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Bill· SS. 3282 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 2000
Department of Energy University Nuclear Science and Engineering Act - Instructs the Secretary of Energy, acting through the Office of Nuclear Science and Technology, to support a program to maintain the nation's human resource investment and infrastructure in nuclear sciences and engineering. Sets forth the duties of such Office in implementing the program. Targets university research and training reactors and associated infrastructure as recipients of authorized appropriations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) promote interactions between university and Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories; and (2) provide student fellowships at DOE nuclear science laboratories. Authorizes appropriations through FY2005 that target: (1) graduate and undergraduate fellowships; (2) junior faculty research initiation grant programs; (3) nuclear engineering and education research programs; (4) refueling research reactors and instrumentation upgrades; (5) re-licensing assistance; (6) reactor research and training award program; and (7) university-DOE laboratory interactions.
Bill· HRH.R. 5666 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 2000
Miscellaneous Appropriations Act, 2001 - Makes miscellaneous appropriations for FY 2001. Division A - Chapter 1 - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to extend the rural designation of certain areas until the 2010 census. (Sec. 103) Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to study and report to the Appropriations Committees on the feasibility of including ethanol, biodiesel, and other bio-based fuels as part of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. (Sec. 105) Amends the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 to appropriate funds for an environmental quality incentives program under the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996. (Sec. 106) Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, in carrying out the bovine tuberculosis eradication program covered by an October 2000 emergency declaration, to pay 100 percent of the amounts of approved claims for materials affected by or exposed to bovine tuberculosis and of approved claims growing out of the destruction of animals. (Sec. 108) Makes additional amounts available for: (1) the Department of Agriculture Office of the General Counsel; and (2) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration. Chapter 2 - Makes additional amounts available for the Department of Justice for: (1) the Federal Prison System for an assessment of medical care and incidents of inmate mortality in the Wisconsin State Prison System; (2) the Office of Justice Programs for collection of data on deaths of prisoners in law enforcement custody; (3) community oriented policing services; (4) juvenile justice programs for a grant to Mobile County, Alabama, for a juvenile court network program; (5) the States of Texas and Arizona for reimbursements to county and municipal governments for Federal costs associated with the handling and processing of illegal immigration and drug and alien smuggling cases; (6) an award to the Alliance of Boys & Girls of South Carolina for the establishment of the Strom Thurmond Boys & Girls Club National Training Center; (7) the New Hampshire Department of Safety for investigation and prosecution of violations of Federal trucking laws; and (8) the State of South Dakota for establishment of a regional radio system to facilitate communications between Federal, State, and local law enforcement, firefighting, and other emergency services agencies. Makes additional amounts available for the Department of Commerce for: (1) economic and statistical analysis for the establishment of satellite accounts for the travel and tourism industry; and (2) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for a certain study by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). (Sec. 207) Appropriates additional amounts for: (1) NOAA for disaster assistance for communities affected by the 2000 western Alaska salmon disaster for which the Secretary of Commerce declared a fishery failure under the Magnuson Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act; and (2) the Secretary for providing economic assistance to fishermen and fishing communities affected by Federal closures and fishing restrictions in the Hawaii long line fishery. (Sec. 209) Directs the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to utilize the NAS to conduct an independent scientific review of the November 30, 2000 Biological Opinion for the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska groundfish fisheries. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Council proposed conservation and management measures to implement the Alternatives contained in the Biological Opinion. Requires such fisheries to be managed: (1) in a manner consistent with the Alternatives; and (2) in accordance with the fishery management plan and Federal regulations in effect prior to July 15, 2000. Makes the harvest reduction requirement effective immediately in any 2001 groundfish fishery in which it applies, but limits such reduction to no more than ten percent in the total allowable catch of any fishery. Authorizes the Secretary, upon Council recommendation, to take measures to ensure that harvest levels are sufficient to provide income from these fisheries for small boats and Alaskan on-shore processors that is no less than in 1999. Appropriates an additional amount for a comprehensive research and recovery program for the Steller sea lion. Requires the Secretary, with available funds, to implement a pilot program for innovative non-lethal measures to protect Steller sea lions from marine mammal predators. Appropriates funds for a direct payment to the Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference to mitigate the economic losses caused by Steller sea lion protection measures. (Sec. 210) Makes additional amounts available for the Department of State for: (1) educational and cultural exchange programs for the Irish Institute; and (2) increased broadcasting to Russia and surrounding areas and China. Makes appropriations for: (1) the Commission on Online Child Protection; and (2) the Small Business Administration for grants to the Electronic Commerce Resource Center in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and the National Museum of Jazz in New York, New York. (Sec. 213) Amends the Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2001 to remove a provision which prohibits the use of funds appropriated by any Act to allow for the entry into, or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption in the United States of diamonds mined in specified African countries. Amends the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 to remove provisions setting forth Amy Boyer's Law and those prohibiting the redesignation of Cuyahoga Valley National Park as a Class I area under the Clean Air Act. Chapter 3 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to obligate a certain amount of funds appropriated in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2001 to continue F-22 Lot 1 (10 aircraft) advance procurement to protect the supplier base and preserve program costs and schedule in the event that award of the full funding contract for low-rate initial production of the aircraft is delayed beyond December 31, 2000, because of inability to complete specified requirements in such Act. (Sec. 302) Grants the Department of the Air Force primary jurisdiction and control over Shemya Island and its appurtenant waters. Continues the inclusion of the Island and its waters within the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. Transfers jurisdiction to the Secretary of the Interior if there is no longer a need for a military department to exercise primary jurisdiction. Makes any environmental contamination of the Island the responsibility of the responsible military department. Directs the military department exercising primary jurisdiction over the Island to work with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect and conserve Island wildlife and habitat and to grant access to the Fish and Wildlife Service for management of the Wildlife Refuge. (Sec. 306) Appropriates into the Defense Vessels Transfer Program Account such sums as necessary for the costs of the lease-sale transfers authorized by the National Defense Authorization Act, 2001. (Sec. 308) Appropriates an additional amount for Operation and Maintenance, Navy for costs associated with the repair of the U.S.S. Cole. (Sec. 310) Makes additional funds available for Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps for planning and National Environmental Protection Act documentation for the proposed airfield and heliport at the Marine Corps Air Ground Task Force Training Command. (Sec. 312) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to the Roosevelt General Hospital in Portales, New Mexico, any excess personal property of the Air Force determined appropriate for use by the Hospital. (Sec. 313) Appropriates an additional amount for the Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund. (Sec. 316) Requires the Secretary of the Navy to acquire 50 acres of real property located on Reed Island in Jacksonville, Florida. (Sec. 319) Makes an additional amount available for Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide for the Defense Imagery and Mapping Agency Program. (Sec. 320) Prohibits the use of funds made available in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2001 to consolidate or incorporate Air Force radar operations maintenance and support programs or contracts into an Air Force SENSOR or similar acquisition program. (Sec. 321) Appropriates an additional amount for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Air Force for developing rapid diagnostic and fingerprinting techniques along with molecular monitoring systems for the detection of nosocomial infections. (Sec. 323) Directs the Secretaries of the Army and the Interior to prepare a proposed plan for the expansion of the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California. Authorizes appropriations for the implementation of conservation measures necessary for the final expansion to comply with the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Appropriates amounts to carry out plan activities. Chapter 4 - Makes an additional amount available for the District of Columbia courts for capital repairs necessitated by the recent fire damage to courthouse facilities. Amends the District of Columbia Public Works Act of 1954 to require the inspector general of each Federal agency receiving water and sanitary sewer services from the District of Columbia to report to the Appropriations Committees on the promptness of payment with respect to the services furnished. Repeals a section of the Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia and Post Roads. (Sec. 404) Authorizes the District to fund certain programs identified under H.R. 4942 (106th Congress, as introduced) upon certification by the District Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority to the Appropriations Committees that the District Chief Financial Officer, Mayor, and Council have implemented spending reductions necessary to ensure that the District will not have a budget deficit for FY 2001. Directs the Mayor to deposit the annual interest savings resulting from debt reductions using the proceeds of the tobacco securitization program into the emergency reserve fund established by the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2001. (Sec. 405) Requires quarterly disbursements to be paid to District public charter schools during FY 2001 in accordance with the Uniform Per Student Funding Formula for Public Schools and Public Charter Schools and Tax Conformity Clarification Amendment Act of 1998. Chapter 5 - Makes additional amounts available for the Army Corps of Engineers for: (1) general investigations; (2) general construction; and (3) repair, restoration, or maintenance of the Mississippi River levees and for the correction of deficiencies in the mainline Mississippi River levees. Provides an additional amount for the Bureau of Reclamation for construction of the Mid-Dakota Rural Water System. Makes additional amounts available for the Department of Energy (DOE) for: (1) energy supply for the Prime, LLC, of central South Dakota for final engineering and project development of the integrated ethanol complex; and (2) science for high temperature superconducting research and development at Boston College. Chapter 6 - Authorizes Economic Support Fund assistance to be made available to provide payment to the Government of the People's Republic of China for property loss and damage arising out of the May 1999 incident in Belgrade, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Chapter 7 - Makes additional amounts available for the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Bureau of Land Management for carrying out title VI of the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act; (2) the Fish and Wildlife Service for a grant to the Center for Reproductive Biology at Washington State University; (3) the Multinational Species Conservation Fund for Great Ape conservation activities; (4) the National Park Service for completion of studies related to the Arlington Boathouse in Virginia; (5) national recreation and preservation for the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and for a grant to the Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission; (6) the Historic Preservation Fund for a grant to the Massillon Heritage Foundation, Inc., in Massillon, Ohio; and (7) construction for the Stones River National Battlefield and the Millenium Cultural Cooperative Park. Provides additional funds for: (1) DOE energy conservation for a grant to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Nevada Test Site Development Corporation; and (2) payment to the endowment fund of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Makes additional funds available to the Indian Health Service for: (1) payment to the Alaska Federation of Natives for its Alaska Native Sobriety and Alcohol Control Program; and (2) drug and alcohol prevention and treatment services for non- Alaska tribes. Chapter 8 - Appropriates funds to the Health Resources and Services Administration for the construction of the Biotechnology Science Center at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, and the Christian Nurses Hospice in Brentwood, New York. (Sec. 803) Appropriates funds to the Institute of Museum and Library Services for expansion of the marine biology program at the Long Island Maritime Museum. Chapter 9 - Provides for payments to specified widows of deceased Members of Congress. Makes additional amounts available for: (1) the Architect of the Capitol for construction of emergency egress from the fourth floor of the Capitol building; and (2) the Library of Congress for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Amends Federal civil service retirement provisions to allow retirement credit under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) for certain employees who were employed by the Democratic or Republican Senatorial Campaign or National Congressional Committees for service before December 31, 1990. Entitles certain employees of legislative service organizations of the House of Representatives to receive CSRS or FERS credit as well. (Sec. 903) Makes effective a standing order of the Senate that the reading of conference reports is no longer required if such a report is available in the Senate. Chapter 10 - Appropriates additional funds to the Department of Defense for military construction, Army; Air Force, and Army National Guard. (Sec. 1002) Requires the Secretary of the Interior to transfer the surface estate of specified lands in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, to the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Air Force. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to use certain mineral resources on such lands when required for construction needs on the Melrose Air Force Range. (Sec. 1003) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer the surface estate of specified lands in Kittitas County, Washington, to the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Army. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to use certain mineral resources on such lands when required for construction needs on the Yakima Training Center. Chapter 11 - Makes amounts available for: (1) a grant to the Huntsville International Airport; and (2) the Southeast Light Rail Extension Project in Dallas, Texas. (Sec. 1107) Provides additional funds for: (1) the Newark-Elizabeth rail link project, New Jersey; and (2) commercial remote sensing products and spatial information technologies for the study of creating a new highway right-of- way along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. (Sec. 1112) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to issue certificates of documentation for employment in the coastwise trade for the M/V WELLS GRAY and the ANNANDALE. (Sec. 1113) Authorizes conveyance to Lake County, California, without consideration, of a described property involving a portion of the Coast Guard LORAN Station Middletown reported to the General Services Administration as excess property. (Sec. 1114) Requires conveyance to: (1) the Town of Nantucket, Massachusetts, of certain property that is part of the Coast Guard LORAN Station; and (2) the City of Newburyport, Massachusetts, of certain land upon which the Plum Island Boat House and Lighthouse are situated. (Sec. 1116) Authorizes conveyance, without consideration, of the Coast Guard Station Scituate to NOAA. (Sec. 1117) Amends the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1998 to extend one of the termination dates of provisions requiring the enforcement of the United States Coast Guard 1997 Enforcement Policy for Cargo Residues on the Great Lakes (regulating incidental discharges from vessels of residues of dry bulk cargo into Great Lakes waters under U.S. jurisdiction). Requires the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a study of the effectiveness of such enforcement policy. Authorizes the Secretary to promulgate regulations to enforce a program to regulate incidental discharges from vessels of residues of non- hazardous and non-toxic dry bulk cargo into Great Lakes waters which takes study findings into account. (Sec. 1118) Extends the termination date for the Great Lakes Pilotage Advisory Committee. (Sec. 1119) Permits only U.S. vessels to perform certain vessel escort operations and towing assistance. (Sec. 1122) Authorizes the transfer of limited funds to the Traverse City Area Public School District for demolition and removal of the structure commonly known as "Building 402" at former Coast Guard property located in Traverse City, Michigan, and associated site work. (Sec. 1127) Prohibits the Secretary from issuing final regulations regarding audible warnings at highway-rail grade crossings before July 1, 2001. (Sec. 1128) Makes available additional amounts from the Highway Trust Fund for specified projects in Texas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Colorado. Chapter 12 - Makes an additional amount available for the Federal Buildings Fund to be used for renovating and redeveloping portions of a historic Federal building located in Terre Haute, Indiana. Provides additional funds for the Customs Service for procurement of aircraft and related equipment expenses associated with aviation standardization and training at the Customs National Aviation Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Chapter 13 - Makes an additional amount available for Department of Veterans Affairs construction. Provides additional funds for Department of Housing and Urban Development empowerment zones and enterprise communities and the Community Development Fund. Makes additional funds available for: (1) Environmental Protection Agency science and technology for continuation of the South Bronx Air Pollution Study; and (2) Federal Emergency Management Agency emergency management planning and assistance for programs authorized by the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974. Chapter 14 - Considers H. Con Res. 234 (106th Congress), as adopted by the House of Representatives on November 18, 1999, to be considered to have been adopted by the Senate. (Sec. 1402) Makes a provision of the Federal Reports Elimination and Sunset Act of 1995 which eliminates certain reporting requirements inapplicable to certain Federal budget provisions. (Sec. 1403) Rescinds .22 percent of the discretionary budget authority provided for FY 2001 in any Act for each Federal agency, with specified exemptions. Division B - Title I - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to modify eligibility criteria for the child care and adult food program. (Sec. 102) Provides for a summer food pilot project in eligible States during FY 2001 through 2003 to increase the number of children participating in the summer food service program. (Sec. 103) Requires the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a feasibility study for a Sacramento River, California, diversion project that is consistent with the Water Forum Agreement of April 24, 2000. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 104) Expands the boundaries of a specified flood control project in the Saint Francis River Basin in Missouri and Arkansas. (Sec. 105) Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to permit the city of Alton, Illinois, to construct and reimburse the city for the Federal share of specified recreational facilities. (Sec. 106) Allows the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of the Truckee watershed reclamation project to reclaim and reuse wastewater within and without the service area of Washoe County, Nevada. (Sec. 107) Modifies a specified navigation project in Tampa Harbor, Florida, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to deepen and widen the Alafia Channel. (Sec. 108) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to authorize environmental infrastructure assistance to additional specified projects. Increases the authorization of appropriations for such assistance and the amount of assistance provided to certain projects. (Sec. 109) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to provide technical and financial assistance to carry out projects for the planning, design, and construction of treatment works to improve water quality in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 110) Establishes the San Gabriel Basin Restoration Fund in the Treasury to be used for the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of water quality projects. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 111) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to participate in studies and in the planning and design of projects determined to offer a long-term solution to the problem of groundwater contamination caused by perchlorates. Requires the Secretary to participate in investigations and projects related to perchlorates in the Bosque and Leon Watersheds in Texas, Caddo Lake, Texas, and Santa Clarita, California. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 112) Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require each permit, order, or decree issued pursuant to such Act for a discharge from a municipal combined storm and sanitary sewer to conform to the Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Control Policy signed by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on April 11, 1994. Directs the Administrator to report to Congress on progress made by EPA, States, and municipalities in implementing and enforcing the CSO control policy. Authorizes the Administrator to provide technical assistance and grants for treatment works to carry out pilot projects relating to specified areas of wet weather discharge control. Authorizes appropriations. Permits the Administrator, in any fiscal year in which at least $1.35 billion is available for grants to States for water pollution control revolving funds, to make grants to States or municipalities for planning, design, and construction of treatment works to intercept, transport, control, or treat municipal CSO and sanitary sewer overflows. Gives priority for grants to certain applicants, including municipalities that are financially distressed communities. Authorizes and allocates appropriations. Requires the Administrator to report periodically to Congress on the recommended funding levels for such grants. Directs the Administrator to report to Congress on: (1) the extent of health and environmental impacts caused by municipal CSO and sanitary sewer overflows; and (2) the resources spent, and technologies used, by municipalities to address such impacts. Requires the Administrator to maintain a clearinghouse of technologies for addressing such impacts. (Sec. 113) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to provide for construction of fish passage devices at the New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam at Federal expense. (Sec. 114) Extinguishes certain reversionary interests and use restrictions contained in deeds for certain lands in Umatilla County, Oregon. (Sec. 115) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to eliminate the authority to carry out a flood damage reduction and ecosystem restoration project in Murrieta Creek, California. (Sec. 116) Requires the Secretary of the Army to reimburse East Bay Municipal Water District for the project for aquatic ecosystem restoration, Penn Mine, Calaveras County, California. (Sec. 117) Modifies a flood control project in Greers Ferry Lake, Arkansas, to authorize the Secretary to construct intake facilities for the benefit of Lonoke and White Counties, Arkansas. (Sec. 118) Modifies a flood control project in Chehalis River and tributaries, Washington, to authorize the Secretary to provide the non-Federal interest credit toward the non-Federal share of project costs the costs of planning, design, and construction work carried out by the non-Federal interest before the date of execution of a cooperation agreement if the Secretary determines the work integral to the project. (Sec. 120) Directs the National Park Service to work with Fort Sumter Tours, Inc., the concessionaire providing services at Fort Sumter National Monument in South Carolina, on an amicable solution of the current legal dispute between the two parties. Requires the Director of the Service to extend the current contract through March 15, 2001, to facilitate further negotiations and for 180 days if final settlement of disputes is agreed to by both parties. (Sec. 123) Enacts into law H.R. 4904 (106th Congress) (establishes the United States Office for Native Hawaiian Affairs and the Native Hawaiian Interagency Task Force) as passed in the House on September 26, 2000. (Sec. 124) Requires the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) negotiate agreements with landowners setting terms for the acquisition of land at Saddleback Mountain, near Rangeley, Maine, for the benefit of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail; (2) complete the pending environmental compliance process for the acquisitions; (3) acquire the land for a specified cost; and (4) convey a portion of the land to the State to ensure the protection of the Trail. (Sec. 125) Enacts into law S. 2273 (106th Congress)(Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area Act of 2000), as passed in the Senate on October 5, 2000. (Sec. 126) Amends the Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Act of 1984 to increase the maximum amount authorized to be appropriated for the Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission. (Sec. 127) Enacts into law S. 2885 (106th Congress)(Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission Act of 2000), as passed in the Senate on October 5, 2000. (Sec. 128) Prohibits the use of funds prior to July 31, 2001, to promulgate or enforce a final rule to reduce the use of snowmobiles below current use patterns at a unit in the National Park System during the 2000-2001 or 2001-2002 winter seasons. (Sec. 129) Requires the Secretary of the Interior to extend until March 31, 2001, the Extension of Standstill Agreement entered into on November 22, 1999, by the United States and the holders of interests in seven campsite leases in Biscayne Bay, Miami-Dade County, Florida. (Sec. 134) Amends the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Development Act to extend the termination date for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park Commission. (Sec. 137) Amends Federal law governing the Gulf Islands National Seashore to include within the Seashore specified land on Cat Island, Mississippi. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 138) Amends Federal retirement provisions regarding limitations on the maximum percentage of pay that may be contributed to the Thrift Savings Plan to phase in, by FY 2006, a maximum allowable contribution of 100 percent of basic pay for certain FERS and CSRS participants. (Sec. 139) Excludes the Secret Service and Secret Service Uniformed Division from certain Federal labor-management relations requirements. (Sec. 140) Provides for an increase of 3.7 percent in rates of basic pay for Federal employees in 2001. (Sec. 141) Repeals certain mandatory retirement provisions governing employees of the Alaska Railroad. (Sec. 143) Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize certain low-power television station licensees to provide digital data service as a pilot project to demonstrate the feasibility of using such stations to provide high-speed wireless digital data service, including Internet access to unserved areas. (Sec. 144) Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to extend, until FY 2003, a prohibition on the approval of fishery management plans or regulations which create a new individual fishing quota program, with specified exceptions. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to adopt final regulations to implement a fishing capacity reduction program for crab fisheries included in the Fishery Management Plan for Commercial King and Tanner Crab Fisheries in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. Pribilof Islands Transition Act - Amends the Fur Seal Act of 1966 to replace provisions establishing and providing for the administration of the Pribilof Islands Trust with provisions directing the Secretary of Commerce to provide financial assistance to any city government, village corporation, or tribal council of St. George or St. Paul, Alaska. Allows the use of those funds as non-Federal matching funds under any Federal program that requires matching funds. Prohibits the Secretary from using financial assistance under this Act to settle any debt owed to the United States, for administrative or overhead expenses, or for contributions sought or required for costs or fees to clean up any matter that was caused or contributed by any person on or after March 15, 2000. Directs the Secretary, subject to appropriations, to provide assistance to the State of Alaska for designing, locating, constructing, redeveloping, permitting, or certifying solid waste management facilities on the Islands to be operated under Alaska permits. Authorizes appropriations. Shields the United States from liability under this Act associated with specified activities relating to those waste facilities. Declares that the Secretary has no obligation to provide for the development of any form of economy on the Islands not dependent on sealing (but states that this does not affect causes of action under specified provisions arising before enactment of this Act). Terminates all obligations of the Secretary to: (1) convey property under existing provisions; and (2) carry out cleanup activities related to NOAA administration and a specified environmental restoration agreement between NOAA and Alaska. Makes the previous sentence applicable when: (1) Alaska has confirmed that no further corrective action is required at Island sites and units covered by the agreement; (2) the cleanup is complete; (3) the properties can be unconditionally offered for conveyance; and (4) all amounts appropriated for such purposes under the Fur Seal Act of 1966 have been obligated. Prohibits, after the conditions in the previous sentence are met, the Secretary from seeking or requiring financial contribution from any local governmental entity of the Pribilof Islands, any official thereof, or any owner of lands there for costs or fees (relating to specified actions concerning cleanup or closure of solid waste facilities) incurred by the Secretary (except for cleanup fees incurred after March 15, 2000). Repeals, effective when the same conditions are met, provisions of: (1) the Fur Seal Act of 1966 relating to the property conveyance and related matters; and (2) Federal law relating to the cleanup of landfills and wastes left by NOAA. Authorizes appropriations to carry out provisions of Federal law relating to the cleanup of landfills and wastes left by NOAA. Authorizes the Secretary to provide Alaska a limited amount per year to establish and capitalize a revolving fund to be used by the State for low interest loans to Pribilof Natives to assess, respond to, remediate, and monitor contamination from lead paint, asbestos, and petroleum from underground storage tanks. Authorizes the President to designate any Northwestern Hawaiian Islands coral reef or reef ecosystem as a coral reef reserve to be managed by the Secretary of Commerce. Directs the Secretary, upon designation of such a reserve, to: (1) initiate its designation as a national marine sanctuary; (2) establish a Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Reserve Advisory Council; and (3) manage the reserve in a manner consistent with the policies of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act until it is designated as a national marine sanctuary. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Sustainable Fisheries Act to authorize appropriations for each fiscal year for grants to carry out Western Pacific fishery demonstration projects to promote traditional indigenous fishing practices. (Sec. 145) Amends the Department of State Special Agents Retirement Act of 1998 to extend applicability of such Act to participants (special agents) who were serving as of January 1, 1997. (Sec. 146) Calls upon the President to: (1) take all appropriate action to provide relief from injury caused by steel imports; and (2) immediately request the U.S. Trade Commission to commence an expedited investigation for positive adjustment under the Trade Act of 1974. (Sec. 147) Amends the Johnson Act to apply certain prohibitions on the repair, transport, or use of gambling devices on vessels to voyages or segments of voyages that begin and end in Hawaii. (Sec. 148) Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to exempt non- commercial educational (NCE) broadcast stations from requirements to make broadcast stations accessible to political candidates. Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission from taking action against any NCE station which declines to carry a political advertisement. (Sec. 149) Continues the Small Business Innovation Research program during FY 2001. (Sec. 150) Appropriates funds for: (1) the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund; and (2) an account to be established in the Department of Labor for administering the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Act. (Sec. 152) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for the treatment of certain cancer hospitals. (Sec. 153) Amends the Delta Development Act to apply such Act to Alabama. Amends the Delta Regional Authority Act of 2000 (as incorporated in this Act) to require Alabama to be a full member of the Delta Regional Authority. (Sec. 154) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to establish a pilot program to provide environmental assistance to non-Federal interests in northern Wisconsin. Permits assistance in the form of design and reconstruction assistance or water-related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects. Provides assistance only for publicly-owned projects. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Vietnam Education Foundation Act of 2000 - Vietnam Education Foundation Act of 2000 - Establishes the Vietnam Education Foundation to award fellowships to: (1) Vietnamese nationals to study at U.S. institutions of higher education at graduate and post-graduate levels in the fields of physical sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, environmental sciences, medicine, technology, and computer sciences; and (2) U.S. citizens to teach in Vietnam in appropriate Vietnamese institutions in the same fields of study. (Sec. 207) Establishes the Vietnam Debt Repayment Fund which shall consist of deposits as offsetting receipts of all payments (including interest) made by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam under the U.S.-Vietnam debt agreement, dated April 7, 1997. Makes amounts deposited into the Fund available for Foundation activities. (Sec. 210) Bars the awarding of any new fellowship or extension of an existing fellowship after September 30, 2016. Title III: Colorado Ute Settlement Act Amendments of 2000 - Colorado Ute Settlement Act Amendments of 2000 - Amends the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 1988 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in order to settle the outstanding claims of the Ute Indian tribes on the Animas and La Plata Rivers in Colorado and acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to: (1) complete construction of, operate, and maintain a reservoir, pumping plant, reservoir inlet conduit, and appurtenant facilities to divert and store water from the Animas River to provide a municipal and industrial water supply (the Project); and (2) deliver through the use of such components, specified municipal and industrial water allocations to the San Juan Water Commission, Animas-La Plata Conservancy District, State of Colorado, La Plata Conservancy District of New Mexico, Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute tribes, and Navajo Nation. Declares that such facilities, if constructed, constitute the Animas- La Plata Project. Prohibits the commencement of construction of any other project features authorized by the Colorado River Basin Project Act without further authorization from Congress. Provides that construction costs required to deliver each tribe's water allocation shall be nonreimbursable. Makes the nontribal repayment obligations for water allocations subject to a final cost allocation by the Secretary upon project completion. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the status of cost-share agreements. Requires the reallocation of water allocations for the Animas-La Plata Conservancy District and the State of Colorado to the Colorado Ute Tribes if no agreement is reached with the District or the State for such allocations. (Sec. 303) Requires the Secretary, upon request of the State Engineer of New Mexico, to assign to the New Mexico Project beneficiaries or the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission Department of the Interior interests under a specified permit in order to fulfill the New Mexico non-Navajo purposes of the Project, so long as the assignment does not affect the application of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to the use of the water. Authorizes the Secretary to construct a water line to augment the existing system that conveys municipal water supplies to the Navajo Indian Reservation at or near Shiprock, New Mexico. Makes construction costs for the water line nonreimbursable. Authorizes appropriations to the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Resource Funds. Requires the Secretary to establish such Funds. Provides for disbursement of Fund monies, with an exception, in accordance with approved natural resource acquisition and enhancement plans. Establishes the Colorado Ute Settlement Fund in the Treasury and authorizes appropriations to the Fund to complete the construction of Project facilities and the Navajo Nation water line. Requires the construction of facilities, allocation of water supply to the Indian tribes, provision of funds, and issuance of an amended final consent decree under this Act to constitute final settlement of tribal claims to water rights on the Animas and La Plata Rivers. Requires such decree to provide for an extension of the current January 1, 2005, deadline for the tribes to commence litigation of their reserved rights claims on such rivers. Title IV - Designates the museum operated by the Secretary of Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as the American Museum of Science and Energy and declares it to be the official museum of science and energy of the United States. Title V: Lower Mississippi River Region - Delta Regional Authority Act of 2000 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to establish the Delta Regional Authority to carry out specified activities and approve grants related to the economic development of the Mississippi Delta region (parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee surrounding such Delta). Authorizes the Authority to approve grants for projects to: (1) develop the region's transportation infrastructure; (2) assist the region in job training, employment-related education, and business development; and (3) provide assistance to severely distressed and underdeveloped areas. Requires the Authority to: (1) annually designate distressed and nondistressed counties and isolated areas of distress within the region; and (2) allocate at least 75 percent of the appropriations made available under this Act for distressed counties and isolated areas of distress. Prohibits (with an exception) such funds from being used within nondistressed counties. Requires each State member of the Authority to submit a development plan for the area of the region represented by the member. Outlines factors to be considered by the Authority in considering programs and projects for assistance under this Act and in establishing priorities among assistance requests. Requires the Authority to review for approval any State or regional development plan submitted. Authorizes appropriations. Terminates authority provided under this title on October 1, 2002. Amends the Delta Development Act to include the Louisiana parish of Natchitoches in the definition of "Lower Mississippi" for purposes of coverage under such Act. Title VI: Dakota Water Resources Act of 2000 - Dakota Water Resources Act of 2000 - Amends Federal provisions relating to the Garrison water diversion unit, North Dakota (part of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin Program), to include within authorized unit purposes the development of municipal, rural, and industrial water systems, fish, wildlife, and other natural resource conservation and development, recreation, flood control, ground water recharge, and augmented stream flows (currently, only irrigation is authorized). Authorizes the State of North Dakota (currently, only the Secretary of the Interior) to plan and construct within the State a multipurpose water resource development irrigation project. Makes the Secretary responsible for operation and maintenance (O&M) costs of that portion of the capacity of existing unit facilities that remain unused. Makes the State responsible for: (1) O&M costs of the proportionate share of existing used unit facilities, as well as the full O&M costs of any facility constructed after the date of enactment of this Act; and (2) the costs of providing energy to authorized unit facilities. Authorizes water systems constructed under this Act to deliver Missouri River water into the Hudson Bay basin, after a certain required determination concerning adequate treatment of such water. (Sec. 603) Revises provisions concerning unit operational costs to make nonreimbursable: (1) all fish and wildlife enhancement costs incurred in connection with waterfowl refuges or production areas, as well as wildlife conservation areas proposed for Federal or State administration; and (2) 50 percent of recreation area costs, if non-Federal public bodies assume the remainder of such costs. Deauthorizes Taayer Reservoir and Lonetree Dam and Reservoir as project features. (Sec. 604) Allows the calculation of interest during construction of a feature only until such feature is substantially complete, and regardless of whether it is placed into service. (Sec. 605) Includes certain areas of North Dakota within the area in which the Secretary is authorized to develop irrigation facilities, but prohibits the development of any such facility in the Hudson Bay-Devils Lake Basin. Allows such developed irrigation to receive Pick-Sloan pumping power. Directs the Secretary to: (1) maintain the Snake Creek Pumping Plant, New Rockford Canal, and McClusky Canal features of the principal supply works; and (2) select a preferred alternative to implement this Act after considering connecting the existing principal supply works. Directs the Secretary to investigate and report on an undesignated 28,000 acres of irrigation areas in North Dakota. (Sec. 606) Prohibits any reallocation of project costs to Pick-Sloan customers. (Sec. 607) Revises provisions authorizing the construction of municipal, rural, and industrial water systems in North Dakota to: (1) authorize the State to use Federal and non-Federal funds for grants or loans for such systems (requiring proceeds from loan repayments and interest thereon to be treated as Federal funds); (2) make additional projects eligible for such funding; (3) authorize the State to develop and implement a water conservation program; (4) make nonreimbursable the costs of features constructed on the Missouri River by the Secretary of the Army before the date of enactment of this Act; and (5) add Turtle Mountain to the areas in which the Secretary is required to maintain necessary water systems. (Sec. 608) Deauthorizes the Sykeston Canal. Directs the Secretary to select and construct a feature or features to deliver water to the Sheyenne River water supply and release facility. Requires the Secretary, if selecting a feature under which Missouri River water is used to provide water to such facility, to transmit to Congress a comprehensive report. Prohibits the latter feature from being constructed unless it is specifically authorized by an Act of Congress. Authorizes without further congressional action a feature which uses only in-basin sources to meet Red River Valley water needs. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a comprehensive study of the water quality and quantity needs of the Red River Valley and possible options in meeting those needs; (2) solicit input from affected entities and designees; and (3) provide a study draft to affected States and Federal agencies. Allows such States and Federal agencies to review and comment on draft proposals, and requires the Secretary to take such comments into consideration when producing a final report and submitting such report to Congress. Directs the Secretary and the State to jointly report to Congress on the comprehensive water quality needs of the Red River Valley and options for meeting those needs. Requires environmental impact statements to be provided. Directs the Secretary to construct, operate, and maintain a Sheyenne River water supply and release feature capable of delivering a specified water supply for the cities of Fargo and Grand Forks and surrounding communities. Prohibits funds from this Act from being used for carrying out a lake control feasibility study of the Devils Lake Basin, North Dakota, or to study any facility or carry out an activity that would permit the transfer of water from the Missouri River drainage basin into Devils Lake. (Sec. 609) Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the State to convey U.S. rights and interests in the Oakes Test Area. (Sec. 610) Authorizes additional appropriations to carry out provisions added by this Act. (Sec. 611) Directs the Secretary, from funds authorized under this Act, to make an annual Federal contribution to the Natural Resources Trust (previously named the Wetlands Trust), limiting such contribution to $12 million. Directs the Secretary to make additional annual contributions equal to five percent of the total amount appropriated for such Trust in a fiscal year. Adds to authorized Trust uses the enhancement, restoration, and management of grassland conservation and riparian areas. Adds to Trust authority the power to fund incentives for conservation practices by landowners. Title VII - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish in Stanley County, South Dakota, a reconciliation center known as Reconciliation Place to: (1) enhance knowledge and understanding of the history of Native Americans; (2) interpret the encounters between Lewis and Clark and the Sioux Nation; (3) house the Sioux Nation Tribal Supreme Court (Court); (4) house the Native American Economic Development Council; and (5) house the National Native American Mediation Training Center (Center). Directs the Secretary to award a grant to the Wakpa Sica Historical Society of Fort Pierre, South Dakota, for construction of Reconciliation Place. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 704) Directs the Attorney General to provide technical and financial assistance to ensure the development and operation of the Court and Center. Authorizes appropriations. Title VIII: Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor - Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor Act- Establishes the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor in the State of New York and the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor Commission. Provides for a comprehensive preservation and management Canalway Plan for the Corridor. Authorizes appropriations. Title IX: Law Enforcement Pay Equity - Law Enforcement Pay Equity Act of 2000 - Amends the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 to establish a uniform salary schedule for members and officers of the U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division and the Park Police. Freezes the percentage rate for locality-based comparability pay for such members and officers at the rate in effect for pay periods during FY 2000. (Sec. 903) Revises certain caps on maximum compensation for such members and officers. (Sec. 908) Amends the District of Columbia Retirement Protection Act of 1997 to require, for purposes of determining the amount of a Federal benefit payment to an officer or member of the Metropolitan Police Department, that the payment under the District Retirement Program include certain service longevity payments provided for in the Police Recruiting and Retention Enhancement Amendment Act of 1999 (such Act took effect after the freeze date). Title X: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Amends the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 to change the rate of pay for the Director of the Millennial Housing Commission. Provides for details of Federal personnel to the Commission on a non-reimbursable (currently, reimbursable) basis. (Sec. 1004) Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to specified congressional committees on: (1) the adequacy of the capital structure of the Federal Home Loan Bank System as it relates to certain specified risks; (2) the risks associated with further growth in the direct acquisition of mortgages by the System; and (3) a comparison of the risk-based capital standard proposed by the Federal Housing Finance Board for the System to the standard proposed by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight for the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. Title XI: Department of the Treasury - Authorizes the President to award: (1) to each of the original twenty-nine Navajo Code Talkers or a surviving family member, on behalf of Congress, a gold medal honoring the Navajo Code Talkers; and (2) to each person who qualified as a Navajo Code Talker (MOS 642) or a surviving family member a silver medal. Title XII: Environmental Protection Agency -Establishes the Aboveground Storage Tank Grant Program for grants to the State of Alaska or the Denali Commission to repair, upgrade, or replace such tanks that: (1) leak or pose an imminent threat of leaking; and (2) are located in a Native village the median household income of which is less than 80 percent of such income in the State, are located within the boundaries of a National Park or Wildlife Refuge System unit or national forest, or on public land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, or that receives payments in lieu of taxes. Authorizes appropriations. Title XIII: National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Authorizes the use of excess funds from the sale of timber on Federal property at the John C. Stennis Space Center by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the acquisition of up to 500 acres of real property to establish education and visitor programs and facilities to promote and preserve the regional and national history of the area and, as necessary, for wetlands mitigation. Title XIV: Certain Alaskan Cruise Ship Operations - Applies this title to all cruise vessel authorized to carry 500 or more passengers for hire. (Sec. 1403) Prohibits the discharge of untreated sewage from a cruise vessel into the waters of the Alexander Archipelago (Archipelago) or U.S. navigable waters within the State of Alaska or the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (Reserve). Bars the discharge of treated sewage or graywater from such vessels into such areas unless: (1) the vessel is underway and proceeding at at least six knots; (2) the vessel is not less than one nautical mile from the nearest shore, except in areas designated by the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating; (3) the discharge complies with all vessel effluent standards; and (4) the vessel is not in an area where the discharge of treated sewage or graywater is prohibited. Defines "graywater" as galley, dishwasher, bath, and laundry waste water. Authorizes the EPA Administrator to promulgate regulations allowing the otherwise prohibited discharge of treated sewage or graywater where the discharge meets effluent standards determined appropriate for discharges into the marine environment. Allows such discharges, subject to certain conditions, until such regulations are promulgated. (Sec. 1405) Makes discharge prohibitions inapplicable to discharges made for purposes of securing the safety of the vessel or saving life at sea, provided that reasonable precautions have been taken to prevent or minimize the discharge. (Sec. 1406) Requires the Secretary to incorporate into the commercial vessel examination program an inspection regime sufficient to verify that cruise vessels visiting ports in Alaska or operating in the Archipelago or U.S. navigable waters in Alaska or the Reserve are in full compliance with this title, other Federal laws and regulations, and international treaty requirements. Provides for sampling and testing of cruise ship discharges. (Sec. 1407) Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate effluent standards for treated sewage and graywater from cruise vessels operating in such waters. (Sec. 1408) Requires any person in charge of a cruise vessel who has knowledge of a discharge described by this title to report immediately to the Secretary. (Sec. 1409) Prescribes civil and criminal penalties for violations of this title. (Sec. 1410) Authorizes the State of Alaska, upon determining that the protection and enhancement of water quality of the Archipelago or U.S. navigable waters in Alaska or the Reserve require greater environmental protection, to petition the Administrator to prohibit the discharge of graywater and sewage from cruise vessels operating in such waters. Title XV: Life Act Amendments - LIFE Act Amendments of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to extend the application of a provision which allows for the adjustment to permanent resident status of certain aliens who entered the United States without inspection. Conditions such authorization on an alien being physically present in the United States on this Act's enactment date. (Sec. 1503) Amends the Legal Immigration Family Equity (LIFE) Act to provide for the permanent resident status adjustment of certain alien class action participants who participated in Zambrano v. INS. Makes a provision of the INA that requires the reinstatement of removal orders against aliens reentering the United States illegally inapplicable to such class action participants. Provides certain family unity benefits to such aliens as well. (Sec. 1505) Amends the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act to make INA reinstatement removal provisions inapplicable to certain Nicaraguan and Cuban aliens applying for adjustment of status. Makes a conforming amendment to the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 with respect to certain Haitian aliens. Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act to permit certain aliens granted temporary protection from deportation who are otherwise eligible for suspension of deportation or cancellation of removal pursuant to the INA to apply for such relief. (Sec. 1506) Makes this title effective as if included in the enactment of the LIFE Act. Title XVI: Improving Literacy Through Family Literacy Projects - Literacy Involves Families Together Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise and reauthorize Even Start Family Literacy Programs (Even Start) (part B of title I provisions for Helping Disadvantaged Children Meet High Standards). (Sec. 1602) Extends through FY 2001 the authorization of appropriations for such Even Start programs, and increases the amounts authorized. (Sec. 1603) Requires State plans to assure that State educational agencies (SEAs) will encourage local educational agencies (LEAs) and individual schools participating in a program assisted under ESEA title I part A (Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies) to use part A funds to offer family literacy services, if the LEA or school determines that a substantial number of students served under part A have parents who do not have a secondary school diploma or its recognized equivalent, or who have low levels of literacy. (Sec. 1604) Renames ESEA title I part B as William F. Goodling Even Start Family Literacy Programs. Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) reserve an increased portion of part B Even Start funds for migrant programs, outlying areas, and Indian tribes, under specified conditions; (2) ensure coordination of family literacy programs under Even Start with similar programs operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA); and (3) reserve specified portions of Even Start excess funds for scientifically-based research on family literacy by the National Institute for Literacy. Authorizes States to use a portion of Even Start funds to provide technical assistance and training to subgrantees (partnerships of LEAs and eligible organizations) to improve the quality of their family literacy services, giving priority to low-quality programs, provided that such State use of funds for a fiscal year does not result in a decrease from the level of activities and services provided to program participants in the preceding year. Allows State use of such funds to provide technical assistance for local programs to raise additional funds. Requires a majority of instructional staff whose salaries are paid, in whole or in part, with Federal Even Start funds, within four years after enactment of this Act, to: (1) have an associate's, bachelor's, or graduate degree in a field related to early childhood education, elementary or secondary school education, or adult education; and (2) meet State-established qualifications for such types of education provided as part of an Even Start or other family literacy program. Requires all new instructional staff, beginning on the enactment of this Act, to meet such requirements. Requires, within such four-year period, that: (1) all paraprofessionals whose salaries are paid with any Federal Even Start funds have at least a high school diploma or its recognized equivalent; and (2) the individual responsible for administration of family literacy services to be trained in operating a family literacy program. Requires Even Start programs to: (1) use research-based reading techniques for children and adults; and (2) encourage participating families to attend regularly and remain in the program a sufficient time to meet their program goals. Allows an Even Start program, despite specified age limitations, to permit children eight years of age or older to participate, if such program collaborates with a part A program and part A funds are used to pay the cost of providing part B Even Start services to such children and if the focus of the program continues to remain on families with young children. Includes among indicators of an area's need for part B funds the presence of high numbers or percentages of parents who have been victims of domestic violence or who are receiving assistance under a State program funded by a block grant for temporary assistance to needy families under the Social Security Act. Requires an SEA, in awarding subgrants to continue an Even Start program after the first year, to review the progress of each eligible entity in meeting program objectives described in the State plan (as well as, under current law, evaluating the program based on State-developed program quality indicators). Sets the same limits on the Federal share of renewed subgrants as on Even Start grants. Directs the National Institute for Literacy to use certain reserved Even Start funds for scientifically-based research to determine: (1) the most effective ways of improving literacy skills of adults with reading difficulties; and (2) how family literacy services can best provide parents with knowledge and skills to support their children's literacy development. Requires such research to be carried out through an entity, including a Federal agency, with expertise in doing longitudinal studies of children's literacy skills development and that has developed effective methods of intervention to help children with reading difficulties. (Sec. 1605) Requires State applications for Even Start grants to describe how the State will encourage programs and projects assisted under Even Start to offer family literacy services if the program or project serves a substantial number of migratory children who have parents who do not have a high school diploma or its recognized equivalent or who have low levels of literacy. (Sec. 1606) Defines family literacy services under ESEA as services provided to participants on a voluntary basis that are of sufficient intensity in terms of hours, and of sufficient duration, to make sustainable changes in a family, and that integrate all of the following activities: (1) interactive literacy activities between parents and their children; (2) training for parents regarding how to be the primary teacher for their children and full partners in the education of their children; (3) parent literacy training that leads to economic self-sufficiency; and (4) an age-appropriate education to prepare children for success in school and life experiences. (Sec. 1607) Amends the Education Amendments Act of 1978 to require BIA-operated family literacy programs, under the early childhood education program for Indian children or other programs, to be coordinated with Even Start family literacy programs under ESEA. Title XVII: Children's Internet Protection - Children's Internet Protection Act - Directs the National Communications and Information Administration to initiate a notice and comment proceeding for purposes of: (1) evaluating whether currently available technology protection measures adequately address the needs of educational institutions; (2) making recommendations on how to foster the development of measures that meet such needs; and (3) evaluating the development and effectiveness of local Internet safety policies that are currently in operation after community input. Subtitle A: Federal Funding for Educational Institution Computers - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to prohibit funds made available to a local educational agency for a school that does not receive services at discount rates (as provided under the Children's Internet Protection Act) to use such funds to purchase computers to access the Internet or to pay direct costs for such access unless such school: (1) has a policy of Internet safety for minors that includes the operation of a technology protection measure with respect to computers providing such access to protect against visual depictions that are obscene, child pornography, or harmful to minors; and (2) is enforcing the operation of such measure during any use of such computers. Authorizes the withholding of funds for noncompliance with such requirements. (Sec. 1712) Amends the Museum and Library Services Act to set forth parallel requirements for the use of technology protection measures in certain libraries receiving funding under such Act. Subtitle B: Universal Service Discounts - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to set forth parallel technology protection measure requirements for schools and libraries as a condition for receiving universal service discounts. Subtitle C: Neighborhood Children's Internet Protection - Neighborhood Children's Internet Protection Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require schools and libraries receiving universal service rates to: (1) implement an Internet safety policy that addresses access by minors to inappropriate matter, the safety of minors when using direct electronic communications, unauthorized access and disclosures of information, and measures designed to restrict minors' access to harmful materials; and (2) provide public notice and hold at least one public meeting to address the proposed policy. Requires the determination regarding what matter is inappropriate for minors to be made by the school board, library, or other authority so responsible. Subtitle D: Expedited Review - Requires any civil action challenging the constitutionality of this title to be heard by a three-judge district court. Provides for direct appeal to the Supreme Court of any decree holding this title to be unconstitutional.
Bill· SS. 3275 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 2000
Russian Fissile Materials Disposition Loan Guarantee Act of 2000 - Authorizes the Secretary of Energy, with the President's approval, to guarantee loans (principal and up to three percent interest) made to the Government of the Russian Federation (GRF) for purposes of nuclear nonproliferation programs and activities. Limits to $1 billion the aggregate amount of loan principal covered by guarantees at any one time. Limits the loan principal to increments of $20 million at a term of at least 15 years. Makes eligible for such guarantees any loan by a private lender to the GRF the proceeds of which are to be used for one or both of the following purposes: (1) support of GRF nuclear nonproliferation programs and activities; and (2) development of the energy infrastructure of the Russian Federation, including peaceful uses of nuclear energy in compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Denies guarantee eligibility for any loan whose proceeds are to be used for any purpose or activity under the Plutonium Disposition Agreement, including to cover the costs of the manufacture and use of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel in Russia under the Plutonium Disposition Agreement. Requires the GRF, as security for each $20 million principal increment of a guaranteed loan, to place one metric ton of weapons-usable plutonium and one metric ton of weapons-usable highly enriched uranium under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards at a facility in Russia. Earmarks certain authorized appropriations to cover IAEA expenses in implementing and maintaining such safeguards. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 5641 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2000
Commission for Comprehensive Review of the Federal Aviation Administration Act - Establishes the Commission for Comprehensive Review of the Federal Aviation Administration to: (1) review existing and alternative options for organizational structure of air traffic services, including a government corporation and incentive based fees for services; (2) provide recommendations for any necessary changes in structure of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) so that it will be able to support the future growth in the national aviation and airport system; (3) review aviation safety and make recommendations for the long-term improvement of safety; and (4) make additional recommendations that would advance more efficient and effective FAA for the benefit of the general traveling public and the aviation transportation system.
Bill· HRH.R. 5637 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 2000
Allocates certain Department of Transportation funds to reimburse the owner of the former Coast Guard lighthouse facility at Cape May, New Jersey, for costs incurred for clean-up of lead contaminated soil there. Authorizes the Coast Guard, subject to the availability of funds appropriated specifically for the project, to transfer a specified amount of funds and project management authority to the Traverse City Area Public School District to demolish and remove a certain structure known as "Building 402" at former Coast Guard property located in Traverse City, Michigan.
Bill· HRH.R. 5622 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 2000
Medicare Program Infrastructure Investment Act of 2000 - Establishes within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) a Health Care Infrastructure Advisory Commission to: (1) develop a strategy to create an advanced informational infrastructure for the administration of the Medicare program under parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of the Social Security Act (SSA); and (2) submit to Congress a strategic plan to implement it, as well as progress reports. Amends SSA title XI to provide that if the HHS Secretary adopts a batch standard for a transaction involving a health care provider to enable health information to be exchanged electronically, the Secretary shall also adopt an interactive standard compatible with the batch standard so that the provider may immediately complete the transaction at the point of service.
Bill· SS. 3245 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 October 2000
Authorizes the: (1) Administrator of General Services to transfer to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the Coast Guard Station Scituate; and (2) Coast Guard to relocate such Station. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to convey: (1) the Coast Guard LORAN Station in Nantucket, Massachusetts, to the town of Nantucket; and (2) the Plum Island Boathouse and Lighthouse, Massachusetts, to the city of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Provides a reversionary interest under each such conveyances if the property ceases to be used for public educational, park, recreational, cultural, historical preservation, or other similar purposes, or as a present or future site for Coast Guard aids to navigation. Requires the maintenance of navigation functions within each conveyance.
Bill· SS. 3244 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 October 2000
Amends Federal aviation law to declare that airport noise or access restrictions on the operation of stage 2 and stage 3 aircraft shall not apply to a local restriction limiting the hours of operation of an airport adopted by an airport operator but disallowed by a court before 1985 if: (1) the airport operator adopted before 1985 a policy of encouraging voluntary limitation of the hours of operation; and (2) such operator entered into an agreement before 1985 with scheduled air carriers regulating the capacity of the airport terminal.
Bill· HRH.R. 5548 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 2000
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the judiciary, and related agencies. Title I: Department of Justice - Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2001 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice for: (1) general administration; (2) a Joint Automated Booking System; (3) conversion to narrowband communications; (4) counterterrorism activities; (5) payments of costs of telecommunications carriers in complying with capability requirements; (6) administration of pardon and clemency petitions and immigration-related activities; (7) establishment of a Federal Detention Trustee to exercise functions relating to the detention of Federal prisoners in non-Federal institutions or those in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service and detention of aliens in the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS); (8) the Office of Inspector General; (9) the U.S. Parole Commission; (10) legal activities; (11) antitrust activities; (12) the Offices of U.S. Attorneys; (13) the U.S. Trustee Program; (14) the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; (15) the U.S. Marshals Service, including amounts for Federal prisoner detention; (16) fees and expenses of witnesses; (17) the Community Relations Service; (18) certain uses of the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (19) administrative expenses related to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act; (20) the Radiation Exposure Compensation Trust Fund; (21) interagency law enforcement with respect to organized crime drug trafficking; (22) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (23) construction for specified agencies; (24) the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); (25) the INS; (26) the Federal prison system, including an amount for buildings and facilities; (27) Office of Justice programs; (28) State and local law enforcement assistance; (29) the Executive Office for Weed and Seed; (30) community oriented policing services; (31) juvenile justice programs; and (32) public safety officers' benefits. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. (Sec. 103) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this title to: (1) pay for abortions except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform or facilitate an abortion. (Sec. 109) Makes a provision of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 relating to grants for assistance to the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 applicable for FY 2001. (Sec. 111) Makes a certain provision of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 that prohibits the use of funds by any Act to pay premium pay to any Department of Justice attorney applicable hereafter. (Sec. 112) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish the Genealogy Fee for providing genealogy research and information services. Provides for deposit of the fee as offsetting collections in the Examinations Fee Account. Requires INS employees to collect fees before disseminating any requested genealogical information. Authorizes the Attorney General to establish and collect a premium fee for employment-based petitions and applications. Requires the fee to be used to provide certain premium-processing services to business customers and to make infrastructure improvements in the adjudications and customer-service processes. Provides for deposit of the fee as offsetting collections in the Immigration Examinations Fee Account. (Sec. 114) Amends Federal law to make amounts in the Crime Victims Fund available to the FBI for improving services for the benefit of crime victims in the Federal criminal justice system. (Sec. 115) Authorizes the use of funds appropriated to the Federal Prison System for the placement of certain prisoners sentenced under the District of Columbia Code in privately operated prisons. (Sec. 118) Bars the availability of funds for grant programs under this title to any local jail that runs "pay-to-stay" programs. Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies - Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Commerce for: (1) the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; (2) the International Trade Commission; (3) the International Trade Administration; (4) export administration and national security activities; (5) the Economic Development Administration; (6) minority business development; (7) economic and statistical analysis programs; (8) the Census Bureau; (9) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (10) public telecommunications facilities planning and construction grants; (11) information infrastructure grants; (12) the Patent and Trademark Office; (13) the Under Secretary for Technology-Office of Technology Policy; (14) the National Institute of Standards and Technology, including amounts for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership and the Advanced Technology Program and for construction of new research facilities; (15) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including amounts for procurement, acquisition, and construction of capital assets and for coastal and ocean activities; (16) restoration of Pacific salmon populations; (17) the Coastal Zone Management Fund; (18) the Fishermen's Contingency Fund; (19) the Foreign Fishing Observer Fund; (20) the fisheries finance program account; (21) departmental management; and (22) the Office of Inspector General. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. (Sec. 210) Requires the Secretary of Commerce to establish and administer through the National Ocean Service the Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program to award graduate education scholarships in marine biology, oceanography, or maritime archaeology. Title III: The Judiciary - Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2001 - Makes appropriations for: (1) the Supreme Court, including an amount for care of the building and grounds; (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; (3) the U.S. Court of International Trade; (4) the courts of appeals, district courts, and other judicial services; (5) defender services; (6) fees of jurors and commissioners; (7) court security; (8) the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; (9) the Federal Judicial Center; (10) judicial retirement funds; and (11) the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. (Sec. 304) Authorizes the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to designate judicial branch officers and employees to be disbursing officers and to certify payment requests from appropriations and funds. Sets forth provisions regarding liability of such officers and employees. (Sec. 305) Requires the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, additional district judges for Arizona, Florida, Kentucky, Nevada, New Mexico, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. (Sec. 306) Authorizes the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to appoint a circuit executive. (Sec. 307) Includes judicial branch agencies under the scope of Federal civil service provisions that authorize employment of personal assistants for handicapped employees. (Sec. 308) Deems service performed before the effective date of this section by a member of the Supreme Court Police who is a member on such date to be service performed as a law enforcement officer for purposes of Federal civil service retirement provisions. Deems service performed before such effective date by a member of the Supreme Court Police who is not a member on such date to be employee service for purposes of such provisions. Sets forth provisions regarding mandatory separation of members eligible for immediate retirement and entitlement to annuities. (Sec. 309) Authorizes justices and judges of the United States during FY 2001 to receive salary adjustments only if annual pay adjustments under Federal civil service provisions take effect in FY 2001. Appropriates an amount for such adjustments, provided they take effect. Title IV: Department of State and Related Agency - Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2001 - Makes appropriations for the Department of State for: (1) administration of foreign affairs, diplomatic and consular programs; (2) the Capital Investment Fund; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) educational and cultural exchange programs; (5) representation allowances; (6) protection of foreign missions and officials; (7) embassy security, construction, and maintenance; (8) emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service; (9) the repatriation loans program account; (10) the American Institute in Taiwan; (11) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (12) international organizations, conferences, peacekeeping, and commissions; (13) the Asia Foundation; (14) the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Incorporated; (15) the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program; (16) the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West (East-West Center); and (17) the National Endowment for Democracy. Makes appropriations for the Broadcasting Board of Governors for international broadcasting operations, broadcasting to Cuba, and capital improvements. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title. (Sec. 403) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act by the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation. (Sec. 404) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to require the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources to be appointed by the President. Makes such Deputy Secretary a Level II Executive Schedule position. (Sec. 405) Prohibits funds made available in this Act for the United Nations (UN) from being used by the UN for the enforcement of any treaty, resolution, or regulation authorizing the UN to tax any aspect of the Internet. (Sec. 406) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by any Act to allow for the entry into, or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption in the United States of diamonds if the country of origin in which such diamonds were mined (as evidenced by a legible certificate of origin) is Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or Angola, with the exception of diamonds certified by lawful governments of Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or Angola. (Sec. 407) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act to authorize special agents of the Department of State and the Foreign Service to protect and perform protective functions related to maintaining the security and safety of: (1) a departing Secretary of State for a limited time period after termination of the individual's incumbency as Secretary on the basis of a threat assessment; and (2) an individual who has been designated as Secretary prior to such individual's appointment. Title V: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for the: (1) Maritime Administration for maritime security, operations and training, and the maritime guaranteed loan program; (2) Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad; (3) Commission on Civil Rights; (4) Commission on Ocean Policy; (5) Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (6) Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China; (7) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); (8) Federal Communications Commission (FCC); (9) Federal Maritime Commission; (10) Federal Trade Commission (FTC); (11) Legal Services Corporation; (12) Marine Mammal Commission; (13) Securities and Exchange Commission; (14) Small Business Administration (SBA), including amounts for the Office of Inspector General and business and disaster loans; and (15) State Justice Institute. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. Title VI: General Provisions - Sets forth limitations on the use of funds under this Act. (Sec. 607) Sets forth Buy American provisions. (Sec. 608) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to: (1) enforce any EEOC guidelines covering harassment based on religion if such guidelines do not differ from proposed guidelines of October 1, 1993; (2) pay for costs incurred in operating certain diplomatic or consular posts in Vietnam or increasing the number of personnel assigned to such posts until the President makes a specified certification; or (3) provide specified personal comforts in the Federal prison system. (Sec. 609) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act for any United Nations undertaking if: (1) such undertaking is a peacekeeping mission and will involve U.S. armed forces under the control of a foreign national; and (2) the President's military advisors have not submitted a recommendation that such involvement is in the national security interest and the President has not submitted such recommendation to Congress. (Sec. 616) Makes funds provided by this Act unavailable to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing of such products, except for restrictions which are not applied equally to products of the same type. (Sec. 617) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to issue visas to certain individuals from Haiti, including those involved in specified extrajudicial and political killings. (Sec. 618) Bars funds appropriated under any law from being used for: (1) the implementation of any tax or fee in connection with any criminal background check system that implements requirements under the Federal criminal code in connection with certain restrictions on the transfer of firearms; and (2) any such system that does not result in the destruction of information submitted by persons determined not to be prohibited from owning a firearm. (Sec. 621) Bars the use of funds appropriated in this Act for purposes of granting immigrant or nonimmigrant visas to residents of countries that the Attorney General has determined deny or unreasonably delay accepting the return of certain deportable aliens. (Sec. 622) Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of Justice in this Act for transporting any maximum or high security prisoner to any prison other than one certified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure. (Sec. 623) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to propose or issue rules or orders for implementing the Kyoto Protocol. (Sec. 624) Bars the use of funds made available by this Act for participation by U.S. delegates to the Standing Consultative Commission unless the President certifies to the Appropriations Committees that the U.S. Government is not implementing the Memorandum of Understanding Relating to the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems of May 26, 1972, entered into on September 26, 1997, by the United States, Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Ukraine or until the Senate provides its advice and consent to the Memorandum. (Sec. 625) Prohibits the availability of funds appropriated in this Act for the Department of State to approve the purchase of property in Arlington, Virginia, by the Xinhua News Agency. (Sec. 627) Amends the 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act to consider a taking of a Cook Inlet beluga whale under the Marine Mammal Protection Act to be a violation of such Act unless such taking occurs pursuant to a cooperative agreement between the National Marine Fisheries Service and affected Alaska Native organizations. (Currently, such act is considered a violation if it takes place between the enactment date of such Act and October 1, 2000.) (Sec. 628) Amends the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 to revise and extend the authorization of appropriations for activities related to the Pacific Salmon Treaty Agreement. Authorizes appropriations to provide economic adjustment assistance to fishermen pursuant to such agreement. (Sec. 629) Amends the Interstate Horseracing Act to include within the definition of "interstate off-track wager" pari-mutuel wagers placed or transmitted by an individual in one State via telephone or other electronic media and accepted by an off-track betting system in the same or another State as well as the combination of pari-mutuel wagering pools. (Sec. 630) Amends provisions of the Clayton Act to revise conditions under which a person is prohibited from acquiring voting securities or assets of another person prior to filing premerger notification and the expiration of a waiting period. Provides for graduated filing fees of up to $280,000, based on the amount of voting securities and assets held by the acquiring person as a result of the acquisition. (Currently, such fees are set at $45,000.) Directs the Assistant Attorney General and the FTC each to designate for hearing certain petitions a senior official without direct responsibility for the merger review process concerning the proposed acquisition at issue. Requires such officials to hear any petition filed with the FTC, by the acquiring person or by the person whose voting securities or assets are to be acquired, to determine: (1) whether a request for additional information or documentary material is unreasonably cumulative, unduly burdensome or duplicative; or (2) whether the request for such information or material has been substantially complied with by the petitioning person. Provides for an expedited merger review process of petitions filed with the FTC. Increases the number of days by which the waiting period may be extended from 20 to 30 days. (Sec. 631) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to take necessary measures to stabilize and renovate Lock and Dam 10 at Boonesborough, Kentucky, for extending the design life of the structure by an additional 50 years. (Sec. 632) Directs the FCC to modify its rules authorizing the operation of low-power FM radio stations to: (1) prescribe minimum distance separations for third-adjacent channels (as well as co-channels and first- and second-adjacent channels); and (2) prohibit any applicant from obtaining a low-power FM license if such applicant has engaged in the unlicensed operation of any radio station in violation of FCC radio licensing requirements. Prohibits the FCC, without specific authorization by Congress, from: (1) eliminating or reducing such minimum distance separations for third-adjacent channels; or (2) extending the eligibility for low-power FM stations beyond those organizations and entities proposed in MM Docket No. 99-25. Invalidates any previously issued low-power FM station license that does not comply with such rule modifications. Directs the FCC to conduct an experimental program to test whether low- power FM stations will result in harmful interference to existing FM radio stations if such stations are not subject to the minimum distance separation requirements. Requires the FCC to: (1) publish test results and allow an opportunity for public comment; and (2) report test results and FCC recommendations on reducing or eliminating minimum distance standards to specified congressional committees. (Sec. 633) Makes an additional amount available for SBA salaries and expenses. (Sec. 634) Prohibits the use of funds provided in this or any previous Act or made available to the Department of Commerce for the issuance or renewal, for any fishing vessel, of any general or harpoon category fishing permit for Atlantic bluefin tuna that would allow the vessel to: (1) use an aircraft to locate, or otherwise assist in fishing for, catching, or possessing such tuna; or (2) fish for, catch, or possess such tuna located by the use of an aircraft. Amy Boyer's Law - Amends the Social Security Act to bar the public display or sale of any individual's social security number, or any identifiable derivative of such number, without the expressed consent, electronically or in writing, of such individual. Prohibits obtaining a social security number for purposes of locating or identifying an individual with the intent to physically injure, harm, or use the identity of the individual for illegal purposes. Provides prerequisites for consent, including that the individual be informed of the general purposes for which the number will be utilized and the types of persons to whom the number may be available. Provides that nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit or limit display, sale, or use of social security numbers: (1) required under certain Federal laws; (2) by professional and commercial users who use the information in the normal course of their business so long as a number is not publicly displayed or sold; (3) for law enforcement; or (4) that may appear in a public record. Authorizes persons aggrieved by violations of this law to bring civil actions in district courts to recover damages. Prohibits actions from being commenced more than three years after the date the violation was or should have been reasonably discovered. Subjects violators to civil money penalties as determined by the Commissioner of Social Security in addition to any other penalties that may be prescribed. Prescribes criminal penalties for such violations under the Social Security Act. Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the feasibility and advisability of imposing additional limitations on the use of social security numbers in public records. (Sec. 636) Prohibits the redesignation of Cuyahoga Valley National Park as a Class I area under the Clean Air Act. Title VII: Rescissions - Rescinds specified amounts for the DEA Drug Diversion Control Fee Account and the Maritime Administration maritime guaranteed loan program account. Title VIII: Debt Reduction and Other Matter - Provides for deposit of an additional amount into the account established to reduce the public debt. (Sec. 801) Requires the presiding officer of the Senate, on the first day of the 107th Congress, to apply all of the precedents of the Senate under rule XXVIII (conference committees, reports; open meetings) in effect at the conclusion of the 103rd Congress. Provides that there is now in effect a standing order of the Senate that the reading of conference reports is no longer required if the report is available in the Senate. Title IX: Wildlife, Ocean and Coastal Conservation - Makes an amount available to support activities that supplement existing funding available to the States and territories from the sport fish restoration and wildlife restoration accounts to be used for wildlife conservation and restoration plans and programs. (Sec. 902) Amends the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act to establish in the Federal aid to wildlife restoration fund a subaccount known as the Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Account. Authorizes and allocates appropriations. Authorizes States to apply to the Secretary of the Interior for approval of a wildlife conservation and restoration program or for Account funds to develop a program. Prohibits the use of no more than ten percent of the amount apportioned to a State for a program for wildlife-associated recreation. Permits Account funds to be used for wildlife conservation education programs except for programs that promote opposition to the regulated taking of wildlife. Makes a State agency ineligible to receive matching funds under this title if sources of revenue available to the agency after January 1, 2000, for wildlife conservation are diverted for any purpose other than agency administration. Amends the North American Wetlands Conservation Act to increase the maximum amount authorized to be appropriated to the Department of the Interior to carry out North American wetlands conservation. (Sec. 903) Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize appropriations for coastal impact assistance to producing coastal States with approved coastal impact assistance plans. Defines a "producing coastal State" as a coastal State with a coastal seaward boundary within 200 miles from the geographic center of a tract leased for drilling, developing, and producing oil and natural gas other than a tract within any Outer Continental Shelf area where a specified moratorium on new leasing was in effect as of January 1, 2000. Sets forth the formula for allocating such funds to producing coastal States and coastal political subdivisions and describes authorized uses. Requires the development and submission of a Coastal Impact Assistance Plan by each producing coastal State for transmittal to the Secretary of Commerce for approval prior to the disbursement of funds. Title X: Local TV Act - Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act of 2000 - Establishes the LOCAL Television Loan Guarantee Board to approve or disapprove loan guarantees under this Act. Allows loan guarantees to be approved only to the extent provided for in advance in appropriations Acts. Requires such loans to be used to finance the means by which local television (TV) broadcast signals will be delivered to nonserved or underserved areas, with a loan priority for nonserved areas. States that the Board should give additional consideration to projects that also provide high-speed Internet access. Prohibits the Board from approving a loan for a project that is designed primarily to serve one of the 40 designated market areas or would alter or remove National Weather Service warnings from local broadcast signals. Limits a loan guarantee to 80 percent of a loan meeting requirements under this Act, with a total loan aggregate value limit of $1.25 billion. (Sec. 1005) Requires the Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service to administer all loan guarantees approved under this Act. Requires loan applicants to enter into stipulated performance schedules with respect to the signals to be provided through the project. Sets forth provisions regarding credit requirements, default procedures, and recovery of payments. Requires the Board to charge and collect a loan guarantee fee and use such fee to cover administrative costs. (Sec. 1006) Requires an annual audit and report concerning the loan guarantee program. (Sec. 1007) Directs the FCC to reinstate as tentative rural service selectees, and permit application amendments for: (1) Great Western Cellular Partners; (2) Monroe Telephone Services L.P.; and (3) FutureWave General Partners L.P. (Sec. 1008) Amends the Communications Act of 1934 with respect to the definition of "satellite carrier." (Includes distributors under specified circumstances.) (Sec. 1009) Prohibits any loan guarantee from being approved after December 31, 2006. (Sec. 1011) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 through 2006. (Sec. 1012) Requires the FCC to provide for an independent technical demonstration of any terrestrial service technology proposed by any entity that has applied to provide such service in the direct broadcast satellite frequency band to determine whether the proposed technology will cause harmful interference to any direct broadcast satellite service. Title XI: Encouraging Immigrant Family Reunification - Legal Immigration Family Equity Act (LIFE Act) - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to accord nonimmigrant status to certain aliens: (1) with pending or approved but unavailable visa petitions who are the spouses or unmarried sons and daughters of permanent resident aliens; and (2) with approved but unavailable visa petitions who are the spouses of U.S. citizens or minor children of such spouses. Permits related status adjustments for qualifying aliens. (Sec. 1104) Provides for the permanent resident status adjustment of certain alien class action participants who entered the United States prior to January 1, 1982, and maintained a qualifying period of unlawful U.S. residence. Considers certain Cuban and Haitian entrants as so qualifying. Requires demonstration of basic citizenship skills, with exceptions for elderly or disabled persons. Provides for related temporary stay of removal, employment authorization, and public assistance eligibility.
Bill· HRH.R. 5526 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 2000
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2001 - Title I: Export and Investment Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) direct loans, loan guarantees, tied-aid grants, insurance, and administrative expenses under Export-Import Bank programs; (2) Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) direct and guaranteed loans and credit and insurance programs, including administrative expenses; and (3) the Trade and Development Agency. Title II: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) expenses of the President in carrying out certain programs under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; (2) the Agency for International Development (AID) child survival and infectious disease programs, including basic education programs (earmarking amounts for child survival and maternal health, vulnerable children, HIV-AIDS, other infectious diseases, children's basic education, UNICEF, U.S. contributions to the Global Fund for Children's Vaccines and to an international HIV-AIDS fund, and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative); (3) specified development assistance (allowing availability of limited amounts for the Inter-American Foundation and the African Development Foundation, agriculture and rural development programs (including plant biotechnology research and development), the International Fertilizer Development Center, AmeriCares for the construction, rehabilitation, and operation of community-based primary healthcare facilities in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, the U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute, the American Schools and Hospitals Abroad program, and an international media training center); (4) specified projects aimed at reunification of Cyprus; (5) specified assistance for Lebanon for scholarships and direct support of the American educational institutions there; (6) democracy and humanitarian activities in Burma; (7) specified assistance for the preservation of habitats and related activities for endangered wildlife; (8) international disaster assistance; (9) international disaster rehabilitation and reconstruction assistance to support transition to democracy and to long-term development of countries in crisis (provided AID reports to the Committees on Appropriations at least five days before the beginning of such program assistance); (10) micro and small enterprise development programs; (11) direct loans and loan guarantees under the development credit authority program for development assistance to foreign countries (provided such funds are made available only for urban and environmental programs); (12) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (13) operating expenses of AID and the AID Office of Inspector General; (14) Economic Support Fund (ESF) assistance (earmarking amounts for Israel, Egypt, Jordan, East Timor, Indonesia, Mongolia, and the National Democratic Alliance of Sudan); (15) the International Fund for Ireland; (16) ESF assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States (earmarking amounts for Kosova and Bosnia and Herzegovina, subject to specified conditions); (17) assistance for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union (earmarking amounts for the Southern Caucasus region, the Russian Far East, assistance to meet the health and other assistance needs of victims of trafficking in persons, Ukraine, Georgia, and child survival, environmental health, and to combat infectious diseases, subject to specified conditions); (18) the Peace Corps (but with a prohibition on the use of such funds for abortions); (19) international narcotics control and law enforcement; (20) migration and refugee assistance; (21) the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund; (22) nonproliferation, anti-terrorism, demining, and related programs and activities (including U.S. contributions to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), subject to a specified condition, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Preparatory Commission, the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), subject to specified conditions, and the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund); (23) international affairs technical assistance activities of the Department of the Treasury; and (24) debt restructuring of concessional loans, guarantees, and credits made to least developed countries. Bars the use of development assistance funds for: (1) coercive abortions or involuntary sterilizations (but allowing them for voluntary family planning projects in developing nations that meet specified requirements; and (2) U.S. private and voluntary organizations which obtain less than 20 percent of annual funding from sources other than the U.S. Government. Withholds 60 percent of funds appropriated to the Government of the Russian Federation until the President certifies to the Committees on Appropriations it has met certain conditions. Title III: Military Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) expanded international military education and training (IMET) to Indonesia and Guatemala (subject to a specified condition); (2) foreign military financing grants (earmarking amounts for Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Malta, Tunisia, and Georgia (including drawdowns of defense articles and services)); and (3) international peacekeeping operations (subject to a specified condition). Prohibits foreign military financing for Sudan, Liberia, and Guatemala. Title IV: Multilateral Economic Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for the U.S. contribution to: (1) the Global Environment Facility of the International Bank for reconstruction and Development (World Bank); (2) the International Development Association (IDA) (providing that in negotiating U.S. participation in the next replenishment of the IDA that the Secretary of the Treasury accord high priority to providing it with the policy flexibility to provide new grant assistance to countries eligible for debt reduction under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative); (3) the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency; (4) the Inter-American Investment Corporation; (5) the Enterprise for the Americas Multilateral Investment Fund; (6) the Asian Development Fund; (7) the African Development Bank; (8) the African Development Fund; (9) the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; and (10) the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for international organizations. Earmarks a specified amount for the World Food Program. Prohibits the use of funds for the United Nations Fund for Science and Technology, KEDO, or the IAEA. Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth limits on the use of appropriations, including that no more than 15 percent of such appropriations shall be obligated during the last month of availability. (Sec. 502) Prohibits: (1) the use of funds for bilateral funding of international financial institutions; and (2) the transfer of such funds by AID directly to such an institution for the purpose of repaying a foreign country's loan obligations to it. (Sec. 503) Sets forth limits on the use of appropriations, including no more than specified maximums for official residence expenses, entertainment expenses, and representation allowances for AID, and for entertainment and representation allowances for the Inter-American Foundation and the Trade and Development Agency. Limits the use of funds for entertainment expenses of the Peace Corps, and of entertainment and representation allowances under the Foreign Military Financing Program. (Sec. 506) Prohibits the use of funds for: (1) the export of nuclear equipment, fuel, or technology (except for nuclear safety purposes); (2) direct assistance or reparations to Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Sudan, or Syria; (3) assistance to any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup or decree; (4) certain transfers between appropriations accounts without prior presidential consultation with Congress; (5) assistance to any country in default in excess of a year on payments on a U.S. loan (except for any narcotics-related assistance for Colombia, Bolivia, or Peru); and (6) assistance (except in certain circumstances) for production of any commodity for export by a foreign country, if the commodity is likely to be in surplus on world markets when the resulting productive capacity is expected to become operative, and if the assistance will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of a similar commodity. (Sec. 514) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of specified international financial institutions to oppose any assistance for the production or extraction of any commodity or mineral for export if it is in surplus on world markets and such assistance will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of a similar commodity. (Sec. 516) Declares that funds appropriated for foreign operations, export financial, and related programs, that are returned or not made available for international organizations and programs, shall remain available for obligation through FY 2002. (Sec. 517) Prohibits the availability of assistance for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union to a Government of such an Independent State, unless such Government is making progress in implementing comprehensive economic reforms based on market principles, private ownership, respect for commercial contracts, and equitable treatment of foreign private investment. Prohibits the availability of assistance also: (1) if such a Government applies or transfers U.S. assistance to any entity for the purpose of expropriating or seizing ownership of assets, investments, or ventures (unless the President determines such assistance is in the national interest); (2) if such Government directs any action in violation of the territorial integrity or national sovereignty of any other Independent State such as those violations included in the Helsinki Final Act; or (3) to enhance its military capability (except for demilitarization, demining, or nonproliferation programs). (Sec. 518) Prohibits the use of development assistance funds for abortions or involuntary sterilizations as methods of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions, or provide financial incentive to undergo sterilization. (Sec. 519) Limits to no more than five percent the amount of export financing funds (other than for administrative expenses) that can be transferred from one appropriation to another, with no appropriation being increased by more than 25 percent by such transfer. (Sec. 520) Prohibits the use of funds for Colombia, Haiti, Liberia, Serbia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, or the Democratic Republic of Congo, except through the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. (Sec. 522) Makes funds available to AID for child survival, basic education, infectious disease activities and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) research and control in developing countries. (Sec. 523) Bars funding for indirect assistance or reparations to Cuba, Iraq, Libya, Iran, Syria, North Korea, or China unless the President certifies that the withholding of such funds is contrary to the U.S. national security interest. (Sec. 524) Requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to notify the Committees on Appropriations before providing excess DOD articles to certain NATO and major non-NATO countries. (Sec. 526) Authorizes the availability of ESF funds to provide general support and grants for nongovernment organizations located outside China that have as their primary purpose fostering democracy and rule of law in that country (including earmarking amounts to such organizations to support activities which preserve cultural traditions and promote sustainable development and environmental conservation in Tibetan communities). Earmarks ESF funds to the Jamestown Foundation (currently the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights) for a project to disseminate information and support research about China, and related activities. (Sec. 527) Prohibits bilateral assistance funds to any country which the President determines grants sanctuary from prosecution to any individual or group which has committed an act of international terrorism or otherwise supports such activities. Authorizes the waiver of this prohibition by the President for national security and humanitarian reasons, requiring notification to the Committees on Appropriations. (Sec. 528) Directs the Secretary of State to report quarterly to the Committees on Appropriations on the use of supplemental appropriations for ESF assistance and military asistance to certain countries. (Sec. 529) Requires all AID contracts and subcontracts to include a clause requiring that U.S. insurance companies have a fair opportunity to bid for insurance when insurance is necessary or appropriate. (Sec. 530) Directs the Secretary of State to determine, and report periodically to the Committees on Appropriations, whether Peru has made substantial progress in creating the conditions for free and fair elections, and in respecting human rights, the rule of law, the independence and constitutional role of the judiciary and national congress, and freedom of expression and independent media. Prohibits the use of funds for assistance to Peru unless the Secretary determines that it has made substantial progress with respect to such goals. Earmarks amounts to support the work of nongovernmental organizations and the Organization of American States in promoting free and fair elections, democratic institutions, and human rights in Peru. (Sec. 531) Authorizes nongovernmental organizations which are AID grantees or contractors to place funds made available to them under this Act in interest bearing accounts in order to enhance their participation in economic activities under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, including endowments and debt-for-development and debt-for-nature exchanges. (Sec. 532) Directs the Administrator of AID to require foreign countries that receive foreign assistance which results in the generation of local currencies to deposit such currencies in a separate account to be used to finance foreign assistance activities. (Sec. 533) Prohibits payments to any international financial institution while the U.S. Executive Director to the institution is compensated at a rate in excess of that for Level IV of the Executive Schedule. (Sec. 534) Bars assistance to any country that is not in compliance with the United Nations (UN) sanctions against Iraq, unless the President certifies to Congress that such assistance: (1) is in the U.S. national interest; (2) will directly benefit the needy people in that country; or (3) will be humanitarian assistance for foreign nationals who have fled Iraq and Kuwait. (Sec. 535) Declares that provisions under this or any other Act authorizing appropriations for foreign operations or export financing shall not be construed to prohibit activities authorized by the Peace Corps Act, the Inter-American Foundation Act, or the African Development Foundation Act. Requires an agency to report to the Committees on Appropriations whenever it is conducting or proposing activities in a country for which such assistance is prohibited. (Sec. 536) Prohibits the use of funds to provide: (1) any financial incentive to a business for purposes of inducing it to relocate outside the United States if it will reduce the number of employees in the United States; (2) assistance for establishing or developing in a foreign country an export processing zone or other designated area in which a country's tax, tariff, labor, environment, and safety laws do not apply to activities in the area, unless the President certifies that such assistance is not likely to cause a loss of U.S. jobs; or (3) assistance for any project that contributes to the violation of internationally recognized workers rights in the recipient country. (Sec. 537) Urges the export of U.S. clean coal technology. (Sec. 538) Declares that funds appropriated under this Act for Afghanistan, Lebanon, Montenegro, and for victims of war, displaced children, and displaced Burmese may be made available notwithstanding any other provision of law. Prohibits the use of funds made available to Cambodia for military or paramilitary purposes. Authorizes the use of foreign assistance funds to support tropical forestry and biodiversity conservation programs, and subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations, energy programs aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Authorizes the use of foreign assistance funds by AID to employ up to 25 personal services contractors in the United States for the purpose of providing direct, interim support for new or expanded overseas programs and activities managed by it until permanent direct hire personnel are hired and trained. Authorizes the President to waive certain prohibitions with respect to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) if the President determines and certifies to Congress that it is in the national interest. (Sec. 539) Expresses the sense of Congress with respect to: (1) immediate public renunciation by the Arab League countries of the boycott of Israel (reinstated in 1997) and of American firms having commercial ties with Israel; (2) normalization of relations with Israel by such Arab countries; and (3) steps the President should take to encourage such renunciation. (Sec. 540) Authorizes the use of ESF funds to strengthen the administration of justice in countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and in other regions. (Sec. 541) Declares that the restrictions on assistance to foreign countries contained in this Act or any other Act (except those relating to international terrorism or human rights violations) shall not be construed to restrict assistance: (1) in support of certain programs of nongovernmental organizations; or (2) under specified provisions of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954. (Sec. 542) Authorizes the reprogramming of earmarked appropriations for other programs within the same account, provided certain requirements are met. (Sec. 544) Prohibits the use of funds for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States that were not authorized before the enactment of this Act. Earmarks specified amounts to private and voluntary organizations to deal with world hunger abroad. (Sec. 545) Declares that assistance under this Act should make full use of American resources, including commodities, products, and services, to the maximum extent possible. Declares the sense of Congress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all agricultural commodities, equipment, and products purchased with funds made available in this Act should be American-made. Requires Federal agency heads, in providing financial assistance to or entering into any contract with any entity using funds made available in this Act, to notify such entity of this intention. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report annually on the efforts of such agency heads and the U.S. directors of international financial institutions in complying with such requirements. (Sec. 546) Prohibits the use of funds to pay any assessments, arrearages, or dues of any UN member (including costs for attendance of another country's delegation at international conferences). (Sec. 548) Prohibits the provision of funds to a private voluntary organization that fails to provide any document, file, or record necessary to the auditing requirements of AID. (Sec. 549) Prohibits the provision of funds to any foreign government that provides lethal military equipment to a country that the Secretary of State has determined has a terrorist government, unless the President determines that the furnishing of such assistance is in the U.S. national interest. (Sec. 550) Withholds assistance from a foreign country in an amount equal to 110 percent of the total unpaid parking fines and penalties owed by the country to the District of Columbia. (Sec. 551) Prohibits the obligation of any appropriations for the PLO for the West Bank and Gaza unless the President has exercised certain authorities to suspend prohibitions on assistance to the PLO. (Sec. 552) Permits the President to provide up to a specified amount of commodities and services to the UN War Crimes Tribunal if doing so will contribute to a just resolution of charges regarding genocide or other violations of international law in the former Yugoslavia. (Sec. 553) Authorizes disposal on a grant basis in foreign countries of demining equipment used in support of the clearance of land mines and unexploded ordnance for humanitarian purposes. (Sec. 554) Prohibits the obligation of appropriations to create in Jerusalem a new U.S. agency office for the purpose of conducting U.S. business with the Palestinian Authority over Gaza and Jericho (or any successor Palestinian governing entity) provided for in the Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles. (Sec. 555) Prohibits the obligation of certain funds appropriated for Informational Program activities to pay for: (1) alcoholic beverages; or (2) entertainment expenses for recreational activities. (Sec. 556) Authorizes the President to reduce amounts owed to the United States by eligible countries as a result of: (1) housing guarantees made pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; (2) credits extended or guarantees issued under the Arms Export Control Act; or (3) any obligation to pay for purchases of U.S. agricultural commodities guaranteed by the Commodity Credit Corporation. Permits the exercise of such authority only: (1) to implement multilateral official debt relief and referendum agreements known as the Paris Club Agreed Minutes; and (2) with respect to countries with heavy debt burdens that are eligible to borrow from the IDA (but not from the World Bank) (IDA-only countries). Prescribes additional conditions for the exercise of such authority. (Sec. 558) Bars funds appropriated by this Act or any previous appropriations Act for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs to be made available for assistance for the Government of Haiti until: (1) the Secretary of State reports to the Committees on Appropriations that Haiti has held free and fair elections to seat a new parliament; and (2) the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy reports to the Committees on Appropriations that such Government is fully cooperating with the U.S. efforts to interdict illicit drug traffic through it to the United States. Earmarks a specified percentage of funds appropriated under this Act for bilateral assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean region. (Sec. 559) Requires a specified annual report of the Secretary of State containing the voting record of each foreign member country of the UN to include a side-by-side comparison of each country's overall support for the United States at the UN and the amount of U.S. assistance provided to it in FY 2000. (Sec. 560) Prohibits the United States from paying any voluntary contribution to the UN, including the UN Development Program, unless the President certifies to Congress 15 days in advance of such payment that the UN is not engaged in any effort to implement or impose any taxation on U.S. persons in order to raise revenue for itself or any of its specialized agencies. (Sec. 561) Makes the Government of Haiti eligible to purchase U.S. defense articles and services for its Coast Guard. (Sec. 562) Prohibits the obligation of any appropriations for the PLO unless the President certifies to Congress that it is in the U.S. national security interests. (Sec. 563) Prohibits the use of funds for the security forces of a foreign country if the Secretary of State believes they have committed gross violations of human rights, unless the Secretary reports to the Committees on Appropriations that such country is taking steps to bring the responsible persons to justice. (Sec. 564) Provides for bilateral and multilateral assistance sanctions (with humanitarian, democratization, and certain infrastructure project exceptions) against countries harboring war criminals indicted with respect to the former Yugoslavia. Prohibits the provision of bilateral assistance for programs in which publicly indicted war criminals are known to have any financial interest or communities that are not in compliance with specified sections of the Dayton Agreement relating to war crimes and the Tribunal. Requires the Secretary of State to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the location, if known, of publicly indicted war criminals, on country, entity and municipality authorities known to have obstructed the work of the Tribunal, and on sanctioned countries, entities, and municipalities. (Sec. 565) Prohibits the use of funds for the Government of the Russian Federation unless the President certifies to specified congressional committees that the Federation has not enacted laws or promulgated executive orders that discriminate against religious minorities in violation of international agreements on human rights and religious freedoms to which it is a party. (Sec. 566) Subjects the availability of funds in this Act to support programs or activities promoting country participation in the Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. (Sec. 567) Bars funds to the Central Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Sec. 568) Earmarks specified foreign assistance funds for Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, the Israel-Lebanon Monitoring Group, the Multinational Force and Observers, the Middle East Regional Democracy Fund, Middle East Regional Cooperation, and Middle East Multilateral Working Groups. (Sec. 569) Requires the President to submit to specified congressional committees a plan for the distribution of assets of an Enterprise Fund before any distribution resulting from liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the Fund. (Sec. 570) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of international financial institutions to oppose loans to Cambodia (except loans to support basic human needs). Prohibits the availability of funds under this Act for assistance for the Government of Cambodia. (Sec. 571) Directs the Secretaries of Defense and of State to report jointly to Congress on all overseas military training provided to, and proposed to be provided to, foreign military personnel under programs administered by the Defense and State Departments during FY 2000 and 2001. (Sec. 572) Earmarks specified funds for KEDO for administrative expenses and heavy fuel oil costs associated with the Agreed Framework (Joint Declaration on Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula). Earmarks other amounts to KEDO if the President certifies to Congress that North Korea is complying with the provisions of the Agreed Framework. (Sec. 573) Authorizes investment of funds made available to grantees of the African Development Foundation pending expenditure for project purposes when authorized by the President of the Foundation. (Sec. 574) Bars the use of funds appropriated under this Act to provide equipment, technical support, consulting services, or any other assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation. (Sec. 575) Earmarks specified amounts of ESF funds for programs benefitting the Iraqi people, including for food, medicine, and other humanitarian assistance, and for a political transition in Iraq, Iraqi opposition groups for political, economic, humanitarian, and other activities, and for groups and activities seeking the prosecution of Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi government officials for war crimes. Bars the use of such funds for administrative expenses of the State Department. (Sec. 576) Directs AID to submit an annual budget justification consistent with certain requirements of this Act to the Committees on Appropriations. (Sec. 577) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act to propose or issue rules, regulations, decrees, or orders for implementation, or in preparation for implementation, of the Kyoto Protocol to the United States Framework Convention on Climate Change, which has not been submitted to the Senate for advice and consent to ratification pursuant to the U.S. Constitution, and which has not entered into force. (Sec. 578) Directs the Secretary of State, 30 days prior to the initial obligation of ESF funds for the bilateral West Bank and Gaza Program, to certify to the appropriate congressional committees that procedures have been established to assure that the Comptroller General will have access to appropriate U.S. financial information in order to review the uses of such funds for the Program. (Sec. 579) Makes foreign military financing program funds available for Indonesia if the President determines and reports to the appropriate congressional committees that the Indonesian government and the Indonesian armed forces are taking specified actions to: (1) bring to justice, and cooperate with investigations and prosecutions of, members of the armed forces and militia groups with respect to human rights violations in Indonesia and East Timor; (2) allow safe passage for refugees returning home to East Timor from West Timor; and (3) not impede the UN Transitional Authority in East Timor. (Sec. 580) Bars the use of appropriated funds under this Act for the UN Man and the Biosphere Program or the UN World Heritage Fund for programs in the United States. (Sec. 581) Directs the President, not less than 30 days prior to the next round of arms talks between the United States and Taiwan, to consult with appropriate congressional leaders and committee chairmen and ranking members regarding: (1) Taiwan's requests for purchase of defense articles and defense services during the pending round of arms talks; (2) the Administration's assessment of the legitimate defense needs of Taiwan; and (3) the decision-making process used by the Executive branch to consider such requests. (Sec. 582) Urges funds appropriated by this Act for U.S. assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States to the maximum extent practicable to be used for the procurement of articles and services of U.S. origin. (Sec. 583) Bars the use of funds appropriated by this Act for assistance for the government of any country that has been determined to have: (1) provided lethal or non-lethal military support or equipment, directly or through intermediaries, within the previous six months to the Sierra Leone Revolutionary United Front (RUF), or any other group intent on destabilizing the democratically elected government of the Republic of Sierra Leone; or (2) aided or abetted, within the previous six months, in the illicit distribution, transportation, or sale of diamonds mined in Sierra Leone. (Sec. 584) Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000 to authorize voluntary separation incentive payments to AID employees who voluntarily separate (whether by retirement or resignation) on or before December 31, 2001, to eliminate AID positions and functions contained in a mandatory strategic plan outlining such payments. (Sec. 585) Earmarks a specified amount of international organizations and program funds for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) (except for any country program in China). Conditions the availability of such funds to UNFPA on specified requirements, including that it does not fund abortions. (Sec. 586) Makes any national of Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos who was paroled into the United States before October 1, 1997, eligible for adjustment of status. (Sec. 587) Requires information relevant to the December 2, 1980, murders of four American churchwomen in El Salvador to be made public to the fullest extent possible. (Sec. 588) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to withhold ten percent of the U.S. payment to any international financial institution until the Secretary certifies that such institution has implemented certain procurement and financial management reforms. (Sec. 589) Authorizes the commercial leasing of defense articles (instead of government-to-government sale) to Israel, Egypt, NATO, and major non-NATO allies if the President determines that there are compelling foreign policy or national security reasons. (Sec. 591) Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000 to abolish the Inter-American Foundation in 2001. (Sec. 593) Extends the authorities of the General Accounting Office until all available funds appropriated under the 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act are expended. (Sec. 594) Earmarks funds made available under this Act for Serbia, subject to specified conditions. (Sec. 595) Declares that the provisions of S. 3140 relating to the transfer of administrative jurisdiction over land of the Tennessee Valley Authority within the Daniel Boone National Forest to the Secretary of Agriculture are hereby enacted into law. (Sec. 596) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors at specified international financial institutions to oppose any loan of such institutions that would require user fees or service charges on poor people for primary education or primary health care, including prevention and treatment efforts for HIV-AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and infant, child, and maternal well-being, in connection with the institutions' lending programs. (Sec. 597) Makes certain foreign assistance funds available for basic education programs for Pakistan. (Sec. 598) Earmarks a certain amount of bilateral economic assistance funds for population planning activities or other population assistance. Title VI: Emergency Supplemental Appropriation - Authorizes emergency supplemental appropriations for FY 2001 to the President for: (1) the AID for international disaster assistance for rehabilitation and reconstruction assistance for Mozambique, Madagascar, and southern Africa; (2) operating expenses of AID; (3) bilateral economic assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States (earmarking amounts only for Montenegro, Croatia, and Serbia); (4) IMET and foreign military financing for grants to countries of the Balkans and southeast Europe; and (5) the Department of the Treasury for a contribution to the HIPC Trust Fund of the World Bank. (Sec. 601) Declares that amounts appropriated under this title or under any other provision of law for FY 2001 that are in addition to funds made available under title II of this Act shall be deemed to have been appropriated under such title and are subject to all limitations and restrictions contained in this Act. Title VII: Debt Reduction - Makes additional funds available for FY 2001 for the Bureau of the Public Debt for reduction of the public debt. Title VIII: International Debt Forgiveness and International Financial Institutions Reform - Amends the Bretton Woods Agreement Act to authorize appropriations for FY 2001 though 2003 for U.S. contributions to the HIPC Trust Fund of the World Bank. (Sec. 802) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of each multilateral development bank to exert U.S. influence to strengthen each bank's procedures and management controls to ensure that funds disbursed by it to borrowing countries are used as intended and in a manner that complies with the conditions of the bank's loan to such country. (Sec. 803) Directs the Comptroller General to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees on the sufficiency of audits of the financial operations of each multilateral development bank conducted by persons or entities outside of such bank. (Sec. 804) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to repeal the President's discretionary authority to transfer certain funds to certain international financial institutions for the purpose of bilateral funding. (Sec. 805) Amends the Bretton Woods Agreement Act to declare that it is the policy of the United States to work to implement specified lending reforms in the International Monetary Fund.
Bill· SS. 3227 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 2000
Savage Rapids Dam Act of 2000 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior, prior to removal of Savage Rapids Dam, to: (1) design and install modern electric irrigation pumps and associated infrastructure at or near the Dam on the Rogue River in Oregon to supply water to the Grants Pass Irrigation District; (2) install fish screens at the pump stations; and (3) certify that the pumping facilities are operational and in conformity with environmental regulations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the Dam and remove it and to correct any deficiencies in the design, specification, and installation of the pumps. Vests title to the pumping facilities in the District. Requires the Bureau of Reclamation to monitor any impacts downstream from the Dam resulting from dam removal and to implement appropriate remedial actions. Requires the Bureau and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to implement fisheries enhancement projects upstream of the Dam and downstream to the mouth of Applegate River to minimize the impact, and maximize the benefit, of dam removal. Requires the Secretary to work with the State of Oregon and Josephine and Jackson Counties to implement community recreational enhancement projects.
Bill· HRH.R. 5485 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 2000
Exempts from certain restrictions on carriage in coastwise trade the transport of petroleum and petroleum products between any two U.S. ports designated by the President.
Bill· HRH.R. 5488 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 2000
National Defense Features Program Enhancement Act of 2000 - Requires the Federal Maritime Commission, in any case in which it finds that the failure of vessels built under the National Defense Features program to obtain employment in a trade route in the foreign commerce of the United States, together with long-term domination of that trade route by citizens of an allied nation, evidences the existence of restrictive trade practices, to counteract such practices utilizing all available remedies under the Foreign Shipping Practices Act of 1988.
Bill· HRH.R. 5482 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 2000
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001- Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and for sundry independent agencies. Title I: Department of Veterans Affairs - Makes appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs for: (1) veterans' compensation, pensions, and readjustment benefits; (2) veterans' insurance and indemnities; (3) veterans' housing, education, and vocational rehabilitation loan accounts; (4) veterans' medical care; (5) medical and prosthetic research; (6) medical administration; (7) departmental administration; (8) the National Cemetery Administration; (9) the Office of Inspector General; (10) construction; (11) the parking revolving fund; and (12) grants to States for construction of extended care facilities and cemeteries. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds made available under this title. (Sec. 114) Prohibits the obligation of funds appropriated for medical care for the Department of Veterans Affairs for the realignment of the health care delivery system in Veterans Integrated Service Network 12 until the Secretary of Veterans Affairs makes a specified certification regarding impacts on the accessibility of veterans health care services to affected veterans. Title II: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Makes appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for: (1) public and Indian housing; (2) the Public Housing Capital and Operating Funds; (3) drug elimination grants for low-income housing; (4) revitalization of severely distressed public housing; (5) Native American housing block grants; (6) Indian housing loan guarantees; (7) housing opportunities for persons with AIDS; (8) the Office of Rural Housing and Economic Development; (9) empowerment zones and enterprise communities; (10) the community development fund; (11) brownfields redevelopment; (12) the HOME investment partnerships program; (13) homeless assistance grants; (14) Shelter Plus Care program renewals; (15) housing for special populations; (16) the Federal Housing Administration (FHA); (17) the Government National Mortgage Association; (18) housing policy development and research; (19) fair housing activities; (20) the Lead Hazard Reduction Program; (21) management and administration; (22) the Office of Inspector General; and (23) carrying out the Federal Housing Enterprise Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds made available under this title. (Sec. 203) Requires the Secretary of HUD, from amounts made available under this title for FY 2001 for housing opportunities for persons with AIDS, to make a grant for any State that: (1) received an allocation in a prior fiscal year due to having a specified number of AIDS cases outside of a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) with a population exceeding 500,000; and (2) is not otherwise eligible for a FY 2001 allocation because the areas outside the MSAs that qualify for funding in FY 2001 do not have the number of AIDS cases required. (Sec. 206) Bars the use of funds appropriated by any Act by the Secretary of HUD to prohibit any entity that is responsible for convening and managing a continuum of care process in a community for purposes of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act from participating in such capacity unless the Secretary has published in the Federal Register a description of all circumstances that would be grounds for, and the procedures for, such prohibition. (Sec. 207) Requires any grant or assistance made pursuant to this title to be made in accordance with HUD accountability provisions of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 on a competitive basis. (Sec. 210) Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to make housing assistance under such Act available for law enforcement officers on reservations or in other Indian areas if the presence of such officers may deter crime. (Sec. 211) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated in any Act by the Secretary of HUD to provide any assistance to benefit a facility which sells predominantly cigarettes or other tobacco products (such sales representing more than 35 percent of the annual, total in-store, non-fuel sales). (Sec. 212) Bars the use of funds to implement the June 2000 agreement between the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Public Housing Administration, and HUD related to the allocation of operating subsidies for such Housing Administration unless the Housing Administration and HUD submit by December 31, 2000, a schedule of benchmarks and measurable goals to the Appropriations Committees designed to address issues of mismanagement and safeguards against fraud and abuse. (Sec. 214) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide for onsite computer access and training resources for public housing residents. Authorizes computer centers in and around public housing, through a Neighborhood Networks initiative and related activities, to be established, operated, and assisted by the use of: (1) public housing capital and operating funds, and certain technical assistance; and (2) demolition, site revitalization, replacement housing, and tenant-based assistance grants for projects. (Sec. 215) Considers the properties known as the Hawthornes in Independence, Missouri, as eligible multifamily housing for purposes of participating in a specified multifamily housing restructuring program. (Sec. 216) Amends the National Housing Act to extend through FY 2001 the authority for all project owners to retain excess income under the rental and cooperative housing program. (Sec. 217) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to modify the definition of "urban county" for purposes of the community development block grant program and to authorize an urban county that was so classified for FY 1999, at its option, to remain classified as such for purposes of such Act. (Sec. 218) Exempts public housing agencies in Alaska and Mississippi from certain membership requirements for their boards of directors under the United States Housing Act of 1937. (Sec. 221) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to make recipients under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 eligible for certain supportive services and empowerment activities currently offered to public housing residents. (Sec. 222) Extends the availability of certain grants made available under an economic development initiative pursuant to the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 through FY 2001. (Sec. 224) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to extend through FY 2001 the 25 percent public services cap for the City of Los Angeles, California, under the community development block grant program. (Sec. 226) Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to permit the use of assistance for the costs of implementing management information systems for collecting unduplicated counts of homeless people and analyzing patterns of use of assistance under such Act. (Sec. 227) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize loan guarantees for Indian housing to be used to refinance standard housing on Indian trust lands or in Alaska Native areas. (Sec. 228) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to include within the definition of "eligibility event," for purposes of eligibility for enhanced Section 8 voucher assistance, any termination or expiration of a contract for rental assistance during fiscal years after 1996 prior to the effective date of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001. (Sec. 229) Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to prohibit grants for housing assistance for any governmental entity unless such entity agrees to develop and implement policies for the discharge of persons from publicly funded institutions to prevent such discharge from immediately resulting in homelessness. (Sec. 230) Amends the Preserving Affordable Housing for Senior Citizens and Families into the 21st Century Act to redesignate the Commission on Affordable Housing and Health Care Facility Needs in the 21st Century as the Commission on Affordable Housing and Health Care Facility Needs for Seniors in the 21st Century. (Sec. 231) Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to terminate the Interagency Council on the Homeless on October 1, 2005 (currently, October 1, 1994). (Sec. 232) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to revise provisions regarding Section 8 public housing agency (PHA) project-based assistance. Allows a PHA to use amounts provided under an annual contributions contract to enter into a housing assistance payment contract with respect to an existing, newly constructed, or rehabilitated structure subject to specified requirements, including those for: (1) income mixing; (2) resident choice; (3) contract terms and extensions; (4) rent calculations; and (5) tenant selection. (Sec. 233) Requires the Secretary of HUD, in managing and disposing of any multifamily property that is held by the Secretary and occupied primarily by elderly or disabled families, to maintain any Section 8 rental assistance payments that are attached to any dwelling units in the property. (Sec. 234) Makes section 8 family unification assistance available for up to 18 months for eligible youths between the ages of 18 and 21 who have left foster care at age 16 or older. (Sec. 235) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to make permanent an FHA multifamily mortgage credit demonstration program. Title III: Independent Agencies - Makes appropriations for: (1) the American Battle Monuments Commission; (2) the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board; (3) the Department of the Treasury for community development financial institutions; (4) the Consumer Product Safety Commission; (5) the Corporation for National and Community Service (with a rescission of amounts available in the National Service Trust); (6) the Office of Inspector General; (7) the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; (8) the Department of Defense for Army cemeterial expenses; (9) the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for carrying out specified activities under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA); and (10) the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry for carrying out specified activities under CERCLA, the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, and the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Appropriates funds for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for: (1) science and technology activities; (2) environmental programs and management; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) buildings and facilities; (5) Superfund; (6) the leaking underground storage tank program; (7) oil spill response programs; and (8) assistance to States and Indian tribes for environmental programs and infrastructure. Amends the Clean Air Act to make prohibitions on Federal assistance (including highway funds) for activities which do not comply with State implementation plans for air quality standards inapplicable to nonattainment areas until one year after the area is first designated nonattainment for a specific national ambient air quality standard. Applies this provision with respect to the standard for which an area is newly designated nonattainment and provides that it does not affect the area's requirements with respect to other standards for which it is designated nonattainment. Appropriates funds for: (1) the Executive Office of the President for the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Council on Environmental Quality, and the Office of Environmental Quality; and (2) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Office of Inspector General. Makes appropriations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency for: (1) disaster relief; (2) disaster assistance direct loans; (3) salaries and expenses; (4) the Office of Inspector General; (5) emergency management planning and assistance; (6) a specified emergency food and shelter program; (7) the National Flood Insurance Fund; and (8) the National Flood Mitigation Fund. Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to extend through December 31, 2001: (1) a certain ceiling on obligations issued under the national flood insurance program; and (2) the authorization of appropriations for certain studies. Makes appropriations for: (1) the General Services Administration for the Federal Consumer Information Center; (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for human space flight, science, aeronautics, and technology research and development, mission support, and the Office of Inspector General; (3) the National Credit Union Administration's Central Liquidity Facility; (4) the National Science Foundation for research, major construction projects, science and engineering education and human resources programs, salaries and expenses, and the Office of Inspector General; (5) the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; and (6) the Selective Service System. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title. Title IV: General Provisions - Sets forth provisions regarding availability, and prohibitions on the use, of funds appropriated by this Act. Expresses the sense of Congress that equipment and products purchased with funds made available in this Act should be American-made. (Sec. 426) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of any of the funds provided in title II of this Act for technical assistance, training, or management improvements unless HUD provides a description of each proposed activity and a detailed budget estimate of costs as part of the budget justifications to the Appropriations Committees. (Sec. 427) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for the designation, or approval of the designation, of any area as an ozone nonattainment area under the Clean Air Act pursuant to the eight-hour national ambient air quality standard for ozone promulgated by the EPA on July 18, 1997, and remanded by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals on May 14, 1999, in the case American Trucking Ass'ns. v. EPA prior to June 15, 2001, or final adjudication of such case by the Supreme Court, whichever occurs first. (Sec. 428) Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Federal Employment Reduction Assistance Act of 1996 to authorize the NASA Administrator to offer voluntary separation incentive payments in order to restructure and improve the efficiency of the workforce. Extends voluntary separation incentives under such Act for separations occurring before September 30, 2002 (currently, September 30, 2000). Requires the NASA Administrator to report to the Appropriations Committees on restructuring activities. (Sec. 429) Amends the Commercial Space Launch Act to extend, though December 31, 2001, its commercial space launch industry damage indemnification provisions. Title V: Filipino Veterans' Benefits Improvements - Makes a certain payment rate for service-connected disability benefits paid to members of the Philippine Commonwealth Army who served with U.S. armed forces during World War II inapplicable to those members who are U.S. citizens or aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence. Makes such individuals eligible for hospital and nursing home care and medical services in the same manner as a veteran. Authorizes medical services to veterans with service-connected disabilities within the limits of an outpatient clinic in the Philippines under the Secretary of Veterans Affairs' direct jurisdiction. Title VI: Debt Reduction - Provides for the deposit of an additional amount into the account to reduce the public debt.
Bill· SS. 3188 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 2000
Cyber Security Enhancement Act - Prohibits critical infrastructure information, records relating to such information, and information on critical infrastructure protection derived from such information or records that are submitted voluntarily by a non-Federal source to a critical infrastructure protection office or program from being made available under the Freedom of Information Act, if the person submitting such information or records expressly so requests. Allows the withdrawal of such a request at any time. Protects such information or records for five years after their submission and allows an extension for an additional five years. Makes the antitrust laws inapplicable to conduct: (1) facilitating responses intended to correct or avoid a cyber security related problem; or (2) communicating or disclosing information to help correct or avoid the effects of such a problem. Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) increase the maximum terms of imprisonment for fraud and related activities in connection with the use of computers; and (2) authorize the use of subpoenas in cases involving cyber crime. Requires a plan to encourage: (1) the standardization of Federal, State, and local law enforcement requests to Internet service providers and other entities for electronic information and records used to investigate computer crimes; and (2) such providers to prevent or impede the use of false Internet protocol addresses as a means of access to Internet servers.
Bill· HRH.R. 5445 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 2000
Amends Federal transportation law to increase civil and criminal fines imposed upon any person who knowingly transports or causes the transportation of, willfully delivers or causes to be delivered for transportation on, or recklessly transports or causes the transportation of, a chemical oxygen generator on a passenger-carrying aircraft. Prohibits the reduction of the amount of such fines.
Bill· HRH.R. 5419 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 2000
Millennium Cancer Research Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Cancer Institute to establish a demonstration project under which the Institute shall provide for the conduct of research through an infrastructure that fosters scientific creativity and increases fundamental biological understanding leading to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure of cancer. Terminates the provisions of this Act five years after enactment.
Bill· HRH.R. 5411 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 2000
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to permit the State of Utah to construct a hook ramp connecting 1200 West to Interstate Route 15 as part of the highway project to reconstruct the interchange at Interstate Route 15 and University Parkway in Orem, Utah.
Bill· HRH.R. 5413 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 2000
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations to address safety concerns and to minimize delay for automobile traffic on our Nation's roads with respect to trains blocking traffic at railroad grade crossings.
Bill· HRH.R. 5408 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 2000
Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) defense-wide procurement (earmarking a specified amount for the National Missile Defense (NMD) program); (2) the Defense Inspector General; and (3) the Defense Health Program. Subtitle B: Army Programs - Authorizes the use of multiyear procurement contracts for the M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle and the UH/60-CH/60 utility helicopters. (Sec. 112) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to increase from 6,000 to 8,500 the number of bunker defeat munitions authorized to be acquired by the Army. (Sec. 113) Requires a report from the Secretary of the Army to the defense and appropriations committees on the process for developing the objective force in the transformation of the Army. Requires the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to report to such committees on such process. Directs the Secretary of the Army to develop a plan comparing the costs and operational effectiveness of medium armored vehicles selected for infantry battalions and medium armored vehicles currently used for such battalions. Requires the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation of the Department of Defense (DOD) to approve the plan developed by the Secretary of the Army. Prohibits more than 80 percent of the amount appropriated for FY 2001 for new medium armored vehicles from being obligated until 30 days after the Secretary of the Army's report is submitted. Places funding limits with respect to future-year obligations for the acquisition of medium armored combat vehicles until certain comparisons and a certification have been completed. Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the aircraft carrier designated CVNX-1, and authorizes such Secretary to enter into contracts for advance procurement and construction of components for such carrier (earmarking funds authorized under this title for such purpose). (Sec. 122) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to increase the number of Arleigh Burke class destroyers that may be procured by the Navy and to extend through FY 2005 the authority for such multiyear procurement. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Navy, with respect to any such destroyers procured after FY 2001, should achieve the most economical rate of procurement by procuring three destroyers in each of FY 2002 and 2003 and one in FY 2004. Requires a report from such Secretary to the defense committees updating information required in a 1993 report on DDG-51 (destroyer) class ships. Requires such update to be transmitted to the Comptroller General (CG), and requires the CG to review such report and report review results to the defense committees. (Sec. 123) Earmarks FY 2001 procurement funds for the Virginia class submarine program, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to enter into contracts for the procurement of up to five of such submarines during FY 2003 through 2006. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on the Navy's fleet of fast attack submarines. (Sec. 124) Prohibits the Secretary, during FY 2001, from retiring from the active Navy force any Los Angeles class nuclear powered attack submarine or any Ohio class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine until the Secretary certifies to Congress that the continued safe and militarily effectiveness of such submarine cannot be assured. Requires a report from the President to Congress on the required force structure for nuclear powered submarines to support the national military strategy through 2020. (Sec. 125) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the construction of all ADC(X) class ships in one shipyard when determined to be more cost effective than construction in more than one shipyard. (Sec. 126) Earmarks FY 2001 procurement funds, and authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to contract, for the nuclear refueling and complex overhaul of the U.S.S. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER during such fiscal year. (Sec. 127) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to conduct an analysis of the potential benefits and risks associated with alternative funding mechanisms for the procurement of various classes of naval vessels and other naval capabilities beginning in FY 2002. Requires a report to the defense and appropriations committees. (Sec. 128) Directs the Secretary of the Navy, during FY 2001, to operate one squadron of six SH-2G helicopters supporting FFG-7 frigates. (Sec. 129) Directs the Secretary to require that all V-22 Osprey aircraft be equipped with state-of-the-art cockpit voice and flight data recorders that meet National Transportation Safety Board standards. Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - Directs the Secretary to report annually to the defense committees on the B2 bomber, including its ability to carry out assigned missions and develop new technologies to meet expanded threats. (Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to Congress a plan to modernize and upgrade the combat capabilities of Air National Guard F-16A units. Subtitle E: Joint Programs - Directs the Secretary to provide to Congress the results of a study of final assembly and checkout alternatives for Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. Requires the inclusion of cost comparisons of such alternatives. Subtitle F: Chemical Demilitarization - Authorizes the Secretary, in determining technologies for the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions at the Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado, to consider only incineration or any technologies demonstrated under the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment on or before May 1, 2000. (Sec. 152) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the impact of DOD chemical demilitarization activities on the communities in the vicinity of chemical weapons storage sites at specified facilities, including whether Federal economic assistance is needed for any such community. (Sec. 153) Prohibits funds authorized or available under this Act from being used to facilitate the disposal at the Anniston Army Depot, Alabama, of any non-stockpile chemical warfare material that is not stored at such facility. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E). Earmarks specified amounts for basic and applied research projects. Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Directs the Secretary to make the Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) responsible for program management of the Space-Based Infrared System Low. (Sec. 212) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the Joint Strike Fighter aircraft program describing the criteria for exit of such program from the demonstration and validation phase into the engineering and manufacturing development phase. Prohibits entry into the latter phase until the Secretary certifies that technical criteria have been met for exit from the former phase. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer specified funds into such program. (Sec. 213) Directs the Secretary to carry out in FY 2002 a joint field experiment which explores critical war fighting challenges at the operational level that will confront the United States joint military forces after 2010. Provides for joint military participation in such experiment. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees. (Sec. 214) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to conduct, and report to the defense and appropriations committees on, an assessment of nuclear aircraft carrier design and production modeling. Earmarks assessment funds from RDT&E funds. (Sec. 215) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to pursue a technology insertion approach for the construction of the DD-21 destroyer on a specified construction schedule. Expresses the sense of Congress: (1) calling for the sequential construction of such destroyers until 32 are constructed; and (2) that the Secretary of the Navy, in providing for the acquisition of such destroyers, should take into consideration certain needs of the Navy and Marine Corps for the surface fire support of such destroyers, along with certain related considerations. Directs the Secretary of: (1) the Navy to submit to the defense committees a plan for pursuing a technology insertion approach for such construction; and (2) Defense to report to such committees on the Navy's plan for the acquisition and maintenance of such destroyers. (Sec. 216) Prohibits funds for the Russian American Observation Satellites program from being obligated or expended until 30 days after the Secretary submits to Congress a plan for protecting U.S. advanced military technology associated with such program. (Sec. 217) Prohibits this Act's funds from being obligated for the procurement of an anthrax vaccine until the Secretary has submitted to the defense and appropriations committees certain information concerning Food and Drug Administration production approval of such a vaccine, as well as contingencies associated with continuing to rely on the current manufacturer to supply such vaccine. Directs the Secretary to notify Congress when the total obligations for certain requirements under the vaccine program exceed $5 million, as well as a justification for the obligation of funds in excess of such amount. (Sec. 218) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the acquisition of biological warfare defense vaccines for DOD. (Sec. 219) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to allow a 1.5 percent increase for certain development and production expenditures for the F-22 aircraft program if the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation determines the increase is necessary to ensure adequate testing. Reestablishes separate engineering and manufacturing development and production cost caps under such program. (Sec. 220) Provides future-years goals for unmanned, advanced capability combat aircraft and ground combat vehicles. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on programs to demonstrate such capabilities undertaken jointly between the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and any of the Secretaries of the military departments. Earmarks RDT&E funds for such programs. (Sec. 221) Directs the Secretary to require and coordinate a concept demonstration of the Global Hawk high altitude endurance unmanned aerial vehicle. Requires the Secretary to initiate the demonstration no later than March 1, 2001, and requires the demonstration to be conducted in a counter-drug surveillance scenario. Requires a report to Congress. Earmarks funds from funds authorized for defense drug interdiction and counter-drug activities. (Sec. 222) Earmarks RDT&E funds for the kinetic energy anti-satellite technology program. Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense - Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for the National Missile Defense program. (Sec. 232) Requires the President to report to Congress on the North Korean ballistic missile threat to the United States and on steps to reduce our vulnerability to such threat. (Sec. 233) Requires the BMDO Director to develop a plan to adapt ballistic missile defense systems and architectures to counter potential threats to the United States, U.S. forces deployed outside the United States, and other U.S. national security interests posed by medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles. Requires the plan to include the use of space-based sensors. Directs the Secretary to assess such plan and report to the defense committees on assessment results. (Sec. 235) Requires the concurrence of the BMDO Director prior to any changes in the funding plan or technical requirements for the Airborne Laser program. Requires a report from the Director to the defense and appropriations committees on the role of the airborne laser in the family of missile defense systems developed by such Director and the Director of the Joint Theater Air and Missile Defense Organization. Subtitle D: High Energy Laser Programs - Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for high energy laser development. Expresses the sense of Congress that DOD should establish funding for such programs and that the Secretary should establish a funding goal that represents 4.5 percent of the total DOD science and technology budget by FY 2004. Directs the Secretary to designate a senior civilian official responsible to chair the High Energy Laser Technology Council called for in a current High Energy Laser master plan and to carry out certain responsibilities under such programs. (Sec. 244) Directs the Secretary to: (1) locate the Joint Technology Office called for in the master plan at an appropriate location; (2) consider, evaluate, and undertake initiatives to enhance the industrial base to support military applications of high energy laser technologies and systems; and (3) consider modernizing the High Energy Laser Test Site Facility at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, so as to enhance DOD's capabilities with respect to high energy laser weapons. (Sec. 246) Directs the Secretary and the Administrator for Nuclear Security of the Department of Energy to enter into a memorandum of agreement to conduct joint research and development on military applications of high energy lasers. (Sec. 247) Requires the designated official, above, to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a high energy laser technology plan. (Sec. 248) Directs the Secretary to submit to such committees, during each of 2001 through 2003, a report on DOD high energy laser programs. (Sec. 250) Directs the Secretary to: (1) evaluate the expansion of the high energy laser management structure for the possible inclusion of science and technology programs in related areas; and (2) report evaluation results to the defense and appropriations committees. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Requires a report from the: (1) Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on the mobile offshore base concept; and (2) Secretary of the Navy to such committees on the potential use of technologies associated with such concept. (Sec. 252) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to: (1) conduct a review of the long-term challenges and short-term objectives of the Air Force science and technology programs; (2) establish an integrated product team to identify high-risk, high-payoff challenges that will provide a long-term focus and motivation for such programs over the next 20 to 50 years; and (3) establish a task force to identify short-term technological objectives of such programs. Requires the CG to report to Congress on such Secretary's review results. (Sec. 253) Includes within the authority of defense laboratory directors participating in education partnerships with local educational institutions the authority to transfer to such institution any laboratory surplus equipment determined appropriate for use by the partnership. (Sec. 254) Recognizes the contributions and applauds the commitment of scientists, officers, researchers, students, and administrators who were instrumental to oceanographic and scientific research efforts during the period from before World War II through the end of the Cold War. Supports efforts to appropriately honor such individuals. Recognizes the continued dedication and commitment of the Office of Naval Research with regard to such research. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD. (Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home. (Sec. 304) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to specified military O&M accounts for FY 2001. (Sec. 305) Earmarks specified defense-wide O&M funds for analyses by the joint warfighting capabilities assessment teams of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council. Subtitle B: Environmental Provisions - Establishes in DOD the Environmental Restoration Account, Formerly Used Defense Sites. (Sec. 312) Authorizes military environmental restoration accounts to be used for the relocation of activities from defense sites at which the Secretary is responsible for environmental restoration functions. Terminates such authority at the end of FY 2003. Allows no more than five percent of account funds to be used for such purpose. (Sec. 313) Repeals required annual reports of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Scientific Advisory Board. Requires the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council to summarize Board activities in their annual reports. (Sec. 314) Authorizes the Secretary of Defense or the Army to pay a fine or penalty of no more than $2 million in settlement of a specified notice of violation by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with respect to environmental compliance requirements at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. (Sec. 315) Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army and Navy to use O&M funds to pay certain fines and penalties imposed by the EPA or a State in connection with environmental violations at specified sites. (Sec. 316) Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse a specified account within the Hazardous Substance Superfund to reimburse the EPA for certain environmental costs in connection with the former Nansemond Ordnance Depot Site in Suffolk, Virginia. (Sec. 317) States that nothing in the Environmental Policy Act of 1969 or regulations implementing such Act shall require the Secretary or the Secretary of a military department to prepare an environmental impact statement for low-level flight training as a precondition to the military use of airspace for such training. (Sec. 318) Directs the Secretary of the Navy, during FY 2001, to continue to carry out the ship disposal project within the United States (requiring a project report from such Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees). (Sec. 319) Requires DOD's Chief Information Officer to ensure that management and oversight of the Defense Environmental Security Corporate Information Management Program is consistent with requirements of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 and other directives and management controls applicable to investment in information technology and related services. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on the Program, including recommendations for the future mission and objectives of the Program. (Sec. 320) Directs the Secretary of the Army to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the Plasma Energy Pyrolysis System. (Sec. 321) Expresses the sense of Congress that every effort should be made to restore a former defense manufacturing site in Santa Clarita, California, to productive use through public-private partnerships. Subtitle C: Commissaries and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities - Allows the operation of the Defense Commissary Agency and the defense commissary system (including central product processing facilities) using funds appropriated for such purpose. (Currently, only nonappropriated funds are available for such expenses.) Authorizes the adjustment of prices of goods sold under such system in order to cover transportation costs and the costs of shrinkage, spoilage, and pilferage. (Sec. 333) Authorizes the Secretary (currently the Secretary of a military department after approval by the Secretary) to use commissary goods' surcharges for the construction, repair, improvement, and maintenance of such stores and processing facilities, as well as environmental evaluation and construction costs. (Sec. 334) Includes newspapers and other periodicals within authorized commissary merchandise. (Sec. 335) Repeals a provision requiring a nonappropriated fund instrumentality, under certain conditions, to be considered the most economical method of distribution of alcoholic beverages within the commissary system. (Sec. 336) Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on the effects of the use of slot machines on overseas military installations on military morale, welfare, and recreation, and the personal financial stability of military personnel. Subtitle D: Department of Defense Industrial Facilities - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned (currently, only the Secretary of Defense) to designate a Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence and encourage the head of a Center to enter into public-private partnerships to increase the utilization of such Center and attain specified Center objectives. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress the need for loan guarantee authority to establish such partnerships and achieve such objectives. Authorizes private sector use of excess Center capacity. Authorizes the acceptance of consideration for use of Center property. Allows, under limited conditions, the use by private sector partners of Center excess equipment or facilities. Repeals the general DOD authority to lease excess depot-level equipment and facilities to outside tenants. (Sec. 342) Directs the Secretary of the Army to submit annually to Congress an estimate of necessary funding for operating and maintaining unutilized and underutilized plant capacity at U.S. arsenals. (Sec. 343) Directs the Secretary of the Army, during FY 2001 and 2002, to carry out a demonstration program at each Army manufacturing arsenal aimed at, among other things, utilizing the existing skilled workforce of such arsenals by commercial firms, reemploying and retraining such workers, encouraging commercial firms to use such arsenals for commercial purposes, and increasing small business opportunities for such arsenals. Authorizes such Secretary to: (1) enter into appropriate contracts with commercial firms; and (2) guarantee the repayment of any loan made to a commercial firm to fund the establishment of a commercial activity at such an arsenal. Allows such Secretary to enter into agreements with the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, the Farmers Home Administration, the Rural Development Administration, and other appropriate agencies of the Department of Agriculture for the guaranteeing of loans made for activities under this section. Provides loan limits. Requires such Secretary to: (1) report to Congress each year a loan guarantee is issued under this section; and (2) report to the defense and appropriations committees on the demonstration program. (Sec. 344) Expresses policy with respect to the U.S. armaments industrial base. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to carry out a program to be known as the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Initiative which shall, among other things: (1) encourage commercial firms to use Government-owned, contractor-operated Army ammunition manufacturing facilities for commercial purposes; (2) increase the opportunities for small businesses to use such facilities; (3) maintain an appropriate workforce to meet industrial emergency requirements for national security purposes; (4) demonstrate innovative business practices for future defense conversion initiatives; and (5) reduce or eliminate Government costs of owning such facilities. Directs the Secretary of the Army to fully utilize facility use contracts, leases, and other appropriate arrangements. Authorizes such Secretary to: (1) accept consideration for facility use other than rental payments or revenue generated at such facility; and (2) carry out a loan guarantee program to encourage commercial firms to use eligible facilities (providing loan limits). Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to the defense and appropriations committees on procedures and controls implemented to carry out this section. Repeals the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Act of 1992. Subtitle E: Performance of Functions by Private-Sector Sources - Requires the inclusion in reports to Congress required before the conversion of a DOD commercial- or industrial-type function to conversion by a private contractor of information concerning: (1) budgeting for the cost of conversion analysis; (2) the number of DOD civilian employees whose employment was or will be terminated or adversely affected by such conversion; (3) the Secretary's certification that determinations made did not include any predetermined personnel constraint or limitation; and (4) the estimated economic impact of such conversion. (Sec. 352) Requires the Secretary, at least 60 days before any DOD official enters into a contract for the private sector performance of a workload already being performed by more than 50 employees at a Center or ammunition plant, to report to Congress describing the effect that the performance and administration of the contract will have on the overhead costs of the Center or plant. (Sec. 353) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress each DOD Strategic Sourcing Plan of Action (a plan for the consolidation, restructuring, or reengineering of DOD organizations, functions, or activities) for the following year. Requires that, if a decision is made to consolidate, restructure, or reengineer under such a Plan and that activity affects 50 or more DOD personnel, the Secretary shall report such decision to the defense committees. (Sec. 354) Directs the Secretary to establish a system for monitoring the performance of each DOD function that is the subject of a workforce review. Requires such monitoring to continue for at least five years after the conversion, reorganization, or reengineering. Requires an annual report to the defense committees on such monitoring. Directs the Secretary, in preparing the future-years defense program, to take into account the costs to be incurred and the savings to be derived from the performance of functions by workforces selected in workforce reviews. (Sec. 355) Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from converting to contractor performance the emergency response functions of any chemical weapons storage installation that are currently performed by U.S. employees until such Secretary submits to the defense committees a certification that there will be no lapse of the capability to perform such functions during the performance transition period. (Sec. 356) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to suspend all activities associated with the reorganization or relocation of the performance of Navy auditing functions until 180 days after a report to the defense and appropriations committees setting forth the Navy's plans and justifications for such reorganization or relocation. Subtitle F: Defense Dependents Education - Authorizes the Secretary to allow the dependent of an American Red Cross employee who resides in Puerto Rico and performs full-time emergency services for military personnel to enroll in a defense dependents' education program if the Red Cross agrees to reimburse the Secretary for such expenses. (Sec. 362) Earmarks DOD O&M funds for educational assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) that benefit dependents of military personnel and DOD civilian employees. (Sec. 363) Directs the Secretary to make payments for fiscal years after 2001 to each LEA eligible to receive impact aid payments for disabled children under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Provides exclusions. Requires a report from each LEA desiring such a payment to the Secretary concerning the number of disabled children and educational costs for such children. (Sec. 364) Authorizes the Secretary, during FY 2001, to make a grant to assist a LEA to repair and renovate school facilities that serve dependents of military personnel and DOD civilian employees. Outlines LEA eligibility requirements, including the presence of at least one impacted school facility (a facility used by a significant number of such dependents), as well as eligibility for assistance under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Requires the Secretary: (1) to notify eligible LEAs of such assistance; and (2) in determining grants, to take into consideration certain conditions and needs at the impacted school facilities of the LEA. Provides grant funding. Subtitle G: Military Readiness Issues -Requires information measuring the use of parts, supplies, or equipment from one vehicle, vessel, or aircraft for another to be included within reports concerning the military readiness reporting system. (Sec. 372) Removes certain required information from an annual report on transfers from high-priority readiness appropriations. Includes combat enhancement forces and combat communications as covered budget activities for purposes of inclusion in such reports. (Sec. 373) Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on effects of worldwide U.S. contingency operations on the readiness of military aircraft and ground equipment. (Sec. 374) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a list of requirements to reduce the backlog in maintenance and repair needs of facilities and infrastructure under the jurisdiction of DOD or a military department. Requires such list to be updated annually. (Sec. 375) Directs the Secretary of the Army to develop a new methodology for ensuring more accurate future years Army O&M requirements. Expresses the sense of Congress calling for such methodology, and using such methodology in the preparation of such budget requests for fiscal years after 2001. (Sec. 376) Directs the CG to review, and report to the defense and appropriations committees on, the Army's AH-64 aircraft program. (Sec. 377) Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to submit two reports to Congress on the overall status of the spare and repair parts program for C-5 aircraft. Subtitle H: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary to annually prepare and submit to the defense committees a report identifying public sales of military items identified on the U.S. Munitions List and assigned a demilitarization code of "B" or its equivalent. (Sec. 382) Requires that, whenever the Secretary of the Army carries out a disposal (by sale or otherwise) of armor-piercing ammunition or a component of such ammunition, such Secretary shall include as a disposal condition that the recipient agree in writing not to sell or transfer such ammunition or component to any purchaser in the United States other than a law enforcement or other governmental agency (with an exception for transfers for metal reclamation only). Provides a special rule for non-piercing components of such ammunition. (Sec. 383) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to require payments by a civil air carrier for support provided by the United States at Johnston Atoll that is either: (1) requested by such carrier; or (2) determined necessary to accommodate such carrier's use of the Atoll. Requires amounts charged to equal the total cost of such support. Prohibits landing fees to be charged if support costs are charged. (Sec. 384) Authorizes reserve personnel performing annual training duty to travel in a space-required status on military aircraft. (Sec. 385) Amends provisions which authorize the Secretary or the Secretary concerned to contract with private air carriers for the interstate transportation of passengers or property by transportation category aircraft to: (1) remove a requirement that contracts for such transportation be for a period in excess of 31 days; (2) authorize such transportation between a place in the United States and a place outside the United States; and (3) allow such transportation between two foreign places by a carrier that has aircraft in the civil reserve air fleet if such transportation is reasonably available. (Sec. 386) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to require additional elements in a plan for ensuring visibility over all in-transit end items and secondary items. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress any plan revisions required by any law enacted after October 17, 1998. (Sec. 387) Amends the above Act to extend through FY 2010 a pilot program for the acceptance and use of landing fees charged for the use of domestic military airfields by civilian aircraft. Extends related report requirements. (Sec. 388) Amends the Wildfire Suppression Aircraft Transfer Act of 1996 to extend through FY 2005 the authority of the Secretary to sell certain aircraft for use in wildfire suppression, and to extend a related report requirement. (Sec. 389) Direct the Secretary to require the military department Secretaries to assess: (1) damage caused to military aviation facilities by alkali silica reactivity; and (2) the availability of technologies capable of preventing or mitigating such reactivity in hardened concrete structures and pavements. Authorizes each Secretary to conduct appropriate demonstration projects, and requires locations selected to represent diverse operating environments of the armed forces. Requires the assessment and related projects to be completed by the end of FY 2006. Provides an expenditure limit of $5 million. (Sec. 390) Directs the Secretary of the Army to carry out a demonstration project to provide or increase Internet access and services to units and members of the National Guard and reserves located in rural communities that are unserved or underserved by the Internet. Requires a report from such Secretary to Congress. (Sec. 391) Prohibits the Secretary from granting a Milestone III decision for the proposed Defense Joint Accounting System until the Secretary submits to the defense committees an explanatory report concerning the withdrawal of the Air Force from such System. Requires the Secretary to make a certain certification to such committees if he determines that the System warrants a Milestone III decision. (Sec. 392) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the development, testing, fielding, and related aspects of the Defense Travel System. (Sec. 393) Requires the CG to: (1) review annual costs incurred by DOD to comply with requirements of the National Historic Preservation Act; and (2) report review results to the defense and appropriations committees. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 2001. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2001 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. (Sec. 413) Sets forth the minimum number of military technicians (dual status) within the Army and Air Force Reserves and National Guard as of the end of FY 2001. (Sec. 414) Sets forth the maximum number of military technicians (non-dual status) within the Army and Air Force Reserves and National Guards as of the end of FY 2001. Postpones until October 1, 2002, (currently a year earlier) a provision limiting such number to 1,950. (Sec. 415) Increases the number of certain officers and senior enlisted personnel authorized to serve on active duty in support of the reserves. Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a report on management of the grade structure for such officers and personnel, requiring recommendations for management of such grade structure without the need for frequent statutory adjustments to their numerical limits. Subtitle C: Other Matters Relating to Personnel Strengths - Authorizes the Secretary, during a declared period of war or national emergency, to suspend certain military personnel end strength limitations, including senior enlisted members on active duty, field grade reserve officers, and senior reserve enlisted members. (Sec. 422) Excludes from personnel end strength limitations reserve personnel serving on active duty for more than 180 but less than 271 days to perform special work in support of the combatant commands, except that: (1) general and flag officers may not be excluded; and (2) the number of personnel excluded may not exceed 0.2 percent of the authorized active-duty end strength limitation. (Sec. 423) Exempts reserve medical and dental officers from reserve commissioned officer end strength limitations. (Sec. 424) Authorizes the Secretary to increase by up to two percent in a fiscal year the number of reserve personnel serving on active duty or full-time National Guard duty as field grade officers or senior enlisted members. Subtitle D: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for military personnel. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A : - Officer Personnel Policy - Allows Army and Air Force Reserve colonels and brigadier generals to be recommended for position vacancy promotions under regulations prescribed by the respective Secretary. (Sec. 502) Amends Coast Guard provisions to direct the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, before convening a selection board to recommend Reserve officers for promotion, to establish a promotion zone for officers serving in each grade to be considered by a selection board. Requires such Secretary, before convening a selection board to recommend Reserve officers for a promotion to a grade above lieutenant (junior grade), to determine the maximum number of officers in that grade that the board may recommend. Authorizes such Secretary, when the needs of the Coast Guard require, to allow the consideration of officers in a grade above lieutenant (junior grade) for promotion to the next higher grade from below the promotion zone. Outlines provisions for determination by such Secretary of the maximum number that may be recommended for promotion in both of the above categories. Authorizes such Secretary to use a running mate system during consideration of Reserve officers in an active status for promotion to the next higher grade. Allows such running mate system to be used when selecting officers for promotion from below the promotion zone only when considered appropriate to meet the needs of the Coast Guard. (Sec. 503) Provides revised times for the release to the armed force concerned of the names of active-duty and reserve active-status list officers recommended for promotion, such times varying within promotion grades. Prohibits any such list from including any name removed by the President from the report of a selection board, or the name of any officer whose promotion the Senate failed to confirm. (Sec. 504) Requires each member of a promotion selection board to be an officer on the active-duty list. (Sec. 505) Authorizes the issuance of posthumous commissions in the case of members dying before the official recommendation for appointment or promotion is approved by the Secretary concerned. (Sec. 507) Requires the Chiefs of the Army and Air Force Reserve, while serving in such position, to hold the grade of lieutenant general (currently, major general). Requires the Chief of Naval Reserve to hold the grade of vice admiral (currently, rear admiral). Allows an officer to be appointed as Commander, Marine Forces Reserve, in the grade of lieutenant general (usually, major general) if appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Authorizes the waiver of the latter requirement, until October 1, 2003, when necessary for the good of the service. Allows officer to be reappointed for one additional term of up to four years. Requires National Guard Bureau Directors to hold the grade of lieutenant general and requires such Directors to have significant joint duty experience. Authorizes the waiver of the latter requirement, until October 1, 2003, when necessary for the good of the service. Allows such Director to be reappointed for one additional four-year period. Makes a conforming increase in the number of officers that may serve on active duty in grades above major general or rear admiral. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the defense committees on the advisability of changing from major general to lieutenant general the grade authorized for the Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau. Requires an appointment or reappointment to a reserve chief position to be made within 12 months after the enactment of this Act. (Sec. 508) Makes ineligible for separation pay a regular or reserve officer who twice fails for promotion to the next higher grade and is offered, but declines, the opportunity to continue on active duty until the earliest point of eligibility for retirement. Subtitle B: Reserve Component Personnel Policy - Exempts from inclusion on the reserve active-status list reserve officers under a call or order to active duty for a period of three years or less. (Sec. 522) Removes an application requirement for the continuation of officers on the reserve active-status list. (Sec. 523) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to retain Medical Service Corps officers in an active status until 67 years of age. (Sec. 524) Authorizes the continued provision of legal services to reserve personnel following their release from a period of active duty of 30 days or more issued under a mobilization authority, but only for up to twice the period of time served on such duty. (Sec. 525) States that the involuntary civil service retirement requirement for Army and Air Force reserve military technicians (dual status) who lose such status shall not apply until the individual is age 60 or older. Subtitle C: Education and Training - Entitles to appointment to a service academy the children of members of the reserves who: (1) are currently so serving and are credited with at least eight years of service; or (2) would be, or who died while they would have been, entitled to retired pay except for not having attained 60 years of age. (Sec. 532) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, in selecting persons from approved foreign countries to receive instruction at a service academy, to give a priority to persons who have a national service obligation to their countries upon academy graduation. (Sec. 533) Revises provisions concerning the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class program to: (1) make Marine Corps Reserve officers (currently only Marine Corps Reserve enlisted personnel) eligible for such program; (2) remove certain age limitations; (3) allow assistance to eligible individuals for the pursuit of a law degree requiring no more than four (currently three) academic years; and (4) exclude from creditable service as a Marine Corps officer only that service performed concurrently as an enlisted member with the program. (Sec. 534) Directs the Secretary to review and reallocate among the military departments the number of Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps units planned for FY 2001 through 2006. Authorizes the Secretary to propose an increase in the maximum number of such units. (Sec. 535) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to permit eligible defense industry employees to receive instruction at the Naval Postgraduate School in specified programs relating to defense product development. Defines as eligible employees those engaged in providing to DOD significant and substantial defense-related systems, products, or services. Requires such Secretary to annually certify to the defense committees that providing such instruction will further the military mission of such school, will enhance DOD's ability to reduce product or project initial lead times required for operational capability, and will be done on a space-available basis without requiring faculty or course or laboratory increases. Requires tuition to be charged to and paid by such students. Requires a program evaluation and report. Subtitle D: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations - Limits the award of the Bronze Star to members who are eligible to receive imminent danger pay at the time of the events for which such medal is awarded. (Sec. 542) Directs the Secretary concerned, upon request of a Member of Congress, to review a proposal for the posthumous or honorary promotion or appointment of a member or former member of the armed forces, or other qualified person, that is not otherwise authorized by law. Requires such Secretary to make a determination with respect to such promotion or appointment and to provide review and determination results to the defense committees and the requesting Member. (Sec. 543) Waives certain time limitations with respect to recommendations for the award of the: (1) Silver Star to Louis Rickler, for service during World War I; and (2) Distinguished Flying Cross to certain individuals for service during World War II or Korea. (Sec. 544) Directs the Secretary of the Army to provide to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs certain information pertaining to the remains of unknown persons that are interred in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, and which represent the remains of casualties from the U.S.S. ARIZONA who died during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Requires the latter Secretary to add such information on the grave markers of such remains. (Sec. 545) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the American people should recognize the lack of culpability of then-Captain Charles B. McVay III in connection with the sinking of the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea during World War II, as well as his lack of culpability for the tragic loss of the INDIANAPOLIS and the lives of the men who died as a result of her sinking; (2) Captain McVay's military record should reflect such exoneration; and (3) the Secretary of the Navy should award a Navy Unit Commendation to the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS and its final crew. (Sec. 546) Requests the President to advance the late: (1) Rear Admiral (retired) Husband E. Kimmel to the grade of admiral on the Navy retired list; and (2) Major General (retired) Walter C. Short to the grade of lieutenant general on the Army retired list. Expresses the sense of Congress that both men performed their respective duties as Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet, and Commanding General, Hawaiian Department, competently and professionally during World War II and that losses incurred by the United States in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor were not a result of their dereliction of duty. (Sec. 547) Commends the bravery and honor of the citizens of Remy, France, for the burial in their church cemetery and subsequent commemoration of World War II American fighter pilot Lieutenant Houston Braly during and after August 1944. Recognizes the efforts of the surviving members of the 364th Fighter Group to raise funds to restore the stained glass windows of such church which were accidentally destroyed during an attack on a German munitions train. (Sec. 548) Waives certain time limitations with respect to the award of the Medal of Honor to William H. Pitsenbarger for acts of valor during the Vietnam conflict. Subtitle E: Military Justice and Legal Assistance Matters -Exempts a military testamentary instrument from State testamentary laws. Accords such instrument the same legal effect as State testamentary instruments presented for probate. Outlines requirements for the legal execution of such instruments. Makes such instrument self-proving upon such execution, signature, and witnessing. Requires such instrument to include a statement that it meets applicable testamentary requirements. (Sec. 552) Directs the Secretary to establish a policy creating a uniform DOD process that: (1) affords individuals designated as a suspect in criminal investigative reports or indexed in a central index an opportunity to obtain a review of such actions. Requires expungement of the name and other identifying information of such individuals when entry was made contrary to DOD requirements. (Sec. 553) Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to provide that, in the case of a sentence of confinement for life without eligibility for parole, such sentence may not be commuted, remitted, or suspended unless the person has served at least 20 years. (Sec. 554) Authorizes civilian special agents of military criminal investigative services to execute and serve warrants and make arrests in connection with authorized investigations. (Sec. 555) Requires verbatim trial records to be kept in each special court-martial case in which the sentence includes confinement for more than six months or forfeiture of pay for more than six months. (Sec. 556) Requires the President to issue a proclamation commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Calls upon DOD, the armed forces, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to commemorate the occasion with appropriate ceremonies and activities. Subtitle F: Matters Relating to Recruiting - Directs the Secretary of the Army, during the period beginning on October 1, 2000, and ending on December 31, 2005, to carry out pilot programs to test various recruiting approaches. Requires one program to be a program: (1) of public outreach that associates the Army with motor sports competition; (2) under which Army recruiters are assigned at postsecondary vocational institutions and community colleges to recruit such students and graduates; and (3) that expands the scope of the Army's current recruiting initiatives. Authorizes such Secretary to expand or extend a pilot program after notification of the defense committees. Requires a report on the above programs. (Sec. 562) Directs the Secretary to enhance the effectiveness of DOD recruitment programs through advertising and market research targeted to prospective recruits and persons who influence such recruits. (Sec. 563) Amends Federal provisions requiring access to secondary schools for military recruiting purposes to provide that if an LEA denies such access, then the Secretary concerned shall designate a general or flag officer or senior executive of that armed force to visit such school and seek such access. Provides that if the LEA continues to deny such access, then the Secretary shall transmit to the chief executive of such State a notification of such denial and a request for assistance in obtaining such access. Directs the Secretary, upon determining that LEA denial of recruiting access extends to at least two of the armed forces, to notify specified congressional committees and the Senators and appropriate Representative of the State in which the denial has occurred. Makes such requirements effective as of July 1, 2002. (Sec. 564) Directs the Secretary to conduct a three-year pilot program to determine if cooperation with military recruiters by LEAs and institutions of higher education could be enhanced by improving the understanding of school counselors and educators about military recruiting and military career opportunities. Requires such program to be conducted by means of DOD participation in a qualifying interactive Internet site. Requires a program report from the Secretary to the defense committees. Subtitle G: Other Matters - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 to extend through December 31, 2001, the authority for certain military force drawdown transition authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of FY 2001. (Sec. 572) Allows a member who is simultaneously receiving voluntary separation incentive payments and retired or retainer pay to elect to terminate the former payments. Makes such election permanent and irrevocable. (Sec. 573) Prohibits any change to the Navy policy of limiting submarine service to males until 30 days after the Secretary notifies Congress of the proposed change. Provides an identical prohibition with respect to the reconfiguration of an existing submarine or new submarine design to accommodate female crew members. (Sec. 574) Revises generally management and per diem requirements for military personnel subject to lengthy or numerous deployments. (Sec. 575) Authorizes members performing funeral honors duty to receive either the allowance for such duty or the rate of pay for members of the reserves or National Guard performing inactive-duty training. (Sec. 576) Directs the Secretary, beginning no later than June 1, 2001, to conduct a three-year test program of the ability of reserve intelligence units and personnel to meet current and emerging defense intelligence needs. Directs the Secretary to establish an oversight panel to structure the program. Requires program interim reports, and a final report, from the Secretary to Congress. (Sec. 577) Makes the Secretary (currently, acting through the Chief of the National Guard Bureau) solely responsible for administering the National Guard Challenge Program. Removes the $62.5 million annual Federal expenditure cap with respect to such Program. Allows the Secretary to use for such Program other nondefense funds made available or transferred by other Federal agencies. Requires the Secretary to prescribe specified Program regulations. (Sec. 578) Directs the Secretary to study, and report to the defense committees on, the feasibility and cost, as well as advantages and disadvantages, of using civilian contractor personnel as pilots and other crew members to fly non-military Government aircraft to perform non-combat personnel transportation missions worldwide. (Sec. 579) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to reimburse a member for travel and related expenses incurred as a result of the cancellation of previously approved leave when the leave is canceled in connection with participation in a contingency operation and such cancellation occurs within 48 hours of the time it was to have commenced. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 2001 pay increases tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases by 3.7 percent, effective January 1, 2001, the rates of basic pay for military personnel. (Sec. 602) Increases, effective July 1, 2001, the basic pay amounts for enlisted personnel in grades E-5 through E-7. Authorizes the Secretary, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard, to further increase such amounts or increase amounts authorized for other enlisted personnel (requiring such Secretary to justify such increases as part of the annual budget justification submitted to Congress). (Sec. 603) Provides a revised method for the annual calculation of the basic allowance for subsistence (BAS) based upon the percentage increase in the monthly cost of a liberal food plan for a U.S. male between the ages of 20 and 50, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture. (Sec. 604) Directs the Secretary concerned to increase to up to $500 monthly the BAS for low-income (as defined under the Food Stamp Act of 1977) military personnel and their dependents. Terminates such increase upon the occurrence of any of the following: (1) payment of such allowance for 12 consecutive months; (2) promotion to a higher grade; or (3) transfer to a permanent change of station. Requires the Secretary to report annually to Congress on the number of personnel receiving such additional allowance. Terminates such allowance on September 30, 2006. (Sec. 605) Directs the Secretary to prescribe the monthly rate of the basic allowance for housing (BAH) inside the United States based upon the cost of adequate housing in the local area. Revises the calculation for the minimum amount of BAH available in a fiscal year. Authorizes the payment of a BAH for members with dependents who are unable to accompany such members to their new duty station. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to increase from six to eight years the BAH transition period for management of the BAH growth rate. (Sec. 606) Earmarks $30 million from authorized military personnel funds to increase the total available for BAH inside the United States. (Sec. 607) Prohibits the Secretary, after June 30, 2001, in determining what constitutes adequate housing for members, from differentiating between members with dependents in pay grades E1 through E4. Directs the Secretary, after such date, to establish a single monthly rate for all such members in the same military housing area, based on average area costs. (Sec. 608) Authorizes the payment of BAH for members without dependents in pay grade E-4 (currently only E-5) who are on sea duty. (Sec. 609) Authorizes the payment of a personal money allowance of $2,000 yearly for senior enlisted members serving in Sergeant Major, Master Chief Petty Officer, or Chief Master Sergeant positions. (Sec. 610) Increases the initial and annual allowance for officers for the purchase of required uniforms and equipment. (Sec. 611) Authorizes the Secretary (currently, the President) and the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy to prescribe requirements and allowances for clothing for enlisted personnel. (Sec. 612) Increases the monthly subsistence allowance for members participating in precommissioning programs. Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through 2001 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2000 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces. (Sec. 624) Allows a person who enlists for a period of at least two years to be paid an enlistment bonus of up to $20,000. Requires pro rata bonus repayment for unserved periods. Allows such bonus only for enlistments occurring by December 31, 2001. (Sec. 625) Includes as eligible activities for the payment of special pay currently provided for reserve medical and dental officers active duty for training, annual training, or special work. (Sec. 626) Eliminates a required congressional notification before the payment of retention special pay for optometrists and officers in nursing specialties. (Sec. 627) Authorizes special pay for Coast Guard physician assistants. (Sec. 628) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay special pay to an officer who is: (1) a pharmacy officer in the Medical Service Corps of the Army or Navy or the Biomedical Sciences Corps of the Air Force; and (2) on active duty under a call or order for a period of at least one year. Authorizes similar payments from the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to such officers in the Regular or Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service. Prohibits such payments for pay grades above O-6. Provides varying rates of such special pay based on creditable years of service and whether or not the officer is undergoing pharmacy internship training. Authorizes the payment of an accession bonus to individuals graduating from an accredited pharmacy school who, between the enactment of this Act and September 30, 2004, execute a written agreement to accept a commission as an officer and to remain on active duty for at least four years. Limits such bonus to $30,000. Requires pro rata repayment for unserved periods. (Sec. 630) Entitles a member on sea duty to career sea pay at a monthly rate prescribed by the Secretary concerned, but not to exceed $750. (Currently, such rates vary depending on the length of such duty, with a high-end limit of $520.) Authorizes a pay premium of up to $350 for every month served after 36 consecutive months. (Sec. 631) Increases the monthly rate of special duty assignment pay for enlisted Guard and reserve personnel who are not on active duty at the time of the special duty assignment. (Sec. 632) Entitles Guard or reserve personnel not on active duty who perform special duty to special duty assignment pay in the amount of one day of pay for each drill period in which the member participates in each month. (Sec. 633) Authorizes payment of a retention bonus for officers or enlisted members serving on active duty who are qualified in a designated critical military skill if such officer or member agrees to either remain on such duty or extend such enlistment for at least one year. Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Transportation (with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating under the Navy) to: (1) designate qualifying critical skills; and (2) notify Congress of each designation at least 90 days in advance of any payment. Prohibits: (1) any officer or member from receiving a total of more than $200,000 in such bonus payments; and (2) such payments for members who have or are about to complete 25 years of active duty. Requires pro rata bonus repayment for unserved periods. Requires annual reports by each Secretary analyzing such program. Terminates such authority on December 31, 2001. (Sec. 634) Entitles Public Health Service Regular or Reserve Corps health officers to the same special pay as health professions officers of the armed forces. Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Authorizes the advance payment of temporary lodging expenses incurred by a member and his or her dependents while making a permanent change in duty stations. Allowance such payments for up to ten days. Revises generally provisions concerning the per diem for members on duty outside the United States or in Hawaii or Alaska. (Sec. 642) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to reimburse a member for mandatory pet quarantine fees for household pets, with a limit of $275 per change of station. (Sec. 643) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay to a member a share of the savings resulting from less-than-average shipping and storage costs of the member's baggage and household effects in connection with a change of duty station. (Sec. 644) Prohibits the Secretary concerned from differentiating between members in pay grades E1 through E5 in the payment of dislocation allowances. (Sec. 645) Authorizes the Secretary, after October 1, 2001, to reimburse a member for parking expenses incurred for a private vehicle being used to commute to a duty station to perform recruiting activities, duty with a military entrance processing facility, or instructional or administrative duties at an institution where a unit of the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps is maintained. (Sec. 646) Allows the payment of certain travel and transportation expenses of military dependents of overseas personnel when such dependents are engaged in obtaining a formal education (currently, only a secondary or undergraduate college education) (thereby allowing graduate or vocational educational programs to be included). Subtitle D: Retirement and Survivor Benefit Matters - Provides an exception to the high-36 month retired pay computation for: (1) enlisted personnel who are reduced in grade; or (2) officer personnel who do not serve satisfactorily in the highest grade held. States that such retired pay base shall be determined as if the member first became a member before September 8, 1980. (Sec. 652) Increases, for the year of enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 and subsequent years, the number of retirement points that may be credited for purposes of the retirement computation for members of the reserves. (Sec. 653) Outlines procedures for retirement from active reserve service which is performed after retirement from the regular armed forces. (Sec. 654) Repeals a provision suspending the payment of military retired pay while an individual serves as a Federal judge. (Sec. 655) Amends the reserve component Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) to require spousal consent for a member to elect: (1) not to participate in the SBP; or (2) to designate the effective date for the commencement of SBP payments in the event that the member dies before becoming 60 years of age to be the 60th anniversary of such member's birth. (Sec. 656) Expresses the sense of Congress that there should be enacted during the 106th Congress legislation that increases the minimum basic annuities provided under the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) for surviving spouses of members of the uniformed services who are age 62 or older. (Sec. 657) Entitles, as of October 1, 2001, former military personnel retired for disability to receive the special compensation pay for severely disabled military retirees authorized under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000. . Subtitle E: Other Matters - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to delay until 180 days after the enactment of this Act the effective date for active-duty and reserve personnel participation in the Thrift Savings Plan. Authorizes the Secretary to postpone such authority for up to 180 additional days, requiring notification of specified congressional committees. (Sec. 662) Requires the Secretary, in determining eligibility for the armed forces special supplemental food program, to exclude from income any BAH authorized under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. (Sec. 663) Makes reserve personnel traveling to inactive-duty training at a location more than 50 miles from their residence eligible for billeting in DOD facilities on the same basis and to the same extent as members on active duty traveling away from their permanent duty station. (Sec. 664) Authorizes the Secretary to settle claims for payments for unused accrued leave and for retired pay. (Sec. 665) Provides certain benefits and protections for persons incurring injury, illness, or disease while traveling to, performing, or returning from funeral honors duty, including incapacitation pay and tort claims eligibility. (Sec. 666) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to authorize the Secretary to extend for up to 18 additional months the deadline for filing claims associated with the capture and internment of certain persons by North Vietnam. (Sec. 667) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to pay back pay to a claimant who, by reason of being interned as a prisoner of war while a member of the Navy or Marine Corps during World War II, was unable to accept a promotion for which such claimant was selected. Requires such back pay to be paid to the spouse of such member if the member is deceased. Requires such Secretary to ensure that such benefits and eligibility requirements are widely publicized. (Sec. 668) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should provide funding sufficient to ensure that the reserve components meet requirements specified in the National Military Strategy, including training requirements. Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Subtitle A: Health Care Services - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to authorize the Secretary to provide domiciliary and custodial care to Civilian Health and Medical Program (CHAMPUS) beneficiaries whose eligibility for such care was discontinued due to their concurrent eligibility for hospital insurance benefits under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act and subsequently reestablished under other legal authority. Limits such costs to $100 million per fiscal year. Directs the CG to study and report to Congress on the coordination and effectiveness of the supplemental disability health care programs of DOD in meeting the health care needs of disabled dependents of military personnel on active duty. (Sec. 702) Directs the Secretary, by March 31, 2001, to complete development of a plan to provide chiropractic health care services and benefits for all members entitled to CHAMPUS health care as active-duty personnel. Requires, until the plan is implemented, the continuation of current chiropractic services and benefits under the Defense Health Program as provided during FY 2000 at military medical treatment facilities. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees. Requires the CG to monitor the development of such plan, and periodically submit progress reports to such committees. (Sec. 703) Directs CHAMPUS administering Secretaries to furnish to an eligible CHAMPUS minor dependent (at least 5 and less than 12 years old) a school-required physical examination. (Sec. 704) Extends until three years after an eligible member's death (currently, one year) the continuation of CHAMPUS medical and dental benefits for such member's survivors. (Sec. 705) Extends through December 31, 2002, the authority to use contract physicians at military entrance processing stations and other facilities outside of military medical treatment facilities. (Sec. 706) Amends CHAMPUS to authorize medical and dental care to former members who are Medal of Honor recipients, and for their dependents. Subtitle B: Senior Health Care - Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide an April 1, 2001, delimiting date for implementation of the redesign of the DOD pharmacy system to incorporate best business practices of the private sector in providing pharmaceuticals to certain Medicare-eligible individuals. Revises certain report dates. Repeals a provision requiring such redesign in two separate areas selected by the Secretary. (Sec. 712) Provides CHAMPUS eligibility conditions for persons enrolled in the supplementary medical insurance program under Medicare part B and, in the case of a person under 65 years of age, entitled to hospital insurance benefits under part A of Medicare. Extends through 2001 the TRICARE (a DOD managed-care program) Senior Prime demonstration program. Authorizes the administering Secretaries to enter into a new or revised agreement to continue the program after such period. Revises program expenditure limits, payment methodology, and reporting requirements. (Sec. 713) Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Defense Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund to finance, on an actuarially sound basis, DOD liabilities under retiree health care programs for Medicare-eligible beneficiaries. Establishes a Department of Defense Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Board of Actuaries to review Fund valuations and report at least every four years to the President and Congress on Fund status. Provides actuarial valuation responsibilities of the Board and the Secretary. Requires certain payments into the Fund to cover future costs. Subtitle C: TRICARE Program - Prohibits the Secretary, in the case of a CHAMPUS beneficiary entitled to medical and dental care and enrolled in TRICARE Standard, from requiring that, with respect to covered health care services, such beneficiary obtain a nonavailability of military health care statement or preauthorization from a military medical care facility in order to receive such care in a civilian health care facility. Authorizes the Secretary to require that such beneficiary notify his or her primary care manager of any health care received from a civilian health care or specialized care facility. Provides exceptions to such prohibition. (Sec. 722) Authorizes coverage under the TRICARE Program for remote areas of the continental United States for members of the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy and members of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Public Health Service. Requires coverage for the medical care of eligible military dependents to be comparable to medical care coverage and timely access standards under the TRICARE Prime option. (Sec. 723) Directs the Secretary, by October 1, 2001, to implement a system to simplify and make accessible through the Internet critical administrative processes within the military health care system and the TRICARE program. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a plan to provide portability and reciprocity of benefits for all enrollees under the TRICARE program throughout all TRICARE regions. (Sec. 724) Authorizes TRICARE managed care support contracts in effect or in final stages of acquisition as of September 30, 1999, to be extended for four years in the best interests of the Government.(Sec. 725) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees recommending practices to discourage or prohibit health care providers under the TRICARE program from seeking direct reimbursement from members or dependents for health care received. (Sec. 726) Provides a process under the TRICARE program for the disenrollment from dental coverage of retired members and their dependents. Provides limited circumstances under which disenrollment shall be permitted during the 24-month initial enrollment period. (Sec. 727) Directs the Secretary to take all necessary action to implement specified TRICARE claims processing revisions. (Sec. 728) Directs the Secretary to ensure that no contract for managed care support under TRICARE shall require a managed care support contractor to require a primary or specialty care provider to obtain prior authorization before referring a patient to a specialty care provider that is part of the contractor's network of health care providers or institutions. Requires a report from the CG to Congress on the financial and management implications of eliminating the requirement to obtain nonavailability of health care statements. Subtitle D: Demonstration Projects - Directs the Secretary to conduct a demonstration program under which licensed and certified professional mental health counselors who meet eligibility requirements for CHAMPUS or TRICARE health care providers may provide services to covered beneficiaries without referral by physicians or adherence to supervision requirements. Requires the program to be conducted during the two-year period beginning October 1, 2001, in one established TRICARE region. Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a plan to carry out such program. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on program results. (Sec. 732) Requires the Secretary, during the two-year period beginning on the enactment of this Act, to conduct a demonstration project for increasing efficiency of operations with respect to teleradiology at a military medical treatment facility and supporting remote clinics and increasing teleradiology coordination between such facilities and clinics. (Sec. 733) Directs the Secretary to carry out a demonstration program to explore opportunities for improving the planning, programming, budgeting, and management of the DOD health care system. Terminates the program on December 31, 2001. Requires a program report. Provides funding from O&M funds. Subtitle E: Joint Initiatives With Department of Veterans Affairs - Directs the Secretary to: (1) give full force and effect to any DOD-Department of Veterans Affairs health care facilities sharing agreement that was in effect on September 30, 1999; and (2) ensure that the Secretary concerned reimburses the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for services or resources provided under such an agreement in facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs. (Sec. 742) Directs the Secretary to implement a centralized process for the reporting, compiling, and analysis of errors in the provision of health care under the defense health program that endanger patients beyond the normal risks associated with care and treatment. Requires safety indicators, standards, and protocols to be included in such process. (Sec. 743) Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to cooperate in developing systems for the use of bar codes for the identification of pharmaceuticals in the health care programs of each department. Requires identical bar codes for common pharmaceuticals of such departments. Subtitle F: Other Matters - Directs each military department Secretary to establish a system for tracking, recording, and reporting separations of military personnel resulting from their refusal to participate in the anthrax vaccine immunization program. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the defense committees on information compiled. Outlines procedures for medical and administrative exemptions from such immunizations. Requires the Secretary to: (1) implement a system for monitoring adverse vaccine reactions of military personnel; and (2) notify DOD civilian emergency essential employees required to participate in the immunization program. Requires certain reports and reviews from the CG and the Secretary to the defense committees. (Sec. 752) Prohibits a copayment from being charged to a dependent of a member eligible for care under TRICARE Prime. (Sec. 753) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to require certain additional information in an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on DOD medical informatics. Earmarks specified FY 2001 O&M funds for pharmaceuticals-related medical informatics. (Sec. 754) Directs the Secretary to establish a patient care error reporting and management system, with specified purposes and requirements. Directs the Secretary to expand the health care team coordination program to integrate that program into all DOD health care operations. (Sec. 755) Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army and Health and Human Services to jointly conduct a program to augment the Army Medical Department by exercising available authority for detailing reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service not in an active status to the Army Medical Department. Requires a report to the defense committees. (Sec. 756) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a comprehensive plan to improve privacy protections for DOD-maintained medical records, to be consistent with provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. (Sec. 757) Directs the Secretary, in order to ensure access to care for all CHAMPUS beneficiaries, to designate specified rates for reimbursement for services in certain localities where without such rates such services would otherwise be severely impaired. Requires related reports from: (1) the Secretary to the defense committees; and (2) the CG to Congress. (Sec. 758) Provides that in any case in which a covered CHAMPUS beneficiary is referred by a primary care physician to a specialty care provider more than 100 miles away, the Secretary shall reimburse such beneficiary for reasonable travel expenses. (Sec. 759) Directs the Secretary to reduce to $3,000 the catastrophic cap for covered beneficiaries under TRICARE Standard and TRICARE Extra. (Sec. 760) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to include certain additional individuals within a training program for DOD health care management and administration. Prohibits a person from being assigned as a commander, deputy commander, or managed care coordinator of a military medical treatment facility, or as a TRICARE lead agent or senior member of the staff of a lead agent, until the Secretary concerned certifies to the Secretary that the person has completed such training. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on progress made in meeting training requirements. (Sec. 761) Directs the Secretary of the: (1) Army to study and report to the defense committees on the feasibility of the Tripler Army Medical Center, Hawaii, sharing its biomedical research facility with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii; and (2) Air Force to study and report to the defense committees on the feasibility of the Little Rock Medical Facility, Arkansas, sharing its biomedical research facility with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the School of Medicine at the University of Arkansas. (Sec. 762) Directs the Secretary to conduct a study comparing coverage and reimbursement for CHAMPUS beneficiaries for physical, speech, and occupational therapies under the TRICARE Program and CHAMPUS to coverage and reimbursement for such therapies by insurers under Medicare and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. Requires a findings report to the defense committees. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Subtitle A: Amendments to General Contracting Authorities, Procedures, and Limitations - Amends the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 to: (1) extend through October 1, 2007, the authority for certain defense acquisition programs to participate in a defense acquisition pilot program authorized under prior law; (2) include 500-pound bombs within the Joint Direct Attack Munition program; and (3) require a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on DOD acquisition pilot programs. (Sec. 802) Authorizes the head of a defense agency to enter into multiyear contracts of up to five years for the acquisition of certain services (operation, maintenance, training, base services) upon finding that: (1) there will be a continuing requirement for such services; (2) the furnishing of such services will require a substantial initial investment or the incurrence of substantial contingent liabilities; and (3) the use of such contract will promote the best interests of the United States. Outlines certain principles to be followed when entering into such contracts. Prohibits such agency head from entering into a contract that includes an unfunded contingent liability in excess of $20 million without at least 30 days' prior notification of the defense and appropriations committees. Prohibits such agency head from entering into such a contract exceeding $500 million unless the authority for such contract is specifically provided by law. Requires notification similar to above before a contract with a cancellation ceiling in excess of $100 million may be awarded. Requires cancellation or termination of a contract for which funds are not made available into a subsequent year. (Sec. 803) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 to: (1) extend through FY 2004 the authority of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to carry out certain prototype projects; and (2) prohibit the use of such authority unless certain conditions are met, including the participation of at least one nontraditional defense contractor. (Sec. 804) Amends the above Act to limit the right of the CG to review records of prototype project participants to only those records that are of the same type that the Government has the right to examine under audit access clauses or previous agreements or transactions. (Sec. 805) Extends until October 1, 2005, current limitations on DOD procurement of ball and roller bearings. (Sec. 806) Revises certain reporting requirements relating to DOD multiyear contracting authority. Prohibits the head of an agency from entering into such a contract exceeding $500 million until the Secretary submits certain information to the defense and appropriations committees. (Sec. 807) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to make small businesses owned and controlled by women eligible for assistance under the mentor-protege program. (Sec. 808) Amends provisions concerning qualifications for employment and assignment in DOD contracting positions to: (1) make members of the armed forces eligible; and (2) provide the occupational series and requirements for positions to be filled by members of the armed forces (with an exception for those already employed in such position on September 30, 2000). (Sec. 809) Amends the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 to authorize the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, as part of a current pilot program to test the feasibility of using solutions-based contracting for the acquisition of information technology, to carry out not more than ten projects: (1) each having an estimated cost of at least $25 million and not more than $100 million; and (2) for small business concerns, each having an estimated cost of at least $1 million and not more than $5 million. Eliminates the requirement for Federal funding of the program's definition phase. (Sec. 810) Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to: (1) require the appropriate executive agency (currently, the Secretary of Commerce) to publish a procurement solicitation notice (notice); (2) allow such notices to be published electronically; and (3) consider an electronic notice accessible if it is in a form that allows convenient and universal user access through the single Government-wide point of entry designated in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). Makes identical revisions for procurement notices under the Small Business Act. Changes from annually to biannually through 2004 a required report concerning the use of electronic commerce in Federal procurement. Subtitle B: Information Technology - Requires the DOD Chief Information Officer (CIO) to maintain a consolidated inventory of DOD mission critical and mission essential information systems, identify interfaces between such systems and other information systems, and develop and maintain contingency plans for responding to a disruption in the operation of such systems. Requires DOD Directive 5000.1 to be revised to establish minimum planning requirements for the acquisition of information technology systems. Requires such Directive to prohibit Milestone I, II, or III approval of a major automated information system within DOD until the CIO has made certain determinations with respect to system development, reengineering, and registration. Requires the CIO to notify the defense and appropriations committees whenever during FY 2001 through 2003 a major automated information system is redesignated. Directs the Secretary to report to such committees during such fiscal years on implementation of this section. (Sec. 812) Directs the Secretary to provide for the collection of data on purchases of information technology for each purchase made by a military department or defense agency in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold. Requires the head of each DOD contracting activity to ensure the fairness of unit prices paid for information technology products and services that are frequently purchased, commercially-available off-the-shelf items. Limits purchases in excess of the threshold from a Federal agency outside of DOD. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to the defense committees summarizing data collected. (Sec. 813) Requires the FAR to be amended to address the use of personnel experience and educational requirements in the procurement of information technology services. Requires the CG to submit to Congress an evaluation of executive agency compliance with such regulations and conformity of such regulations with existing law. (Sec. 814) Prohibits Navy funds from being obligated or expended to carry out a Navy-Marine Corps Intranet contract until: (1) the DOD CG and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget have reviewed and commented on certain reports to Congress on such program; and (2) the Navy's Secretary and Chief of Naval Operations have certified jointly to Congress that they have reviewed the business case for such contract and determined that contract implementation is in the best interests of the Navy. Requires the phased implementation of such contract, and provides contract requirements. Directs the Secretary to mitigate any adverse impact of such contract on Navy civilian employees. (Sec. 815) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) DOD must focus on upgrading information technology systems to allow seamless and interoperable communications; and (2) each military department Secretary must commit to achieve such goal and ensure that all communications systems within that department receive appropriate funding for information technology. Subtitle C: Other Acquisition-Related Matters - Requires FAR to be revised to establish a preference for performance-based contracts and task orders for the purchase of DOD services. Outlines conditions under which such a contract or task order will be treated as a contract for the procurement of commercial items. Requires an implementation report from the CG to the defense and appropriations committees. Directs the Secretary of each military department to establish at least one center of excellence in contracting for services for assistance to the acquisition community. Requires the Secretary to ensure that classes focusing on such contracting are offered by the Defense Acquisition University and the Defense Systems Management College and available to contracting personnel throughout DOD. Requires appropriate training for defense contracting personnel. (Sec. 822) Directs the Secretary to carry out, and report to the defense and appropriations committees on, a financial analysis of the costs and benefits of the use of dual rates for quantifying overhead costs at Army ammunition plants. (Sec. 823) Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 to repeal a prohibition on the use of DOD funds to procure a nuclear-capable shipyard crane from a foreign source. (Sec. 824) Provides that a current authorized waiver of live-fire survivability testing shall not apply with respect to survivability and lethality tests for the MH 47E and MH 60K helicopter modification programs. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the application of such tests after certifying to Congress that such testing would be unreasonably expensive and impracticable. (Sec. 825) Expresses the sense of Congress that any DOD entity, in expending funds for the purchase of equipment or products, should comply with the Buy American Act. Requires the Secretary to determine whether to disbar from contracting with DOD a person who has been convicted of intentionally affixing a "Made in America" label to any product sold in or shipped to the United States when such product was not so made. (Sec. 826) Prohibits the Secretary, in awarding a contract for the purchase of firearms or ammunition, from taking into account whether a manufacturer or vendor is a party to an agreement under which such manufacturer or vendor agrees to adopt limitations with respect to importing, manufacturing, or dealing in firearms or ammunition in the commercial market. Subtitle D: Studies and Reports - Requires the Secretary to conduct a study of the impact of the foreign sourcing of certain defense system contracts on long-term military readiness and related industrial infrastructure. Requires a report on study results from the Secretary to Congress. (Sec. 832) Directs the CG to convene a panel of experts to study policies and procedures governing the transfer of Government commercial activities from Government personnel to a Federal contractor. Requires: (1) the opportunity for study participation by other interested parties; and (2) study results to be submitted to Congress. (Sec. 833) Directs the CG to study and report to the defense and appropriations committees on the use of the practice known as "contract bundling" with respect to military construction contracts. (Sec. 834) Directs the Secretary to study and report to the defense committees on DOD contract bundling and its effects on small businesses, economically and socially disadvantaged small businesses, small businesses owned by women, and historically underutilized business zones. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Subtitle A: Duties and Functions of Department of Defense Officers - Provides specified duties of one of the Assistant Secretaries, as designated by the Secretary, with respect to combating terrorism. (Sec. 902) Changes from Deputy Chiefs of Staff to Deputy Commandants the title of five positions within the headquarters of the Marine Corps. Removes three Assistant Chiefs of Staff from such headquarters. (Sec. 903) Revises military whistleblower provisions to include among those authorized to receive information any officer of the armed forces or DOD employee who is assigned or detailed to serve as an Inspector General at any level. (Sec. 904) Requires the Secretaries of the military departments and specified DOD officials to ensure that the management and conduct of the science and technology programs under their authority are carried out in a manner that will foster the transition of science and technology to higher levels of RDT&E. Requires the Chief of Naval Research to manage the Navy's basic, applied, and advanced research funds in a manner that will foster such transition. (Sec. 905) Requires the inclusion of additional information in an annual report of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Chairman on combatant command requirements. Subtitle B: Department of Defense Organizations - Authorizes the Secretary to operate an education and training facility, to be known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, which shall educate and train military, law enforcement, and civilian personnel of the Western Hemisphere within the democratic principles set forth in the Charter of the Organization of American States. Establishes a Board of Visitors for the Institute. Requires the Secretary to report annually to Congress on Institute activities. Repeals the authority for the United States Army School of the Americas. (Sec. 912) Prohibits a regional center for security studies from being established in DOD until 90 days after the Secretary notifies Congress of the intent to establish such center. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to the defense committees on the operation of DOD regional centers. (Sec. 913) Changes the name of the Armed Forces Staff College to the Joint Forces Staff College. (Sec. 914) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide base operating support for Fisher houses associated with Navy health care facilities. (Sec. 915) Amends the Armed Forces Retirement Home Act of 1991 to empower the Secretary with supervisory control over the Retirement Home Board. Requires all Board appointments to be subject to the Secretary's approval, and allows the Secretary to terminate a member at any time. Makes the Board Chairman responsible to the Secretary. (Sec. 916) Directs the JCS Chairman to report semiannually to the defense committees on activities of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council. (Sec. 917) Directs the CG to: (1) review the efficiency of each operation of the Defense Logistics Agency and the Defense Information Systems Agency; and (2) report findings to the defense committees. Subtitle C: Information Security - Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish an Institute for Defense Computer Security and Information Protection, with appropriate responsibilities; and (2) enter into a contract with a non-profit entity or consortium to organize and operate the Institute. Provides Institute funding through DOD O&M funds. Requires an implementation report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees. (Sec. 922) Authorizes the Secretary, in order to encourage the recruitment and retention of DOD personnel with computer and network security skills necessary to meet DOD information assurance requirements, to carry out programs to provide financial support for education in disciplines relevant to such requirements at institutions of higher education. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance (a scholarship) to persons pursuing an education in such disciplines. Requires in exchange for such assistance that a person enter into a service agreement to continue to either serve on active duty in a military department or as a DOD employee for a period determined by the Secretary to be appropriate to obtain adequate service in exchange for such assistance. Allows such assistance to be used to support related internship activities. Requires a pro rata refund of assistance amounts for unserved periods. Outlines funding allocation requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants of financial assistance to institutions of higher education to support the establishment, improvement, or administration of programs of education in information assurance disciplines. Requires consideration to be given to institutions that are a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education. Makes the program inapplicable to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy. Provides program funding through DOD O&M funds. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a plan for implementing such programs. Subtitle D: Reports - Revises the date for submission of certain reports on shortfalls within future-years defense programs in equipment procurement and military construction for the reserve components. (Sec. 932) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees setting forth the number of DOD personnel performing legislative liaison functions as of April 1, 2000. (Sec. 933) Directs the Secretary and the Director of Central Intelligence to report jointly to the defense, appropriations, and intelligence committees assessing alternatives for the establishment of a national collaborative information analysis capability. Directs the Secretary to ensure the completion and use of the Army's Land Information Warfare Activity. (Sec. 934) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on: (1) the development and implementation of network centric warfare concepts within DOD; and (2) the present and future use of the joint experimentation program of DOD in the development of such concepts. (Sec. 935) Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to report to the defense committees on the roles and missions, organizational structure, funding, and operations of the Air Force Institute of Technology as projected through 2010. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Empowers the Secretary to reduce required personnel reductions in major DOD headquarters by a cumulative total of 7.5 percent if the Secretary certifies to Congress that execution of the current 15 percent reductions would adversely impact national security. (Sec. 942) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer all amounts in the: (1) Naval Historical Center Fund to the Department of the Navy General Gift Fund; and (2) United States Naval Academy Museum Fund to the gift fund maintained for the benefit and use of the U.S. Naval Academy. Requires closure of the depleted Funds. Combines the latter funds under (1) and (2), above, into the United States Naval Academy Gift and Museum Fund, and allows such Fund to accept loans of personal property other than money in addition to gifts and bequests. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to prescribe written guidelines to determine whether the acceptance of any gift, bequest, or loan would reflect unfavorably on the Navy or any of its officers and employees. (Sec. 943) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to disburse to an entity designated by a gift donor the current cash value of a gift accepted before the enactment of this Act for the Naval Academy general gift fund. Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer up to $2 billion of the amounts made available to DOD in this Division for FY 2001 between any such authorizations for that fiscal year, with limitations. Requires congressional notification of each transfer. (Sec. 1002) Incorporates into this Act the Classified Annex prepared in connection with this bill and transmitted to the President. (Sec. 1003) Adjusts amounts authorized to be appropriated to DOD for FY 2000 by the amounts by which such appropriations were increased or decreased in the 2000 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act. (Sec. 1004) Prohibits the total amount that may be contributed by the Secretary in FY 2001 for the common-funded budgets of NATO from being greater than the total that would otherwise be applicable under the FY 1998 baseline limitation. (Sec. 1005) Limits the amount of DOD O&M funds that may be obligated for incremental costs for Bosnia and Kosovo peacekeeping operations. Authorizes the President to waive such limitations after certifying to Congress that the waiver is necessary to U.S. national security interests and will not affect military readiness. (Sec. 1006) Requires that, of the contract vouchers received by the Defense Finance and Accounting System by means of the mechanization of contract administration services systems, the number of such vouchers that remain unpaid for more than 30 days at the end of each month may not exceed five percent of the total number of vouchers received. Directs the Secretary, for any month that such requirement is not met, to report to Congress on the magnitude of the unpaid vouchers. (Sec. 1007) Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a plan to ensure that each contractual, grant, agreement, or transactional obligation of DOD be recorded in the appropriate financial administration systems within ten days after the obligation is incurred. (Sec. 1008) Directs the Secretary to require that any claim for payment under a DOD contract be submitted to DOD in electronic form. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such requirement if it is determined to be unduly burdensome. Requires the Secretary to submit an implementation plan to the defense committees. (Sec. 1009) Provides for the crediting of amounts deducted from amounts due a carrier and representing an administrative offset for an overpayment previously made to such carrier under any DOD contract for transportation services, or as liquidated damages due under such contract. Provides a simplified offset procedure for the collection of claims not in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold. (Sec. 1010) Requires the head of an agency who does not pay a contractor business a required interim payment to pay an interest penalty on the amount of payment due. Subtitle B: Naval Vessels and Shipyards - Requires a company entering into a contract for the incorporation of defense features in commercial vessels to agree to make any covered vessel available to the Secretary, fully crewed and ready for sea, at any port and for whatever duration determined by the Secretary. Authorizes the head of an agency to make advance payments to cover the costs of maintaining such vessels in a ready status in the Reserve Fleet for 25 years. Prohibits any agency head from entering into such a contract until 90 days after notification of the defense and appropriations committees. (Sec. 1012) Expresses the sense of Congress that the CVN-77 aircraft carrier should be named the U.S.S. LEXINGTON to honor the men and women who served in the armed forces during World War II, as well as citizens on the home front who provided mobilization support. (Sec. 1013) Authorizes the President to transfer, on either a grant basis or combined lease-sale basis, specified naval vessels to Brazil, Chile, Greece, and Turkey. Provides transfer conditions, including payment of the full purchase price by the appropriate country. Authorizes appropriations for the Defense Vessels Transfer Program Account to cover lease-sale transfer costs. Prohibits the value of vessels transferred on a grant basis from being counted against the aggregate value of excess defense articles authorized to be transferred to other countries under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Requires transfer expenses to be borne by vessel recipients. Directs the President, as a transfer condition, to require any needed vessel repair or refurbishment to be performed in a U.S. shipyard, including a Navy shipyard. Terminates such transfer authority two years after the enactment of this Act. (Sec. 1014) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to modify a certain vessel retransfer authority to include an alternate vessel. Subtitle C: Counter-Drug Activities - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2006 the authority of the Secretary to provide counter-drug support assistance to the Government of Colombia. (Sec. 1022) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees detailing the expenditure of funds during FY 2000 in support of the counter-drug activities of foreign governments. (Sec. 1023) Directs the Secretary to recommend to the defense committees whether expanded support for counter-drug activities in Peru and Colombia should be authorized. (Sec. 1024) Directs the Secretary to review and report to the defense committees on the riverine counter-drug support program in such countries. (Sec. 1025) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the status of the Tethered Aerostat Radar System used to conduct counter-drug detection and monitoring and border security and air sovereignty operations. (Sec. 1026) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should be able to use military personnel to assist law enforcement agencies in preventing the entry into the United States of terrorists and drug traffickers, weapons of mass destruction and their components, and prohibited narcotics and drugs. Subtitle D: Counterterrorism and Domestic Preparedness - Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on DOD preparedness of first responders with regard to incidents involving weapons of mass destruction on military installations. (Sec. 1032) Authorizes the Secretary, during FY 2001, to establish up to five additional teams designated as Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams. (Sec. 1033) Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee up to $10 million of the payment of any loan made to a qualified commercial firm to improve protection of critical infrastructure and to refinance improvements previously made for such protection. Authorizes the Secretary to assess and collect a loan guarantee fee of at least 75 percent of the amount incurred to guarantee the loan. Allows the Secretary to use up to $500,000 annually from DOD O&M funds to provide such loan guarantees (requiring reimbursement of such funds when practicable). Requires reports from loan recipients to the Secretary, and from the Secretary to Congress, regarding such program. (Sec. 1034) Directs the President to report to Congress on the status of domestic preparedness against the threat of biological terrorism. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress an intelligence estimate of the threat posed by a terrorist using a biological weapon. (Sec. 1035) Requires the CG to report to the defense committees on U.S. strategies, policies, and programs for combating domestic terrorism. Subtitle E: Strategic Forces - Directs the Secretary to conduct a comprehensive review of the nuclear posture of the United States for the next five to ten years. Requires a report. Expresses the sense of Congress that such review should be used as the basis for establishing future U.S. arms control objectives and negotiating positions. (Sec. 1042) Directs the Secretary to develop a long-range plan for sustaining and modernizing U.S. strategic nuclear forces to counter emerging threats and to satisfy evolving requirements of deterrence. Requires such plan to be submitted to Congress. (Sec. 1043) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to apply to any strategic nuclear delivery system the authority of the Secretary to waive funding limitations for the retiring or dismantling of specified systems below certain levels. (Sec. 1044) Directs the Secretary to study and report to the defense committees on the defeat of hardened and deeply buried targets. (Sec. 1045) Expresses the sense of Congress that it is: (1) in the national interest to maintain a robust and balanced triad of strategic nuclear delivery vehicles; and (2) not in the national interest to reduce U.S. conventional bomber capabilities. Subtitle F: Miscellaneous Reporting Requirements - Requires the CG to review DOD working-capital funded activities to identify potential changes in current management practices or policies that would result in more efficient and economical operation of such activities. (Sec. 1052) Requires the Secretary of the Navy to report to Congress on the Navy's plan for providing submarine rescue support vessels through FY 2007. (Sec. 1053) Directs the President to submit to Congress a comprehensive report on the specific steps being taken by the Federal Government to develop critical infrastructure assurance strategies as outlined under a specified presidential directive. (Sec. 1054) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress describing the policies and procedures for DOD decision-making in cases of submitted claims that are suspected or alleged to be false. Subtitle G: Government Information Security Reform - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to establish government-wide policies for the management of programs that: (1) support the cost-effective security of Federal information systems by promoting security as an integral part of each agency's business operations; and (2) include information technology architectures as defined under the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. Requires such policies to: (1) be founded on a continuous risk management cycle; (2) implement controls that adequately assess the risk; (3) promote continuing awareness of information security risks; (4) continually monitor and evaluate information security policy; and (5) control effectiveness of information security practices. Outlines information security responsibilities of each agency, including the development and implementation of an agency-wide information security plan for the operations and assets of such agency. Makes each program subject to Director approval (with approval by the Secretary of Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence with respect to mission critical national security systems or intelligence information) and annual review by agency program officials. Requires each agency to annually undergo an independent evaluation of its information security programs and practices. Requires related reports. Terminates the authority under this Subtitle two years after it takes effect. (Sec. 1062) Directs the: (1) Secretary of Commerce to develop, issue, review, and update standards and guidance for the security of information in Federal computer systems; (2) Secretary of Defense, Central Intelligence Director, and any other designated agency head to develop and issue information security policies for mission critical systems of such entities and ensure the implementation of such policies; (3) Attorney General to review and update guidance to agencies on legal remedies regarding information security incidents and incident coordination with law enforcement agencies; (4) Administrator of General Services to review and update guidance on addressing security considerations relating to the acquisition of information technology; and (5) Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to review and update regulations concerning computer security training for Federal employees. Allows mission critical information security policies developed by DOD and the Central Intelligence Agency to be adopted by the OMB Director, the Secretary of Commerce, and the heads of other Federal agencies with respect to their mission critical systems. Allows agencies to develop and implement more stringent information security policies than those required under this Act. Subtitle H: Security Matters - Prohibits any DOD officer, employee, or contractor, or member of the military, from being granted a security clearance if such person: (1) has been convicted of a crime which includes a prison sentence exceeding one year; (2) is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance; (3) is currently mentally incompetent; or (4) has been discharged from the armed forces under dishonorable conditions. Authorizes the Secretary or the Secretary concerned to waive such prohibition in meritorious cases (requiring an annual report from the Secretary to the defense committees on the use of any waivers). (Sec. 1072) Directs the Secretary to prescribe a process for expediting the completion of background investigations necessary for granting security clearances for DOD and DOD-contractor personnel engaged in sensitive duties critical to national security. Requires the Secretary to annually review and revise such process. (Sec. 1073) Authorizes the national security official concerned (the Secretary of Defense with respect to DOD, the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating in the Navy, and the Secretary of Energy with respect to Department of Energy national security programs) to withhold from otherwise-required public disclosure certain sensitive information of foreign governments and international organizations if such official determines that the release of such information would have an adverse effect on the ability of the U.S. Government to obtain the same or similar information in the future. Provides limitations and exceptions. (Sec. 1074) Exempts from Federal public disclosure requirements DOD geodetic products which may reveal, jeopardize, or compromise military or intelligence capabilities. (Sec. 1075) Requires amounts expended for declassification activities to show the total amount expended by DOD and the amount expended by each military department and defense agency. Limits to $30 million the total amount that may be expended by DOD during FY 2001 to carry out declassification activities and special searches. (Sec. 1076) Amends provisions concerning access by Federal agencies to individual criminal history information for national security purposes to authorize the Department of Transportation to request such information. Allows the use of such information to determine eligibility for: (1) acceptance or retention in the armed forces; or (2) appointment, retention, or assignment to a position of public trust or a critical or sensitive position while employed with the Federal Government or performing a Federal contract. Requires automated information delivery systems to be used whenever available. Prohibits fees charged from exceeding actual costs. Prohibits a criminal justice agency providing such information from limiting such disclosure on the basis that the repository is accessed from outside the State. (Sec. 1077) Extends through 2002 DOD authority to engage in commercial activities as security for intelligence collection activities. (Sec. 1078) Directs the Secretary to: (1) review classification and security policies; and (2) ensure that such policies do not prevent or discourage employees at former nuclear weapons facilities who may have been exposed to hazardous substances from discussing such exposure with health care providers and other appropriate officials. Requires the Secretary to notify such former employees of the possible exposure and their rights under this section. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees. Subtitle I: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to use up to $500,000 in any fiscal year from DOD O&M funds to fund administrative expenses relating to the export loan guarantee program. Requires the reimbursement of the O&M accounts when practicable. Prohibits the Secretary from exercising such authority until submitting a report to Congress on the operation of such program, including a determination as to which DOD agency, office, or activity should administer the program. (Sec. 1082) Directs the Secretary to establish a transit pass program for the transportation to and from work of DOD personnel who reside in areas that do not meet revised national ambient air quality standards provided under the Clean Air Act. (Sec. 1083) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the Collings Foundation of Stow, Massachusetts, all U.S. rights and interest to one surplus TA-4 aircraft that is flyable or can be readily restored to flyable condition. Requires such aircraft to be altered within one year to remove any combat capability. Requires reversion to the United States upon the breach of any transfer conditions. (Sec. 1084) Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Cannonball House Museum in Macon, Georgia, all U.S. rights and interest to a certain 12-pound Napoleon cannon. Requires reversion to the United States upon the breach of any transfer conditions. (Sec. 1085) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to charge a fee for providing requested information from the United States Army Military History Institute, the United States Naval Historical Center or Marine Corps Historical Center, or the United States Air Force Military History Institute, respectively. Limits the fee to the actual cost of providing the information. (Sec. 1086) Authorizes the Secretary to make a grant to the American Red Cross for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2003 for support of the Armed Forces Emergency Services program. Requires Red Cross matching funds to support such program. (Sec. 1088) Revises the maximum size of parcel post packages transported overseas for military post offices. (Sec. 1089) Expresses the sense of Congress that military personnel who receive special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger should receive the same tax treatment as members serving in combat zones. (Sec. 1090) Defines the Civil Air Patrol as a federally chartered nonprofit corporation and not an instrumentality of the Federal Government for any purpose. Makes the Patrol a volunteer civilian auxiliary of the Air Force when used by any Federal department or agency. Authorizes the Patrol, at the request of State or local governmental entities, to provide disaster relief missions and activities and other emergency and nonemergency missions and activities. Authorizes the Patrol to use Air Force equipment, supplies, and resources to perform such missions and activities. Requires funds appropriated for the Patrol to be available only for their exclusive use. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to use Patrol chaplains in support of Air Force active duty and reserve personnel. Makes the Patrol Board of Governors its governing body. Requires Patrol regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Air Force to be approved by the Secretary of Defense. (Sec. 1091) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to add specified duties for the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization. (Sec. 1092) Establishes the Commission on the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry to undertake certain studies, evaluations, and assessments with respect to the future of the U.S. aerospace industry as it relates to U.S. economic and national security. Requires a Commission report to the President and Congress. Terminates the Commission 30 days after such report. (Sec. 1093) Amends the Controlled Substances Act to authorize medical practitioners to dispense narcotic drugs in schedules III, IV, or V if, before the initial dispensing of such drugs, the practitioner submits to the Secretary of Health and Human Services a notification of the intent to begin dispensing such drug for maintenance or detoxification treatment, as well as related certifications. Provides conditions for drugs so used, including that such drugs have been approved for maintenance or detoxification treatment under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act or the Public Health Service Act, and that the drugs have not been the subject of an adverse determination with respect to the use of such drugs for such purposes. Requires each such practitioner to be assigned an identification number for inclusion with the registration issued for the dispensing of drugs. Requires such Secretary to take certain action to ensure that registered practitioners meet all dispensing requirements under the above Act. Requires such Secretary to issue a treatment improvement protocol containing best practice guidelines for the treatment and maintenance of opiate-dependent patients. Prohibits a State, during the three-year period beginning on the enactment of this Act, from precluding a practitioner from dispensing or prescribing drugs for such purpose unless the State enacts a law prohibiting such action. Authorizes appropriations to assist such Secretary in meeting additional duties required by this section. Title XI: Department of Defense Civilian Personnel - Subtitle A: Civilian Personnel Management Generally - Outlines employment and compensation provisions for employees of temporary organizations (a commission, committee, or board with a duration of three years or less which is established within the legislative or executive branch or by Executive Order to perform specific projects or studies). Authorizes the head of such organization to appoint persons to organization positions. Limits health insurance benefits provided to such employees to the same benefit afforded other temporary civil service employees. (Sec. 1102) Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistive technology, devices, and services to DOD employees with disabilities, organizations within DOD that have requirements to make programs or facilities accessible by the handicapped, and any other Federal department or agency requesting such technology, devices, or services. (Sec. 1103) Extends through FY 2005 the authority for DOD civilian employees to participate in voluntary reductions in force. (Sec. 1104) Authorizes the head of a Federal agency to administer and maintain its performance appraisal systems electronically. (Sec. 1105) Directs the Secretary to study and report to the defense committees on whether civilian personnel services should continue to be centralized within individual military departments and defense agencies or provided to all DOD elements within designated geographic areas. Subtitle B: Demonstration and Pilot Programs - Directs the Secretary to conduct a three-year pilot program, commencing on January 1, 2001, to improve processes for the resolution of equal employment opportunity complaints by DOD civilian employees. Requires: (1) program participation to be voluntary; and (2) the program to be carried out in at least one military department and two defense agencies. Requires a program report from the CG to Congress. (Sec. 1112) Directs the Secretary to carry out a defense employees work safety demonstration program, requiring the use of private sector work safety models. Requires such program to be carried out: (1) at no fewer than two installations of each military department; and (2) in at least two defense agencies. Requires such program to commence within 180 days after enactment of this Act and to terminate on September 30, 2002. Requires a program interim and final report from the Secretary to the defense committees. Provides funding from DOD O&M funds. (Sec. 1113) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to: (1) extend until October 16, 2005, a program for the experimental use of special personnel management authority to facilitate the recruitment of experts in science and engineering for research and development projects administered by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; (2) include under such program the recruitment of individuals for designated research and development projects from among the laboratories of each of the military departments; (3) limit the number of such appointments; and (4) extend a required annual report. (Sec. 1114) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to: (1) authorize the Secretary to establish and operate personnel management demonstration projects in defense laboratories without the review or approval of the OPM Director; (2) increase the authorized pay levels of laboratory employees participating in such projects; and (3) direct the Secretary (currently, the OPM Director) to exercise appointment and compensation authority with respect to such employees. Subtitle C: Educational Assistance - Amends Federal employee provisions to state that, with respect to DOD employees, Federal provisions authorizing employee training does not authorize the selection and assignment of an employee for training, or the payment or reimbursement of the costs of training, for: (1) the opportunity to obtain an academic degree to qualify for appointment to a position for which such degree is a basic requirement; or (2) the sole purpose of providing an employee an opportunity to obtain one or more academic degrees, unless such opportunity is part of a planned, systematic, and coordinated program of professional development endorsed by DOD. (Sec. 1122) Includes within the Federal loan repayment program loans made under the William D. Ford Direct Loan Program, loans made under the Health Professions Education Program, and nursing loans under the Public Health Service Act. Makes ineligible under the loan repayment program employees occupying a position that is excepted from competitive service because of its confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character. Repeals a provision requiring employees whose loans are repaid to hold professional, technical, or administrative positions. Requires each Federal agency head to maintain, and annually submit to the OPM Director, information concerning loan repayment benefits provided to employees of that agency. Requires the OPM Director to submit such information to Congress. (Sec. 1123) Extends through FY 2010 the authority for tuition reimbursement and training for civilian employees in the defense acquisition workforce. Subtitle D: Other Benefits - Authorizes the payment of special pay for foreign language proficiency for employees assigned duties requiring such proficiency during a contingency operation. (Sec. 1132) Authorizes the Secretary to grant a cash award in excess of $10,000 without regard to certain Federal certification and approval requirements. (Sec. 1133) Authorizes payment for accrued but unused leave for civil service mariners of the Military Sealift Command on temporary promotion aboard ship. (Sec. 1134) Requires a DOD employee who is designated as an emergency essential employee to be insured under the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance program if such employee elects to be so insured within 60 days after such designation. Subtitle E: Intelligence Civilian Personnel - Authorizes the Secretary to establish defense intelligence positions throughout DOD. (Currently, such positions are limited to the intelligence components of DOD and the military departments.) (Sec. 1142) Increases from 492 to 517 the maximum authorized number of positions in the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service. Subtitle F: Voluntary Separation Incentive Pay and Early Retirement Authority - Authorizes the Secretary to use voluntary separation incentives and voluntary early retirement authority to achieve certain defense workforce restructuring. Prohibits the continued payment of the voluntary separation incentive upon the acceptance of employment with the Government or work under a personal services contract with the Government. (Sec. 1152) Entitles to an annuity under either the Civil Service Retirement System or the Federal Employees Retirement System, during FY 2002 and 2003, a DOD employee who is voluntarily separated after completing 25 years of service or after becoming 50 years of age and completing 20 years of service. Makes eligible for such annuity an employee who is separated involuntarily other than for cause and has not declined another comparable position within DOD. Requires employees separated voluntarily to have been employed for more than 30 days and separated during a period in which DOD is undergoing a major organizational adjustment. (Sec. 1153) Limits the authority for voluntary separation incentives during FY 2001 to 1000 employees, and limits such incentives and the voluntary early retirement authority in each of FY 2002 and 2003 to 4,000 employees. Title XII: Matters Relating to Other Nations - Subtitle A: Matters Related to Arms Control - Limits to $15 million the total amount of FY 2001 DOD funds that may be used in support of United Nations-sponsored efforts to inspect and monitor Iraqi weapons activities under the Weapons of Mass Destruction Control Act of 1992. Extends through FY 2001 the authority to provide such support. (Sec. 1202) Earmarks DOD O&M funds for the support of region-wide consultations among Arab, Israeli, and U.S. officials and experts on arms control and security issues concerning the Middle East region. (Sec. 1203) Authorizes the Secretary to convey or provide nuclear test monitoring equipment to a foreign government, and to install such equipment, subject to an agreement which allows the United States timely access to data collected. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress. (Sec. 1204) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to require additional matters within an annual report concerning transfers of military sensitive technologies to certain countries and entities. Subtitle B: Matters Relating to the Balkans - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to require annual reports (currently, only a single report) assessing the effects of continued military operations in the Balkans region on readiness to execute the national military strategy. Terminates the report requirement when U.S. military operations in the Balkans have ended. (Sec. 1212) Directs the President to: (1) develop militarily significant benchmarks for conditions that would achieve a sustainable peace in Kosovo and allow for withdrawal of the U.S. military presence there; and (2) submit semiannually to Congress reports on the establishment of such benchmarks and the develop of a comprehensive political-military strategy for addressing the political, economic, humanitarian, and military issues in the Balkans. (Sec. 1213) Requires a semiannual report from the President to specified congressional committees on the contributions of European nations and organizations to peacekeeping operations in Kosovo. Subtitle C: North Atlantic Treaty Organization and United States Forces in Europe - Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on U.S. costs of Operation Allied Force conducted against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from March 24 through June 9, 1999. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning appropriate burden sharing whenever NATO undertakes a military operation with U.S. participation. (Sec. 1222) Repeals a Federal provision prohibiting the Secretary from entering into military airlift agreements with allied countries under any authority other than that currently provided. (Sec. 1223) Directs the CG to study and report to the defense committees an assessment of the benefits and costs to the United States and U.S. national security interests of the engagement of U.S. forces in Europe and U.S. military strategies used to shape the international security environment of Europe. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a United States-Russian Federation joint center for the exchange of data from systems providing early warning of ballistic missile launches. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on plans for the joint center. Allows the Secretary to renovate a U.S. facility for such use only if a cost-sharing agreement is entered into requiring an equal share of such costs between the two countries. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on any such agreement. (Sec. 1232) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on current and planned DOD activities with respect to the sharing and exchange with other countries of ballistic missile launch early warning data. (Sec. 1233) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to require the Secretary to: (1) make an initial determination of those persons operating in the United States or its possessions or territories that are Communist China military companies; and (2) submit a list of such persons to the defense committees, the Attorney General, and specified department heads. (Sec. 1234) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to reduce from 180 to 60 days the waiting period after the President submits to specified congressional committees the new composite theoretical performance levels for certain supercomputers before such supercomputers may be exported or reexported without a license to a Computer Tier 3 country. (Sec. 1235) Authorizes the Secretary to provide humanitarian and civic assistance in connection with military operations for areas of a country that are underserved by medical, dental, and veterinary professionals. (Sec. 1236) Condemns the use of children as soldiers and welcomes an optional protocol ending such use. Calls on the President: (1) to work closely with the Senate toward building support for such protocol; (2) and Congress to enact a law that establishes a fund for the rehabilitation and reintegration into society of children soldiers; and(3) to undertake all possible efforts to persuade other governments to ratify and endorse the optional protocol. (Sec. 1237) Expresses the sense of Congress that when undersea accidents or incidents occur, it is in the best interests of all nations to work together in response, to rescue and recover the vessel's crew, minimize loss of life, and prevent damage to the oceans. Urges the Presidents of the United States and the Russian Federation to establish a plan for responding to such accidents or incidents and rescuing the crew involved. (Sec. 1238) Establishes the United States-China Security Review Commission to monitor, investigate, and report to Congress on national security implications of the bilateral trade and economic relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China. Requires an annual report from the Commission to Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Title XIII: Cooperative Threat Reduction With States of the Former Soviet Union - Makes FY 2001 O&M funds available for Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) programs with states of the former Soviet Union. Allocates such funds among specified CTR programs. Prohibits such funds from being obligated or expended for any purpose other than those specified until 30 days after the Secretary reports to Congress the purpose and amount of such funds. Authorizes the Secretary, in the national security interest, to obligate amounts in excess of those specified, as long as Congress is notified and 15 days have elapsed since such notification. Limits such excess amounts in specified cases. (Sec. 1303) Prohibits CTR funds from being obligated or expended for the elimination of conventional weapons or the delivery of vehicles intended to deliver such weapons. (Sec. 1304) Prohibits the use of FY 2001 CTR funds for: (1) construction of a second wing of a Russian fissile material storage facility; or (2) design or planning with respect to such facility, until 15 days after the Secretary notifies Congress that the United States and Russia have signed a verifiable agreement that assures that materials stored are of weapons origin. Provides a funding limit with respect to the first wing of such facility. (Sec. 1305) Prohibits FY 2001 CTR funds from being used to support the warhead dismantlement process in Russia until 15 days after the Secretary notifies Congress that the United States has reached an agreement with Russia regarding U.S. assistance under such process. (Sec. 1306) Directs the Secretary to seek to enter into an agreement with Russia for U.S. access to nuclear weapons storage sites for which assistance is provided under CTR programs. (Sec. 1307) Prohibits any CTR funds from being used for the construction of a fossil fuel energy plant. (Sec. 1308) Requires the Secretary, in any year in which the President's budget requests funds for CTR programs, to report to Congress on activities and assistance during the preceding fiscal year with respect to such programs. Prohibits more than ten percent of FY 2001 CTR funds from being obligated or expended until the Secretary submits to Congress an updated version of the CTR multiyear plan required under a prior defense authorization Act. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on specified information with respect to Russia's arsenal of tactical nuclear warheads. (Sec. 1309) Expresses the sense of Congress that the international community should assist Russia in eliminating its chemical weapons stockpile in accordance with Russia's obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention, basing the level of such assistance on specified factors. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees. (Sec. 1310) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of more than 50 percent of the funds authorized for FY 2001 for the elimination of weapons grade plutonium until 30 days after the Secretary submits to the defense committees a report on an agreement between the United States and the Russian Federation regarding a new option for the shutdown or conversion of Russian reactors that produce such plutonium. (Sec. 1311) Directs the CG to report to Congress examining procedures and mechanisms concerning DOD audits of the use of CTR program funds. Title XIV: Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States From Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack - Establishes the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States From Electromagnetic Pulse Attack to assess: (1) the nature and magnitude of potential high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threats to the United States from all potentially hostile states or non-state actors; (2) the vulnerability of U.S. military and civilian systems to such an attack; (3) the capability to repair and recover from EMP attack damages to such systems; and (4) the feasibility and cost of hardening select systems against such attack. Requires the Commission to report findings and conclusions to Congress, the Secretary, and the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Provides Commission funding from FY 2001 defense-wide O&M funds. Terminates the Commission 60 days after submission of its report. Title XV: Navy Activities on the Island of Vieques, Puerto Rico - Authorizes the President to provide economic assistance for the people and communities of the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, with a total limit of $40 million. (Sec. 1502) Directs the Secretary of the Navy, by May 1, 2001, to convey to Vieques the Naval Ammunition Support Detachment on the western end of the Island, with certain exclusions. Requires such conveyance despite any need for environmental mitigation activities on such land. Directs the Secretary of Defense to hold harmless Puerto Rico, the Island, and any other person or entity that acquires ownership or control of the area from liability arising out of the release or threatened release of any hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant as a result of DOD activities on the land conveyed. (Sec. 1503) Directs the President to conduct on the Island a referendum to determine whether the people approve or disapprove of the continuation of the conduct of Navy live-fire training on the Island. Makes the referendum unnecessary if the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps jointly certify to the defense and appropriations committees that the Vieques Naval Training Range is no longer needed for training purposes. Limits live-fire training under the referendum to 90 days each year. States that if the referendum is approved, then the President may provide additional economic assistance of up to $50 million. (Sec. 1505) Requires certain actions if either the referendum is not approved or there is a certification that such training is no longer necessary, including: (1) termination of all Navy and Marine Corps training operations on the Island; (2) termination of all Navy and Marine Corps activities at Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, that are related to such training; (3) closing of all DOD installations and facilities on the Island; and (4) review by the CG of the continued use of Fort Buchanan by active Army forces (with a required report to the defense and appropriations committees). (Sec. 1506) Makes non-transferable certain DOD property on the Island. (Sec. 1507) Prohibits, with exceptions, any acquisition, construction, conversion, rehabilitation, extension, or improvement of any facility at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico, after the date of enactment of this Act. (Sec. 1508) Directs the Secretary of the Navy, except for non-transferable property, to transfer to the Secretary of the Interior all DOD properties on the western part of the Island that are identified as conservation zones. Requires the latter Secretary to manage such conservation zones pursuant to a cooperative agreement among such Secretary, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Puerto Rico Conservation Trust. Title XVI: GI Bill Educational Assistance and Veterans Claims Assistance - Subtitle A: Veterans Education Benefits - Authorizes, during the one-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, an individual who was previously enrolled in the veterans' educational assistance program to enroll in the basic educational assistance program under the Montgomery GI Bill, after paying a premium not exceeding $2,700. (Sec. 1602) Revises provisions concerning the payment of tuition for off-duty training or education to: (1) allow the Secretary concerned to pay all (currently up to 75 percent) of such education expenses; and (2) remove payment limitations with respect to certain enlisted personnel and individuals enrolled in a high school completion program. Allows military personnel entitled to assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill to use such entitlement for the payment of tuition or expenses not paid by the Secretary concerned. Directs the Secretary of Defense, at the election of individuals pursuing off-duty education, to pay a basic educational assistance allowance to meet all or a portion of such expenses not paid for by the Secretary concerned. Authorizes such allowance for up to 36 months. Subtitle B: Veterans Claims Assistance - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) assist a claimant in developing facts pertinent to a claim for benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs; and (2) provide a medical examination when pertinent to such a claim. Title XVII: Assistance to Firefighters - Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to authorize the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to: (1) make grants on a competitive basis to fire departments for protecting the health and safety of the public and firefighting personnel against fire and fire-related hazards; and (2) provide assistance for fire prevention programs authorized in this section. Requires the Director to establish within FEMA an office which shall establish criteria for the selection of assistance recipients and provide grant-writing assistance to applicants. Provides authorized grant purposes. Requires the Director to annually use at least five percent of such funds to make grants to fund fire prevention programs. Requires the Director, in selecting grant recipients, to give a priority to organizations that focus on the prevention of fire injury to children. Provides a 30 percent matching funds requirement. Requires a report from each recipient to the Director on the manner in which assistance funds were used. Requires the Director to ensure that such grants are made to a variety of fire departments. Prohibits any recipient from receiving more than $750,000 in a fiscal year. Prohibits more than 25 percent of appropriated funds from being used to purchase vehicles. Requires the Secretary to ensure an appropriate amount of grant funds for volunteer fire departments. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 and 2002. Requires the Director to study and report to Congress on the need for Federal assistance to States and local communities to fund firefighting and emergency response activities (authorizing appropriations for the study). (Sec. 1702) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 and 2002 to the Secretary of Agriculture for carrying out the volunteer forest fire assistance program under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978. Requires a report from such Secretary to Congress on the results of such assistance. (Sec. 1703) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to: (1) safety organizations for conducting burn prevention programs or augmenting existing burn prevention programs; (2) hospitals that serve as regional burn centers for conducting acute burn care research; and (3) governmental and non-governmental entities to provide after-burn treatment and counseling to burn victims. Requires a report from the Director to specified congressional committees on the results of grants provided. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1704) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study concerning the prevalence of hepatitis C among designated U.S. emergency response employees (firefighters, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians) and the likely means that such employees became so infected while performing such duties. Requires study results to be reported to Congress. Directs such Secretary to make grants to qualifying local governments for carrying out demonstration projects regarding the training of such employees in minimizing the risk of such infection, testing, and treating infected employees. Requires a report from such Secretary to Congress on project results and recommendations. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1705) Requires the Secretary of Defense to: (1) provide for the conduct of an engineering study to identify progress made by DOD in sharing the 138-144 megahertz radio band; and (2) submit an interim report on study progress to the defense committees. Directs the Secretary of Commerce and the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission to report to Congress on alternative frequencies available for use by public safety systems. (Sec. 1706) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer excess DOD personal property to a State firefighting agency for use in providing fire and emergency medical services. (Sec. 1707) Directs the Secretary to appoint a task force to identify defense technologies and equipment that can be readily put to use by fire service and emergency response agencies. Authorizes appropriations. Title XVIII: Impact Aid -Impact Aid Reauthorization Act of 2000 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to reauthorize and revise title VIII Impact Aid programs. (Sec. 1802) Adds as program purposes: (1) promotion of local educational agency (LEA) control of the assisted educational services for federally connected children; and (2) provision of special construction assistance to LEAs as a result of their inability to tax Federal property. Eliminates the purpose of providing financial assistance to LEAs that experience sudden or substantial increases or decreases in enrollments because of military realignments. (Sec. 1803) Revises the program of payments to LEAs relating to Federal acquisition of real property (which makes that property non-taxable) with respect to: (1) a limit on the reduction of such payments to LEAs which derive other revenues on Federal property located in that school district; (2) fiscal years in which insufficient funds are appropriated; (3) special payments; (4) additional assistance for certain LEAs; (5) use of prior year data in determining payment amounts; and (6) eligibility of LEAs to receive payments on previously held Federal property, combined Federal property, and new Federal property. (Sec. 1804) Revises the computation formula for basic support payments for eligible federally connected children, with a special rule. Provides a maximum reduction limit on such payments for fiscal years 2001 and 2002. Requires a ratable reduction allocated among all LEAs if sums made available in a fiscal year are insufficient to pay the full amounts to which such LEAs are entitled for federally connected children. Includes under such program's LEA payment formula, as eligible children who resided on Federal property or in Indian housing and had a parent on active military duty, those children who: (1) would have resided in housing on Federal property except that such housing was undergoing renovation or rebuilding for not more than three fiscal years (currently law only refers to renovation); or (2) reside in housing initially acquired or constructed under the military Build-to-Lease housing program, if such property is within the fenced security perimeter of a military facility, with appropriate reductions in such payments with respect to any such housing which is not federally-owned and subject to State or local taxation. (Sec. 1805) Allows a supplementary payment, in excess of the maximum amount of basic support payments, to compensate a LEA for increased current expenditures necessitated by unusual geographic factors. (Sec. 1806) Establishes a separate (rather than the current additional) program of basic support payments for FY 2001 and thereafter for LEAs heavily impacted by the presence of federally connected children in their schools. Prohibits a LEA from receiving a basic support payment under both the standard and the heavily impacted programs. Sets forth: (1) eligibility requirements for continuing and for new heavily impacted LEAs; and (2) maximum payment amounts for regular and large heavily impacted LEAs. Sets forth a revised formula for computing each LEA's learning opportunity threshold, a factor used in determining actual amounts of basic support payments when sufficient funds are not available to pay the maximum amounts, in the case of LEAs with total enrollments of less than one thousand students and per-pupil expenditures less than their State average. (Sec. 1807) Provides for basic support payments for certain LEAs affected by removal of Federal property, if such property is transferred to a non-Federal entity so that it is subject to State or local taxation and if such LEAs meet specified additional requirements. (Sec. 1808) Repeals provisions for additional payments to LEAs with high concentrations of children with severe disabilities. (Sec. 1809) Prohibits the Secretary of Education from accepting or approving any LEA application for Impact Aid filed more than 60 days after the Secretary sends written notice to the LEA. (Sec. 1810) Repeals provisions for payments for sudden and substantial increases in attendance of military dependents. (Sec. 1811) Revises requirements for eligibility for and allocation of school construction and renovation payments to certain categories of LEAs, including those receiving basic support payments and impacted by military dependent children or children living on Indian lands. Requires that 40 percent of specified funds be used for such construction payments, with the remaining 60 percent to be used for school facility modernization grants for specified types of LEAs. Sets forth award criteria for such grants, including certain emergency grants. Requires the Secretary of Education to report to the appropriate congressional committees on grants awarded. (Sec. 1812) Authorizes a State to reduce State aid to a LEA that receives a Federal Impact Aid payment upon a certain certification by the Secretary of Education with respect to that State's aid program for free public education among State LEAs. (Sec. 1813) Revises provisions relating to Federal administration. (Sec. 1814) Revises certain deadlines with respect to administrative hearings and judicial review. (Sec. 1815) Includes under the definition of Federal property, as a basis of eligibility for Impact Aid payments, property used for affordable housing assisted under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996. (Sec. 1817) Extends the authorization of appropriations for Impact Aid programs, including: (1) payments for Federal acquisition of real property; (2) basic support payments for LEAs and for heavily impacted LEAs; (3) payments for children with disabilities; (4) construction; (5) facilities maintenance; and (6) additional assistance for certain LEAs impacted by Federal property acquisition. Repeals the authorization of appropriations for Impact Aid payments for increases in military children. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 - Title XXI(sic): Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units, carry out architectural planning and design activities, and improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after 2000 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Army. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. (Sec. 2105) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to: (1) decrease the amount authorized for a construction project at Fort Stewart, Georgia; (2) cancel a construction project at Fort Riley, Kansas; (3) increase the amount authorized for CONUS Various; and (4) increase the amount authorized for unspecified minor construction projects. (Sec. 2106) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to increase the amounts authorized for construction projects at Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Riley, Kansas. (Sec. 2107) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to increase the amount authorized for a construction project at Fort Stewart, Georgia. (Sec. 2108) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to accept funds from the Federal Highway Administration or the State of Kentucky for a military construction project involving a rail connector at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Title XXII: Navy - Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under the previous title. (Sec. 2205) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to carry out a military construction project at the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, Virginia, using funds authorized under a prior-year military construction authorization Act for a sanitary landfill at such facility. Title XXIII: Air Force - Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under Title XXI. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years after 2000 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. (Sec. 2402) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out certain energy conservation projects. (Sec. 2404) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to increase the amount authorized for a project at Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Virginia. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Security Investment Program and authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 2000 for such Program. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 2000 for the Guard and reserve forces for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities. (Sec. 2602) Authorizes the Secretary to contribute up to $1.45 million of funds authorized under this title to make a contribution to the Cheyenne Airport Authority toward the construction of a new airport tower at Cheyenne Airport, Wyoming. Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXVI of this Act on October 1, 2003, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 2004, whichever is later, with exceptions. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes - Expresses the sense of Congress that in preparing the budget for a fiscal year, the Secretary should seek to identify and give priority to military construction projects that are suitable as joint construction projects. Directs the Secretary to include within each fiscal year budget a certification by the Secretary concerned that the feasibility of carrying out projects as joint construction projects was evaluated. (Sec. 2802) Excludes from a spending limit on the improvement of military family housing the cost of installing and maintaining communications, security, or antiterrorism equipment required by the occupant in the performance of duty. (Sec. 2803) Removes certain limitations on housing space based on pay grade and directs the Secretary concerned to ensure that room patterns and floor areas are generally comparable to patterns and areas of similar housing units in the private sector in that locality. (Sec. 2804) Amends provisions concerning the leasing of military family housing units at the United States Southern Command in Miami, Florida, to: (1) remove an annual $60,000 limit on individual housing lease costs; (2) allow such leases to extend for up to five years; and (3) require the Secretary of the Army to adjust the maximum annual limit on such leases by the amount of annual basic allowance for housing increases in the Miami area. (Sec. 2805) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to furnish specified utilities and related services in connection with any military housing acquired or constructed pursuant to alternative authority for the construction or improvement of military housing. Requires reimbursement for such utilities and services. (Sec. 2806) Extends such alternative authority through December 31, 2004. (Sec. 2807) Includes a military readiness center within the definition of an armory. Subtitle B: Real Property and Facilities Administration - Increases from $200,000 to $500,000 the minor real property transaction threshold before certain congressional notification and reporting is required from the Secretary concerned. (Sec. 2812) Amends provisions concerning the leasing of non-excess property of military departments to: (1) remove the requirement that such property is not currently needed for public use; (2) prohibit such leases from providing for the maintenance, protection, or restoration of such property; and (3) provide for the acceptance of additional in-kind consideration with regard to such leases, including environmental restoration. Prohibits the Secretary concerned from entering into a new acquisition or construction lease in excess of $500,000 which utilizes in-kind consideration until 30 days after such Secretary notifies the defense and appropriations committees. Authorizes lease proceeds to be used for protection, alteration, improvement, or restoration of property or facilities, leasing of other facilities, or facilities operation support. (Currently, such uses are limited to maintenance, repair, and environmental restoration.) Requires at least 50 percent of lease proceeds to be used at the military installation where the leased property is located. Prohibits the Secretary concerned from expending lease proceeds in excess of $500,000 at a single installation until 30 days after notifying the defense and appropriations committees of the proposed expenditure. Revises reporting dates with respect to such leases, and requires such reports to be submitted to the appropriations (currently, only defense) committees. (Sec. 2813) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to use procedures other than competitive procedures in conveying a utility system of a military department. Requires such Secretary to ensure, in any contract for such conveyance, that the conveyee manage and operate the system in compliance with applicable Federal and State health, safety, fire, and environmental requirements. (Sec. 2814) Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to make permanent a program under which the Administrator of General Services transfers surplus real and personal property to correctional facilities for emergency management response purposes. Subtitle C: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 and the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act to limit to the initial transfer of property the right of the Secretary to transfer at or below its estimated fair market value real and personal property located at a military installation to be closed or realigned. Subtitle D: Land Conveyances - Part I: Army Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to transfer to: (1) the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs a portion of the Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, for use as a national cemetery; (2) Knox County, Illinois, the Army Reserve Center in Galesburg, Illinois, for use as municipal office space; (3) the Tri-City Regional Port District of Granite City, Illinois, the Charles Melvin Price Support Center, for a port facility and other public purposes; (4) the State of Kansas specified real property at Fort Riley, Kansas, for establishing and maintaining a State-operated veterans cemetery; (5) the State of Louisiana a portion of Fort Polk, Louisiana, for use as a State-run cemetery for veterans; (6) the Winona State University Foundation in Winona, Minnesota, the Winona Army Reserve Center, (7) Pemberton Township, New Jersey, a portion of Fort Dix, New Jersey, for use as a parking lot; (8) the Board of Supervisors of Union Township, Pennsylvania, Nike Site 43 in Elrama, Pennsylvania, for municipal storage and other public purposes; (9) the Medal of Honor Museum, Inc., Tennessee, a portion of the Army Reserve Local Training Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for a museum and other educational purposes; (10) the city of Copperas Cove, Texas, a portion of Fort Hood, Texas, in exchange for other property; (11) the Commonwealth of Virginia a portion of Fort Pickett, Virginia, for use as a public safety training facility; (12) the city of Seattle, Washington, specified real property at Fort Lawson, Washington, for inclusion in Seattle's Discovery Park; and (13) the city of Vancouver, Washington, the west barracks at Vancouver Barracks, for inclusion within the Vancouver National Historic Reserve. Part II: Navy Conveyances - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to modify a land conveyance with respect to the Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California. (Sec. 2847) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to modify conditions on the authority of Oxnard Harbor District, Port Hueneme, California, to use certain property jointly with the Navy. (Sec. 2848) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer to the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior the Teacup Parcel of the Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar, California, for the conservation of fish and wildlife. (Sec. 2849) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to: (1) the San Diego Unified Port District in San Diego, California, a portion of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, in exchange for other property; and (2) the Tampa Port Authority the Naval Reserve Center in Tampa, Florida, for the expansion of the Port of Tampa. (Sec. 2850) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to lease to the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation certain property at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida, for operation of a national flight academy and related purposes. (Sec. 2852) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to direct the Secretary to replace the electric utility service removed during the course of environmental remediation at the Defense Fuel Supply Point, Casco Bay, Maine. (Sec. 2853) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the State of Maine, or a subdivision or agency thereof, the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station in Cutler, Maine. Authorizes the lease of such property pending conveyance. (Sec. 2854) Modifies a land conveyance at the former Naval Training Center in Bainbridge, Maryland, to allow the Secretary of the Navy to choose whether to receive consideration upon the further transfer of such property to the State of Maryland. (Sec. 2855) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the city of Jacksonville, Florida, a railroad right-of-way at the Marine Corps Base in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. (Sec. 2856) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the Rickenbacker Port Authority of Columbus, Ohio, the civilian facilities of the Naval Air Reserve at Rickenbacker International Airport, in exchange for other property. (Sec. 2857) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the city of Bremerton, Washington, a former off-site housing facility for the Naval Station in Bremerton, for public health, public safety, education, housing, or public recreation. Part III: Air Force Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to: (1) appropriate buyers specified portions of the Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, in order to consolidate the mission and support functions at such Base; (2) Mendocino County, California, a portion of the Point Arena Air Force Station in California, for municipal and other public purposes; (3) the Lowry Redevelopment Authority, a portion of the former Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado, for economic development and other public purposes; and (4) Greene County, Ohio, the communications test annex at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, for recreational purposes. (Sec. 2865) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to designate a new transferee with respect to a land conveyance at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. (Sec. 2866) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to the Port of Everett, Washington, the Mukilteo Tank Farm, for a port facility and other purposes. Part IV: Other Conveyances - Allows the Secretary of Defense to authorize the Army and Air Exchange Service to sell certain Exchange Service property in Farmers Branch, Texas. Requires a sale report from the Secretary to Congress. (Sec. 2872) Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to convey to the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, the Jefferson Street property in Charlottesville, for economic development purposes. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide a Federal easement through certain parkland within Camp Pendleton, California. (Sec. 2882) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to extend through December 31, 2001, a reporting requirement concerning a demonstration project in Monterey, California, for the purchase of utility services from local government agencies. (Sec. 2883) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to accept gifts from the Air Force Museum Foundation to pay the costs of design and construction of a third building for the United States Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (Sec. 2884) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into a joint venture with the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation for the design and construction of a multipurpose facility for historical displays and related purposes consistent with the mission of the Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia. Designates such facility as the Marine Corps Heritage Center. Authorizes such Secretary to accept certain property offered by the Park Authority of Prince William County, Virginia, as a potential facility site. Authorizes such Secretary to lease portions of the facility to such Foundation. (Sec. 2885) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to carry out appropriate activities to maintain aircrew safety at Fallon Air Station, Nevada, following the elimination of greenbelt irrigation at such Station. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 2886) Directs the Secretary to establish on Federal lands near the Fena Caves in Guam a suitable memorial to honor Guam civilians killed during the occupation of Guam during World War II and to commemorate the liberation of Guam by U.S. armed forces in 1944. (Sec. 2887) Designates the: (1) Army missile testing range at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands as the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site at Kwajalein Atoll; (2) building at 8725 John J. Kingman Road in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, as the Andrew T. McNamara Building; and (3) Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego, California, as the Bob Wilson Naval Hospital. (Sec. 2890) Expresses the sense of Congress that prompt expansion of the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California, is vital to U.S. national security interests. (Sec. 2891) Expresses the sense of Congress that land transfers at Melrose Range, New Mexico, and the Yakima Training Center, Washington, will support military training, safety, and land management concerns on such lands. Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI(sic): Department of Energy National Security Programs - Subtitle A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 2001 for operating expenses, capital equipment, and plant projects necessary in carrying out the following activities for national security programs: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear nonproliferation; (3) defense environmental restoration and waste management (4) other defense activities; (5) defense environmental management privatization activities; and (6) defense nuclear waste disposal. Subtitle B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for: (1) the cost of a program exceeding 110 percent of the program authorization or $1 million more than the amount authorized; or (2) programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, Congress until the Secretary of Energy (Secretary, for purposes of this Division) transmits to the defense and appropriations committees a full statement of the action proposed and 30 days have since expired. (Sec. 3122) Places certain funding limits for general plant and construction projects of DOE. Requires congressional reports when amounts exceed such limits. (Sec. 3124) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer DOE-authorized funds: (1) to other Federal agencies for the performance of work for which such funds were authorized; or (2) between authorizations within DOE, to be merged with and available for the same purposes. Requires notification to the defense committees of any such transfers. (Sec. 3125) Directs the Secretary, before submitting a funding request for a construction project in support of a DOE national security program, to complete a conceptual design for such project. Requires a separate funding request for designs for which the estimated cost exceeds $3 million. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for the design does not exceed $600,000. Requires specific authorization by law for designs exceeding such amount. (Sec. 3126) Authorizes the use of DOE funds for planning, design, or construction activities for any DOE national security program that must proceed expeditiously in order to protect public health and safety, meet the needs of national defense, or protect property. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees when funds are so used.(Sec. 3127) Makes amounts appropriated pursuant to this title for management and support activities and for general plant projects available for use in connection with all DOE national security programs. (Sec. 3129) Directs the Secretary, during FY 2001, to empower each DOE field office manager with the authority to transfer defense environmental management funds from a program or project under such office's jurisdiction to another program or project in order to address a risk to health, safety, or the environment or to assure the most efficient use of such funds at that field office. Limits such transfer to a total of $5 million per fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to notify Congress within 30 days after any such transfer. Subtitle C: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations - Prohibits the Secretary from using appropriated funds to establish a reserve for the payment of contract termination costs relating to the river protection project at Richland, Washington. (Sec. 3132) Directs the Secretaries of Energy and Defense to jointly modify the memorandum of understanding for the use of national laboratories for ballistic missile defense programs to provide for jointly funded projects carried out by the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. Requires the implementation of mechanisms that increase the cooperative relationship between such entities. (Sec. 3133) Prohibits FY 2001 nuclear infrastructure upgrades or maintenance funds from being obligated for any other purpose. (Sec. 3134) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to require adjustments of certain supercomputer composite theoretical performance levels to be included within required post-shipment verification reports in connection with the sales of such computers to certain foreign countries. (Sec. 3135) Amends the Department of Energy Facilities Safeguards, Security, and Counterintelligence Enhancement Act of 1999 to include within the counterintelligence polygraph requirements of such Act certain individuals involved in or applying for high-risk positions, as specified under the Code of Federal Regulations. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the polygraph requirements if: (1) the Secretary determines the waiver to be in the national security interest; (2) the covered person has an active security clearance; and (3) the covered person acknowledges in writing that such requirements must be met after expiration of the waiver. Allows such a waiver if: (1) another Federal agency certifies that the covered person has successfully completed a full scope of such an examination during a five-year period prior to such certification; or (2) the Secretary determines that the treatment of a medical or psychological condition should preclude the administration of such polygraph. Conditions such waiver upon a 15-day advance notification of the defense and intelligence committees of the criteria used for the waiver, including an assessment of counterintelligence risks and programmatic impacts. Limits any waiver to 120 days. Requires the Secretary to report semiannually to such committees on any waivers exercised. Expresses the sense of Congress that such waiver authority not be used for covered persons in the highest risk categories, such as persons having access to the most sensitive weapons design information and other highly sensitive programs, including special access programs. Terminates the waiver authority on September 30, 2002. Includes as authorized examination questions those concerning terrorism and deliberate damage to or malicious use of a U.S. Government information or defense system. (Sec. 3136) Authorizes the Secretary to offer to DOE employees who have worked continuously at a DOE closure facility for at least two years and meet specified performance requirements certain employee incentives, including the right to accumulate additional leave and to be paid a retention allowance. Requires such employees to enter into an agreement to remain so employed until a specific date or for a specific period of time (to be determined by the Secretary). Requires incentive forfeiture for agreement violation. Requires the Secretary to report annually on such incentives. Allows for the continuation of health care coverage for such employees during the incentive period. Allows the Secretary to: (1) voluntarily separate a DOE employee employed at a DOE closure facility; and (2) retain an employee in a similar position who would otherwise be separated due to a reduction in force. Prohibits employees with critical knowledge and skills from participating in such voluntary separation if the Secretary determines that such participation would impair performance of the DOE mission. Terminates incentive authority on March 31, 2007. (Sec. 3137) Directs the Secretary to continue operations and to maintain a high state of readiness at the F- and H-canyon facilities at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina, and to provide technical staff necessary to operate and maintain such facilities. Prohibits any DOE funds from being used to decommission the F-facility until the Secretary and the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board jointly submit to the defense committees a certification concerning the stability of materials there and that future needs can be met utilizing only the H-facility. Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a plan for the transfer of all long-term chemical separation activities from the F- to the H-facility commencing in FY 2002. (Sec. 3138) Prohibits, as of November 1, 2001, any DOE funds from being used for travel expenses by the Secretary, any officer or employee of the Office of the Secretary, or the Chief of Engineers until the Secretary or the Chief certify to the defense and appropriations committees that DOE is in compliance with certain requirements prohibiting the use of funds for treatment, storage, or disposal activities at formerly used defense sites. (Sec. 3139) Earmarks DOE funds for carrying out a conceptual design for a subsurface geosciences laboratory at Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho. Prohibits the obligation of funds for such purpose until 60 days after the Secretary reports to the defense and appropriations committees concerning such laboratory. (Sec. 3140) Prohibits more than 50 percent of the funds available for the national ignition facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, from being obligated or expended until the Administrator for Nuclear Security submits to the defense committees a new baseline plan for the completion of such facility. Requires the CG to review the national ignition facility program and submit review results to the defense committees. (Sec. 3141) Designates the tank waste remediation system environmental project at Richland, Washington, as the River Protection Project. Requires the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management to delegate in writing responsibility for such Project to the head of the Office of River Protection. Requires such Office to coordinate its activities with the manager of DOE's Richland Operations Office. Requires a report from such Assistant Secretary to the defense committees on the delegation of such responsibility. (Sec. 3142) Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on the Tank Waste Remediation System project at the Hanford Reservation in Richland, Washington. Subtitle D: Matters Relating to Management of National Nuclear Security Administration - Mandates a three-year term of office for the person first appointed to the position of Under Secretary for Nuclear Security of the Department of Energy. Limits the reasons for removal from such position to inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office. Includes such Under Secretary as a member of the Joint Nuclear Weapons Council. (Sec. 3153) Requires the Administrator for Nuclear Security (Administrator) to submit to the defense committees a plan for assigning roles and responsibilities to and among the headquarters and field organizational units of the National Nuclear Security Administration (Administration). (Sec. 3154) Requires certain additional information to be submitted with the future-years nuclear security program submitted with the FY 2002 budget. (Sec. 3155) Requires the Administrator to submit to the defense committees a future-years nuclear security program for FY 2001 and the five succeeding fiscal years. Outlines the required level of detail of such program. Requires such program to be submitted by November 1, 2000. Limits the use of certain funds pending submission of such program and a waiting period of 45 days thereafter. (Sec. 3156) Directs the Administrator to authorize the head of each nuclear weapons production facility to establish an engineering and manufacturing research, development, and demonstration program for innovative or high-risk design and manufacturing concepts and technologies with potentially high payoff for the nuclear weapons complex. Provides funding. Requires a report from the Administrator to the defense committees on each project under the program. (Sec. 3157) Amends the National Nuclear Security Administration Act to prohibit an individual from concurrently holding a position in such Administration and a position within DOE not in the Administration. (Sec. 3158) Amends the above Act to direct the Administrator to annually prepare and submit to Congress a plan for the obligation of Administration funds. Requires the CG to submit to the defense and appropriations committees an assessment of the adequacy of the planning, programming, and budgeting processes of the Administration. (Sec. 3159) Authorizes the Administrator to establish, abolish, alter, consolidate, or discontinue any Administration organizational unit or component. Subtitle E: National Laboratories Partnership Improvement - Directs the Administrator, during FY 2001 and 2002, to establish a Technology Infrastructure Pilot Program to improve the ability of DOE national laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities to support Administration missions by: (1) stimulating the development of technology expertise and capabilities in private industry and institutions of higher education to support Administration missions on a continuing basis; (2) improving the ability of those laboratories to benefit from commercial research, technology, products, processes, and services that can support such mission; and (3) encouraging the exchange of scientific and technical expertise between such laboratories and facilities and institutions of higher education, technology-related businesses, nonprofit institutions, and State, tribal, or local governmental agencies that can support the mission. Limits program funding to $5 million. Outlines program requirements, including selection criteria for choosing program projects at each laboratory or facility. Prohibits program funds from being allocated until 30 days after the Administrator submits to the defense and appropriations committees a program implementation plan. Requires an additional report on program implementation and management. (Sec. 3162) Directs the Administrator to report to the defense and appropriations committees on small business participation in Administration activities. (Sec. 3163) Requires the Secretary to direct the Energy Advisory Board to conduct a study for improving mission effectiveness, partnerships, and technology transfer at national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities. Directs the Secretary to submit such study to Congress, along with recommendations. (Sec. 3164) Requires the Administrator to report to Congress on the efficiency and effectiveness with which the Administrator and its laboratories and facilities carry out technology development activities in partnership with non-Federal entities. Requires the CG to review such report and provide Congress with a report assessment. Subtitle F: Matters Relating to Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation - Directs the Secretary to report annually to the defense committees on the status of efforts to secure weapons-usable nuclear materials in Russia that have been identified as being at risk for theft or diversion. Prohibits funds appropriated for the Nuclear Materials Protection, Control, and Accounting Program from being obligated or expended after FY 2000 for any project at a site controlled by the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy until the Secretary reports to the defense committees on the access policy for such project, including a certification that the access policy has been implemented. (Sec. 3172) Authorizes the Secretary to expand and enhance DOE activities under the Nuclear Cities Initiative, providing FY 2001 funding. Prohibits such funding from being used to provide Initiative assistance for more than three nuclear cities in Russia and two nuclear production facilities in Russia until 30 days after the Secretary submits to the defense committees a copy of a written agreement between the United States and Russia providing that Russia will close some of its facilities engaged in nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly work. Prohibits more than $8.75 million of such funds from being obligated or expended until the Secretary establishes and implements review procedures for Initiative projects and submits such procedures to the defense committees. Requires an additional report and certification, with a funding limit until the report and certification are received by the defense committees. Urges the President to enter into discussions with Russia toward the development by Russia of a plan to restructure its nuclear complex to meet changes in the national security requirements of Russia by 2010. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program to encourage students in the United States and Russia to pursue careers in nonproliferation. Provides program funding. Requires the Administrator to notify the defense committees before any such funds are expended. (Sec. 3173) Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees on DOE's efforts to ensure adequate oversight and accountability of DOE's nonproliferation programs in Russia and the potential effects of the use of on-ground monitoring for DOE's significant nonproliferation programs there. Requires the CG to submit an assessment of such report to such committees. (Sec. 3174) Expresses the sense of Congress that there should be clear and effective coordination of nonproliferation programs among specified DOE programs. (Sec. 3175) Allows amounts made available to DOE for FY 2001 for the International Nuclear Safety Program in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to be available only for reactor safety upgrades and training related to nuclear operator and reactor safety. Subtitle G: Other Matters - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year: (1) 1995 to extend through FY 2002 the authority of the Secretary to appoint up to 200 positions in DOE for scientific, engineering, and technical personnel whose duties will relate to safety at defense nuclear facilities; and (2) 1996 to require biennial updates of a report concerning DOE nuclear test readiness postures, and to require certain additional information in such reports. (Sec. 3193) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to require the Secretary, on a quarterly basis (currently, only 30 days after an inadvertent release), to notify specified committees and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs whether there has been an inadvertent release of records containing restricted or formerly restricted data during the automatic declassification of records. (Sec. 3194) Requires any certification submitted to the President by the Secretaries of Energy or Defense concerning the safety or reliability of a nuclear weapon type in the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile to be submitted in classified form only. (Sec. 3195) Authorizes the Secretary to present a certificate of commendation to any current or former DOE employee, or current or former employee of a DOE contractor, whose service in matters relating to stockpile stewardship assisted DOE in furthering U.S. national security interests. (Sec. 3196) Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to authorize the Federal waiver of a license from an Administration laboratory to a party to have such party practice an invention discovered in a DOE laboratory by or on behalf of the Government when the designated official finds that the retention of such license would substantially inhibit the commercialization of an invention that would otherwise serve an important Federal mission. Terminates such waiver authority five years after the enactment of this Act. Requires a report from the Administrator to Congress on any waivers granted. (Sec. 3197) Authorizes the Secretary to establish within DOE an Office of Arctic Energy to promote research, development, and deployment in rural and remote areas of: (1) electric power technology that is cost-effective and especially suited to meet the needs of such regions; and (2) oil recovery technology, gas-to-liquids technology, hydroelectric facilities, natural gas, gas hydrates, and coal methane, and alternative energy. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile - Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager, during FY 2001, to obligate up to $71 million of the funds in the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (Fund) for authorized Fund uses, including the disposal of hazardous materials that are environmentally sensitive. Authorizes the NDS Manager to obligate amounts in excess of such amount 45 days after notifying Congress that extraordinary or emergency conditions necessitate the additional obligations. (Sec. 3302) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to increase the authorized receipts for NDS disposals occurring by the end of FY 2002, 2003, and 2005. (Sec. 3303) Directs the President, by the end of FY 2010, to dispose of 30,000 short tons of titanium contained in the NDS. Requires receipts realized from such disposal to be deposited for use by the American Battle Monuments Commission for design, construction, dedication, and maintenance of the World War II memorial (authorized under prior law). Title XXXIV: Naval Petroleum Reserves - Amends Federal provisions concerning the naval petroleum reserves to: (1) remove a requirement that the Secretary sell such petroleum at a price equal to at least 90 percent of comparable petroleum prices in the same area; (2) remove Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 1 from inclusion in any price requirements; and (3) repeal provisions authorizing the Secretary to enter into cooperative plans for the exploration, development, use, and operation of lands inside Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 1. (Sec. 3403) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to convey to the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Indian reservation all Federal lands within the exterior boundaries of National Oil Shale Reserve Number 2, with specified reservations of lands for management by the Secretary of the Interior according to a land use management plan. Requires the Secretary of Energy to prepare a plan for remediation of the Moab uranium milling site near Moab, Utah, and to commence appropriate remediation. Prohibits DOE national security funds from being used to carry out the remedial action, except for program direction. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 to designate the Moab milling site as a processing site, and therefore subject to appropriate remediation. Title XXXV: Maritime Administration - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for the Department of Transportation for the Maritime Administration. (Sec. 3502) Amends the National Maritime Heritage Act of 1994 to extend through FY 2006 the period for disposal of obsolete vessels in the National Defense Reserve Fleet. Authorize the Secretary of Transportation to scrap obsolete vessels through qualified scrapping facilities, using the most expeditious scrapping methodology and location practicable. Requires such Secretary to submit to specified committees a plan for completing such disposal, limiting the vessels that may be scrapped prior to such report. Requires a subsequent progress report from such Secretary. (Sec. 3503) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to convey the former U.S.S. GLACIER of the National Defense Reserve Fleet to the Glacier Society, Inc., for use as a monument to the exploration of the Arctic and Antarctic. Requires such Secretary to retain such vessel in the Fleet until the earlier of the date of conveyance under this section or two years after the enactment of this Act. (Sec. 3504) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to national maritime enhancement institutes for maritime and maritime intermodal research. (Sec. 3505) Directs such Secretary to study and report to Congress on maritime research and technology development. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 3506) Requires the Maritime Administration, in its annual report and annual budget submission, to state separately the amount, nature, and use of any funds administered or subject to oversight by such Administration. Title XXXVI: Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program - Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 - Subtitle A: Establishment of Compensation Program and Compensation Fund - Establishes the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program to provide timely, uniform, and adequate compensation of covered DOE employees (and, where applicable, survivors of such employees) suffering from illnesses incurred in the performance of duty for DOE and certain of its contractors and subcontractors. (Sec. 3612) Establishes the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund to carry out the Program. (Sec. 3613) Requires the President to submit to Congress a proposal for legislation to implement the Program, including an assessment of the number of potential covered employees. (Sec. 3614) Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Program Administration - Authorizes the President to designate additional entities as beryllium vendors for purposes of coverage under this Title if such entities engage in activities relating to the production or processing of beryllium for sale to, or use by, DOE. (Sec. 3623) Determines, in the absence of substantial evidence to the contrary, a covered beryllium employee to have been exposed to beryllium in the performance of duties for purposes of this Title if such employee was: (1) employed at a DOE facility; or (2) present at a DOE facility, or a facility owned and operated by a beryllium vendor, because of employment by the United States, a beryllium vendor, or a contractor or subcontractor of DOE, during a period when beryllium dust, particles, or vapor may have been present at such facility. Determines a DOE employee, contractor employee, or atomic weapons employee to have sustained a cancer in the performance of duty if the cancer was at least as likely as not related to employment at the employing facility. Requires the President to establish: (1) guidelines for making such determination; (2) methods for determining radiation dosage received by such employees; and (3) an independent review process to establish such methods and verify a reasonable sample of doses. Directs the Secretary to provide such employees with information concerning the estimated radiation dosage of the employee during such employment. Requires public availability of the methodology and data used in establishing radiation doses. (Sec. 3624) Directs the President to establish and appoint an Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health to advise the President on: (1) the development of guidelines to be used to determine exposures to covered hazards; (2) the scientific validity and quality of dosage estimates and reconstruction efforts being performed for purposes of the Program; and (3) other matters relating to radiation and worker health at DOE facilities. (Sec. 3625) Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out the Secretary's responsibilities under the Program with the assistance of the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. (Sec. 3626) Directs the Advisory Board to advise the President whether there is a class of DOE employees who likely were exposed to radiation at a facility but for whom it is not feasible to estimate the dosage received. Allows such class of employees to be considered members of the Special Exposure Cohort for purposes of the Program if there is a reasonable likelihood that the radiation dose received may have endangered the health of members of that class. (Sec. 3627) Expresses the sense of Congress that further determination by the President is appropriate before employees who were exposed to silica are included in the Program. Requires DOE employee diagnosed with silicosis to be included in the Program unless the President certifies to Congress that there is insufficient basis to include such employees. Allows an employee to be so included only if he or she worked at least 250 days during the mining of tunnels at a DOE facility in Nevada or Alaska for tests or experiments related to an atomic weapon. (Sec. 3628) Requires a covered employee, or their survivor, to receive compensation for disability or death from the employee's occupational illness in the amount of $150,000. Requires covered employees to receive medical benefits for such illness. Requires appropriate covered employees to receive beryllium sensitivity monitoring, including an initial and regular medical examinations. (Sec. 3629) Requires the United States to furnish appropriate services, appliances, and supplies recommended for treatment of the illness. Authorizes an individual to be furnished transportation incident to such treatment. (Sec. 3630) Requires an individual (or their survivor) who has received $100,000 as a covered uranium employee under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to receive $50,000 compensation under this section (to make such award equal to the award provided herein), and to receive appropriate medical benefits. (Sec. 3631) Directs the President, upon request, to provide appropriate assistance to a claimant and potential claimant under the Program. Directs the Secretary to require a beryllium vendor or other DOE contractor or subcontractor to provide appropriate assistance to a claimant or potential claimant. Subtitle C: Treatment, Coordination, and Forfeiture of Compensation and Benefits - Requires offset against payments authorized under this Title with respect to any payments already received by covered employees due to such illnesses. Provides a right of subrogation on behalf of the United States in connection with such offset. (Sec. 3643) Mandates that acceptance of payment under the Program for covered employees constitutes full satisfaction of all such claims against the United States, DOE or its contractors or subcontractors, a beryllium employer, or atomic weapons employer. (Sec. 3644) Specifies the liabilities of the Unites States for future claims related to covered illnesses. (Sec. 3645) Allows covered beryllium and atomic weapons employees to elect a remedy under this Title for a covered illness, with specified time limitations. Requires any currently-filed tort claim case to be dismissed by December 31, 2003, for claim eligibility under this Title. (Sec. 3646) Mandates that compensation or benefits provided under this Title be tax exempt and not affect the eligibility of an individual for Federal assistance programs. (Sec. 3647) Prohibits the assignment or transfer of claims under the Program. (Sec. 3648) Limits attorney fees with respect to such claims to a two percent fee for filing the initial claim. (Sec. 3649) States that payment under this Title shall not be considered compensation or reimbursement for a loss for purposes of any applicable insurance payment or claim. (Sec. 3650) Requires forfeiture of entitlement to any Program compensation or benefit by individuals convicted of a Federal or State felony relating to fraud in the application for or receipt of any benefit under this Program or any Federal or State workers' compensation law. (Sec. 3651) Prohibits (except under sec. 3630, above) individuals receiving compensation or benefits under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act from receiving compensation or benefits under this Title. Subtitle D: Assistance in State Workers' Compensation Proceedings - Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements with a State to provide assistance to a DOE contractor employee in filing a claim under the appropriate State workers' compensation system. Outlines claim assistance procedures. Requires a report from the CG to Congress on the implementation and effectiveness of such assistance.
Bill· SS. 3173 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 2000
Environmental Streamlining Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation, taking into consideration comments submitted during certain proposed rulemaking proceedings regarding transportation projects (notice published on May 25, 2000, 65 Fed. Reg. 33922, 33960), to publish in the Federal Register for public comment revised notices of proposed rulemaking to: (1) implement the planning and environmental streamlining provisions of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century; and (2) address the other matters covered by such notices of proposed rulemaking published on May 25, 2000. Prohibits the Secretary from promulgating final rules (including interim final rules) to implement such provisions and other matters until on or after May 1, 2001.
Bill· HRH.R. 5394 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 2000
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 - Title I: Department of Transportation - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 (with specified transfers of funds, limitations on obligations and administrative expenses, and liquidations and rescissions of contract authorizations) for: (1) the Office of the Secretary of Transportation; (2) the Coast Guard; (3) the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); (4) the Federal Highway Administration (FHA); (5) the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; (6) the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; (7) the Federal Railroad Administration; (8) the Federal Transit Administration (FTA); (9) the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; (10) the Research and Special Programs Administration; (11) the Office of Inspector General; and (12) the Surface Transportation Board. Title II: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board; and (2) the National Transportation Safety Board. Title III: General Provisions - Sets forth specified prohibitions, limitations, permissions, and mandates with respect to the use of appropriations under this Act identical or similar to those enacted in the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (P.L. 106-69). (Sec. 303) Makes funds appropriated under this Act for FAA expenditures available for: (1) expenses of primary and secondary schooling for dependents of FAA personnel stationed outside the continental United States at costs for any given area not in excess of those of the Department of Defense for the same area, when it is determined that the schools, if any, available in the locality are unable to provide adequately for the education of such dependents; and (2) transportation of such dependents between schools serving the area that they attend and their places of residence when it is determined that such schools are not accessible by public means of transportation on a regular basis. (Sec. 305) Bars the availability of funds under this Act for salaries and expenses of more than 104 political and presidential appointees in the Department of Transportation (DOT). (Sec. 309) Prohibits a recipient of funds made available under this Act from disseminating personal information obtained by a State department of motor vehicles in connection with a motor vehicle record, except as permitted under specified law. Bars a State department of motor vehicles (including any officer, employee, or contractor thereof) from knowingly disclosing or otherwise making available to any person or entity: (1) personal information about an individual from a motor vehicle record that identifies the individual, including the individual's photograph, social security number, driver identification number, name, address (except for the five-digit zip code), telephone number, and medical or disability information (except for information on vehicular accidents, driving violations, and driver's status); or (2) highly restricted personal information about an individual from a motor vehicle record such as the individual's photograph or image, social security number, medical or disability information without the person's express consent, except as permitted under specified law. Declares that such requirements shall not affect the use of organ donation information on the individual's driver license or affect the administration of organ donation initiatives in the States. Prohibits a State from conditioning or burdening in any way the issuance of an individual's motor vehicle record to obtained express consent. (Sec. 313) Bars the use of funds under this Act to establish a vessel traffic safety fairway less than five miles wide between the Santa Barbara Traffic Separation Scheme and the San Francisco Traffic Separation Scheme. (Sec. 314) Authorizes airports to transfer to the FAA, without consideration, instrument landing systems (along with associated approach lighting equipment and runway visual range equipment) which conform to FAA design and performance specifications and which were purchased with airport development grant funds. (Sec. 318) Bars the use of funds under this Act to compensate in excess of 335 technical staff-years under the federally funded research and development center contract between the FAA and the Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development during FY 2001. (Sec. 323) Prohibits the use of funds for employee training which: (1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official duties; (2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of emotional response or psychological stress in some participants; (3) does not require prior employee notification of the content and methods to be used in the training and written end of course evaluations; (4) contains any methods or content associated with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or "new age" belief systems; (5) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants' personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace; or (6) includes content related to human immunodeficiency virus-acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV-AIDS) other than that necessary to make employees more aware of its medical ramifications and the workplace rights of HIV-positive employees. (Sec. 324) Bars the use of funds, unless authorized by Congress, to pay for specified lobbying activities with respect to a Member of Congress or a State legislature. Permits DOT or related agency employees to communicate to Members of Congress or to a State legislature with respect to requests for legislation or appropriations which they deem necessary for the efficient conduct of business. (Sec. 325) Prohibits expenditure of funds made available under this Act by any entity that does not agree to comply with the Buy American Act. Expresses the sense of Congress that entities receiving assistance under this Act should purchase only U.S.-made equipment and products to the greatest extent practicable. Prohibits the use of funds for contracts with persons falsely labeling products as made in America. (Sec. 326) Earmarks a certain amount from the Highway Trust Fund for construction of, and improvements to, corridors of the Appalachian Development Highway System. (Sec. 329) Authorizes appropriations for expenses of the Amtrak Reform Council for FY 2002. Includes within the duties of such Council the identification of Amtrak routes which are candidates for closure or realignment based on performance rankings developed by Amtrak which incorporate information on each route's fully allocated costs and ridership on core intercity passenger service, and which assume that Federal subsidies for Amtrak will decline from FY 1999 to FY 2002. (Sec. 331) Bars the use of funds in this Act to make a grant unless the Secretary of Transportation notifies the Committees on Appropriations not less than three full business days before any discretionary grant award, letter of intent, or full funding grant agreement totaling $1 million or more is announced by the DOT or its modal administrations from: (1) any discretionary grant program of the FHA other than the emergency relief program; (2) the FAA airport improvement program; or (3) any FTA program other than the formula grants and fixed guideway modernization programs. (Sec. 332) Earmarks certain funds for fire and life safety improvements to enable the James A. Farley Post Office in New York City to be used as a train station and commercial center. (Sec. 333) Bars the use of funds under this Act for the planning, design, or construction of a light rail system in Houston, Texas. (Sec. 334) Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to add the Wilmington Downtown transit corridor and the Honolulu Bus Rapid Transit project to the list of projects for new fixed guideway systems and extensions to existing systems. (Sec. 336) Amends the Federal Transit Act of 1998 to increase from 50 percent to 90 percent the Federal share of costs with respect to grants for increasing over-the-road bus service accessibility to persons with disabilities (particularly in rural areas). (Sec. 337) Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to replace the high priority project to reconstruct I-235 and improve the interchange for access to the Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway in Des Moines, Iowa, with a high priority project to construct the north-south segments of such Parkway. (Sec. 338) Revises the high priority project for a feasibility and design study of Louisiana Highway 30 between Louisiana Highway 44 and I-10 to include, as an alternative to the study, construction of that segment of Louisiana Highway 30. (Sec. 339) Eliminates the high priority project for the upgrade of U.S. Route 5 between the vicinity of Chillicothe, Ohio, and the Village of Richmond Dale, Ohio. Increases the authorized funding for the high priority project to construct the Chesapeake Bypass in Lawrence County, Ohio. (Sec. 340) Directs the Secretary to withhold the obligation of Federal-aid highway funds for the Central Artery-Tunnel project in Boston, Massachusetts, unless certain conditions are met. Sets a limit on the total Federal contribution to such project. (Sec. 341) Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to increase the maximum annual amount of mass transportation funds that may be provided to a transit provider that operates 20 or fewer vehicles in an urbanized area with a population of at least 200,000 to finance the operating costs of equipment and facilities used by it in providing mass transportation services to the elderly and persons with disabilities. (Sec. 342) Authorizes the use of unobligated balances for the Ebensburg Bypass Demonstration Project (contained in Public Law 101-164) for improvements along Route 56 in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, including the construction of a parking facility in the vicinity. (Sec. 343) Bars the use of funds under this Act for the planning, development, or construction of California State Route 710 freeway extension project through South Pasadena, California. (Sec. 344) Bars the use of funds under this Act for engineering work related to an additional runway at New Orleans International Airport. (Sec. 345) Earmarks up to a specified amount of unobligated balances from capital investment grants for Fayette County, Pennsylvania, intermodal facilities and buses in the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (Public Law 105-277) and the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106-69) for an intermodal parking facility in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. (Sec. 346) Bars the use of funds appropriated under this Act to propose or issue regulations or orders for implementation of the Kyoto Protocol (adopted on December 11, 1997, in Kyoto, Japan, at the Third Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) which has not been submitted to the Senate for advice and consent to ratification and has not been entered into force. (Sec. 349) Bars the use of funds in this Act to adopt guidelines or regulations requiring airport sponsors to provide to the FAA without cost building construction, maintenance, utilities and expenses, or space in airport sponsor-owned buildings for services relating to air traffic control, air navigation, or weather reporting. Provides that such prohibition does not apply to negotiations between the FAA and airport sponsors to achieve agreement on "below-market" rates for such items or to grant assurances that require airport sponsors to provide land without cost to the FAA for ATC facilities. (Sec. 350) Bars the availability of funds under this Act or prior Appropriations Acts for Coast Guard acquisition, construction, and improvements after the 15th of any quarter of any fiscal year beginning after December 31, 1999, unless the Commandant of the Coast Guard first reports quarterly to the Committees on Appropriations on all major Coast Guard acquisition projects executed for it by the U.S. Navy and vessel traffic service projects. (Sec. 351) Amends Federal transportation law to require the Secretary to withhold two percent of the funds authorized for Federal aid highway programs for FY 2004, and increased specified percentages of such amounts for subsequent fiscal years, from any State that has not enacted and is not enforcing a law that considers as intoxicated an individual who has an alcohol concentration level of 0.08 percent or greater while operating a motor vehicle in such State. Allows funds withheld from a State during FY 2004 to be available for up to four fiscal years after such date (to allow a State to meet such requirement within such period), but allows no grace period with respect to funds withheld during subsequent fiscal years. (Sec. 352) Authorizes the Secretary to waive, without charge, any terms contained in the deed conveying U.S. lands to a public institution of higher education in Oklahoma that restrict the use of such land that, as of the date of enactment of this Act, is not being used for the operation of an airport or for air traffic. (Sec. 353) Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to modify a certain highway project in Polk County, Iowa, to replace the extension of NW 86th Street from NW 70th Street with the construction of a road from State Highway 141. (Sec. 354) Authorizes the State of Mississippi to use funds previously allocated to it under the transportation enhancements program, if available, for construction of an underpass to improve access and enhance highway-rail safety and economic development along Star Landing Road in DeSoto County, Mississippi. (Sec. 355) Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century with respect to the high priority project for the environmental review, planning, design, and construction of the Beartooth Highway in Wyoming and Montana. Declares that the non-Federal share of the project may be funded by Federal funds from a non-DOT agency or agencies. (Sec. 356) Designates the New Jersey Transit commuter station to be located at the intersection of the Main-Bergen line and the Northeast Corridor line, New Jersey, as the "Frank R. Lautenberg Station." (Sec. 357) Bars the use of funds under this Act for the planning, development, or construction of a multi-lane, limited access expressway at section 800, Pennsylvania Route 202 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. (Sec. 359) Directs each executive agency to establish a policy in which eligible employees may participate in telecommuting to the maximum extent possible without diminished employee performance. Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to provide that such requirements are applied to 25 percent of the Federal workforce, and to an additional 25 percent of such workforce each year thereafter. (Sec. 360) Authorizes new fixed guideway system funds for the Jackson, Mississippi, Intermodal Corridor in the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998, Public Law 105-66, to be available for obligation for studies to evaluate and define transportation alternatives for such project, including an intermodal facility at Jackson International Airport and for related preliminary engineering, final design, or construction. (Sec. 361) Earmarks specified funds for corridor planning studies between western Baldwin County and Mobile Municipal Airport, Alabama. (Sec. 362) Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to revise certain innovative highway projects to include the Akron (Ohio) Innerbelt (State Route 59) corridor, Broadway viaduct replacement, and the High Street viaduct replacement. (Sec. 363) Amends Federal highway law to declare that the Federal share of costs shall be 100 percent for the reconstruction of a road and causeway in Shiloh Military Park in Hardin County, Tennessee. (Sec. 364) Amends Federal transportation law to require a manufacturer of a motor vehicle, original equipment, or replacement equipment to review and consider information (including information received from any foreign source) to learn whether the vehicle or equipment contains a defect or does not comply with an applicable Federal motor vehicle safety standard. (Sec. 365) Directs the transfer of certain FTA transit planning and research funds for international activities to and administered by the Agency for International Development (AID) for transportation needs in the frontline states to the Kosovo conflict. (Sec. 366) Makes certain discretionary grant funds available for the transit and other transportation-related portions of the Salt Lake City regional commuter system and Gateway intermodal terminal. (Sec. 367) Earmarks a specified amount of Federal-aid highway funds to the Commonwealth of Kentucky for safety grants to help prevent the operation of motor vehicles by intoxicated persons, provided it adopts a 0.08 blood alcohol content standard. (Sec. 368) Directs the Secretary to waive repayment of any Federal-aid highway funds expended by the City of Spokane, Washington, on the Lincoln Street Bridge Project. (Sec. 370) Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to revise the high priority project for reconstruction of U.S. 89 and interchange at 200 North in Kaysville, Utah, to earmark a specified amount for repair and reconstruction of the North Ogden Divide Highway. (Sec. 371) Authorizes States to use allocated highway safety program funds to produce and place highway safety public service messages in television, radio, cinema, and print media, and on the Internet with guidance issued by the Secretary. (Sec. 373) Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to revise the high priority project for construction of the New Jersey Exit 13A Flyover (extension of Kapkowski Road to Trumbull Street) to include the study, design, and construction related to local street improvements needed to complement such extension. (Sec. 374) Revises the high priority project to improve highway access to Humboldt Bay and Harbor Port, California, to also include freight access to such places. (Sec. 375) Authorizes appropriations to the Alabama Department of Transportation for capital costs associated with track relocation, track construction and rehabilitation, highway-rail separation construction activities including right-of-way acquisition and utility relocation, and signal improvements in Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia, and Sheffield, Alabama. Conditions Federal funding upon matching of no less than 75 percent from non-federal sources. (Sec. 376) Authorizes appropriations to Valley Trains and Tours for capital costs associated with track acquisition and rehabilitation between Strasburg Junction and Shenandoah Caverns, Virginia. Sets forth specified conditions. (Sec. 377) Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to replace the high priority project to replace Barton Road-M 14 interchange, Ann Arbor, Michigan, with a high priority project to study all possible alternatives to the current M-14-Barton Drive interchange in Ann Arbor, including relocation of M-14-U.S. 23 from Maple Road to Plymouth Road, mass transit options, and other means of reducing commuter traffic and improving highway safety. (Sec. 378) Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for specified transportation projects. (Sec. 379) Amends the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge Authority Act of 1995 to authorize the appropriation of an additional $600 million for FY 2001 for replacement of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge. Sets forth specified limitations and conditions. (Sec. 380) Amends Federal transportation law to authorize appropriations for FY 2001 (equal to the last three fiscal years) for discretionary grants and loans for new fixed guideway systems and extensions to such systems. Earmarks amounts for specified commuter transit projects. (Sec. 381) Directs the Federal Transit Administrator to sign a Full Funding Grant Agreement for the MOS-2 segment of the New Jersey Urban Core-Hudson Bergen project. (Sec. 382) Bars the use of funds in this Act or any other Act to adjust the boundary of the point Retreat Light Station, Alaska, or to otherwise limit such property. Title IV: Department of the Treasury - Makes additional appropriations for FY 2001 to reduce the public debt. Title V: Department of the Treasury - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) the Department of the Treasury; (2) the Executive Office of the President; (3) the General Services Administration; and (4) the National Archives and Records Administration. General Provisions: This Title - Prohibits funds in the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 from being used by any Federal agency to monitor personal identifiable information on the use of the Internet. Sets forth specified exceptions. (Sec. 502) Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) to authorize a person (other than a political committee) required to file an independent expenditure statement under the FECA to file such statement by facsimile or electronic mail. Requires the Federal Election Commission to make such statements accessible to the public on the Internet within 24 hours after its receipt by the Commission. Exempts from the definition of "contribution" candidate loans based on lines of credit if such a loan is made in accordance with applicable law and under commercially reasonable terms and in the normal course of business. Mandates the time at which certain statements on independent expenditures are received by the appropriate recipient to whom notification is required to be sent as the time of filing with the recipient. (Sec. 503) Earmarks amounts provided to the Office of National Drug Control Policy for the anti-doping efforts of the U.S. Olympic Committee to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Inc., for the conduct of such activities as they relate to U.S. athletes in the Olympic, Pan American, and Paralympic Games. (Sec. 504) Declares that a certain section of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 relating to the Civil Service Retirement System shall have no effect. (Sec. 505) Amends Federal civil service retirement law to reduce to seven percent after December 31, 2000, the required retirement contribution by Federal employees participating under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). (Such contribution currently is scheduled to be 7.5 for calendar years 2001 and 2002, and seven percent after December 31, 2002). Reduces similarly the required percentage contribution under the CSRS for Members of Congress and congressional employees, law enforcement and firefighting personnel, certain judges and magistrates, Capitol Police, and nuclear materials couriers. Makes similar reductions for participants in the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS). Repeals the scheduled 3.5 percent retirement contribution for calendar years 2001 and 2002 for military and volunteer service personnel under FERS. Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to make similar employee retirement contribution reductions under the Foreign Service Pension System. Replaces for FY 2002 (other than employees of the U.S. Postal Service or the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority) the current schedule of required retirement contributions under the CSRS for Federal and congressional employees, law enforcement and firefighting personnel, Capitol Police, nuclear materials couriers, Members of Congress, and certain judges and magistrates. Makes similar changes with respect to employees under the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System and the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System. (Sec. 506) Earmarks specified funds to the U.S. Secret Service for forensic and related support of investigations of missing and exploited children. (Sec. 507) Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2001 to revise provisions establishing within the Capitol Police an Office of Administration to be headed by a Chief Administrative Officer. Requires the Chief Administrative Officer to be appointed by the Chief of the Capitol Police (currently, such Officer is to be appointed by the Comptroller General after consultation with the Capitol Police Board).
Bill· HRH.R. 5384 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 2000
Alternative Fuel Vehicles Intermodal Transportation Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a competitive grant program to assist States, localities, and governmental authorities to purchase, operate, and facilitate the use of alternative fuel vehicles in linked transportation systems. Sets forth grant program requirements. Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees on: (1) the effectiveness of the pilot program, including an assessment of the benefits to the environment derived from the projects included in the program as well as an estimate of the potential benefits to the environment to be derived from widespread application of such intermodal transportation activities; and (2) the mechanisms used by the Secretary to ensure that the information and knowhow gained by program participants is transferred among them and to other interested parties, including other project applicants. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· SS. 3151 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 2000
Directs for the Secretary of Transportation to provide for the National Academy of Sciences to study and report back to the Secretary on the noise impacts of railroad operations, including idling train engines, on the quality of life of nearby communities, the quality of the environment, and safety. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an eligible taxpayer (rail carrier that owns property adjacent to railroad tracks) to take a general business tax credit in an amount equal to 50 percent of the eligible railroad noise abatement expenditures for the taxable year. Defines "eligible railroad noise abatement expenditures" as amounts paid by an eligible taxpayer for installation of sound barriers on property adjacent to railroad tracks, including the implementation of other activities to abate the noise of trains to within levels prescribed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Amends Federal highway law to authorize payment from a State's Federal-aid highway fund apportionment for the entire cost of activities for the abatement of the noise of trains, including construction of sound barriers on public lands or on private property with the consent of the property owner. Amends Federal transportation law to revise certain factors the Surface Transportation Board must consider in a proceeding to approve the consolidation, merger, or acquisition of control of at least two Class I railroads. Includes among such factors: (1) the safety and environmental effects of the proposed transaction; (2) a federalism impact assessment that addresses the preemptive impact of, and associated costs incurred by State and local governments as a result of, such proposed transaction; and (3) all mitigation and impact costs attributed to the transaction. Requires an rail carrier to notify the Governor of the State and its affected communities before it takes any rail-related actions that may increase noise levels there.
Bill· SS. 3152 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 2000
Community Renewal and New Markets Act of 2000 - Title I: Incentives for Distressed Communities - Subtitle A: Designation and Treatment of Renewal Zone s- Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to provide for the designation of up to 30 renewal zones. Treats a renewal zone as an empowerment zone. Subtitle B: Modification of Incentives for Empowerment Zones - Revises provisions concerning empowerment zones, including: (1) extending empowerment zone treatment through 2009; (2) a 15 percent employment credit for all empowerment zones; (3) increased expensing under section 179 (election to expenses certain depreciable assets); (4) exclusion from gross income of limited amounts capital gain from the sale or exchange of a qualified empowerment zone asset; and (5) funding. Subtitle C: Modification of Tax Incentives for DC Zone - Extends and expands IRC District of Columbia Enterprise Zone provisions. Subtitle D: New Markets Tax Credi t- Establishes a new markets tax credit. Subtitle E: Modification of Tax Incentives for Puerto Rico - Revises the of Puerto Rico economic activity tax credit. Subtitle F: Individual Development Accounts - Permits any qualified financial institution, qualified nonprofit organization, or Indian tribe to establish one or more qualified individual development account programs. Defines such an account as an account established for an eligible individual as part of a qualified individual development account program. Sets forth provisions concerning such accounts, including: (1) the structure and administration of account programs; (2) procedures for opening an account and qualifying for matching funds; (3) account contributions and withdrawals; and (4) disregarding account funds of program participants for purposes of certain means-tested Federal programs. Subtitle G: Additional Incentives - Provides for, among other things: (1) the exclusion of certain amounts received under the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program and the F. Edward Hebert Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance Program; (2) the extension of enhanced deduction for corporate donations of computer technology; (3) the extension of the adoption tax credit; and (4) the treatment of Alaska Native Settlement Trusts and Indian tribal governments under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act. Title II: Tax Incentives for Affordable Housing - Subtitle A: Low-Income Housing Credit - Modifies the low-income housing credit. Subtitle B: Historic Homes - Establishes a credit equal to 20 percent of the qualified rehabilitation expenditures made by a taxpayer with respect to a qualified historic home. Subtitle C: Forgiven Mortgage Obligations - Excludes from gross income certain forgiven residential mortgage obligations. Subtitle D: Mortgage Revenue Bonds - Provides: (1) for an increase in the purchase price limitation under mortgage subsidy bond rules based on median family income; (2) revised rules for residences located in presidentially declared disaster areas. Subtitle E: Property and Casualty Insurance - Exempts from income tax State-created organizations providing property and casualty insurance for property for which such coverage is otherwise unavailable. Title III: Tax Incentives for Urban and Rural Infrastructure - Increases the State ceiling on private activity bonds. Modifies the expensing of environmental remediation costs. Provides credits for: (1) broadband internet access; and (2) holders of qualified Amtrak bonds. Includes customer connection fees (including fees to connect a customer's line to or extend a main water or sewer line) as an excludable corporate income item within the definition of "contribution in aid of construction." Includes qualified leasehold improvement property as 15 year property for purposes of the accelerated cost recovery depreciation rules. Title IV: Tax Relief for Farmers - Set forth provisions concerning farmers, including: (1) providing specified deductions and credits (including a deduction for cash paid to a Farm, Fishing, and Ranch Risk Management Accounts; (2) exempting agricultural bonds from the State volume cap; and (3) income averaging. Title V: Tax Incentives for the Production of Energy - Sets forth provisions concerning the production of energy, including: (1) expensing geological and geophysical expenditures; (2) a credit for marginal domestic oil and natural gas well production; and (3) the definition of "foreign base company oil related income." Title VI: Tax Incentives for Conservation - Sets forth provisions concerning conservation, including: (1) the exclusion of 50 percent of gain on certain sales of land or interests in land or water to qualified entities for conservation purposes; (2) a deduction for the certain energy efficient commercial property expenditures; (3) modification of the credit for electricity produced from biomass; and (4) a credit for certain hybrid automobiles. Title VII: Additional Tax Provisions - Revises provisions concerning: (1) the nonaccrual experience method of accounting; (2) the exemption from personal holding company tax for lending or finance companies; (3) a deduction for certain expenses incurred in support of Native Alaskan subsistence whaling; and (4) an excise tax on persons who acquire structured settlement payments in factoring transactions.
Bill· HRH.R. 5361 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 2000
Pipeline Safety Act of 2000 - Amends Federal pipeline safety law to authorize the Secretary of Transportation, if he accepts a State's pipeline safety program certification, to make an agreement with the State authority to develop a plan in which it has a role in the oversight of interstate (gas and hazardous liquid) pipelines (currently, a State has authority over intrastate pipelines and pipeline facilities provided the above certification is made) by participating: (1) in special investigations involving interstate pipeline incidents within its borders; (2) in oversight of new construction of interstate pipelines there; and (3) as an interstate agent by carrying out inspection responsibilities for interstate pipelines within its borders to ensure compliance with Federal pipeline safety standards. Requires each operator of a gas transmission or hazardous liquid pipeline facility to: (1) analyze the risks to each facility located in a high-density population area or environmentally sensitive area; and (2) adopt a written integrity management program to reduce risks at such facilities. Authorizes the Secretary, after notice and an opportunity for a hearing, to determine that a pipeline facility is or would be hazardous if its operation or associated equipment, material, or techniques are hazardous to life, property, or the environment. Increases civil penalties for violations of specified Federal pipeline safety standards. Establishes: (1) civil penalties for the illegal discharge of oil or other hazardous liquid; and (2) both civil and criminal penalties for persons who engage in an excavation activity and subsequently damage a pipeline facility without reporting it promptly. Requires operators of a gas transmission or hazardous liquid pipeline facility to educate the public on the use of a one-call notification system before excavation and other damage prevention activities, the possible hazards associated with unintended facility releases, the physical indications that a pipeline release may have occurred, the steps that should be taken for public safety, and how to report such a release. Sets forth requirements with respect to: (1) support for innovative technology development as it relates to pipeline safety; (2) qualification of pipeline personnel; and (3) a strategic plan to reduce the annual number of pipeline releases caused by outside force damage by 25 percent within four years of enactment of this Act.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 608 (106th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 2000
Designates named Members to majority membership on the House Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure and Armed Services.
Bill· HRH.R. 5347 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2000
Consumer-Friendly Airline Ticket Transfer Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations requiring air carriers to make paper tickets purchased after January 1, 2001, for intrastate or interstate air transportation transferable at no cost. Amends Federal aviation law to prohibit an air carrier from: (1) barring a person (including a governmental entity) that purchases air transportation from using only a portion of such transportation (including using the air transportation purchased only for one-way travel instead of round-trip travel); and (2) assessing an additional fee to such person or any ticket agent that sold the air transportation to such person.
Bill· HRH.R. 5337 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 2000
United States Cruise Vessel Act - Title I: Operations Under Certificate of Documentation - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation with a temporary coastwise endorsement for an eligible foreign-built cruise vessel to operate in domestic itineraries in the transportation of passengers in the coastwise trade between U.S. ports if such vessel meets certain requirements, including that: (1) the operator of the vessel promises that any repairs to it will be performed in a U.S. shipyard; and (2) such operator, with a specified exception, executes a contract with one or more U.S. shipyards for the construction of two or more cruise vessels with a total combined berth or stateroom capacity equal to at least that of the operator's vessel to which a certificate of documentation has been issued. Terminates the coastwise endorsement for an eligible cruise vessel 24 months after the delivery date for the replacement vessel(s) for it. Authorizes the operator of an eligible cruise vessel that has been issued a certificate of documentation, or a cruise vessel that has been constructed under contract, to place such vessel under foreign registry. Prohibits eligible cruise vessels operating in domestic itineraries from operating as a ferry, regularly carrying for hire both passengers and vehicles or other cargo, or operating between or among the Hawaiian Islands. Directs the Secretary to give priority to U.S.- built cruise vessels over other eligible foreign-built cruise vessels in a comparable market that have been issued a certificate of documentation if the Secretary, after notice and an opportunity for public comment, determines that the employment in the coastwise trade of an eligible foreign-built cruise vessel will adversely affect the coastwise trade business of any person operating a vessel not documented under this Act. Title II: Other Provisions - Requires new or otherwise available permits for U.S.-flag vessels carrying passengers for hire into Glacier Bay or other National Park Service areas.
Bill· HRH.R. 5340 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 2000
Amends Federal aviation law to declare that airport noise or access restrictions on the operation of stage 2 and stage 3 aircraft shall not apply to a local restriction limiting the hours of operation of an airport adopted by an airport operator but disallowed by a court before 1985 if: (1) the airport operator adopted before 1985 a policy of encouraging voluntary limitation of the hours of operation; and (2) such operator entered into an agreement before 1985 with scheduled air carriers regulating the capacity of the airport terminal.
Bill· SS. 3121 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2000
Small Business Reauthorization Act of 2000 - Title I: Reauthorization of Small Business Programs - Amends the Small Business Act (the Act) to authorize appropriations and provide funding levels for FY 2001 through 2003 for various small business loans under the Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, including guaranteed business loans, development company loans, microloans, disaster loans, and small business investment company debentures and participating securities. Title II: Quadrennial Small Business Summit - Quadrennial Small Business Summit Act of 2000 - Mandates a national Quadrennial Summit on Small Business, once every four years, to: (1) increase public awareness of the contribution of small business to the national economy; (2) identify the problems of small businesses; (3) examine the status of minorities and women as small business owners; (4) assist small businesses in carrying out its role as the Nation's job creators; (5) assemble small businesses to develop recommendations for legislative and regulatory action for maintaining and encouraging the economic viability of small businesses and, thereby, the Nation; and (6) review the status of recommendations adopted at the prior Summit. Requires each Summit to be preceded by a State Summit on Small Business. (Sec. 206) Establishes the Quadrennial Commission on Small Business. Requires the Commission to: (1) conduct the Quadrennial and State Summits to bring together individuals concerned with issues relating to small business; (2) appoint a Summit Advisory Committee from participants at the last Quadrennial Summit; and (3) report to the President and the Chairpersons and ranking Members of the congressional small business committees on Summit findings, recommendations, and proposals, as well as necessary legislative action to implement such recommendations. Directs the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to assist in carrying out the Quadrennial and State Summits. (Sec. 207) Authorizes appropriations to carry out each Quadrennial and State Summit. Title III: Small Business Involvement in Government Regulation - Small Business Advocacy Review Panel Technical Amendments Act of 2000 - Amends Federal provisions concerning the promulgation of Federal rules to allow representatives of small entities that may be affected to make an oral presentation to a review panel for a proposed rule. Requires the head of an agency covered by the rule to print the report of the review panel in the Federal Register within 180 days after receiving it or as part of the publication of the notice of proposed rulemaking. Prohibits such report from including confidential business information submitted by any small entity representative. Defines as agencies covered by the rule the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service. Title IV: Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration - Independent Office of Advocacy Act - Establishes in the SBA an Office of Advocacy to undertake specified advocate actions on behalf of small businesses, including an assessment of the effectiveness of Federal subsidy and assistance programs for small business, the impact of Federal regulations on small business, and the development and strengthening of minority, women-owned, and other small businesses. Directs the Office to make recommendations to the Chairmen and ranking Members of the small business committees and the SBA Administrator with respect to issues and regulations affecting small business and the necessity for corrective action by the SBA, any Federal department or agency, or Congress. Directs the Chief Counsel to report at least annually to specified congressional committees on Federal agency compliance with certain small business deregulation requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Credit Programs - Amends the Act to authorize the SBA to guarantee a general business loan made by a bank or other financial institution to a small business in the amount of: (1) 75 percent of the outstanding balance of such loan, if such balance exceeds $150,000 (currently $100,000); or (2) 85 percent of the outstanding balance of $150,000 or less (also currently $100,000). Prohibits any such loan from being made to a borrower if the total amount outstanding and committed to the borrower from the business loan and SBA investment funds would exceed $1 million (currently $750,000). Makes current provisions requiring the payment of accrued interest on defaulted guaranteed loans inapplicable to loans made on or after October 1, 2000. Requires a borrower who prepays any loan guaranteed by the SBA to remit to the SBA a subsidy recoupment fee (calculated under this title) if: (1) the loan is for a period of less than 15 years; (2) the prepayment is voluntary; (3) the amount of prepayment in any calendar year is more than 25 percent of the outstanding loan balance; and (4) the prepayment is made within the first three years after disbursement of the loan proceeds. Revises loan guarantee fee amounts, requiring progressively higher percentage fees for amounts in excess of $150,000, between $150,000, and $700,000, and over $700,000. Authorizes a borrower to permanently lease to one or more tenants not more than 20 percent of any property constructed using guaranteed loan proceeds, as long as the borrower permanently occupies and uses not less than 60 percent of the total business space in the property. Authorizes the Administrator to conduct criminal background checks of loan applicants. (Current law authorizes the SBA only to verify an applicant's background through the best available means.) Authorizes the Administrator to require an applicant to provide identifying information to aid in such check. Requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation to make available to the Administrator for such checks the National Crime Information Center computer system. (Sec. 502) Authorizes any Federal savings association to invest in any one or more small business investment companies, but limits the total amount of such investments to five percent of the capital and surplus of such association. Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to provide applicable Federal and State statutes of limitations for violations under such Act. Includes a licensee's employees, agents, or other participants in the management or conduct of the affairs of such licensee among those subject to disciplinary action by the SBA. Defines "long-term," when used in connection with equity capital or loan funds invested in any small business or smaller enterprise, as not less than one year. Revises the amount of subsidy fees charged for debentures and participating securities under the small business investment company debenture program. (Sec. 503) Amends the SBA Microloan program to: (1) increase certain loan limits; (2) remove the requirement that participating intermediaries make only short-term loans; (3) allow loan intermediaries to expend more of grant funds to provide needed information and technical assistance to small business lendees; (4) increase the number of grants and participating intermediaries; and (5) authorize the Administrator to use up to $1 million of the annual appropriation to the SBA for technical assistance grants to subcontract with national trade associations or eligible intermediaries to provide peer-to-peer capacity building and training to participating lenders and organizations seeking to become lenders. (Sec. 504) Requires small business lending companies to pay the costs of annual SBA examinations. (Sec. 505) Increases from $1.25 million to $2 million the maximum size of surety bonds that can be guaranteed by the SBA under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958. Extends through FY 2003 the Preferred Surety Bond program. (Sec. 506) Revises the interest rate charged for SBA development company debentures. Title VI: HUBZone Program - Subtitle A: HUBZones in Native America - HUBZones in Native America Act of 2000 - Amends the Act to include small businesses owned and controlled by Alaska Native Corporations or by Natives (Alaska or Indian) or Indian tribal governments as eligible entities under the HUBZone Program (a program offering business start-up loans for entities in historically underutilized business zones). (Sec. 603) Includes as a qualified HUBZone small business one which is owned in whole or part by an Indian tribal government, when at least 35 percent of its employees performing an SBA-awarded HUBZone contract reside either within an Indian reservation or in any HUBZone adjoining such reservation. Includes within a HUBZone pilot program for sparsely populated areas a small business located in Alaska if it is located within an Alaska HUBZone and at least 35 percent of its employees performing a HUBZone contract live in Alaska or an Alaska HUBZone. Subtitle B: Other HUBZone Provisions - Revises certain definitions under the HUBZone Program. Provides transitional qualification for a business that was in a qualified nonmetropolitan county which is later disqualified as a result of newly-updated unemployment data. Provides that, with respect to a ten percent price evaluation preference currently awarded to small businesses over other businesses in the procurement of commodity items, such preference shall not apply to commodities purchased under full and open competition if: (1) the contracting officer sets aside at least ten percent of the offer for competition restricted to certain socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses or for sole source contracts for such businesses; and (2) such officer provides a set-aside or sole source contract of not less than an additional ten percent of the quantity of the commodity to be purchased. Requires such contracting officer to give a preference in awarding such commodity contracts to qualified HUBZone small businesses that are also eligible to be awarded contracts under the SBA general business loan program. (Sec. 614) Includes as an eligible HUBZone small business one which is: (1) wholly owned by a community development corporation that has received financial assistance under the Community Economic Development Act of 1981; or (2) owned in part by one or more community development corporations, if all other owners are either U.S. citizens or small businesses. Title VII: National Women's Business Council Reauthorization - National Women's Business Council Reauthorization Act of 2000 - Amends the Women's Business Ownership Act of 1988 to add specified duties of the National Women's Business Council, including working with Federal agencies to assist them in meeting the five percent women's procurement goal (obtaining five percent of all Federal procurement contracts and subcontracts) established under the Act. (Sec. 704) Repeals a required Council study on the award of Federal prime contracts and subcontracts to women-owned businesses. Directs the Council to work with State and local officials and business leaders to develop the infrastructure for women's business enterprise so as to increase women's effectiveness in shaping the economic agendas of their States and communities. (Sec. 706) Extends through FY 2003 the authorization of appropriations for Council activities. Title VIII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the Administrator to establish a Native American Small Business Development Center Network and a Tribal Electronic Commerce Small Business Resource Center. Authorizes the Administrator to provide one or more contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements to any established tribal organization to establish the Network and Resource Center. Provides authorized Network services, including: (1) providing current business management and technical assistance that primarily serves Alaska Natives, members of Indian tribes, or Native Hawaiians; (2) providing tribal business information centers with current electronic commerce information, training, and technical assistance; (3) supporting the Resource Center; and (4) providing any service that any other small business development center is authorized to provide. Provides matching funds requirements, with an authorized waiver by the Administrator and an exception for contracts, grants, or agreements made to a tribal organization for the Resource Center. Authorizes appropriations for the Network and the Resource Center. (Sec. 802) Adds informational aids and education to the types of assistance authorized to be provided to small businesses by the SBA. (Sec. 803) Amends the Federal criminal code to include as an enforceable offense a false statement made to the SBA in connection with an activity of a small business investment company. Subjects individuals making such statements to civil penalties set forth under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989. (Sec. 805) Amends the: (1) Small Business Administration Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 1994 to extend through FY 2003 the Very Small Business Program; and (2) Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 to extend through FY 2005 Federal procurement procedures aimed at obtaining certain contracting goals for small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. (Sec. 807) Includes small businesses owned and controlled by veterans and service-disabled veterans within a preference for small businesses for the performance of contracts let by any Federal agency. (Sec. 808) Revises industry size standards for purposes of placing an appropriate amount of contracts offered by such industries among small businesses. Increases from $500,000 to $750,000 the maximum annual receipts permitted to be realized by an agricultural enterprise to still be considered a small business for purposes of the Act. Provides a 200-employee limit for fresh fruit and vegetable packing houses for such consideration. (Sec. 809) Extends through FY 2002 the SBA's drug-free workplace program.
Bill· HRH.R. 5324 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2000
Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 2000 - Title I: Provisions Relating to Part A - Subtitle A: Skilled Nursing Facilities - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with regard to eliminating the reduction in the skilled nursing facility (SNF) market basket update. (Sec. 102) Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 (BBRA) to revise the BBRA increase for SNFs in FY 2001 and 2002. (Sec. 103) Requires a Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) study and report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Congress on nursing home costs to determine the adequacy of Medicare payment rates for items and services furnished by SNFs. Grants the Secretary the authority to make payment adjustments for covered SNF services if appropriate as a result of the study. Subtitle B: PPS Hospitals - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) revise the reduction of indirect graduate medical education payments; (2) eliminate the reduction in the Prospective Payment System (PPS) hospital payment update; (3) eliminate the reduction in disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments; and (4) change the payment formulas for DSH hospitals; and (5) modify the payment rate for Puerto Rico hospitals. (Sec. 115) Increases the DSH allotments under Medicaid for the District of Columbia. Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) to provide for the optional eligibility of certain alien pregnant women and children for Medicaid and SCHIP. (Sec. 117) Requires a MedPAC study on hospital area wage indexes for a report to the Secretary and Congress. Subtitle C: PPS Exempt Hospitals - Amends SSA title XVIII to provide for the treatment of certain cancer hospitals (Sec. 122) Makes certain changes with regard to the PPS for inpatient rehabilitation services and payment during the transition period under current law. Subtitle D: Hospice Care - Amends SSA title XVIII to revise payments for hospice care. Subtitle E: Other Provisions - Amends SSA title XVIII to outline various provisions concerned with: (1) hospital compliance with the Bloodborne Pathogens standard; (2) an Informatics and Data Systems Grant Program; and (3) relief from the Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance) late enrollment penalty for a group buy-in for State and local retirees. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle F: Transitional Provisions - Reclassifies certain counties and areas in specified States (including the Boston and Barnstable-Yarmouth Metropolitan Statistical Areas) for purposes of reimbursement under the Medicare program. Title II: Provisions Relating to Part B - Subtitle A: Hospital Outpatient Services - Amends SSA title XVIII to provide for reduction of the effective hospital outpatient department (HOPD) coinsurance rate to 20 percent by 2019. (Sec. 202) Revises the formula for calculating the base payment-to-cost-ratio component of HOPD PPS transitional corridor payments to include in such formula (and so cover) certain hospitals that did not submit cost reports for 1996. (Sec. 203) Provides a permanent guarantee of pre-Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA '97) payment levels for HOPD services furnished by children's hospitals. Subtitle B: Provisions Relating to Physicians - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to grant medical students a deferment on their student loans for a period not to exceed the length of their full initial residency period. (Sec. 212) Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to the Secretary and Congress on: (1) the post-payment audit process under Medicare as it applies to physicians; and (2) the aggregate effects of regulatory, audit, oversight, and paperwork burdens on physicians and other health care providers participating in Medicare. (Sec. 213) Directs MEDPAC to study and report to the Secretary and Congress on the refinements to the practice expense relative value units during the transition to a resource-based practice expense system for physician payments under Medicare. Subtitle C: Ambulance Services - Amends SSA title XVIII with regard to the establishment of a fee schedule for ambulance services to allow a supplier of ambulance services to elect to forego phase-in of such schedule and receive payments based only upon it. (Sec. 222) Establishes a prudent layperson standard for emergency ambulance services. (Sec. 223) Eliminates the reduction in inflation adjustments for ambulance services. (Sec. 224) Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the means by which rural areas with low population densities can be identified for the purpose of designating areas in which the cost of providing ambulance services would be expected to be higher than similar services provided in more heavily populated areas because of low usage. (Sec. 225) Outlines provisions for interim payments for rural ground ambulance services until such time as the established fee schedule is modified by a specified regulation. (Sec. 226) Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to the Secretary and Congress on the costs of providing emergency and medical transportation services across the range of acuity levels of conditions for which such transportation services are provided. Subtitle D: Preventive Services - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) prohibit deductibles and coinsurance for various specified preventive benefits; (2) add lancets to the definition of durable medical equipment; and (3) provide coverage of counseling for cessation of tobacco use, glaucoma detection tests, and medical nutrition therapy services for beneficiaries with diabetes, a cardiovascular disease, or a renal disease. (Sec. 235) Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a series of studies, for an annual report to the Congress, designed to identify preventive interventions that can be delivered in the primary care setting that are most valuable to older Americans; and (2) contract with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to study and report periodically to the President on current literature and best practices in the field of health promotion and disease prevention among Medicare beneficiaries. (Sec. 237) Provides for fast-track consideration of preventive benefit legislation resulting from recommendations accompanying such study reports. Subtitle E: Other Services - Amends SSA title XVIII with regard to: (1) revision of the moratorium on caps for therapy services; (2) revision of coverage of immunosuppressive drugs; (3) extension of certain secondary payer requirements; (4) State accreditation of diabetes self-management training programs; (5) elimination of the reduction in payment amounts for orthotics and prosthetics, parenteral and enteral nutrients, supplies, and equipment and oxygen and oxygen equipment; (6) standards regarding payment for certain orthotics and prosthetics; (7) revision of the definition of orthotics; (8) new pap smear technologies and other new clinical laboratory test technologies; (9) increase in payments for certified nurse-midwife services; and (10) payment for administration services associated with chemotherapy and for blood clotting drug-related activities. (Sec. 249) Directs MEDPAC to study and report to the Secretary and Congress on the provision of in-home infusion therapy nursing services. (Sec. 250) Amends SSA title XVIII to provide for Medicare coverage of vision rehabilitation services. (Sec. 251) Amends SSA title XVIII part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) with respect to the amounts of part B premiums to limit the Medicare late enrollment penalty to ten percent and twice the period of no enrollment. Title III: Provisions Relating to Parts A and B - Subtitle A: Home Health Services - Amends SSA title XVIII to eliminate a specified 15 percent reduction in cost and per beneficiary limits with respect to payment rates for home health services under the Medicare PPS. (Sec. 302) Provides for additional payments: (1) for outliers; and (2) under the PPS for services furnished in rural areas and security services. (Sec. 304) Excludes from the Medicare PPS certain nonroutine medical supplies furnished by a home health agency. Details certain study and reporting requirements with regard to such exclusion. (Sec. 305) Declares that, with regard to eligibility for Medicare home health benefits, any absence of an individual from the home attributable to health care treatment, including regular absences for such treatment in an adult day-care program, shall not disqualify the individual from being considered confined to home. (Sec. 306) Directs the Secretary to establish standards for the operation of a branch office, a service site for home health services controlled and supervised by a home health agency. (Sec. 307) Provides for the treatment of home health services provided in certain counties in the State of New York. (Sec. 308) Permits a home health agency to receive Medicare payments for a home health service furnished via a telecommunications system. Subtitle B: Direct Graduate Medical Education - Provides that, for cost reporting periods between October 1, 2000, and October 1, 2005, in applying the limitations regarding the total number of full-time equivalent interns and residents in the field of allopathic or osteopathic medicine under Medicare for a hospital, the Secretary shall not take into account a maximum of three interns or residents in the field of geriatric medicine to the extent the hospital increases the number of geriatric interns or residents above the number of such interns or residents for the hospital's most recent cost reporting period ending before October 1, 2000. (Sec. 312) Amends SSA title XI part A (General Provisions) to establish a program of payments to children's hospitals that operate graduate medical education programs. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 313) Provides that, effective for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 1999, for purposes of Medicare payments to hospitals for costs of approved educational activities, such activities shall include the clinical portion of professional educational training programs recognized by the Secretary for clinical psychologists. (Sec. 314) Amends SSA title XVIII to provide for the treatment of certain newly established residency programs in computing Medicare payments for the costs of medical education. (Sec. 315) Revises the limitation during FY 1997 on allopathic and osteopathic residents for payment of both the indirect and direct costs of graduate medical education at an accredited community health center, if the hospital conducting the residency program incurred all or substantially all of the training costs. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends SSA title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) to provide for a waiver of the 24-month waiting period for Medicare coverage of individuals disabled with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Title IV: Rural Provider Provisions - Subtitle A: Critical Access Hospitals - Amends SSA title XVIII with regard to payments to critical access hospitals for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests. (Sec. 402) Amends SSA title XVIII, as amended by BBRA, to revise the payment for professional services provided by a critical access hospital. (Sec. 403) Amends SSA title XVIII to permit critical access hospitals to operate PPS-exempt distinct part psychiatric and rehabilitation units. Subtitle B: Medicare Dependent, Small Rural Hospital Program - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) make the Medicare-dependent, small rural hospital program permanent; and (2) give any hospital under such program the option of basing eligibility for payment on discharges during any of the three most recent audited cost reporting periods in lieu of the current basing of eligibility for payment on discharges during the cost reporting period beginning in FY 1987. Subtitle C: Sole Community Hospitals - Amends SSA title XVIII to extend the option to use rebased target amounts to all sole community hospitals. (Sec. 422) States that, for purposes of discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2000, the Greensville Memorial Hospital located in Emporia, Virginia, shall be deemed to have satisfied the travel time criteria under applicable Medicare provisions for classification as a sole community hospital. Subtitle D: Other Rural Hospital Provisions - Amends SSA title XVIII to exempt Medicare swing bed hospitals from the PPS for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). (Sec. 431) Amends BBRA to make January 1, 2001, the effective date of the elimination of certain restrictions with respect to the hospital swing bed program. (Sec. 432) Amends SSA title XVIII to mandate pre-BBA '97 payment levels for outpatient services furnished by rural hospitals. (Sec. 433) Provides for the treatment of certain physician pathology services under Medicare. Subtitle E: Other Rural Provisions - Amends SSA title XVIII with regard to bonus payments in the case of physicians' services furnished to an individual who is covered under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) and who incurs expenses for such services in a health professional shortage area. Extends such bonus payments to physician assistant and nurse practitioner services. Eliminates the requirement to make such payments on a monthly or a quarterly basis. (Sec. 442) Modifies: (1) the exemption to the limits established on payment for provider-based rural health clinic services in the case of such clinics in rural hospitals with less than 50 beds; and (2) payment for certain physician assistant services. (Sec. 444) Excludes clinical social worker services and worker services performed under a contract with a rural health clinic or a Federally-qualified health center from the PPS for SNFs. (Sec. 445) Covers marriage and family therapist services provided in rural health clinics under Medicare. (Sec. 446) Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to: (1) create a capital infrastructure revolving loan program for rural entities for projects for capital improvements; (2) provide for grants to assist eligible small rural hospitals in offsetting the costs of establishing data systems to implement PPSs under Medicare, and to comply with administrative simplification requirements under Medicare part C (Medicare+Choice), or to reduce medication errors; (3) provide for grants to eligible small rural hospitals to provide relief for financial distress that has a negative impact on access to care for Medicare beneficiaries who reside in a rural area. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 449) Amends BBA '97 to revise provisions for Medicare reimbursement for telehealth services with respect to: (1) the methodology for determining the amount of payments; (2) reimbursement for Medicare beneficiaries who do not reside in a health professional shortage area; (3) telehealth coverage for direct patient care; (4) eligibility for telehealth reimbursement for all physicians and practitioners; and (5) telehealth services provided using store-and-forward technologies. (Sec. 450) Directs MEDPAC to study and report to the Secretary and Congress on the effect of low patient and procedure volume on the financial status of low-volume, isolated rural health care providers participating in Medicare. Title V: Provisions Relating to Part C (Medicare+Choice Program) and Other Medicare Managed Care Provisions - Amends SSA title XVIII part C (Medicare+Choice) with regard to eligibility, election, and enrollment to provide for restoring the effective date of elections and changes of elections of Medicare+Choice plans. (Sec. 502) Amends SSA title XVIII part D (Miscellaneous) with regard to certification of Medicare supplemental health insurance (Medigap) policies. Sets forth a special Medigap enrollment anti-discrimination provision for certain beneficiaries. (Sec. 503) Amends SSA title XVIII part C with regard to payments to Medicare+Choice organizations to: (1) increase the national per capita Medicare+Choice growth percentage in 2001 and 2002; and (2) modify area-specific and national percentages provisions with respect to calculation of annual Medicare+Choice capitation rates. (Sec. 505) Delays from July 1, 2000, to November 1, 2000, the deadline for a Medicare+Choice organization to withdraw the offering of a Medicare+Choice plan under part C (or otherwise to submit information required for the offering of such a plan) for 2001. (Sec. 506) Amends SSA title XVIII to make certain amounts in the Medicare trust funds available for the Secretary's share of Medicare+Choice education and enrollment-related costs. (Sec. 507) Amends BBRA to revise terms and conditions for extension of Medicare community nursing organization demonstration projects. (Sec. 508) Amends SSA title XVIII part C with regard to payments to Medicare+Choice organizations to modify payment rules for certain frail elderly Medicare beneficiaries. Title VI: Provisions Relating to Individuals with End-Stage Renal Disease - Amends SSA title XVIII part D with respect to Medicare coverage for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients to change the methodology for determining the update in the renal dialysis composite rate for end state renal dialysis services furnished after January 1, 2001. (Sec. 602) Amends SSA title XVIII part C with regard to payments to Medicare+Choice organizations to provide for revision of payment rates for ESRD patients enrolled in Medicare+Choice plans. (Sec. 603) Permits ESRD beneficiaries to enroll in another Medicare+Choice plan if the plan in which they are enrolled is terminated. (Sec. 604) Amends SSA title XVIII part B to provide for the coverage of certain vascular access services for ESRD beneficiaries provided by ambulatory surgical centers. (Sec. 605) Directs the Secretary to: (1) collect information on the satisfaction of each ESRD Medicare beneficiary with the quality of health care under the original fee-for-service Medicare program and the Medicare+Choice program, and the access of each beneficiary to that care; (2) analyze such information to determine, among other things, the kinds of health care that each nondialysis health care provider provides to each ESRD Medicare beneficiary for the treatment of ESRD and each comorbidity and the quality of health care provided to each such beneficiary enrolled under the Medicare+Choice program compared to each beneficiary enrolled under the original fee-for-service Medicare program; and (3) make such information collected and analysis conducted available to the public each year. Title VII: Access to Care Improvements Through Medicaid and SCHIP - Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to create a new PPS for federally-qualified health centers and rural health clinics. (Sec. 702) Amends SSA title XIX to make permanent the extension of eligibility for medical assistance, and give States the option of electing a 12-month initial eligibility period in lieu of the current six month initial eligibility period. (Sec. 703) Amends SSA title XIX with regard to State Medicaid plans to provide for coordination with Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) under SSA title XXI of the application of resource and income eligibility standards for certain Medicaid-eligible individuals under certain conditions, as well as providing for the automatic reassessment of eligibility for Medicaid and SCHIP benefits for children losing Medicaid- or SCHIP-eligibility. (Sec. 704) Amends SSA titles XIX and XXI to qualify additional entities to determine presumptive eligibility for low-income children under Medicaid and SCHIP. (Sec. 705) Amends SSA title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) to: (1) increase the authorization of appropriations; and (2) provide for coordination with Medicaid and SCHIP. (Sec. 706) Amends SSA title XIX to provide for increased access to Medicare cost-sharing assistance for low-income beneficiaries. (Sec. 707) Provides for: (1) optional State Medicaid coverage of breast and cervical cancer prevention and treatment coverage for certain breast and cervical cancer patients; (2) optional State Medicaid presumptive eligibility for certain breast or cervical cancer patients; and (3) an enhanced Federal match to be used under SCHIP with respect to medical assistance provided to such breast and cervical cancer patients receiving such optional State Medicaid coverage. (Sec. 708) Revises Medicaid coverage of services furnished by certified nurse practitioners, including coverage of services furnished by clinical nurse specialists. Title VIII: Other Provisions - Amends the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998 to make appropriations to the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund for FY 2001. (Sec. 802) Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to increase appropriations for special diabetes programs for children with type 1 diabetes and for Indians. (Sec. 803) Directs the Secretary to award demonstration grants to up to seven States to conduct innovative programs designed to improve outreach to homeless individuals and families under specified Social Security programs with respect to enrollment and the provision of services under such programs. Makes appropriations. (Sec. 804) Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and PHSA to prohibit health insurance provided through a managed care organization under a group health plan, or through a health insurance issuer providing coverage in connection with a group health plan, (and, for the PHSA, health insurance in the individual market) from denying coverage of services provided by a continuing care retirement community or other qualified facility if they are: (1) post-hospitalization services in the same community or facility as in pre-hospitalization; (2) skilled nursing services, without a preceding hospitalization, which are necessary to prevent hospitalization; or (3) furnished in the same facility the participant's or beneficiary's spouse already resides in. Makes the prohibition: (1) depend on whether such services are otherwise covered; and (2) regardless of whether the organization is under contract with the community or facility. Prohibits related denial of enrollment or renewal, incentives to enrollees, and penalties or incentives to physicians. Declares that State laws are not preempted which meet certain requirements, including any more protective of participants or beneficiaries than those of this Act. Provides for enforcement. (Sec. 805) Directs the Secretary to award grants to eligible States to support real choice systems change initiatives that establish specific action steps and specific timetables to: (1) achieve enduring system improvements; and (2) provide consumer-responsive long-term services and supports to eligible individuals in the most integrated setting appropriate based on the unique strengths and needs of the individual, the priorities and concerns of the individual (or, as appropriate, the individual's representative), and the individual's desires with regard to participation in community life. Requires each State, in order to receive such a grant, to establish a Consumer Task Force to assist in the development, implementation, and evaluation of real choice systems change initiatives. Provides funding.
Bill· HRH.R. 5323 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2000
Airport Medical Assistance Act of 2000 - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to issue regulations to require automatic external defibrillators in terminals at airports with 100,000 or more annual enplanements. Grants immunity from civil liability (except for harm caused by willful or criminal misconduct or gross negligence) to any person who uses an automated external defibrillator device on a victim of a perceived medical emergency at an airport.
Bill· SS. 3114 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 2000
Native American Telecommunications Improvement and Value Enhancement Act - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program to make loans to eligible Indian tribes, or tribal entities that have entered into a partnership with a telecommunications carrier, to enable such tribes to provide for the development of telecommunications infrastructure (wireline or wireless) on lands under their jurisdiction. Outlines tribal eligibility requirements, including submission of a telecommunications plan. Establishes in the Treasury the Native American Telecommunications Improvement Revolving Fund to make loans and award grants to eligible tribes. Limits loan interest rates dependent upon tribal per capita income. Directs the Secretary to award grants to enable tribes to conduct feasibility studies with respect to telecommunications projects. Limits grants to $200,000. Authorizes appropriations for such loans and grants. Terminates the program on the earlier of: (1) ten years after the first loan is made; or (2) the date on which the Secretary determines that the telecommunications penetration rate is at least 90 percent of all households on reservation lands.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 408 (106th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 2000
Expresses appreciation for: (1) the U.S. service members who died in the sinking of the HMT ROHNA, a British transport ship, by the Germans in November 1943; (2) the U.S. service members who survived the sinking; (3) the families of all such service members; and (4) the U.S., British, and French rescuers, especially the crew of the USS PIONEER.
Bill· HRH.R. 5270 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 2000
Amends Federal aviation law to declare that nothing in provisions regarding Federal preemption over air transportation prices, routes, and service shall be construed to prevent a State attorney general from enforcing any State law prohibiting unfair or deceptive business practices or unfair methods of competition with respect to air transportation or the advertisement or sale of air transportation services.
Bill· SS. 3077 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 2000
Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 2000 - Title I: Provisions Relating to Part A - Subtitle A: Skilled Nursing Facilities - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with regard to eliminating the reduction in the skilled nursing facility (SNF) market basket update. (Sec. 102) Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 (BBRA) to revise the BBRA increase for SNFs in FY 2001 and 2002. (Sec. 103) Requires a Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) study and report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Congress on nursing home costs to determine the adequacy of Medicare payment rates for items and services furnished by SNFs. Grants the Secretary the authority to make payment adjustments for covered SNF services if appropriate as a result of the study. Subtitle B: PPS Hospitals - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) revise the reduction of indirect graduate medical education payments; (2) eliminate the reduction in the Prospective Payment System (PPS) hospital payment update; (3) eliminate the reduction in disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments; and (4) change the payment formulas for DSH hospitals; and (5) modify the payment rate for Puerto Rico hospitals. (Sec. 115) Increases the DSH allotments under Medicaid for the District of Columbia. Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) to provide for the optional eligibility of certain alien pregnant women and children for Medicaid and SCHIP. (Sec. 117) Requires a MedPAC study on hospital area wage indexes for a report to the Secretary and Congress. Subtitle C: PPS Exempt Hospitals - Amends SSA title XVIII to provide for the treatment of certain cancer hospitals (Sec. 122) Makes certain changes with regard to the PPS for inpatient rehabilitation services and payment during the transition period under current law. Subtitle D: Hospice Care - Amends SSA title XVIII to revise payments for hospice care. Subtitle E: Other Provisions - Amends SSA title XVIII to outline various provisions concerned with: (1) hospital compliance with the Bloodborne Pathogens standard; (2) an Informatics and Data Systems Grant Program; and (3) relief from the Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance) late enrollment penalty for a group buy-in for State and local retirees. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle F: Transitional Provisions - Reclassifies certain counties and areas in specified States for purposes of reimbursement under the Medicare program. Title II: Provisions Relating to Part B - Subtitle A: Hospital Outpatient Services - Amends SSA title XVIII to provide for reduction of the effective hospital outpatient department (HOPD) coinsurance rate to 20 percent by 2019. (Sec. 202) Revises the formula for calculating the base payment-to-cost-ratio component of HOPD PPS transitional corridor payments to include in such formula (and so cover) certain hospitals that did not submit cost reports for 1996. (Sec. 203) Provides a permanent guarantee of pre-Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA '97) payment levels for HOPD services furnished by children's hospitals. Subtitle B: Provisions Relating to Physicians - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to grant medical students a deferment on their student loans for a period not to exceed the length of their full initial residency period. (Sec. 212) Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to the Secretary and Congress on: (1) the post-payment audit process under Medicare as it applies to physicians; and (2) the aggregate effects of regulatory, audit, oversight, and paperwork burdens on physicians and other health care providers participating in Medicare. (Sec. 213) Directs MEDPAC to study and report to the Secretary and Congress on the refinements to the practice expense relative value units during the transition to a resource-based practice expense system for physician payments under Medicare. Subtitle C: Ambulance Services - Amends SSA title XVIII with regard to the establishment of a fee schedule for ambulance services to allow a supplier of ambulance services to elect to forego phase-in of such schedule and receive payments based only upon it. (Sec. 222) Establishes a prudent layperson standard for emergency ambulance services. (Sec. 223) Eliminates the reduction in inflation adjustments for ambulance services. (Sec. 224) Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the means by which rural areas with low population densities can be identified for the purpose of designating areas in which the cost of providing ambulance services would be expected to be higher than similar services provided in more heavily populated areas because of low usage. (Sec. 225) Outlines provisions for interim payments for rural ground ambulance services until such time as the established fee schedule is modified by a specified regulation. (Sec. 226) Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to the Secretary and Congress on the costs of providing emergency and medical transportation services across the range of acuity levels of conditions for which such transportation services are provided. Subtitle D: Preventive Services - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) prohibit deductibles and coinsurance for various specified preventive benefits; (2) add lancets to the definition of durable medical equipment; and (3) provide coverage of counseling for cessation of tobacco use, glaucoma detection tests, and medical nutrition therapy services for beneficiaries with diabetes, a cardiovascular disease, or a renal disease. (Sec. 235) Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a series of studies, for an annual report to the Congress, designed to identify preventive interventions that can be delivered in the primary care setting that are most valuable to older Americans; and (2) contract with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to study and report periodically to the President on current literature and best practices in the field of health promotion and disease prevention among Medicare beneficiaries. (Sec. 237) Provides for fast-track consideration of preventive benefit legislation resulting from recommendations accompanying such study reports. Subtitle E: Other Services - Amends SSA title XVIII with regard to: (1) revision of the moratorium on caps for therapy services; (2) revision of coverage of immunosuppressive drugs; (3) extension of certain secondary payer requirements; (4) State accreditation of diabetes self-management training programs; (5) elimination of the reduction in payment amounts for orthotics and prosthetics, parenteral and enteral nutrients, supplies, and equipment and oxygen and oxygen equipment; (6) standards regarding payment for certain orthotics and prosthetics; (7) revision of the definition of orthotics; (8) new pap smear technologies and other new clinical laboratory test technologies; (9) increase in payments for certified nurse-midwife services; and (10) payment for administration services associated with chemotherapy and for blood clotting drug-related activities. (Sec. 249) Directs MEDPAC to study and report to the Secretary and Congress on the provision of in-home infusion therapy nursing services. Title III: Provisions Relating to Parts A and B - Subtitle A: Home Health Services - Amends SSA title XVIII to eliminate a specified 15 percent reduction in cost and per beneficiary limits with respect to payment rates for home health services under the Medicare PPS. (Sec. 302) Excludes from such PPS certain nonroutine medical supplies furnished by a home health agency. Details certain study and reporting requirements with regard to such exclusion. (Sec. 303) Permits home health patients with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia to participate in adult-day care programs. (Sec. 304) Directs the Secretary to establish standards for the operation of a branch office, a service site for home health services controlled and supervised by a home health agency. (Sec. 305) Provides for the treatment of home health services provided in certain counties in the State of New York. Subtitle B: Direct Graduate Medical Education - Provides that, for cost reporting periods between October 1, 2000, and October 1, 2005, in applying the limitations regarding the total number of full-time equivalent interns and residents in the field of allopathic or osteopathic medicine under Medicare for a hospital, the Secretary shall not take into account a maximum of three interns or residents in the field of geriatric medicine to the extent the hospital increases the number of geriatric interns or residents above the number of such interns or residents for the hospital's most recent cost reporting period ending before October 1, 2000. (Sec. 312) Amends SSA title XI part A (General Provisions) to establish a program of payments to children's hospitals that operate graduate medical education programs. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 313) Provides that, effective for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 1999, for purposes of Medicare payments to hospitals for costs of approved educational activities, such activities shall include the clinical portion of professional educational training programs recognized by the Secretary for clinical psychologists. (Sec. 314) Amends SSA title XVIII to provide for the treatment of certain newly established residency programs in computing Medicare payments for the costs of medical education. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous - Amends SSA title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) to provide for a waiver of the 24-month waiting period for Medicare coverage of individuals disabled with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Title IV: Rural Provider Provisions - Subtitle A: Critical Access Hospitals - Amends SSA title XVIII with regard to payments to critical access hospitals for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests. (Sec. 402) Amends SSA title XVIII, as amended by BBRA, to revise the payment for professional services provided by a critical access hospital. (Sec. 403) Amends SSA title XVIII to permit critical access hospitals to operate PPS-exempt distinct part psychiatric and rehabilitation units. Subtitle B: Medicare Dependent, Small Rural Hospital Program - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) make the Medicare-dependent, small rural hospital program permanent; and (2) give any hospital under such program the option of basing eligibility for payment on discharges during any of the three most recent audited cost reporting periods in lieu of the current basing of eligibility for payment on discharges during the cost reporting period beginning in FY 1987. Subtitle C: Sole Community Hospitals - Amends SSA title XVIII to extend the option to use rebased target amounts to all sole community hospitals. (Sec. 422) States that, for purposes of discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2000, the Greensville Memorial Hospital located in Emporia, Virginia, shall be deemed to have satisfied the travel time criteria under applicable Medicare provisions for classification as a sole community hospital. Subtitle D: Other Rural Hospital Provisions - Amends SSA title XVIII to exempt Medicare swing bed hospitals from the PPS for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). (Sec. 431) Amends BBRA to make January 1, 2001, the effective date of the elimination of certain restrictions with respect to the hospital swing bed program. (Sec. 432) Amends SSA title XVIII to mandate pre-BBA '97 payment levels for outpatient services furnished by rural hospitals. (Sec. 433) Provides for the treatment of certain physician pathology services under Medicare. Subtitle E: Other Rural Provisions - Amends SSA title XVIII with regard to bonus payments in the case of physicians' services furnished to an individual who is covered under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) and who incurs expenses for such services in a health professional shortage area. Extends such bonus payments to physician assistant and nurse practitioner services. Eliminates the requirement to make such payments on a monthly or a quarterly basis. (Sec. 442) Modifies: (1) the exemption to the limits established on payment for provider-based rural health clinic services in the case of such clinics in rural hospitals with less than 50 beds; and (2) payment for certain physician assistant services. (Sec. 444) Directs the Secretary to provide for bonus payments for rural home health agencies in the case of home health services furnished in a rural area in 2001 and 2002. (Sec. 445) Excludes clinical social worker services and worker services performed under a contract with a rural health clinic or a Federally-qualified health center from the PPS for SNFs. (Sec. 446) Covers marriage and family therapist services provided in rural health clinics under Medicare. (Sec. 447) Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to: (1) create a capital infrastructure revolving loan program for rural entities for projects for capital improvements; (2) provide for grants to assist eligible small rural hospitals in offsetting the costs of establishing data systems to implement PPSs under Medicare, and to comply with administrative simplification requirements under Medicare part C (Medicare+Choice), or to reduce medication errors; (3) provide for grants to eligible small rural hospitals to provide relief for financial distress that has a negative impact on access to care for Medicare beneficiaries who reside in a rural area. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 450) Amends BBA '97 to revise provisions for Medicare reimbursement for telehealth services with respect to: (1) the methodology for determining the amount of payments; (2) reimbursement for Medicare beneficiaries who do not reside in a health professional shortage area; (3) telehealth coverage for direct patient care; (4) eligibility for telehealth reimbursement for all physicians and practitioners; and (5) telehealth services provided using store-and-forward technologies. (Sec. 451) Directs MEDPAC to study and report to the Secretary and Congress on the effect of low patient and procedure volume on the financial status of low-volume, isolated rural health care providers participating in Medicare. Title V: Provisions Relating to Part C (Medicare+Choice Program) and Other Medicare Managed Care Provisions - Amends SSA title XVIII part C (Medicare+Choice) with regard to eligibility, election, and enrollment to provide for restoring the effective date of elections and changes of elections of Medicare+Choice plans. (Sec. 502) Amends SSA title XVIII part D (Miscellaneous) with regard to certification of Medicare supplemental health insurance (Medigap) policies. Sets forth a special Medigap enrollment anti-discrimination provision for certain beneficiaries. (Sec. 503) Amends SSA title XVIII part C with regard to payments to Medicare+Choice organizations to: (1) increase the national per capita Medicare+Choice growth percentage in 2001 and 2002; and (2) modify area-specific and national percentages provisions with respect to calculation of annual Medicare+Choice capitation rates. (Sec. 505) Delays from July 1, 2000, to November 1, 2000, the deadline for a Medicare+Choice organization to withdraw the offering of a Medicare+Choice plan under part C (or otherwise to submit information required for the offering of such a plan) for 2001. (Sec. 506) Amends SSA title XVIII to make certain amounts in the Medicare trust funds available for the Secretary's share of Medicare+Choice education and enrollment-related costs. (Sec. 507) Amends BBRA to revise terms and conditions for extension of Medicare community nursing organization demonstration projects. (Sec. 508) Amends SSA title XVIII part C with regard to payments to Medicare+Choice organizations to modify payment rules for certain frail elderly Medicare beneficiaries. Title VI: Provisions Relating to Individuals with End-Stage Renal Disease - Amends SSA title XVIII part D with respect to Medicare coverage for end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients to change the methodology for determining the update in the renal dialysis composite rate for end state renal dialysis services furnished after January 1, 2001. (Sec. 602) Amends SSA title XVIII part C with regard to payments to Medicare+Choice organizations to provide for revision of payment rates for ESRD patients enrolled in Medicare+Choice plans. (Sec. 603) Permits ESRD beneficiaries to enroll in another Medicare+Choice plan if the plan in which they are enrolled is terminated. (Sec. 604) Amends SSA title XVIII part B to provide for the coverage of certain vascular access services for ESRD beneficiaries provided by ambulatory surgical centers. (Sec. 605) Directs the Secretary to: (1) collect information on the satisfaction of each ESRD Medicare beneficiary with the quality of health care under the original fee-for-service Medicare program and the Medicare+Choice program, and the access of each beneficiary to that care; (2) analyze such information to determine, among other things, the kinds of health care that each nondialysis health care provider provides to each ESRD Medicare beneficiary for the treatment of ESRD and each comorbidity and the quality of health care provided to each such beneficiary enrolled under the Medicare+Choice program compared to each beneficiary enrolled under the original fee-for-service Medicare program; and (3) make such information collected and analysis conducted available to the public each year. Title VII: Access to Care Improvements Through Medicaid and SCHIP - Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to create a new PPS for federally-qualified health centers and rural health clinics. (Sec. 702) Amends SSA title XIX to make permanent the extension of eligibility for medical assistance, and give States the option of electing a 12-month initial eligibility period in lieu of the current six month initial eligibility period. (Sec. 703) Amends SSA title XIX with regard to State Medicaid plans to provide for coordination with Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) under SSA title XXI of the application of resource and income eligibility standards for certain Medicaid-eligible individuals under certain conditions, as well as providing for the automatic reassessment of eligibility for Medicaid and SCHIP benefits for children losing Medicaid- or SCHIP-eligibility. (Sec. 704) Amends SSA titles XIX and XXI to qualify additional entities to determine presumptive eligibility for low-income children under Medicaid and SCHIP. (Sec. 705) Amends SSA title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) to: (1) increase the authorization of appropriations; and (2) provide for coordination with Medicaid and SCHIP. (Sec. 706) Amends SSA title XIX to provide for increased access to Medicare cost-sharing assistance for low-income beneficiaries. (Sec. 707) Provides for: (1) optional State Medicaid coverage of breast and cervical cancer prevention and treatment coverage for certain breast and cervical cancer patients; (2) optional State Medicaid presumptive eligibility for certain breast or cervical cancer patients; and (3) an enhanced Federal match to be used under SCHIP with respect to medical assistance provided to such breast and cervical cancer patients receiving such optional State Medicaid coverage. Title VIII: Other Provisions - Amends the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998 to make appropriations to the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund for FY 2001. (Sec. 802) Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to increase appropriations for special diabetes programs for children with type 1 diabetes and for Indians. (Sec. 803) Directs the Secretary to award demonstration grants to up to seven States to conduct innovative programs designed to improve outreach to homeless individuals and families under specified Social Security programs with respect to enrollment and the provision of services under such programs. Makes appropriations. (Sec. 804) Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and PHSA to prohibit health insurance provided through a managed care organization under a group health plan, or through a health insurance issuer providing coverage in connection with a group health plan, (and, for the PHSA, health insurance in the individual market) from denying coverage of services provided by a continuing care retirement community or other qualified facility if they are: (1) post-hospitalization services in the same community or facility as in pre-hospitalization; (2) skilled nursing services, without a preceding hospitalization, which are necessary to prevent hospitalization; or (3) furnished in the same facility the participant's or beneficiary's spouse already resides in. Makes the prohibition: (1) depend on whether such services are otherwise covered; and (2) regardless of whether the organization is under contract with the community or facility. Prohibits related denial of enrollment or renewal, incentives to enrollees, and penalties or incentives to physicians. Declares that State laws are not preempted which meet certain requirements, including any more protective of participants or beneficiaries than those of this Act. Provides for enforcement. (Sec. 805) Directs the Secretary to award grants to eligible States to support real choice systems change initiatives that establish specific action steps and specific timetables to: (1) achieve enduring system improvements; and (2) provide consumer-responsive long-term services and supports to eligible individuals in the most integrated setting appropriate based on the unique strengths and needs of the individual, the priorities and concerns of the individual (or, as appropriate, the individual's representative), and the individual's desires with regard to participation in community life. Requires each State, in order to receive such a grant, to establish a Consumer Task Force to assist in the development, implementation, and evaluation of real choice systems change initiatives. Provides funding.
Bill· SS. 3078 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 2000
Reclamation Recycling and Water Conservation Act of 2000 - Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of a Santa Fe, New Mexico, regional water management and river restoration project to: (1) divert and fully reuse imported water to meet future demands; (2) convert irrigation uses from potable water to reclaimed water; and (3) use reclaimed water to restore Santa Fe River flows, recharge groundwater resources, and enhance regional surface water supplies. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) participate in the feasibility study, design, planning, and construction of a water resources and infrastructure development plan for the San Ildefonso Pueblo; and (2) conduct a feasibility for a regional backbone pipeline to convey potable water to the pueblos of San Ildefonso, Pojoaque, Nambe, and Tesuque.
Bill· HRH.R. 5224 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 2000
International Food Relief Partnership Act of 2000 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to authorize the Administrator of the Agency for International Development to provide grants to: (1) U.S. nonprofit organizations and eligible organizations for the preparation of shelf stable prepackaged foods and the establishment and maintenance of stockpiles of such foods in the United States; and (2) private voluntary organizations for the rapid transportation, delivery, and distribution of such foods to needy individuals in foreign countries. Authorizes funds made available under this Act to be used by the Administrator to procure, transport, and store agricultural commodities for prepositioning within the United States and in foreign countries for needy individuals in foreign countries.
Bill· SS. 3059 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 2000
Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Equipment Defect Notification Improvement Act - Amends Federal transportation law to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) cooperate with transportation authorities of foreign countries to enhance motor vehicle and traffic safety by exchanging information about motor vehicle and motor vehicle equipment safety defects, noncompliance with motor vehicle safety, and motor vehicle equipment standards and regulations; and (2) negotiate for an international agreement governing the recall by manufacturers of motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment with safety-related defects. (Sec. 4) Prohibits a person from affixing a label to a motor vehicle or an item of motor vehicle equipment that certifies that it complies with applicable Federal motor vehicle safety standards unless that person has established, through testing or engineering analyses, that such vehicle or equipment complies with such standards. (Sec. 5) Requires a manufacturer of a motor vehicle, original equipment, or replacement equipment to review and consider information regarding accidents involving motor vehicles or equipment manufactured by such manufacturer (or related party) that resulted in fatalities, serious injuries, or fires (including information about such accidents outside the United States) and notify the Secretary if the manufacturer has reason to believe that the vehicle or equipment has a safety-related defect or fails to comply with Federal motor vehicle safety standards. (Sec. 6) Extends the period of time for no-charge remedies with respect to defective motor vehicles, replacement equipment, or tires. (Sec. 7) Prohibits: (1) a dealer from selling a used motor vehicle (except for purposes other than resale), or leasing a used motor vehicle to another, unless such dealer informs the purchaser or lessee of any notification of a defect or noncompliance with respect to such vehicle that has not been remedied; and (2) a person who owns or leases a school bus or a motor vehicle used to transport passengers, and who receives a notice of a defect or noncompliance for that bus or vehicle, from operating it unless such defect or noncompliance is remedied. (Sec. 10) Sets forth civil penalties for violations of the requirements of this Act. Makes it unlawful for a manufacturer to introduce a motor vehicle or motor vehicle equipment into interstate commerce with a safety-related defect that causes grievous bodily harm or death to an individual if the manufacturer knows of the defect at the time the vehicle or equipment is introduced into interstate commerce. Sets forth both civil and criminal penalties for violations of such requirements. (Sec. 11) Sets forth certain reporting and recordkeeping requirements for manufacturers of motor vehicles or motor vehicle equipment with respect to: (1) accidents that result in fatalities, injuries, or fires involving such vehicles or equipment; and (2) certain warranty information, consumer complaints, personal injury claims, and other safety-related information as they relate to actual or potential defects. (Sec. 12) Increases civil penalties for tampering with motor vehicle odometers. (Sec. 13) Directs the Secretary to initiate rulemaking proceedings to: (1) review and revise motor vehicle safety standards for pneumatic tires; and (2) improve the labeling of tires in order to improve public understanding of load limits and appropriate tire inflation levels.
Bill· SS. 3046 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 2000
Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2000- Title I: Needs Based Bankruptcy - Amends Federal bankruptcy law to revamp guidelines governing dismissal or conversion of a Chapter 7 liquidation petition (complete relief in bankruptcy) to one under Chapter 13 (Adjustment of Debts of an Individual with Regular Income). Allows a bankruptcy panel trustee and any party in interest to move for such dismissal or conversion (current law prohibits a party in interest from such motions). Lowers the "substantial abuse" standard for dismissal or conversion to one of simple abuse. Replaces the presumption in favor of granting the relief sought by the debtor with a presumption that abuse exists if the debtor's current monthly income exceeds specified formulae. (Sec. 102) Provides that the presumption of abuse may be rebutted only with detailed documentation of special circumstances requiring additional expenses or adjustment of current monthly total income. Includes within the calculation of debtor's monthly expenses: (1) those expenses incurred to maintain the safety of the debtor and the debtor's family from family violence as identified under the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act or other applicable Federal law; and (2) continuation of actual expenses paid by the debtor for the care and support of an elderly, chronically ill, or disabled household or non-dependent immediate family member. Requires the debtor's counsel to: (1) reimburse the bankruptcy trustee for legal fees in prosecuting a dismissal or conversion motion if the court finds that counsel's filing under Chapter 7 was either not substantially justified, or frivolous; and (2) pay a civil penalty for the violation of certain bankruptcy rules. Requires the court, upon motion by the victim of a crime of violence or a drug trafficking crime (or at the request of a party in interest), to dismiss a voluntary case filed by an individual debtor convicted of that crime (unless the debtor establishes that filing of the case is necessary to satisfy a claim for a domestic support obligation). (Sec. 103) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report to certain congressional committees regarding the utilization of Internal Revenue standards for determining specified monthly expenses of a debtor and the impact of such standards upon debtors and the bankruptcy courts. (Sec. 104) Revises procedural guidelines to mandate written notice to the individual consumer debtor before commencement of a case that credit counseling services approved by the United States Trustee are available. (Sec. 105) Instructs the Director of the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees to: (1) develop a financial management training curriculum and materials to educate individual debtors on how to better manage their finances; and (2) test, evaluate, and report to the Congress on the curriculum's effectiveness. (Sec. 106) Precludes an individual debtor from filing under Federal bankruptcy law unless the individual has received a briefing from an approved nonprofit credit counseling service prior to filing a bankruptcy petition, unless the U.S. trustee or bankruptcy administrator determines that the service for the district in which the debtor lives is not reasonably able to provide adequate services to the additional individuals who would otherwise seek credit counseling because of such requirement. Conditions a Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 discharge in bankruptcy upon the debtor's completion of an approved instructional course concerning personal financial management. Prohibits such counseling service from informing a credit reporting agency whether an individual debtor has received or sought personal financial management instruction. Establishes civil penalties for noncompliance. Title II: Enhanced Consumer Protection - Subtitle A: Penalties for Abusive Creditor Practices - Cites circumstances under which the court may reduce by up to 20 percent a claim based in whole upon unsecured consumer debts if the debtor can show by clear and convincing evidence that the claim was filed by a creditor who unreasonably refused to negotiate a reasonable alternative repayment schedule proposed by an approved credit counseling agency acting on the debtor's behalf. (Sec. 202) Modifies guidelines governing the discharge of a debtor's liability, as well as the automatic stay, to entitle an individual who is injured by the willful failure of a creditor to credit payments received to bring an action for actual damages and legal fees. (Sec. 203) Modifies debt reaffirmation guidelines governing wholly unsecured consumer debts to mandate specified detailed disclosures and explanations to the debtor for dischargeable debt agreements. Amends Federal criminal law to instruct the Attorney General to designate U.S. attorneys and agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to implement enforcement activities in addressing: (1) abusive reaffirmations of debt; and (2) materially fraudulent statements in bankruptcy schedules that are intentionally false or misleading. Directs the bankruptcy court to establish procedures for referring those cases to such U.S. attorneys and agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Subtitle B: Priority Child Support - Revises Chapter 7 priority payment guidelines to place within the first priority claim category certain claims for domestic support obligations, on the condition that funds received by a governmental unit be applied in a prescribed order. (Sec. 213) Conditions court confirmation of a debt repayment plan under Chapters 12 (Debts of a Family Farmer) and 13 (and the subsequent discharge of debts) upon certification of debtor's full payment of all adjudicated domestic support obligations that are due after the petition filing date. (Sec. 214) Excepts from an automatic stay specified choses-in-action pertaining to domestic support obligations proceedings including: (1) child custody or visitation; (2) dissolution of marriage; (3) domestic violence; (4) withholding of income that is property of the bankrupt estate for payment of domestic support obligations; (5) suspension of drivers' licenses and professional licenses; (6) reporting of overdue support owed by a parent to certain consumer reporting agencies; (7) interception of specified tax refunds; and (8) enforcement of medical obligations under title IV, part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of the Social Security Act. (Sec. 215) Revamps guidelines governing the nondischargeability of certain debts for alimony, maintenance, and support to repeal the exceptions granted the debtor under specified conditions. (Sec. 216) Modifies guidelines governing property exempt from the bankruptcy estate to declare such property liable for fraud or defalcation while acting in a fiduciary capacity, embezzlement, or larceny. Repeals the liability of such property for domestic support obligations. (Sec. 217) Precludes the bankruptcy trustee from avoiding a transfer that is a bona fide payment of a debt for a domestic support obligation. (Sec. 218) Redefines "disposable income" received by certain debtors to include income not reasonably expected to be expended for a child support, foster care, or disability payment for a dependent child made in accordance with nonbankruptcy law. (Sec. 219) Sets forth the duties of the bankruptcy trustee under chapters 7, 11, 12, and 13 regarding a claim against an individual debtor for the collection of child support, including notifying the claim holder and the appropriate State child support agency of the debtor's location. (Sec. 220) Expands the exceptions to nondischargeable debts to include certain qualified educational loans which, if not discharged, would impose an undue hardship upon either the debtor or the debtor's dependent. Subtitle C: Other Consumer Protections - Modifies guidelines governing nonattorney bankruptcy petition preparers to mandate that as a prerequisite to any collection of fees for services: (1) such preparers officially disclose to debtors that they cannot practice law or give legal advice; and (2) such disclosure be signed by the debtor and filed with the requisite court documents. Prescribes enforcement and penalty guidelines for preparer noncompliance. (Sec. 222) Expresses the sense of the Congress that States should develop curricula relating to the subject of personal finance, designed for use in elementary and secondary schools. (Sec. 223) Places in the tenth order of prioritized claims against the bankrupt estate any death or personal injury claims resulting from the unlawful operation of a motor vehicle or vessel because the debtor was drug or alcohol-impaired. (Sec. 224) Permits an individual debtor to exempt from the property of the bankrupt estate certain tax-exempt retirement funds that have not been obligated in connection with any extension of credit. Exempts from either an automatic stay or a discharge in bankruptcy specified income withheld from the debtor pursuant to pension or profit sharing plans sponsored by such debtor's employer to pay certain loans from such plans. (Sec. 225) Sets forth criteria for excluding certain education individual retirement accounts from the property of the bankruptcy estate if the designated beneficiary is a child or grandchild of the debtor. Title III: Discouraging Bankruptcy Abuse - Modifies exceptions to a discharge in bankruptcy to prohibit discharge of a filing fee imposed by any court upon a prisoner. (Sec. 302) Terminates the automatic stay 30 days after filing of a petition if a chapter 7, 11, or 13 petition was pending and dismissed the previous year, unless the subsequent filing is in good faith. Delineates conditions under which a history of previous petitions in bankruptcy give rise to a rebuttable presumption that the case is not filed in good faith. (Sec. 303) Directs the court to grant relief from the automatic stay upon request of a party in interest with respect to certain real property actions if the court finds that filing the bankruptcy petition was part of a scheme to delay, hinder, and defraud creditors. Denies automatic stay protections regarding certain creditors' enforcement actions against real property for a specified period following a prior order in bankruptcy which forbade the debtor from being a debtor in another bankruptcy case. (Sec. 304) Modifies debtor's duties to mandate specified affirmative actions to be taken by a chapter 7 debtor, including reaffirmation of the debt, or redemption of the property within 45 days, in order to retain possession of personal property. Allows a creditor to take action with respect to such property under nonbankruptcy law if the debtor fails to act within 45 days, unless the court determines upon trustee motion that such property is of consequential value or benefit to the estate. (Sec. 305) Declares that the automatic stay is terminated regarding property of the debtor's estate securing a claim or subject to an unexpired lease, if the debtor fails to complete an intended surrender of consumer debt collateral within a revised, accelerated time frame (unless the court determines upon trustee motion that such property is of consequential value or benefit to the estate). (Sec. 306) Instructs the bankruptcy court to confirm a chapter 13 plan if it provides that the holder of a secured allowed claim shall retain the attendant lien until payment or discharge of all debts. Provides that if a chapter 13 proceeding is dismissed or converted without completion of the plan, the holder shall retain such lien to the extent recognized by applicable nonbankruptcy law. Provides that statutory guidelines to determine the secured status of a creditor's claim do not apply if the underlying debt was incurred within the five-year period preceding the filing of the bankruptcy petition and the collateral for that debt consists of a motor vehicle acquired for the debtor's personal use (or if the collateral consists of any other thing of value if the debt was incurred during the six-month period preceding such filing). (Sec. 307) Increases from 180 to 730 days the length of a debtor's location of domicile for purposes of determining which State law governs the debtor's selection of property exempt from the bankrupt estate. (Sec. 308) Reduces the value of the homestead exemption and debtor's burial plot to the extent it is attributable to any portion of any property that is disposed by the debtor within the 730-day period ending on the bankruptcy petition filing date with the intent to obstruct or defraud a creditor, and that the debtor could not exempt. (Sec. 309) Revises requirements governing the effects of conversion from chapter 13 to another chapter. Declares that: (1) valuations of property and of allowed secured claims in a chapter 13 case shall not apply in a case converted to chapter 7; and (2) with respect to cases converted from chapter 13, the claim of any creditor holding security as of the date of the petition shall continue to be secured by that security unless the full amount of that claim, as determined under applicable nonbankruptcy law, has been paid in full as of the date of conversion. States that a prebankruptcy default shall have the effect given under applicable nonbankruptcy law unless it has been fully cured pursuant to the plan at the time of conversion. Provides for a chapter 7 debtor's assumption of executory contracts and unexpired leases of personal property. Declares that in a chapter 11 case in which the debtor is an individual, and in a chapter 13 case, if the lease is not assumed in the plan, it is rejected (and no longer subject to an automatic stay) as of the plan's confirmation date. Delineates a cash payment plan for chapter 13 debtors for payments to any lessor of personal property and to any creditor holding a claim secured by personal property to ensure adequate protection to the claim holder during the payment period. (Sec. 310) Reduces from the threshold amounts of luxury goods and consumer credit cash advances presumed nondischargeable in bankruptcy, if acquired within 90 days and 70 days, respectively (currently 60 days) before an order for relief is issued. (Sec. 311) Prohibits an automatic stay of any eviction, unlawful detainer action, or similar proceeding by a lessor against a debtor involving residential real property in which: (1) the debtor resides and has not paid rent after the commencement and during the course of the case; (2) the rental agreement has terminated; (3) the debtor has previously filed within the last year and failed to pay post-petition rent during the course of that case; or (4) eviction actions are based upon endangerment to property or person or the use of illegal drugs. (Sec. 312) Extends the period between chapter 7 discharges to eight years, and between chapter 13 discharges to five years. (Sec. 314) Declares nondischargeable in bankruptcy: (1) debts intentionally incurred to pay a nondischargeable debt with the intent to discharge the newly-created debt; and (2) all debts incurred to pay nondischargeable debts, without regard to intent, if incurred within 70 days of the filing of the petition. Treats a debt incurred to pay child or spousal support as a dischargeable debt (in order to preclude such support from having to compete with the nondischargeable debt). Revamps Chapter 13 debt discharge guidelines. Prohibits discharge from a debt for restitution or damages awarded in a civil action against the debtor for willful or malicious injury that caused personal injury or death of an individual. (Sec. 315) Prescribes notice procedures for chapter 7 and chapter 13 creditors. Expands debtor's duties to require filing with the bankruptcy court of: (1) all tax returns; (2) evidence of payments received; (3) monthly net income projections; and (4) anticipated debt or expenditure increases. Permits a chapter 7 or chapter 13 creditor to request the debtor's petition, schedules, and statement of affairs, including the debt adjustment plan filed by the debtor. Mandates debtor compliance within five days of such request. Mandates that, at the time of filing with the taxing authority, a chapter 7 or 13 debtor file with the bankruptcy court specified tax documentation pertaining to the period from case commencement until case termination. Requires a chapter 13 debtor to file with the court a statement of income and expenditures in the preceding tax year, and monthly net income, showing how calculated. Makes debtor's mandatory documentation available for inspection and copying to certain bankruptcy officers and any party in interest. Requires debtors to furnish driver's license, passport, or other photograph-containing documentation establishing debtor identification. (Sec. 316) Provides for automatic dismissal if a chapter 7 debtor fails to furnish all mandatory information, or fails to timely file the requisite schedules. Requires the court to order dismissal within five days of a request by a party in interest for the debtor's failure to timely submit requisite documentation. (Sec. 317) Requires a Chapter 13 confirmation hearing to be held not later than 45 days after the first meeting of creditors. Mandates filing of a Chapter 13 debt readjustment plan within 90 days of the order for relief. (Sec. 318) Prohibits such plan (with certain exceptions) from providing for payments over a period that is longer than three years. (Sec. 319) Expresses the sense of the Congress that rule 9011 of the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure should include a requirement that all debtors' documents be submitted to the court only after debtors have made reasonable inquiry to verify that all information therein is well grounded in fact, and warranted by existing law or a good faith argument for extension, modification or reversal of existing law. (Sec. 320) Revises automatic stay guidelines to provide that in the case of an individual filing under chapters 7, 11, or 13, the automatic stay shall terminate 60 days after a request for its release by a party in interest, unless the court orders or the parties agree to a longer time. (Sec. 321) Revamps guidelines governing a Chapter 11 business reorganization case filed by an individual to: (1) identify the property of the estate in bankruptcy; and (2) revise the contents, confirmation, and modification of a reorganization plan. (Sec. 322) Excludes employee benefit plan participant contributions from the property of the bankruptcy estate. (Sec. 324) Prohibits a debtor from exempting from the estate in bankruptcy any amount of interest that exceeds in the aggregate $100,000 in value in: (1) real or personal property used as a residence; (2) a cooperative that owns property used as a residency by the debtor or debtor's dependent; or (3) a burial plot for the debtor or debtor's dependent. (Sec. 325) Amends the Federal judiciary code to: (1) grant the district court presiding over a title 11 case exclusive jurisdiction over property of the debtor and of the estate, as well as to claims relating to employment or disclosure of bankruptcy professionals; and (2) increase bankruptcy fees and the amounts deposited as offsetting collections to both the United States Trustee Systems Fund, and to a special fund of the Treasury available to offset funds appropriated for court operation and maintenance. (Sec. 328) Amends Federal bankruptcy law to exclude from a discharge in bankruptcy any debt arising from actions: (1) to protect access to reproductive health service facilities; or (2) that result from debtor's intimidation of or interference with a person's obtaining or providing such health services, or from damage or destruction of health care facility property. Title IV: General and Small Business Bankruptcy Provisions - Subtitle A: General Business Bankruptcy Provisions - Revises circumstances under which enforcement of rights and remedies of a secured party in either rolling stock equipment, or aircraft equipment and vessels, is subject to the automatic stay. (Sec. 402) Denies a debtor an automatic stay of the commencement of an investigation or action by a securities self-regulatory organization to enforce compliance with its regulations, or of the enforcement of any order or decision obtained by such an organization, other than for monetary sanctions. (Sec. 403) Authorizes the bankruptcy court, upon request of a party in interest, to order that the U.S. trustee not convene a meeting of creditors or equity security holders if the debtor has filed a plan for which acceptances have been solicited before commencement of the case. (Sec. 405) Amends guidelines for rejection and surrender of executory contracts and unexpired leases. (Sec. 406) Authorizes a chapter 11 court to increase the membership of a committee of creditors and equity security holders to include a creditor that is a small business concern following a determination that such creditor holds claims of the kind represented by the committee, the aggregate amount of which is disproportionately large in comparison to the creditor's annual gross revenue. Requires such committee to provide access to information to certain creditors who are not committee members. (Sec. 407) Prohibits the bankruptcy trustee from avoiding a warehouseman's lien for costs incidental to the storage and handling of certain goods. (Sec. 409) Directs the bankruptcy court to treat the compensation awarded a trustee as a commission based on the results achieved. (Sec. 410) States that acceptance or rejection of a chapter 11 plan may be solicited from a holder of a claim or interest if: (1) the solicitation complies with applicable nonbankruptcy law; and (2) it was made before commencement of the case in a manner complying with applicable nonbankruptcy law. (Sec. 411) Prohibits the bankruptcy trustee from avoiding a transfer if, in a case filed by a debtor whose debts are not primarily consumer debts, the aggregate value of all property that constitutes or is affected by such transfer is less than $5,000. (Sec. 413) Limits the extensions of time permitted for filing a chapter 11 reorganization plan. (Sec. 414) Denies a discharge in bankruptcy for a debt for a fee or assessment arising from a debtor's interest in a lot in a homeowners association for as long as the debtor retains specified interests in such lot. (Sec. 415) Authorizes a creditor holding a consumer debt to participate in a meeting of creditors in a chapter 7 or 13 case, either alone or in conjunction with an attorney. (Sec. 416) Removes investment bankers from the definition of "disinterested person." (Sec. 420) Amends the Federal judicial code to authorize the district court or bankruptcy court to waive the Chapter 7 filing fee and other attendant fees for certain chapter 7 debtors the court has determined to be unable to pay fees in installments. (Sec. 421) Directs the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States to propose amended Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure and Official Bankruptcy Forms directing chapter 11 debtors to disclose information relating to the value, operations, and profitability of any closely held corporation, partnership, or other entity in which the debtor holds a substantial or controlling interest. Subtitle B: Small Business Bankruptcy Provisions - Sets forth mandatory factors for court consideration in determining whether the disclosure statement regarding a small business reorganization plan provides adequate information. (Sec. 432) Defines a small business debtor, generally, as a person (including a debtor affiliate) with not more than $3 million in aggregate non-contingent, liquidated secured and unsecured debts as of the date of the petition or the order for relief (excluding debts owed to one or more affiliates or insiders). (Sec. 433) Directs the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the Judicial Conference (Advisory Committee) to propose for adoption standardized disclosure statements and plans of reorganization for small business debtors. (Sec. 434) Sets forth uniform national reporting requirements for small business debtors. (Sec. 435) Directs the Advisory Committee to propose for adoption revisions to the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure and Official Bankruptcy Forms enabling small business debtors to comply with such uniform national reporting requirements. (Sec. 436) Sets forth duties and administrative procedures in small business reorganization cases, including serial filer provisions and expanded grounds for dismissal or conversion and appointment of a trustee. (Sec. 443) Directs the Small Business Administration to study and report to the Congress on: (1) the factors that cause small businesses to become debtors in bankruptcy; and (2) how Federal bankruptcy laws can be made more efficient in assisting small businesses to retain their viability. (Sec. 444) Revises the circumstance where a debtor has commenced monthly payments to each secured interest creditor to allow the debtor, in the debtor's sole discretion, to make such payments from rents or other income generated before or after the commencement of the case by or from the property. Requires such payments in an amount equal to the interest on the value of the creditor's interest in the real estate, determined at the then-applicable contract rate of interest (currently, at the fair market rate). Title V: Municipal Bankruptcy Provisions - Makes technical amendments to requirements for a municipal bankruptcy petition. Title VI: Improved Bankruptcy Statistics and Data - Amends the Federal judicial code to require each U.S. trustee to report to the Attorney General on audit results in bankruptcy cases. Requires the Attorney General to establish random audits of individual cases. (Sec. 602) Amends the Federal judicial code to require the clerk of each district to compile bankruptcy statistics for individual debtors with primarily consumer debts seeking relief under chapters 7, 11, and 13. Directs the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (Administrative Office) to make such statistics public and to report them annually to the Congress. (Sec. 603) Instructs the Attorney General to promulgate requirements for uniform forms for: (1) final reports by trustees in cases under chapters 7, 12, and 13; and (2) periodic reports by chapter 11 debtors or trustees in possession. Prescribes report contents. (Sec. 604) Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the national policy should be that all public record data held in electronic form by bankruptcy clerks should be released in electronic form in bulk to the public subject to appropriate privacy concerns and safeguards as the Judicial Conference of the United States may determine; and (2) a bankruptcy data system should be established in which a single set of data definitions is used to collect data nationwide, and in which all data for any particular bankruptcy case are aggregated in the same electronic record. Title VII: Bankruptcy Tax Provisions - Amends the bankruptcy code to modify the treatment of certain tax liens. (Sec. 702) Provides that a claim for debtor's liability for fuel tax which is filed by the base jurisdiction designated under the International Fuel Tax Agreement shall be allowed as a single claim. (Sec. 703) Mandates that the clerk of each district maintain a listing under which a governmental entity responsible for the collection of taxes within such district may designate an address for service of requests and describe where further information for filing such requests may be found. (Sec. 704) Prescribes the rate of interest to be paid on mandatory interest payments on tax claims. (Sec. 705) Revises the specifications for income tax claims receiving eighth priority (allowed unsecured claims of governmental units). Provides for tolling of the time periods covering such tax claims for stays of proceedings in a prior bankruptcy case, and the pendency or effect of offers in compromise or installment agreements. (Sec. 708) States that confirmation of a bankruptcy plan does not discharge a corporate debtor from any debt for a tax or customs duty with respect to which the debtor made a fraudulent return or willfully attempted to evade or defeat such tax. (Sec. 709) Amends the automatic stay of U.S. Tax Court proceedings concerning the debtor to restrict such stay to tax liability for a taxable period ending before the order for relief. (Sec. 710) Includes among the requirements for court confirmation of a chapter 11 bankruptcy plan which includes tax claims, that the debtor, at the minimum, make regular cash installment payments over a period ending not later than five years after the date of entry of the order for relief, and in a manner not less favorable than the most favored nonpriority unsecured claim provided for in the plan. (Sec. 711) Prohibits the avoidance of statutory tax liens by certain purchasers. (Sec. 712) Amends the Federal judicial code to require officers and agents conducting any business under court authority to pay all Federal, State and local taxes when due in the course of the business, unless it is a property tax secured by a lien against estate property which is abandoned by the bankruptcy trustee, or payment of the tax is excused under a specific bankruptcy law. Cites circumstances in which payment of such taxes may be deferred in a case pending under chapter 7 until final distribution is made. Entitles to administrative expense priority payment certain secured and postpetition unsecured taxes incurred by the bankruptcy estate, including ad valorem property taxes. Declares that a governmental unit shall not be required to file a request for the payment of administrative expenses relating to a tax liability or tax penalty. Allows a trustee to recover from property securing a claim for the payment of all ad valorem property taxes relating to such property. (Sec. 713) Requires as a condition for payment of tardily filed priority tax claims that they be filed either before the trustee commences distribution or ten days following the mailing to creditors of the summary of the trustee's final report, whichever is earlier (currently, before the trustee commences distribution of the estate). (Sec. 714) Makes nondischargeable any obligations based on income tax returns or equivalent reports or notices prepared by tax authorities. (Sec. 715) Declares that an estate's liability for unpaid tax is discharged upon payment of such tax according to certain requirements. (Sec. 716) Conditions court confirmation of a chapter 13 bankruptcy plan upon filing by the debtor: (1) of all prepetition tax returns; and (2) before the day on which the first meeting of the creditors is convened, of all tax returns for taxable periods ending in the four-year period that ends on the date of the filing of the petition. Authorizes the court to dismiss a plan or convert it to chapter 7, whichever is in the best interests of the creditors and the estate, if a chapter 13 debtor fails to comply with such time frame. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the Judicial Conference should propose for adoption amended Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure pertaining to objections to tax returns and to plan confirmation. (Sec. 717) Redefines "adequate disclosure," for postpetition disclosure and solicitation purposes, to include full discussion of the potential material Federal and State tax consequences of the plan to the debtor and to a hypothetical investor domiciled in the State in which the debtor resides or has its principal place of business typical of the holders of claims or interests in the case. (Sec. 718) Denies an automatic stay (unless specified conditions are met) to the setoff of an income tax refund for a taxable period which ended before the order for relief against an income tax liability for a taxable period which also ended before the order for relief. (Sec. 719) Revises special provisions related to the treatment of State and local taxes, including the creation of a separate taxable estate when such is done for Federal tax purposes. (Sec. 720) Provides that if the debtor fails to timely file a tax return or obtain an extension, a taxing authority may petition the court to convert or dismiss a case, whichever is in the best interests of creditors and the estate. Title VIII: Ancillary and Other Cross-Border Cases - Expands the scope of bankruptcy law to incorporate the Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency, and to establish a statutory mechanism for: (1) dealing with cases of cross-border insolvency; and (2) cooperation between U.S. courts, trustees, and debtors and their foreign counterparts. Prescribes guidelines for: (1) access of foreign representatives and creditors to Federal and State courts; (2) recognition of a foreign proceeding and relief; (3) cooperation and direct communication with foreign courts and representatives; and (4) concurrent proceedings and the coordination of foreign and domestic proceedings. Title IX: Financial Contract Provisions - Amends Federal bankruptcy law to: (1) deny an automatic stay to set-offs under certain swap agreements and netting agreements; and (2) restrict the avoidance power of the bankruptcy trustee regarding certain master netting agreement transfers to those transfers that are fraudulent in nature. (Sec. 901) Sets forth guidelines for: (1) the termination or acceleration of designated contracts and agreements; and (2) commodity broker and stockbroker liquidation with respect to the priority of unsecured claims, or customer property or distributions. (Sec. 902) Specifies the date for the measure of damages in connection with: (1) rejection by the bankruptcy trustee of swap agreements, securities contracts, forward contracts, commodity contracts, repurchase agreements, or master netting agreements; or (2) their liquidation, acceleration, or termination by a forward contract merchant, stockbroker, financial institution, securities clearing agency, repo participant, financial participant, master netting agreement participant, or swap participant. (Sec. 903) Declares that property of the bankrupt estate does not include any eligible asset (or its proceeds) to the extent that it was transferred by the debtor before commencement of the case to an eligible entity in connection with an asset-backed securitization (except to the extent that such asset, or its proceeds or value, may be recovered through avoidance by the bankruptcy trustee). Title X: Protection of Family Farmers And Family Fishermen - Amends the Federal bankruptcy code to: (1) reenact Chapter 12, Adjustment of Debts of a Family Farmer with Regular Annual Income (thereby reinstating family farmer bankruptcy relief); (2) define a family farmer as one more than 50 percent of whose gross income was received from a farming operation during at least one of the three taxable years (instead of the single taxable year) preceding the taxable year in which the bankruptcy petition was filed; and (3) cite circumstances under which the claim of a governmental unit that arises as a result of the disposition of a farm asset used in the debtor's farming operation shall be treated as an unsecured claim not entitled to priority. (Sec. 1005) Cites circumstances under which the court shall confirm a family farmer bankruptcy plan notwithstanding the objection of the trustee or holder of an allowed unsecured claim. Prohibits any post-confirmation modification of a bankruptcy plan that would increase the amount of payments that were due before such modification. Provides that, unless the debtor proposes the modification, a modified plan may not: (1) require payments to unsecured creditors in any particular month greater than debtor's disposable income for that month based on an increase in debtor's disposable income; and (2) require in its last year, payments that would leave the debtor with insufficient funds after plan completion to carry on the farming operation. (Sec. 1006) Establishes "family fisherman" within the category of debtors entitled to bankruptcy law protection. Title XI: Health Care and Employee Benefits - Amends bankruptcy provisions to prescribe guidelines for disposal of the patient records of a health care business (not including a health maintenance organization) that commences a proceeding for debtor relief and the trustee does not have sufficient funds to pay for the storage of patient records as required by law. (Sec. 1103) Allows an administrative expense claim for the costs of closing a health care business, including disposal of patient records and transfer of patients to another health care business. (Sec. 1104) Requires the bankruptcy court to appoint an ombudsman to represent the interests of the patients of a health care business within 30 days after commencement of a case under chapter 7 (Liquidation), 9 (Adjustment of Debts of a Municipality), or 11 (Reorganization). (Sec. 1105) Requires the bankruptcy trustee to use all reasonable and best efforts to transfer patients from the health care business in the process of being closed to an appropriate substitute. (Sec. 1106) Instructs the Attorney General to establish a policy and protocols for coordinating a response to bankruptcies of health care businesses, including time frame assessment for disposal of patient records. (Sec. 1107) Denies an automatic stay to a debtor's exclusion by the Secretary of Health and Human Services from participation in the Medicare program or any other Federal health care program (thus precluding the debtor's continuation or reinstatement in such a program). Title XII: Technical Amendments - Makes technical corrections to Federal bankruptcy, judicial, and criminal law. (Sec. 1201) Redefines single asset real estate to exclude family farms and to repeal the $4 million ceiling on the amount of noncontingent, liquidated secured debts on such property. Defines the term "transfer" to include: (1) creation of a lien; (2) retention of title as a security interest; (3) foreclosure of the debtor's equity of redemption; and (4) every mode of disposing of property or parting with an interest in property. (Sec. 1202) Requires triennial adjustment of: (1) the $5,000 value of certain implements, professional books, tools of the trade, farm animals, and crops which a debtor may exempt from the property of the estate (protecting them from creditors' liens); and (2) the national median household income calculated monthly. (Sec. 1206) Provides that a trustee or a creditors' and equity security holders' committee may pay a professional person they employ on a fixed or percentage fee basis, as well as on other bases already permitted. (Sec. 1208) Excludes from compensable professional services any expenses incurred by an individual member of a creditors' and equity security holders' committee. (Sec. 1209) Declares nondischargeable in bankruptcy a debt for death or personal injury caused by the debtor's operation of a watercraft or aircraft while intoxicated from alcohol, a drug, or other substance. Limits the nondischargeability of fees imposed by a court to fees so imposed on a prisoner. (Sec. 1213) Revises guidelines governing preferences to provide that, if the trustee avoids a security interest given between 90 days and one year before the date of the filing of the petition, by the debtor to a non-insider for the benefit of a creditor that is an insider, then such security interest shall be considered to be avoided only with respect to the insider creditor. (Sec. 1222) Permits the bankruptcy trustee to sell, use, or lease property in accordance with nonbankruptcy law governing the transfer of property by nonprofit charitable corporations, if doing so is not inconsistent with certain relief granted under the automatic stay. (Sec. 1223) Extends from 20 to 30 days the length of time after a debtor receives possession of property for perfection of a security interest in such property created by a transfer which the trustee may not avoid. (Sec. 1225) Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2000- Amends the Federal judicial code to mandate appointments for additional temporary bankruptcy judgeships in California, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. Provides that the first vacancy occurring in such district five years or more after a judge is appointed under this Act shall not be filled. Extends temporary bankruptcy judgeship positions authorized for the northern district of Alabama, the eastern district of Tennessee, and the districts of Delaware, Puerto Rico, and South Carolina. (Sec. 1226) Defines family fishermen debtors for bankruptcy purposes. (Sec. 1227) Prescribes compensation guidelines for the services and expenses of a trustee who has successfully petitioned the court to convert or dismiss a chapter 7 case. (Sec. 1229) Amends the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) to mandate inclusion of an electronic version of or link to a Federal Trade Commission pamphlet on choosing and using credit cards in any electronic transaction or transmission concerning a credit card account under an open end consumer credit plan. (Sec. 1230) Amends the bankruptcy code to: (1) prohibit a political committee subject to Federal Election Commission (FEC) jurisdiction from filing for bankruptcy; and (2) include among nondischargeable debts any fines or penalties imposed under Federal election law. (Sec. 1232) Amends TILA to prohibit certain retroactive finance charges to a credit card account under an open end credit plan for payments made during a grace period applicable to any new extension of credit under the account. (Sec. 1233) Instructs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to report to certain congressional committees as to whether and how financial institutions consider the residential location of a credit card applicant in deciding whether an applicant should be granted such credit card. (Sec. 1234) Requires the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to develop materials and conduct training useful to courts in implementing this Act. (Sec. 1235) Amends Federal bankruptcy law to modify the right of the seller of goods to the debtor to reclaim such goods if the debtor received such goods while insolvent. Limits the period of receipt to 45 days before commencement of the case, and the time during which the seller may demand reclamation to 45 days after receipt, or before 20 days after commencement of the bankruptcy case. (Sec. 1236) Prohibits a court from granting a discharge in a chapter 7 case, or from confirming a reorganization plan in a chapter 11 or 13 case, unless requested tax documents are filed with or otherwise provided to the court. (Sec. 1238) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) consumer credit may sometimes be offered indiscriminately without lender action to ensure consumer repayment capacity, and in a manner which may encourage additional debt accumulation; and (2) resulting consumer debt may increasingly be a major contributing factor to consumer insolvency. Instructs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to study indiscriminate solicitation and extension of credit by the credit industry. Authorizes the Board to: (1) promulgate regulations requiring additional disclosures to consumers; and (2) take measures to ensure responsible industrywide practices and prevent resulting consumer debt and insolvency. (Sec. 1239) Cites circumstances in which property of the estate in bankruptcy does not include tangible personal property pledged or sold by the debtor as collateral for a loan or money advance, and the pledgee or transferee possesses such property. (Sec. 1240) Amends TILA to require a creditor that maintains a toll-free telephone number informing customers of the actual number of months needed to repay an outstanding balance to declare on each billing statement: "Making only the minimum payment will increase the interest and the time to repay the balance. For more information, call this toll-free number." Title XIII: General Effective Date; Application of Amendments - Sets forth the effective date of this Act and the application of its amendments. Title XIV: Financial Institutions Insolvency Improvement - Financial Institutions Insolvency Improvement Act of 2000 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) to redefine specified contracts, agreements, and transfers entered into with an insolvent insured depository institution before the appointment of a conservator or receiver. (Sec. 1402) Declares that no person shall be stayed or prohibited from exercising any right to cause the acceleration of any qualified financial contract with an insured depository institution which arises upon the appointment of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver at any time after such appointment. (Sec. 1403) Declares that no provision of law shall be construed as limiting the right or power of the FDIC, or authorizing any court or agency to limit or delay, in any manner, the FDIC's right or power to transfer, disaffirm, or repudiate any qualified financial contract of a failed institution. Prohibits enforcement of a walkaway clause in a qualified financial contract of a failed insured depository institution (a clause that either does not create a payment obligation of a party, or extinguishes it solely because of such party's status as a nondefaulting party). (Sec. 1404) Revises guidelines governing transfers of qualified financial contracts of an insolvent institution to include: (1) transfers to a foreign bank or foreign financial institution (including its branch or agency) (but only when the contractual rights of the parties to such qualified financial contracts are enforceable substantially to the same extent as permitted under such Act); and (2) transfers of contracts subject to the rules of a clearing organization. Defines financial institution to include a broker or dealer, a depository institution, a futures commission merchant, or any other institution as determined by FDIC regulation. Suspends certain termination rights of counterparties to a qualified financial contract with an insolvent insured depository institution until after the receiver's appointment, or after receipt of notice that the contract has been transferred. Declares that none of the following institutions shall be considered a financial institution for which a conservator, receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, or other legal custodian has been appointed or which is otherwise the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding: (1) a bridge bank; or (2) an FDIC-organized depository institution for which a conservator is appointed either immediately upon organization, or at the time of a purchase and assumption transaction between such institution and the FDIC as receiver for a depository institution in default. (Sec. 1405) Prescribes guidelines for: (1) the disaffirmance or repudiation of qualified financial contracts by the conservator or receiver for a failed depository institution; and (2) the treatment of a master agreement as a single agreement and as a single qualified financial contract. (Sec. 1407) Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 to make conforming amendments with respect to: (1) bilateral netting contracts; (2) security agreements; (3) clearing organization netting contracts; (4) contracts with uninsured national banks; and (5) contracts with uninsured Federal branches or agencies. (Sec. 1408) Amends the FDIA to authorize the FDIC to prescribe more detailed recordkeeping requirements for qualified financial contracts (including market valuations) by insured depository institutions. (Sec. 1409) Exempts specified collateralization agreements from the contemporaneous execution requirement that renders invalid certain agreements against FDIC interests in certain asset acquisitions. (Sec. 1410) Amends the Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970 to provide that neither the filing of a protective decree by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, nor any court protective order, shall operate as a stay of a creditor's contractual rights to liquidate, terminate, or accelerate designated contracts and agreements. Allows such application, order, or decree, however, to operate as a stay of foreclosure on securities collateral pledged by the debtor, whether or not with respect to one or more of such contracts, agreements, or securities sold by the debtor under a repurchase agreement. (Sec. 1411) Amends the Federal Reserve Act to increase the types of acceptances eligible to meet Federal Reserve collateral requirements. Title XV: Methamphetamine and Other Controlled Substances - Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act of 2000 - Subtitle A: Methamphetamine Production, Trafficking, and Abuse - Chapter 1: Criminal Penalties - Directs the United States Sentencing Commission (the Commission) to amend the Federal sentencing guidelines with respect to any offense relating to the manufacture, importation, exportation, or trafficking in amphetamine (including an attempt or conspiracy to do any of the foregoing) in violation of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act (CSIEA), or the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA), by reviewing and amending its guidelines to provide for increased penalties such that those penalties are comparable to the base offense level for methamphetamine. (Sec. 1511) Directs the Commission to: (1) ensure that the sentencing guidelines for offenders of such offenses reflect the heinous nature of such offenses, the need for aggressive law enforcement, and the extreme dangers associated with unlawful activity involving amphetamines; and (2) promulgate amendments pursuant to this Act in accordance with the procedure set forth in the Sentencing Act of 1987, as though the (emergency) authority of that Act had not expired. (Sec. 1512) Directs the Commission to: (1) amend the guidelines to increase the base offense level, with respect to any offense relating to the manufacture, attempt to manufacture, or conspiracy to manufacture amphetamine or methamphetamine in violation of the CSA, the CSIEA, or the MDLEA, by specified amounts if the offense created a substantial risk of harm to human life or the environment, or to the life of a minor or incompetent; and (2) promulgate amendments pursuant to this Act in accordance with the procedure set forth in the Sentencing Act of 1987, as though the authority of that Act had not expired. (Sec. 1513) Provides for mandatory (currently discretionary) restitution for CSA and CSIEA violations. Expands provisions regarding restitution for cleanup of clandestine laboratory sites to cover offenses involving, and reimbursement for costs incurred for the cleanup associated with, the manufacture of amphetamine (currently limited to methamphetamine), and to include reimbursement to States and local governments, as well as to the United States. Amends the Federal judicial code to provide for the deposit of certain sums from a reimbursement order into the Department of Justice (DOJ) Assets Forfeiture Fund. Makes mandatory restitution provisions applicable to the prohibition against the establishment of manufacturing operations with respect to controlled substances. Treats illicit substance manufacturing operations as crimes against property. (Sec. 1514) Amends CSA to include items primarily intended or designed for use in introducing methamphetamine into the body within the definition of "drug paraphernalia." Chapter 2: Enhanced Law Enforcement - Amends the judicial code to make sums in the DOJ Assets Forfeiture Fund available for payment for costs incurred by or on behalf of: (1) DOJ in connection with the removal, for purposes of Federal forfeiture and disposition, of any hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant associated with the illegal manufacture of amphetamine or methamphetamine; and (2) a State or local government in connection with such removal in any case in which such State or local government has assisted in a Federal prosecution relating to amphetamine or methamphetamine, to the extent such costs exceed equitable sharing payments made to such State or local government in such case. (Sec. 1521) Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to make funds under the drug control and system improvement (Byrne) grant program available to remove any hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant associated with the illegal manufacture of amphetamine or methamphetamine. Requires that any sums made available from the DOJ Assets Forfeiture Fund for purposes of this section in a fiscal year supplement and not supplant any other amounts made available to DOJ in such fiscal year from other sources. (Sec. 1522) Amends CSA to modify the definition of "regulated transaction" to reduce the retail sales transaction threshold for non-safe harbor products containing pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine. (Sec. 1523) Directs the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to carry out specified programs (advanced mobile clandestine laboratory training teams, basic clandestine laboratory certification training, and clandestine laboratory recertification and awareness training) with respect to the law enforcement personnel of States and localities determined by the Administrator to have significant levels of methamphetamine- or amphetamine-related crime or projected by the Administrator to have the potential for such levels of crime in the future. Limits the duration of any such program to three years. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1524) Requires the Director of National Drug Control Policy to: (1) use amounts available under this section to combat the trafficking of methamphetamine and amphetamine in areas designated as high intensity drug trafficking areas; and (2) provide funds for employing additional Federal law enforcement personnel, or facilitating the employment of additional State and local law enforcement personnel. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Director to apportion amounts appropriated for a fiscal year pursuant to such authorization of appropriations for activities under this section among and within areas designated by the Director as high intensity drug trafficking areas based on: (1) the number of methamphetamine and amphetamine manufacturing facilities discovered by Federal, State, or local law enforcement officials in the previous fiscal year; (2) the number of methamphetamine and amphetamine prosecutions in Federal, State, or local courts in the previous fiscal year; (3) the number of methamphetamine and amphetamine arrests by Federal, State, or local courts in the previous fiscal year; (4) the amounts of methamphetamine, amphetamine, or listed chemicals seized by Federal, State, or local law enforcement officials in the previous fiscal year; and (5) intelligence and predictive data from the DEA and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) showing patterns and trends in abuse, trafficking, and transportation in methamphetamine, amphetamine, and listed chemicals. Requires the Director, before apportioning any funds under this section to a high intensity drug trafficking area, to certify that the law enforcement entities responsible for clandestine methamphetamine and amphetamine laboratory seizures in that area are providing laboratory seizure data to the national clandestine laboratory database at the El Paso Intelligence Center. Sets limits on administrative costs. (Sec. 1525) Authorizes the Administrator of the DEA to: (1) assist State and local law enforcement in small and mid-sized communities in all phases of investigations related to such manufacturing and trafficking; (2) staff additional regional enforcement and mobile enforcement teams related to such manufacturing and trafficking; (3) establish additional resident offices and posts of duty to assist State and local law enforcement in rural areas in combating such manufacturing and trafficking; (4) provide the Special Operations Division of DEA with additional agents and staff for specified purposes; (5) enhance the investigative and related functions of DEA's Chemical Control Program; (6) design an effective means of requiring an accurate accounting of the import and export of list I chemicals and coordinate investigations relating to their diversion; (7) develop a computer infrastructure sufficient to receive, process, analyze, and redistribute time-sensitive enforcement information from suspicious order reporting to DEA field offices and other law enforcement and regulatory agencies; and (8) establish an education, training, and communication process to alert the industry to current trends and emerging patterns in illegal amphetamine and methamphetamine manufacturing. Authorizes the Administrator to establish in DEA, and appoint personnel, for not more than: (1) 50 full-time positions, including up to 31 special agent positions; and (2) 15-full time additional positions, including up to ten diversion investigator positions, with respect to activities specified in paragraphs five through eight in the previous paragraph. Authorizes appropriations. Chapter 3: Abuse Prevention and Treatment - Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to authorize the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse to make grants to enter into cooperative agreements to expand the current and on-going interdisciplinary research and clinical trials with treatment centers of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network relating to methamphetamine abuse and addiction and other biomedical, behavioral, and social issues related to methamphetamine abuse and addiction. Sets forth provisions regarding permissible uses of grant funds and dissemination of research results. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1532) Amends PHSA to authorize the Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to make grants to States and Indian tribes recognized by the United States that have a high rate, or have had a rapid increase, in methamphetamine or amphetamine abuse or addiction to permit such States and tribes to expand activities in connection with treatment in specific geographical areas. Sets forth grant requirements and responsibilities of the Director. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1533) Amends PHSA to authorize the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to make grants to and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with public and nonprofit private entities to carry out: (1) school-based programs concerning the dangers of abuse of and addiction to methamphetamine and other illicit drugs, using methods that are effective and science-based, including initiatives that give students the responsibility to create their own anti-drug abuse education programs for their schools; and (2) community-based abuse and addiction prevention programs relating to methamphetamine and other illicit drugs that are effective and science-based. Sets forth provisions regarding permissible grant uses, priorities in making grants, program evaluation, and reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations for expansion of abuse prevention efforts and for practitioner registration requirements. (Sec. 1534) Directs the Secretary of HHS to: (1) conduct a study on the development of medications for the treatment of addiction to amphetamine and methamphetamine; and (2) report to the Senate and House Judiciary Committees. Authorizes appropriations. Chapter 4: Reports - Directs the Secretary to include in each National Household Survey on Drug Abuse appropriate prevalence data and information on the consumption of methamphetamine and other illicit drugs in rural areas, metropolitan areas, and consolidated metropolitan areas. (Sec. 1542) Directs the Attorney General to: (1) conduct a study of the use of ordinary, over-the-counter pseudoephedrine and phenylpropanolamine products in the clandestine production of illicit drugs; and (2) report to Congress the findings and any recommendations on the need to establish additional measures to prevent diversion. Subtitle B: Controlled Substances Generally - Chapter 1: Criminal Matters - Directs the Sentencing Commission to amend the sentencing guidelines to provide for enhanced penalties for CSA and CSIEA violations involving: (1) ephedrine, phenylpropanolamine, and pseudoephedrine; and (2) other list I chemicals to reflect the dangerous nature of such offenses, the need for aggressive law enforcement action to fight such offenses, and the extreme dangers associated with unlawful activity involving methamphetamine and amphetamine. (Sec. 1551) Directs the Commission to promulgate amendments pursuant to this Act in accordance with the procedure set forth in the Sentencing Act of 1987, as though the authority of that Act had not expired. (Sec. 1552) Revises CSA mail order provisions to: (1) require that each regulated person who engages in an export transaction (currently, limited to each regulated person who engages in a transaction with a non-regulated person) submit a monthly report of each such transaction to the Attorney General; and (2) make specified exemptions from such reporting requirement, such as for certain distributions of sample packages of drug products and distributions of drug products pursuant to a valid prescription. Authorizes the Attorney General to revoke any such exemptions if drug products distributed by the regulated person are being used in violation of CSA requirements, subject to specified notification and right to an expedited hearing. (Sec. 1553) Amends CSA to increase the minimum sentences: (1) from one year to three years for a first offense of distributing controlled substances to persons under age 21, and from one to five years for a second offense; and (2) from one year to three years for a first offense of distributing them in or near a school, and from three to five years for a second offense. (Sec. 1555) Amends CSA to prohibit advertisements for the sale of drug paraphernalia and of schedule I controlled substances. (Sec. 1556) Amends CSA to prohibit and set penalties for the theft of anhydrous ammonia, or the transportation of stolen anhydrous ammonia across State lines, knowing, intending, or having reasonable cause to believe that such ammonia will be used to manufacture a controlled substance in violation of the Act. Requires the DEA Administrator to seek to enter into an agreement with Iowa State University to permit the University to expand its current research into the development of inert agents that, when added to anhydrous ammonia, eliminate its usefulness as an ingredient in methamphetamine production. Authorizes such agreement to provide $500,000, on a reimbursable basis, for such activities. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1557) Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit, and set penalties for, teaching or demonstrating: (1) the manufacture of a controlled substance, or distributing by any means information pertaining to, the manufacture of a controlled substance, with the intent that the teaching, demonstration, or information be used for, or in furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime; or (2) to any person the manufacture of a controlled substance, or to distribute to any person, by any means, information pertaining to, such manufacture, knowing that such person intends to use the teaching, demonstration, or information for, or in furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime. Chapter 2: Other Matters - Amends CSA to waive the requirement that practitioners who dispense narcotic drugs to individuals for maintenance or detoxification treatment annually obtain a separate registration for that purpose, and that the Attorney General register an applicant to dispense narcotic drugs to individuals for such treatment, in the case of the dispensing by a practitioner of narcotic drugs in schedule III, IV, or V, or combinations of such drugs (schedule III-V drugs) if the practitioner and the drugs meet specified conditions. Requires that: (1) the practitioner, before dispensing schedule III-V drugs to patients for maintenance or detoxification treatment, submit to the Secretary of HHS and the Attorney General a notification of intent to begin dispensing such drugs for that purpose, including certifications that the practitioner is licensed under State law and has the ability to treat and manage opiate-dependent patients, has the capacity to refer the patients for appropriate counseling and other appropriate ancillary services, and meets other specified requirements; and (2) the schedule III-V drugs have been approved for use in maintenance or detoxification treatment and have not been the subject of an "adverse determination" (i.e., requires additional standards regarding the qualifications of practitioners to provide such treatment, or requires standards regarding the quantities of the drugs that may be provided for unsupervised use). (Sec. 1561) Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations through notice and comment rulemaking or practice guidelines to address the following: (1) approval of additional credentialing bodies and the responsibilities of additional credentialing bodies; and (2) additional exemptions from the requirements and any regulations under this section. Directs the Secretary to issue a Treatment Improvement Protocol containing best practice guidelines for the treatment and maintenance of opiate-dependent patients. Sets forth: (1) provisions regarding physician training and experience for purposes of the regulations or practice guidelines; and (2) procedural waiver requirements. Requires the Secretary to notify the physician and the Attorney General upon determining that a physician meets specified conditions. Directs the Attorney General, upon receiving such notice, to assign the physician an identification number for inclusion with the physician's current registration to prescribe narcotics. Specifies that an identification number assigned a physician shall be appropriate to preserve the confidentiality of a patient prescribed narcotic drugs by the physician. Requires the Secretary and the Attorney General, during the three-year period beginning on the date of this Act's enactment, to make determinations regarding whether: (1) treatments provided under such waivers have been effective forms of maintenance and detoxification treatment in clinical settings; (2) such waivers have significantly increased the availability of such treatment; and (3) such waivers have adverse public health consequences. Authorizes the Secretary to collect data from the practitioners for whom waivers are in effect. Sets forth further requirements with respect to the Secretary and the Attorney General, and further procedural requirements. Prohibits a State, during the three-year period, from precluding a practitioner from dispensing schedule III-V drugs to patients for maintenance or detoxification treatment in accordance with this Act unless, before the expiration of such period, the State enacts a law prohibiting a practitioner from dispensing such drugs. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Cocaine Powder - Powder Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2000 - Amends CSA and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to reduce the threshold amount of cocaine powder that constitutes a felonious possession and subject to mandatory criminal penalties. (Sec. 1572) Instructs the Sentencing Commission to amend Federal sentencing guidelines to reflect the amendments made by this Act. Subtitle D: Education Matters - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (the Act) to redesignate the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 as the Safe Schools Act of 1999. (Sec. 1581) Revises the minimum one-year expulsion requirement for weapon possession on school property to include as an expellable offense possession of felonious quantities of an illegal drug on school property under the jurisdiction of, or in a vehicle operated by an employee or agent of, a local educational agency in that State. Revises compliance reporting datelines. (Sec. 1582) Authorizes a local educational agency to use certain Federal education program funds to pay the supplementary costs of attending another school (including a religious school) for any public elementary or secondary school student victim of a violent criminal offense committed on school grounds. Subtitle E: Miscellaneous - Modifies Federal criminal code provisions regarding additional grounds for issuing a warrant to specify that any notice required to be given may be delayed, pursuant to specified standards, terms, and conditions set forth elsewhere in the code, unless otherwise expressly provided by statute. (Sec. 1592) Directs the Federal Bureau of Investigation to study and report to Congress on specified issues regarding the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional Puertorriquena (FALN) and Los Macheteros terrorist organizations. (Sec. 1593) Requires the head of each Federal department, agency, and establishment to place anti-drug messages on appropriate Internet websites controlled by such department, agency, or establishment, an electronic hyperlink to the Internet website, if any, of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. (Sec. 1594) (This section and Sec. 1595 repeat Secs. 1581 and 1582) Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (the Act) to redesignate the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 as the Safe Schools Act of 1999. Revises the minimum one-year expulsion requirement for weapon possession on school property to include as an expellable offense possession of felonious quantities of an illegal drug on school property under the jurisdiction of, or in a vehicle operated by an employee or agent of, a local educational agency in that State. Revises compliance reporting datelines. (Sec. 1595) Authorizes a local educational agency to use certain Federal education program funds to pay the supplementary costs of attending another school (including a religious school) for any public elementary or secondary school student victim of a violent criminal offense committed on school grounds. (Sec. 1597) (Repeats Secs. 1553 and 1554) Amends CSA to increase the minimum sentences: (1) from one year to three years for a first offense of distributing controlled substances to persons under age 21, and from one to five years for a second offense; and (2) from one year to three years for a first offense of distributing them in or near a school, and from three to five years for a second offense. Title XVI: Protection From the Impact of Bankruptcy of Certain Electric Utilities - Emergency Imported Electric Power Price Reduction Act of 2000 - Declares that the Firm Power and Energy Contract with Hydro-Quebec dated December 4, 1987, as it exists on the date of enactment of this Act, shall be void 180 days after such date. (Sec. 1603) States that the parties to such contract are not precluded from amending it, or entering into a new contract after the date of enactment of this Act in a manner that is consistent with specified findings and purposes of this Act. (Sec. 1604) Grants only the Attorney General of a State in which electric power is provided under such contract standing to bring a civil enforcement action in U.S. district court. Title XVII: Consumer Credit Disclosure - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require: (1) specified minimum payment warnings governing an open end credit plan on which finance charges are accruing; and (2) disclosure of a toll-free number to call for an estimate of the time required to repay the balance making only minimum payments. Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to establish a toll-free number for the same purpose in the case of a creditor with respect to which the FTC is enforcing compliance with such Act. Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Board) to promulgate implementing regulations. (Sec. 17101) Authorizes the Board to study and report to Congress on whether consumers have adequate information regarding borrowing activities that may result in financial problems. (Sec. 1702) Mandates additional disclosures where credit extensions secured by a dwelling exceed the dwelling's fair market value, stating that the interest on the excess portion of such extension is not tax deductible for Federal income tax purposes. (Sec. 1703) Requires specified additional disclosures for: (1) introductory rates and temporary annual percentage rates of interest; (2) Internet-based credit card solicitations; and (3) late payment deadlines and penalties. (Sec. 1706) Prohibits a creditor from terminating an open end consumer credit account before its expiration date solely because finance charges have not been incurred on such account. (Sec. 1707) Authorizes the Board to study and report to Congress on certain consumer protections limiting consumer liability for unauthorized use of a debit card or similar access device. (Sec. 1708) Instructs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the impact that credit extensions to dependent students have upon the rate of bankruptcy cases filed under Federal law.
Bill· HRH.R. 5175 (106th)failed
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 2000
Small Business Liability Relief Act - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) to provide that certain small businesses shall be liable for response costs as non-owners or operators only if the total of material containing a hazardous substance that the business arranged for disposal, transport, or treatment of, or accepted for transport, was greater than 110 pounds of liquid material or 200 pounds of solid material. Makes such exemption to liability inapplicable in cases where the substance could contribute significantly to response costs or where the business has failed to comply with an administrative subpoena or request for information or has impeded a response action. Applies this exemption only to activities taking place before this Act's enactment date. Makes a person liable for response costs for municipal solid waste (MSW) as a non-owner or operator only if the person is not an owner, operator, or lessee of residential property from which all of the person's MSW was generated, or a certain small business or tax-exempt organization that generated all its MSW, with respect to the facility concerned. Provides for liability if a person has failed to comply with an administrative subpoena or request for information or has impeded a response action. Makes persons that commence a contribution action liable to the defendant for all reasonable costs of defending the action if the defendant is not liable based on the above- described exemptions. Adds to the list of parties eligible for expedited final settlements certain persons and small businesses that demonstrate an inability or limited ability to pay response costs. Revises conditions of eligibility for such settlements for de minimis parties. Establishes a moratorium on litigation under CERCLA for recovery or contribution of response costs from any person eligible for an expedited settlement within a specified time frame.
Law· HRH.R. 5164 (106th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 2000
Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation Act - Amends Federal transportation law to require a manufacturer, not later than five days after determining (or after receiving notification that the government of a foreign country has determined) to conduct a safety recall or other safety campaign in a foreign country on a motor vehicle, tire, or motor vehicle equipment that is also offered for sale in the United States, to report such determination to the Secretary of Transportation. Sets forth similar requirements with respect to the reporting of possible defects in such vehicle or equipment that have resulted in a significant number of serious injuries or fatalities in a foreign country. Directs the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to promulgate a rule requiring manufacturers of tires to report periodically to the Administration data on claims submitted to it for personal injury (including death) and property damage from alleged defects in the manufacturer's tires. Declares that a remedy provided without charge by a dealer of new motor vehicles or motor vehicle equipment does not apply if such vehicle or replacement equipment was bought by the first purchaser more than eight years, or the tire (including an original equipment tire), was bought by the first purchaser more than five years (currently, three years), before notice of a defect or of noncompliance with motor vehicle safety standards with respect to such equipment is given by the manufacturer to the Secretary or an order is issued by the Secretary with respect to such defect or noncompliance, whichever is earlier. Revises provisions to increase civil penalties for a manufacturer, distributor, or dealer who violates requirements prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or importation of motor vehicles and equipment that do not comply with Federal motor vehicle safety standards. Sets forth a civil penalty for such persons who violate certain inspection, investigation, and records requirements with respect to such standards. Requires the Administrator to conduct a rulemaking to revise and update the tire standard published at 49 CFR 571.109 and 49 CFR 571.119. Authorizes appropriations to the Office of Defects and Investigation of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Bill· SS. 3035 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 2000
Health Care Safety Net Oversight Act of 2000 - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to add a new part D to establish the Safety Net Organizations and Patient Advisory Commission to: (1) study the health care safety net programs; and (2) report annually to Congress, the Comptroller General, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on the health care needs of the uninsured and the financial and infrastructure stability of the core health care safety net of the United States based on such review. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 5162 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 2000
Health Care Safety Net Oversight Act of 2000 - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to add a new part D to establish the Safety Net Organizations and Patient Advisory Commission to: (1) study the health care safety net programs; and (2) report annually to Congress, the Comptroller General, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on the health care needs of the uninsured and the financial and infrastructure stability of the core health care safety net of the United States based on such review. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 5111 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 September 2000
Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to treat certain property boundaries (as shown on an airport layout drawing produced by Garver, Inc., dated March 8, 1999, and approved by the Jackson Airport District Office of the FAA) as the boundaries of the Lawrence County Airport, Courtland, Alabama (formerly known as the George C. Wallace Airport).
Bill· SS. 3002 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 September 2000
Pipeline Integrity, Safety, and Reliability Research and Development Act of 2000 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation, in coordination with the Secretary of Energy, to develop and implement an accelerated cooperative research and development program to ensure the integrity of natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines. Requires the Secretary to: (1) arrange with the National Academy of Sciences for the establishment of a Pipeline Integrity Technical Advisory Committee; and (2) prepare, along with the Committee, in coordination with the Secretary of Energy, and submit to Congress a five-year research and development program plan. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· SS. 2965 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 2000
Port and Maritime Security Act of 2000 - Directs the Commandant of the Coast Guard, in cooperation with the Maritime Administration and the U.S. Customs Service, to establish a Port Security Task Force to: (1) coordinate programs to enhance the security and safety of U.S. seaports; (2) coordinate the security operations of local seaport security committees; (3) develop standards and procedures for the conduct and triennial review and revision, if necessary, of seaport security threat assessments for U.S. seaports, including collection, maintenance, and dissemination of seaport infrastructure and overt-security equipment maps and charts; and (4) develop voluntary minimum security guidelines, linked to the U.S. Coast Guard Captain-of-the-Port controls for maritime trade, which include a model seaport concept and a set of recommended best practices guidelines for the use of maritime terminal operators. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 6) Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to guarantee loans for seaport security infrastructure improvements at any U.S. seaport involved in international trade. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 7) Requires the U.S. Customs Service to establish a competitive matching grant program for half the cost of developing technology to enhance security at U.S. seaports. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 8) Amends the International Maritime and Post Security Act to require the Secretary to report annually on maritime security and terrorism. (Sec. 9) Requires the Secretary, acting through the Maritime Administration, to publish a revised version of the "Port Security: A National Planning Guide" and make it available on the Internet. (Sec. 10) Directs the U.S. Coast Guard to establish seaport security committees to: (1) utilize the information made available under this Act; (2) implement port security threat assessments; and (3) implement security guidelines. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 11) Directs the Attorney General to coordinate the collection of port-related crime data. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 12) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Transportation, and the Attorney General to work with each other, the Task Force, and the States to establish shared dockside inspection facilities at U.S. seaports for Federal and State agencies. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 13) Directs the U.S. Customs Service to: (1) require all ocean manifests to be transmitted to the Service in electronic form in sufficient time for its effective use; (2) require all entries of goods, including in-bond entries, to provide to the Service the same information required for entries of goods released into U.S. commerce before the goods are released for shipment from the seaport of first arrival; and (3) distribute such information on a real-time basis to any Federal, State, or local government agency with a regulatory or law-enforcement interest in the goods. (Sec. 14) Amends Federal shipping law to reauthorize specified tonnage duties.
Bill· HRH.R. 5070 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 2000
Medicare Fairness in Reimbursement Act of 2000 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with regard to payments to Medicare+Choice organizations concerning the calculation of annual Medicare+Choice capitation rates. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promptly conduct a new survey of levels of wages and wage-related costs for different occupational categories of hospital employees and to use the survey data in computing a certain hospital wage index for discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2001. Provides that, in applying any wage-related geographic area adjustment to a portion of a payment amount or rate under Medicare, the portion to which the adjustment is applied shall be 75 percent of the portion otherwise computed, and 25 percent of such portion shall not be subject to any such geographic area adjustment. Applies such provision to geographic adjustments made under specified Medicare provisions, including those with regard to home health and clinical laboratory services. Amends part C (Medicare+Choice) of title XVIII to permanently remove application of the budget neutrality factor under the Medicare+Choice program beginning in 2002. Allows a Medicare+Choice organization to elect to apply an area-specific percentage of 50 percent and a national percentage of 50 percent for 2002 rather than the rate currently applicable for that year in determining the blended capitation rate used in determining the calculation of annual Medicare+Choice capitation rates. Amends SSA title XVIII to require the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to review the extent to which the adjustments made in payment rates on a geographical basis for variations in costs accurately reflect the actual costs of items and services in low reimbursement areas and the impact of such adjustments on the health infrastructure in such areas.
Bill· HRH.R. 5024 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 2000
Federal Information Policy Act of 2000 - Amends Federal law to revise provisions regarding Federal information policy. Removes a provision which excludes the General Accounting Office from the definition of "agency" for purposes of applying such policy. Establishes an Office of Information Policy in the Executive Office of the President to be headed by a Chief Information Officer (Officer) of the United States who shall be the principal adviser to the President on matters relating to the efficient and effective development, use, and management of information technology and resources by the Federal Government. Outlines the Officer's duties and grants the Officer certain authorities and duties currently given to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under existing law. Incorporates certain provisions of the Government Paperwork Elimination Act concerning the use and acceptance of electronic signatures by executive agencies. Grants the Officer duties under such provisions currently given to the Director. Requires the Officer to monitor the implementation of electronic signature requirements of this Act and related laws to ensure that the Federal Government: (1) maintains an efficient and effective information infrastructure for undertaking Government operations using electronic information processes; (2) provides efficient and effective means for the public to interact with the Government by means other than such processes; and (3) manages its increasing reliance on information technology in a manner consistent with this Act. Directs the Officer to review the Federal information systems standards setting process and report to the President on its efficiency and effectiveness and any recommendations for improvement. Requires the Officer to establish minimum evaluation criteria to be used for independent evaluations of: (1) agency implementation of information technology management processes and capabilities; (2) cost, schedule, risk, and return status of major information management and technology initiatives; and (3) results of major information technology investments and programs in achieving progress toward improvements in mission performance and programmatic outcomes. Requires annual submissions of agency evaluations to the Officer, Director, and Congress. Establishes a Chief Information Officers Council in the executive branch to assist and advise in, and carry out other related activities with respect to, Federal information resource management. Requires the Officer to report annually to Congress on: (1) efforts undertaken to improve the development, application, and management of information resources; and (2) results of major activities undertaken by the Council. Authorizes appropriations to carry out Federal information policy provisions for FY 2001 through 2005. (Sec. 4) Incorporates provisions similar to those under existing law with respect to paperwork reduction. Requires the Director to extend the annual Governmentwide goal for the reduction of information collection burdens by at least five percent through FY 2005. Requires the Director to encourage the use of the Government Information Locator Service to provide information regarding agency information collection activities and opportunities to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of agency collections of information and the reduction of paperwork burdens on the public. Authorizes appropriations to carry out paperwork reduction activities for FY 2001 through 2005. (Sec. 5) Establishes an Office of Information Security and Technical Protection in the Office of Information Policy (established by this Act). Requires the Officer to establish Government-wide policies for the management of programs that: (1) support the cost-effective security of Federal information systems by promoting security as an integral component of each agency's business operations; and (2) include information technology architectures(integrated frameworks for evolving or maintaining existing information technology and acquiring new technology to achieve strategic goals and information resources management goals). Requires such policies to: (1) be founded on a continuous risk management cycle; (2) implement controls that adequately address the risk; (3) promote continuing awareness of information security risks; (4) continually monitor and evaluate information security policy; and (5) control effectiveness of information security practices. Outlines information security responsibilities of each agency, including the development and implementation of an agency-wide security program for the operations and assets of such agency. Makes each program subject to Officer approval and annual review by agency program officials. Requires each agency to annually undergo an independent evaluation of its information security program and practices. Requires related reports. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 through 2005 to carry out information security provisions. (Sec. 6) Requires the: (1) Secretary of Commerce to develop, issue, review, and update standards and guidance for the security of Federal information systems; (2) Secretary of Defense and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to develop and issue more stringent information security policies for mission critical systems of such entities and ensure the implementation of such policies; (3) Department of Justice to review and update guidance to agencies on legal remedies regarding security incidents and coordination with law enforcement agencies concerning such incidents; (4) General Services Administration to review and update guidance on addressing security considerations relating to the acquisition of information technology; and (5) Office of Personnel Management to review and update regulations concerning computer security training for Federal civilian employees. Allows mission critical information security policies developed by the Department of Defense, CIA, and other agencies to be adopted by the Officer and heads of other Federal agencies with respect to mission critical systems of such agencies. Allows agencies to develop and implement more stringent information security policies than those required under this Act. (Sec. 7) Incorporates provisions of the Clinger-Cohen Act with respect to management of information technology. Grants the Officer certain authorities currently granted to the Director. Makes certain information technology provisions inapplicable to national security systems. (Sec. 8) Makes conforming amendments to specified Acts.