for U.S. nationals (and their survivors or estates) injured, in their person, property, or business, by acts of international terrorism. (Sec. 502) Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) make it a criminal offense to provide material support to terrorists; and (2) provide for civil and criminal forfeiture of assets used to support terrorists. (Sec. 504) Authorizes the Attorney General to waive immigration admission and other legal requirements and grant permanent resident status for alien witnesses who cooperate with the Government in Federal or State prosecutions. (Sec. 513) Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) establish penalties for removing a child from, or retaining a child outside, the United States with intent to obstruct the lawful exercise of parental rights; (2) provide for the prosecution of individuals who murder U.S. nationals abroad; and (3) permit Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) access to telephone subscriber information under specified circumstances. Title VI: Sexual Violence, Child Abuse, and Victims' Rights - Subtitle A: Sexual Violence and Child Abuse - Defines "sexual act" to include the intentional touching, not through the clothing, of the genitalia of another person who has not attained age 16 with intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade, or to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person. (Sec. 602) Increases penalties for recidivist sex offenders. (Sec. 603) Authorizes the court to award restitution for victims of sex offenses. (Sec. 604) Sets forth provisions regarding human immunodeficiency virus testing, penalty enhancement, and cost of testing in sex offense cases. Subtitle B: Victims' Rights - Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) restitution and suspension of Federal benefits; and (2) the number of peremptory challenges under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Subtitle C: Crime Victims Fund - Repeals: (1) the current $150 million cap on the Crime Victims Fund under the Victims of Crime Act of 1984; and (2) sunset provisions under such Act. Modifies the formula for the distribution of sums deposited into the Fund. (Sec. 622) Increases the Federal share of victim compensation programs from 40 to 45 percent of the amounts awarded by each program during the preceding fiscal year. (Sec. 623) Allows up to five percent of a victim compensation program grant to be used for administrative costs. (Sec. 624) Specifies that if the compensation paid by an eligible crime victim compensation program would cover costs that a Federal program, or a federally financed State or local program, would otherwise pay: (1) such victim compensation program shall not pay such compensation; and (2) the other program shall make its payments without regard to the existence of the crime victim compensation program. (Sec. 626) Requires crime victim assistance chief executives to give particular attention to children who are victims of violent street crime. Subtitle D: National Child Protection Act - National Child Protection Act of 1993 - Provides for: (1) State reporting of child abuse crime information to a national criminal background check system; (2) funding to improve such information; and (3) the withholding of a portion of such funding to States not in compliance with a timetable established under this Act. Subtitle E: Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children Registration Act - Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children Registration Act - Directs the Attorney General to establish guidelines for State programs requiring any person who is convicted of a criminal offense against a minor to register a current address with a designated State law enforcement agency for ten years after release from prison or being placed on parole or supervised release. Sets forth registration, State compliance, and related requirements. Subtitle F: Domestic Violence - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the Director of the BJA to make grants to assist States in implementing a civil and criminal response to domestic violence. Specifies that such grants shall be used to: (1) encourage increased prosecutions for domestic violence; (2) report more accurately the incidences of such violence; (3) facilitate arrests and aggressive prosecution policies; (4) provide legal advocacy services for victims; and (5) improve the knowledge of health professionals regarding domestic violence and facilitate cooperation between health professionals, social service providers, and law enforcement personnel to better assist such victims. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) application requirements; (2) allocation of funds and limitations on grants; (3) grant award and renewal; and (4) reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 662) Requires the Attorney General and Secretary of Health and Human Services to transmit to the Congress a report on the medical and psychological basis of battered women's syndrome and on the extent to which evidence of the syndrome has been held to be admissible as evidence of guilt or as a defense in a criminal trial. Subtitle G: Other Provisions - Sets penalties for inducing a minor to commit an offense against the United States. (Sec. 672) Amends the General Education Provisions Act to provide for the disclosure of arrest records by campus police. (Sec. 673) Requires the Attorney General to contract with an appropriate entity to provide for a national baseline study to research the effectiveness of campus sexual assault policies for institutions of postsecondary education. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 674) Expresses the sense of the Congress that in determining child custody and visitation rights the courts should take into consideration the history of drunk driving of any person involved in the determination. Title VII: Equal Justice Act - Equal Justice Act - Requires that the death penalty and all other penalties be administered by the United States and by every State without regard to the race or color of the defendant or victim. Bars the use of any racial quota or statistical test for the imposition or execution of any penalty. (Sec. 703) Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) safeguards against racial prejudice or bias in criminal courts; and (2) jury instructions and certification, and racial motivation in killings as an aggravating factor, in Federal capital cases. (Sec. 705) Amends specified civil rights provisions to cover conspiracy against rights, and deprivation of rights under color of law, of any person in (currently, inhabitant of) a State, territory, or district. Title VIII: Public Corruption - Anti-Corruption Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prescribe criminal penalties to be imposed against anyone who uses any facility of, or affects, interstate or foreign commerce to deprive or defraud the inhabitants of a State or political subdivision of a State of the honest services of a government official or employee, or of a fair and impartially conducted election process. Prescribes criminal penalties to be imposed upon any official, or person selected to be a public official, who, in order to carry out or conceal any scheme or artifice to defraud, discriminates, harasses, or takes adverse action against any employee or official of the United States, or any State or political subdivision. Authorizes such an adversely affected employee or official to obtain relief through a civil action, provided such person did not participate in the scheme or artifice. (Sec. 803) Amends mail fraud provisions to prohibit the use of any facility of interstate or foreign commerce in the execution of a scheme or artifice to defraud. (Sec. 804) Sets forth prohibitions regarding narcotics-related public corruption. Title IX: Federal Prisons - Authorizes appropriations for new prison construction. Title X: Violent Crime - Life Imprisonment for Egregious Recidivists Act of 1993 - Requires the court to sentence a defendant convicted of a Federal violent felony to life imprisonment if the defendant has previously been convicted of two other violent felonies. Title XI: International Parental Kidnapping - International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993 - Sets penalties for removing a child from the United States or retaining a child (who has been in the United States) outside the United States in order to obstruct the lawful exercise of parental rights. (Sec. 1103) Authorizes appropriations to carry out, under the State Justice Institute Act of 1984, national, regional, and in-State training and educational programs dealing with criminal and civil aspects of interstate and international parental child abduction.
Bill· HRH.R. 2229 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
Free Trade With Cuba Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to repeal the embargo on trade with Cuba. Prohibits the exercise by the President with respect to Cuba of certain authorities conferred by the Trading With the Enemy Act and exercised on July 1, 1977, as a result of a specified national emergency. Declares that any prohibition on exports to Cuba under the Export Administration Act of 1979 shall cease to be effective. Authorizes the President to impose export controls with respect to Cuba and exercise certain authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act only on account of an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. national security that did not exist before enactment of this Act. Repeals the Cuban Democracy Act. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate the denial of the foreign tax credit with respect to Cuba. Authorizes common carriers to install, maintain, and repair telecommunications equipment and facilities in Cuba, and otherwise provide telecommunications services between the United States and Cuba. Prohibits regulation or banning of travel to and from Cuba by U.S. citizens or residents, or of any transactions incident to travel. Directs the U.S. Postal Service to provide direct mail service to and from Cuba. Urges the President to take all necessary steps to conduct negotiations with the Government of Cuba to: (1) settle claims of U.S. nationals against Cuba for the taking of property; and (2) secure protection of internationally recognized human rights.
Bill· HRH.R. 2199 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: State Water Pollution Control Revolving Funds Title II: Excise Taxes on Substances Contributing to Water Pollution, Etc. Polluter Pays Clean Water Funding Act - Title I: State Water Pollution Control Revolving Funds - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to add to the list of projects eligible for State water pollution control revolving fund assistance: (1) coastal nonpoint pollution control programs; (2) wetlands protection, remediation, and restoration; (3) watershed planning and management; (4) public water conservation and reuse; and (5) low-income water and sewer assurance programs. Establishes conditions on a State's authority to make grants from such funds. Makes eligible for grant assistance projects: (1) to be carried out in political subdivisions with 5,000 people or fewer or in communities where water and sewer bills exceed a specified percent of median family income; (2) for control of nonpoint source pollution; and (3) to establish a low-income water and sewer assurance program. Revises allotment provisions concerning State revolving funds to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to publish an allotment formula based on State populations. Directs the Administrator to establish minimum standards for low-income water and sewer assurance programs eligible for assistance under this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Excise Taxes on Substances Contributing to Water Pollution, Etc. - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on the discharge of any taxable chemical pollutant to water or any publicly owned treatment works. Exempts from such tax discharges of chemical pollutants used exclusively for any residential or farming use or any use by any Federal, State, or local agency. Imposes a tax on any fertilizer, pesticide, or animal feed which is: (1) manufactured or produced in the United States or entered into the United States for consumption use or warehousing; and (2) sold or used by the manufacturer, producer, or importer. Exempts articles which are to be exported or sold for export from such tax. Imposes a tax of 1.95 cents on each thousand gallons of water sold for use or used by the ultimate consumer in a taxable use. Makes persons using the water liable for the tax. Establishes the Clean Water Trust Fund to make expenditures to carry out State water pollution control revolving fund activities.
Bill· HRH.R. 2208 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Control of Congressional Campaign Spending Subtitle A: Senate Election Campaign Spending Limits and Benefits Subtitle B: Expenditure Limitations, Contribution Limitations, and Matching Funds for Eligible House of Representatives Candidates Subtitle C: General Provisions Title II: Independent Expenditures Title III: Expenditures Subtitle A: Personal Loans; Credit Subtitle B: Provisions Relating to Soft Money of Political Parties Title IV: Contributions Title V: Reporting Requirements Title VI: Federal Election Commission Title VII: Ballot Initiative Committees Title VIII: Miscellaneous Title IX: Effective Dates; Authorizations Fair Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1993 - Title I: Control of Congressional Campaign Spending - Subtitle A: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide an income tax credit (up to $100 for an individual, and $200 for a joint return) for contributions to eligible House of Representatives (House) candidates. Subtitle B: Expenditure Limitations and Contribution Limitations for Eligible House of Representatives Candidates - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) to limit an eligible House candidate, in and election cycle, to aggregate expenditures of $600,000, of which not more than $500,000 may be expended in the general election period. (Sec. 121) Limits run-off election and special election expenditures for such a candidate, with additional allowances for closely contested primaries. Requires annual adjustment of such limits according to a specified price index, using calendar 1993 as the base year. Waives expenditure limitations for an eligible House candidate if any opponent is not eligible for FECA benefits and spends in excess of 80 percent of the general election period limit. Requires any noneligible House candidate who receives contributions exceeding 50 percent of the general election period limit, or makes expenditures exceeding 80 percent of such limit, to report to the Clerk of the House of Representatives within 48 hours. Excludes from the computation of expenditures subject to limits under this title: (1) any payments for legal and accounting compliance and Federal, State, or local taxes with respect to a candidate's authorized committees; and (2) certain fundraising costs, including salaries and overhead. Sets forth graduated civil penalties for low, medium, and large amounts of excess expenditures. Limits the aggregate contributions an eligible House candidate may accept with respect to any election cycle to $600,000. Waives contribution limitations for an eligible House candidate if any opponent is not eligible for FECA benefits and spends in excess of 50 percent of the general election period limit. Limits to $50,000 in any election cycle the personal contributions of an eligible House candidate from his or her own funds. Waives this limitation if any other House candidate in the same election is ineligible for FECA benefits and receives contributions exceeding 50 percent of the general election period limitation. Sets forth graduated civil penalties for low, medium, and large amounts of excess contributions. Excludes from the computation of contributions subject to limits under this title any used for legal and accounting compliance costs and Federal, State, or local taxes with respect to a candidate's authorized committees. Requires annual adjustment of contribution limitations according to a specified price index, using calendar 1993 as the base year. Denies any payments to any eligible House candidate unless he or she certifies that all his or her television commercials permit closed captioning. (Sec. 122) Limits to $300,000 the maximum aggregate contributions of political committees to a House candidate, and to the same amount the maximum aggregate contributions of large donors. Subtitle C: General Provisions - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require a broadcast station to make broadcast time available to all House and Senate candidates in the last 30 (currently 45) days before a primary and the last 45 (currently 60) days before a general election, at the lowest unit charge of the station for the same amount of time (currently, the same class and amount of time) for the same period on the same date. (Sec. 131) Prohibits broadcasters from preempting advertisements sold to political candidates at the lowest unit rate, unless the preemption is beyond the broadcaster's control. (Sec. 132) Amends Federal law to permit eligible House and Senate candidates to mail up to one piece per eligible voter (voting age population) at the lowest third-class non-profit postage rate, during a general election period only. (Sec. 134) Requires a clear statement of responsibility in advertisements with: (1) a clearly readable type and color contrasts for print advertisements; (2) clearly readable type, color contrasts, the candidate's image, and for a duration of at least four seconds, for television advertisements; and (3) a clearly spoken message by the candidate for both television and radio advertisements. Title II: Independent Expenditures - (Sec. 201) Amends FECA to define "independent expenditure" as an expenditure for an advertisement or other communication that: (1) contains express advocacy; and (2) is made without the participation or cooperation of a candidate or a candidate's representative. Excludes from the meaning of "independent expenditure" any expenditure by: (1) a political committee of a political party; (2) persons who communicate or receive information about activities that have a purpose of influencing a candidate's election; and (3) persons with other specified relationships with a candidate or candidate's agents in the same election cycle. (Sec. 201) Defines "express advocacy" as any communication that when taken as a whole: (1) expresses support for or opposition to a specific candidate, a specific group of candidates, or candidates of a particular political party; or (2) suggests taking action with respect to an election, such as voting for or against, contributing to, or participating in campaign activity. Title III: Expenditures - Subtitle A: Personal Loans; Credit - Amends FECA to prohibit the use of contributions after the date of a general election to repay loans to a candidate (or authorized committee) by the candidate himself or herself or by members of the candidate's family. (Sec. 302) Treats as a contribution any extension of credit of more than $1,000 for more than 60 days to Senate and House candidates (or authorized committees) by vendors of advertising and mass mailing services. Subtitle B: Provisions Relating to Soft Money of Political Parties - (Sec. 311) Amends FECA to limit to an aggregate $10,000 in any calendar year: (1) an individual's contributions to political committees established by a State committee of a political party; and (2) a multicandidate political committee's contributions to State party committees. Increases the $25,000 per year limit on an individual's contributions to a candidate by the amount of contributions (up to $5,000) made to State party committees. (Sec. 312) Prohibits a State party committee (including any subordinate committees) from making expenditures in connection with the general election presidential campaign of the party nominee which, in the aggregate, exceed a certain indexed amount. Subjects to certain limitations, prohibitions and reporting requirements any amount ("soft money") solicited, received, or expended directly or indirectly by a national, State, district, or local committee of a political party (including any subordinate committee) with respect to an activity (such as voter registration and get-out-the vote activities, among others) which, in whole or in part, is in connection with an election to Federal office. Prohibits a national political party committee from soliciting or accepting contributions not subject to FECA limitations, prohibitions, and reporting requirements. Cites conditions under which any amount received by the national, State, district, or local committee of a political party (including any subordinate committee) from a State or local candidate committee shall be treated as meeting the soft money requirements of this title. (Sec. 313) Places limitations on fundraising by Federal candidates and officeholders and certain political committees for State and local elections. Prohibits Federal candidates or officeholders from soliciting contributions to, or on behalf of, any tax-exempt organization if a significant portion of the organization's activities include voter registration or get-out-the-vote campaigns. (Sec. 314) Requires the national committee of a political party and any congressional campaign committee (and any subordinate committee) to report all receipts and disbursements during the reporting period, regardless of whether or not in connection with a Federal election. Title IV: Contributions - Specifies circumstances in which contributions made or arranged to be made directly or indirectly by a person to or on behalf of a particular candidate through an intermediary or conduit shall be treated as contributions from such intermediary or conduit to the candidate (thus subjecting them to the FECA limitations otherwise applicable to that intermediary or conduit). (Sec. 402) Treats contributions by a dependent not of voting age as having been made by the individual on whom that dependent is a dependent. (Sec. 403) Prohibits a candidate for Federal office from accepting, with respect to any election, any contribution from a State or local political party committee (or subordinate committee) if such contribution, when added to the total of contributions previously accepted from all such committees of that political party, exceeds the relevant contribution limitation. (Sec. 404) Excludes from the meaning of "contribution" any campaign expense voluntarily paid for by a campaign worker as an advance to the campaign, provided the amount does not exceed $500 and is reimbursed by the committee within ten days. Title V: Reporting Requirements - Requires all Federal candidates and authorized committees to aggregate information on their financial activity reports on an election cycle basis (instead of a calendar year basis, as at present). (Sec. 502) Requires candidates to report any expenditure in excess of the reporting threshold made to a person who provides services or materials for the candidate, whether the payment was made directly or indirectly under subcontract to another person providing personal or consulting services. (Sec. 503) Reduces from $200 to $50 the threshold for reporting certain information by persons other than political committees. (Sec. 504) Requires the Commission to maintain computerized indices of all contributions of at least $50 (currently $200). Title VI: Federal Election Commission - Prohibits a political committee that is not an authorized committee from using a candidate's name in a way to suggest that the candidate has authorized such committee. (Sec. 603) Provides for filling any vacancy in the office of general counsel, and revises the general counsel's rate of pay. (Sec. 604) Revises the basis for an enforcement proceeding from "reason to believe that a person has committed or is about to commit a violation of FECA" to "facts have been alleged or ascertained that, if true, give reason to believe that a person may have committed, or may be about to commit" such a violation. Authorizes the Commission to initiate a civil action for a temporary restraining order or a temporary injunction at any time during an enforcement proceeding that it believes there is substantial likelihood a FECA violation is occurring or about to occur, and the need for expeditious action meets certain criteria. (Sec. 606) Authorizes the Commission to conduct random audits of political committees. (Sec. 607) Prohibits contribution solicitation by false representation as a candidate or a representative of a candidate, a political committee, or a political party. (Sec. 608) Directs the Commission to promulgate rules to prohibit devices or arrangements which have the purpose or effect of undermining or evading provisions of FECA restricting the use of non-Federal money to affect Federal elections. Title VII: Ballot Initiative Committees - Defines a ballot initiative political committee as any committee, club, association or other group of persons which makes ballot initiative expenditures or receives ballot initiative contributions exceeding $1,000 during a calendar year in order to influence the outcome of any ballot initiative involving specified Federal issues voted on at the State, commonwealth, territory, or District of Columbia level. (Sec. 702) Excludes ballot initiative contributions and expenditures from the usual meaning of contributions and expenditures under FECA. (Sec. 704) Makes the political committee organizational and reporting requirements (and attendant civil penalties) under FECA applicable to ballot initiative committees. (Sec. 707) Applies to ballot initiative contributions the current prohibition against: (1) making a contribution in the name of another person or knowingly permitting one's name to be used to effect such a contribution; and (2) knowingly accepting a contribution made by one person in the name of another person. (Sec. 708) Limits ballot initiative contributions of currency to an aggregate of $100 per person. Title VIII: Miscellaneous - Prohibits Federal candidates and officeholders from establishing, maintaining, or controlling any political committee (such as a "leadership committee") other than a principal campaign committee of the candidate, authorized committee, party committee, or other political committee designated as an authorized committee. (Sec. 802) Requires that contributions of polling data to Federal candidates be valued at fair market value on the date of the poll's completion, depreciated at a specified rate. (Sec. 803) Denies FECA payments to any general election candidates of a political party for President or Vice President unless both candidates for such office agree in writing to at least four debates for the office of President, or at least one debate for the office of Vice President, sponsored by a nonpartisan or bipartisan organization, with all other candidates for the office eligible for FECA benefits. (Sec. 804) Prohibits foreign nationals from directly or indirectly directing, controlling, influencing, or participating in any person's election-related activities with respect to any local, State, or Federal office. (Sec. 805) Permits union and corporate expenditures for candidates appearances, debates, and voter guides in Federal elections if certain conditions are met. (Sec. 806) Directs the Commission to study and report to the Congress on the feasibility of developing telephonic voting for persons with disabilities. (Sec. 807) Prohibits the use of any aircraft owned or operated by the Federal Government in connection with a Federal election, except for travel of the President or Vice President as long as the portion of the cost of any such travel allocable to election activities is paid by the President's authorized committee. (Sec. 808) Declares that it is the sense of Congress that the Congress should consider legislation providing a Constitutional amendment to set reasonable limits on campaign expenditures in Federal elections. Title IX: Effective Dates; Authorizations - Sets forth the general effective date of this Act. Provides for: (1) budget neutrality of this Act; and (2) direct, expedited appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court from any court rulings on the constitutionality of any provision of this Act or amendment made by it.
Bill· HRH.R. 2221 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
Biennial Budgeting Act of 1993 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to revise the Federal and congressional budget processes by establishing a two-year budgeting and appropriations cycle and timetable. Defines the budget biennium as the two consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any odd-numbered year. Devotes the first session of any Congress to the budget resolution and to appropriations decisions, retaining current deadlines in most cases. Changes certain deadlines to conform to the biennial scheme. Devotes each second session to authorization activity, subject to specified deadlines. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to issue four-year projections of congressional budget action. (Current projections are on a five-year basis.) Amends provisions relating to the reconciliation process to: (1) increase from 20 to 100 hours the time of debate permitted in the Senate with respect to reconciliation measures; and (2) make it out of order in both the House and the Senate to consider any reconciliation legislation changing any provision of law other than one relating to new budget or spending authority, revenues, or the public debt limit. Conforms provisions governing the President's budget to the biennial framework. Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to conform to the biennial framework.
Bill· HRH.R. 2200 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Authorization of Appropriations Title II: Advanced Space Technology Program Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Space Activities Title IV: Aeronautics Research and Technology National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 - Title I: Authorization of Appropriations - Subtitle A: Authorizations - Places an aggregate limit on FY 1994 authorization of appropriations under this subtitle, except for Space Station Freedom (appropriations authorized through FY 2000). Requires the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) to provide the Congress with a job loss transition plan as it restructures space station management. (Sec. 101 through 105) Authorizes NASA appropriations for: (1) research and development; (2) space flight, control, and data communications; (3) construction of facilities research and program management; and (4) the Inspector General. Subtitle B: Limitations and Special Authority - Sets forth funds uses, limitations, and special authorities, including: (1) expenditure prerequisites with respect to management transfer of the External Tank Program from the Marshall Space Flight Center; (2) authorizations available for disaster relief; and (3) a facility plan and analysis for NASA facilities in Yellow Creek, Mississippi. Title II: Advanced Space Technology Program - Directs the Administrator of NASA to establish an advanced space technology investment program to: (1) advance U.S. industrial competitiveness; (2) encourage industry-led consortia to develop critical technologies; and (3) encourage industrial participation from entities not part of the traditional Federal contracting base. (Sec. 206) Directs the Administrator to coordinate a technology procurement initiative. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Space Activities - Amends the Commercial Space Launch Act to authorize FY 1994 appropriations to carry out such Act. (Sec. 303) Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to make space transportation infrastructure matching grants. Authorizes FY 1995 appropriations. (Sec. 304) States that the Office of Space Commerce of the Department of Commerce shall be responsible for the development and coordination of all commercial space policy recommendations and activities, except for functions and activities statutorily authorized to other agencies. Authorizes appropriations for the Office. (Sec. 305) Provides for domestic procurement by NASA. (Sec. 306) Requires independent cost analysis of specified NASA projects. (Sec. 307) Amends the Global Change Research Act of 1990 to require NASA to develop a Global Change Data and Information System to process, archive, and distribute data generated by the Global Change Research Program. (Sec. 308) Directs the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences to develop an access plan for data from classified archives and systems for global change research. (Sec. 309) Directs the Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop a plan for control of orbital debris. (Sec. 310) Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to state that NASA activities should include support of private sector space technologies development. (Sec. 311 and 312) Directs NASA to study: (1) the differences between U.S. and foreign expendable space launch systems; and (2) the feasibility and potential implementation of a University Innovative Research Program. (Sec. 314) Requires NASA cost-type research and development contracts to incorporate contractor performance provisions. (Sec. 315) Authorizes NASA to accept certain land conveyances from the cities of Cleveland and Brook Park, Ohio, in order to establish a Visitor Center for the Lewis Research Center. (Sec. 316) Directs the Administrator to establish within the Office of Advanced Concepts and Technology an expedited technology procurement demonstration program. Obligates specified funds for the program, which shall terminate ten years after enactment of this Act. (Sec. 317) Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and the Administrator to: (1) provide farmers and other interested parties with agricultural information available through remote sensing; (2) evaluate the need for, and develop a proposal as necessary for, a radar imaging platform that could enhance agricultural resource remote sensing capability; and (3) develop a proposal to inform farmers and other users about remote sensing data. Terminates such provisions five years after enactment of this Act. (Sec. 318) Directs NASA to establish new programs or functions in depressed communities. (Sec. 319) Prohibits NASA contracts with a foreign company unless such company's country offers comparable opportunities to U.S. companies, or unless comparable U.S. products or services are not reasonably available. (Sec. 320) Authorizes NASA to purchase helium from private sector sources. (Sec. 321) Requires NASA to comply with specified diversity procurement factors. Title IV: Aeronautics Research and Technology - Requires independent reviews of NASA aeronautics programs of: (1) research and development; and (2) private sector technology transfer. (Sec. 405) Directs the Administrator to study and report on Federal-private cost sharing provisions concerning wind tunnels and? related test facilities. (Sec. 406) Requires NASA and other appropriate Federal agencies to establish a joint aeronautical research and development program. (Sec. 407) Directs the Administrator to conduct an assessment of the hypersonic research plane.
Bill· HRH.R. 2235 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Interstate Banking and Branching Title II: CRA Evaluations Interstate Banking Efficiency Act of 1993 - Title I: Interstate Banking and Branching - Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to prescribe guidelines under which the Federal Reserve Board may approve applications by bank holding companies or foreign banks to acquire voting shares or interests in additional insured depository institutions or banking holding companies located in any State (State law to the contrary notwithstanding). Amends Federal banking law to prescribe guidelines under which the Comptroller of the Currency may approve applications by adequately capitalized and adequately managed national banks to acquire and operate interstate branches. Authorizes the States, by a specified deadline, to: (1) either permit or prohibit interstate branching by national or State banks; and (2) set conditions upon such branching. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) to set forth parameters under which adequately capitalized and adequately managed insured State banks may engage in interstate branching. Permits the States to coordinate their bank examination and regulatory activities. Amends the International Banking Act of 1978 to prescribe guidelines under which foreign banks may establish interstate banking operations. Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 and specified Federal banking law to authorize the interstate consolidation or merger of bank holding company subsidiary banks, subject to prescribed guidelines. Conditions Federal Reserve Board approval of such consolidation upon submission by the applicant of a plan for meeting the credit needs of the local communities served by the merger. Sets forth capitalization requirements for new interstate banking and branching activities. Requires Federal banking regulatory agencies to prescribe regulations which: (1) prohibit any person from engaging in interstate branching primarily for the purpose of deposit production; (2) include guidelines to ensure that each interstate branch meets the credit needs of its local community and market area; and (3) restrict the ratio of out-of-State loans by interstate branches. Amends Federal banking law to authorize State regulatory agencies to review the records of Federal depository institutions for State tax compliance purposes. Title II: CRA Evaluations - Amends the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 to require the appropriate Federal financial supervisory agency to prepare written State-by-State evaluations of the performance records of financial institutions with interstate branches.
Bill· HRH.R. 2219 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise or add to the guaranteed student loan program (also known as the Stafford Loan or the Federal Family Education Loan Program) with respect to: (1) in-school and grace period interest rate limits; (2) loan transfer fees; (3) decrease of guaranty agency reinsurance percentage; (4) required risk sharing by the Student Loan Marketing Association; (5) shares of post-default collections; (6) decrease of administrative cost allowances; (7) reinsurance fees; (8) parent loan (PLUS) amount limits and multiple disbursement requirements; (8) reduction and limitation of consolidation loan interest rates; (9) limitation of interest subsidy during deferment; (10) insurance fees from lenders; (11) longer periods for default determinations; (12) special allowances on tax exempt funds and purchase premiums; (13) origination fees from lenders; (14) the lender-of-last-resort requirement; (15) Student Loan Marketing Association alternative status study; and (16) repayment options (including income sensitive) availability and information.
Bill· HRH.R. 2225 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
Highway Construction Private Investment Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to permit Federal participation in initial construction of any toll highway, bridge, or tunnel on the Interstate System and in the reconstruction of a toll-free Federal-aid highway on the Interstate System and its conversion to a toll facility. Requires each State, to avoid having specified Federal highway funds withheld from apportionment, to enter into contracts with private persons to finance construction of toll facilities which require such persons to obligate under such contracts, in the aggregate, an amount equal to or exceeding the State's aggregate apportionment amount for the fiscal year. Sets forth provisions regarding the reapportionment of withheld funds.
Bill· HRH.R. 2234 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude C corporations from rules applicable to real property subdivided for sale by noncorporate taxpayers. Makes S corporations eligible under such rules.
Bill· HRH.R. 2210 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
Mammography Access Tax Credit Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an employer a tax credit for 50 percent of qualified mammography screening costs. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish standards to assure the safety and accuracy of such mammography screening.
Bill· HRH.R. 2216 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
Prohibits a State, in determining the amount of income tax on nonresidents, from taking into account income from sources outside such State.
Bill· HRH.R. 2226 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of a candidate for a degree at an educational organization any amount received as a scholarship or fellowship or as incidental expenses to such scholarship or fellowship.
Bill· HRH.R. 2228 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
Family Living Wage Act - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions governing the earned income tax credit to: (1) increase from $5,714 to $8,000 the amount of earned income subject to the credit; (2) establish the basic credit at 20 percent; and (3) permit an additional credit (to apply to not more than four children) of five percent for each dependent school age child between age six and age 16 and ten percent for each preschool age child. Reduces the amount of the credit for taxpayers with adjusted gross income over $50,000. Indexes amounts relating to the credit beginning in 1995. Disallows application of the nonrefundable dependent care income tax credit with respect to a taxpayer's dependents under age 13, unless the child is physically or mentally incapable of self-care. Permits the credit with respect to handicapped children under age 16 only if the taxpayer elects not to include the child within the framework of the earned income credit. Repeals provisions of the Family Support Act of 1988 that revise the way in which the earned income credit is treated in the context of needs analysis for purposes of State plans for aid and services to needy families with children under title IV of the Social Security Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2198 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
Campaign Cost Reduction and Reform Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to revise the definition of: (1) qualifying House of Representatives candidate; (2) contribution; (3) expenditure; and (4) independent expenditure. Limits with regard to an election cycle of an House of Representatives candidate: (1) general and personal funds expenditures; (2) contributions from persons other than individuals, multicandidate political committees (PACs), political party committees, and persons from outside the district; (3) independent expenditures; and (4) individual contributions. Sets forth penalties for excess contributions. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit ($100 for an individual, $200 for a joint return) for contributions to House of Representatives candidates with respect to elections in the taxpayer's congressional district of residence.
Bill· HRH.R. 2227 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow married couples to make a combined return of income taxes under which each spouse is taxed using rates applicable to unmarried individuals. Makes the standard deduction applicable to such individuals.
Bill· SS. 988 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for energy conservation expenditures by an electric or gas utility during a taxable year in connection with its trade or business, as long as the rates for the sale of such electricity or natural gas have been approved by the appropriate governing body.
Bill· SS. 987 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the discharge of indebtedness income from the prepayment of certain rural electrification loans.
Bill· HRH.R. 2172 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Requirement that President Submit and Budget Committees Report Budgets that Achieve a Balanced Budget by Fiscal Year 2000 Title II: Joint Budget Resolutions Title III: Categorical Sequestration and Pay-As-You-Go Title IV: The Budget Baseline Health Care Reform Budget Enforcement Act of 1993 - Title I: Requirement That President Submit and Budget Committees Report Budgets That Achieve a Balanced Budget by Fiscal Year 2000 - Amends Federal law to require any budget submitted by the President to the Congress for FY 1994 through 2000 be a budget for that fiscal year and the four ensuing fiscal years that provides for a balanced budget by FY 2000 and subsequent fiscal years. Requires that such budgets be within categorical targets. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the reporting of balanced budgets by the congressional budget committees. Title II: Joint Budget Resolutions - Replaces the concurrent resolution on the budget with a joint resolution on the budget. Makes it out of order in the House and Senate to consider any appropriation or authorizing legislation for a fiscal year covered by a joint resolution on the budget before that joint resolution is enacted. Title III: Categorical Sequestration and Pay-As-You-Go - Establishes direct spending and discretionary spending targets (replaces maximum deficit amounts) for FY 1994 through 2000. Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to require adjustments to discretionary spending targets to include expiring housing contracts and emergencies. Establishes a reconciliation process for the congressional committees on Appropriations to avoid sequestration. Prohibits the House or Senate from considering legislation to reduce revenues unless such legislation reduces any combination of entitlement targets or discretionary spending targets in order to make such legislation deficit-neutral. Provides for permanent sequestration of direct spending, eliminating excess direct spending, and a reconciliation process to avoid sequestration. Designates benefits payable under the old-age, survivors and disability insurance program under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act as the only program exempt from reduction from any sequestration order. Repeals other exceptions, limitations, and special rules. Title IV: The Budget Baseline - Amends Federal law to require both the President and the Congress to draft a budget based on estimates of current fiscal year spending, proposing increases or decreases based on this level (rather than on an estimated baseline). Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Congressional Budget Office to use such a current fiscal year baseline in its report to the congressional budget committees, projecting growth for entitlement and discretionary spending based on current fiscal year spending.
Bill· HRH.R. 2153 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993
Giant Sequoia Preservation Act of 1993 - Designate certain federally owned lands within the Sequoia and Sierra National Forests, California, as the Giant Sequoia National Forest Preserve. Prohibits activities within the Preserve that are inconsistent with the following: (1) resource protection and restoration; (2) protection of the Giant Sequoia groves and contiguous forests and restoration of the forest ecosystem to a natural state; (3) providing the optimum habitat for all naturally occurring species; (4) providing opportunities for recreation, interpretation, and scientific study; and (5) providing optimum water, air, and scenic quality. Establishes the Giant Sequoia Scientific Advisory Board. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) administer the Preserve as a separate unit within the National Forest System; (2) make yearly recommendations on other areas to be designated National Forest Preserves; and (3) publish a comprehensive management plan for the Preserve. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) recreation and interpretation; (2) regeneration of cut-over giant Sequoia Groves; (3) scientific study and research; (4) fire management; (5) hunting and fishing; (6) timber cutting; (7) mineral and geothermal leasing; (8) water rights; (9) grazing rights; and (10) public safety. Directs the Secretary to make annual payments in lieu of taxes to the local government of each political subdivision within the boundaries of which are lands indicated under this Act for inclusion in the Preserve. Requires the Secretary to establish a community assistance task force. Permits any local community in the region that is affected by loss of Federal timber sales and any worker who is displaced from a job in the timber industry as a result of this Act to request assistance from the task force. Directs the task force to encourage and develop employment opportunities in forest ecosystem restoration, recreation, and other forms of employment compatible with the purposes and provisions of this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 2152 (103rd)reported
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993
Merchant Marine Investment Act of 1993 - Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 (MMA) to restrict capital construction fund (CCF) agreements to vessels documented for operation in the foreign or domestic commerce of the United States (currently, for operation in the United States foreign, Great Lakes, or noncontiguous domestic trade) or in the fisheries of the United States. Amends the MMA and the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to provide for the income tax treatment of CCF earnings, including regarding capital gains and tax rates. Modifies the ceiling on CCF deposits. Prohibits taking into account amounts included in taxable earnings of the fund for provisions regulating the consistency of the CCF ordinary income account. Allows: (1) payments that reduce the principal amount of a qualified lease to be considered qualified withdrawals and includes the payments in provisions relating to reductions in basis; and (2) CCF deposits exceeding the ceiling for prior years because of an audit adjustment. Modifies requirements regarding: (1) the content of CCF capital gains and ordinary income accounts; (2) the tax rate and interest on nonqualified withdrawals; and (3) investment of CCF amounts. Amends the IRC to require that terms defined in the provisions of the MMA amended by this Act have the same meaning for the provisions of the IRC amended by this Act as the definitional provisions of the MMA that were in effect on the date of the enactment of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (currently, on the date of the enactment of the IRC provisions amended by this Act). Removes provisions providing for the treatment of CCFs regarding the alternative minimum taxable income of a corporation. Classifies vessels (other than fishing vessels) that are eligible vessels under CCF provisions as three-year property for IRC provisions regarding accelerated cost recovery. Sets forth a special rule for determining the amount of depreciation or amortization allowable in connection with adjustments based on adjusted current earnings for provisions relating to adjustments in computing alternative minimum taxable income.
Bill· HRH.R. 2171 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount of tax-exempt obligations excepted from the pro rata allocation of interest expense of financial institutions to tax-exempt interest for qualified small issuers.
Bill· SS. 978 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: National Environmental Technology Panel Title II: National Environmental Technologies Institute; Clearinghouse Subtitle A: National Environmental Technologies Institute Subtitle B: Environmental Technology Clearinghouse Title III: Environmental Innovation Research Program; Technology Testing Subtitle A: Environmental Innovation Research Program Subtitle B: Innovative Technology Testing Title IV: Additional Programs Subtitle A: Verification of Environmental Technologies Program Subtitle B: Environmental Technology Advisory Council Subtitle C: Coordination With National Institute of Standards and Technology National Environmental Technology Act of 1993 - Title I: National Environmental Technology Panel - Establishes a National Environmental Technology Panel within the Office of Science and Technology Policy to coordinate Federal environmental technology programs and develop a national environmental technology strategy. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to: (1) consider all Federal agency requests for environmental technology research as one integrated multiagency request; and (2) review the Panel budget summary prior to submission of the President's annual budget request. Title II: National Environmental Technologies Institute; Clearinghouse - Subtitle A: National Environmental Technologies Institute - Establishes the National Environmental Technologies Institute within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) support products oriented research, development, and demonstration of environmental technology at the precommercial stage; (2) monitor and provide technical assistance to private research and development; (3) develop and transfer environmental technologies and mechanisms to address international environmental problems; (4) develop a clearinghouse on environmental technology; (5) advise Federal officials on programs for promoting the development and diffusion of environmental technology; (6) ensure the availability of an initial market for critical environmental technologies; and (7) make recommendations for changes in Federal procurement guidelines to ensure the availability of such market. Authorizes cooperative agreements and assistance to carry out such functions. Establishes the Environmental Advanced Research Projects Revolving Fund to assist entities that serve the U.S. environmental security needs in carrying out this subtitle. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Institute Director to disseminate information for promoting the export of environmental technology through the clearinghouse established under this title. Subtitle B: Environmental Technology Clearinghouse - Directs the EPA Administrator to establish an electronic database to serve as a clearinghouse for the dissemination of nonproprietary information on environmental technology. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Environmental Innovation Research Program; Technology Testing - Subtitle A: Environmental Innovation Research Program - Requires the heads of covered Federal agencies (agencies for which more than $50 million per fiscal year is made available for environmental cleanup) to establish research programs for the commercialization of environmental technology to further the process of cleanup or pollution prevention activities. Directs agencies to set aside funding for such programs. Sets forth program phases and authorizes agreements with private entities to carry out research. Subtitle B: Innovative Technology Testing - Directs the Administrator to establish a program for testing environmental technology at federally owned facilities and sites on the National Priorities List (under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980) and on the inventory of Federal agency hazardous waste facilities (under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976). Requires covered Federal agencies to incorporate demonstrated technologies in prevention or remediation of contamination at applicable sites. Title IV: Additional Programs - Subtitle A: Verification of Environmental Technologies - Directs the Administrator to establish a program to verify and disseminate performance and cost information on environmental technologies appropriate for compliance with regulations promulgated under Federal environmental laws. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Environmental Technology Advisory Council - Establishes the Environmental Technology Advisory Council. Subtitle C: Coordination with National Institute of Standards and Technology - Directs the Administrator and the Secretary of Commerce to enter into agreements to permit EPA to provide technical assistance to the Manufacturing Technology Centers administered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Bill· SS. 981 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize appropriations for refugee assistance.
Bill· SS. 972 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993
Requires that, except in specified instances, Federal financial assistance be taken into account when determining losses or bad debts of savings and loans institutions (thus denying income tax deductions for losses or bad debts to the extent Federal assistance has compensated for them).
Bill· HRH.R. 2142 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain nonmarried individuals who are full-time students to use the dependent care credit.
Law· HRH.R. 2139 (103rd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993
Extends the authorization of appropriations for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Bill· HRH.R. 2141 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Short Title; References to Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 Titles II-XII: (Reserved) Title XIII: Committee on Ways and Means-Savings Subtitle A: Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program Subtitle D (sic): Customs and Trade Provisions Subtitle E: Customs Officer Pay Reform Subtitle B (sic): Human Resources Amendments Subtitle C: Medicare Program Title XIV: Revenue Provisions Subtitle A: Training and Investment Incentives Subtitle B: Revenue Increases Subtitle C: Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities, Etc. Subtitle D: Other Provisions Title I: Short Title; References to Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Ways and Means Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Deems any reference in this Act to the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to be a reference to the Ways and Means Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993. Titles II-XII: (Reserved) Title XIII: Committee on Ways and Means: Savings - Subtitle A: Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Program - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OMBRA '90) to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to reestablish and maintain in service the same number of telephone lines to each local social security office that were in place on September 30, 1989. (Sec. 13002) Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to raise the threshold at which election services become subject to social security employment taxes. (Sec. 13003) Amends SSA title II to: (1) permit States which already collect social security numbers under current law to use them to eliminate duplicate names and names of convicted felons from jury source lists; (2) extend to all States the option to provide police officers and firefighters participating in a public retirement system with social security coverage under voluntary agreements with the Secretary; (3) disregard the windfall elimination provision in computing any U.S. totalization benefit and the amount of a regular U.S. benefit of an individual who receives a foreign totalization benefit based in part on U.S. employment, and who does not receive any other pension which is based on noncovered employment; (4) provide that military pensions based wholly on service in the military reserves before 1988 shall not trigger application of the Government pension offset or windfall elimination provision to the individual's social security benefits; (5) repeal the facility-of-payment provision; (6) make the guaranteed primary insurance amount the basis for calculating the guaranteed maximum family benefit; (7) make unauthorized disclosure of information and fraudulent attempts to obtain personal information under SSA a felony, and increase penalties for such offenses; (8) increase the time for which an extension may be granted for filing an annual earnings report; (9) permit the Department of Agriculture to share its list of names, social security numbers, and employer identification numbers of the owners and officers of retail grocery stores which redeem food stamps with other Federal agencies for the purpose of investigating food stamp fraud and violations of other Federal laws; (10) prohibit the misuse of Department of the Treasury names, symbols, etc.; (11) prohibit a State from using an individual's social security number in the administration of any driver's license or motor vehicle registration law where the State has not entered into a contract to provide death certificate and related information to the Secretary, or where such a contract restricts the Secretary's use of death information; and (12) require the Secretary to study improvements in gathering and reporting of death information. (Sec. 13005) Exempts from payment liability and penalties any ministers who were American citizens and residents of Canada prior to the 1984 totalization agreement between the United States and Canada and failed to file a tax return or pay self-employment taxes. (Sec. 13010) Amends IRC to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose information from tax returns on individuals' mortality status to the Secretary for epidemiological research purposes; (2) provide for the coordination of the collection of domestic service employment taxes with the collection of income taxes; and (3) change threshold requirements with respect to social security employment taxes on domestic services. (Sec. 13015) Requires the Secretary to study the rising costs of disability benefits for a report to the Congress with recommendations for legislative changes. (Sec. 13016) Amends the Social Security Disability Amendments of 1980 to extend the Secretary's authority to conduct disability work incentive demonstration projects. Subtitle D (sic): Customs and Trade Provisions - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to authorize appropriations for the United States International Trade Commission (ITC). Prohibits use of such funds for any special study, investigation, or report requested by an agency of the executive branch unless such agency reimburses the ITC for its costs. (Sec. 13601) Amends the Customs Procedural Reform and Simplification Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for the United States Customs Service for: (1) noncommercial and commercial operations; and (2) the air and marine interdiction programs. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for the Office of the United States Trade Representative. (Sec. 13602) Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) to extend the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to collect customs user fees. (Sec. 13603) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to remove the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from the list of countries ineligible for designation as a beneficiary developing country under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). Extends duty-free treatment provided under the GSP. (Sec. 13604) Extends the worker trade adjustment assistance program (trade adjustment assistance benefits for workers adversely affected by import competition or the relocation of U.S. production facilities abroad) as well as authorization of appropriations for it. (Sec. 13605) Amends the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to extend the authority of the President, for a specified period of time, to enter into trade agreements with foreign countries for the reduction or elimination of tariff or nontariff barriers if the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has not resulted in such trade agreements by May 31, 1993. Provides that implementing bills involving tariff and nontariff trade agreements shall be effective only if, among other things, the President, at least 120 calendar days (currently, 90 days) before he enters into such agreement, notifies the Congress of his intention to enter into it, and publishes such intention in the Federal Register. Extends congressional "fast track procedures" to such implementing bills through April 16, 1994. (Sec. 13606) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to eliminate the East-West Trade Statistics Monitoring System. Subtitle E: Customs Officer Pay Reform - Amends Federal law to revise the pay system for United States Customs Service Inspectors (customs inspectors). (Sec. 13702) Authorizes cash awards to customs officers for foreign language proficiency. (Sec. 13703) Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) to provide for reimbursement of appropriations from the Customs User Fee Account (Account) for agency retirement contributions. (Sec. 13704) Amends Federal law with regard to the treatment of certain pay of customs officers for retirement purposes. (Sec. 13705) Revises COBRA congressional reporting requirements respecting Account reimbursements. Requires additional General Accounting Office reports to the Congress concerning the financing of overtime inspectional services through user fees. Subtitle B: (sic) Human Resources Amendments - Chapter 1: Child Welfare Services, Foster Care, and Adoption Assistance - Amends SSA title IV part B (Child-Welfare Services) to: (1) create a capped entitlement program to provide child welfare services designed to strengthen and preserve families; (2) repeal provisions linking the payment of certain SSA title IV part B funds to the implementation of certain protections for children in foster care; (3) require that the State part B plan provide for the foster care protections currently outlined in such provisions as well as for State review of its procedures in effect for children abandoned at or shortly after birth, as well as enactment of any procedures necessary to enable permanent child placement decisions to be made expeditiously; (4) provide that the funds withheld or recovered from a State owing to its failure to comply with such protections may not be reallotted among other States; (5) require State part B plans to contain a description of the specific measures taken by the State to comply with the Indian Child Welfare Act; and (6) provide for child welfare traineeships. (Sec. 13212) Directs the Secretary to provide grants for State courts to assess and improve proceedings relating to foster care placement and adoption. (Sec. 13216) Amends SSA title IV part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) (FCAA) to: (1) change the reimbursement policy with respect to foster care maintenance payments made on behalf of certain children whose adoption has been set aside by a court or whose voluntary placement in foster care has been judicially determined to be in the best interests of the child; (2) provide for 90 (and later 50) percent matching of State expenditures for planning, design, development, or installation of statewide mechanized data collection and information retrieval systems, and 50 percent matching of State expenditures for operation of the systems; (3) require States to review periodically their foster care maintenance payment and adoption assistance levels to ensure their continuing appropriateness; (4) revise the case review system to provide that hearings after the initial dispositional hearing take place at least every 12 months, rather than periodically; (5) require the health and education records in each child's case plan to include a record that the foster care provider was advised (where appropriate) of the child's eligibility for early and periodic Medicaid screening, diagnostic, and treatment services; (6) provide for the treatment of assets of youths participating in the independent living program; (7) make permanent the authorization for the independent living program; (8) repeal authority to transfer unused foster care funds to the child welfare services program; (9) require the Secretary to promulgate regulations for on-site reviews and audits of State expenditures for foster care maintenance and adoption assistance payments; (10) set forth case plan requirements for children placed in foster care a substantial distance from their homes or in a different State; (11) require the dispositional hearing for a child placed in foster care in a different State to determine whether the out-of-State placement continues to be appropriate and in the child's best interests; (12) require the adoption and foster care data collection system to provide information on the number and characteristics of children placed in foster care outside the State; and (13) codify Federal regulations providing a timetable for the treatment of State claims for foster care and adoption assistance. (Sec. 13218) Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the ways in which States implement the reasonable efforts requirements for State SSA title IV part E plans. (Sec. 13225) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 (OMBRA '89) to extend permanently (and retroactively to October 1, 1992) the level of Federal reimbursement under SSA title IV part E for the training of personnel employed or preparing for employment by the State or local child welfare agency, and for the training of foster and adoptive parents. (Sec. 13227) Amends SSA title XI part A to: (1) bar the Secretary from imposing financial penalties on States for the failure of State programs under SSA title IV parts B and E to comply with State plan requirements, except pursuant to final regulations meeting specified requirements; (2) provide for certain demonstration projects to promote the objectives of such parts; and (3) overturn certain limitations in Suter v. Artist M. on private enforceability of State plan requirements. (Sec. 13232) Prohibits the Secretary: (1) until October 1, 1994, from reducing any payment to, withholding any payments from, or seeking any repayments from any State under SSA title IV parts B or E by reason of a determination in connection with a review of State compliance with SSA title IV part B foster care protections; and (2) from reducing any payments to, withholding any payments from, or seeking any repayments from any State under SSA title IV part E by reason of a determination in connection with any on-site Federal financial review, or any audit conducted by the Inspector General using similar methodologies. (Sec. 13233) Requires the Secretary to make grants to eligible institutions to train individuals to deliver culturally sensitive and bilingual child welfare services in border areas with Mexico. Authorizes appropriations. Chapter 2: Child Support Enforcement - Amends SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to: (1) set up new paternity establishment performance standards and procedures for State child support enforcement programs; (2) outline State SSA title IV part D plan requirements applicable to health insurers, employers, and State Medicaid agencies with regard to health insurance coverage for children of parents subject to a support order; and (3) require State child support enforcement agencies to periodically report, at no charge, the names of obligors at least two months delinquent in child support payments to bona fide consumer reporting agencies capable of making accurate use of such information. Chapter 3: Supplemental Security Income - Amends SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) and other Federal law to: (1) require the Social Security Administration to charge States fees for the Federal cost of administering State supplemental SSI payments; and (2) require the Secretary to charge fees for additional services requested by the State that are beyond the level customarily provided in administering such payments. (Sec. 13252) Amends OMBRA '90 to make permanent the exclusion of State and local relocation assistance from countable income under SSI. (Sec. 13253) Amends SSA title XVI to: (1) deem to be living in a household a spouse or parent of family members on SSI who is absent from the household solely because of active duty military assignment; (2) exclude hazardous duty pay received while on active military duty from countable income; (3) continue SSI benefits to children who are U.S. citizens if they received SSI in the United States and then accompany their parents on military assignment to any U.S. territory or possession; and (4) extend the SSI definition of disability for children under 18 to any person under 18. (Sec. 13257) Amends Federal law to exempt income of up to $2,000 per year received by individual Indians that is derived from leases on individually-owned trust or restricted Indian lands in determining eligibility and benefit levels under AFDC (SSA title IV part A) and SSI. Chapter 4: Aid to Families with Dependent Children - (Sec. 13261) Amends SSA title IV part A to: (1) reduce to 50 percent the enhanced Federal matching available for certain categories of State administrative expenses; (2) make optional a State's verification of an individual's immigration status with the Immigration and Naturalization Service through an immigration status verification system; (3) delay Federal requirements regarding AFDC-UP participation rates; and (4) increase the amount of stepparent earnings disregarded in determining the eligibility and benefit amounts of AFDC recipients and applicants. (Sec. 13263) Amends SSA title IV part F (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program) (JOBS) to require the Secretary to develop criteria for performance standards in the JOBS program, rather than performance standards themselves, by a certain date. (Sec. 13264) States that the Congress hereby declares that: (1) it is the policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to reduce the rate and degree to which families depend on income from welfare programs, to assist them toward self-sufficiency, and to increase the living standards of low-income families; and (2) the Federal Government should help welfare recipients as well as individuals at risk of welfare participation to improve their education and job skills, to obtain access to high quality child care and other necessary support services, and to take such other steps as may assist them to meet their responsibilities to become financially independent. Directs the Secretary to develop welfare participation measures and predictors, and report annually on welfare participation to specified congressional committees. Establishes the Advisory Board on Welfare Participation to assist the Secretary in the development of such measures and predictors. (Sec. 13265) Directs the Secretary to provide for a demonstration project offering low-income residents of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, employment, wage supplements, health and child care, and counseling and training for job retention or advancement. (Sec. 13266) Amends the Family Support Act of 1988 to: (1) delay the requirement for implementation of the Unemployed Parent program in Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Soma until the limitations on Federal matching payments to these jurisdictions with respect to AFDC and FCAA maintenance payments are repealed; and (2) extend the authorization for early childhood development projects. (Sec. 13269) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OMBRA '87) to extend New York State's Child Assistance Program demonstration. (Sec. 13267) Amends SSA title XI to provide that, with respect to AFDC, one adult member of a family or household may sign, under penalty of perjury, a declaration attesting to the citizenship or satisfactory immigration status of other family or household members. Permits an adult to sign a declaration on behalf of a newly born child no later than the next eligibility redetermination date. Chapter 5: Unemployment Insurance - Amends IRC and SSA title III (Unemployment Compensation) to provide for the treatment of short-time compensation programs under which individuals whose workweeks have been reduced by at least ten percent (especially as an alternative to a temporary layoff) are eligible for unemployment compensation, under certain conditions. (Sec. 13275) Amends the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to increase the reimbursement rate and repeal special eligibility requirements under the extended unemployment program. (Sec. 13276) Amends IRC to: (1) extend the current Federal unemployment tax rate; and (2) require disclosure of information about certain taxes to the Railroad Retirement Board for purposes of its administration of the Railroad Retirement and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Acts. Chapter 6: Technical Provisions - Makes technical corrections related to the income security and human resources provisions of OMBRAs '89 and '90. (Sec. 13283) Amends SSA title XVI to repeal certain obsolete provisions relating to treatment of the earned income tax credit. Subtitle C: Medicare Program - Chapter 1: Provisions Relating to Part A - Subchapter A: Elimination of Inflation Update for Services Provided under Part A: - Amends SSA title XVIII (Medicare) to eliminate updates for inpatient hospital services and hospice care under Medicare part A in FY 1994 and 1995. (Sec. 13402) Prohibits the Secretary from applying an update factor to the cost limits for skilled nursing facility cost reporting periods beginning in FY 1994 and 1995. Subchapter B: Other Provisions Relating to Part A - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) provide that a change in classification of hospitals from one area to another cannot result in a reduction in the wage index for an urban area if the area has a wage index below the rural wage index for the State or if the area is the only urban area in a State with no rural areas; (2) change certain requirements with respect to the standards for designating metropolitan statistical areas that are used in determining treatment of certain hospitals in rural counties adjacent to one or more urban areas; (3) require the Secretary to phase out payments for day outlier cases starting in FY 1995; (4) revise and authorize appropriations for the Essential Access Community Hospital (EACH) demonstration program; (5) provide for a prospective payment system for determining payments for outpatient rural primary care hospital services; (6) continue special payments for Medicare-dependent, small rural hospitals for discharges occurring through FY 1994, with reduced payments for certain discharges; (7) extend the regional floor provision with respect to certain hospital discharges the payment for which is set at 85 percent of the national amount and 15 percent of the regional amount; (8) allow to participate in Medicare hospitals where the care of patients receiving qualified psychologist services is under a clinical psychologist; (9) provide for additional medical education payments for interns and residents providing services at a community heath center under a hospital's ownership or control; (10) require skilled nursing facilities to inform beneficiaries of the hospice benefit under Medicare, except under certain conditions; (11) reduce the part A premium, on a phase-in basis, for individuals with 30 or more quarters of social security coverage (and their spouses); (12) require the Secretary to update periodically the salary equivalency guidelines for physical therapy and respiratory therapy services using the most recent available data; and (13) provide that diagnosis-related group (DRG) window provisions will not apply to hospitals that are not paid on a DRG basis. (Sec. 13414) Amends OMBRA '87 to: (1) reauthorize and extend the rural health transition grant program; and (2) provide that all hospitals classified as regional referral centers on September 30, 1992, shall retain such status through FY 1994. (Sec. 13415) Requires the Secretary to: (1) make a lump sum retroactive payment to any such hospital for payments lost as a result of the loss of its regional referral center status; and (2) provide any hospital which fails to qualify as a rural referral center as a result of its urban reclassification with the opportunity to decline such reclassification and retain rural referral center status. (Sec. 13418) Amends OMBRA '90 to require the Secretary to continue limited-service rural hospital demonstration projects through calendar 1995. (Sec. 13419) Amends OMBRA' 89 to extend the hemophilia pass-through program. (Sec. 13420) Declares that, in the case of a State with a Medicare-approved payment system, no other provision of law shall be construed as preventing the system from providing that payment for covered services be made on the basis of rates provided for under such system. (Sec. 13423) Prohibits the Secretary from taking action to recover certain amounts paid by Medicare to uniformed services treatment facilities in Boston, Baltimore, and Seattle for services that were provided between October 1, 1986, and December 31, 1989, except to the extent that funds are made available for that purpose under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1993. Requires a study and report to the Congress by the Secretary on establishment of joint medical facilities among the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and other public and private entities. (Sec. 13424) Requires the Secretary to: (1) review ]the DRGs assigned to discharges of patients with intractable epilepsy; (2) revise, for discharges occurring on or after October 1, 1994, the assignment of discharges to such groups as the Secretary considers appropriate to account for the resource requirements of such patients; and (3) begin collecting the data necessary to compute a skilled nursing facility wage index adjustment to the routine service cost limits required under Medicare. Requires the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission to study and report to the Congress on the impact of applying routine per diem cost limits for skilled nursing facilities on a regional basis. (Sec. 13429) Allows hospitals that have been reclassified from urban to rural as a result of revisions to metropolitan statistical area definitions issued by the Office of Management and Budget on December 28, 1992, to apply to the Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board for reclassification in FY 1994. Chapter 2: Provisions Relating to Part B: Subchapter A: Elimination of Inflation Update - Amends SSA title XVIII part B to eliminate the inflation update for physician and related professional services and other specified items and services. (Sec. 13432) Freezes payments for enteral and parenteral nutrients, supplies and equipment, rural health clinic, federally-qualified health center, and comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility services, dialysis services, and other part B items and services. Subchapter B: Physicians' Services - Amends SSA title XVIII part B to: (1) repeal the OMBRA '90 prohibition on separate payments for EKG interpretations; (2) repeal the reductions in payments to new physicians and practitioners; (3) prohibit the Secretary from changing the methodology in effect as of January 1, 1992, for calculating anesthesia time in the fee schedules for anesthesia services; (4) revise requirements with respect to geographic adjustment factors and beneficiary liability for amounts billed above the limiting charge; (5) require pre-payment screening by carriers of unassigned claims submitted by nonparticipating physicians; (6) require the Explanation of Benefits form to contain information on amounts billed in excess of the applicable limiting charge; (7) specify the practitioners who may only bill for services on an assignment-related basis; (8) include antigens prepared by a physician on the physician fee schedule; (9) prohibit the imposition of user fees in specified circumstances in the administration of claims relating to physicians' services; and (10) specify the conditions under which the Secretary can recognize substitute billing arrangements between two physicians. (Sec. 13444) Requires the Secretary to: (1) study and report to specified congressional committees on the data necessary to review and revise geographic indices; and (2) review and revise such indices and the geographic index values applied for all fee schedule areas by a certain date. Requires the Physician Payment Review Commission to conduct a study to develop criteria for use in redefining the localities used within States for adjusting physicians' fees. (Sec. 13446) Requires the Secretary to: (1) fully develop, by not later than July 1, 1994, relative values for the full range of pediatric physicians' services; and (2) study and report to the Congress on the relative values for pediatric and other services. Subchapter C: Ambulatory Surgical Center Services - Amends SSA title XVIII to extend special payment rates for certain eye or eye and ear hospitals to any hospital that otherwise meets current law criteria but, on October 1, 1987, operated as a physically separate or distinct eye or ear unit of a general acute care hospital which has since disposed of a substantial portion of its other acute care operations. (Sec. 13452) Amends OMBRA '90 to extend the cap on payments for intraocular lenses through 1994. Requires the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the costs to providers of intraocular lenses provided to individuals enrolled under Medicare part B. Subchapter D: Durable Medical Equipment - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) remove aspirators and nebulizers from the category of durable medical equipment (DME) items requiring frequent and substantial servicing; (2) specifically provide for payment of accessories relating to aspirators and nebulizers; (3) set forth requirements which suppliers of medical equipment and supplies must satisfy in order to qualify for Medicare reimbursement; (4) require the Secretary to develop standardized certificates of medical necessity forms for use in documenting the medical necessity of DME items and supplies; (5) require DME suppliers to submit claims to the carrier having jurisdiction over the geographic area that includes the permanent residence of the patient to whom the item is furnished; (6) place restrictions on certain marketing and sales practices by DME suppliers; (7) specify the circumstances under which Medicare beneficiaries are not financially liable for covered items and services furnished by a supplier on an unassigned basis; (8) address adjustments made to final DME payment amounts for inherent reasonableness generally and require adjustments for certain items where the final payment amounts are found reasonable; and (9) subject ostomy supplies, tracheostomy supplies, and urologicals to national payment limits. Subchapter E: Other Provisions - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) freeze at the 1992 level the conversion factor used to determine payments to medically directed certified registered nurse anesthetists; (2) provide that in subsequent years such factor shall be the previous year's conversion factor increased by the update for physician anesthesia services for that year; (3) provide for Medicare coverage of oral cancer drugs, under certain conditions; (4) provide for uniform coverage of "off-label" anti-cancer drugs; (5) cap the part B premium penalty for late enrollment for Federal employees who meet certain conditions; (6) authorize the Secretary to enter into agreements with States to allow them to pay the late enrollment premium increases of eligible individuals; (7) establish statutory definitions for speech-language pathologists and audiologists consistent with current coverage guidelines; and (8) provide for the treatment of certain Indian health programs and facilities as federally-qualified health centers. (Sec. 13473) Requires a study and report to specified congressional committees by the Secretary on Medicare coverage of patient care costs associated with clinical trials of new cancer therapies. (Sec. 13476) Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to extend municipal health service demonstration projects. Subchapter F: Part B Premium - Amends SSA title XVIII to extend current law provisions for establishing the monthly Medicare part B premium for beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare. Chapter 3: Provisions Relating to Parts A and B - Subchapter A: Elimination of Updates - Amends SSA title XVIII to eliminate updates in payments to hospitals for the direct costs of graduate medical education for cost reporting periods beginning during FY 1994 and 1995. (Sec. 13502) Prohibits the Secretary from providing any update in the cost limits for home health services for cost reporting periods beginning during FY 1994 and 1995. Subchapter B: Medicare Secondary Payer Provisions - Specifies numerous changes with regard to Medicare as secondary payor. Subchapter C: Physician Ownership and Referral - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) apply the ban on certain referrals by physicians to all payers, extending it to cover additional specified health services as well as new exceptions; (2) expand current standards used to define a group practice; and (3) provide that Federal law shall not preempt State laws that relate to referrals not covered under the ban, or that relate to referrals covered under the ban but are even more restrictive. Subchapter D: Other Provisions - Requires the Secretary to: (1) redetermine the full-time-equivalent (FTE) resident amount to reflect the amount that would be allowed if the hospital had been liable to pay FICA taxes or make other specified retirement contributions for residents during the base year, but did not make such payments, yet now must do so as a result of OMBRA '90; and (2) establish outreach to Medicare beneficiaries who may qualify for Medicaid payment of their out-of-pocket Medicare expenses. (Sec. 13551) Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) reduce payments for erythropoientin; (2) require home health agencies to inform Medicare beneficiaries of their entitlement to hospice care under Medicare; (3) provide for interest payments to be made on clean claims if payment is not made within 30 days of receipt; (4) provide for adjustment in Medicare capitation payments to account for regional variations in application of Medicare secondary payer provisions; (5) provide for adjustments for certain publicly- funded family practice residency programs; (6) extend on a graduated basis to three years (after 1997) the current one-year period following a transplant procedure during which Medicare covers immunosuppressive drug therapy for beneficiaries who have received organ transplants; and (7) provide that user fees imposed under the Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act of 1967 are not subject to the general ban on user fees for determining compliance with any requirement of Medicare. (Sec. 13555) Amends OMBRA '87 and the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to: (1) extend social health maintenance organization demonstration projects for an additional two years; and (2) permit one of the projects to enroll Medicare end-stage renal disease beneficiaries. Increases the limit on the number of individuals who pay participate in such projects. (Sec. 13558) Amends SSA title XI to repeal the requirement that peer review organizations precertify selected surgical procedures. (Sec. 13560) Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to provide that to the extent that appropriations are enacted providing budget authority for Medicare administrative costs above a base level of spending in FY 1992 of $1.526 billion, the appropriate discretionary spending limits shall be adjusted to accommodate additional budget authority in FY 1994 and 1995. Chapter 4: Medicare Supplemental Insurance Policies - Amends OMBRA '90 and Medicare to make specified changes to Federal standards respecting the sale and regulation of Medicare supplemental insurance policies. Chapter 5: Treatment of Certain State Health Care Programs - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide that: (1) the Hawaii Prepaid Health Care Act will not be preempted by ERISA unless the Secretary of Labor notifies the Governor of Hawaii that, as a result of any amendment to such Act, the proportion of the population covered would be less than the current proportion or the level of coverage would be less than the actuarial equivalent of the current level of coverage; and (2) State tax laws relating to employee benefit plans will continue to be preempted. Title XIV: Revenue Provisions - Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Subtitle A: Training and Investment Incentives - Part I: Provisions Relating to Education and Training - Makes permanent after June 30, 1992: (1) the tax exclusion of employer-provided educational assistance; and (2) the targeted jobs credit. Allows the use of the targeted jobs credit, with limitations, for the hiring of a qualified participant in an approved school-to-work program. Part II: Investment Incentives - Subpart A: Research Credit - Makes permanent the credit for increasing research activities. Modifies the fixed base percentage of such credit for startup companies for taxable years after 1993. Subpart B: Capital Gain Provisions - Allows a taxpayer other than a corporation to exclude from gross income 50 percent of gain from the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock held for more than five years. Set forth rules and limitations for such exclusion. Treats one-half of such exclusion as an item of tax preference for minimum tax purposes. (Sec. 14114) Allows the rollover of gain from the sale of publicly traded securities into specialized small business investment companies. Subpart C: Modifications to Minimum Tax Depreciation Rules - Modifies the method of determining the depreciation deduction for certain personal property placed in service after 1993. Eliminates the depreciation adjustment for computing adjusted current earnings for such property. Subpart D: Increase in Expense Treatment for Small Business - Increases the dollar limitation on the election to expense certain depreciable small business assets. Part III: Tax-Exempt Bond Provisions - Provides a complete tax exemption (currently a 75 percent tax exemption) for bonds used to finance high-speed intercity rail facilities. (Sec. 14122) Permanently extends the authority to issue qualified small issue bonds to finance manufacturing facilities and farm property. Part IV: Expansion and Simplification of Earned Income Tax Credit - Repeals certain interaction rules with respect to the medical expense deduction, the deduction for health insurance, and the dependent care credit. Revises credit and phaseout percentages for 1994. Part V: Incentives for Investment in Real Estate - Subpart A: Extension of Qualified Mortgage Bonds and Low-Income Housing Credit - Makes permanent: (1) the authority to issue qualified mortgage bonds and qualified mortgage credit certificates; and (2) the low-income housing credit. (Sec. 14142) Provides that assistance under the HOME Investment Partnerships Act should not result in certain buildings being federally subsidized. Subpart B: Modification of Passive Loss Rules - Provides for the treatment of rental real estate activities under the limitations on losses from passive activities. Subpart C: Provisions Relating to Real Estate Investments by Pension Funds - Modifies exceptions to the exclusion of real property acquired by a qualified organization from the meaning of acquisition indebtedness. Makes certain exceptions inapplicable to sales out of foreclosure by a financial institution. (Sec. 14145) Repeals the special rule for publicly traded partnerships with respect to the treatment of unrelated business taxable income. (Sec. 14146) Permits a tax-exempt title-holding company to receive unrelated business taxable income if the unrelated income is incidentally derived from the holding of real property. (Sec. 14147) Excludes from unrelated business taxable income: (1) gains from the sale, exchange or other disposition of real property acquired from financial institutions that are in conservatorship or receivership; and (2) loan commitment fees and certain option premiums. Provides for the tax treatment of pension fund investments in real estate investment trusts. Subpart D: Discharge of Indebtedness - Excludes from gross income the income from the discharge of qualified real property business indebtedness. Subpart E: Increase in Recovery Period for Nonresidential Real Property - Increases the depreciation recovery period for nonresidential real property. Part VI: Luxury Tax - Repeals the luxury excise tax on boats, aircraft, jewelry, and furs. (Sec. 14162) Modifies the luxury excise tax on automobiles to index the threshold for inflation occurring after 1990 and make such tax applicable to the first retail sale. Exempts from the luxury excise tax parts for accessories installed for use of passenger vehicles by disabled individuals. (Sec. 14163) Extends the current diesel fuel excise tax to diesel fuel used by noncommercial motorboats. Retains such taxes in the General Fund of the Treasury. Part VII: Other Changes - Repeals the tax preference for the appreciated property charitable deduction. Disallows an adjustment related to the earnings and profits effects of any charitable contribution from being made in computing adjusted current earnings. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report to specified congressional committees on the development of a procedure for taxpayers to seek an agreement with the Secretary on the value of tangible personal property prior to the donation of such property to a qualifying charitable organization. (Sec. 14172) Amends the Railroad Retirement Solvency Act of 1983 to make permanent the treatment of certain railroad retirement benefits as received under employer plans. (Sec. 14173) Provides for the temporary extension of the deduction of health insurance costs of self-employed individuals. Subtitle B: Revenue Increases - Part I: Provisions Affecting Individuals- Subpart A: Rate Increases - Lowers the tax rates for certain taxpayers and increases the tax rate for certain higher incomes. Imposes a surtax on certain higher incomes. (Sec. 14203) Increases the tentative minimum tax for taxpayers other than corporations. (Sec. 14204) Makes permanent the overall limitation on itemized deductions and the phaseout of personal exemptions for high-income taxpayers. (Sec. 14206) Sets forth provisions to prevent the conversion of ordinary income to capital gain in certain financial transactions. Repeals certain exceptions to market discount rules. Provides for the treatment of purchases of stripped preferred stock after April 30, 1993. Revises the methods of: (1) computing the limitation on the deductibility of investment interest; and (2) determining substantial appreciation of partnership inventory items. Subpart B: Other Provisions - Repeals the limitation on the amount of wages subject to the health insurance employment tax. (Sec. 14208) Increases and makes permanent the highest estate and gift tax rate. (Sec. 14209) Reduces the deduction for business meals and entertainment expenses. (Sec. 14210) Disallows a tax deduction for social club membership dues, except for employee recreational expenses. (Sec. 14211) Disallows a deduction as a trade or business expense remuneration to certain employees in excess of $1 million. (Sec. 14212) Reduces the compensation taken into account in determining contributions and benefits under qualified retirement plans. (Sec. 14213) Removes qualified residence sales, purchases, or leases and meals from the deduction for moving expenses. (Sec. 14214) Revises the limitation on using the preceding year's tax to calculate an individual's estimated tax payments. (Sec. 14215) Increases the amount of social security and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits to be included in the gross income of certain taxpayers. Part II: Provisions Affecting Business - Increases the tax rate for corporate income in excess of $10 million and the tax rate on personal service corporations. (Sec. 14222) Denies a tax deduction for lobbying expenses. Subjects lobbying organizations to special reporting requirements. (Sec. 14223) Requires any security which is inventory in the hands of the dealer to be included in inventory at its fair market value. Requires any dealer in securities that holds any security which is not in inventory at the close of any taxable year to: (1) recognize gain or loss as if the security were sold on the last business day of the taxable year; and (2) take into account any such gain or loss for such year (the mark-to-market requirement). (Sec. 14224) Requires taking into account: (1) certain Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) assistance as compensation for loss; and (2) any FSLIC assistance for any debt for determining whether such debt is worthless and in determining the amount of any addition to a reserve for bad debts arising from such worthlessness or partial worthlessness. (Sec. 14225) Increases the required annual payment for corporations that fail to pay estimated income tax. Modifies the periods for applying such annualization. (Sec. 14226) Limits the Puerto Rico and possession tax credit to 60 percent of the possession corporation's qualified possession wages. (Sec. 14227) Modifies the limitation on corporate deductions for interest paid to related persons to take into account disqualified guarantees of indebtedness and the imposition of a gross basis tax. Part III: Foreign Tax Provisions - Subpart A: Current Taxation of Certain Earnings of Controlled Foreign Corporations - Requires U.S. shareholders of controlled foreign corporations to include in gross income a pro rata share of the corporations excess passive assets. Sets forth rules for determining such amounts. Modifies the rule on taxation of investment in United States property and takes into account excessive passive assets. Requires a report to specified congressional committees on a study of investments by controlled foreign corporations in U.S property. (Sec. 14233) Excepts from foreign personal holding income any dividends attributable to earnings and profits of the distributing corporation accumulated during any period during which the person receiving such dividend did not hold such stock. Requires the establishment of an excess limitation account by taxpayers who receive foreign tax credits in a year they receive previously taxed earnings and profits. Subpart B: Allocation of Research and Experimental Expenditures - Reduces the amount allowed as allocation and apportionment of research and experimental expenditures from sources within the United States. Subpart C: Other Provisions - Excludes passive dividends or interest income from foreign oil and gas income. (Sec. 14236) Modifies accuracy-related penalties for tax underpayments. (Sec. 14237) Denies the inclusion of certain contingent interest in the exemption for portfolio interest for nonresident aliens. (Sec. 14238) Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations recharacterizing any multiple-party financing transaction as a transaction directly among any two or more of such parties where appropriate to prevent any tax avoidance. Part IV: Energy Tax Provisions - Subpart A: Energy Tax Based on Btu Content - Imposes an excise tax on the following energy products: (1) taxable refined petroleum products removed from a U.S. refinery or terminal entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing, and sold to a nonregistered person; (2) natural gas removed from any pipeline in the United States, entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing, and entered into any nonregistered pipeline; (3) coal received at any facility for use as a fuel at such facility; and (4) the sale of electricity to ultimate users in the United States and the use of electricity which was not subject to such tax. Bases the rate of tax on such products on the applicable Btu factor and content. Provides for refunding certain amounts to ultimate vendors of petroleum used for heating oil and international commercial transportation. Repays certain sums to persons who use petroleum to produce calcined coke. Provides exemptions from such excise tax for certain uses. Refunds the tax paid by certain users of methane recovered from biomass or coal mining. Imposes a tax on the use of any fossil fuel: (1) in the manufacture or production of a fuel other than at a U.S. refinery; or (2) as a fuel. Specifies the application of such tax and exceptions. Imposes a tax on floor stock of taxable fuels held on the date of the tax increase. Allows a credit against such tax. Provides for such tax increases to begin July 1, 1994. Imposes an imported Btu tax on certain imported products that contain significant levels of direct energy inputs that would be taxable if the products were manufactured in the United States. Imposes a penalty on persons who sell dyed fuel for taxable uses. Subpart B: Modifications to Tax on Diesel Fuel - Imposes an excise tax on diesel fuel (separate from the gasoline tax and the tax on aviation). Exempts from such tax diesel fuel: (1) used by trains and intercity, local, or school buses; and (2) which is dyed or marked in accordance in regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Provides that the Airport and Airway Trust Fund financing rate does not apply to aviation fuel sold by a producer or importer for use by the purchaser in a nontaxable use. Imposes a civil penalty on persons who use reduced-rate fuel for a taxable use. (Sec. 14243) Imposes a floor stocks tax on any person holding diesel fuel April 1, 1994. Subpart C: Extension of Motor Fuel Tax Rates; Increased Deposits Into Highway Trust Fund - Increases the tax on gasoline and diesel fuels for purposes of the Highway Trust Fund financing rate. Increases the amount to be transferred to the Mass Transit Account from such Fund. Part V: Compliance Provisions - Requires information reporting on payments to corporations for services. (Sec. 14252) Modifies provisions concerning substantial understatement and return-preparer penalties to allow reasonable cause exceptions. (Sec. 14253) Requires certain financial entities (including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Resolution Trust Corporation, and the National Credit Union Administration, and their successors or subunits) to file information returns regarding discharges of indebtedness of $600 or more. Part VI: Treatment of Intangibles - Allows an amortization deduction with respect to certain intangible property, including goodwill, that is acquired and held by a taxpayer in connection with the conduct of a trade or business or an activity engaged in for the production of income. Part VII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Establishes substantiation requirements for charitable contributions of $750 or more. (Sec. 14272) Sets forth disclosure requirements for an organization that receives a quid pro quo contribution (payment made partly as a contribution and partly in consideration for goods or services provided to the payor by the donee organization). Imposes a penalty for failure to make such disclosure. (Sec. 14273) Expands the 45-day interest-free period for refunding tax overpayments to all returns, as well as to amended returns and claims for refunds. Provides that if interest is not refunded within 45 days after the taxpayer files an amended return or claim for refund, interest will be paid only for periods after the date on which the return or claim is filed. (Sec. 14274) Denies the business travel expense deduction for spouses, dependents, or others. (Sec. 14275) Increases the withholding rate for supplemental wage payments. Subtitle C: Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities- Part I: Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities, Etc. - Provides for the designation of 100 tax enterprise communities and ten empowerment zones during calendar years after 1993 and before 1996: (1) by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in the case of an urban area; (2) by the Secretary of Agriculture in the case of a rural area; and (3) the Secretary of the Interior for an Indian reservation. Sets forth eligibility criteria for such designations. Makes certain buildings in such communities or zones eligible for the low-income housing credit applicable to buildings in high-cost areas. Provides for the issuance of enterprise zone facility bonds in enterprise communities and empowerment zones in a manner similar to exempt facility bonds. Excludes enterprise zone facility bonds from the interest deduction limitations on financial institutions. Provides States an additional housing credit ceiling for each zone and community through 1996. Allows an empowerment zone employment credit to employers for a percentage of qualified zone wages paid during calendar years 1994 through 2004. Limits the amount of such credit. Allows businesses a zone resident empowerment savings credit of 50 percent of the qualified savings contributions made by an employer to a defined contribution plan on behalf of a zone employee. Limits the amount of such credit based on the employee's compensation. Increases the limitation on expensing certain depreciable business assets. Increases the volume cap applicable to enterprise zone facility bonds if the business owners meet specified ownership requirements with regard to abiding in such zones. (Sec. 14302) Allows the use of the targeted jobs credit for hiring empowerment zone residents. Part II: Credit for Contributions to Certain Community Development Corporations - Allows a general business tax credit for contributions to selected community development corporations to provide employment of, and business opportunities for low-income individuals who are residents of the operational area of the community. Subtitle D: Other Provisions - Part I: Disclosure Provisions - Extends the authority to disclose tax return information to the Department of Veterans Affairs through September 30, 1998. (Sec. 14402) Authorizes the disclosure of certain tax return information to: (1) the Department of Education to implement the direct student loan program; and (2) to the Department of Housing for income verification under certain housing programs. Part II: User Fee Provisions - Requires the establishment of a program requiring the payment of user fees for the processing of applications for certificates of alcohol label approval and exemption, formula reviews, and statements of process (including laboratory tests and analyses). (Sec. 14412) Removes authority to use the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for administrative expenses of certain customs fee collections. (Sec. 14413) Increases the tax on fuel used on commercial transportation on inland waterways. Part III: Public Debt Limit - Increases the public debt limit and repeals the temporary limit on such increase. Part IV: Vaccine Provisions - Makes permanent: (1) the excise tax on certain vaccines; and (2) the authority to pay compensation from the Vaccine Trust Fund under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program for certain damages resulting from vaccines administered after September 30, 1988. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report to specified congressional committees on various uses of such Fund. Imposes a floor stocks tax on taxable vaccines. (Sec. 14432) Requires continuation coverage under group health plans of the costs of pediatric vaccines. (Sec. 14433) Establishes the Childhood Immunization Trust Fund for the childhood immunization entitlement program under the Public Health Service Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2147 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993
Fairness in Tobacco and Nicotine Regulation Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations governing the manufacture, distribution, sale, labeling, and advertising and promotion (manufacture) of tobacco products which are consistent with regulations governing other products which are ingested, but bars the Secretary from outlawing the sale and distribution of a tobacco product solely because tobacco causes disease. Sets minimum requirements pursuant to such regulations, including a prohibition on the sale or distribution of tobacco products to minors. Establishes in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the Tobacco and Nicotine Products Advisory Committee which shall review: (1) the available scientific evidence on the effects of tobacco products on human health, including the effects of environmental tobacco smoke on nonsmokers; (2) the manufacturing process of tobacco products; (3) the role of nicotine as part of the smoking habit; (4) the marketing and promotional techniques used by tobacco manufacturers; and (5) current Federal, State, and local laws governing the manufacture of tobacco products. Requires each tobacco product manufacturer to: (1) register with the Secretary; and (2) pay an annual fee determined by the Secretary based upon the total market share for each brand of tobacco product. Credits fees collected for a fiscal year to the appropriation account for salaries and expenses of the FDA. Amends: (1) the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act (FCLAA) and the Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education Act of 1986 (CSTHEA) to modify warning labels to emphasize the addictive nature of smoking; and (2) the FFDCA to include tobacco products within recordkeeping requirements applicable to the interstate shipment and factory inspection of food, drugs, devices, and cosmetics. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) modify the warning labels required by the FCLAA and CSTHEA if the modification in the content of the label does not weaken the health message and is in the best interests of the public health; and (2) increase the size and placement of such required labels.