bill_id,congress,bill_type,bill_number,title,policy_area,introduced_date,latest_action_date,latest_action_text,origin_chamber,sponsor_name,sponsor_state,sponsor_party,sponsor_bioguide_id,cosponsor_count,summary_text,update_date,url
102-hr-6212,102,hr,6212,To eliminate foreign shipbuilding subsidy practices and to enhance the competitiveness of the United States merchant marine.,Transportation and Public Works,1992-10-09,1992-10-13,Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.,House,"Rep. Davis, Robert W. [R-MI-11]",MI,R,D000131,1,"Title I:  Fair Trade for the Commercial Shipbuilding and Repair Industry - Subtitle A:  Subsidized Shipyard List and Required Vessel Entry Documentation Regarding Construction and Repair Subsidies - Shipbuilding Trade Reform Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to maintain a list of all foreign shipyards that receive or benefit from, directly or indirectly, a subsidy for the construction or repair of vessels. Requires a vessel master to deposit with appropriate customs officers a construction subsidy certification for the vessel at the time of making formal entry under the Tariff Act of 1930. Requires the master at, or before, the time of formal entry, to deposit with such customs officer a subsidy declaration for repairs made to such vessel since the last time it entered the United States. Subtitle B:  Treatment of Vessels Under the Countervailing and Antidumping Duty Laws - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to establish special rules in applying countervailing and antidumping laws to foreign-made vessels. Title II:  Contingency Retainer Fleet Program - Maritime Reform Act of 1992 - Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to encourage the establishment of a fleet of active, militarily useful, vessels to meet Department of Defense and other security requirements, while also maintaining an American presence in international commercial shipping, to be known as the Contingency Retainer Fleet, to consist of privately owned, U.S.-flag vessels for which there are in effect operating agreements. Sets forth requirements for the operating agreement and restrictions on noncontiguous trade. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits new operating-differential subsidy contracts.  Allows the trade-in of obsolete vessels. Limits construction loan guarantees to vessels built in the United States or vessels built in a foreign shipyard that is not included on the subsidized foreign shipyard list. Sets forth reemployment rights for merchant seamen who are members of the Armed Forces Reserves and ordered to active duty. Eliminates certain mortgage restrictions on vessel financing. Amends the Shipping Act to provide for the placement of vessels under foreign registry. Requires the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the impact of this Act on U.S. international competitiveness in the maritime industry. Title III:  Amendments Related to Capital Construction Fund; Phaseout of Duty on Equipment and Repairs of Vessels in Foreign Countries - Subtitle A:  Amendments Related to Capital Construction Funds - Amends the Merchant Marine Act to remove the requirement that vessels be built in the United States in order to establish a capital construction fund.  Provides for the taxation of earnings on fund investments.  Allows the withdrawal of such funds to make certain payments on leased vessels.  Authorizes deposits in such fund in excess of limitations for prior years based on an audit adjustment.  Provides for the treatment of long-term capital gains and losses and the computation of interest on nonqualified withdrawals in such fund. Subtitle B:  Phaseout of Duty on Equipment and Repairs of Vessels in Foreign Countries - Reduces the required duty for repairs made in a foreign country by vessels documented in the United States.",2024-02-07T16:32:33Z,
102-hr-6211,102,hr,6211,Act to Implement the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks,Commerce,1992-10-08,1992-10-09,Referred to the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration.,House,"Rep. Hughes, William J. [D-NJ-2]",NJ,D,H000930,1,"Act to Implement the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks - Amends the Trademark Act of 1946 to set forth the Madrid Protocol. Authorizes the owner of an application for mark registration pending before the Patent and Trademark Office or of a U.S. registration to file an international application with the Office. Requires the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks to certify that particulars appearing in the international application correspond to those appearing in the basic registration and to transmit the application to the International Bureau of the World International Property Organization. Authorizes holders of international registrations based on U.S. registrations to request extensions of protection from the International Bureau or the Office. Entitles holders of international registrations to extensions of protection to the United States.  Bars protection for an international registration if the Office is the office of origin. Entitles holders of such registrations to a right of priority under the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, subject to certain conditions. Subjects requests for extension of protection to opposition.  Bars extension of protection to any mark not registrable on the Principal Register.  Sets forth procedures for notifications of refusal of protection by the Commissioner. Grants extensions of protection for international registrations the same effect and validity as registrations on the Principal Register and extends corresponding rights and remedies to holders of such registrations. Cancels or invalidates an extension of protection to the United States for goods and services under an international registration that has been cancelled or is not renewed. Authorizes holders of cancelled international registrations to file applications for registration for a mark for cancelled goods and services with the Office (allowing transformation into a U.S. application). Requires an extension of protection to remain in force for the term of the international registration upon which it is based.  Cancels protection unless the holder files an affidavit showing current use of the mark in commerce or nonuse based on special circumstances. Authorizes extensions of protection only to persons who are nationals of or have other specified connections to a Contracting Party to the Protocol.",2025-08-26T15:15:29Z,
102-s-3372,102,s,3372,A bill to provide graduates of the Small Business Administration's Minority Small Business and Capital Ownership Development Program with opportunities to compete for certain contracts under limited circumstances.,Commerce,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business.,Senate,"Sen. Shelby, Richard C. [D-AL]",AL,D,S000320,0,"Provides that a contract to furnish products or services to a participating agency shall be competed for if:  (1) there is a reasonable expectation of receiving offers from two or more eligible small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals who are capable of performing the contract; (2) a contract to furnish the same (or substantially similar) products or services is being performed under a contract competitively awarded pursuant to provisions of the Small Business Act (the Act); and (3) the contractor currently performing such contract will have graduated from the Small Business Administration's Minority Small Business and Capital Ownership Development Program prior to the issuance of the solicitation for the new contract. Requires the head of a participating agency to restrict the competition for the award of such a contract to small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.  Makes a small business concern, where the contractor currently performing the contract will have graduated from the Program prior to the issuance of the solicitation for such contract, ineligible for award of a contract resulting from a restricted competition unless such concern furnishes (and the contracting officer accepts) a plan to subcontract not less than 25 percent of the contract value to one or more small business concerns in the developmental stage of the Program. Directs the head of a Federal agency awarding a contract pursuant to a restricted competition under this Act to cooperate with the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to have any subsequent requirement for the product or service furnished pursuant to a contract awarded under the authority of the Act. Revises provisions of the Act regarding business activity targets to require that:  (1) during the developmental stage of its participation in the Program, a Program participant take all reasonable efforts within its control to attain the targets contained in its business plan for specified contracts (as under current law) on a noncompetitive basis; and (2) regulations promulgated during the transitional stage of the Program establish targets that reflect a reasonably consistent increase in specified contracts awarded (as under current law) on a noncompetitive basis. Repeals provisions prohibiting small business concerns from being required to provide a bond as a condition of receiving a subcontract under specified conditions and concerning waiver of bonds.",2025-01-14T17:16:56Z,
102-s-3373,102,s,3373,"Bullet Death, Injury, and Family Dissolution Control Act",Crime and Law Enforcement,1992-10-08,1992-10-23,Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 102-1061.,Senate,"Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY]",NY,D,M001054,0,"Bullet Death, Injury, and Family Dissolution Control Act - Title I:  National Center for Bullet Death and Injury Control - Establishes within the Department of Health and Human Services a National Center for Bullet Death and Injury Control.  Directs the Center to conduct research into, and provide leadership and coordination for:  (1) the understanding and promotion of knowledge about the epidemiologic basis for bullet-related death and injury within the United States; (2) developing technically sound approaches for controlling and eliminating bullet-related deaths and injuries; (3) building the capacity for implementing the options and for expanding the approaches to controlling death and disease from bullet-related trauma; and (4) educating the public about the nature and extent of bullet-related violence. Sets forth provisions regarding:  (1) the functions of the Center (including conducting research and preparing statistics on bullet-related death and injury, making recommendations to the Congress, Federal, State, and local agencies about options for actions to eradicate or reduce the incidence of such death and injury, and providing training and technical assistance to Federal, State, and local agencies regarding the collection and interpretation of bullet-related data); and (2) establishment of an independent advisory board to assist in setting the policies for and directing the Center. Authorizes appropriations. Title II:  Increase in Excise Tax on Certain Bullets - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set the excise tax rate on .25 and .32 caliber and nine millimeter ammunition at 1,000 percent, with an exemption for law enforcement agencies.",2025-08-26T15:16:13Z,
102-s-3374,102,s,3374,Lake Tahoe Water Quality Protection Act of 1992,Environmental Protection,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Seymour, John [R-CA]",CA,R,S000269,0,"Lake Tahoe Water Quality Protection Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to:  (1) establish a continuing comprehensive water quality assessment and management program for Lake Tahoe (California and Nevada); and (2) enter into an agreement with, and award a grant to, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency to carry out such program. Requires the Administrator, as part of the program, to establish an ongoing research program for Lake Tahoe and the associated basin by entering into an agreement with, and awarding a grant to, Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village, Nevada.  Requires the research program to provide for water quality monitoring and assessment. Directs the Administrator, with the approval of the Governors of California and Nevada, to award water pollution control and prevention grants to political subdivisions located within the Lake Tahoe basin. Authorizes grants for the planning and construction of treatment works and facilities to control or prevent pollution from stormwater and other nonpoint source discharges to Lake Tahoe.  Requires grant recipients to pay 25 percent of the costs of such projects. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:16:33Z,
102-s-3375,102,s,3375,Justice for Permanently Displaced Striking Workers Act of 1992,Labor and Employment,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Durenberger, Dave [R-MN]",MN,R,D000566,0,Justice for Permanently Displaced Striking Workers Act of 1992 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to require expedited investigation and adjudication of unfair labor practice charges cases where:  (1) a collective bargaining agreement has expired; (2) it is alleged that a party to the agreement has failed to negotiate in good faith; and (3) permanent replacements have been hired.  Sets forth a timetable for such expedited adjudication procedure.,2025-08-26T15:14:56Z,
102-s-3376,102,s,3376,Consumer Mail Fraud Protection Act of 1992,Government Operations and Politics,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.,Senate,"Sen. Pryor, David H. [D-AR]",AR,D,P000556,0,"Consumer Mail Fraud Protection Act of 1992 - Amends Federal law to prohibit the mailing of matter otherwise legally acceptable that could be interpreted as a bill, invoice, or statement of account due but, in fact, constitutes a solicitation for a contribution. Applies authorities of the Postal Service to issue certain orders concerning persons obtaining money or property through the mail by false representations to persons who have, within three years of the commencement of proceedings, used the mail for such purposes. Requires a mailed solicitation for funds or for the sale of goods or services to disclose the name and business address of the person making the solicitation. Provides that any use of the mail to attempt to obtain consideration for arranging, or providing assistance in securing, a loan of money, a credit card, or a line of credit shall constitute a prima facie violation, unless such activity is performed by an entity that is licensed by and subject to regulation of a Federal agency. Authorizes the issuance of injunctions or restraining orders to restrict individuals from using the mail in furtherance of a scheme, lottery, or gift enterprise. Permits the Postmaster General to serve civil investigative demands to compel the production of documents pertaining to investigations concerning nonmailable matter.  Sets forth provisions governing the service of demands, production of documents, answering of interrogatories, and examination of witnesses. Authorizes the Postal Service to petition a district court for enforcement orders against persons who fail to comply with civil investigative demands. Applies Federal criminal penalties for obstruction of proceedings concerning civil investigative demands under the Antitrust Civil Process Act to obstruction concerning demands made by the Postal Service. Provides for civil penalties against persons who use any instrumentality of interstate commerce to evade certain orders to restrict their use of the mails to further schemes, lotteries, or gift enterprises. Subjects any property obtained by fraud or swindle using the mail or Postal Service or fraud by wire, radio, or television to civil and criminal forfeiture. Increases the penalty for avoiding the payment of postage on deposited mail matters.",2025-08-26T15:17:01Z,
102-s-3377,102,s,3377,Social Security Bill of Rights,Social Welfare,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.,Senate,"Sen. Riegle, Donald W., Jr. [D-MI]",MI,D,R000249,0,"Social Security Bill of Rights - Title I:  Service Improvements - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide for the restitution of funds misappropriated by representative payees. Amends SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an ongoing program of outreach to individuals who have attained age 65 and are potentially eligibile for SSI benefits by reason of disability or blindness. Amends the SSA title XI (General Provisions and Peer Review) to direct the Secretary to provide for:  (1) the use of Social Security Administration offices to apply for Medicaid (SSA title XIX) and certain other benefits (one stop shopping); (2) training for office employees assisting in the application process for such benefits; and (3) the use of bilingual personnel and printed material in the administration of SSA programs where appropriate.  Title II:  Work Incentive for Individuals with Disabilities - Amends SSA title II (OASDI) to provide that individuals receiving social security disability benefits who return to work and perform substantial gainful activity despite a severe medical impairment other than blindness shall receive reduced benefits under such title until such time as the individual is no longer disabled and ceases to meet all other nondisability-related requirements for benefits under such title.  Makes conforming amendments to trial work period provisions. Amends SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) to:  (1) provide for SSI benefits for individuals who lose social security disability benefits after a trial work period; and (2) revise provisions concerning SSI benefits for individuals who perform substantial gainful activity despite severe medical impairment. Title III:  Demonstration Projects to Provide for Improved Procedures with Respect to Disability Determinations, Continuing Disability Reviews, and Rehabilitation Services - Directs the Secretary to provide for the establishment of demonstration projects in ten States under which such States will provide improved procedures with respect to disability determinations and continuing disability reviews under SSA titles II (OASDI) and XVI (SSI) and modify the program for providing rehabilitation services to individuals determined under such titles to be under a disability.  Requires the Secretary to evaluate such demonstration projects and report to the Congress on their effectiveness.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to provide for the establishment of demonstration projects to improve review of disability determinations made under SSA titles II and XVI.  Requires the Secretary to evaluate such demonstration projects and report to the Congress on the effectiveness of such demonstration projects. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:14:55Z,
102-s-3378,102,s,3378,Homelessness Outreach Act of 1992,Social Welfare,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.,Senate,"Sen. Riegle, Donald W., Jr. [D-MI]",MI,D,R000249,0,Homelessness Outreach Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to:  (1) establish within the Social Security Administration an Office of Outreach Coordination to coordinate outreach efforts directed toward securing Federal assistance for eligible homeless individuals; (2) provide grants to local governments and nonprofit organizations for homeless outreach activities; and (3) prepare an evaluation for the Congress of the activities carried out under this Act. Sets forth special procedures governing the administration of social security benefits for homeless individuals.,2025-08-26T15:16:17Z,
102-s-3379,102,s,3379,"A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage the production of certain bio-additive and ethanol fuels, and for other purposes.",Taxation,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.,Senate,"Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]",SD,D,D000064,0,Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a portion of the alcohol fuels credit to offset the tentative minimum tax. Allows an alcohol fuels credit for bio-additives (liquids derived from biological sources) used to produce diesel fuel. Excludes from gross income the alcohol fuel credit attributable to bio-additives and certain ethanol-based ethers.,2025-01-14T18:59:41Z,
102-s-3380,102,s,3380,"A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to remove a restriction on the requirement for the Secretary of the Air Force to dispose of real property at deactivated intercontinental ballistic missile facilities to adjacent landowners.",,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.,Senate,"Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]",SD,D,D000064,0,"Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to dispose of the interest of the United States in any tract of real property at a missile site that is surrounded by one or more tracts of land that are owned by one or more owners (currently, surrounded by lands that are adjacent to tracts of land owned by the Air Force that are owned in fee simple by one owner or by more than one owner jointly, in common, or by the entirety).",2025-01-14T17:07:58Z,
102-s-3381,102,s,3381,A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that certain disabled taxpayers may compute their medical expense deduction without regard to income from the forced sale of assets to pay medical bills.,Taxation,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.,Senate,"Sen. Packwood, Bob [R-OR]",OR,R,P000009,1,"Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an eligible taxpayer to exclude from gross income the gain from the sale of real property to the extent such gain does not exceed $250,000. Makes a taxpayer eligible if:  (1) the taxpayer or the taxpayer's spouse or dependent is physically or mentally incapable of caring for himself or herself; (2) the expenses for medical care of such an individual exceed 25 percent of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income (reduced by the gain from the sale of property); and (3) the taxpayer elects the exclusion from gross income.",2025-01-14T18:59:41Z,
102-s-3382,102,s,3382,Civilian Technology Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC]",SC,D,H000725,0,"Civilian Technology Act of 1992 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to establish as an independent instrumentality the Civilian Technology Corporation (CTC). States that the CTC shall:  (1) assist industry to develop and commercialize within the United States new critical civilian technologies; (2) assist industry-led technology development proposals; and (3) ensure project cost-sharing between itself and industry. Provides assistance in the forms of:  (1) technology development grants; (2) loans, guarantees, and equity investments; (3) financial support for venture capital firms (critical technology investment companies) that would invest in the development of critical civilian technologies; and (4) assistance to State technology development programs. Sets forth criminal provisions. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:17:44Z,
102-s-3383,102,s,3383,A bill to provide for enhanced Federal hazard mitigation assistance.,Emergency Management,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking.,Senate,"Sen. Mack, Connie, III [R-FL]",FL,R,M000019,1,"Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to:  (1) increase and make mandatory Federal hazard mitigation assistance in major disasters; and (2) require the President in carrying out such Act to seek to carry out mitigation activities on an individual and reimbursable basis, subject to any non-Federal contribution required by the Act.",2025-01-14T18:20:21Z,
102-s-3384,102,s,3384,International Population Stabilization and Reproductive Choice Act of 1992,International Affairs,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.,Senate,"Sen. Wirth, Timothy [D-CO]",CO,D,W000647,1,"International Population Stabilization and Reproductive Choice Act of 1992 - Title I:  United States Population Assistance - Sets forth congressional findings with respect to population assistance. Declares that it shall be a principal objective of U.S. foreign policy to achieve universal availability of high quality fertility control services. Requires all family planning activities receiving support under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide a broad range of fertility control methods permitted by individual country policy.  Prohibits funds from being used to coerce any person to undergo sterilization or involuntary abortion or to accept any method of fertility control.  Requires the U.S. Government to support the expansion of reproductive rights in countries receiving foreign assistance.  Prohibits subjecting nongovernmental and multilateral organizations to requirements which are more restrictive than requirements applicable to foreign governments for such assistance.  Requires population assistance to provide increased support for special programs to reach young adults before they begin childbearing. Provides that funds shall be allocated to countries meeting at least one of the following criteria:  (1) countries accounting for a substantial proportion of the world's annual population increment; (2) countries having significant unmet needs for fertility control and that require foreign assistance to implement, expand, or sustain family planning services; and (3) countries which demonstrate a strong policy commitment to population stabilization through the expansion of reproductive choice. Makes funds available for:  (1) the United Nations Population Fund; and (2) the Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction. Prohibits assistance for the United Nations Population Fund from being obligated if China is denied most-favored-nation trading status. Prohibits U.S. population assistance for programs in China.  Applies prohibitions on funding for abortions or involuntary sterilization to assistance to assistance for the Fund. Requires the Fund to maintain such assistance in a separate account, without commingling with other funds. Requires agreements between the United States and the Fund to obligate such assistance to provide for a full refund to the United States if the Fund provides more than a specified amount for family planning programs in China.  Prohibits the use of such funds to carry out any program that is disapproved by the U.S. representative to the United Nations. Requires the Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID) to establish simplified procedures for the development and approval of programs to be carried out by nongovernmental organizations that have demonstrated a capacity to undertake effective population and family planning activities and a commitment to quality reproductive health care for women.  Makes 50 percent of all U.S. population assistance available for nongovernmental organizations. Requires AID to encourage greater involvement in the delivery of family planning services by private health practitioners, employer-based health services, unions, and cooperative health organizations. Sets forth targets for global expenditures in developing countries for core population programs and for U.S. population assistance. Authorizes appropriations for U.S. population assistance. Prohibits individuals in programs assisted by the United States from being denied family planning services because of an inability to pay the cost of such services.  Lists research programs to be supported by U.S. assistance. Requires the U.S. Government to support communications strategies to create public awareness about reproductive health needs and the problems associated with world population growth. Directs the AID Administrator to report annually to the Congress on world progress toward population stabilization and universal reproductive choice. Title II:  Population Assistance Policy and Development - Declares that it is U.S. policy to promote universal access to basic education. Declares that it is U.S. foreign policy to assist efforts to:  (1) reduce the infant mortality rate in all countries by the lower of one-third of the 1990 level or to 50 deaths per 1,000 live births; and (2) reduce the mortality rate of children under five years of age by the lower of 30  percent or 70 deaths per 1,000 live births. Title III:  Organizational Provisions - Establishes within the Department of State an Under Secretary of State for Global Population, Environment, and Natural Resources to provide a focus for dialogue on global population growth, environmental degradation, and natural resources management. Declares that the multilateral development banks should increase their support for core population activities.  Requires the U.S. executive directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the African Development Bank to submit annual reports to the Congress on allocations to core population activities and, if such allocations total less than $1,000,000, to report on actions taken to encourage increases in such allocations. Requires the President to establish a National Bipartisan Commission on World Population Stabilization and Reproductive Health to oversee U.S. preparations for, and participation in, the 1994 International Population Meeting.  Directs the Commission to report on population trends and their impact on efforts to alleviate poverty and protect the environment.  Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:14:55Z,
102-s-3385,102,s,3385,Small Business Technology Transfer Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]",NM,D,B000468,0,"Small Business Technology Transfer Act of 1992 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to require:  (1) any non-Federal entity that operated a laboratory pursuant to a contract with a Federal agency to submit to the agency any cooperative research and development agreement that the entity proposes to enter into with a small business firm and the joint work statement (JWS) required with respect to that agreement; (2) a Federal agency that receives such a proposed agreement and JWS to review and approve, request specific modifications to, or disapprove the proposed agreement and JWS within 30 days after submission (and prohibits an agreement from being entered into by a Government-owned, contractor-operated laboratory before both approval of the agreement and JWS); and (3) an agency which has contracted with such an entity that disapproves or requests the modification of an agreement or JWS to transmit a written explanation of such disapproval or modification to the head of the laboratory concerned. Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to facilitate and encourage the transfer of technology to small businesses and issue guidelines relating to the program by May 1, 1993. Makes funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Energy and made available for laboratory directed research and development available for agreements or other arrangements for technology transfer.",2025-08-26T15:15:51Z,
102-s-3386,102,s,3386,Small Business Opportunity and Fair Competition Act of 1992,Commerce,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business.,Senate,"Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT]",CT,D,L000304,1,"Small Business Opportunity and Fair Competition Act of 1992 - Amends the Small Business Act to include among the functions of the Office of Advocacy to identify and make annual reports to the Congress concerning activities that are performed by Federal agencies or by State or local government agencies utilizing a grant, loan cooperative agreement, or other Federal assistance and that:  (1) duplicate or compete with private enterprise and can be performed by private firms (including small business concerns and small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals) at lower overall cost to Federal, State, or local government; and (2) are not inherently governmental in nature and, if performed by private firms, would not impede the mission of the governmental agency. Authorizes breakout procurement center representatives to identify and make recommendations concerning Federal procurements of supplies (including equipment) or services that may result in the performance by a Federal department or agency of activities which:  (1) duplicate or compete with private firms and can be performed by private firms (including small business concerns and small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals) at lower overall costs to the United States; and (2) are not inherently governmental in nature and, if performed by private firms, would not impede the mission of the department or agency. Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to: (1) conduct a surveying and mapping demonstration program to demonstrate the capability of private firms to provide quality services to Federal departments and agencies at fair and reasonable fees; and (2) publish an inventory of survey and mapping activities of Federal departments and agencies and State or local government agencies utilizing a grant, loan cooperative agreement, or other Federal assistance with are performed by employees of such departments and agencies and by private firms. Requires the Administrator to develop and implement a demonstration program to increase contract opportunities for, and reduce Government competition with, private survey and mapping firms.  Sets forth provisions regarding:  (1) program objectives; (2) the contract process; (3) waivers; (4) program term; (5) reporting requirements; and (6) cooperation of Federal departments and agencies. Specifies demonstration program elements, including:  (1) Federal Government agency leadership in the preparation of standards and specifications, in research in survey and mapping instrumentation and procedures and the prompt transfer of technology to the private sector, in providing technical guidance, coordination, and administration of all federally funded survey and mapping activities, in establishing a schedule with quantifiable goals for increasing the use by Federal, State, and local governments of contracts with private firms for current and future survey and mapping activities, and in performing only those survey and mapping activities that are inherently governmental in nature, that do not duplicate or unfairly compete with private firms, and that utilize such firms in performing new programs and activities; and (2) private sector leadership in performing survey and mapping activities at a value or cost-benefit ratio equal to or lower than existing Government performance of such activities, in performing survey and mapping activities that meet Federal standards, specifications, and schedules, and in assuming responsibility for performing survey and mapping activities resulting from basic research performed by Federal agencies.",2025-08-26T15:16:54Z,
102-s-3387,102,s,3387,Health Care Liability Reform and Quality of Care Improvement Act of 1992,Health,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.,Senate,"Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]",UT,R,H000338,3,"Health Care Liability Reform and Quality of Care Improvement Act of 1992 - Title I:  Findings and Purpose - Sets forth:  (1) findings regarding this Act; and (2) the purpose of this Act. Title II:  Health Care Liability Reforms - Requires, in order to be eligible to participate in the incentive program provided for in this title, that States have in effect the health care liability reforms set forth in this title. Requires, in any health care liability action, the liability of each defendant for non-economic damages to be several and not joint, with each defendant liable only for the proportion of that defendant's fault and a separate judgment against that defendant in that amount. Prohibits awarding non-economic damages over a certain dollar amount in any health care liability action, subject to waiver. Reduces the total damages received by a plaintiff by the amount of any collateral source benefits. Allows:  (1) future economic damage awards to be paid periodically, based on when the damages are likely to occur or at the time the damages accrue; and (2) in certain circumstances, the court to require the health care provider to purchase an annuity or fund a reversionary trust to make such periodic payments.  Prohibits reopening a judgment awarding periodic payments to contest, amend, or modify the schedule or amount in the absence of fraud or any ground permitting relief after entry of a final judgment. Declares it U.S. policy to encourage alternative dispute resolution (ADR).  Requires a State to establish at least one ADR mechanism. Requires a State to:  (1) cooperate with Federal research efforts regarding patient outcomes, clinical effectiveness, and clinical practice guidelines; (2) collect, analyze, and supply the Secretary of Health and Human Services with information regarding the performance of State medical boards; and (3) impose continuing education requirements on a disciplined physician. Allows alternatives to these requirements regarding medical boards and continuing education if the Secretary finds the alternatives at least as effective in reducing the incidence of negligence as compliance with the requirements. Allows States three years from the adoption of this Act to enact, adopt, or otherwise comply with the requirements of this title.  Deems a State to be in compliance if it has in effect a system for prompt payment of economic damages not payable by State, Federal, or private health or disability insurance, wage continuation, or any other source or payment intended to compensate an injured person. Requires the withholding of certain funds for noncompliance. Allows waiver of the requirements of this title for any experimental, pilot, or demonstration project which is likely to assist in promoting the objectives of this Act. Title III:  Mandatory Non-Binding Arbitration - Establishes a system for nonbinding arbitration of health care liability claims and a mechanism for resolution through arbitration of health care liability claims. Title IV:  Federal Implementation of Health Care Liability Reforms - Amends Federal law to prohibit, in a health care liability action, finding the United States jointly and severally liable for non-economic damages.  Allows liability only for those non-economic damages directly attributable to its pro rata share of fault.  Reduces damages paid by the United States by the amount of any collateral source benefits.  Prohibits awarding non-economic damages, in an action against the United States, over a certain dollar amount. Requires, at the request of the United States when future economic damages are awarded in excess of a specified amount, an order that such damages be paid by periodic payments based on when the damages are likely to occur.  Allows the United States, in such cases, to pay the judgment periodically, purchase an annuity, or fund a reversionary trust.  Prohibits reopening the judgment to contest, amend, or modify the schedule or amount in the absence of fraud or any ground permitting relief after entry of a final judgment. Title V:  Construction of Provisions - Provides for construction, severability, and the effective date of this Act.",2025-08-26T15:15:29Z,
102-s-3388,102,s,3388,A bill to provide graduates of the Small Business Administration's Minority Small Business and Capital Ownership Development Program with opportunities to compete for certain contracts under limited circumstances.,Commerce,1992-10-08,1992-10-09,Referred jointly to the House Committee on Small Business.,Senate,"Sen. Shelby, Richard C. [D-AL]",AL,D,S000320,0,"Provides that a contract to furnish products or services to a participating agency shall be competed for if:  (1) there is a reasonable expectation of receiving offers from two or more eligible small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals who are capable of performing the contract; (2) a contract to furnish the same (or substantially similar) products or services is being performed under a contract competitively awarded pursuant to provisions of the Small Business Act (the Act); and (3) the contractor currently performing such contract will have graduated from the Small Business Administration's Minority Small Business and Capital Ownership Development Program prior to the issuance of the solicitation for the new contract. Requires the head of a participating agency to restrict the competition for the award of such a contract to small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.  Makes a small business concern, where the contractor currently performing the contract will have graduated from the Program prior to the issuance of the solicitation for such contract, ineligible for award of a contract resulting from a restricted competition unless such concern furnishes (and the contracting officer accepts) a plan to subcontract not less than 25 percent of the contract value to one or more small business concerns in the developmental stage of the Program. Directs the head of a Federal agency awarding a contract pursuant to a restricted competition under this Act to cooperate with the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to have any subsequent requirement for the product or service furnished pursuant to a contract awarded under the authority of the Act. Revises provisions of the Act regarding business activity targets to require that:  (1) during the developmental stage of its participation in the Program, a Program participant take all reasonable efforts within its control to attain the targets contained in its business plan for specified contracts (as under current law) on a noncompetitive basis; and (2) regulations promulgated during the transitional stage of the Program establish targets that reflect a reasonably consistent increase in specified contracts awarded (as under current law) on a noncompetitive basis. Repeals provisions prohibiting small business concerns from being required to provide a bond as a condition of receiving a subcontract under specified conditions and concerning waiver of bonds.",2025-02-04T16:54:13Z,
102-s-3389,102,s,3389,A bill to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to prohibit certain transactions with respect to managed accounts.,Finance and Financial Sector,1992-10-08,1992-12-22,Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance.,Senate,"Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]",MA,D,K000148,0,Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to cite conditions under which it shall not be unlawful for members of exchanges and associated persons to effect a transaction for an account with respect to which they exercise investment discretion. Permits transactions for such a managed account (without the involvement of an independent floor broker) if the member or associated person:  (1) has obtained express authorization from the person or persons authorized to transact business for the account before engaging in the practice of effecting such transactions; (2) furnishes the persons authorized to transact business for the account with a statement at least annually disclosing the aggregate compensation received by the exchange member in effecting such transactions; and (3) complies with any rules the Securities and Exchange Commission has prescribed with respect to such requirements.,2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
102-s-3390,102,s,3390,National Child Protection Act of 1992,Crime and Law Enforcement,1992-10-08,1992-10-09,Referred to the House Committee on Judiciary.,Senate,"Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]",DE,D,B000444,0,"National Child Protection Act of 1992 - Establishes a national criminal background check system to which a designated criminal justice agency in each State is required to report or index child abuse crime information, for purposes of background checks of child care providers. Directs the Attorney General to establish:  (1) guidelines for the reporting or indexing of such information; and (2) timetables for each State to provide such information to such system (with a three-year deadline for all States to be reporting at a specified level of currency). Requires State agencies to maintain close liaison for the exchange of technical assistance in cases of child abuse with the National Centers:  (1) on Child Abuse and Neglect; (2) for Missing and Exploited Children; and (3) for the Prosecution of Child Abuse. Directs the Attorney General to publish annually:  (1) a statistical summary of the child abuse crime information reported under this Act; and (2) a summary of each State's progress in reporting child abuse crime information to the national criminal background check system. Requires the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to conduct a study to determine various factors relating to potential child abuse crimes and offenders, based on a statistically significant sample of convicted child abuse offenders and other relevant information.  Requires a report on such study to be submitted to specified congressional committee officials. Provides for background check procedures.  Allows entities that provide child care or child care placement services (including businesses or organizations that license or certify others to provide such services) to request State agencies to review State and Federal records through the national system to determine if a child care provider is under indictment for, or has been convicted of, a background check crime. Directs the Attorney General to establish guidelines for such State background check procedures, permitting equivalent procedures under specified conditions.  Authorizes the Attorney General to prescribe by regulation any other measures necessary to carry out this Act.  Directs the Attorney General to encourage use of the best technology available in conducting background checks. Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide for use of certain formula grants to improve State record systems and the sharing of records of child abuse crime information to implement this Act. Directs the Attorney General to make additional grants to States to improve specified aspects of the child abuse crime information system, subject to appropriations and with preference to States having the lowest percent currency of case dispositions in computerized criminal history files.  Authorizes appropriations for such additional grants. Authorizes the Attorney General, beginning one year after enactment of this Act, to reduce by up to ten percent the allocation to a State for a fiscal year under title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 if the State is not in compliance with the child abuse crime information timetable established for it under this Act.",2025-08-26T15:18:29Z,
102-sconres-142,102,sconres,142,A concurrent resolution directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make additional corrections in the enrollment of H.R. 429.,Congress,1992-10-08,1992-10-09,Held at the desk.,Senate,"Sen. Johnston, J. Bennett [D-LA]",LA,D,J000189,0,Makes corrections in the enrollment of H.R. 429 (amending certain Federal reclamation laws).,2021-06-02T15:13:53Z,
102-sconres-143,102,sconres,143,A concurrent resolution to correct the enrollment of S. 1671.,Congress,1992-10-08,1992-10-09,Held at the desk.,Senate,"Sen. Johnston, J. Bennett [D-LA]",LA,D,J000189,0,Makes corrections in the enrollment of S. 1671 (withdrawing public lands for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant demonstration project).,2021-06-02T15:13:53Z,
102-sres-357,102,sres,357,"A resolution to amend the Standing Rules of the Senate to require that a financial impact statement be included in the report accompanying each bill or joint resolution reported by any committee (except those by the Committee on Appropriations), showing the financial impact that any Federal mandates in the bill or joint resolution would have on States and local governments.",Congress,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Referred to the Committee on Rules.,Senate,"Sen. Heflin, Howell [D-AL]",AL,D,H000445,0,"Amends rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate to require each report accompanying a bill or joint resolution reported by a committee (except those by the Committee on Appropriations) to contain:  (1) an evaluation of the financial impact that Federal mandates in the bill or resolution would have on State and local governments; or (2) in lieu of such evaluation, a statement of the reasons why compliance with such requirement is impracticable.",2025-01-14T17:21:40Z,
102-sres-358,102,sres,358,Senate GATT Negotiations Observer Group Resolution,Congress,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Referred to the Committee on Rules.,Senate,"Sen. Dole, Robert J. [R-KS]",KS,R,D000401,0,Senate GATT Negotiations Observer Group Resolution - Establishes a bipartisan group of Senators to be known as the Senate GATT Negotiations Observer Group to monitor the conclusion of the Uruguay round of GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) negotiations.  Terminates the Group upon the adjournment sine die of the 103d Congress.,2025-08-26T15:15:50Z,
102-sres-359,102,sres,359,"A resolution tendering the thanks of the Senate to the Vice President for the courteous, dignified, and impartial manner in which he has presided over the deliberations of the Senate.",Congress,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,"Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Voice Vote.",Senate,"Sen. Dole, Robert J. [R-KS]",KS,R,D000401,1,"Thanks the Honorable Dan Quayle, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate, for the manner in which he has presided over the Senate during the second session of the 102d Congress.",2021-06-02T15:14:58Z,
102-sres-360,102,sres,360,"A resolution tendering the thanks of the Senate to the President pro tempore for the courteous, dignified, and impartial manner in which he has presided over the deliberations of the Senate.",Congress,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,"Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Voice Vote.",Senate,"Sen. Mitchell, George J. [D-ME]",ME,D,M000811,1,"Thanks the Honorable Robert C. Byrd, President pro tempore, for the manner in which he presided over the Senate during the second session of the 102d Congress.",2021-06-02T15:14:59Z,
102-sres-361,102,sres,361,A resolution to commend the exemplary leadership of the Majority Leader.,Congress,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,"Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Voice Vote.",Senate,"Sen. Dole, Robert J. [R-KS]",KS,R,D000401,0,"Thanks George J. Mitchell, Majority Leader, for his exemplary leadership during the second session of the 102d Congress.",2021-06-02T15:14:59Z,
102-sres-362,102,sres,362,A resolution to commend the exemplary leadership of the Republican Leader.,Congress,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,"Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Voice Vote.",Senate,"Sen. Mitchell, George J. [D-ME]",ME,D,M000811,0,"Thanks the Honorable Robert Dole, Republican Leader, for his exemplary leadership during the second session of the 102d Congress.",2021-06-02T15:14:59Z,
102-sres-363,102,sres,363,A resolution to amend paragraph 5 of Rule XXIX of the Standing Rules of the Senate relating to confidential business and proceedings.,Congress,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,"Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Voice Vote.",Senate,"Sen. Mitchell, George J. [D-ME]",ME,D,M000811,1,"Amends rule XXIX of the Standing Rules of the Senate to make Senators liable to expulsion and officers and employees of the Senate liable to dismissal and punishment for contempt if such a person discloses the secret or confidential business or proceedings of the Senate, its committees, subcommittees, or offices.",2021-06-02T15:14:59Z,
102-sres-364,102,sres,364,"A resolution to authorize document production by and representation of committee, Member, and employees of the Senate in United States v. John M. Kent, Sr., et al.",Congress,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,"Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Voice Vote.",Senate,"Sen. Mitchell, George J. [D-ME]",ME,D,M000811,1,"Authorizes:  (1) the Committee on the Judiciary to produce documents in United States v. John M. Kent, Sr., et al., except concerning matters for which a privilege is asserted; and (2) the Senate Legal Counsel to represent the Committee, any of its employees, and Senator Biden in connection with the subpoenas in such case.",2021-06-02T15:14:59Z,
102-sres-365,102,sres,365,"A resolution extending the provisions of Senate Resolution 105 of the One Hundred First Congress, the Senate Arms Control Observer Group Resolution.",Congress,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,"Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Voice Vote.",Senate,"Sen. Mitchell, George J. [D-ME]",ME,D,M000811,1,"Amends Senate Resolution 105, 101st Congress (reconstituting and reauthorizing the Senate Arms Control Observer Group), to extend the Group through March 31, 1993.",2021-06-02T15:14:59Z,
102-sres-366,102,sres,366,"A resolution extending the provisions of Senate Resolution 106 of the One Hundred First Congress (agreed to April 13, 1989).",Congress,1992-10-08,1992-10-08,"Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Voice Vote.",Senate,"Sen. Mitchell, George J. [D-ME]",ME,D,M000811,1,"Amends Senate Resolution 106, 101st Congress (establishing the Senate Central American Negotiations Observer Group), to extend the Group through March 31, 1993.",2021-06-02T15:14:59Z,
102-s-3362,102,s,3362,"A bill to provide that the Georgia Baptist Hospital College of Nursing shall be deemed as satisfying, for academic year 1992-1993, the accreditation requirements described in section 1201(a)(5) of the Higher Education Act of 1965.",Education,1992-10-07,1992-10-09,Referred to the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education.,Senate,"Sen. Fowler, Wyche, Jr. [D-GA]",GA,D,F000329,0,"Provides that the Georgia Baptist Hospital College of Nursing shall be deemed as satisfying, for academic year 1992-1993, the accreditation requirements described in specified provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965.",2025-07-21T19:44:15Z,
102-s-3363,102,s,3363,John F. Kennedy Center Act Amendments of 1992,"Arts, Culture, Religion",1992-10-07,1992-10-09,Referred to the House Committee on Public Works + Transportation.,Senate,"Sen. Mitchell, George J. [D-ME]",ME,D,M000811,0,"John F. Kennedy Center Act Amendments of 1992 - Amends the John F. Kennedy Center Act (the Act) to extend the authorization of appropriations for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (the Center). Revises provisions for the Center's Board of Trustees (the Board). Provides for the appointment (as ex officio members of the Board) of: (1) the Secretary of State (to replace the Secretary of Health and Human Services); and (2) the Superintendent of Schools of the District of Columbia (to replace the Chairman of the District of Columbia Recreation Board). Shortens the length of terms of general trustees (who are appointed by the President) from ten to six years. Revises Board duties to include:  (1) a leadership role in national performing arts policies and programs; (2) a comprehensive and broad program for national and community outreach; (3) joint initiatives with the affiliated Very Special Arts for model programs in the arts for disabled individuals; (4) ensuring excellence and cultural diversity in the Center's education and outreach programs and policies; and (5) annual comprehensive Center building needs planning. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts and other arrangements and make payments to public agencies or private organizations or persons to carry out its functions under the Act.  Authorizes the Board to negotiate any contract for any capital improvement to the Center with selected contractors, and to award the contract on the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price. Revises Board powers to provide for appointment of a Center chairperson (rather than a director and assistant director). Directs the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary) and the Board to enter into a cooperative agreement regarding major capital projects for the Center.  Requires that the Board or its designated representative plan, design, and construct all such projects, with the approval of the Secretary (or designee) before commencement of such activities.  Requires the Secretary to transfer funds for such activities to the Board.  Requires the Board to submit quarterly progress reports to the Secretary (or designee) on such activities. Requires the Board, with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Interior, to designate the maintenance, repair, alteration, and other services to be performed for the Center, in order to ensure that such services will meet Board's requirements for high quality operations.  Prohibits the Board from requiring the expenditure of funds in excess of those appropriated for such purposes. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Center for: (1) capital projects and for maintenance, repair, and security services (these funds go to the Secretary of the Interior to cover the Board's expenses and their use is prohibited for performing arts related production expenses); and (2) education and outreach programs (these funds go to the Secretary of Education, to be granted to the Board to carry out these activities).",2025-08-26T15:16:40Z,
102-s-3364,102,s,3364,"A bill to amend certain provisions of law relating to establishment, in the District of Columbia or its environs, of a memorial to honor Thomas Paine.",Public Lands and Natural Resources,1992-10-07,1992-10-08,Message on Senate action sent to the House.,Senate,"Sen. Symms, Steven D. [R-ID]",ID,R,S001138,0,Amends Federal law to authorize the Thomas Paine National Historical Association to establish a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia to honor Thomas Paine.  Makes the Association solely responsible for expenses for the establishment of the memorial. Requires excess funds for the memorial to be remitted to the Secretary of the Treasury.,2021-06-02T15:40:53Z,
102-s-3365,102,s,3365,Central Valley Project Fish and Wildlife Act of 1992,Water Resources Development,1992-10-07,1992-10-08,Message on Senate action sent to the House.,Senate,"Sen. Seymour, John [R-CA]",CA,R,S000269,0,"Central Valley Project Fish and Wildlife Act of 1992 - Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from entering into any new short-term, temporary, or long-term contracts or agreements for water supply from the Central Valley Project (CVP), California (a Bureau of Reclamation facility) for any purpose other than fish and wildlife before certain requirements have been met.  Provides an exception to such prohibition for certain contracts. Requires the Secretary to renew any existing long-term repayment or water service contract for the delivery of CVP water for a period of 25 years, with additional 25-year renewals, subject to reclamation law pricing requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with:  (1) the Tuolumne Regional Water District for delivery of water from the New Melones project to the county's water distribution system; (2) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for the delivery in perpetuity of water to meet the needs of the San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery; and (3) the Watsonville subarea of the San Felipe Division of the CVP upon completion of a specified plan of study. Requires all CVP repayment contracts providing for water service and water service contracts for agricultural, municipal, or industrial purposes that are renewed after this Act's enactment date to make water available to contracting entities pursuant to a system of tiered water pricing.  Sets forth requirements for such system. Directs the Secretary to develop, select, and implement specified actions with respect to fish and wildlife habitat issues in the California Central Valley. Includes among initial actions that the Secretary shall take by specified dates:  (1) negotiation and execution of agreements with the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) to mitigate the direct fishery losses associated with the operation of the Tracy Pumping Plant and the Contra Costa Canal Pumping Plant numbered one and to eliminate, to the extent practicable, losses of salmon and steelhead trout due to flow fluctuations caused by the operation of Keswick, Nimbus, and Lewiston Regulating Dams; (2) installation and operation of a structural temperature control device at Shasta Dam and development and implementation of modifications in CVP operations to allow for control of water temperatures in the upper Sacramento River sufficient to protect salmon; (3) rehabilitation and expansion of the Coleman National Fish Hatchery; (4) development and implementation of a gravel replenishment program to restore and replenish spawning gravel lost due to the construction and operation of Shasta, Folsom, and New Melones Dams, bank protection programs, and other actions that have reduced availability of spawning gravel in the upper Sacramento River and the American and Stanislaus Rivers; and (5) development and implementation of a Delta Cross Channel monitoring and operational program to protect striped bass eggs and larvae as they approach the Delta Cross Channel gates. Directs the Secretary to establish an assessment program to monitor fish and wildlife resources in the Central Valley and to assess the biological results of restoration and enhancement actions. Requires the Secretary to develop, evaluate, select, and implement, by specified dates, actions that address specified fish and wildlife protection, restoration, and enhancement issues, including:  (1) developing and implementing programs to eliminate the need to reduce Keswick Dam releases every Spring to place the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District's Diversion Dam into operation and every Fall to take the Dam out of operation to minimize fish passage problems for salmon at the CVP Red Bluff Diversion Dam and to augment natural production of salmon and steelhead trout population levels in the San Joaquin River system in above-normal water years through means of artificial production; (2) constructing and operating a new satellite hatchery to augment the single and dual purpose channels  at the Tehama Colusa Fish Facility and to further mitigate the impact of Shasta Dam on fishery resources; (3) constructing a salmon and steelhead trout hatchery on the Yuba River; (4) negotiating and executing an agreement with the CDFG that requires the release of the minimum flows necessary to take full advantage of the spawning, incubation, rearing, and outmigration potential of the Upper Sacramento River and the Lower American River for salmon, subject to the physical capabilities of the CVP facilities involved; (5) providing flows to allow sufficient spawning, incubation, rearing, and outmigration conditions for salmon and steelhead trout from Whiskeytown Dam and a new fish ladder constructed at the McCormick-Saeltzer Dam; (6) evaluating and implementing a program to correct a defective fish screen at the Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District's Sacramento River diversion; (7) assisting in the funding of enforcement measures to reduce the numbers of striped bass illegally taken from the San Francisco Bay Estuary and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta; (8) participating in a program to mitigate for fishery impacts associated with operations of the Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District's Hamilton City Pumping Plant; (9) providing such assistance as may be requested by the State of California to develop and implement fishing regulations that protect the older, more productive striped bass females in order to maintain a viable reproducing striped bass population; and (10) developing and implementing measures that will provide additional dependable water supplies of suitable quality. Directs:  (1) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to expedite, and complete by December 31, 1995, efforts to clean up mines causing intermittent releases of lethal concentrations of dissolved metals from the Spring Creek Debris Dam; and (2) the Secretary, in the interim, to provide water from the Keswick Dam sufficient to dilute the Spring Creek Debris Dam discharges to concentration levels that allow survival of fish life below Keswick Dam, except when the U.S. Corps of Engineers flood control criteria for Shasta Dam limits that capability. Authorizes the Secretary to construct, in partnership with the State of California, a barrier at the head of Old River in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta by December 31, 1995, to partially mitigate the impact of the CVP and State Water project pumping plants in the south Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta on the survival of young outmigrating salmon that are diverted from the San Joaquin River to the pumps. Directs the Secretary to:  (1) participate in the San Joaquin River Management Program; and (2) evaluate in-basin needs in the Stanislaus River basin and investigate alternative storage, release, and delivery regimes for satisfying both in- and out-of-basin needs. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to provide firm water supplies to improve wetland habitat areas on National Wildlife Refuge System units in the Central Valley of California; the Gray Lodge, Los Banos, Volta, North Grasslands, and Mendota State wildlife management areas; and the Grasslands Resources Conservation District, subject to certain requirements. Directs the Secretary to:  (1) identify additional actions that would provide mitigation of CVP impacts on, protect, and restore Central Valley fish and wildlife habitat; (2) develop the information needed to evaluate such actions technically, determine the economic and biological feasibility using specified criteria, determine appropriate cost allocations specific to each action, and select actions to recommend to the Congress for authorization to implement; and (3) report to the Congress according to a specified schedule until the year 2010. Sets forth fish and wildlife habitat issues to be evaluated by the Secretary, including:  (1) determination of the flows and habitat restoration measures needed to protect, restore, and enhance salmon and steelhead trout in parts of the San Joaquin River; (2) investigation of actions allowing closure or screening of the Delta Cross Channel and Georgiana Slough to prevent the diversion of out-migrating salmon and steelhead trout through those facilities; (3) as a means of increasing survival of migrating young fish, investigation of the feasibility of using short pulses of increased water flows to move salmon, steelhead trout, and striped bass into and through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta; (4) investigation of ways to maintain suitable temperatures for young salmon survival in the lower Sacramento River and in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta by controlling or relocating the discharge of irrigation return flows and sewage effluent; (5) investigation of the need for additional hatchery production to mitigate the impacts of water development on Central Valley fisheries where no other feasible means of mitigation is available or where hatchery production would enhance efforts to increase natural production of a particular species; (6) investigation of measures available to correct flow pattern problems in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta created by the operation of the CVP and the California State Water Project; (7) evaluation of measures to avoid unqualified losses of juvenile anadromous fish due to unscreened or inadequately screened diversions on the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, their tributaries, and in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta; and (8) elimination of barriers to upstream migration of salmon and steelhead trout adults to spawning areas downstream of existing storage facilities in the Central Valley caused by agricultural diversions and other obstructions. Directs the Secretary to consider specified criteria and factors and issue findings thereon when determining which alternate programs, policies, or procedures should be implemented to protect and restore fish and wildlife conditions. Sets forth provisions with respect to:  (1) cost allocations; (2) additional authorities; and (3) funding to carry out the purposes and provisions of this Act. Establishes the Central Valley Project Restoration Fund and authorizes appropriations from the Fund to carry out this Act. Directs the Secretary to collect an annual fee from CVP beneficiaries to recover costs of fish, wildlife, and habitat restoration programs. Authorizes the Secretary, subject to specified limitations, to approve all transfer agreements:  (1) among CVP contractors and between CVP contractors and noncontractors involving CVP water within the authorized CVP service area; (2) between CVP contractors and parties outside the CVP service area upon the determination that as a result of the proposed transaction over the term of the agreement there is no net export of water out of the CVP service area of the transferor; and (3) between CVP water contractors and parties outside the CVP service area where the Secretary determines that as a result of the proposed transaction over the term  of the agreement there will be a net export of water out of the service area of the transferor, provided that the water being transferred would not otherwise be available to other consumptive beneficial uses absent implementation of the program and that, over the term of the agreement in question, the transfer will have no significant, long-term adverse impact on groundwater conditions in the transferor's service area. Sets forth provisions with respect to transfers of water developed through temporary or permanent land fallowing. Specifies that:  (1) all existing and future contracts for CVP water shall be deemed to allow for the transfers and exchanges provided for within this Act; and (2) specified agreements entered into under this Act shall provide that, during the years of actual transfer, CVP water subject to transfer shall be repaid at full cost. Requires all existing CVP agricultural contractors, within two years after the enactment of this Act, to submit a report to the Secretary which identifies water conservation practices and analyzes the cost and benefits to that entity and its customers of implementing each of such practices and any additional practices the Secretary determines should be analyzed. Requires all CVP agricultural contractors to develop a plan for implementation of such practices determined by the entity within the required water conservation report to be financially and otherwise feasible for the specific entity.  Requires the entity to complete the plan for implementation within one year after completion of such report.  Specifies that financially feasible conservation practices that will cause environmental harm or that are inconsistent with other legal requirements shall not be required to be implemented. Establishes a Water Conservation Incentive Program which shall be administered by the Secretary to encourage and assist with the on-farm implementation of the water conservation practices set forth in this Act. Directs the Secretary to require all CVP municipal and industrial water users, to the extent they provide retail, municipal, and industrial water service, to comply with the provisions of a specified memorandum regarding urban water conservation in California. Requires the Secretary to evaluate the benefits and cost analysis for each of the water conservation practices found by the specific water user preparing the required reports not to be feasible and to determine:  (1) which practices would make additional water available to Central Valley streams or to a usable ground water basin that would not otherwise be available; and (2) for each of specified practices, the benefit/cost ratio of implementation if that water were used to fulfill wildlife refuge water supply obligations or made available to other water agencies through the transfer provisions established by this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to implement those water conservation practices identified which conserve water, are economically feasible, and are prudent, with the entity holding the contractual right to the water conserved and then make that water available for use by Central Valley refuges as required by provisions of this Act, subject to specified requirements. Directs the Secretary to negotiate for, and report to the Congress on, the transfer of the CVP to the State of California. Requires the Secretary to credit any expenditures by the State in this Act for fish and wildlife mitigation, protection, and restoration to the purchase price negotiated for the sale of the CVP.",2025-08-26T15:14:30Z,
102-s-3366,102,s,3366,ADAMHA Reorganization Technical Amendments Act of 1992,Health,1992-10-07,1992-11-20,Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,Senate,"Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]",MA,D,K000105,1,"ADAMHA Reorganization Technical Amendments Act of 1992 - Makes technical amendments to the Public Health Service Act (PHSA), as amended by P.L. 102-321 (ADAMHA Reorganization Act). Amends the PHSA to exclude grants under the Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Individuals Act from certain grant requirements under PHSA provisions relating to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Requires maintenance of a clearinghouse for substance abuse information and a clearinghouse for mental health information (currently, requires a clearinghouse for substance abuse and mental health information). Mandates appointment of an Associate Administrator for AIDS Policy and Programs to promote, monitor, and evaluate SAMHSA activities relating to transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Excludes contracts for program resources from a requirement of peer review for grants through the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, and the Center for Mental Health Services.  Modifies peer review requirements for the Centers. Allows grants for mental health and substance abuse treatment services for homeless individuals to be made to States as well as to community-based entities.  Requires any such grants to States to be expended solely to make grants to political subdivisions and to private nonprofit entities. Allows funds from grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts for substance abuse treatment for pregnant and postpartum women to be used for services to women with dependent children who are neither pregnant nor postpartum. Makes violation of confidentiality of records provisions a class A misdemeanor and require a fine in accordance with the Federal criminal code.  (Current law requires a fine in accordance with that code, but makes no classification of the offense.) Authorizes the Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (currently, authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through such Institute) to designate National Alcohol Research Centers. Allows States receiving grants for programs on breast and cervical cancers to expend the grants through grants and contracts with public or private (currently, public or nonprofit private) entities. Requires that substance abuse treatment programs under block grants to States make early intervention services for HIV available to individuals at the program site or in coordination with the program in which the individuals are undergoing the treatment (currently, at the program site). Allows categorical grants to States for expansion of the capacity for substance abuse treatment to be used for inpatient hospital services when medically necessary for an individual. Amends ADAMHA Reorganization Act temporary provisions regarding funding to provide that amounts appropriated for fiscal year 1992 shall be available for obligation until December 31, 1992. Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to repeal provisions authorizing appropriations for community-based mental health services to homeless individuals who are chronically mentally ill.",2025-08-26T15:16:24Z,
102-s-3367,102,s,3367,Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Lease Settlements Act of 1992,Labor and Employment,1992-10-07,1992-10-09,Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.,Senate,"Sen. Jeffords, James M. [R-VT]",VT,R,J000072,0,Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Lease Settlements Act of 1992 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide for the treatment of certain settlement agreements reached with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation as leases.,2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,
102-s-3368,102,s,3368,"A bill to provide for the establishment of the Brown versus Board of Education National Historic Site in the State of Kansas, and for other purposes.",Public Lands and Natural Resources,1992-10-07,1992-10-08,Message on Senate action sent to the House.,Senate,"Sen. Dole, Robert J. [R-KS]",KS,R,D000401,0,"Title I:  Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site - Establishes the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Kansas. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to prepare and submit a general management plan for the historic site to specified congressional committees.  Authorizes appropriations. Title II:  Dry Tortugas National Park - Establishes the Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida.  Abolishes the Fort Jefferson National Monument. Specifies that the park shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior as a unit of the National Park Service and managed for specified purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to:  (1) acquire lands and interests in land within the park by donation or exchange; (2) exchange those Federal lands which were deleted from the park by specified boundary modifications and which are directly adjacent to lands owned by the State of Florida outside the park, for lands owned by Florida within the park boundary; and (3) lease or acquire, by purchase, donation, or exchange, and to operate incidental administrative and support facilities in Key West, Florida.  Provides for the transfer to the Secretary of jurisdiction over lands within the park boundaries determined by the U.S. Coast Guard to be excess to its needs, subject to specified requirements. Authorizes appropriations.",2021-06-02T15:40:54Z,
102-s-3369,102,s,3369,A bill to allow certain political subdivisions of the State of Arizona continued access to FBI identification records for a period of 180 days pending restoration of statutory authorization by the legislature of the State of Arizona.,Crime and Law Enforcement,1992-10-07,1992-10-09,Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights.,Senate,"Sen. DeConcini, Dennis [D-AZ]",AZ,D,D000185,0,Allows certain political subdivisions of the State of Arizona continued access to Federal Bureau of Investigation identification records for a period of 180 days pending restoration of statutory authorization by the Arizona legislature.,2021-06-02T15:40:55Z,
102-s-3370,102,s,3370,Swain County Settlement Act of 1992,Economics and Public Finance,1992-10-07,1992-10-08,"Referred to Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks.",Senate,"Sen. Helms, Jesse [R-NC]",NC,R,H000463,1,"Swain County Settlement Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to make unappropriated funds for FY 1993 available for the completion of the road along the north shore of the Fontana Reservoir, North Carolina, pursuant to a specified agreement. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay, out of unappropriated funds for FY 1993, a specified sum to Swain County, North Carolina, in full and complete settlement of all claims against the United States, the Department of the Interior, and the Tennessee Valley Authority arising out of such agreement to compensate the county for the loss of a highway. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act if necessary funds are not made available for FY 1993. Requires the Secretary to allocate funds and personnel to place a suitable historical marker at or near the approach to the Cherokee Qualls Reservation at Soco Gap, North Carolina, in recognition of Soco Gap and the contribution of the Cherokee Nation to North Carolina and the United States.",2026-03-24T12:48:03Z,
102-s-3371,102,s,3371,Juvenile Arthritis Research Excellence Act,Health,1992-10-07,1992-12-22,Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,Senate,"Sen. Shelby, Richard C. [D-AL]",AL,D,S000320,0,"Juvenile Arthritis Research Excellence Act - Amends provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMSD) to provide for planning, research, and other matters focusing on such diseases (especially arthritis) in children, including providing for the establishment of a multipurpose arthritis and musculoskeletal disease center for children. Makes related changes in the National Arthritis Advisory Board.",2025-08-26T15:18:05Z,
102-sres-356,102,sres,356,John Heinz Senate Fellowship Program Resolution,Congress,1992-10-07,1992-10-07,"Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Voice Vote.",Senate,"Sen. Wofford, Harris [D-PA]",PA,D,W000665,2,"John Heinz Senate Fellowship Program Resolution - Establishes the John Heinz Senate Fellowship Program to:  (1) encourage identification and training of new leadership in issues affecting children; and (2) advance development of public policy with respect to such issues. Authorizes the Heinz Family Foundation to select such Senate fellowship participants.  Sets forth requirements for such selection process. Authorizes the Secretary of the Senate to appoint and fix the compensation of each eligible participant selected, for a period determined by the Secretary.  Limits to two the number of fellowship participants so employed.  Directs the Secretary to place eligible participants in positions in the Senate that are, within practical considerations, supportive of the fellowship participants' areas of expertise. Requires that a limited amount of funds to compensate eligible participants for FY 1993 be paid from the Senate contingent fund. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:13:34Z,
102-hconres-382,102,hconres,382,Directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make corrections in the enrollment of H.R. 429.,Congress,1992-10-06,1992-10-13,Message on Senate action sent to the House.,House,"Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]",CA,D,M000725,0,Makes corrections in the enrollment of H.R. 429 (amending certain Federal reclamation laws).,2021-06-07T13:19:46Z,
102-hconres-383,102,hconres,383,Concerning United States participation in a Cascadia Corridor commission.,International Affairs,1992-10-06,1992-10-09,Message on Senate action sent to the House.,House,"Rep. Miller, John R. [R-WA-1]",WA,R,M000736,7,"Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should continue negotiations with the Government of Canada and State, provincial, and local governments in the urbanized Cascadia corridor along Interstate 5/Highway 99 from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Eugene, Oregon, to establish a Cascadia Corridor Commission to:  (1) act as a forum to coordinate consideration of regional issues in the Cascadia area; (2) develop a strategy for environmentally sound economic development in the region; and (3) submit a plan, developed by the Commission and incorporating such strategy to the Congress, the Canadian Parliament, the legislature of British Columbia, and the State legislatures of Oregon and Washington.",2024-02-07T11:38:03Z,
102-hconres-384,102,hconres,384,Providing for the sine die adjournment of the second session of the One Hundred Second Congress.,Congress,1992-10-06,1992-10-09,Message on Senate action sent to the House.,House,"Rep. Gephardt, Richard A. [D-MO-3]",MO,D,G000132,0,"Provides for the sine die adjournment of the 102d Congress on October 8 or 9, 1992.",2021-06-02T13:57:40Z,
102-hjres-563,102,hjres,563,Providing for the convening of the First Session of the One Hundred Third Congress.,Congress,1992-10-06,1992-10-23,Became Public Law No: 102-475.,House,"Rep. Gephardt, Richard A. [D-MO-3]",MO,D,G000132,0,"Provides for the convening of the first session of the 103d Congress at noon on January 5, 1993.",2021-09-25T05:34:10Z,
102-hr-6179,102,hr,6179,To amend the Wild and Scenic River Act.,Public Lands and Natural Resources,1992-10-06,1992-10-23,Became Public Law No: 102-460.,House,"Rep. Kostmayer, Peter H. [D-PA-8]",PA,D,K000319,0,"Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain segments of the Delaware River and tributaries in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for study as potential additions to the Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to undertake a river conservation plan for a specified segment of the Delaware River in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. States that the designation of such segments made by this Act and any subsequent management or development plans associated with, or added to, the Gilbert Generating Station, the Point Pleasant Pumping Station, the Portland Generating Station, the Martins Creek Steam Electric Station, or the Merrill Creek Reservoir Project shall not be used in any proceeding to restrict or interfere with their:  (1) completion; (2) continued or changed operation; (3) maintenance; (4) repair; (5) construction; (6) reconstruction; (7) replacement; (8) modification; (9) licensing; (10) permitting; (11) relicensing; or (12) repermitting. Provides that such designation and any subsequent management or development plans shall not be used in any proceeding to restrict or interfere with the present or future access to or operation, maintenance, or construction of electric or gas transmission or distribution lines across such segments, with specified exceptions. Authorizes appropriations.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-hr-6180,102,hr,6180,Telecommunications Authorization Act of 1992,Government Operations and Politics,1992-10-06,1992-10-27,Became Public Law No: 102-538.,House,"Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]",MA,D,M000133,0,"Telecommunications Authorization Act of 1992 - Title I:  National Telecommunications and Information Administration - Part A: Organization and Functions - National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act - Provides statutory authorization for the establishment within the Department of Commerce (DOC) of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Directs the Secretary of Commerce to:  (1) assign to the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information (of DOC) and NTIA responsibility for the performance of the Secretary's communications and information functions; and (2) submit annual reports to the President pursuant to the Communications Satellite Act of 1962. Requires the Secretary and the NTIA to amend the Department of Commerce spectrum management document entitled ""Manual of Regulations and Procedures for Federal Radio Frequency Management"" to improve Federal spectrum management activities and publish any changes in regulations in the Federal Register.  Sets forth requirements for such amendments, including requirements that provide for availability of information to the public.  Requires the Secretary to certify compliance with such requirement to the Congress. Directs the Secretary, in assigning frequencies for mobile and other radio services, to promote efficient and cost-effective use of the spectrum.  Authorizes the Secretary to withhold or refuse to assign frequencies for such services to further the goals of efficiency and cost-effectiveness.  Requires the Secretary to implement and report to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on a plan requiring Federal agencies with mobile radio systems to use more spectrum-efficient technologies. Authorizes the Secretary to reassign to another DOC unit a function required to be assigned to NTIA by this Act, subject to specified limitations. Part B:  Special and Temporary Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for NTIA administration for FY 1992 and 1993. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the National Endowment for Children's Educational Television through FY 1994. Extends the authorization of appropriations for acquisition of satellite space segment capacity and equipment to provide communications services for the Pan-Pacific Educational and Cultural Experiments by Satellite Program (PEACESAT) program. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory panel to develop recommendations for the improvement of rural health care through the collection of information needed by providers and the improvement in the use of communications to disseminate such information.  Authorizes appropriations. Requires the NTIA to report to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on the role of telecommunications in hate crimes and violent acts against ethnic, religious, and racial minorities. Title II: Federal Communications Commission - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to extend the authorization of appropriations for travel reimbursements by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) through FY 1994. Amends the Federal Communications Commission Authorization Act of 1988 to extend an authorization to expend funds for a monitoring station in Hawaii through FY 1994. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to repeal provisions that require the operation of all broadcasting station transmitting apparatus by a person holding an operator's license (thus allowing the FCC to permit broadcasters to substitute automated technology for human operators). Extends the time period for permitting licensee forfeitures in certain situations. Authorizes the FCC, for purposes of providing radio club and military-recreational call signs, to utilize the voluntary and uncompensated services of tax-exempt amateur radio organizations. Adds charges for low-earth orbit satellite systems to the Schedule of Charges.  Reduces Schedule fees for inspection of vessels under the Great Lakes Agreement. Makes nonlicensee radio tower owners who have violated tower maintenance requirements subject to forfeiture liability if they have received previous notice of such obligations. Bars FCC approval of the assignment or transfer of control of a television broadcast license without a prior hearing if the license holder is a corporation owned or organized pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and the transfer was approved on November 14, 1985.  Provides for waivers of such requirement at the request of a corporation. Amends the Federal Communications Commission Authorization Act of 1988 to extend through FY 1993 the FCC's authorization to make grants to and agreements with nonprofit organizations to utilize older Americans in FCC programs.  Removes a condition on the Older Americans Program that requires a certification that a grant or agreement will not result in filling a position without public announcement of availability and in accordance with regular employment procedures. Directs the FCC to make efforts to reduce telephone rates for armed forces personnel in specified foreign countries. Requires the FCC to initiate a rulemaking and adopt a standard for AM radio stereophonic transmitting equipment that specifies the composition of the transmitted signal.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
102-hr-6181,102,hr,6181,"To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize human drug application, prescription drug establishment, and prescription drug product fees and for other purposes.",Health,1992-10-06,1992-10-29,Became Public Law No: 102-571.,House,"Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-16]",MI,D,D000355,1,"Title I:  User Fees - Prescription Drug User Fee Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide authority for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to assess and collect fees from manufacturers of prescription drugs beginning in FY 1993. Establishes a schedule for prescription drug application and supplement fees, prescription drug establishment fees, and prescription drug product fees.  Provides for the annual adjustment of such fees to reflect increases in the Consumer Price Index for urban consumers or increases in Federal pay. Authorizes the Secretary to waive or reduce fees. Prohibits the assessment of fees for a fiscal year after FY 1993 unless appropriations for salaries and expenses of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are equal or greater than such appropriations for FY 1992.  Credits such fees to the appropriation account for salaries and expenses of the FDA. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997. Provides a mechanism for collecting unpaid fees. Requires the FDA to make annual reports to the Congress on this Act. Requires the Secretary to conduct a study to evaluate whether to impose user fees to supplement appropriated funds to improve the process of reviewing applications for new animal drugs.   Requires a report to specified congressional committees on the results of such study. Title II:  Dietary Supplements - Dietary Supplement Act of 1992 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue final regulations with respect to dietary supplements of vitamins, minerals, herbs, or other similar nutritional substances under the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 by December 15, 1993.  Prohibits the implementation of such Act prior to the issuance of such regulations. Prohibits the promulgation of regulations that require the use of, or are based upon, recommended daily allowances of vitamins or minerals before November 8, 1993. Requires the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees on enforcement practices of the FDA with respect to such dietary supplements. Requires the Comptroller General to report to such committees on a study of the management activities of the FDA related to such dietary supplements. Requires the Director of the Office of Technology Assessment, in cooperation with the Congressional Research Service and subject to the approval of the Technology Assessment Board to report to such committees on a study of the health outcomes and regulatory systems affecting the development and sale of such dietary supplements.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
102-hr-6182,102,hr,6182,Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992,Health,1992-10-06,1992-10-27,Became Public Law No: 102-539.,House,"Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-16]",MI,D,D000355,4,"Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require certification (or provisional certification) in order for a facility to perform or interpret mammograms, inspect equipment, or provide for the processing of mammography film.  Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue and renew certificates for a specified period of time. Provides for administrative appeals of certification denials. Allows the Secretary to approve a private nonprofit organization or State agency to be an accreditation body if it meets certain standards and provides certain assurances. Mandates standards to assure the safety and accuracy of mammograms, including regarding:  (1) quality assurance and control programs; (2)radiation dose; (3) equipment used; (4) licensing, certification, and training of personnel; and (5) recordkeeping and retention. Directs the Secretary to conduct annual inspections of certified facilities during regular hours of operation.  Requires notice of certain inspections.  Provides for waiver of certain inspection requirements. Provides for:  (1) directed plans of correction, on site monitoring costs payment, and civil money penalties; (2) suspension and revocation certificates; and (3) injunctions. Requires annual publication of a list of facilities convicted of fraud and abuse, false billings, or kickbacks, facilities that have had certificates revoked or suspended, and facilities that have been the subject of a sanction or other similar matters. Establishes the National Mammography Quality Assurance Advisory Committee. Mandates grants to establish surveillance systems to evaluate breast cancer screening programs.  Authorizes grants for research on such systems. Empowers the Secretary to authorize a State to carry out certain certification program requirements and standards. Mandates fees to cover the costs of inspections. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act. Mandates a study of the certification program.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
102-hr-6183,102,hr,6183,Federally Supported Health Centers Assistance Act of 1992,Health,1992-10-06,1992-10-24,Became Public Law No: 102-501.,House,"Rep. Wyden, Ron [D-OR-3]",OR,D,W000779,0,"Federally Supported Health Centers Assistance Act of 1992 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to include entities receiving Federal funds under provisions relating to migrant health centers, community health centers, or health services for the homeless, or health services for residents of public housing, and officers, employees, or certain contractors of such entities who are licensed or certified health practitioners, in the coverage of provisions regulating civil actions for injury resulting from medical or related functions against commissioned officers or employees of the Public Health Service.  Makes such actions the exclusive remedy against such entities and individuals. Subrogates to the United States any insurance claim such an entity or person has.  Terminates such inclusion after a specified date. Prohibits deeming such an entity to be an employee of the Public Health Service unless the entity has:  (1) implemented policies and procedures to assure against malpractice and the risk of lawsuits; (2) reviewed the professional credentials, claims history, and other information regarding its licensed health care practitioners; (3) no history of claims against the United States under these provisions, or has cooperated with the Attorney General in defending against such claims and has taken corrective action; and (4) has cooperated with the Attorney General in providing information relating to an estimate of expected claims. Empowers the Attorney General, if certain conditions are met, to determine that an individual physician or other practitioner not be deemed a Public Health Service employee for purposes of these provisions. Prohibits hospitals from denying admitting privileges to an otherwise qualified health care provider who is an officer, employee, or contractor of such an entity. Mandates an annual estimate of the amount of claims expected to be paid and, subject to appropriations and a dollar maximum, establishment of a fund of that amount.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
102-hr-6184,102,hr,6184,To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the American Discovery Trail for study to determine the feasibility and desirability of its designation as a national trail.,Public Lands and Natural Resources,1992-10-06,1992-10-23,Became Public Law No: 102-461.,House,"Rep. Byron, Beverly B. [D-MD-6]",MD,D,B001220,11,"Amends the National Trails System Act to designate the American Discovery Trail extending from Pt. Reyes, California, to Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware, and the Ala Kahakai Trail in Hawaii for study for potential addition to the National Trails System.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-hr-6185,102,hr,6185,Federal Courts Administration Act of 1992,Law,1992-10-06,1992-10-30,Pocket Vetoed by President.,House,"Rep. Hughes, William J. [D-NJ-2]",NJ,D,H000930,1,"Federal Courts Administration Act of 1992 - Title I: Implementation of Federal Courts Study Committee Recommendations - Amends the Federal judicial code to authorize the Supreme Court to prescribe rules for appeal of interlocutory decisions to the courts of appeals. Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize a magistrate judge to:  (1) revoke, modify, or reinstate (currently, revoke or reinstate) the probation of a defendant that such judge has sentenced; and (2) modify, revoke, or terminate supervised release of any person sentenced to a term of supervised release by a magistrate judge. Permits a district judge to designate a magistrate judge to conduct hearings to modify, revoke, or terminate supervised release, including evidentiary  hearings, and to submit to the judge proposed findings of fact and recommendations for such modification, revocation, or termination by the judge (including, in the case of revocation, a recommended sentence).  Directs the magistrate judge to file his or her proposed findings and recommendations. Amends the Federal judicial code to authorize the Chief Justice of the United States, in the public interest, to designate and assign temporarily any circuit judge to act as circuit judge in another circuit upon request by the chief judge or circuit justice of such circuit.  (Current law makes no mention of the public interest and authorizes such action upon presentation of a certificate of necessity by the chief judge or circuit justice of the circuit where the need arises.) Title II:  Judicial Survivors' Annuities Improvements - Amends the Federal judicial code to authorize judicial officials of the United States (officials) to elect to contribute 2.2 percent of their salary and 3.5 percent of their retirement salary (under current law, five percent of their salary) to the Judicial Survivors' Annuities Fund. Requires an official who is not entitled to receive an immediate retirement salary upon leaving office but who is eligible to receive a deferred retirement salary at a later date to file, within 90 days before leaving office, a written notification of intent to remain within the purview of provisions with respect to the Fund (which shall constitute consent to contribute the 3.5 percent of deferred retirement salary) or be deemed to have revoked the election to participate under such provisions. Provides for the refund of deposits into the Fund for officials who leave office and are ineligible to receive a retirement salary, or who leave office and are entitled to a deferred retirement salary but fail to make an election. Counts as creditable service those years during which an official had deductions withheld from his or her retirement salary. Revises the formula with respect to the computation of the annuity to take into account the number of years during which the official had deductions withheld from his or her retirement salary. Authorizes an official, subject to the terms of a specified decree, court order, or agreement, who ceases to be married after making the election to revoke such election in writing by notifying the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (Administrative Office).  Requires such official to also notify any spouse or former spouse of the application for revocation in accordance with such requirements as the Director shall prescribe.  Authorizes the Director to provide for waiver of the notification requirement with respect to a spouse or former spouse if such official established to the Director's satisfaction that the whereabouts of such person cannot be determined. Directs the Comptroller General of the United States, at the end of each three-fiscal year period, to determine whether the contributions by officials during such period accounted for 50 percent of the costs of the Fund and if not, what adjustments in the contribution rates should be made to achieve that 50 percent figure. Sets forth reporting requirements. Provides a credit for prior contributions made to the Fund by officials at the higher rate. Permits any official who elects to participate to make a redeposit to the credit of the Fund in installments, in such amounts and under such conditions as may be determined by the Director.  Specifies that if an official elects to make a redeposit in installments:  (1) the Director shall require that the first installment payment made shall be in an amount no smaller than the last 18 months of salary deductions or deposits previously returned to such official in a lump-sum payment; and (2) the election to participate shall be effective upon payment of the first such installment. Directs the Comptroller General to:  (1) conduct an audit of the judicial survivors annuities program for the three-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act; and (2) report to the Congress on the results of such audit, comparing such program to other survivors annuities programs within the Federal Government. Title III:  Judicial Financial Administration - Amends the Federal judicial code to provide for the award of filing fees in actions brought by the United States, in which the United States prevails (regardless of whether the Government paid the fee upon commencing the action). Revises provisions with respect to the disposition of filing fees.  Provides that:  (1) of the amounts paid to the clerk of court as a fee or a judgment for costs, $60 shall be deposited into a special fund of the Treasury to offset funds appropriated for the operation and maintenance of U.S. courts; and (2) if the court authorizes a fee or judgment for costs of less than $120, the entire fee, up to $60, shall be deposited into such fund. Title IV:  Jury Matters - Permits prospective jurors in Massachusetts to be selected from the resident list provided for under Massachusetts law, rather than from voter lists. Permits reimbursement of grand jurors' actual reasonable costs of air travel to district court pursuant to a summons, under guidelines set by the Judicial Conference, when travel by other means is not feasible and when certified by the chief judge of the district court in which the grand juror serves. Provides permanent authorization for optional use of a one-step summoning and qualification procedure for jury selection.  (Current law provides for experimental use of such procedure.) Title V: Miscellaneous - Amends:  (1) the Federal judicial code to permit courts of appeals to pretermit any regular session of court at any place for insufficient business or other good cause without the consent of the Judicial Conference, and to transfer the reporting requirement for fees and expenses under the Equal Access to Justice Act from the Director to the Attorney General; (2) the Financial Institutions Regulatory and Interest Rate Control Act of 1978 to eliminate a duplicative reporting requirement; and (3) the Judicial Improvements Act of 1990 to allow the Federal Judicial Center an additional nine months to submit to the Congress and the Judicial Conference the report on its study of intercircuit conflicts and structural alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals. Amends the Federal judicial code to authorize the Director to provide for the sale or disposal of recyclable scrap materials held by any entity within the judicial branch, subject to specified requirements. Specifies that a civil action wherein jurisdiction is founded only on diversity of citizenship may be brought only in specified judicial districts, including one in which the defendants are subject to personal jurisdiction at the time the action is commenced (as under current law) if there is no district in which the action may otherwise be brought. Amends the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 to require the Director to transmit to the U.S. district courts a summary of each (currently, each) report on the state of each such court's civil and criminal dockets. Provides for the recovery of costs and fees in the U.S. Court of Veterans Appeals under the Equal Access to Justice Act, subject to specified limitations. Title VI:  Judiciary Personnel Administration, Benefits, and Protections - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to exempt the Judicial Officers' Retirement Fund, the Court of Federal Claims Judges' Retirement Fund, and payments to the Judiciary Trust Funds from reductions under such Act. Authorizes the Federal Judicial Center to:  (1) cooperate with and assist Federal agencies and other appropriate organizations in providing information and advice to further improvement in the administration of justice in the courts of foreign countries and to acquire information about judicial administration in foreign countries; and (2) fix compensation of secretarial and clerical personnel without regard to General Schedule pay rates. Title VII:  Criminal Administrative Matters - Directs probation and pretrial services officers:  (1) when directed by the court and to the degree required by the regimen of care or treatment ordered by the court as a condition of release, to keep informed as to the conduct and provide supervision of persons conditionally released; and (2) to report any violation of such a condition to the court and Attorney General or his designee. Affords Criminal Justice Act attorneys and experts, and community defender organizations, travel and lodging at Government rates. Title VIII:  State Justice Institute Reauthorization - Amends the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 to authorize appropriations for the State Justice Institute for FY 1993 through 1996. Authorizes the Institute, upon application by an appropriate State or local (currently, Federal, State, or local) agency or institution and if the arrangement to be made by such agency or institution will provide services which could not be provided adequately through nongovernmental arrangements, to award a grant or enter into a cooperative agreement or contract with a unit of State or local (currently, Federal, State, or local) government other than a court.  (Current law also requires the Institute to give priority to specified grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts.) Grants the Institute the authority to enter into contracts with Federal agencies to carry out the purposes of the Act. Title IX:  Court of Federal Claims - Court of Federal Claims Technical and Procedural Improvements Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal judicial code to change the name of the U.S. Claims Court to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (Claims Court). Extends to Claims Court judges the same treatment afforded to other Federal trial judges with respect to earned military retirement pay. Makes technical and conforming amendments regarding the recall of a senior Claims Court judge. Authorizes:  (1) Claims Court judges to hire the same number of law clerks as U.S. district court judges; (2) the Claims Court to hold court throughout the United States, including its territories and possessions (currently, court may only be held in the District of Columbia (DC) and in four locations outside DC); (3) the chief judge of the Claims Court to issue an order authorizing a judge of such court to conduct proceedings in a foreign country whose laws do not prohibit such proceedings, with exceptions; and (4) the Federal Circuit to permit an appeal from an order of the chief judge of the Claims Court with respect to such proceedings. Amends the Contract Disputes Act of 1978 to provide that:  (1) if the certification of a claim under such Act is technically defective, a court or agency board of contract appeals may permit the certification to be corrected at any time prior to a final decision by the court of agency board of contract appeals unless the failure to properly certify in the first instance was fraudulent, in bad faith, or with reckless or grossly negligent disregard of the requirements of the relevant statutes or regulations; and (2) if the contracting officer did not challenge the validity of the certification and the court or agency board of contract appeals permits the defective certification to be corrected under such provision, interest shall accrue on the claim from the date the claim was first submitted to the contracting officer. Authorizes the award of costs whenever an action is dismissed in the Claims Court for lack of jurisdiction. Makes applicable to the Claims Court provisions pertaining to costs, witness fees, forma pauperis proceedings, and counsel's liability for excessive costs which are currently applicable to other Federal trial courts. Grants the Claims Court specified power to punish contempt of its authority and to have such assistance in carrying out its orders as is available to other Federal courts.  Specifies that the U.S. marshal for any district in which the Claims Court is sitting shall, when requested by the chief judge of such court, attend any session of the court in such district. Title X:  Additional Provisions - Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to repeal provisions regarding:  (1) the distribution of excess amounts in the Crime Victims Fund; and (2) time limits on deposits into the Fund. Modifies the formula regarding the availability of funds for expenditure and grant program percentages applicable to the Fund. Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize a district court to direct that information not be collected, verified, or reported on individuals charged with Class A misdemeanors. Amends the Federal criminal code to define the term ""international terrorism"" to include activities that:  (1) involve violent acts that are a violation of Federal or State laws, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State; (2) appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a government by assassination or kidnapping; and (3) occur primarily outside U.S.  territorial jurisdiction or transcend national boundaries. Authorizes any U.S. national injured in his or her person, property, or business by reason of an act of international terrorism to bring a civil action in U.S. district court and recover treble damages and the cost of the suit, including attorney's fees.  Specifies that a final judgment or decree  rendered in favor of the United States in certain classes of criminal proceedings (such as those involving the murder of a foreign official, kidnapping, hostage taking, killing of a U.S. national, or an aircraft piracy-related offense) or in favor of any foreign state in a criminal proceeding to the extent that such judgement or decree may be accorded full faith and credit under U.S. law shall estop the defendant from denying the essential allegations of the criminal offense in a subsequent civil proceeding under this title. Sets forth provisions with respect to jurisdiction and venue for, and limitation of, such civil actions. Title XI:  Effective Date - Makes the provisions of this Act effective January 1, 1993, with exceptions. Specifies that all sums expended pursuant to this Act shall be subject to the availability of appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:14:50Z,
102-hr-6186,102,hr,6186,"To establish the Jemez National Recreation Area in the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes.",Public Lands and Natural Resources,1992-10-06,1992-10-07,See H.R.2502.,House,"Rep. Richardson, Bill [D-NM-3]",NM,D,R000229,0,"Establishes the Jemez National Recreational Area in New Mexico. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a management plan for the Area as an amendment to the Santa Fe National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan. Requires the Secretary to:  (1) protect religious and cultural sites in the Area; and (2) provide access to such sites by Indian peoples for traditional cultural and religious purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to permit timber harvesting in the Area for commercial purposes as long as it is compatible with the Area's purposes.  Continues:  (1) timber sales already under contract on enactment of this Act; and (2) the Los Griegos timber sale in a specified area of the Santa Fe National Forest.  Directs the Secretary to manage the Los Griegos timber sale by using uneven aged management including the individual tree selection method. Requires the Secretary to prepare a transportation plan to provide for the most efficient use of existing roads and trails, including a comprehensive system for dispersed recreation which minimizes its impact on significant archaeological and religious sites. Directs the Secretary to provide for recreational facilities within the Area and establish a visitor center. Authorizes the Secretary to permit under certain conditions:  (1) a utility corridor for high power electric transmission lines; and (2) scientific investigations. Prohibits the issuance of any mining location or claim patents after May 30, 1991, with respect to the area.  Permits any party who has been deprived of any property rights by such prohibition to file a compensation claim against the United States in the U.S. Claims Court within one year after enactment. Withdraws lands within the Area from U.S. mining, mineral leasing, and related laws. Declares that any requirements imposed by the Secretary on certain mining activities within the Area shall include requirements for reasonable reclamation of disturbed lands to a visual and hydrological condition as close as practicable to their premining condition. Directs the Secretary to expedite a program to determine the validity of all unpatented mining claims within the Area (incuding those for which a patent has been filed).  Requires the Secretary to declare any invalid claims null and void. Authorizes the Secretary to use, under specified conditions, mineral materials from within the Area for public purposes such as maintenance and construction of roads, trails, and facilities. Directs the Secretary to evaluate and make recommendations to the Congress about lands adjoining the Area (including specified privately-owned land) for possible inclusion in it. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to convey the Old Taos Ranger District Office and Warehouse to the town of Taos, New Mexico.  Sets forth the terms and conditions of such conveyance. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to contract with the Smithsonian Institution for the completion of the prehistoric trackways study required under a specified Act.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-hr-6187,102,hr,6187,International Narcotics Control Act of 1992,International Affairs,1992-10-06,1992-11-02,Became Public Law No: 102-583.,House,"Rep. Fascell, Dante B. [D-FL-19]",FL,D,F000041,9,"International Narcotics Control Act of 1992 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for international narcotics control for FY 1993 and 1994. Exempts maritime law enforcement operations in archipelagic waters from a prohibition on U.S. participation in foreign police actions. Makes a prohibition on the use of narcotics control funds for the procurement of weapons or ammunition inapplicable (subject to congressional notification requirements) to:  (1) weapons or ammunition for the defensive arming of aircraft used for narcotics control purposes; or (2) firearms and related ammunition provided to Department of State employees for narcotics control activities. Requires the President (currently, the Secretary of State) to maintain records on aircraft use under this title.  Authorizes foreign military financing assistance under the Arms Export Control Act to be made available to finance the leasing of aircraft. Permits the use of narcotics control assistance to acquire land or real property for foreign military or law enforcement forces through leases of up to two years.  (Current law prohibits the use of such assistance for such acquisitions by any means.)  Prohibits the use of such funds (over a specified amount) for construction of facilities for use by such forces unless the President notifies the appropriate congressional committees. Revises congressional reporting and certification requirements with respect to international narcotics control. Amends the International Narcotics Control Act of 1989 to make certain dollar limitations on law enforcement assistance for Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru inapplicable on this Act's enactment date. Repeals obsolete provisions of specified Acts. Makes prohibitions on the provision of assistance to foreign law enforcement agencies inapplicable, during FY 1993 and 1994, to:  (1) transfers of defense articles and services for counternarcotics purposes; and (2) foreign military financing and international military education and training for narcotics-related purposes. Makes provisions of law that restrict assistance to countries inapplicable with respect to narcotics-related assistance, provided that the President notifies the appropriate congressional committees. Authorizes the transfer of excess defense articles to major drug-transit countries.  Prohibits the transfer of excess defense articles for conservation and wildlife management purposes or for modernization of military capability to any major illicit drug producing country or drug-transit country in Latin America or the Caribbean. Excludes construction equipment from the definition of ""excess defense articles"" for purposes of restricting the transfer of such equipment to foreign countries. Authorizes military education and training for civilian personnel from other than ministries of defense if such education and training would contribute to cooperation between military and law enforcement personnel with respect to counternarcotics law enforcement. Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to prohibit the Bank from guaranteeing, insuring, or participating in an extension of credit in connection with sales of defense articles or services to any country (currently, countries designated under a section of the Internal Revenue Code as economically less developed countries). Exempts from such prohibition articles or services sold before September 30, 1997.  Adds to the list of criteria required for approval of such financing that the President determines that the purchasing country has complied with restrictions concerning end use of such articles or services and has not used them to engage in human rights violations.",2024-02-07T11:38:03Z,
102-hr-6188,102,hr,6188,Lower Mississippi Delta Development Financing Corporation Act,Finance and Financial Sector,1992-10-06,1992-10-07,Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization.,House,"Rep. Espy, Mike [D-MS-2]",MS,D,E000218,1,"Lower Mississippi Delta Development Financing Corporation Act - Establishes the Lower Mississippi Delta Development Financing Corporation (the Corporation) as a federally chartered private corporation, under the management of a board of directors appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Lower Mississippi Delta Region congressional delegation.  Requires the Corporation to develop strategies and provide financial and technical assistance for building and expanding the economic base of the lower Mississippi delta region and communities within it. Sets forth the Corporation's powers, including acquiring the shares of insured depository institutions and holding companies located in the lower Mississippi delta region (passive investments). Authorizes appropriations to the President to make grants to the Corporation to implement this Act. Requires the Corporation to:  (1) establish an advisory committee; and (2) report annually to the Congress.",2025-08-26T15:16:40Z,
102-hr-6189,102,hr,6189,Equal Human Rights for All American Children Act of 1992,Immigration,1992-10-06,1992-10-08,"Referred to the Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees.",House,"Rep. Alexander, Bill [D-AR-1]",AR,D,A000103,0,Equal Human Rights for All American Children Act of 1992 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make any child born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions to a U.S. citizen parent a U.S. citizen at birth  (without prior U.S. residence of the citizen parent). Reduces from 21 years old to six years old the maximum age at which a person of unknown parentage found in the United States can be shown to have been born outside the United States and thus lose his or her U.S. citizenship.,2025-08-26T15:15:34Z,
102-hr-6190,102,hr,6190,"To amend the Stock Raising Homestead Act to provide certain procedures for entry onto Stock Raising Homestead Act lands, and for other purposes.",Public Lands and Natural Resources,1992-10-06,1992-10-07,See H.R.450.,House,"Rep. Lehman, Richard H. [D-CA-18]",CA,D,L000225,1,"Amends Federal law regarding stock-raising homesteads to require a written notice to the surface owner before a person may enter lands for exploration purposes or to locate a mining claim.  Provides for an authorized exploration period during which exploring and locating a mining claim may be conducted with minimal surface disruption, but no road construction, use of explosives, mechanical earth moving equipment, or hazardous materials.  Limits the total acreage that may be covered at any time by notices of intention to locate a claim. Prohibits any mineral exploration or development activities without the surface owner's written consent unless the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary) has authorized them according to prescribed guidelines which include posting a surety bond to ensure:  (1) completion of surface reclamation; (2) compensation to the surface owner for permanent damages to crops and tangible improvements; and (3) compensation for permanent loss of income by the surface owner due to impaired land use. Prohibits the Secretary from authorizing any mineral activities unless a plan of operations has been submitted meeting specified criteria, including:  (1) minimization of damages to crops and tangible improvements of the surface owner, and of disruption to grazing or other land use by the surface owner; and (2) payment of a fee to the surface owner, equivalent to the loss of income to the ranch operation.  Directs the Secretary to submit such plan of operations for the surface owner's comments and modifications before determining whether the plan complies with this Act. Requires reclamation of land to return it, as contemporaneously as practicable with the conduct of mineral activities, to a condition capable of supporting the uses which it was capable of supporting before surface disturbance. Authorizes any surface owner to request an inspection if such owner has reason to believe that he may be adversely affected due to any violation of an approved plan of operations. Authorizes a surface owner to bring an action in Federal district court for damages resulting from non-compliance with this Act. Authorizes the Secretary, upon petition by the surface owner, to provide compensation for damages through payment of all or part of any bond or other financial guarantee required under this Act. Requires the Secretary to simplify the procedure for surface owners who apply to obtain title to Federal interests in lands subject to the Stock Raising Homestead Act. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress within two years after enactment of this Act on the acquisition of mineral interests by foreign firms on lands subject to the 1916 Stock Raising Homestead Act.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-hr-6191,102,hr,6191,Telephone Disclosure and Dispute Resolution Act,Government Operations and Politics,1992-10-06,1992-10-28,Became Public Law No: 102-556.,House,"Rep. Swift, Al [D-WA-2]",WA,D,S001115,1,"Telephone Disclosure and Dispute Resolution Act - Title I: Carrier Obligations and Consumer Rights Concerning Pay-Per-Call Transactions - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish a system for the oversight and regulation of pay-per-call services. Requires the FCC's final rules to:  (1) include measures that provide a consumer of pay-per-call services with adequate and clear descriptions of the rights of the caller; (2) define the obligations of common carriers with respect to the provision of such services; (3) include requirements on such carriers to protect against abusive practices by service providers; (4) identify procedures by which common carriers and providers may take affirmative steps to protect against nonpayment of legitimate charges; and (5) include requirements that such services be offered only through the use of certain telephone number prefixes and area codes. Directs common carriers that contract with a provider of pay-per-call services to make available on request:  (1) a list of telephone numbers, a description, and a statement of fees for each service it carries; and (2) other information the FCC considers necessary. Requires common carriers contracting with providers to terminate services if the service is not in compliance with this Act. Prohibits common carriers from disconnecting or interrupting a subscriber's local or long distance service because of nonpayment for any pay-per-call service.  Authorizes common carriers that provide local exchange service to offer subscribers the option of blocking access to pay-per-call service.  Permits the cost of blocking to be recovered by contract or tariff but bars recovery of costs from local or long distance ratepayers. Directs common carriers to prohibit by tariff or contract the use of any toll-free number in a manner that would result in the calling party being:  (1) assessed a charge for the call; (2) connected to a pay-per-call service; (3) charged for information conveyed during the call unless the party has a preexisting agreement to be charged for the information; or (4) called back collect for the provision of audio information services or simultaneous voice conservation services. Requires common carriers that contract with, and offer billing and collection services to, providers of pay-per-call services to:  (1) ensure that a subscriber is not billed for services that are provided in violation of regulations issued pursuant to title II of this Act or under circumstances necessary to protect subscribers from abusive practices; (2) provide information on subscribers' and carriers' rights regarding pay-per-call services; and (3) include certain information in billing for pay-per-call services. Exempts a common carrier from civil or criminal liability under this Act solely because it provided transmission or billing and collection services for a pay-per-call service unless the carrier knew that such services violated this Act or other Federal law. Bars causes of action in courts or administrative agencies against common carriers on account of acts to terminate pay-per-call services to comply with this Act or other Federal law. Requires regulations to ensure that carriers and other parties providing billing and collection services with respect to pay-per-call services provide refunds to subscribers who have been billed for services violating this Act or other Federal law.  Permits recovery of costs from providers, but bars recovery from local or long distance ratepayers.  Directs the FCC to submit recommendations to the Congress with respect to the extension of such regulations to persons that provide, for a per-call charge, data services that are not pay-per-call services. Specifies that nothing in this Act shall affect provisions of the Communications Act of 1934 concerning obscene or harassing phone calls. Title II:  Regulations of Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices in Connection with Pay-Per-Call Services - Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to prescribe rules to prohibit unfair and deceptive acts and practices in any advertisement for pay-per-call services.  Provides that such rules shall require persons offering such services to:  (1) disclose in any advertising the cost of the use of the telephone number; (2) disclose the odds of receiving a prize in the case of an advertisement which offers a prize; (3) disclose that a service is unauthorized by a Federal agency in the case of an advertisement that promotes a service that is not operated by a Federal agency but provides information on a Federal program; (4) not direct an advertisement at children under the age of 12; (5) state that an individual must have the consent of a parent or legal guardian in the case of an advertisement directed primarily to individuals under 18; (6) not use advertisements that emit electronic tones which automatically dial a pay-per-call number; (7) ensure that whenever the number is shown in television and print media advertisements that the charges for the call are clearly displayed; (8) specify the total cost in delivering any telephone message soliciting calls to a pay-per-call service; and (9) not advertise any toll-free number from which callers are connected to an access number for a pay-per-call service. Directs the FTC to prescribe rules requiring each provider of pay-per-call services to:  (1) include a specified introductory disclosure message in each pay-per-call message; (2) enable the caller to hang up at or before the end of the introductory message without incurring any charge; (3) not direct such services at children under 12 unless the service is an educational service; (4) stop the assessment of time-based charges immediately upon disconnection by the caller; (5) disable any bypass mechanism which allows frequent callers to avoid listening to the disclosure message after the institution of any price increase; (6) be prohibited from providing services through a toll-free number; (7) be prohibited from billing consumers in excess of the amounts described in the introductory message; (8) meet specified requirements for billing statements; (9) be liable for refunds to consumers for services provided in violation of Federal law; and (10) comply with additional standards to prevent abusive practices. Directs the FTC to require a common carrier that provides telephone service to a pay-per-call service provider to make available to the FTC any records and financial information relating to the arrangements (other than for the provision of local exchange service) between the carrier and the provider. Authorizes States to bring civil actions to enjoin practices violating FTC rules and obtain damages or other relief on behalf of their residents whenever there is reason to believe that State residents are adversely affected by such practices.  Bars States from instituting such actions during the pendency of a civil action by the FTC. Provides for principal enforcement of this title by the FTC under the Federal Trade Commission Act. Title III:  Billing and Collection - Directs the FTC to promulgate rules to establish procedures for the correction of billing errors with respect to telephone-billed purchases and that impose requirements similar to requirements imposed with respect to the resolution of credit disputes under the Truth in Lending and Fair Credit Billing Acts. Sets forth provisions with respect to:  (1) resolving inconsistencies between State laws concerning telephone billing practices and this title; (2) regulatory exemptions from this title which may be granted by the FTC for transactions in a State offering substantially similar or greater protection to the consumer; and (3) enforcement of this title. Title IV:  Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Conservation and Renewable Energy to submit to the Congress a proposal for demonstrating the ability of innovative communications equipment and services to further the national goals of conserving energy and protecting health and safety. Requires the Secretary of Energy to consider requesting the authority to use radio frequencies from the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to carry out demonstration projects designed to demonstrate the energy conservation potential of communications technologies. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to exempt from restrictions on the use of automated telephone equipment calls to a telephone number assigned to a cellular telephone service that are not charged to the called party subject to conditions in the interest of privacy rights. Directs the FCC to prescribe regulations denying equipment authorization under any part of the FCC's regulations for any scanning receiver that is capable of:  (1) receiving transmissions in the frequencies allocated to the domestic cellular radio telecommunications service; (2) readily being altered by the user to receive transmissions in such frequencies; or (3) being equipped with decoders that convert digital cellular transmissions to analog voice audit.  Bans the manufacture or importation of any scanning receiver having such capabilities. Directs the FCC to report to the Congress on available security features for analog and digital radio signals.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
102-hr-6192,102,hr,6192,"To designate the United States Federal building and United States courthouse to be located at Fifth and Ross Streets in Santa Ana, California, as the ""Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse"".",Government Operations and Politics,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Referred to the House Committee on Public Works + Transportation.,House,"Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-40]",CA,R,C000830,4,"Designates the Federal building and U.S. courthouse to be constructed at Fifth and Ross Streets in Santa Ana, California, as the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
102-hr-6193,102,hr,6193,"To designate the United States Federal building and United States courthouse to be located at Fifth and Ross Streets in Santa Ana, California, as the ""Ronald Reagan Building"", and to designate the Gallipolis Locks and Dam, Ohio River and West Virginia, as the ""Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam"".",Government Operations and Politics,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Referred to the House Committee on Public Works + Transportation.,House,"Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-40]",CA,R,C000830,0,"Designates:  (1) the Federal building and U.S. courthouse to be constructed at Fifth and Ross Streets in Santa Ana, California, as the Ronald Reagan Building; and (2) the Gallipolis Locks and Dam, Ohio River, Ohio and West Virginia, as the Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
102-hr-6194,102,hr,6194,Worker Protection Warnings Act of 1992,Labor and Employment,1992-10-06,1992-10-09,Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Safety.,House,"Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]",NJ,D,A000210,1,"Worker Protection Warnings Act of 1992 - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act to direct the Secretary of Labor to issue a final regulation establishing, as occupational safety and health standards, uniform warnings for personal protective equipment for occupational use.  Requires such regulation to be issued within 12 months after enactment of this Act, meet certain conditions, and incorporate specified considerations. Preempts State and local law with respect to such standards.",2025-08-26T15:17:42Z,
102-hr-6195,102,hr,6195,Income Averaging Restoration Act of 1992,Taxation,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Carr, Bob [D-MI-6]",MI,D,C000178,0,Income Averaging Restoration Act of 1992 - Repeals  provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 to restore Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to income averaging.,2025-08-26T15:17:41Z,
102-hr-6196,102,hr,6196,Tax Fairness Restoration and Economic Growth Act,Taxation,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-40]",CA,R,C000830,50,"Tax Fairness Restoration and Economic Growth Act - Title I:  Tax Reductions - Subtitle A:  Capital Gains Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude capital gain from gross income and exempt capital gain from tax.  Makes such exemption applicable to computing the alternative minimum tax. Subtitle B:  Restoration of Income Averaging - Sets forth provisions to restore income averaging. Subtitle C:  Elimination of Double Tax on Dividends - Allows a shareholder credit (for taxpayers other than corporations) for dividends from domestic corporations.  Provides for determining such credit based on the corporation's post-1992 Federal income taxes and post-1992 undistributed earnings. Includes such credit in the determination of gross income. Allows corporations a 100 percent deduction for amounts received as dividends from domestic corporations.  Revises computations on dividends received by corporations on the preferred stock of a public utility. Subtitle D:  Permanent Extension of Research Credit - Makes permanent law the credit for increasing research activities. Subtitle E:  Reduction of Individual Tax Rate - Reduces individual income tax rates by eliminating the highest tax bracket. Subtitle F:  Retirement Savings Incentives - Part I Restoration of IRA Deduction - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to remove the limitations on deductions for individual retirement plans and provides a cost-of-living adjustment for deductible amounts. Part II:  Nondeductible Tax-Free IRAs - Establishes special individual retirement accounts that are nondeductible.  Makes such accounts nontaxable if earnings on contributions are held for at least five years.  Applies the early withdrawal penalty to distributions made before the end of the five year-period. Part III:  Penalty-Free Distributions - Provides exemptions from the ten-percent penalty on early withdrawals from individual retirement plans for:  (1) first home purchases; (2) higher education expenses; and (3) financially devastating medical expenses. Subtitle G:  Repeal of Excise Penalty Taxes on Autos - Repeals the excise tax on luxury items (passenger vehicles, boats, aircraft, jewelry, and furs). Subtitle H:  Repeal of Limitation On Itemized Deductions - Repeals the overall limitation on itemized deductions. Subtitle I:  Repeal of Passive Loss Limitations - Repeals passive loss limitations. Subtitle J:  Restoration of 10-Percent Investment Credit - Restores the ten percent investment tax credit for property placed in service after enactment of this Act. Subtitle K:  Restoration of Accelerated Cost Recovery System - Restores the accelerated cost recovery system as in effect on the day after the enactment of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981. Subtitle L:  Credit for First-Time Homebuyer - Allows a credit for a first-time homebuyer of ten percent of the price of the principal residence.  Limits such credit to $2,500.  Requires the residence to be acquired on or after February 1, 1992, and before January 1, 1993. Title II:  Taxpayer Bill of Rights - Subtitle A:  Additional Safeguards to Protect Taxpayers' Rights - Part I:  Taxpayers' Advocate - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) the Office of Taxpayers' Advocate, headed by the Taxpayers' Advocate, appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.  Requires the Office to:  (1) assist taxpayers in resolving problems with the IRS; (2) identify areas in which taxpayers have problems in dealings with the IRS; (3) propose changes in the administrative practices of the IRS to mitigate such problems; and (4) identify potential legislative changes which may be appropriate to mitigate such problems.  Requires the Taxpayers' Advocate to annually report to specified congressional committees  on Office activities. Requires the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to establish procedures requiring a formal response to all recommendations submitted to the Commissioner by the Taxpayers' Advocate. Authorizes the terms of a Taxpayer Assistance Order to require the Secretary of the Treasury to take certain actions (currently, only to cease or refrain from taking such actions). Part II:  Modifications to Installment Agreement Provisions - Requires prior notification to taxpayers under an installment agreement to pay tax liability before altering, modifying, or terminating such an agreement.  Provides for administrative review of denials of requests for installment agreements. Suspends the failure to pay penalty during any period an installment agreement is in effect. Part III:  Interest - Extends from ten days to 21 days the period for which interest will not be imposed after notice and demand for payment, if such payment is less than $100,000. Provides for the abatement of interest in the case of an assessment due to the error or delay of an IRS managerial act. Increases the interest rate for overpayment of tax from two percent to three percent (making such rate equal to the interest rate for underpayment of tax). Waives interest on all overpayments refunded within 45 days after a return is filed. Part IV:  Joint Returns - Requires separate deficiency notices in the case of a joint income tax return if the most recent data available to the IRS shows that such spouses did not file a joint return with each other. Allows the disclosure of collection activities to an individual requesting such information in the case of a joint return where such individual is no longer married to or resides in the same household as the other joint filer. Removes limitations on filing a joint return after filing separate returns. Part V:  Collection Activities - Authorizes the Secretary, if it is determined to be in the best interest of the taxpayer and the United States, to:  (1) withdraw a notice of a lien; (2) return property that  has been levied upon; and (3) offer compromises in civil or criminal cases.  Requires the Secretary, at the request of the taxpayer, to make reasonable efforts to notify credit reporting agencies and financial institutions of such withdrawal notice. Part VI:  Erroneous and Fraudulent Information Returns - Requires payee statements to provide the phone number of the person providing payment. Establishes civil damages for the fraudulent filing of information returns. Requires the Secretary to take reasonable steps to corroborate the accuracy of an information return when making a determination of a deficiency by a third party, when such return is disputed by the taxpayer. Part VII:  Modifications to Penalty for Failure to Collect and Pay Over Tax - Declares that a person shall not be liable for any penalty for failure to collect and pay over tax if such person:  (1) is not a significant owner, or highly compensated employee of the trade or business; (2) notifies the Secretary within ten days after such failure; and (3) such notification was before any notice by the Secretary with respect to such failure. Requires the Secretary to disclose certain information where more than one person is liable for a penalty. Part VIII:  Awarding of Costs and Certain Fees - Repeals the ""substantially justified"" test for determining whether a taxpayer may recover costs and fees incurred as part of an administrative or court proceeding. Provides for the awarding of reasonable litigation or administrative costs to a prevailing party who represents himself in an administrative or court proceeding. Makes IRS employees personally liable in certain cases. Provides that any failure to agree to an extension of time for the assessment of any tax shall not be taken into account in determining whether a prevailing party has exhausted all administrative remedies. Part IX:  Other Provisions - Revises provisions on the required content of tax due, deficiency, and other notices. Provides for the treatment of returns prepared for or executed by the Secretary for purposes of certain tax penalties. Provides protection for taxpayers who rely on certain guidance published by the IRS. Subtitle B:  Form Modifications - Directs the Secretary to:  (1) ensure that taxpayers are aware of permission to pay tax in installments, extensions of time for payment of tax, and compromises of tax liability; (2) improve procedures for taxpayers to notify the Secretary of changes in names and addresses; (3) include in a specified publication a section on the rights and responsibilities of divorced individuals; (4) ensure that employees are aware of their responsibilities under the Federal tax system and that the public is aware of penalties for failure to collect and pay over tax; and (5) notify taxpayers of any payments that cannot be associated with any outstanding tax liability. Subtitle C:  Additional Improvements - Requires the Secretary to report to the tax-writing committees on:  (1) a pilot program for appeals of certain enforcement actions (including lien, levy, and seizure actions); (2) a study on ways to assist the elderly, physically impaired, foreign-language speaking, and other taxpayers with special needs to comply with IRS laws; (3) the scope and content of the IRS taxpayer-rights education program for its officers and employees; and (4) cases involving complaints about misconduct of IRS employees and the disposition of such complaints. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the tax-writing committees on:  (1) a study of notices of deficiency; (2) the accuracy and clarity of 25 of the most commonly used IRS forms, notices, and publications; and (3) a study of IRS employee-suggestion programs.",2025-08-26T15:13:58Z,
102-hr-6197,102,hr,6197,Employment Dispute Resolution Act,"Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues",1992-10-06,1992-10-09,Referred to the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities.,House,"Rep. Gunderson, Steve [R-WI-3]",WI,R,G000524,0,"Employment Dispute Resolution Act - Amends title VII (Equal Employment Opportunities) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to provide for pre-litigation mediation by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) or another mediator.  Prohibits suit while mediation is pending.  Sets forth procedures and requirements. Amends Federal law to provide for pre-suit mediation, by the FMCS or another mediator, of disputes involving enforcement of employment-related contracts under provisions relating to equal rights under the law. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:13:50Z,
102-hr-6198,102,hr,6198,National Stalker Reduction Act of 1992,Crime and Law Enforcement,1992-10-06,1992-10-09,Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice.,House,"Rep. Kennedy, Joseph P., II [D-MA-8]",MA,D,K000110,0,"National Stalker Reduction Act of 1992 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to States which include programs that increase awareness, reporting, and prevention of stalking. Directs each State which receives drug control and system improvement formula grants under the Act in a fiscal year to allocate not less than five percent of such funds for the development of records regarding stalking and other forms of domestic violence, including:  (1) the development or expansion of maintaining records regarding the dispositions of all complaints and arrests for stalking and other forms of domestic violence; (2) the full automation of such records; and (3) the frequency and quality of reports sent to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.  Authorizes the Director to waive compliance with such allocation requirement by a State, or to authorize a State to reduce the minimum amount such State is required to allocate, if the Director finds that the quality of the States' records regarding stalking and domestic violence complaints and arrests does not warrant expending the amount allocated. Requires the Bureau of Justice Statistics to:  (1) define terms that relate to stalking and make such definitions available to individuals and groups that request such information; and (2) compile a national database regarding stalking and other forms of domestic violence.",2025-08-26T15:18:09Z,
102-hr-6199,102,hr,6199,Voluntary Environmental Response Act of 1992,Environmental Protection,1992-10-06,1992-11-20,Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials.,House,"Rep. Lent, Norman F. [R-NY-4]",NY,R,L000243,0,"Voluntary Environmental Response Act of 1992 - Applies this Act to any facility where there has been a release or threat of release of a hazardous substance into the environment.  Makes this Act inapplicable to:  (1) any portion of a facility with respect to which a Record of Decision has been issued by the President under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA); (2) any portion of a facility with respect to which an administrative or judicial order or consent decree requiring remedial action has been issued under CERCLA, the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean Water Act, or the Safe Drinking Water Act; (3) any land disposal unit for which a closure notification under RCRA has been submitted and closure requirements have been specified; or (4) any portion of a facility with respect to which a corrective action permit or order has been issued, modified, or amended. Authorizes States to apply to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to administer the voluntary response program under this Act, subject to certain requirements. Permits any person to submit a notification of intent to conduct a voluntary response and requires such person to agree to pay the direct costs incurred by the Administrator or the State in reviewing the response action plan overseeing the response.  Directs the Administrator to establish procedures for arbitration of disputes concerning reimbursement of costs. Requires persons intending to perform responses to:  (1) conduct a facility investigation which assesses specified factors that are necessary to determine an appropriate response to a release; and (2) set forth such response in a response action plan to be submitted with the facility investigation report to the Administrator or the State. Sets forth response action plan approval procedures.  Provides for waivers of response requirements if:  (1) compliance with response standards under this Act will result in greater health and environmental risks than alternative options; (2) compliance is impracticable from an engineering perspective; (3) the response action will attain a level of protection equivalent to that provided by such standards; or (4) contaminants will not travel the expected exposure pathways. Sets forth recordkeeping and reporting requirements for persons conducting voluntary responses and requires certifications that responses have been completed in accordance with an approved plan. Requires the National Academy of Sciences to review and report to the Administrator on the risk assessment methodology used by EPA to determine response standards for contaminants in soil and groundwater and improvements in such methodology. Directs the Administrator to promulgate numerical response standards for:  (1) soil and groundwater that are protective of human health and the environment for a minimum of the 100 hazardous substances which are most commonly found at facilities subject to this Act; (2) soils on residential, commercial, and industrial property; and (3) groundwater which can be expected to serve as a source of public drinking water.  Requires all voluntary responses, pending promulgation of such standards, to attain response standards derived on a site-specific, case-by-case basis.  Lists satisfactory alternate response standards. Provides that:  (1) no Federal, State, or local permit shall be required for voluntary responses; and (2) performance of a response shall not constitute an admission of liability or be admissible as evidence in citizens' suits or private actions. Authorizes the Administrator to require additional response actions only if:  (1) the voluntary response has not been substantially completed; or (2) there is new information that was not available at the time of response action plan approval that would have justified the application of substantially different conditions at the time of approval. Prescribes penalties for failures to comply with response plan conditions. Deems voluntary responses to be in compliance with specified Federal environmental laws and provides that further response action shall not be required for matters addressed in a voluntary response plan.",2025-08-26T15:14:27Z,
102-hr-6200,102,hr,6200,National Child Protection Act of 1991,Crime and Law Enforcement,1992-10-06,1992-10-09,Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights.,House,"Rep. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY-10]",NY,D,S000148,0,"Title I:  Child Protection - National Child Protection Act of 1991 - Establishes a national criminal background check system to which a designated criminal justice agency in each State is required to report or index child abuse crime information, for purposes of background checks of child care providers. Directs the Attorney General to establish:  (1) guidelines for the reporting or indexing of such information; and (2) timetables for each State to provide such information to such system (with a three-year deadline for all States to be reporting at a specified level of currency). Requires State agencies to maintain close liason for the exchange of technical assistance in cases of child abuse with the National Centers:  (1) on Child Abuse and Neglect; (2) for Missing and Exploited Children; and (3) for the Prosecution of Child Abuse. Directs the Attorney General to publish annually:  (1) a statistical summary of the child abuse crime information reported under this Act; and (2) a summary of each State's progress in reporting child abuse crime information to the national criminal background check system. Requires the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to conduct a study to determine various factors relating to potential child abuse crimes and offenders, based on a statistically significant sample of convicted child abuse offenders and other relevant information.  Requires a report on such study to be submitted to specified congressional committee officials. Provides for background check procedures.  Allows entities that provide child care or child care placement services (including business or organizations that license or certify others to provide such services) to request State agencies to review State and Federal records through the national system to determine if a child care provider is under indictment for, or has been convicted of, a background check crime.  (Defines ""provider"" as one who is now or seeks to be:  (1) employed by, or a volunteer with, a qualified entity; (2) an owner or operator of a qualified entity; or (3) having unsupervised access to any child to whom the qualified entity provides child care.) Directs the Attorney General to establish guidelines for such State background check procedures, permitting equivalent procedures under specified conditions.  Authorizes the Attorney General to prescribe by regulation any other measures necessary to carry out this Act.  Directs the Attorney General to encourage use of the best technology available in conducting background checks. Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide for use of certain formula grants to improve State record systems and the sharing of records of child abuse crime information to implement this Act. Directs the Attorney General to make additional grants to States to improve specified aspects of the child abuse crime information system, subject to appropriations and with preference to States having the lowest percent currency of case dispositions in computerized criminal history files.  Authorizes appropriations for such additional grants. Authorizes the Attorney General, beginning one year after enactment of this Act, for a fiscal year to reduce by up to 25 percent the amount allocated that exceeds the allocation to a State for fiscal year 1993 under title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 if the State is not in compliance with the child abuse crime information timetable established for it under this Act.",2025-08-26T15:16:53Z,
102-hr-6201,102,hr,6201,Biden-Thurmond Justice Improvements Act,Crime and Law Enforcement,1992-10-06,1992-12-22,Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY-10]",NY,D,S000148,0,"Title I:  Child Protection - National Child Protection Act of 1992 - Establishes a national criminal background check system (system) to which a designated agency in each State is required to report child abuse crime information, or index such information in the system, for purposes of background checks of child care providers. Directs the Attorney General to establish:  (1) guidelines for the reporting of such information; and (2) timetables for each State to report such information to the system (with a three-year deadline for all States to be reporting at a specified level of currency). Requires State agencies to maintain close liaison for the exchange of technical assistance in cases of child abuse with the National Center:  (1) on Child Abuse and Neglect; (2) for Missing and Exploited Children; and (3) for the Prosecution of Child Abuse. Directs the Attorney General to publish annually:  (1) a statistical summary of the child abuse crime information reported under this title; and (2) a summary of each State's progress in reporting child abuse crime information to the system. Requires the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to conduct a study to determine various factors relating to potential child abuse crimes and offenders, based on a statistically significant sample of convicted child abuse offenders and other relevant information.  Requires a report on such study to be submitted to specified congressional committee officials. Authorizes a State to have in effect procedures to permit a qualified entity (i.e., a business or organization that provides child care or child care placement services, or that certifies others to provide such care or services) to contact a State agency to request a nationwide background check to determine if a child care provider is under indictment for, or has been convicted of, a background check crime. Directs the Attorney General to establish:  (1) guidelines for State background check procedures, but permits the Attorney General to certify that a State procedure is equivalent to that under this title under specified circumstances; and (2) criteria for such certifications. Authorizes the Attorney General to:  (1) prescribe such other measures as may be required to carry out the purposes of this title; and (2) encourage the use of the best technology available in conducting background checks. Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Omnibus Act) to provide for the use of drug control and system improvement grants for the improvement of State record systems and the sharing of records of child abuse crime information to implement this title. Directs the Attorney General, subject to appropriations and with preference to States that have the lowest percent currency of case dispositions in computerized criminal history files, to make additional grants to each State to be used, for purposes of this title:  (1) for the computerization of criminal history files; (2) for the improvement of existing computerized criminal history files; (3) to improve accessibility to the system; and (4) to assist the State in the transmittal of criminal records to, or the indexing of criminal history records in, the system. Authorizes:  (1) appropriations; and (2) the withholding of a portion of the allocation for a fiscal year under the Omnibus Act to a State that is not in compliance with the timetable established under this title. Title II:  Notification of Release of Prisoners - Requires the Bureau of Prisons,  at least five days prior to the release of a prisoner convicted of a drug trafficking crime or crime of violence on supervised release (or, in the case of a prisoner on supervised release, at least five days prior to the date on which the prisoner changes residence to a new jurisdiction), to provide written notice of the release (or change of residence) to the chief law enforcement officer of the State and of the local jurisdiction in which the prisoner will reside, with exceptions. Specifies that, in the case of a prisoner convicted of an offense committed prior to November 1, 1987, the reference to supervised release in such provision shall be deemed to be a reference to probation or parole. Title III:  Bail Posting Reporting - Illegal Drug Profits Act of 1991 - Requires each clerk of a Federal or State criminal court to: (1) report to the Internal Revenue Service the name and taxpayer identification number of any individual charged with a criminal offense who posts cash bail, or on whose behalf cash bail is posted, in an amount exceeding $10,000, and any individual or entity posting such cash bail for or on behalf of such individual; and (2) submit a copy of each report of cash bail to the offices of the U.S. Attorney and of the local prosecuting attorney for the jurisdiction in which the defendant resides (and the jurisdiction in which the criminal offense occurred, if different). Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to promulgate such regulations as are necessary within 90 days of the enactment of this Act. Title IV:  Insurance Fraud - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for persons engaged in the business of insurance whose activities affect commerce, who:  (1) knowingly make a materially false statement or report or willfully overvalue land, property, or security in connection with reports or documents presented to an insurance regulatory official or agency, or to any agent or examiner (official) appointed to examine the affairs of such person for the purpose of influencing in any way the actions of such official; (2) willfully embezzle or misappropriate funds or property while acting as an officer, director, agent, or employee (officer) of such person; (3) knowingly make a false entry of material fact in any book, report, or statement of such person with intent to deceive any person, or to deceive any officer of such person or any insurance regulatory official, about the financial condition or solvency of such business; and (4) by threats or force, corruptly influences, obstructs, or endeavors corruptly to influence or obstruct the proper administration of the law under which a proceeding (involving the business of insurance whose activities affect interstate commerce) is pending before an insurance regulatory official to examine the affairs of such person. Authorizes the Attorney General to seek civil penalties and injunctions for violations of this title. Sets penalties for obstructing criminal investigations with respect to the prosecution of cases of insurance fraud. Title V:  Art Theft - Establishes penalties for the theft of major art works from museums. Title VI:  Trafficking in Counterfeit Goods - Increases penalties for trafficking in counterfeit goods and services. Title VII:  Crime Victims - Victims' Rights and Restitution Act of 1992 - Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984, as amended, to eliminate the cap on the crime victims fund. Title VIII:  Sentencing Provisions - Amends the Federal criminal code to allow the court, in determining the sentence to be imposed in the case of a violation of probation or supervised release, to consider guidelines or policy statements issued by the Sentencing Commission. Authorizes the court to resentence a defendant who violates a condition of probation at any time prior to the expiration or termination of the term of probation. Directs the court to revoke:  (1) probation or supervised release and require the defendant to serve a term of imprisonment (with respect to supervised release, up to the maximum authorized) if the court finds the defendant to be in unlawful possession of a controlled substance or firearm or otherwise in violation of a condition of probation or supervised release, or if the defendant refuses to cooperate in drug testing (thereby violating such a condition); and (2) a term of supervised release and require the defendant to serve in prison all or part of the term of release authorized by statute for the offense that resulted in such term, without credit for time previously served on post-release supervision, if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant violated a condition of supervised release, subject to specified limitations. Authorizes the court to include a requirement that the defendant be placed on supervised release after imprisonment when a term of supervised release is revoked and the defendant is required to serve a term of imprisonment less than the maximum authorized.  Specifies that the length of such a term of release shall not exceed that authorized by statute for the offense of which the defendant was convicted, minus any term of imprisonment that was imposed upon revocation of supervised release. Specifies that the power of the court to revoke a term of supervised release for violation of a condition of such release, and to order the defendant to serve a term of imprisonment and, subject to certain limitations, a further term of supervised release, extends beyond the expiration of the term of release for a period reasonably necessary for the adjudication of matters arising before its expiration if, prior to such expiration, a warrant or summons has been issued on the basis of an allegation of such a violation. Title IX:  Sentencing and Magistrates Amendments - Amends the Federal criminal code to:  (1) authorize probation for a petty offense if the defendant has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment at the same time for another such offense; (2) make an exception for petty offenses to the rule (under current law) that a person charged with a misdemeanor may elect to be tried before a judge of the district court for the district in which the offense was committed; (3) authorize the magistrate judge, in a petty offense case involving a juvenile, to exercise all powers granted to the district court; and (4) authorize a magistrate judge who has sentenced a person to a term of supervised release to revoke or modify the term or conditions of such release. Title X:  Attorneys' Fees Reimbursement Act - Amends the Federal judicial code to provide for the reimbursement of attorney's fees for current and former employees of the Department of Justice or the Federal public defender who were the subject of a criminal or disciplinary investigation related to such employee's discharge of official duties, where the investigation resulted in neither disciplinary action nor a criminal indictment against such employee.  Requires the official making the award of reimbursement to make an inquiry into the reasonableness of the sum requested, based on specified guidelines. Title XI:  Precursor Chemicals Act - Chemical Control Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 (Comprehensive Act) to:  (1) replace references to ""listed precursor chemicals"" with ""list I chemicals"" and ""listed essential chemicals"" with ""list II chemicals""; and (2) revise the definition of ""regulated person"" to include individuals who act as brokers or traders for international transactions involving a listed chemical, tableting machine, or encapsulating machine. Redefines ""regulated transaction"" to:  (1) include international transactions which do not involve the importation or exportation of a listed chemical into or out of the United States if a broker or trader located in the United States participates in the transaction; (2) include, in the case of a listed chemical that is contained in a drug that may be marketed or distributed lawfully in the United States under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, transactions involving ephedrine or any other listed chemical which the Attorney General may designate as not subject to exemption after finding that such action would prevent diversion and the total quantity of such chemical included in the transaction equals or exceeds the threshold established for that chemical by the Attorney General; and (3) exclude any transaction in a chemical mixture (current law) which the Attorney General has designated as exempt based on a finding that the mixture is formulated in such a way that it cannot be easily used in the illicit production of a controlled substance and that the listed chemical or chemicals contained in the mixture cannot be readily recovered. Directs the Attorney General to:  (1) remove from exemption a drug or group of drugs (drug) that the Attorney General finds is being diverted to obtain a listed chemical for use in the illicit production of a controlled substance, based on:  the scope, duration, and significance of the diversion; whether the drug is formulated in such a way that it cannot be easily used in such illicit production; and whether the listed chemical can be readily recovered from the drug; and (2) limit the designation of a drug removed from exemption to the most particularly identifiable type of drug for which evidence of diversion exists unless there is evidence, based on the pattern of diversion and other relevant factors, that the diversion will not be limited to that particular drug.  Sets forth procedures, and factors to be considered, with respect to reinstatement of the exemption for particular drug products. Requires every person who manufactures or distributes, or who proposes to engage in the manufacture or distribution of, a list I chemical to obtain annually a registration issued by the Attorney General, with exceptions.  Authorizes and directs the Attorney General to register an applicant to distribute a list I chemical unless he determines that the issuance of such registration is inconsistent with the public interest, taking into consideration the following factors: (1) maintenance by the applicant of effective controls against diversion of listed chemicals into other than legitimate channels; (2) compliance by the applicant with applicable Federal, State, and local law; (3) any prior conviction record of the applicant under Federal or State laws relating to controlled substances or chemicals; (4) any past experience in the manufacture and distribution of chemicals; and (5) such other factors as may be relevant to and consistent with the public health and safety. Makes provisions with respect to:  (1) the denial, revocation, and suspension of registration relating to the manufacture, distribution, or dispensation of controlled substances explicitly applicable to list I chemicals; and (2) persons required to register applicable to importers and exporters of such chemicals. Directs the Attorney General to register an applicant to import or export a list I chemical unless he determines that the issuance of such registration is inconsistent with the public interest.  Specifies that such registration shall not be required for the import or export of certain exempted drug products. Makes it unlawful for a regulated person to distribute, import, or export a list I chemical without the registration required under the Comprehensive Act. Requires each regulated person who manufactures a listed chemical to report annually to the Attorney General information concerning listed chemicals manufactured by such regulated person, with exceptions. Makes a person located in the United States who is a broker or trader for an international transaction in a listed chemical which is a regulated transaction solely because of that person's involvement as a broker or trader with respect to that transaction subject to all of the notification, reporting, record-keeping, and other requirements placed upon exporters of listed chemicals by the Comprehensive Act. Authorizes the Attorney General to:  (1) require that the 15-day notification requirement with respect to the importation and exportation of listed chemicals apply to all exports of a specific listed chemical to a specified country, regardless of the status of certain customers in such country as ""regular customers,"" if the Attorney General finds that such notification is necessary to support effective chemical diversion control programs or is required by treaty or other international agreement to which the United States is a party; and (2) waive the 15-day notification requirement for exports of a specific listed chemical to a specified country, and for the importation of a specific listed chemical, if such notification is not required for effective chemical diversion control, subject to specified requirements. Establishes penalties for:  (1) exporting, or serving as a broker or trader for an international transaction involving, a listed chemical, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the chemical will be used to manufacture a controlled substance in violation of the laws of the country to which the chemical is exported; (2) importing or exporting a listed chemical with intent to evade reporting or record-keeping requirements under the Comprehensive Act by falsely representing to the Attorney General that the importation or exportation qualifies for a waiver of the notification requirement by misrepresenting either the actual country of final destination of the listed chemical or the actual listed chemical being imported or exported; and (3) importing or exporting a listed chemical in violation of provisions regarding persons required to register and regarding brokers and traders for international transactions in listed chemicals that are regulated transactions solely because of such persons' involvement as brokers or traders. Amends list I to add benzaldehyde and nitroethane, and delete D-lysergic acid, N-ethylephedrine, and N-ethylpseudoephedrine. Eliminates ""regular supplier"" status and creates ""regular importer"" status. Modifies the definition of ""controlled premises"" to include places where listed chemicals or records relating to the manufacture, distribution, or disposition of listed chemicals are maintained. Permits officers or employees designated by the Attorney General to inspect, and inventory any stock of, listed chemicals, subject to specified requirements. Makes it a felony for a person who possesses a listed chemical with intent that it be used in the illegal manufacture of a controlled substance to manage the listed chemical or waste from such manufacture other than as required under the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Specifies that, in addition to any penalty that may be imposed for the illegal manufacture, possession, or distribution of a listed chemical or toxic residue of a clandestine laboratory, a person who violates such prohibition shall be assessed costs of the initial cleanup and disposal of the listed chemical and contaminated property and the cost of restoring property damaged by exposure to such chemical. Expands forfeiture provisions to include:  (1) moneys and proceeds traceable to exchanges for listed chemicals; and (2) listed chemicals and drug manufacturing equipment imported, exported, manufactured possessed, distributed, or intended to be distributed, imported, or exported, in violation of specified provisions (currently, felony provisions) of the Comprehensive Act. Title XII:  Restitution Improvement Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize the court, when sentencing a defendant convicted of an offense under the code or under specified provisions of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, to require such defendant to reimburse the victim for necessary child care, transportation, and other expenses related to participation in the investigation or prosecution of, or attendance at proceedings related to, the offense. Title XIII:  Parental Kidnapping - International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for removing a child from, or retaining a child outside, the United States with intent to obstruct the lawful exercise of parental rights. Makes it an affirmative defense that the defendant:  (1) acted within the provisions of a valid court order granting the defendant legal custody or visitation rights, and that such order was obtained pursuant to the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act and was in effect at the time of the offense; (2) was fleeing an incidence or pattern of domestic violence; and (3) had physical custody pursuant to a court order granting legal custody or visitation rights and failed to return the child as a result of circumstances beyond the defendant's control, and the defendant notified or made reasonable attempts to notify the other parent or lawful custodian of the child of such circumstances within 24 hours after the visitation period had expired and returned the child as soon as possible. Expresses the sense of the Congress that, inasmuch as use of the procedures under the Hague Convention of the Civil Aspects of International Parental Child Abduction has resulted in the return of many children, those procedures (where applicable) should be the option of first choice for a parent who seeks the return of a child who has been removed from the parent. Authorizes appropriations to carry out (under the State Justice Institute Act of 1984) national, regional, and in-State training and educational programs dealing with criminal and civil aspects of interstate and international parental child abduction. Title XIV:  Mail Fraud Extension - Extends mail fraud provisions under the Federal criminal code to cover private or commercial interstate carriers.  (Current provisions apply only to frauds perpetrated with respect to matter to be sent or delivered through the U.S. Postal Service.) Title XV:  Forfeiture Audit Requirement - Amends the Federal judicial code to direct the Attorney General to:  (1) require that any State or local law enforcement agency receiving Federal asset forfeiture funds conduct an annual audit detailing the uses and expenses to which the funds were dedicated and the amount used for each use or expense, and report the results to the Attorney General; and (2) include within the Attorney General's report to the Congress all such annual audit reports from State and local law enforcement agencies and a report for such fiscal year describing the administrative and contracting expenses paid from the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund. Title XVI:  Receipt of Stolen Property Amendments - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide that, whenever in the code an element of an offense is that property was embezzled, robbed, stolen, converted, taken, altered, counterfeited, falsely made, forged, or obliterated (stolen) and the defendant knew that the property was of such character, such element may be established by proof that the defendant, after or as a result of an official representation as to the nature of the property, believed the property to be stolen. Title XVII:  Telemarketing Fraud - Consumer Protection Against Credit Card Fraud Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for knowingly and with intent to defraud: (1) effecting transactions with one or more access devices (ADs) issued to another person to receive payment or any other thing of value during any one-year period the aggregate value of which is equal to or greater than $1,000; (2) without the authorization of the issuer of the AD, soliciting a person for the purpose of offering, or selling information regarding or an application to obtain, an AD; or (3) without the authorization of the credit card system member or its agent, causing or arranging for another person to present to the member or its agent for payment evidence or records of transactions made by an AD. Title XVIII:  DNA Testing - DNA Identification Act of 1992 - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the use of drug control and system improvement grants to develop or improve in a forensic laboratory a capability to analyze deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) for identification purposes.  Requires State applications for grant funds to certify, if any part of such grant is to be used to develop or improve a DNA analysis capability in a forensic laboratory, that:  (1) DNA analyses performed at such laboratory will satisfy or exceed then current standards for a quality assurance program for DNA analysis, issued by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (2) DNA samples obtained by, and DNA analyses performed at, such laboratory will be accessible only to criminal justice agencies for law enforcement identification purposes, to any defendant for criminal defense purposes, and if identifiable information is removed, for a population statistics database, for identification research and protocol development purposes, or for quality control purposes; and (3) such laboratory and each analyst performing DNA analyses at such laboratory will undergo, at regular intervals of not to exceed 180 days, external proficiency testing by a DNA proficiency testing program meeting the standards issued under this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Director:  (1) within 180 days, to appoint an advisory board on DNA quality assurance methods; and (2) appoint members of the board from among nominations proposed by the head of the National Academy of Sciences and professional societies of crime laboratory officials. Specifies that the advisory board shall:  (1) include as members scientists from State and local forensic laboratories, molecular geneticists and population geneticists not affiliated with a forensic laboratory, and a representative from the National Institute of Standards and Technology; and (2) develop, and if appropriate, periodically revise recommended standards for quality assurance, including standards for testing the proficiency of forensic laboratories and forensic analysts in conducting analyses of DNA. Requires:  (1) the Director, after taking into consideration such recommended standards, to issue (and periodically revise) standards for quality assurance, including standards for testing the proficiency of forensic laboratories and forensic analysts in conducting DNA analyses; and (2) that such standards specify criteria for quality assurance and proficiency tests to be applied to the various types of DNA analyses used by forensic laboratories and include a system for grading proficiency testing performance to determine whether a laboratory is performing acceptably. Specifies that:  (1) until such time as the advisory board has made recommendations to the Director and such Director has acted upon those recommendations, the quality assurance guidelines adopted by the technical working group on DNA analysis methods shall be deemed the Director's standards for purposes of this subtitle; and (2) the board shall cease to exist five years after the initial appointments are made to the board, unless the existence of the board is extended by the Director of the FBI. Authorizes the Director to establish an index of DNA identification records of persons convicted of crimes, analyses of DNA samples recovered from crime scenes, and analyses of DNA samples recovered from unidentified human remains. Specifies that such index may include only information on DNA identification records and analyses that are:  (1) based on analyses performed in accordance with publicly available standards that satisfy or exceed specified guidelines for the quality assurance program for DNA analysis; (2) prepared by labs and DNA analysts that undergo regular external proficiency testing; and (3) maintained by Federal, State, and local criminal justice agencies pursuant to rules that restrict disclosure of stored DNA samples and analyses. Makes the exchange of DNA identification records subject to cancellation if the quality control and privacy requirements of this Act are not met. Requires:  (1) FBI personnel who perform DNA analyses to undergo, at regular intervals of not to exceed 180 days, external proficiency testing by a DNA proficiency testing program meeting the standards issued pursuant to this Act; and (2) the Director to submit an annual report on the results of such tests to specified congressional committees for five years after the enactment of this Act and arrange for periodic blind external tests to determine the proficiency of DNA analysis performed at the FBI laboratory within one year. Restricts disclosure of DNA tests performed for a Federal law enforcement agency. Sets fines of up to $100,000 for individuals:  (1) having access to individually identifiable DNA information indexed in a database created or maintained by any Federal law enforcement agency by virtue of employment of official position who willfully disclose such information to any person or agency not entitled to receive it; and (2) who, without authorization, willfully obtain DNA samples or such individually identifiable DNA information. Authorizes appropriations. Title XIX:  Torture Convention - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for committing or attempting to commit torture outside the United States.  Grants jurisdiction over such activity if the alleged offender is: (1) a U.S. national; or (2) present in the United States. Makes this title effective on the latter of the date of enactment of this title or the date the United States has become a party to the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Title XX:  Technical Provisions - Declares that all the territorial sea of the United States, as defined by Presidential Proclamation 5928 of December 27, 1988:  (1) is part of the United States, subject to its sovereignty; and (2) for purposes of Federal criminal jurisdiction, is within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States. Sets forth provisions with respect to U.S. jurisdiction over crimes against U.S. nationals on foreign vessels. Establishes criminal penalties for:  (1) receiving the proceeds of extortion or kidnapping; (2) receiving the proceeds of a postal robbery; and (3) attempted robbery, kidnapping, smuggling, and malicious mischief. Title XXI:  Computer Abuse - Computer Abuse Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to make it a felony to knowingly transmit an unauthorized program or code that alters the information stored in a computer with the intent to damage the system or information contained within the affected computer or computer system, or to withhold or deny the use of such system or information, if the transmission:  (1) occurred without the authorization of the person responsible for the computer system receiving the program; and (2) causes damage exceeding $1,000 in any one-year period or modifies or impairs the medical care of one or more individuals.  Makes such offense punishable by a fine and up to five years in prison. Sets forth parallel provisions with respect to recklessly transmitting a destructive computer program or code.  Makes such offense a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine and imprisonment for up to one year. Creates a civil cause of action for compensatory or injunctive relief for persons suffering damage or loss by virtue of a violation of this Act.  Limits damages to economic damages, except for medical records violations.  Sets a statute of limitations of two years from the date of the act complained of, or from the date of discovery of the damage. Requires the Attorney General to report to the Congress annually during the first three years following the date of enactment of this Act concerning prosecutions under this Act. Modifies the prohibition against accessing a Government computer where such conduct affects the use of the Government's operation of such computer to cover only actions that ""adversely"" affect such use. Title XXII:  FBI Subscriber - Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize the Director of the FBI or his designee in a position not lower than Deputy Assistant Director to request:   (1) the name, address, length of service, and toll billing records of a person or entity (person) if the Director (or his designee in a position not less than Deputy Assistant Director) certifies in writing to the wire or electronic communication service provider to which the request is made that such information is relevant to an authorized foreign counterintelligence investigation and that there are specific, articulable facts giving reason to believe that the person to whom the information sought pertains is a foreign power or agent (current law does not specify the type of information sought or the position of the designee, and excludes all that follows); and (2) the name, address, and length of service of a person if the Director (or his designee in a position not lower than Deputy Assistant Director) certifies that the information sought is relevant to an authorized foreign counterintelligence investigation and that there are specific, articulable facts giving reason to believe that communication facilities registered in the name of the person have been used through the services of such provider in communication with an individual who is or has been engaged in international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities, or with a foreign power or agent under circumstances giving reason to believe that the communication concerned international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities, that involve or may involve a violation of U.S. criminal statutes. Requires the Director to report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees with respect to semi-annual reports concerning requests for information under such provision.",2025-08-26T15:18:04Z,
102-hr-6202,102,hr,6202,Medicaid and Department of Veterans Affairs Drug Rebate Amendments of 1992,Health,1992-10-06,1992-11-20,Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Slattery, Jim [D-KS-2]",KS,D,S000477,0,"Medicaid and Department of Veterans Affairs Drug Rebate Amendments of 1992 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to exclude the prices charged for prescription drugs purchased by the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, the Indian and Public Health Services, or certain federally-funded clinics and public or private nonprofit hospitals from the calculation of best price procurement for purposes of application of Medicaid rebate agreements. Requires an agreement between the Secretary of Health and Human Services and a covered drug manufacturer limiting the purchase price of drugs procured by covered entities (the federally-funded clinics and public or private nonprofit hospitals referred to above). Provides that if the Secretary does not establish a certain mechanism under the Public Health Service Act below:  (1) each covered entity must inform the applicable State agency when it seeks reimbursement under Medicaid for covered drugs subject to an agreement (described below); and (2) such State agency must provide a means by which the entity must indicate on any claims form that the drug is subject to such agreement, and not submit to any manufacturer a claim for a rebate payment under Medicaid. Outlines requirements relating to master agreements for drugs procured by the Department of Veterans Affairs and certain other Federal agencies. Revises provisions respecting rebate agreement termination. Provides a new determination of the basic Medicaid rebate for single source and innovator multiple source drugs for specified calendar quarters beginning after September 30, 1992. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress specified information relating to Medicaid best price changes and rebate payments.  Prohibits such reports from containing information or any prescription drug unless the Secretary finds that expenditures for the drug are significant expenditures under the Medicaid drug purchase and rebate program. Amends the Public Health Service Act to require an agreement between the Secretary and a covered drug manufacturer limiting the purchase price of drugs procured by covered entities (the federally-funded clinics and public and private nonprofit hospitals referred to above). Requires covered entities, in order to receive reduced prices, to: (1) take certain steps to avoid duplicative discounts or rebates; (2) refrain from reselling such purchased drug to a person who is not a patient of such entity; and (3) permit audits of records in order to determine agreement compliance.  Makes covered entities liable to the manufacturer for the full amount of any reduced price if the Secretary determines agreement noncompliance on the entity's part. Requires the Secretary to:  (1) establish a mechanism to ensure that covered entities comply with item (1) in the list above; (2) develop a process for the certification of certain covered entities; (3) establish a prime vendor program under which covered entities may enter into contracts with prime vendors for the distribution of covered outpatient drugs; and (4) notify covered drug manufacturers and single State agencies of the identities of covered entities. Requires the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on whether to include certain clinics as covered entities eligible for prescription drug discounts. Amends Federal veterans' benefit law to require agreements between the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and covered drug manufacturers limiting the purchase price of drugs procured by the Department of Veterans Affairs and certain other Federal agencies.  Provides for additional discounts for covered drugs purchased under the depot contracting system or listed on the Federal Supply Schedule.  Requires certain manufacturer reports to the Secretary on drug prices. Authorizes the Secretary to audit relevant manufacturer or wholesaler records.  Requires the Secretary to supply to the HHS Secretary the name of the manufacturer upon the execution or termination of any master agreement and, on a quarterly basis, a list of manufacturers who have entered into such agreements.",2025-08-26T15:18:25Z,
102-hr-6203,102,hr,6203,To extend supplemental security income benefits to all otherwise eligible children of military personnel stationed overseas.,Social Welfare,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.,House,"Rep. Slattery, Jim [D-KS-2]",KS,D,S000477,0,Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to extend supplemental security income benefits to all otherwise eligible children of military personnel stationed overseas.,2024-02-07T16:32:33Z,
102-hr-6204,102,hr,6204,To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to allow an adult from each family applying for aid to families with dependent children to attest to the citizenship status of the members of the family.,Social Welfare,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.,House,"Rep. Slattery, Jim [D-KS-2]",KS,D,S000477,0,Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to allow an adult from each family applying for benefits under part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act to attest to the citizenship status of other members of the family.,2024-02-07T16:32:33Z,
102-hr-6205,102,hr,6205,To restore Federal services to the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians.,Native Americans,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Referred to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.,House,"Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-4]",MI,R,U000031,1,"Affirms Federal recognition of, and provides Federal services to, the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians. States that the Band's service area shall consist of specified counties in Michigan and Indiana.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
102-hr-6206,102,hr,6206,Community Credit Improvement Act of 1992,Finance and Financial Sector,1992-10-06,1992-10-07,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions Supervision, Regulation and Insurance.",House,"Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-29]",CA,D,W000187,0,"Community Credit Improvement Act of 1992 - Title I:  Community Credit Availability Improvements - Amends the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (CRA) to direct the appropriate Federal financial supervisory agencies to jointly develop a format for collecting data from regulated financial institutions in connection with examinations of their record of meeting the credit needs of their local communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. Includes the following among the data required:  (1) home mortgage lending; (2) small business lending; (3) community development; (4) consumer loans; and (5) branch closures. Prescribes guidelines under which the appropriate Federal financial supervisory agencies, as part of their written evaluations of the institutions under their purview, must actively solicit comments from affected community members, with particular emphasis upon low- and moderate-income and minority residents. Amends the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975 to include among the required public disclosures of depository institutions located in specified metropolitan statistical areas the number and total dollar amount by census tract of small business loans and of personal loans to consumers. Amends the CRA to require financial institutions to be rated on the adequacy of their record of meeting community credit needs.  Precludes such institutions from receiving a rating unless they have actually extended significant amounts of credit in low-income neighborhoods, and not merely been in compliance with a plan for extending such credit in the future. Title II:  Community Support Requirements - Sets forth certain community support requirements for private mortgage insurance companies, including a biennial report to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (the Secretary) on the availability of, and underwriting guidelines for, mortgage insurance policies for low- and moderate-income families within those areas in which the companies write a significant number of mortgage insurance policies. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Department of Housing and Urban Development the Office of Private Mortgage Insurance Company Oversight to conduct biennial community support reviews of private mortgage insurance companies. Title III:  Pattern or Practice - Amends the CRA to require the appropriate Federal financial supervisory agency to deny an application for a deposit facility by a regulated financial institution if the institution has exhibited a pattern or practice of opening or closing branches in a way that tends to exclude low- and moderate-income or minority communities.",2025-08-26T15:14:34Z,
102-hr-6207,102,hr,6207,To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish limitations on debt collection practices under that Act.,Education,1992-10-06,1992-10-09,Referred to the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education.,House,"Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-29]",CA,D,W000187,0,"Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish limitations on debt collection practices under HEA. Prohibits garnishment or other actions to collect on defaulted student loans unless the net income of the borrower and spouse (including any cash benefits received under a needs-based government assistance program) exceeds 150 percent of the poverty level for the relevant family size.  Sets other procedural requirements for garnishments and for tax refund intercepts to collect such debts. Requires eligible lenders or loan servicing agents to provide student borrowers with information about their rights to forbearance or deferment.  Provides for cure of delinquency and cessation of collection activity if a borrower eligible for forbearance or deferment was not adequately informed of his or her right to apply or was not given assistance in completing the application.  Provides for removal from default status if the borrower is granted a forbearance or deferment. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to discharge the student borrower's liability and repay the loan in cases of where the institution has engaged in fraud, misrepresentation, or any violation of State or Federal law in connection with soliciting, offering, contracting for, or providing instruction. Subjects lenders, guaranty agencies, and any other persons involved in collecting a student loan under title IV of HEA to the same due process requirements that would apply to the Secretary if the Secretary were collecting the loan.",2025-07-21T19:44:15Z,
102-hr-6208,102,hr,6208,Women in Enterprise Development Act of 1992,International Affairs,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.,House,"Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-29]",CA,D,W000187,0,"Women in Enterprise Development Act of 1992 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to direct the Administrator of the Agency for International Development to implement a Women in Enterprise Development Program.  Requires the program to provide funding and support for projects having the following three components: (1) financial assistance to women to support the creation of businesses in which women can participate, foster investment in businesses owned by women, and enable women to further their education; (2) assistance to support efforts of educational institutions to encourage participation by women and prepare them for involvement in government and businesses; and (3) assistance to support local resource centers which offer courses, workshops, career counseling, and information to women interested in business or government careers. Urges the Administrator to use at least ten percent of funding made available for assistance for micro-enterprise development.",2025-08-26T15:15:02Z,
102-hr-6209,102,hr,6209,Impoverished Families Quality Service Act of 1992,Social Welfare,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.,House,"Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-29]",CA,D,W000187,0,Impoverished Families Quality Service Act of 1992 - Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to:  (1) provide for expeditious replacement of lost or stolen AFDC benefit checks; (2) provide for supplemental payment of AFDC benefits for families subject to retrospective budgeting with suddenly reduced income; (3) revise provisions respecting aid to pregnant women; (4) change the period during which families are ineligible for AFDC benefits as a result of excess income; (5) place a limitation on waivers of SSA title IV requirements for certain demonstration projects; and (6) require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to contract with the National Academy of Sciences for the evaluation of the personal conduct of State employees toward AFDC applicants and recipients.,2025-08-26T15:15:35Z,
102-hr-6210,102,hr,6210,Comprehensive Services for Youth Act of 1992,Families,1992-10-06,1992-11-20,Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-29]",CA,D,W000187,0,"Comprehensive Services for Youth Act of 1992 - Title I: School-Based or School-Linked Health and Social Services Center Grants - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) (the Secretary), acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (the Administrator), to award grants to eligible local community partnerships to coordinate and deliver comprehensive education, health, and social services to children or youth in school-based, school-linked, or community-based locations. Requires each such partnership to include:  (1) a local health care provider with experience in delivering services to adolescents; (2) one or more local public schools; and (3) at least one community-based organization with a history of providing services to at-risk youth in the particular community.  Requires broad-based community participation, through an expanded partnership or an advisory board, involving parents and youth to be served, teachers and other public school and school board personnel, community-based organizations (particularly those serving minority youth), youth development and service organizations and interested business leaders.  Requires targeting of the partnership's location and service to a community in which youth are exposed to a high risk environment.  Describes high risk environment as having high rates of: (1) children in poverty or lacking access to health care; (2) dropouts and students retained in grade; (3) alcohol or drug abuse; (4) sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV); (5) teen pregnancy; (6) suicide; (7) community or gang violence; (8) youth unemployment; or (9) juvenile justice involvement. Requires partnership use of grant funds for coordination and delivery of specified core services at a school-based, school-linked, or community-based location or locations accessible to and used by at-risk children, youth, and their families.  Sets forth such core services under the categories of:  (1) comprehensive health, mental health, and social services; and (2) youth development and life planning services.  Requires coordination among core services.  Allows use of grant funds for coordination or co-location of core services with additional services identified in the comprehensive plan to enhance support available through the partnership service delivery network. Gives priority to grant applicants whose comprehensive services plan demonstrates:  (1) continuity of access to core services on a year-round basis or beyond traditional school or service hours, either on site or through a backup referral system of community-based providers; and (2) the offer of services beyond the in-school population, including core services to out-of-school youth, to the extent practicable.  Provides for an initial three-year grant period, and authorizes two-year extensions upon demonstration of substantial progress in integration of comprehensive services and improvement in health and education outcomes of the populations served.  Sets forth application and plan requirements.  Requires equitable geographic distribution of grants to both urban and rural communities.  Sets minimum and maximum grant amounts. Sets forth provisions for Federal share, non-Federal share, and waivers of the latter.  Requires grantees to use ten percent of such assistance to provide staff training (including teachers and school personnel) and to secure necessary technical assistance (through local community-based entities, to the maximum extent feasible). Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Administration, to award one-year nonrenewable planning grants to eligible entities that agree to establish a local community partnership to deliver comprehensive services.  Sets forth application requirements.  Requires use of such planning grants for:  (1) assessments of needs and barriers to services; (2) delivery planning and coordination of services; and (3) development of program goals and progress measurements.  Limits to ten percent the portion of grant program funds which may be used for such planning grants.  Limits the maximum amount of each planning grant. Title II:  State and Local Coordinated Youth Services Grants - Subtitle A:  Local Consortia Grants - Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to award grants to eligible consortia to coordinate and deliver comprehensive core education, health, and social services to at-risk youth through an integrated service delivery network directed by a consortium. Requires such consortia membership to include representatives from the local health department, local educational agency, health and social services providers and community-based organizations with a history of serving at-risk youth (including minority youth, dropouts, adolescent parents, and runaway or homeless youth), youth development organizations, juvenile justice personnel, and parents and the at-risk youth to be served.  Requires specified financial or organizational commitments by consortium members. Subtitle B:  Statewide Youth Services Center Grants - Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to award grants to eligible States to provide for coordination and delivery of comprehensive education, health, and social services to at-risk youth through the award of State grants to local community partnerships or consortia.  Requires States, to be eligible for such grants, to:  (1) provide assurances of cooperative agreements among State education, health, and social services agencies concerning planned delivery of such comprehensive youth services; (2) demonstrate financial and organizational commitments; (3) currently support coordinated delivery of such services through a system of school-based, school-linked, or community-based comprehensive youth services centers; (4) document that services are prioritized among communities that have a high-risk environment for youth, as indicated by specified factors; and (5) meet certain application requirements. Subtitle C:  Provisions Relating to Both Local and Statewide Grant Programs - Sets forth requirements for applications and use of grant funds for a consortium or State entity awarded a grant under subtitle A or B.  Requires coordination and delivery of specified core services through a system of school-based, school-linked, or community-based youth centers to serve in-school and out-of-school youth and their families.  Sets forth such core services under the categories of:  (1) comprehensive health, mental health, and social services; and (2) youth development and life planning services. Requires coordination and co-location of delivery of existing core services into a broader system of health and social services centers accessible to in-school or out-of-school youth to use available resources more effectively before adding new resources or developing new services.  Requires provision of outreach services to out-of-school youth (including adolescent parents and runaway and homeless youth), and coordination of core services with alternative education and job training and placement opportunities for such youth.  Allows use of grant funds for:  (1) coordination and co-location of core services with additional services to enhance the support available to at-risk youth and their families through the service delivery network; and (2) expansion of coordination and delivery of core services to the feeder elementary schools whose students will attend secondary schools currently providing core services. Sets forth grant application and plan formulation and content requirements.  Provides for an initial three-year grant period, and authorizes two-year extensions upon demonstration of substantial progress in integration of comprehensive services and improvement in health and education outcomes of the youth served. Provides for an integration incentive.  Authorizes the Secretary, in making a grant under this title, to make bonus amounts available as integration incentives.  Specifies forumulae for such bonuses. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to award one-year nonrenewable planning grants to consortia or States. Sets forth application requirements.  Requires the use of such funds to:  (1) establish an administrative mechanism to develop and implement a citywide, countywide, or statewide system of school-based, school-linked, or community-based comprehensive youth services centers; (2) assess needs and barriers to services; (3) develop program goals and progress measurements; and (4) develop a strategic plan for coordination and delivery of comprehensive services to youth at school-based, school-linked, or community-based locations.  Limits to ten percent the portion of grant program funds which may be used for such planning grants.  Limits the maximum amount of each planning grant. Title III:  Implementation Provisions - Makes ineligible for title I funds any community that:  (1) is currently receiving State funds to deliver co-located education, health, and social services; or (2) will receive funding from a State funded under subtitle B of title II.  Allows such a currently funded community partnership to form a consortium to seek funding for an expanded citywide or countywide youth services network under subtitle A of title II. Requires a local consortium operating in a locality receiving State funding for delivery of such co-located services to include participation from the entities receiving such State funding.  Makes eligible for continued funding, at the completion of its five-year grant period under title I, a partnership that has expanded into a citywide or countywide consortium (as described under subtitle A of title II) or has become part of a statewide network (as described under subtitle B of title II). Directs the Secretary to consult with the Secretary of Education in developing program regulations to implement this Act. Directs the Secretary to disseminate information on programs under this Act and on successful and model programs and to provide technical assistance. Requires such information and assistance to be provided directly through the Health Resources and Services Administration as the administering agency and other Department of HHS agencies with appropriate expertise, or through grants and contracts with nonprofit organizations.  Requires the Secretary to collaborate with the Departments of Education and Labor and the Commission on National and Community Service, in such information and technical assistance efforts. Sets forth annual reporting requirements for entities receiving funds under this Act, including analyses of progress at the end of the third year.  Sets forth maintenance-of-effort requirements. Authorizes appropriations for titles I and II and for special projects of national significance under title IV. Title IV:  Federal Coordinated Youth Services Initiatives - Directs the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to establish and administer a special projects of national significance program to award direct grants to public and nonprofit private entities to fund model programs to integrate health and social services, including HIV prevention, provided to special populations of youth at risk. Bases grant awards on:  (1) need to provide such services to such subpopulations; (2) need to assess effectiveness of a prevention or service model or collaboration strategy; and (3) potential replicability of proposed activities in other localities.  Allows such special projects to include projects targeting youth who are:  (1) runaway, homeless, or street youth; (2) immigrants or migrants; (3) in the juvenile justice system; (4) in foster care; (5) in gangs; (6) with a history of substance abuse; (7) with HIV disease; (8) adolescent parents; and (9) Native American. Amends the Augustus F. Hawkins Human Resources Reauthorization Act of 1990 to direct the Federal Council on Children, Youth, and Families to:  (1) identify (and make recommendations to modify or eliminate) program regulations or practices that impede coordination and collaboration; (2) develop recommendations for creating jointly funded programs, unified assessments, eligibility, application procedures, and confidentiality regulations that facilitate information-sharing; and (3) make recommendations to the Congress on legislative action needed to facilitate coordination of educational, health, and social services for in-school and out-of-school youth. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress:  (1) biannual summaries of annual grantee reports and progress assessments; and (2) a final evaluation report within four and a half years. Directs the Secretary to use the amount made available under specified provisions of the Public Health Service Act to conduct such evaluation. Title V:  Grants to Cities to Provide Education, Employment, Recreation, Social, and Cultural Awareness Assistance to At-Risk Youth - Directs the Secretary, to make grants to not more than ten selected cities to assist them to establish and operate teen resource and education centers to provide education, employment, recreation, social, and cultural awareness assistance to at-risk youth. Authorizes the Secretary to make such grants to a city if it applies and agrees to operate at least two such centers. Requires such centers to offer for at-risk youth:  (1) educational assistance, including information on institutions of higher education, assistance with financial aid applications and scholarship search, and preparatory courses for high school equivalency and college entrance examinations; (2) employment and skills training, including hiring teen peer counselors to provide basic job skills training, job referral services, and job banks; (3) recreational opportunities, such as sports teams, neighborhood gardening and food distribution, and reading programs; (4) social skills development, including hiring adult counselors and providing support groups for counseling on social and personal issues; and (5) cultural awareness programs, such as classes in the history and culture of various cultural groups and productions of plays, stories, and artwork reflecting the cultural heritage of such youth.  Requires such centers to provide financial assistance to college graduates who work full-time at the center to assist them to repay part of their student loan debt. Sets forth grant selection and allocation requirements. Requires city reports to the Secretary on their use of the grant, and interim and final reports by the Secretary to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:15:38Z,
102-hres-609,102,hres,609,"Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 11) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for the establishment of tax enterprise zones, and for other purposes, and against the consideration of such conference report.",Congress,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.,House,"Rep. Moakley, John Joseph [D-MA-9]",MA,D,M000834,0,Waives points of order against the consideration of the conference report on H.R. 11 (tax legislation).,2024-02-07T14:47:33Z,
102-hres-610,102,hres,610,To provide for the consideration of the Senate amendment to H.R. 2130.,Congress,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,"The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H. Res. 610.",House,"Rep. Studds, Gerry E. [D-MA-10]",MA,D,S001040,0,Considers H.R. 2130 (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration authorization) to be taken from the Speaker's table and the Senate amendment agreed to with amendments.,2021-06-02T14:00:37Z,
102-hres-611,102,hres,611,Providing for the printing of a revised edition of the Rules and Manual of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Third Congress.,Congress,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.,House,"Rep. Gephardt, Richard A. [D-MO-3]",MO,D,G000132,0,Provides for the printing of a revised edition of the Rules and Manual of the House of Representatives for the 103d Congress as a House document.,2021-06-02T14:00:37Z,
102-hres-612,102,hres,612,Relating to early organization of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Third Congress.,Congress,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.,House,"Rep. Gephardt, Richard A. [D-MO-3]",MO,D,G000132,0,"Authorizes any organizational caucus or conference in the House of Representatives for the 103d Congress to begin on or after December 7, 1992.",2021-06-02T14:00:37Z,
102-s-3351,102,s,3351,A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to defer estate taxes on family farms and businesses.,Taxation,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.,Senate,"Sen. Breaux, John B. [D-LA]",LA,D,B000780,0,"Amends the Internal Revenue Code to defer estate taxes on small family farms and businesses worth less than $50 million until six months after:  (1) the disposition of 40 percent or more of the value of the farm or business to nonfamily members; (2) the disposition of 60 percent or more of the farm or business to a family member who is not a qualified heir; (3) the management or control of such assets belongs to a nonfamily member for 270 consecutive days or longer; or (4) the cessation of the use of the assets in a qualified farm, trade, or business. Limits such estate taxes to the present value of the assets.",2025-01-14T18:59:41Z,
102-s-3352,102,s,3352,Environmental Innovation Research Act of 1992,Environmental Protection,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT]",CT,D,L000304,0,"Environmental Innovation Research Act of 1992 - Establishes an Office for the Development of Critical Environmental Technology in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Requires the EPA Administrator, acting through the Office Director, to:  (1) carry out a critical environmental technology research program; and (2) conduct an environmental innovation research program. Requires the heads of covered Federal agencies (agencies for which more than $50,000,000 per fiscal year is made available for environmental research and development or cleanup) to establish research programs for the commercialization of critical environmental technology to:  (1) further the progress of cleanup and pollution prevention activities; and (2) avoid future pollution and cleanup problems.  Directs such agencies to set aside funding for such programs.  Sets forth phases of such programs and authorizes agreements with private businesses to carry out such research. Requires the Office Director to compile an annotated list of critical environmental technologies and provide for periodic list updates. Establishes a Critical Environmental Technology Task Force to coordinate the distribution of critical environmental technology and data, review research proposals, and ensure complementary research efforts. Directs the heads of covered Federal agencies to report annually to the Director on funding agreements under the environmental technology program and the percentage of successful commercialization efforts in critical environmental technology. Requires the Administrator to promulgate guidelines for Federal environmental innovation research programs. Directs the Administrator to survey and monitor all phases of the research programs of covered agencies. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:13:41Z,
102-s-3353,102,s,3353,A bill to amend section 848 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that certain noncancellable accident and health insurance policies of small insurance companies be treated in the same manner as group life insurance contracts.,Taxation,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.,Senate,"Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]",PA,R,S000709,0,Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for treating qualified accident and health insurance contracts of small insurance companies in the same manner as group life insurance contracts for purposes of capitalization of certain policy acquisition expenses.,2025-01-14T18:59:41Z,
102-s-3354,102,s,3354,"A bill entitled ""The Private Sector Whistleblowers' Protection Act of 1992"".",Government Operations and Politics,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. Wallop, Malcolm [R-WY]",WY,R,W000092,0,"Provides persons subject to regulatory action with protection against reprisal for disclosing agency waste, mismanagement, abuse of authority, or other prohibited regulatory practices.",2025-01-14T19:03:55Z,
102-s-3355,102,s,3355,"A bill to amend chapter 6 of title 5, United States Code, relating to regulatory flexibility analysis.",Government Operations and Politics,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. Wallop, Malcolm [R-WY]",WY,R,W000092,0,"Amends the Regulatory Flexibility Act to provide for:  (1) judicial review of certain administrative certification decisions; and (2) regulatory flexibility analysis of Internal Revenue Service rules. Defines ""impact"" to mean the effects of a proposed or final rule which an agency can anticipate at the time of publication and includes the effects imposed by such rule.",2025-01-14T19:03:55Z,
102-s-3356,102,s,3356,Employment Dispute Resolution Act of 1992,"Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues",1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Danforth, John C. [R-MO]",MO,R,D000030,0,"Employment Dispute Resolution Act of 1992 - Amends title VII (Equal Employment Opportunities) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to provide for pre-litigation mediation by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) or another mediator.  Prohibits suit while mediation is pending.  Sets forth procedures and requirements. Amends Federal law to provide for pre-suit mediation, by the FMCS or another mediator, of disputes involving enforcement of employment-related contracts under provisions relating to equal rights under the law. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:13:52Z,
102-s-3357,102,s,3357,Punitive Damages Reform Act of 1992,Law,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.,Senate,"Sen. Danforth, John C. [R-MO]",MO,R,D000030,0,"Punitive Damages Reform Act of 1992 - Prohibits the award of punitive damages for any claim that arises under Federal law or that involves commerce within Federal jurisdiction, with respect to which a punitive fine is sought. Authorizes a court to assess a punitive fine with respect to a claim for which punitive damages were previously available, subject to the following requirements:  (1) the plaintiff must plead that a punitive fine is sought; and (2) a prayer for such a fine shall be stricken prior to trial unless the plaintiff presents to the court, at least 30 days prior to trial, prima facie evidence sufficient to sustain the assessment of such a fine. Prohibits the assessment of a punitive fine unless:  (1) the court finds that punishment and deterrence are warranted by the facts and circumstances of the case; (2) the plaintiff establishes by clear and convincing evidence that, relative to the act or omission on which the claim is based, the defendant (or, under specified circumstances, the defendant's agent) acted with malice; (3) the plaintiff establishes by clear and convincing evidence all other facts necessary to support the assessment of such a fine; and (4) economic damages, noneconomic damages, or a combination thereof, in excess of nominal damages, are awarded with respect to such claim. Requires:  (1) the court to determine the liability of a defendant for a punitive fine unless the question of liability for punitive damages on a claim with respect to which the punitive fine is sought is one that was required to be referred to a jury prior to this Act's enactment, in which case the question shall be decided by a jury; and (2) any such jury to answer a special interrogatory as to whether the plaintiff has shown by clear and convincing evidence that the act or omission of the defendant on which the claim is based was performed with malice rather than being performed through mere negligence or gross negligence. Sets forth factors to be considered in determining the amount of a punitive fine to be assessed.  Directs that the amount of such fine be sufficient to punish the defendant for the defendant's past conduct on which the claim is based and to deter the defendant and others from engaging in similar conduct in the future. Requires that, at the request of any party, a claim governed by this Act that is tried before a jury be conducted in a bifurcated trial (according to specified guidelines), before the same jury in both phases, unless a party demonstrates that the interest of avoiding the additional time and expense of conducting a bifurcated trial significantly outweighs the benefits of fairness to the requesting party in conducting a bifurcated trial. Specifies that:  (1) when such a claim is brought against more than one defendant, a punitive fine shall be assessed against each defendant specifically, and each defendant shall be liable only for the amount of the assessment made against that defendant; and (2) the amounts of such fines assessed against each defendant shall be based on their relative degrees of culpability. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed to create any claim for punitive damages or a punitive fine for which punitive damages were not available prior to this Act's enactment.",2025-08-26T15:14:20Z,
102-s-3358,102,s,3358,"A bill to limit the amount of funds that may be used for administrative expenses under chapter 1 of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, to conduct a study regarding the share of Federal funds used for administrative expenses by State and local recipients under certain Federal education programs, and for other purposes.",Education,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. D'Amato, Alfonse [R-NY]",NY,R,D000018,0,Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to limit the amount of funds which local educational agencies may use for administrative expenses under chapter 1 (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Children) of title I (Basic Programs) of ESEA. Directs the Secretary of Education to conduct a study to determine the actual share of Federal funds used for administrative expenses by State and local recipients of funds under certain Federal programs of assistance for elementary and secondary school education.,2025-04-21T12:24:17Z,
102-s-3359,102,s,3359,Manufacturing Application and Education Network Act of 1992,Commerce,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.,Senate,"Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT]",CT,D,L000304,0,"Manufacturing Application and Education Network Act of 1992 - Requires the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Conservation and Renewable Energy, and the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to comprise a selection committee which shall use competitive procedures to select a managing consortium to establish and administer the operations of the Manufacturing Application and Education Network (Network) Centers established in accordance with this Act.  Outlines criteria for selection of a managing consortium, including having a primary mission of developing and deploying advanced manufacturing technologies and having the capacity to transfer such technologies to other areas.  States that the first consortium so selected shall manage the Network Centers for five years, with each consortium selected thereafter managing such Centers for three years. Requires the consortium selected, with the support of a task force created later under this Act, to establish and oversee the administration of not less than 150 Network Centers within ten years after the date of enactment of this Act.  Requires each consortium to develop a Network propagation plan that shall:  (1) include a plan for the establishment of the Centers nationwide, upon the approval of the consortium; and (2) be based upon economic development and manufacturing profiles submitted to the consortium for approval by each of the 50 States.  Requires:  (1) the consortium to submit to the OSTP Director for distribution to all organizations involved in establishing the Centers a copy of establishment and business plans of each Center, as well as quarterly reports; and (2) the OSTP Director to report to the Senate and House Armed Services and Small Business Committees evaluating the progress and plans of the Network Centers. States that a Network Center may only be established and supported under this Act with the approval of the appropriate selected consortium, in consultation with a representative selected by the Secretary of Defense. Allows a consortium to approve the establishment and support of a Center only if such Center promotes the deployment of innovative and robust technology into U.S. manufacturing companies by conducting activities in:  (1) technology awareness; (2) technology education; (3) technology demonstration; (4) technology application support; and (5) technology advancement support.  Limits the amount of Federal funds authorized to be allocated to each Network Center by the consortium.  Requires each Network Center to enter into a written agreement with the United States to share all information and technology developed by the Center while using Federal funds. Requires the OSTP Director to establish a task force under the auspices of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology.  Requires the task force to:  (1) develop a government-wide plan to utilize the skilled work force of the Federal laboratories to support Network Center operations; (2) develop a streamlined process for Federal agencies to identify and transfer existing Government technologies and equipment that would be of value to the Network; and (3) develop and implement a plan for the OSTP to periodically communicate to all relevant Federal agencies and the Congress concerning the progress being made in Federal programs involving technology transfer.  Requires assistance from certain Federal officials in maximizing export opportunities for small and disadvantaged small business concerns participating in Network Centers. Directs the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Under Secretary for Export Administration, to:  (1) collect sourcing data on existing Federal procurements; (2) analyze such data in order to determine U.S. ability to supply components for critical and enabling technologies to current and future world markets; (3) identify the technologies that are deemed critical to reach full-scale production within a two-year period; and (4) provide detailed reports to the consortium on the findings. Amends the Small Business Act to authorize exclusive small business set-asides for Federal procurement of components and subsystems produced in Network Centers established under this Act.  Directs breakout procurement center representatives established under such Act to provide written notification to a contractor or subcontractor that if two or more bids are received from small or disadvantaged small business concerns participating in Network Centers under this Act, the procurement contract for such component or subsystem must be set aside for competition among small and disadvantaged small business concerns in the United States.  Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish a program to promote the award of Federal procurement contracts to small and disadvantaged small business concerns that participate in the Network Centers under this Act, including contracts for the procurement of systems and components of critical technologies. Provides credits to Federal contracting officers and their Government contractors who support the achievement of Government targets for small business contracting.  Outlines eligibility requirements for small or disadvantaged small business concerns to receive contract awards under the program, including a priority among such small and disadvantaged small businesses. Prohibits a contract awarded under such program from exceeding the lowest qualified bid received by a participating small or disadvantaged small business concern by more than ten percent.",2025-08-26T15:18:08Z,
102-s-3360,102,s,3360,A bill to provide for a program for the diversification of the activities of certain Federal laboratories.,Armed Forces and National Security,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.,Senate,"Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT]",CT,D,L000304,1,"Requires the Secretary of Defense to establish the Federal Defense Laboratory Diversification Program.  Specifies that:  (1) the laboratories covered by the Program shall include all Department of Defense (DOD) owned or operated laboratories and DOD federally funded research and development (R&D) centers that undertake more than $5 million in research (Defense laboratories); and (2) the Program shall be managed by Director of Defense Research and Engineering. Directs the Program to undertake cooperation between Defense laboratories and private industry to promote:  (1) the development and application of dual-use manufacturing technologies to improve quality and efficiency in the manufacture of both civilian and defense-oriented products; (2) the development and commercialization of dual-use product technologies; (3) the transfer of defense or dual-use technologies from laboratories to the private sector for the purpose of commercialization through patent, royalty, and license agreements, cooperative R&D agreements, and other cooperative agreements and through symposia, meetings, and other mechanisms; and (4) the efficient adoption and adaptation of civilian manufacturing product and process technologies to defense needs in sectors critical to maintaining defense preparedness. Requires the Director of Research and Engineering to develop, for each category of diversification activity for each Defense laboratory covered by this Act, benchmarks which cover FY 1993-95 and include for each such fiscal year:  (1) the budget resources, manpower, and facilities to be utilized by each laboratory; and (2) the dollar value of patents, royalties, and licenses broken down by product or SIC code to be sought and pursued by each laboratory, in implementing the Program. Requires the Director, with respect to the budget resources, manpower, and facilities to be utilized by each Defense laboratory covered by the Program to establish benchmarks concerning the number and value of cooperative R&D and other cooperative agreements to be established and undertaken allocating, as appropriate, a minimum of two to five percent of budget to such cooperative work within two years of the Program's establishment. Specifies that:  (1) Program benchmarks shall be established within 180 days; (2) upon their establishment, each Defense laboratory shall promptly proceed to implement them within its overall budget and utilizing other funds that may be available for implementation of this Act; and (3) benchmarks shall be updated each fiscal year on an ongoing basis. Directs each:  (1) Defense laboratory participating in the Program to establish an industry and academic advisory panel to promote cooperation between the laboratory and the private sector in carrying out the Program; and (2) laboratory to utilize its panel to oversee the development of each year's research plan and the implementation of the Program and its benchmarks and to provide advice on how to enhance the dual-use properties of the laboratory's research work on a project-by-project basis. Sets forth reporting requirements. Requires the Director of the Office of Technology Assessment to: (1) subject to the approval of the Technology Assessment Board, undertake an evaluation of practices and procedures that have proven effective in promoting specified elements of the Program, both in laboratories covered by the Program and elsewhere; and (2) evaluate the effectiveness of the Program in achieving optimal cooperation with private industry in meeting such elements and make recommendations for any improvements in practices and procedures for cooperating with industry that should be implemented. Directs the Director of Research and Engineering to utilize the recommendations and results of such study in ongoing implementation of the Program.",2025-01-14T17:07:58Z,
102-s-3361,102,s,3361,Child Support Enforcement Amendments of 1992,Social Welfare,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.,Senate,"Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY]",NY,D,M001054,0,"Child Support Enforcement Amendments of 1992 - Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Social Security Act to treat the Federal Government and the government of the District of Columbia (D.C.) as private employers for purposes of child support orders requiring enrollment for health insurance coverage of the dependent children of the employees of such governments or the custodial parents of such dependent children. Provides that if an absent parent fails to obtain health insurance coverage for a dependent child or a custodial parent, the absent parent's employer (whether Federal, D.C., or private) will be required to enroll the dependent child or custodial parent in a health insurance plan pursuant to a State child support order.  Makes any such employer who fails to obtain or maintain such health insurance liable for any expenses incurred for health care provided to a dependent child or custodial parent after the employer has been served notice of a child support order. Authorizes sanctions against any employer who retaliates against any absent parent subject to a child support order providing for health insurance coverage of a dependent child or custodial parent. Prohibits certain restrictions in health insurance policies limiting coverage to:  (1) children living with a parent insured under the policy; or (2) legitimate children. Delays child support order review and modification requirements until such time as the State has established an automated child support tracking system, but not later than October 1, 1995. Gives States more time to achieve substantial compliance with child support enforcement program requirements. Amends the Family Support Act of 1988 to provide that the level of Federal funding for automated child support tracking systems is available until FY 2001 for systems in place by 1995. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide that State child support enforcement laws which require an employer to enroll an employee's child or the custodial parent of such child in any health insurance plan provided by such employer are not subject to ERISA preemption. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Child Support Advisory Committee to assist the Secretary in preparing and submitting to the Congress recommendations for a revised Federal child support audit process.",2025-08-26T15:15:40Z,
102-sconres-141,102,sconres,141,"A concurrent resolution to provide that each committee of the Congress that reports employee benefit legislation shall secure an objective analysis of the impact of such legislation on employment and international competitiveness, and include such analysis in the committee report.",Congress,1992-10-06,1992-10-06,Referred to the Committee on Rules.,Senate,"Sen. Wallop, Malcolm [R-WY]",WY,R,W000092,0,Expresses the sense of the Congress that each congressional committee that reports legislation which requires employers to provide new employee benefits shall secure an objective analysis of the impact of the legislation on employment and international competitiveness and include such analysis in the committee's report on the legislation.,2025-01-14T17:21:40Z,
102-hconres-376,102,hconres,376,Providing for the preparation of official duplicates of certain legislative papers.,Congress,1992-10-05,1992-10-05,Message on Senate action sent to the House.,House,"Rep. Moakley, John Joseph [D-MA-9]",MA,D,M000834,0,"Requires the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate to prepare, sign, and furnish to the other official duplicates of the papers of the two Houses on the following bills of the 102d Congress:  (1) H.R. 5400; (2) H.R. 5194; (3) H.R. 5427; (4) S. 2532; (5) S. 1985; (6) S. 1002; (7) S. 893; (8) S. 1569; (9) S. 225; (10) S. 758; (11) S. 759; (12) S. 1146; and (13) S. 2661.",2021-06-02T13:57:38Z,
102-hconres-377,102,hconres,377,Expressing the sense of the Congress that any health insurance reform bill that is enacted should require that family and temporary medical leave be incorporated as a basic or elective option for plan participants under certain circumstances.,Health,1992-10-05,1992-11-20,Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]",OH,D,K000009,0,"Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that any Act to address the health insurance needs of the U.S. people should require that paid or unpaid leave, as detailed in the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1992, be incorporated as a basic or elective option for specified events.",2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,
102-hconres-378,102,hconres,378,Concerning United States participation in a Cascadia Corridor Commission.,International Affairs,1992-10-05,1992-10-05,Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.,House,"Rep. Miller, John R. [R-WA-1]",WA,R,M000736,7,"Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should continue negotiations with the Government of Canada and State, provincial, and local governments in the urbanized Cascadia corridor along Interstate 5/Highway 99 from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Eugene, Oregon, to establish a Cascadia Corridor Commission to:  (1) act as a forum to coordinate consideration of regional issues in the Cascadia area; (2) develop a strategy for environmentally sound economic development in the region; and (3) submit a plan incorporating such strategy to the Congress, the Canadian Parliament, the legislature of British Columbia, and the State legislatures of Oregon and Washington.",2024-02-07T11:38:03Z,
102-hconres-379,102,hconres,379,Directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make certain corrections in the enrollment of the bill H.R. 5006.,Congress,1992-10-05,1992-10-13,Message on Senate action sent to the House.,House,"Rep. Montgomery, G. V. (Sonny) [D-MS-3]",MS,D,M000865,0,Makes technical corrections in the enrollment of H.R. 5006 (defense authorization for FY 1993).,2021-06-02T13:57:38Z,