Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993

Summary

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Committee on Agriculture Title II: Committee on Armed Services Title III: Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Title IV: Education and Labor Title V: Committee on Energy and Commerce Title VI: Committee on Foreign Affairs Title VII: Committee on the Judiciary Title VIII: Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Title IX: Committee on Natural Resources Title X: Committee on Post Office and Civil Service Title XI: Committee on Public Works and Transportation Title XII: Committee on Veterans Affairs Title XIII: Committee on Ways and Means-Savings Title XIV: Revenue Provisions Title I: Committee on Agriculture - Agricultural Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Subtitle A: Commodity Programs - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to reduce payment acres for wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice. (Sec. 1101) Extends specified loan, payment, and acreage reduction programs for wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, rice, milk and dairy products, tobacco, sugar, oilseeds, peanuts, honey, and wool and mohair. Sets forth maximum purchase prices for butter and nonfat dry milk. Increases marketing assessments for tobacco and sugar. Establishes an additional marketing assessment for peanuts. (Sec. 1109) Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide temporary additional customs duties on peanut butter and peanut paste. Subjects peanut butter to import quotas. (Sec. 1110) Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to reduce the support rate and annual payments for honey. Eliminates marketing assessments. (Sec. 1111) Reduces annual payments for wool and mohair. Eliminates marketing assessments. Subtitle B: Restructuring of Loan Programs - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to restructure current Rural Electrification Administration (REA) electric and telephone loan programs, including creation of categories of hardship loans and municipal (electric) loans. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1202) Transfers REA authority to the Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Administration. Subtitle C: Food Stamp Program - Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief Act - Chapter 1: Ensuring Adequate Food Assistance - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to increase the basic food stamp program (program) benefit to 104 percent of the thrifty food plan. (Sec. 1312) Increases the age for students whose income is excluded from consideration as program income. (Sec. 1313) Removes (with an interim increase) the excess shelter cap. (Sec. 1314) Eliminates food stamp reductions for certain reapplying households. (Sec. 1315) Excludes third party payments for transitional housing for the homeless from consideration as program income. (Sec. 1318) Increases funding for the nutrition assistance program in Puerto Rico. (Sec. 1316) Excludes general assistance vendor payments from consideration as program income. Chapter 2: Promoting Self Sufficiency - Excludes education assistance and certain child support from consideration as program income. (Sec. 1324) Increases dependent care deductions and participant and State agency reimbursements in connection with employment and training activities. (Sec. 1325) Increases annually the fair market value limits of vehicles that program recipients may own. (Sec. 1326) Excludes from financial resources the value of a household vehicle used to carry heating fuel or water for home use. (Sec. 1327) Authorizes resource accumulation demonstration projects. Chapter 3: Simplifying the Provision of Food Assistance - Permits related adults living in the same household to apply for separate program benefits. (Sec. 1332) Makes children living with parents who are partcipating in drug or alcohol treatment programs eligible for food stamps. (Sec. 1333) Permits a participating family made up of, or including, an elderly or disabled member to own $3,000 in allowable financial resources. (Sec. 1334) Repeals provisions authorizing benefit reductions due to funding. Chapter 4: Improving Program Integrity - Expands: (1) the permitted use and disclosure of information provided by retail and wholesale food concerns; and (2) claims collections alternatives. (Sec. 1343) Authorizes demonstration projects aimed at coupon trafficking. Chapter 5: Improving Food Stamp Program Management - Excludes from categorical eligibility any household disqualified from participation because of workfare noncompliance. (Sec. 1353) Disqualifies program participants for trading food stamp coupons for controlled substances or for firearms, ammunition, or explosives. (Sec. 1356) Modifies the program's quality control system. Requires an error measurement study. Chapter 6: Uniform Reimbursement Rates - Revises State reimbursement rates. Chapter 7: Implementation and Effective Dates - Sets forth implementation and effective dates. Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to extend and reduce expenditure levels for the market promotion program. (Sec. 1402) Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to improve admission and recreation fees at specified public use areas. (Sec. 1403) Requires reduction of Department of Agriculture expenditures through personnel and office consolidations. (Sec. 1404) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to: (1) reduce the conservation reserve program acreage requirement; and (2) revise and make mandatory wetlands reserve program acreage requirements. (Sec. 1405) Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to direct the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to make available four levels of commodity insurance based upon percentage of loss in yield. Title II: Committee on Armed Services - Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a limited increase in the military retired pay of any former military personnel who became a member of the armed forces before August 1, 1986. (Sec. 2002) Waives the automatic FY 1994 increase in the rates of basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic subsistence allowance. Provides that if the General Schedule pay rates for Federal employees is increased during any of FY 1995 through 1998, then military pay rates shall be increased. Title III: Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to prescribe an order of priority for the distribution of amounts realized from the resolution of any insured depository institution. Requires distributions in connection with certain claims to be accompanied by an accounting report. (Sec. 3002) Amends the Federal Reserve Act to mandate that for FY 1994 through FY 1998 specified percentages of the surplus fund of any Federal reserve bank be transferred to the Treasury. Prohibits a Federal reserve bank from replenishing its surplus fund by the amount of such transfer. (Sec. 3003) Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 to: (1) require that certain income disclosure consent forms be submitted for verification of eligibility for benefits; and (2) amend applicant, participant, and public housing agency protections. (Sec. 3004) Amends the National Housing Act to direct the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) to: (1) charge fees in connection with its multiclass securities guarantee program; (2) assure that a portion of program benefits accrue to mortgagors who execute eligible mortgages; and (3) summarize program activities to the Congress. (Sec. 3005) Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to increase the rate at which the Secretary earns the single premium payment collected at the time of insurance of a mortgage that is an obligation of the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund. Title IV: Education and Labor - Subtitle A: Federal Direct Loan Program - Student Loan Reform Act of 1993 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to replace the Federal Family Education Loan Program, under which loans made by private lenders are guaranteed by the Government, with a Federal Direct Student Loan Program. Chapter 1: Amendments to Part D of Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Amends HEA to change the Federal Direct Loan Demonstration Program to the Federal Direct Student Loan Program (FDSL). (Sec. 4002) Sets forth program authority for making sums available for FDSL loans to all eligible students (and parents). Directs the Secretary of Education to provide funds for such student and parent loans on the basis of need and eligibility of students and parents at each participating institution. Declares that no institution shall have a right to participate in FDSL programs. Provides for application of the requirements of the Cash Management Improvement Act of 1990 on a transition schedule. Sets forth selection criteria for an institution's participation in the FDSL program and in origination agreements. Allows consortia to apply to originate FDSL loans. Sets forth terms and conditions for FDSL loans, including certain parallels with Stafford, supplemental, parent, and unsubsidized Stafford loans under the FFEL program. Sets interest rates. Sets minimum and maximum loan fees. Provides for standard, extended, graduated, and income contingent (EXCEL account) repayment plan options. Sets forth deferment and forbearance possibilities (including national service). Authorizes the Secretary to award contracts under the FDSL program for: (1) alternative origination of loans; (2) servicing and collection of loans; (3) data systems for records maintenance; and (4) services to assist in orderly transition from FFEL to FDSL programs. Authorizes the use of funds for research on FDSL program aspects, including flexible repayment plans. Chapter 2: Conforming Amendments - Amends HEA with respect to FFEL program student and parent loans during the transition to the FDSL program. (Sec. 4021) Provides for advances to guaranty agencies for lender-of-last-resort services. Requires the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) to begin making FFEL loans as lender-of-last-resort and to cease such lending when the triggering conditions have ceased. (Sec. 4028) Requires a study of alternatives for Sallie Mae during and after the transition to FDSL, including its own transition from a Government-sponsored enterprise to a private corporation. (Sec. 4030) Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to provide that any reductions in the FDSL program required by a sequestration order shall be achieved only through a specified increase in the loan fee. Chapter 3: Effective Dates; Study - Sets forth effective dates for amendments made by this Act. (Sec. 4032) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the feasibility of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collection of student loan repayments. (Sec. 4033) Expresses the preference of the House Committee on Education and Labor for an IRS collection mechanism. Subtitle B: Cost Sharing by States - Amends HEA to require any State in which there are higher education institutions with cohort default rates exceeding 20 percent to pay portions of costs related to such loan defaults. Allows States to charge institutions fees based on their cohort default rate and the State's risk of loss. Subtitle C: ERISA Amendments Relating to Group Health Plans - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to coordinate ERISA preemption rules with Medicaid provisions for liability of third parties. (Sec. 4202) Prohibits a group health plan from reducing its coverage of the costs of pediatric vaccines below that provided as of May 1, 1993. (Sec. 4203) Sets forth rules whereby: (1) ERISA preemption of State laws shall be inapplicable to certain State laws (of Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, and New York); or (2) the Secretary of Labor can assist such States in effectuating the policies of certain provisions superseded by ERISA. Title V: Committee on Energy and Commerce - Subtitle A: Medicare Program - Chapter 1: Provisions Relating to Part B - Subchapter A: Physicians' Services - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to, among other things: (1) reduce the default update for the conversion factor otherwise applicable to surgical and non-surgical services (except primary care services) in 1994; (2) increase the performance standard factor; (3) provide for classification of primary care services as a separate category of services with respect to volume performance standards and updates in conversion factors for physicians' services; (4) phase-in reductions to the practice expense relative value units; (5) revise the payment policy for anesthesia care teams; (6) repeal the prohibition on separate billing for the interpretation of electrocardiograms (EKGs); (7) require adjustments in the relative value units for services in order to ensure budget neutrality; (8) require Medicare carriers to screen unassigned claims; (9) include antigens prepared by a physician on the physician fee schedule; and (10) specify the conditions under which the Secretary can recognize substitute billing arrangements between two physicians. (Sec. 5011) Requires the Secretary to develop relative values for pediatric physicians' services. Subchapter B: Outpatient Hospital Services and Ambulatory Surgical Services - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) extend the ten percent reduction in payments for capital-related costs of outpatient hospital services, as well as the 5.8 percent reduction in payments for other costs of such services; and (2) extend special payment rates for certain eye or eye and ear hospitals. (Sec. 5023) Directs the Secretary to suspend the annual update for ambulatory surgery payments for FY 1994. (Sec. 5025) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OMBRA '90) to extend the cap on payments for intraocular lenses. Subchapter C: Durable Medical Equipment - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) revise payment rules for items of durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies; (2) remove aspirators and nebulizers from the category of DME items requiring frequent and substantial servicing, and specifically provide for payment of related accessories; (3) set forth requirements which suppliers of medical equipment and supplies must satisfy in order to qualify for Medicare reimbursement; (4) require development of standardized certificates of medical necessity forms; (5) require DME suppliers to submit claims to the carrier with jurisdiction over the geographic area including the patient's permanent residence; (6) place restrictions on certain DME supplier marketing and sales practices; (7) specify circumstances under which Medicare beneficiaries are not financially liable for covered items and services furnished by a supplier; (8) address adjustments made to unreasonable DME payment amounts; (9) determine payments for surgical dressings; and (10) reduce the DME fee schedule amount for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation devices. (Sec. 5032) Freezes payments during 1994 for parenteral and enteral nutrients, supplies, and equipment at 1993 levels. (Sec. 5034) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on: (1) the effect of the uniform criteria established pursuant to this Act for DME items; and (2) appropriate methodology for determining payment under Medicare for prosthetic devices and orthotics. (Sec. 5037) Amends SSA title XI to modify anti-kickback provisions. (Sec. 5042) Requires a report to the Congress on variations in DME supplier costs. Subchapter D: Part B Premium - Amends SSA title XVIII to extend current law with respect to the monthly Medicare part B premium for beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare. Subchapter E: Other Provisions - Revises provisions of SSA title XVIII, including: (1) to revise payments for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests; (2) to address the provision of x-ray services by rural health clinics and federally-qualified health centers; (3) to condition payment for mammograms on the certification status of the facility; and (4) to provide Medicare coverage of oral cancer drugs. (Sec. 5064) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986 (OMBRA '86) to extend the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration. (Sec. 5066) Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COMBRA '85) to extend certain municipal health service demonstration projects. (Sec. 5069A) Requires a report to the Congress on annual payment limitations for outpatient physicial and occupational therapy services. Chapter 2: Provisions Relating to Parts A and B - Amends Medicare part C (Miscellaneous) provisions relating to Medicare parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) to: (1) eliminate requirements for special adjustments for administrative costs of hospital-based home health agencies; (2) make changes with regard to Medicare as secondary payor; (3) reduce payment for erythropoientin; (4) require nursing facilities and home health agencies to inform Medicare beneficiaries of the hospice benefit; and (5) require revision of the capitation payment methodology for health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to account for regional variations in application of Medicare secondary payor provisions. (Sec. 5073) Amends Medicare part B with regard to use of carriers to recover erroneous payments from primary payers. (Sec. 5072, 5074, and 5078) Requires: (1) a report on Medicare payments to hospitals for medical residency training program costs; (2) a report on the use of the new shared facility arrangement exception to ownership and compensation arrangements under the ban on certain referrals by physicians; and (3) establishment of a method of outreach to newly eligible Medicare beneficiaries qualifying for Medicaid payment of out-of-pocket expenses. (Sec. 5077) Amends OMBRA '86 to extend certain waivers under Medicare for the Watts Health Foundation. (Sec. 5079) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OMBRA '87) to extend the waivers under Medicare for social health maintenance organization (SHMO) demonstration projects. Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to require additional SHMO demonstration projects and permit one project to enroll Medicare end stage renal disease beneficiaries. (Sec. 5082) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OMBRA '90) to revise the payment methodology for organizations under a risk-sharing contract with the Secretary. Chapter 3: Provisions Relating to Medicare Supplemental Insurance Policies - Amends OMBRA '90 and Medicare to make changes to Federal standards respecting the sale of Medicare supplemental insurance policies. Subtitle B: Medicaid Program and Other Health Care Provisions- Chapter 1: Medicaid Program - Subchapter A: Program Savings Provisions - Amends SSA title XIX to, among other things: (1) repeal the mandate that States cover personal care services under their Medicaid programs for all individuals entitled to nursing facility benefits; (2) allow States to establish formularies limiting coverage of prescription drugs under their Medicaid programs; (3) prohibit States from disregarding assets in cases where an individual has received payments under a long-term care policy; (4) address the liability of third parties to pay for care and services provided to Medicaid eligibles; (5) require States to have in effect certain laws relating to medical child support; and (6) make changes with regard to payments for disproportionate share hospitals. (Sec. 5117) Amends SSA to add a new title XXI requiring establishment of a Health Coverage Clearinghouse to identify third parties which may be liable for payment of health care items and services furnished to Medicare, Medicaid, Indian Health Service, and Maternal and Child Health Service beneficiaries. Subchapter B: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends SSA title XIX to, among other things: (1) provide for the application under Medicaid of the physician self-referral prohibitions currently under Medicare; (2) require State maintenance of annual expenditures (adjusted) for State Medicaid fraud control units; (3) change treatment of HMO enrollees in determining the Medicaid inpatient utilization rate of a hospital seeking to qualify as a disproportionate share hospital; (4) raise, with respect to eligible States, Federal Medicaid matching payments for State expenses incurred in the provision of bona fide emergency medical services to undocumented aliens; (5) establish an option for States to make TB-infected individuals eligible for limited TB-related services; (6) require that mammographies paid for under Medicaid be conducted by a facility certified under the Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992; and (7) make permanent the current law requirement for continued Medicaid coverage of families who lose eligibility for cash assistance under the Aid to Families with Dependent Chidren Program because they work. (Sec. 5132 and 5144) Amends SSA title XI to: (1) authorize an alternative intermediate remedy for redressing kickback offenses; (2) change procedures for initiation of a civil monetary penalty action; and (3) raise the ceiling on Federal Medicaid matching payments to Puerto Rico and other specified territories. (Sec. 5137) Extends the period during which the Secretary is required to waive application of the enrollment mix requirement under Medicaid for certain HMOs under the Dayton Area Health Plan, Inc. (Sec. 5138, 5146, and 5150) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 with respect to the Tennessee Primary Care Network, certain demonstration projects for low-income pregnant women and children, and the Kent Community Hospital Complex and the Saginaw Community Hospital. (Sec. 5139) Directs the Secretary to waive application of the enrollment mix requirement under Medicaid with respect to the District of Columbia Chartered Health Plan, Inc.. (Sec. 5140) Amends the Family Support Act of 1988 to extend the period during which the Secretary is required to waive application of certain provisions of Medicaid law for the Minnesota Prepaid Demonstration Project. Subchapter C: Miscellaneous and Technical Corrections Relating to OMBRA '90 - Amends OMBRA '90 to make miscellaneous and technical corrections to various specified Medicaid-related provisions. Chapter 2: Universal Access to Childhood Immunizations - Amends the Public Health Service Act to entitle each State to the Federal purchase of enough pediatric vaccines to immunize each child in the State who is: (1) covered under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act; (2) uninsured, or has insurance which does not cover vaccinations; or (3) an Indian. (Sec. 5181) Establishes the National Childhood Immunization Trust Fund. Exempts the vaccine program from reduction under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Mandates State allotments for a registry of information on every child, including immunization data. Authorizes appropriations. Mandates grants to States to achieve objectives for immunizing U.S. children. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 5182) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconcilation Act of 1989 to authorize appropriations from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Funds to administer certain provisions of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Amends the Public Health Service Act to modify provisions regulating the effect on the statute of limitations of revisions to the Vaccine Injury Table. (Sec. 5183) Amends Medicaid provisions to require notifying all Medicaid-eligible persons under 21 of the need for immunizations. Adds grant entities under Public Health Service Act health provisions for residents of public housing to the list of entities within the definition of "Federally-qualified health center." (Sec. 5184) Allows Medicaid payments directly to vaccine manufacturers under certain programs. (Sec. 5185) Authorizes grants for demonstration projects providing comprehensive services to reduce the incidence of infant mortality and morbidity, fetal deaths, maternal mortality, fetal alcohol syndrome, and low birth weight. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 5186) Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant) of the Social Security Act to authorize appropriations to carry out specified provisions. (Sec. 5187) Modifies compensation requirements regarding members of the National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps. Allows certain entities that are migrant, community, homeless, and public housing health services providers to elect certain treatment under the Public Health Service for purposes of malpractice actions. Removes provisions allowing waiver of rights to recover National Health Service Corps scholarship or loan repayment amounts after default. Subtitle C: Communications Licensing Improvement - Chapter 1: Competitive Bidding Authority - Licensing Improvement Act of 1993 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to empower the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to use a system of competitive bidding in the granting of licenses involving the use of the electromagnetic spectrum (public airwaves). Outlines certain provisions, including: (1) uses to which such bidding may apply; (2) establishment by the FCC of a competitive bidding methodology; (3) alternative payment schedules for the use of airwaves; and (4) bidder and licensee qualifications. (Sec. 5205) Revises the FCC's regulatory authority in the mangagement of mobile communications services. Considers a person engaged in the provision of commercial mobile services to be a common carrier and, therefore, required to establish physical connections as required under the Communications Act. Prohibits State or local government imposition of any rate or entry regulation on commercial mobile service, but allows the FCC to grant a State petition to regulate rates under certain conditions. Chapter 2: Emerging Telecommunications Technologies - Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Act of 1993 - Amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and the FCC Chairman to conduct joint electromagnetic spectrum planning with respect to future spectrum requirements and promotion of efficient use of the spectrum. (Sec. 5222) Directs the Secretary to report to the President and the Congress identifying bands of frequencies that are allocated primarily for Government, are eligible for licensing, and are not required by the Government. Requires a report to the Congress on preliminary identification of reallocable bands of frequencies. Requires that an advisory committee be convened to assist in carrying out this Chapter. Directs certain actions after receipt of the advisory committee report on reallocation of band frequency assignments between Government and private uses. Authorizes the President to substitute alternative frequencies in the interest of national defense, governmental needs, public health or safety, or financial considerations. Directs the FCC to submit a plan for the distribution of reallocated frequency bands. Authorizes the President to reclaim reassigned frequencies. Chapter 3: Communications Technical Amendments - Sets forth corrections and technical amendments to communications provisions. Subtitle D: Energy Programs - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to extend from September 30, 1995, to September 30, 1998, the authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to collect annual charges. Title VI: Committee on Foreign Affairs - States that the Committee on Foreign Affairs recommends changes in Federal law which would reduce direct spending under the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund and the Foreign Service Pension System by requiring a three-month delay in cost-of-living adjustments for each year, FY 1994 through 1996. Title VII: Committee on the Judiciary - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to extend through FY 1998 the authorization for the collection of surcharges for use of the Patent and Trademark Office. Title VIII: Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries - Amends Federal shipping law to extend the years during which certain tonnage duties are imposed. (Sec. 8002) Declares the sense of the Congress that the inland waterways fuel tax should not be increased beyond those increases already mandated by law. Title IX: Committee on Natural Resources - Amends specified Federal law regarding the political union of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (Commonwealth) with the United States to repeal the direct grant asssitance for such Islands. Prescribes guidelines under which the United States commits its full faith and credit for specified payments to certain U.S. possessions and territories, including payments for capital improvements projects. Requires reports on the minimum wage and immigration policies of the Commonwealth. (Sec. 9002) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to provide that, in calculating the amount to be paid to States of revenues derived from Federal onshore mineral and geothermal steam leasing receipts, 50 percent of the portion of the appropriation allocable for administration and enforcement shall be deducted from those receipts in approximately equal amounts each month prior to their division and distribution between the States and the United States. (Sec. 9003) Mandates the payment of a specified minimum flat claim maintenance fee and location fee by the holder of an unpatented mining claim, mill, or tunnel site in lieu of the assessment work and related filing requirements under certain Federal mining law. Exempts certain oil shale claims from the fee requirement. Waives fees under certain conditions. (Sec. 9004) Amends Federal reclamation laws to mandate that non-Federal recipients of water delivered by way of Federal facilities pay an operation and maintenance charge to the United States. Establishes the Natural Resources Restoration Fund for the benefit of fish and wildlife resources and habitat affected by Federal reclamation projects. (Sec. 9005) Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to prohibit recreation user fees for campgrounds lacking specified amenities. Revises the terms of "Golden Age" passports in the National Park System. Establishes user fees for rights-of-way, tour vehicles or aircraft, and commercial telephone transmission facilities on Federal lands. (Sec. 9007) Directs the Secretaries of Energy and of the Interior adjust fees and other charges in order to recover the cost of Government services and establish a fee mechanism to recover Government costs of providing services which are currently free. (Sec. 9008) Directs the President to transmit in the annual budget an estimate of unfunded future Federal liabilities that are not accounted for in the budget itself. Title X: Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - Subtitle A: Civil Service - Delays the cost-of-living adjustments scheduled to take effect under certain Federal employee retirement systems during FY 1994 through 1996. (Sec. 1002) Amends the Civil Service and Federal Employees' Retirement Systems and the Foreign Service and Central Intelligence Agency systems to permanently eliminate the lump sum retirement option except for employees with a critical medical condition. (Sec. 1003) Eliminates the 1994 annual cost-of-living adjustment for Members of Congress and Federal employees. Amends the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 and other Federal law to modify the formulae for computing such adjustments for 1995 through 1997. (Sec. 1004) Amends Federal law to delay locality-based comparability payments until July of 1994. Limits the total amounts payable for locality payments between July 1, 1994, and September 30, 1998. Authorizes the President to specify locality payments less than the minimum amounts which would otherwise be required if necessary to comply with such limitations. Delays annual cost-of-living adjustments for Federal employees and Members of Congress until July of each year for the period between January 1, 1995, and December 31, 2003. Repeals provisions excluding senior executives from the limitation on the accumulation of annual leave. Prohibits cash awards during FY 1994 through 1998. Limits the average total number of civilian employees in the executive branch (except employees of the U.S. Postal Service and Postal Rate Commission) during FY 1994 through 1998. Requires the Director of the Administrative Office of United States Courts to apply the prohibitions and limitations of this Act with respect to annual cost-of-living adjustments and locality-based comparability payments to employees under the separate system of the Office. (Sec. 1005) Requires certain Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) plans to apply the Medicare part B limiting charges for physicians' services to enrolled retirees who are 65 or older and do not participate in Medicare part B. (Sec. 1006) Extends the proxy premium formula for determining Government contributions under FEHBP through contract year 1998 in the absence of a Government-wide indemnity benefit plan. Expresses the sense of the Congress that such extension should not be considered to reflect any view on the appropriateness, merits, or timing, or any other aspect of any comprehensive health care reform legislation. Subtitle B: Postal Service - Directs the U.S. Postal Service to make a specified additional payment into the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund and the Employee Health Benefits Fund to cover increases due to retirement cost-of-living adjustments and increases in health benefits costs. Subtitle C: Revenue Forgone Reform - Revenue Forgone Reform Act - Amends Federal postal service law to repeal the authorization of appropriations under the Overseas Citizens Voting Rights Act of 1975 and the Federal Voting Assistance Act of 1955 for mail sent at reduced postage rates. Revises provisions relating to the treatment of reduced-rate categories of mail. (Sec. 10203) Repeals certain Federal provisions authorizing appropriations to the Postal Service for certain accumulated operating indebtedness and directing the Postal Service to provide door or curbline delivery to certain permanent addresses. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 through 2035 to cover losses. (Sec. 10205) Prohibits reduced mailing rates for mail adverstising or offering products or services if: (1) the sale is not related to the purposes allowing mail at such rates; or (2) the mail matter involved is part of a cooperative mailing with a person not authorized to mail at reduced rates. Revises provisions with respect to the mailing rates of books. (Sec. 10207) Expresses the sense of the Congress that any legislation enacted after September 30, 1994, which would expand the class of mail eligible for reduced rates should provide for funding ensuring no losses to the Postal Service nor increases in rates for other classes of mail. Title XI: Committee on Public Works and Transportation - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to revise fees charged for aircraft registration, designation as an aviation medical examiner, issuance of an airman's certificate to be a pilot and costs associated with processing forms for fuel system repairs. Requires fees be deposited in the Airport and Airway Trust Fund. (Sec. 11002) Amends the Flood Control Act of 1968 to authorize the Secretary of the Army to collect fees for the use of developed recreation facilities, including campsites, beaches, and boat launching ramps. Requires fees to be deposited into the Treasury account for the Corps of Engineers. Title XII: Committee on Veterans Affairs - Veterans Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Amends the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1990 to extend through September 30, 1998, the requirement that veterans with a certain minimum income level make copayments in exchange for receiving certain health care benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs. Extends: (1) the requirement of a minimal copayment for medications received by veteran outpatients; (2) authority to recover the cost of veterans' services from third party insurers; (3) the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to provide certain financial information for income verification purposes; (4) a monthly pension limitation for certain recipients of nursing home care covered under Medicaid; and (5) procedures applicable to liquidation sales on defaulted home loans to veterans. (Sec. 12006) Prohibits any FY 1994 cost-of-living adjustment in the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation paid to surviving spouses. (Sec. 12008) Increases the home loan fee charged to veterans for loans guaranteed by the Department, closed after September 30, 1993, and before October 1, 1998. (Sec. 12009) Reduces by one percentage point the FY 1994 cost-of-living adjustment for educational assistance benefits payable to active duty and reserve personnel under the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program. (Sec. 12010) Excludes a person who is not the natural or legally adopted child of the parent from eligibility for survivors' and dependents' educational assistance. Title XIII: Committee on Ways and Means: Savings - Subtitle A: Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Programs - Amends OMBRA '90 to require the Secretary to reestablish and maintain in service the same number of telephone lines to each local social security office that were in place as of September 30, 1989. (Sec. 13003) Makes amendments to SSA title II, including to: (1) permit States collecting social security numbers to use those numbers to eliminate duplicate names and names of convicted felons from jury source lists; (2) extend to all States the option to provide police officers and firefighters with social security coverage; (3) disregard the windfall elimination provision in computing any U.S. totalization benefit and the amount of a regular U.S. benefit of an individual who receives a foreign totalization benefit based in part on U.S. employment, and who does not receive any other pension based on noncovered employment; (4) provide that military pensions based wholly on service in the military reserves before 1988 shall not trigger application of the Government pension offset or windfall elimination provision to the individual's social security benefits; (5) permit the Department of Agriculture to share its list of names, social security numbers, and employer identification numbers of the owners of retail grocery stores which redeem food stamps with other Federal agencies for the purpose of investigating food stamp fraud and other crimes; and (6) prohibit a State from using social security numbers in the administration of any driver's license or motor vehicle registration law where the State has not contracted to provide death certificate and related information to the Secretary, or where use of death information is restricted. (Sec. 13005) Exempts from payment liability and penalties ministers who were American citizens and residents of Canada prior to the 1984 totalization agreement between the United States and Canada and failed to file a tax return or pay self-employment taxes. (Sec. 13010) Amends IRC to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose information from tax returns on individuals' mortality status to the Secretary for eipdemiological research purposes; (2) coordinate the collection of domestic service employment taxes with the collection of income taxes; and (3) change threshold requirements with respect to social security employment taxes on domestic services. (Sec. 13015) Requires the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the rising costs of disability benefits. (Sec. 13016) Amends the Social Disability Amendments of 1980 to extend the Secretary's authority to conduct disability work incentive demonstration projects. Subtitle B: Human Resources Amendments - Chapter 1: Child Welfare Services, Foster Care, and Adoption Assistance - Amends SSA title IV part B (Child-Welfare Services) to, among other thing: (1) create a capped entitlement program to provide child welfare services designed to strengthen and preserve families; (2) repeal provisions linking the payment of title IV part B funds to the implementation of protections for children in foster care; (3) require State part B plans to contain a description of the specific measures taken by the State to comply with the Indian Child Welfare Act; and (4) provide for child welfare traineeships. (Sec. 13212) Directs the Secretary to provide grants for State courts to improve foster care placement and adoption proceedings. (Sec. 13216) Amends SSA title IV part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) (FCAA) to change the reimbursement policy with respect to foster care maintenance payments made on behalf of certain children whose adoption has been set aside by a court or whose voluntary placement in foster care has been judicially determined to be in the best interests of the child. Requires States to review their foster care maintenance payment and adoption assistance levels. Requires the health and education records in each child's case plan include a record that the foster care provider was advised (where appropriate) of the child's eligibility for certain Medicaid services. Makes permanent the authorization for the independent living program. Sets forth case plan requirements for children placed in foster care a substantial distance from their homes or in a different State. (Sec. 13218) Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the ways in which States implement the reasonable efforts requirements for State part E plans. (Sec. 13225) Amends OMBRA '89 to extend permanently (and retroactively to October 1, 1992) the level of Federal reimbursement under part E for the training of personnel employed by the State or local child welfare agency, and for the training of foster and adoptive parents. (Sec. 13227) Amends SSA title XI part A to overturn certain limitations in Suter v. Artist M. on private enforceability of State plan requirements. (Sec. 13232) Prohibits the Secretary, until October 1, 1994, from reducing any payment to any State under parts B or E because of State noncompliance with part B foster care protections. (Sec. 13233) Requires the Secretary to make grants to eligible institutions to train individuals to deliver culturally sensitive and bilingual child welfare services in border areas with Mexico. Authorizes approprations. Chapter 2: Child Support Enforcement - Amends SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to set up new paternity establishment performance standards and procedures for State child support enforcement programs. Outlines State plan requirements. Requires State child support enforcement agencies to periodically report, at no charge, the names and amounts of obligors at least two months delinquent in child support payments to bona fide consumer reporting agencies. Chapter 3: Supplemental Security Income - Amends SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) and other Federal law to require the Social Security Administration to charge States fees for the Federal cost of administering supplemental SSI payments. (Sec. 13252) Amends OMBRA '90 to make permanent the exclusion of State and local relocation assistance from countable income under SSI. (Sec. 13253-13256) Amends SSA title XVI to: (1) deem to be living in a household a spouse or parent of family members on SSI who is absent because of active duty military assignment; (2) exclude hazardous duty pay from countable income; (3) continue SSI benefits to children who are U.S. citizens if they received SSI in the United States and then accompanied their parents on military assignment to a U.S. territory or possession; and (4) extend the SSI definition of disability for children under 18 to any person under age 18. (Sec. 13257) Exempts income of up to $2,000 per year received by individual Indians that is derived from leases on trust or restricted Indian lands in determining eligibility and benefit levels under AFDC (SSA title IV part A) and SSI. Chapter 4: Aid to Families with Dependent Children - Amends SSA title IV part A to: (1) reduce to 50 percent the enhanced Federal matching available for certain categories of State administrative expenses; (2) make optional a State's verification of an individual's immigration status with the Immigration and Naturalization Service through an immigration status verfication system; (3) delay Federal requirements regarding AFDC-UP participation rates; and (4) increase the amount of stepparent earnings disregarded in determining the eligibility and benefit amounts of AFDC recipients and applicants. (Sec. 13263) Amends part F (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program) (JOBS) to require development of criteria for performance standards in the JOBS program, rather than performance standards themselves. (Sec. 13264) States that the Congress declares: (1) it is the responsibility of the Federal Government to reduce family dependence on income from welfare programs, to assist them toward self-sufficiency, and to increase the living standards of low-income families; and (2) the Federal Government should help welfare recipients and individuals at risk of welfare participation to improve education and job skills, to obtain access to child care and support services, and to take other steps as may assist them to become financially independent. Directs the Secretary to develop welfare participation measures and predictors, and report annually on welfare participation to specified congressional committees. Establishes the Advisory Board on Welfare Participation. (Sec. 13265) Directs the Secretary to provide for a demonstration project offering low-income residents of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, employment, wage supplements, health and child care, and job counseling and training. (Sec. 13266 and 13270) Amends the Family Support Act of 1988 to: (1) delay the requirement for implementation of the Unemployed Parent program in Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa until the limitations on Federal matching payments with respect to AFDC and FCAA maintenance payments are repealed; and (2) extend the authorization for early childhood development projects. (Sec. 13269) Amends OMBRA '87 to extend New York State's Child Assistance Program demonstration. (Sec. 13267) Amends SSA title XI to provide that, with respect to AFDC, one adult member of a household may sign a declaration attesting to the citizenship or satisfactory immigration status of other household members. Chapter 5: Unemployment Insurance - Amends IRC and SSA title III (Unemployment Compensation) to provide for the treatment of short-time compensation programs under which individuals whose workweeks have been reduced by at least ten percent (especially as an alternative to a temporary layoff) are eligible for unemployment compensation, under certain conditions. (Sec. 13275) Amends the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to increase the reimbursement rate and repeal special eligibility requirements under the extended unemployment program. (Sec. 13276 and 13277) Amends IRC to extend the current Federal unemployment tax rate and require disclosure of tax information to the Railroad Retirement Board for administration of the Railroad Retirement and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Acts. Chapter 6: Technical Provisions - Makes technical corrections related to the income security and human resources provisions of OMBRAs '89 and '90. (Sec. 13283) Amends SSA title XVI to repeal certain obsolete provisions relating to treatment of the earned income tax credit. Subtitle C: Medicare Program - Chapter 1: Provisions Relating to Part A -Subchapter A: Elimination of Inflation Update for Services Provided under Part A: - Amends SSA title XVIII (Medicare) to eliminate updates for inpatient hospital services and hospice care under Medicare part A in FY 1994 and 1995. (Sec. 13402) Prohibits the Secretary from applying an update factor to the cost limits for skilled nursing facility cost reporting periods beginning in FY 1994 and 1995. Subchapter B: Other Provisions Relating to Part A - Amends SSA title XVIII to, among other things: (1) provide that a change in classification of hospitals from one area to another cannot result in a reduction in the wage index for an urban area if the area has an age index below the rural wage index for the State or if the area is the only urban area in a State with no rural areas; (2) change certain standards for designating metropolitan statistical areas that are used in determining treatment of hospitals in rural counties adjacent to urban areas; (3) require the phase out of payments for day outlier cases starting in FY 1995; (4) authorize appropriations for the Essential Access Community Hospital (EACH) demonstration program; (5) provide for a prospective payment system for outpatient rural primary care hospital services; (6) continue special payments for Medicare-dependent, small rural hospitals for discharges occurring through FY 1994, with reduced payments for certain discharges; (7) allow to participate in Medicare hospitals where the care of patients receiving qualified psychologist services is under a clinical psychologist; (8) require skilled nursing facilities to inform beneficiaries of the hospice benefit under Medicare; (9) reduce the part A premium, on a phase-in basis, for individals with 30 or more quarters of social security coverage (and their spouses); (10) require periodic updating of salary equivalency guidelines for physical therapy and respiratory therapy services; and (11) provide that diagnosis-related group (DRG) window provisions will not apply to hospitals that are not paid on a DRG basis. (Sec. 13414) Amends OMBRA '87 to: (1) reauthorize and extend the rural health transition grant program; and (2) provide that all hospitals classified as regional referral centers on September 30, 1992, shall retain such status through FY 1994. (Sec. 13418) Amends OMBRA '90 to require the Secretary to continue limited-service rural hospital demonstration projects through calendar 1995. (Sec. 13419) Amends OMBRA' 89 to extend the hemophilia pass-through program. (Sec. 13420) Declares that, in the case of a State with a Medicare-approved payment system, no other provision of law shall be construed as preventing the system from providing that payment for covered services be made on the basis of rates provided for under such system. (Sec. 13423) Prohibits the Secretary from taking action to recover certain amounts paid by Medicare to uniformed services treatment facilities in Boston, Baltimore, and Seattle for services provided between October 1, 1986, and December 31, 1989, except to the extent that funds are made available for that purpose under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1993. Requires a report to the Congress on establishment of joint medical facilities among the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans' Affairs, and other entities. (Sec. 13424 and 13425) Requires the Secretary to: (1) review ]the DRGs assigned to discharges of patients with intractable epilepsy; (2) revise the assignment of discharges to such groups as the Secretary considers appropriate to account for the resource requirements of such patients; and (3) begin collecting data necessary to compute a skilled nursing facility wage index adjustment to the routine service cost limits required under Medicare. Requires the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission to report to the Congress on the impact of applying routine per diem cost limits for skilled nursing facilities on a regional basis. (Sec. 13429) Allows hospitals that have been reclassified from urban to rural as a result of revisions to metropolitan statistical area definitions issued by the Office of Management and Budget on December 28, 1992, to apply to the Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board for reclassification in FY 1994. Chapter 2: Provisions Relating to Part B: Subchapter A: Elimination of Inflation Update - Amends SSA title XVIII part B to eliminate the inflation update for physician and related professional services and other items and services. (Sec. 13432) Freezes payments for enteral and parenteral nutrients, supplies and equipment, rural health clinic, federally qualified health center, and comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility services, dialysis services, and other part B items and services. Subchapter B: Physicians' Services - Amends SSA title XVIII part B to, among other things: (1) repeal the OMBRA '90 prohibition on separate payments for EKG interpretations; (2) repeal the reductions in payments to new physicians and practitioners; (3) prohibit changing the methodology in effect as of January 1, 1992, for calculating anesthesia time in the fee schedules; (4) revise requirements with respect to geographic adjustment factors and beneficiary liability for amounts billed above the limiting charge; (5) require pre-payment screening by carriers of unassigned claims submitted by nonparticipating physicians; (6) require the Explanation of Benefits form to contain information on amounts billed in excess of the applicable limiting charge; (7) specify the practitioners who may only bill for services on an assignment-related basis; (8) include antigens prepared by a physician on the physician fee schedule; (9) prohibit the imposition of user fees in specified circumstances in the administration of claims relating to physicians' services; and (10) specify the conditions under which the Secretary can recognize substitute billing arrangements between two physicians. (Sec. 13444) Requires the Secretary to revise and report to specified congressional committees on the data necessary to revise geographic indices. Requires the Physician Payment Review Commission to develop criteria for use in redefining the localities used within States for adjusting physicians' fees. (Sec. 13446) Requires the Secretary to develop relative values for the full range of pediatric physicians' services and report to the Congress. Subchapter C: Ambulatory Surgical Center Services - Makes amendments identical to those made above to the Medicare program and OMBRA'90 under subchapter B of chapter 1 of title V of this Act with respect to eye and eye and ear hospitals and intraocular lenses. (Sec. 13452) Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on the costs to providers of intraocular lenses provided to individuals enrolled under Medicare part B. Subchapter D: Durable Medical Equipment - Makes amendments similar to those made above to the Medicare program and SSA title XI under subchapter C of chapter 1 of title V of this Act with respect to durable medical equipment and kick-backs. (Sec. 13468) Subjects ostomy supplies, tracheostomy supplies, and urologicals to national payment limits. Subchapter E: Other Provisions - Makes amendments similar to those made above to the Medicare program, OMBRA '86, and COMBRA '85 under subchapter E of chapter 1 of title V of this Act with respect to oral cancer drugs and the treatment of certain Indian health programs and facilities as federally-qualified health centers, and the extension of Alzheimer's disease and municipal health service demonstration projects. (Sec. 13471) Amends SSA title XVIII to, among other things: (1) freeze at the 1992 level the conversion factor used to determine payments to medically directed certified registered nurse anesthetists; (2) cap the part B premium penalty for late enrollment for Federal employees who meet certain conditions; and (3) establish statutory definitions for speech language pathologist and audiologists. (Sec. 13473) Provides for uniform coverage of "off-label" drugs used in anti-cancer therapy. Requires a report to specified congressional committees on Medicare coverage of patient care costs associated with clinical trials of new cancer therapies. Subchapter F: Part B Premiums - Duplicates the amendment to the Medicare program made above under subchapter D of chapter 1 of subtitle A of title V of this Act with respect to the monthy Medicare part B premium. Chapter 3: Provisions Relating to Parts A and B -Subchapter A: Elimination of Updates - Amends SSA title XVIII to eliminate updates in payments to hospitals for the direct costs of graduate medical education for cost reporting periods beginning during FY 1994 and 1995. (Sec. 13502) Prohibits the Secretary from providing any update in the cost limits for home health services for cost reporting periods beginning during FY 1994 and 1995. Subchapter B: Medicare Secondary Payer Provisions - Makes amendments similar to those under chapter 2 of subtitle A of title V of this Act with respect to Medicare as secondary payer. Subchapter C: Physician Ownership and Referral - Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) apply the ban on certain referrals by physicians to all payers, extending it to cover additional specified health services as well as new exceptions; (2) expand current standards used to define a group practice; and (3) provide that Federal law shall not preempt State laws that related to referrals not covered under the ban, or that relate to referrals covered under the ban but are even more restrictive. Subchapter D: Other Provisions - Sets forth measures similar to those under chapters 1 and 2 of subtitle A of title V of this Act with respect to: (1) interest payments on clean claims; (2) payments for erythropoietin; (3) qualified Medicare beneficiary outreach; (4) social health maintenance demonstrations; (5) the second surgical opinion program under SSA title XI; (6) hospice notification; and (7) Medicare capitation payments. (Sec. 13551) Requires the Secretary to redetermine the full-time-equivalent (FTE) resident amount to reflect the amount that would be allowed if the hospital had been liable to pay FICA taxes or make other specified retirement contributions for residents during the base year, but did not make such payments, yet now must do so as a result of OMBRA '90. Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) provide for adjustments for certain publicly funded family residency programs; (2) extend on a graduated basis to three years (after 1997) the current one-year period following a transplant procedure during which Medicare covers immunosuppressive drug therapy for beneficiaries who have received organ transplants; and (3) provide that user fees imposed under the Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act of 1967 are not subject to the general ban on user fees for determining compliance with any requirement of Medicare. (Sec. 13560) Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to provide that to the extent that appropriations are enacted providing budget authority for Medicare administrative costs above a base level spending in FY 1992 of $1.526 billion, the appropriate discretionary spending limits shall be adjusted to accommodate additional budget authority in FY 1994 and 1995. Chapter 4: Medicare Supplemental Insurance Policies - Amends OMBRA '90 and Medicare to make specified changes to Federal standards respecting the sale and regulation of Medicare supplemental insurance policies. Chapter 5: Treatment of Certain State Health Care Programs - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide that: (1) the Hawaii Prepaid Health Care Act will not be preempted by ERISA unless the Secretary of Labor notifies the Governor of Hawaii that certain conditions exist; and (2) State tax laws relating to employee benefit plans will continue to be preempted. Subtitle D: Customs and Trade Provisions - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to authorize appropriations for FY 1994 and 1995 for the United States International Trade Commission (ITC). Prohibits use of funds for any special study, requested by the executive branch unless the ITC is reimbursed. (Sec. 13601) Amends the Customs Procedural Reform and Simplification Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for FY 1994 and 1995 for the United States Customs Service for noncommercial and commercial operations, and the air and marine interdiction programs. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for FY 1994 and 1995 for the Office of the United States Trade Representative. (Sec. 13602) Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) to extend the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to collect customs user fees through September 30, 1998. (Sec. 13603) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to remove the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from the list of countries ineligible for designation as a beneficiary developing country under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). Extends duty-free treatment provided under the GSP through September 30, 1994. (Sec. 13604) Extends the worker trade adjustment assistance program (trade adjustment assistance benefits for workers adversely affected by import competition or the relocation of U.S. production facilities abroad), and authorization of appropriations, from FY 1993 through FY 1996. (Sec. 13605) Amends the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to extend the authority of the President, for a specified period of time, to enter into trade agreements with foreign countries for the reduction or elimination of tariff or nontariff barriers if the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has not resulted in such trade agreements by May 31, 1993. Provides that implementing bills involving tariff and nontariff trade agreements shall be effective only if, among other things, the President, at least 120 calendar days (currently, 90 days) before he enters into such an agreement, notifies the Congress of his intention and publishes such intention in the Federal Register. Extends congressional "fast track procedures" to such implementing bills through April 16, 1994. (Sec. 13606) Amends the Federal Trade Act of 1974 to eliminate the East-West Trade Statistics Monitoring System. Subtitle E: Customs Officer Pay Reform - Revises the pay system for United States Customs Service inspectors. (Sec. 13701) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to prohibit merchandise or passengers from foreign places, or merchandise being transported from one port to another, from being unladen from carrying vehicles during overtime hours (currently, at night). (Sec. 13702) Authorizes cash awards to customs officers for foreign language proficiency. (Sec. 13703) Amends COBRA to provide for reimbursement of appropriations from the Customs User Fee Account for agency retirement contributions. (Sec. 13704) Amends Federal law with regard to the treatment of certain pay of customs officers for retirement purposes. (Sec. 13705) Revises COBRA congressional reporting requirements respecting Account reimbursements. Requires additional General Accounting Office reports to the Congress on financing of overtime inspectional services through user fees. Title XIV: Revenue Provisions - Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Subtitle A: Training and Investment Incentives - Part I: Provisions Relating to Education and Training - Makes permanent after June 30, 1992: (1) the tax exclusion of employer-provided educational assistance; and (2) the targeted jobs credit. Allows the use of the targeted jobs credit, with limitations, for the hiring of a qualified participant in an approved school-to-work program. Part II: Investment Incentives - Subpart A: Research Credit - Makes permanent the credit for increasing research activities. Modifies the fixed base percentage of such credit for startup companies for taxable years after 1993. Subpart B: Capital Gain Provisions - Allows a taxpayer other than a corporation to exclude from gross income 50 percent of gain from the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock held for more than five years. Set forth rules and limitations for such exclusion. Treats one-half of such exclusion as an item of tax preference for minimum tax purposes. (Sec. 14114) Allows the rollover of gain from the sale of publicly traded securities into specialized small business investment companies. Subpart C: Modifications to Minimum Tax Depreciation Rules - Modifies the method of determining the depreciation deduction for certain personal property placed in service after 1993. Eliminates the depreciation adjustment for computing adjusted current earnings for such property. Subpart D: Increase in Expense Treatment for Small Business - Increases the dollar limitation on the election to expense certain depreciable small business assets. Part III: Tax-Exempt Bond Provisions - Provides a complete tax exemption (currently a 75 percent tax exemption) for bonds used to finance high-speed intercity rail facilities. (Sec. 14122) Permanently extends the authority to issue qualified small issue bonds to finance manufacturing facilities and farm property. Part IV: Expansion and Simplification of Earned Income Tax Credit - Repeals certain interaction rules with respect to the medical expense deduction, the deduction for health insurance, and the dependent care credit. Revises credit and phaseout percentages for 1994. Part V: Incentives for Investment in Real Estate - Subpart A: Extension of Qualified Mortgage Bonds and Low-Income Housing Credit - Makes permanent: (1) the authority to issue qualified mortgage bonds and qualified mortgage credit certificates; and (2) the low-income housing credit. (Sec. 14142) Provides that assistance under the HOME Investment Partnerships Act should not result in certain buildings being federally subsidized. Subpart B: Modification of Passive Loss Rules - Provides for the treatment of rental real estate activities under the limitations on losses from passive activities. Subpart C: Provisions Relating to Real Estate Investments by Pension Funds - Modifies exceptions to the exclusion of real property acquired by a qualified organization from the meaning of acquisition indebtedness. Makes certain exceptions inapplicable to sales out of foreclosure by a financial institution. (Sec. 14145) Repeals the special rule for publicly traded partnerships with respect to the treatment of unrelated business taxable income. (Sec. 14146) Permits a tax-exempt title-holding company to receive unrelated business taxable income if the unrelated income is incidentally derived from the holding of real property. (Sec. 14147) Excludes from unrelated business taxable income: (1) gains from the sale, exchange, or other disposition of real property acquired from financial institutions that are in conservatorship or receivership; and (2) loan commitment fees and certain option premiums. Provides for the tax treatment of pension fund investments in real estate investment trusts. Subpart D: Discharge of Indebtedness - Excludes from gross income the income from the discharge of qualified real property business indebtedness. Subpart E: Increase in Recovery Period for Nonresidential Real Property - Increases the depreciation recovery period for nonresidential real property. Part VI: Luxury Tax - Repeals the luxury excise tax on boats, aircraft, jewelry, and furs. (Sec. 14162) Modifies the luxury excise tax on automobiles to index the threshold for inflation occurring after 1990 and make such tax applicable to the first retail sale. Exempts from the luxury excise tax parts for accessories installed for use of passenger vehicles by disabled individuals. (Sec. 14163) Extends the current diesel fuel excise tax to diesel fuel used by noncommercial motorboats. Retains such taxes in the General Fund of the Treasury. Part VII: Other Changes - Repeals the tax preferences for the appreciated property charitable deduction. Disallows an adjustment related to the earnings and profits effects of any charitable contribution from being made in computing adjusted current earnings. (Sec. 14171) Requires Secretary of the Treasury to report to specified congressional committees on the development of a procedure for taxpayers to seek an agreement with the Secretary on the value of tangible personal property prior to the donation of such property to a qualifying charitable organization. (Sec. 14172) Amends the Railroad Retirement Solvency Act of 1983 to make permanent the treatment of certain railroad retirement benefits as received under employer plans. (Sec. 14173) Provides for the temporary extension of the deduction of health insurance costs of self-employed individuals. Subtitle B: Revenue Increases - Part I: Provisions Affecting Individuals- Subpart A: Rate Increases - Lowers the tax rates for certain taxpayers and increases the tax rate for certain higher incomes. Imposes a surtax on certain higher incomes. (Sec. 14203) Increases the tentative minimum tax for taxpayers other than corporations. (Sec. 14204) Makes permanent the overall limitation on itemized deductions and the phaseout of personal exemptions for high-income taxpayers. (Sec. 14206) Sets forth provisions to prevent the conversion of ordinary income to capital gain in certain financial transactions. Repeals certain exeptions to market discount rules. Provides for the treatment of purchases of stripped preferred stock after April 30, 1993. Revises methods of: (1) computing the limitation on the deductibility of investment interest; and (2) determining substantial appreciation of partnership inventory items. Subpart B: Other Provisions - Repeals the limitation on the amount of wages subject to the health insurance employment tax. (Sec. 14208) Increases and makes permanent the highest estate and gift tax rate. (Sec. 14209) Reduces the deduction for business meals and entertainment expenses. (Sec. 14210) Disallows a tax deduction for social club membership dues, except for employee recreational expenses. (Sec. 14211) Disallows a deduction as a trade or business expense remuneration to certain employees in excess of $1 million. (Sec. 14212) Reduces the compensation taken into account in determining contributions and benefits under qualified retirement plans. (Sec. 14213) Removes qualified residence sales, purchases, or leases and meals from the deduction for moving expenses. (Sec. 14214) Revises the limitation on using the preceding year's tax to calculate an individual's estimated tax payments. (Sec. 14215) Increases the amount of social security and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits to be included in the gross income of certain taxpayers. Part II: Provisions Affecting Business - Increases the tax rate for corporate income in excess of $10 million and the tax rate on personal service corporations. (Sec. 14222) Denies a tax deduction for lobbying expenses. Subjects lobbying organizations to special reporting requirements. (Sec. 14223) Requires any security which is inventory in the hands of the dealer to be included in inventory at its fair market value. Requires any dealer in securities that holds any security which is not in inventory at the close of any taxable year to: (1) recognize gain or loss as if the security were sold on the last business day of the taxable year; and (2) take into account any such gain or loss for such year (the mark-to-market requirement). (Sec. 14224) Requires taking into account: (1) certain Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) assistance as compensation for loss; and (2) FSLIC assistance for any debt for determining whether such debt is worthless and the amount of any addition to a reserve for bad debts. (Sec. 14225) Increases the required annual payment for corporations that fail to pay estimated income tax. Modifies the periods for applying such annualization. (Sec. 14226) Limits the Puerto Rico and possession tax credit to 60 percent of the possession corporation's qualified possession wages. (Sec. 14227) Modifies the limitation on corporate deductions for interest paid to related persons to take into account disqualified guarantees of indebtedness and the imposition of a gross basis tax. Part III: Foreign Tax Provisions - Subpart A: Current Taxation of Certain Earnings of Controlled Foreign Corporations - Requires U.S. shareholders of controlled foreign corporations to include in gross income a pro rata share of the corporation's excess passive assets. Modifies the rule on taxation of investment in U.S. property and takes into account excessive passive assets. Requires a report on investments by controlled foreign corporations in U.S property. (Sec. 14233) Excepts from foreign personal holding income dividends attributable to earnings and profits of the distributing corporation accumulated during any period which the person receiving such dividend did not hold such stock. Requires the establishment of an excess limitation account by taxpayers who receive foreign tax credits in a year they receive previously taxed earnings and profits. Subpart B: Allocation of Research and Experimental Expenditures - Reduces the amount allowed as allocation and apportionment of research and experimental expenditures from sources within the United States. Subpart C: Other Provisions - (Sec. 14235) Excludes passive dividends or interest income from foreign oil and gas income. (Sec. 14236) Modifies accuracy-related penalties for tax underpayments. (Sec. 14237) Denies the inclusion of certain contingent interest in the exemption for portfolio interest for nonresident aliens. (Sec. 14238) Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations recharacterizing any multiple-party financing transaction as a transaction directly among any two or more of such parties when appropriate to prevent tax avoidance. Part IV: Energy Tax Provisions - Subpart A: Energy Tax Based on Btu Content - Imposes an excise tax on the following energy products: (1) taxable refined petroleum products removed from a U.S. refinery or terminal entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing, and sold to a nonregistered person; (2) natural gas removed from any U.S. pipeline, entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing, and entered into any nonregistered pipeline; (3) coal received at any facility for use as a fuel at such facility; and (4) the sale of electricity to ultimate users in the United States and the use of electricity which was not subject to such tax. Bases the rate of tax on such products on the applicable Btu factor and content. (Sec. 14241) Provides for refunding certain amounts to ultimate vendors of petroleum used for heating oil and international commercial transportation. Repays certain sums to persons who use petroleum to produce calcined coke. Provides excise tax exemptions for certain uses. Refunds the tax paid by certain users of methane recovered from biomass or coal mining. Imposes a tax on the use of any fossil fuel: (1) in the manufacture or production of a fuel other than at a U.S. refinery; or (2) as a fuel. Imposes a tax on floor stock of taxable fuels held on the date of the tax increase. Allows a credit against such tax. Provides for such tax increases to begin July 1, 1994. Imposes a Btu tax on certain imported products that contain significant levels of direct energy inputs that would be taxable if the products were manufactured in the United States. Imposes a penalty on persons who sell dyed fuel for taxable uses. Subpart B: Modifications to Tax on Diesel Fuel - Imposes an excise tax on diesel fuel. Exempts from such tax diesel fuel: (1) used by trains and intercity, local, or school buses; and (2) which is dyed or marked in accordance in regulations. (Sec. 14242) Provides that the Airport and Airway Trust Fund financing rate does not apply to aviation fuel sold by a producer or importer for use by the purchaser in a nontaxable use. Imposes a civil penalty on persons who use reduced-rate fuel for a taxable use. (Sec. 14243) Imposes a floor stocks tax on any person holding diesel fuel April 1, 1994. Subpart C: Extension of Motor Fuel Tax Rates; Increased Deposits Into Highway Trust Fund - Increases the tax on gasoline and diesel fuels for purposes of the Highway Trust Fund financing rate. Increases the amount to be transferred to the Mass Transit Account from such Fund. Part V: Compliance Provisions - Requires information reporting on payments to corporations for services. (Sec. 14252) Modifies provisions concerning substantial understatement and return-preparer penalties to allow reasonable cause exceptions. (Sec. 14253) Requires certain financial entities (including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Resolution Trust Corporation, and the National Credit Union Administration, and their successors or subunits) to file information returns regarding discharges of indebtedness of $600 or more. Part VI: Treatment of Intangibles - Allows an amortization deduction with respect to certain intangible property, including goodwill, that is acquired and held by a taxpayer in connection with the conduct of a trade or business or an activity engaged in for the production of income. Part VII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Establishes substantiation requirements for charitable contributions of $750 or more. (Sec. 14272) Sets forth disclosure requirements for an organization that receives a quid pro quo contribution (payment made partly as a contribution and partly in consideration for goods or services provided to the payor by the donee organization). Imposes a penalty for failure to make such disclosure. (Sec. 14273) Expands the 45-day interest-free period for refunding tax overpayments to all returns, amended returns, and claims for refunds. Provides that if interest is not refunded within 45 days after the taxpayer files an amended return or claim for refund, interest will be paid only for periods after the date on which the return or claim is filed. (Sec. 14274) Denies the business travel expense deduction for spouses, dependents, or others. (Sec. 14275) Increases the withholding rate for supplemental wage payments. Subtitle C: Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities - Part I: Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities, Etc. - Provides for the designation of 100 tax enterprise communities and ten enpowerment zones between 1993 and 1996: (1) by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for urban areas; (2) by the Secretary of Agriculture for rural areas; and (3) by the Secretary of the Interior for Indian reservations. (Sec. 14301) Sets forth eligibility criteria. Makes certain buildings in such communities or zones eligible for the low-income housing credit applicable to buildings in high-cost areas. Provides for the issuance of enterprise zone facility bonds in enterprise communities and enpowerment zones in a manner similar to exempt facility bonds. Excludes enterprise zone facility bonds from the interest deduction limitations on financial institutions. Provides States an additional housing credit ceiling for each zone and community through 1996. Allows a limited empowerment zone employment credit to employers for a percentage of qualified zone wages paid during calendar years 1994 through 2004. Allows businesses a zone resident empowerment savings credit of 50 percent of the qualified savings contributions made by an employer to a defined contribution plan on behalf of a zone employee. Limits the credit amount based on the employee's compensation. Increases the limitation on expensing certain depreciable business assets. Increases the volume cap applicable to enterprise zone facility bonds if the business owners meet specified ownership requirements with regard to abiding in such zones. (Sec. 14302) Allows use of the targeted jobs credit for hiring empowerment zone residents. Part II: Credit for Contributions to Certain Community Development Corporations - Allows a general business tax credit for contributions to selected community development corporations for low-income individuals who are residents of the operational area of the community. Subtitle D: Other Provisions - Part I: Disclosure Provisions - Extends the authority to disclose tax return information to the Department of Veterans Affairs through September 30, 1998. (Sec. 14402) Authorizes the disclosure of certain tax return information to the Department of Education to implement the direct student loan program and to the Department of Housing for income verification. Part II: User Fee Provisions - Requires establishment of a program requiring the payment of user fees for the processing of applications for certificates of alcohol label approval and exemption, formula reviews, and statements of process (including laboratory tests). (Sec. 14412) Removes authority to use the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for administrative expenses of certain customs fee collections. (Sec. 14413) Increases the tax on fuel used on commercial transportation on inland waterways. Part III: Public Debt Limit - Increases the public debt limit and repeals the temporary limit on such increase. Part IV: Vaccine Provisions - Makes permanent: (1) the excise tax on certain vaccines; and (2) the authority to pay compensation from the Vaccine Trust Fund under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program for certain damages resulting from vaccines administered after September 30, 1988. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report to specified congressional committees on uses of such Fund. (Sec. 14431) Imposes a floor stocks tax on taxable vaccines. (Sec. 14432) Requires contribution coverage under group health plans of the costs of pediatric vaccines. (Sec. 14433) Establishes the Childhood Immunization Trust Fund for the entitlement program under the Public Health Service Act.

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Timeline

1. 25 May 1993

   Calendars

   Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 57.

   Source: Calendars

2. 25 May 1993

   Reported

   The House Committee on The Budget reported an original measure, H. Rept. 103-111, by Mr. Sabo.

   Source: Committee

3. 25 May 1993

   Reported

   The House Committee on The Budget reported an original measure, H. Rept. 103-111, by Mr. Sabo.

   Source: Committee

4. 25 May 1993

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

5. 27 May 1993

   Passed

   Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

   Source: Floor

6. 27 May 1993

   Vote

   On passage Passed by recorded vote: 219 - 213 (Roll no. 199).

   Source: Floor

7. 27 May 1993

   Vote

   Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 219 - 213 (Roll no. 199).

   Source: Floor

8. 27 May 1993

   Floor

   The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.

   Source: Floor

9. 27 May 1993

   Floor

   The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2264, as modified.

   Source: Floor

10. 27 May 1993

    Floor

    The Speaker designated the Honorable John P. Murtha to act as Chairman of the Committee.

    Source: Floor

11. 27 May 1993

    Floor

    House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 186 and Rule XXIII.

    Source: Floor

12. 27 May 1993

    Floor

    Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 186. (consideration: CR H2970-2992, H2997-3301)

    Source: Floor

13. 27 May 1993

    Passed

    Rule H. Res. 186 passed House.

    Source: Floor

14. 27 May 1993

    Floor

    Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2264 with 2 hours of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit. Upon adoption of this resolution the Speaker may declare the House resolved into the Committee of the Whole for consideration of the bill, pursuant to section 7 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fy 1994. The modifications to the bill printed in part 1 of the report accompanying this resolution shall be considered as adopted in the House and in the Committee of the Whole. All points of order against the bill, as modified, shall be waived. A specified amendment is in order. Only the amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in part 2 of the report accompanying this resolution shall be in order, if offered only by Representative Kasich or his designee, to be debatable for one hour and not...

    Source: Floor

15. 27 May 1993

    Reported

    Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 186 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2264 with 2 hours of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit. Upon adoption of this resolution the Speaker may declare the House resolved into the Committee of the Whole for consideration of the bill, pursuant to section 7 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fy 1994. The modifications to the bill printed in part 1 of the report accompanying this resolution shall be considered as adopted in the House and in the Committee of the Whole. All points of order against the bill, as modified, shall be waived. A specified amendment is in order. Only the amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in part 2 of the report accompanying this resolution shall be in order, if offered only by Representative Kasich or his designee, to be debatable for one hour and not subject to amendment. ...

    Source: Floor

16. 7 June 1993

    Introduced

    Received in the Senate.

    Source: IntroReferral

17. 8 June 1993

    Calendars

    Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.

    Source: Calendars

18. 10 June 1993

    Calendars

    Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 88.

    Source: Calendars

19. 25 June 1993

    ResolvingDifferences

    Senate insists on its amendment asks for a conference, appoints conferees Leahy; Pryor; Lugar from the Committee on Agriculture. (consideration: CR 6/24/93 S8070)

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

20. 25 June 1993

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate in lieu of S. 1134 with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 50-49. Record Vote No: 190.

    Source: Floor

21. 25 June 1993

    Floor

    Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR 6/24/93 S7986-8070)

    Source: Floor

22. 29 June 1993

    Passed

    Senate ordered measure printed as passed with amendments of the Senate numbered.

    Source: Floor

23. 1 July 1993

    ResolvingDifferences

    Senate appointed conferees Pryor; Durenberger by unanimous consent from the Committee on Finance.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

24. 1 July 1993

    Floor

    Message on Senate action sent to the House.

    Source: Floor

25. 2 July 1993

    Floor

    Message on Senate action sent to the House.

    Source: Floor

26. 14 July 1993

    Passed

    The previous question on the amendment in the nature of a substitute and on the motion to instruct was agreed to without objection.

    Source: Floor

27. 14 July 1993

    Vote

    On agreeing to the amendment in the nature of a substitute to the motion to instruct conferees Agreed to by recorded vote: 235 - 183 (Roll No. 328).

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

28. 14 July 1993

    Passed

    Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

29. 14 July 1993

    ResolvingDifferences

    The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on the Budget for consideration of the House bill, and the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Sabo, Gephardt, and Kasich.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

30. 14 July 1993

    Floor

    DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Kasich motion to instruct conferees. The instructions require the House conferees to reject increases in federal spending within the scope of the conference by excluding from the conference report all provisions that increase direct spending except social security.

    Source: Floor

31. 14 July 1993

    ResolvingDifferences

    Mr. Sabo offered an amendment in the nature of a substitute to the Kasich motion to instruct conferees.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

32. 14 July 1993

    Vote

    On ordering the previous question Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 184 - 238 (Roll no. 327). (consideration: CR H4655)

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

33. 14 July 1993

    ResolvingDifferences

    Mr. Kasich moved that the House instruct conferees.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

34. 14 July 1993

    Passed

    On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference Agreed to without objection.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

35. 14 July 1993

    ResolvingDifferences

    Mr. Sabo asked unanimous consent that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference. (consideration: CR H4645)

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

36. 15 July 1993

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

37. 15 July 1993

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference committee actions: Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

38. 20 July 1993

    Floor

    Subsequent to the withdrawal of Mr. Hansen of Utah as a conferee on H.R. 2264, the Speaker announced that Mr. Thomas of Wyoming would be appointed to fill the vacancy.

    Source: Floor

39. 22 July 1993

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

40. 22 July 1993

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference committee actions: Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

41. 3 August 1993

    Passed

    Mr. Sabo asked unanimous consent that managers on the part of the House have until midnight on Aug. 3 to file a conference report on H.R. 2264. Agreed to without objection.

    Source: Committee

42. 3 August 1993

    Passed

    Conferees agreed to file conference report.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

43. 3 August 1993

    Passed

    Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

44. 4 August 1993

    Reported

    Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 240 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to H.R. 2264 with 6 hours of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit. Upon adoption of this resolution, it shall be in order to consider the conference report accompanying the bill and all points of order against the conference report or against its consideration shall be waived. The previous question on a motion to recommit, if offered, shall be considered as ordered. After disposition of the conference report, no further consideration of the bill shall be in order except pursuant to a subsequent order of the House. House Resolution 235 shall be considered as adopted.

    Source: Floor

45. 4 August 1993

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference report H. Rept. 103-213 filed. (text of conference report: CR H5792-6047)

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

46. 4 August 1993

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference report filed: Conference report H. Rept. 103-213 filed.(text of conference report: CR H5792-6047)

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

47. 4 August 1993

    Floor

    Mr. Rohrabacher announced his intention to offer a motion to instruct managers on the part of the House to insist on the House's disagreement to all provisions of the Senate amendment increasing the level of federal tax on motor fuels, to recede to the Senate amendment's absence of provisions corresponding to the energy tax provisions of the House bill, and to reject any other increase in energy taxes.

    Source: Floor

48. 5 August 1993

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference papers: message on House action held at the desk in Senate.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

49. 5 August 1993

    Vote

    On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by recorded vote: 218 - 216 (Roll no. 406).

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

50. 5 August 1993

    Passed

    Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

51. 5 August 1993

    Vote

    Conference report agreed to in House: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by recorded vote: 218 - 216 (Roll no. 406).

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

52. 5 August 1993

    ResolvingDifferences

    The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

53. 5 August 1993

    Floor

    DEBATE - Pursuant to H. Res. 240, modified by unanimous consent, the House proceeded with 6 hours and twenty minutes of debate.

    Source: Floor

54. 5 August 1993

    ResolvingDifferences

    Mr. Sabo brought up conference report H. Rept. 103-213 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 240. (consideration: CR H6272)

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

55. 5 August 1993

    Passed

    Rule H. Res. 240 passed House.

    Source: Floor

56. 6 August 1993

    Vote

    Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 51-50. Record Vote No: 247.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

57. 6 August 1993

    Floor

    Point of order that the Conference Report violates the Constitution raised in Senate.

    Source: Floor

58. 6 August 1993

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference papers: Senate report and managers' statement held at the desk in Senate.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

59. 9 August 1993

    Floor

    Message on Senate action sent to the House.

    Source: Floor

60. 10 August 1993

    Became law

    Signed by President.

    Source: BecameLaw

61. 10 August 1993

    President

    Signed by President.

    Source: President

62. 10 August 1993

    Floor

    Presented to President.

    Source: Floor

63. 10 August 1993

    President

    Presented to President.

    Source: President

64. 10 August 1993

    Became law

    Became Public Law No: 103-66.

    Source: President

Votes

Versions

• Enrolled Bill · 6 August 1993 · Official file
• Public Print · 29 June 1993 · Official file
• Engrossed Amendment Senate · 25 June 1993 · Official file
• Placed on Calendar Senate · 10 June 1993 · Official file
• Engrossed in House · 27 May 1993 · Official file
• Reported in House · 25 May 1993 · Official file

Documents

16 official files

• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 11 August 1993

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• Enrolled Bill (text)

  Enrolled Bill · EN · 6 August 1993

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• Enrolled Bill (PDF)

  Enrolled Bill · EN · 6 August 1993

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• Conference report filed in House

  summary · EN · 4 August 1993

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• Public Print (text)

  Public Print · EN · 29 June 1993

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• Public Print (PDF)

  Public Print · EN · 29 June 1993

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• Engrossed Amendment Senate (text)

  Engrossed Amendment Senate · EN · 25 June 1993

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• Engrossed Amendment Senate (PDF)

  Engrossed Amendment Senate · EN · 25 June 1993

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 25 June 1993

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• Placed on Calendar Senate (text)

  Placed on Calendar Senate · EN · 10 June 1993

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• Placed on Calendar Senate (PDF)

  Placed on Calendar Senate · EN · 10 June 1993

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• Engrossed in House (text)

  Engrossed in House · EN · 27 May 1993

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• Engrossed in House (PDF)

  Engrossed in House · EN · 27 May 1993

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• Reported in House (text)

  Reported in House · EN · 25 May 1993

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• Reported in House (PDF)

  Reported in House · EN · 25 May 1993

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 25 May 1993

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Sponsors

• Rep. Sabo, Martin Olav [D-MN-5] · D · Sponsor
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