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| 104-s-2170 | 104 | s | 2170 | Save Our Savings Act of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-09-30 | 1996-09-30 | Read twice and referred jointly to the Committees on Budget; Governmental Affairs. | Senate | Sen. Kassebaum, Nancy Landon [R-KS] | KS | R | K000017 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Cap Entitlements and Other Mandatory Spending Title II: Enforcement Provisions Save Our Savings Act of 1996 - Title I: Cap Entitlements and Other Mandatory Spending - Sets forth a timetable for completion of certain budget actions by the President and by the Directors of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). (Sec. 103) Applies direct spending caps to all entitlement authority, except for undistributed offsetting receipts and net interest outlays. Sets forth a table of such caps for specified categories of entitlements and other mandatory spending. (Sec. 104) Requires determinations of such direct spending caps (as well as any breaches of such caps and actions necessary to remedy such breaches) to be based on certain economic assumptions for specified future fiscal years, subject to periodic reestimation based on changed economic conditions or changes in eligible population. (Sec. 105) Provides for automatic adjustments to the caps for entitlements and other mandatory spending. Allows the direct spending caps to be revised in a specified manner, only by recorded vote. Title II: Enforcement Provisions - Provides for enforcement of the direct spending caps on categories of spending established under title I of this Act. Applies specified enforcement rules and procedures for any fiscal year in which direct spending exceeds the applicable direct spending cap. (Sec. 202) Directs OMB to: (1) compile a statement of actual direct spending for a fiscal year, following the end of that year, identifying such spending by categories of entitlements and other mandatory spending; and (2) under specified conditions, issue a report to the President and the Congress, estimating necessary spending reductions. Sets forth a timetable for specified budget actions by the President and by OMB and CBO. (Sec. 203) Subjects all direct spending (except matters specifically exempted under this title) to caps on total direct spending outlays for eac… | 2025-08-21T20:14:53Z | |
| 104-hr-4278 | 104 | hr | 4278 | Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-09-28 | 1997-02-10 | By amendment to the Journal on February 10, 1997, the Act was indefinetely postponed by Unanimous Consent. | House | Rep. Livingston, Bob [R-LA-1] | LA | R | L000371 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Division A Title I: Omnibus Appropriations Title I(sic): Department of Justice Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Title III: The Judiciary Title IV: Department of State and Related Agencies Title V: Related Agencies Title VI: General Provisions Title VII: Rescissions Title VIII: Fiscal Year 1996 Supplemental and Rescission Title IX: Supplemental Appropriations Title I(sic): Military Personnel Title II: Operation and Maintenance Title III: Procurement Title IV: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Title V: Revolving and Management Funds Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs Title VII: Related Agencies Title VIII: General Provisions Title IX: Fiscal Year 1996 Supplemental Appropriations and Rescissions for Anti-Terrorism, Counter- Terrorism, and Security Enhancement Activities Title I(sic): Export and Investment Assistance Title II: Bilateral Economic Assistance Title III: Military Assistance Title IV: Multilateral Economic Assistance Title V: General Provisions Title VI: NATO Enlargement Facilitation Act of 1996 Title VII: Middle East Development Bank Title I(sic): Department of the Interior Title II: Related Agencies Title III: General Provisions Title IV: Emergency Appropriations Title I(sic): Department of Labor Title II: Department of Health and Human Services Title III: Department of Education Title IV: Related Agencies Title V: General Provisions Title VI: Reorganization and Privatization of Sallie Mae and Connie Lee Title VII: Museum and Library Services Act of 1996 Title I(sic): Depart… | 2025-08-21T20:16:12Z | |
| 104-hr-4285 | 104 | hr | 4285 | Budget Process Reform Act | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-09-28 | 1996-09-28 | Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Government Reform and Oversight, Appropriations, and Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. | House | Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-47] | CA | R | C000830 | 223 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Statement of Congressional Purpose Title II: Binding Budget Law Title III: Enforcement of Budget Discipline Subtitle A: Supermajority Required to Break Budget Law Subtitle B: Line Item Reduction Subtitle C: "Blank Check" Appropriations Prohibited Subtitle D: "Pay-as-You-Go" Requirement for New Spending Subtitle E: "Lock-Box" for Savings From Spending Reductions Title IV: Sustaining Mechanism Title V: Protection of Social Security Title VI: Technical Amendments to Federal Law to Carry Out This Act Title VII: Definitions and Rules of Interpretation Budget Process Reform Act - Title I: Statement of Congressional Purpose - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Federal budget process should focus the attention of policymakers and the public on the aggregate impact of Federal spending on the economy, and on the tradeoffs that must be made among priorities in order to control overall levels of spending. Declares that the budget process should contain safeguards against delay and inaction, so that temporary shut-downs of the Government may be avoided. Title II: Binding Budget Law - Requires the Congress to enact a binding budget law, in the form of a joint resolution, by April 15 of the calendar year before that in which the fiscal period commences. (Sec. 202) Makes it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any spending bill affecting spending in a major functional category unless and until a joint resolution on the budget is enacted. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA) to require a two-thirds majority vote in the House and the Senate to consider any spending bill prior to the enactment of the budget law. Repeals authority for consideration of spending bills prior to adoption of the budget resolution. (Sec. 203) Prohibits baseline budgeting. Requires objective year- to-year comparisons under budget law… | 2025-08-21T20:16:16Z | |
| 104-hr-4293 | 104 | hr | 4293 | To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide for public disclosure of the amounts of Federal funds used to conduct field examinations of appropriation estimates. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-09-28 | 1996-09-28 | Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. | House | Rep. Brownback, Sam [R-KS-2] | KS | R | B000953 | 2 | Amends Federal law with respect to the preparation and submission of appropriations requests to the President. Requires each Federal agency head to publish monthly in the Federal Register a notice of: (1) all amounts made available during the past month for field examinations of appropriations estimates; (2) the purpose and location of each field examination; and (3) the identity of all Members of Congress, congressional staff, and agency officers and employees who participated in the field examination. | 2025-02-04T16:54:13Z | |
| 104-hr-4254 | 104 | hr | 4254 | To amend the Community Services Block Grant Act with respect to the composition of the boards of community action agencies, and of nonprofit private organizations, that receive funds under such Act. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-09-27 | 1996-10-15 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families. | House | Rep. Kleczka, Gerald D. [D-WI-4] | WI | D | K000259 | 0 | Amends the Community Services Block Grant Act to make certain community action agency and nonprofit private organization board composition requirements discretionary. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 104-hr-4142 | 104 | hr | 4142 | Save Our Savings Act of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-09-24 | 1996-09-24 | Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Government Reform and Oversight, and Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. | House | Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6] | TX | R | B000213 | 2 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Cap Entitlements and Other Mandatory Spending Title II: Enforcement Provisions Save Our Savings Act of 1996 - (Title I: Cap Entitlements and Other Mandatory Spending) - Sets forth a timetable for completion of certain budget actions by the President and by the Directors of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). (Sec. 102) Applies direct spending caps to all entitlement authority, except for undistributed offsetting receipts and net interest outlays. Sets forth a table of such caps for specified categories of entitlements and other mandatory spending. (Sec. 103) Requires determinations of such direct spending caps (as well as any breaches of such caps and actions necessary to remedy such breaches) to be based on certain economic assumptions for specified future fiscal years, subject to periodic reestimation based on changed economic conditions or changes in eligible population. (Sec. 104) Provides for automatic adjustments to the caps for entitlements and other mandatory spending. Allows the direct spending caps to be revised in a specified manner, only by recorded vote. Title II: Enforcement Provisions - Directs OMB to: (1) compile a statement of actual direct spending for a fiscal year, following the end of that year, identifying such spending by categories of entitlements and other mandatory spending; and (2) under specified conditions, issue a report to the President and the Congress, estimating necessary spending reductions. Sets forth a timetable for specified budget actions by the President and by OMB and CBO. (Sec. 202) Provides for enforcement of the direct spending caps on categories of spending established under title I of this Act. Applies specified enforcement rules and procedures for any fiscal year in which direct spending exceeds the applicable direct spending cap. (Sec. 203) Subjects all direct spending (except matters specifically exempted under this title) to caps on total direct spending outlays for e… | 2025-08-21T20:16:53Z | |
| 104-s-2116 | 104 | s | 2116 | National Infrastructure Development Act of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-09-24 | 1996-09-24 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY] | NY | D | M001054 | 0 | National Infrastructure Development Act of 1996 - Establishes as a wholly owned Government corporation: (1) the National Infrastructure Development Corporation (NIDC), which shall make new sources of financing (including public benefit bonds) available for the development of infrastructure facilities; and (2) the National Infrastructure Insurance Corporation (NIIC), which shall be a subsidiary of NIDC issuing insurance, reinsurance and related undertakings with respect to obligations for development of such facilities. Requires NIDC and NIIC to conduct their respective businesses as self-supporting entities. Directs the boards of directors of each to establish criteria for determining eligibility for financial assistance. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) initial targeting of ready-to-go projects; (2) development risk insurance; (3) discretion of NIDC and NIIC to provide assistance; (4) final decisions regarding providing assistance to be made by an independent investment committee; and (5) capitalization, organization, and management of NIDC and NIIC. Requires the NIDC to prepare and revise as necessary a strategic plan for the transition of NIDC and all its subsidiaries to a Government-sponsored enterprise, and for the sale or transfer to investors other than the Federal Government of NIDC's voting securities. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-21T20:16:06Z | |
| 104-sjres-63 | 104 | sjres | 63 | Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-09-24 | 1996-09-24 | Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 627. | Senate | Sen. Hatfield, Mark O. [R-OR] | OR | R | H000343 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Omnibus Appropriations Title I (sic): Department of Justice Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Title III: The Judiciary Title IV: Department of State and Related Agencies Title V: Related Agencies Title VI: General Provisions Title VII: Rescissions Title VIII: Fiscal Year 1996 Supplementals and Rescissions Title I (sic): Department of the Interior Title II: Related Agencies Title III: General Provisions Title IV: Emergency Appropriations Title I (sic): Department of Labor Title II: Department of Health and Human Services Title III: Department of Education Title IV: Related Agencies Title V: General Provisions Title VI: Commission on Retirement Income Policy Title I (sic): Department of the Treasury Title II: Postal Service Title III: Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the President Title IV: Independent Agencies Title V: General Provisions (This Act) Title VI: General Provisions (Departments, Agencies, and Corporations) Title I (sic): Additional Investment Funds for the Thrift Savings Plan Title II: Thrift Savings Accounts Liquidity Title VII (sic): Counter-Terrorism and Drug Law Enforcement Title II (sic): Oregon Resource Conservation Act of 1996 Title I (sic): Opal Creek Wilderness and Scenic Recreation Area Title II: Upper Klamath Basin Title III: Deschutes Basin Title IV: Mount Hood Corridor Title V: Coquille Tribal Forest Title VI: Bull Run Watershed Protection Title VII: Oregon Islands Wilderness, Additions Title VIII: Umpqua River Land Exchange Study Title III (sic): Local Empowerment and Flexibility Pilot Act of 1996 Title I (sic): Streamlining the Home Mortgage Lending Process Title II: Streamlining Government Regulation Subtitle… | 2025-08-21T20:16:30Z | |
| 104-hr-4094 | 104 | hr | 4094 | Government Shutdown Prevention Act | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-09-17 | 1996-09-17 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Gekas, George W. [R-PA-17] | PA | R | G000121 | 15 | Government Shutdown Prevention Act - Amends Federal law to provide for continuing appropriations in the absence of regular appropriations. | 2025-08-21T20:15:51Z | |
| 104-hr-4046 | 104 | hr | 4046 | Emergency Disaster Assistance Supplemental Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-09-11 | 1996-09-11 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Clayton, Eva M. [D-NC-1] | NC | D | C000494 | 27 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Title II: General Provisions Emergency Disaster Assistance Supplemental Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1996 - Title I: Emergency Supplemental Appropriations - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations for FY 1996 to provide relief from the damages caused by Hurricane Fran and other natural disasters of 1996. Chapter 1: Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies - Makes such FY 1996 emergency supplemental appropriations to: (1) the Department of Agriculture, for the Farm Service Agency's emergency conservation program; (2) the Natural Resources Conservation Service, for watershed and flood prevention operations; (3) the Rural Housing Service, for Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program Account direct loans, and for very low-income housing repair grants; (4) the Rural Utilities Service, for the rural utilities assistance program; and (5) the Commodity Credit Corporation, for covering 1996 crop losses. Chapter 2: Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies - Makes such FY 1996 emergency supplemental appropriations to: (1) the Department of Commerce, for the Economic Development Administration's economic development assistance programs; and (2) the Small Business Administration, for the Disaster Loans Program Account. Chapter 3: Energy and Water Development - Makes such FY 1996 emergency appropriations to the Department of Defense-Civil, Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers-Civil, for: (1) general operation and maintenance; and (2) flood control and coastal emergencies. Chapter 4: Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies - Makes such FY 1996 emergency appropriations to: (1) the Department of Housing and Urban Development for community development grants; and (2) the Federal Emergency Management Agencies for disaster relief. Title II: General Provisions - Designates each amount provid… | 2025-08-21T20:16:38Z | |
| 104-hr-3998 | 104 | hr | 3998 | Citizen Debt Reduction Contribution Act | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-08-02 | 1996-08-29 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. | House | Rep. Nethercutt, George R., Jr. [R-WA-5] | WA | R | N000051 | 2 | Citizen Debt Reduction Contribution Act - Provides that individuals otherwise entitled to receive payments from the Federal Government may specify that a portion of those payments be used for deficit reduction. Expresses the sense of the Congress that any budget savings resulting from this Act should be used solely to reduce net Government spending. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to designate a specified portion (not less than $1) of their income tax overpayments to be used to reduce U.S. public debt. Amends the Social Security Act to direct the Commissioner of Social Security to establish a program to allow recipient donation, by way of designation for transfer to the general fund of the Treasury, of certain social security benefit payments to reduce the public debt. Amends Federal law relating to military personnel to provide for a program of allowing members or former members of the armed forces to donate designated portions of their military retirement benefits to reduce the public debt. Amends Federal law relating to veterans to provide for a program of allowing veterans to donate designated portions of their veterans' disability compensation to reduce the public debt. Provides that savings resulting from the enactment of this Act shall not be considered for purposes of estimates made for this Act under specified provisions of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings). | 2025-08-21T20:14:27Z | |
| 104-hr-3999 | 104 | hr | 3999 | Making Work Requirements Work Act of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-08-02 | 1996-08-13 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Grants to States for Operation of Work Programs Title II: Revenue Offsets Subtitle A: Corporate Reforms Subtitle B: Foreign Provisions Subtitle C: Accounting Provisions Title III: Repeal of Prototype Demonstration of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technology Making Work Requirements Work Act of 1996 - Title I: Grants Grants to States for Operation of Work Programs - Amends title IV (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TEA) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, to establish a program of supplemental grants to States for operation of work programs. Makes appropriations for such grants for FY 1997 through 2002. Title II: Revenue Offsets - Amends the Internal Revenue Code in various ways to provide revenue offsets under subtitles A, B, and C. Subtitle A: Corporate Reforms - Repeals the percentage depletion allowance for certain nonfuel minerals mined on Federal lands. Subtitle B: Foreign Provisions - Revises the definition of foreign personal holding company income which is includable in gross income to include net income from notional principal contracts (except for dealers) as well as payments in lieu of dividends. Modifies foreign tax credit carryback and carryover periods to eliminate the second carryback year and add sixth and seventh carryover years. Modifies foreign tax credit rules applicable to dual capacity taxpayers state that certain amounts paid or accrued to a foreign country or U.S. possession shall not be considered a tax. Revises rules relating to foreign oil and gas income to: (1) provide for separate basket treatment for foreign tax credits; and (2) eliminate deferral for foreign oil and gas extraction income. Subtitle C: Accounting Provisions - Prohibits suspense accounts for family corporations required to use the accrual method of accounting. Requires a ten-year phase-out of existing accounts. Title III: Repeal of Prot… | 2025-08-21T20:14:52Z | |
| 104-s-2013 | 104 | s | 2013 | Government Shutdown Prevention Act | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-08-01 | 1996-08-01 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. | Senate | Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ] | AZ | R | M000303 | 6 | Government Shutdown Prevention Act - Amends Federal law relating to appropriations to provide for continuing appropriations in the absence of regular appropriations. | 2025-08-21T20:15:00Z | |
| 104-sjres-57 | 104 | sjres | 57 | A joint resolution requiring the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation to use dynamic economic modeling in addition to static economic modeling in the preparation of budgetary estimates of proposed changes in Federal revenue law. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-07-26 | 1996-07-26 | Read twice and referred jointly to the Committees on Budget; Governmental Affairs pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, with instructions that if one Committee reports, the other Committee have thirty days to report or be discharged. | Senate | Sen. Ashcroft, John [R-MO] | MO | R | A000356 | 2 | Expresses the sense of the Congress that it is necessary to ensure that the Congress is presented with reliable information from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation as to the dynamic macroeconomic feedback effects to changes in Federal law and the probable behavioral responses of taxpayers, businesses, and other parties to such changes. Requires the CBO and the Joint Committee to use such dynamic economic modeling in addition to static economic modeling in the preparation of budgetary estimates of proposed changes in Federal revenue law. | 2025-01-14T19:03:55Z | |
| 104-hr-3845 | 104 | hr | 3845 | District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1997 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-07-18 | 1996-09-09 | Became Public Law No: 104-194. | House | Rep. Walsh, James T. [R-NY-25] | NY | R | W000099 | 0 | District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1997 - Makes appropriations for the District of Columbia Government for FY 1997, including funds for: (1) the Federal payment ($660 million); (2) Federal contribution to the Police Officers' and Fire Fighters', Teachers', and Judges' Retirement Funds ($52.07 million) and the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority (Authority) for contracting with private entities to carry out a program to inspect, flush, and repair the District's drinking water system ($1 million); and (3) expenses incurred in connection with presidential inauguration activities ($5.702 million). Appropriates specified sums out of the general fund of the District of Columbia for the current fiscal year for: (1) governmental direction and support; (2) economic development and regulation; (3) public safety and justice; (4) the public education system (including public charter schools); (5) human support services; (6) public works; (7) repayment of specified loans and interests; (8) repayment of the general fund recovery debt; (9) repayment of interest on short-term borrowing; (10) necessary expenses incurred in connection with presidential inauguration activities; (11) lease payments involving the land site underlying the building located at One Judiciary Square; (12) human resources development; (13) construction projects (including rescissions); (14) the Water and Sewer Enterprise Fund; (15) the Lottery and Charitable Games Enterprise Fund; (16) the Cable Television Enterprise Fund; (17) the Starplex Fund; (18) D.C. General Hospital; (19) the D.C. Retirement Board; (20) the Correctional Industries Fund; (21) the Washington Convention Center Enterprise Fund (from local funds and by transfer from the general fund); and (22) the Authority. Prohibits the use of revenues from Federal sources to support the Statehood Commission and Statehood Compact Commission. Requires the District to operate a free, 24-hour telephone information service where residents of the area su… | 2025-04-07T15:29:02Z | |
| 104-hr-3857 | 104 | hr | 3857 | Economic Equity Act of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-07-18 | 1996-08-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman. | House | Rep. Morella, Constance A. [R-MD-8] | MD | R | M000941 | 26 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Workplace Fairness Subtitle A: Part-Time and Temporary Workers Protection Subtitle B: Federal Employee Fairness Subtitle C: Legislative Pay Equity Study Subtitle D: Sexual Harassment Prevention Subtitle E: Sexual Harassment Information Subtitle F: Sexual Harassment Tax Equity Subtitle G: Equal Remedies Subtitle H: Federal Temporary Workers Protection Subtitle I: Contingent Work Force Equity Title II: Economic Opportunity Subtitle A: Microenterprise Opportunity Expansion Subtitle B: Commission on the Advancement of Women in the Science and Engineering Work Forces Subtitle C: Equal Surety Bond Opportunity Subtitle D: Self-Sufficiency Standard Subtitle E: Community Reinvestment Subtitle F: Telecommunications Economic Opportunity Subtitle G: HHS Women Scientist Employment Opportunity Subtitle H: Women in Enterprise Development Title III: Work and Family Subtitle A: Child Care Consolidation and Investment Subtitle B: Child Care Public-Private Partnership Subtitle C: Dependent Care Tax Credit Refundability Subtitle D: IRA Deductions for Homemakers Subtitle E: Federal Parental Leave for Education Activities Subtitle F: Tax Incentives for Family-Friendly Workplaces Subtitle G: Parental Equity Leave Title IV: Economic Self-Sufficiency Subtitle A: Child Support Responsibility Subtitle B: Interstate Child Support Subtitle C: Child Support Enforcement Improvements Subtitle D: Single Parent Protection Subtitle E: Women's Pension Equity Subtitle F: Pension Reform Subtitle G: Social Security Caregiver Title V: Economic Impact of Domestic Violence Subtitle A: Workplac… | 2025-08-21T20:15:13Z | |
| 104-hr-3814 | 104 | hr | 3814 | Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-07-16 | 1996-08-27 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 568. | House | Rep. Rogers, Harold [R-KY-5] | KY | R | R000395 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Department of Justice Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Title III: The Judiciary Title IV: Department of State and Related Agencies Title V: Related Agencies Title VI: General Provisions Title VII: Rescissions (Department of Justice) Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 - Title I: Department of Justice - Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 1997 - Makes FY 1997 appropriations to the Department of Justice. Sets forth requirements and limitations relating to use of such funds. (Sec. 103) Prohibits the use of funds to pay for an abortion, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in the case of rape. (Sec. 104) Prohibits the use of funds to require any person to perform, or facilitate the performance of, any abortion. (Sec. 109) Amends the Federal judicial code to revise: (1) quarterly bankruptcy fees; and (2) the formulae for the deposit of portions of such fees in the United States Trustee System Fund. (Sec. 110) Amends specified Federal law to establish in the Treasury the Department of Justice Telecommunications Carrier Compliance Fund, which shall be available to the Attorney General to make specified payments to telecommunications carriers, equipment manufacturers, and providers of telecommunications support services. (Sec. 111) Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to authorize use of specified funds to make supplemental grants to U.S. Attorneys Offices to provide assistance to victims of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, to facilitate their observation or participation at related trial proceedings, and to pay other related expenses. (Sec. 112) Amends the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 with respect to the Secretary of the Treasury's mandated study of taggants marking, rendering inert, and licensing of explosive materials. Repeals: (1… | 2025-04-07T15:30:47Z | |
| 104-hr-3816 | 104 | hr | 3816 | Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1997 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-07-16 | 1996-09-30 | Became Public Law No: 104-206. | House | Rep. Myers, John T. [R-IN-7] | IN | R | M001130 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Department of Defense-Civil Title II: Department of the Interior Title III: Department of Energy Title IV: Independent Agencies Title V: General Provisions Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1997 - Title I: Department of Defense-Civil - Makes appropriations to the Department of the Army and its Corps of Engineers for FY 1997 for: (1) authorized civil functions of the Department of the Army relating to rivers and harbors, flood control, beach erosion, and related purposes; (2) expenses necessary for the collection and study of information related to such purposes; (3) the prosecution of authorized water development and related projects; (4) certain flood control projects on the Mississippi River and its tributaries; (5) water development projects operation and maintenance; (6) regulatory programs; (7) flood control and coastal emergencies; and (8) general expenses. (Sec. 103) Specifies modifications to the Moorefield, West Virginia, flood control project. (Sec. 104) Specifies modifications to the Grays Landing Lock and Dam, Monongahela River, Pennsylvania, navigation project. (Sec. 105) Requires certain non-structural flood control measures in specified parts of Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia to prevent future losses that would occur from a flood equal in magnitude to the April 1977 level by providing protection from such level or the 100-year frequency event, whichever is greater. (Sec. 106) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Corps of Engineers, to reprogram, obligate, and expend necessary additional sums to continue certain construction projects until completion. (Sec. 107) Directs the Corps of Engineers to complete the Charleston Riverfront (HADDAD) Park Project, West Virginia, on a 50-50 cost basis with the City. (Sec. 108) Specifies modifications to the Arkansas City, Kansas, flood control project. (Sec. 109) Makes certain funds available to plan and implement long term management measures at Elk Creek Dam, Or… | 2025-04-07T15:30:37Z | |
| 104-hr-3809 | 104 | hr | 3809 | Debt Collection Act Amendments of 1995 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-07-12 | 1996-09-04 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. | House | Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6] | NJ | D | P000034 | 4 | Debt Collection Act Amendments of 1995 - Amends Federal law to require the head of an executive or legislative agency (who, currently, is merely authorized) to: (1) contract with a collection service to recover indebtedness owed to the United States; (2) collect such indebtedness from Federal employees in installment deductions; (3) disclose certain information to a consumer reporting agency when trying to collect a claim; and (4) collect such a claim by administrative offset. Requires the head of a Federal agency to report promptly to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) any debt that has been paid in full. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the IRS to disclose address information in accordance with any law granting a Federal claim against a taxpayer. Directs the Comptroller General to report to the Congress after annual audits of each Federal agency on: (1) the amount of debt owed to the agency; (2) the amount that is delinquent; and (3) action taken by the agency to recover such debt. Repeals the termination date of the pilot debt collection project of the Department of Justice. Requires the Attorney General to include in the annual report to the Congress on activities to recover indebtedness the total cost of the pilot project and the total amount of debt recovered under it. Requires that recovered funds be used to reduce the Federal deficit. Requires a percentage of recovered funds to be used by the agency in collecting indebtedness. Prohibits the head of a Federal agency from making a loan until the loan applicant has been prescreened to determine creditworthiness. Requires the IRS to disclose address information to a Federal agency for use in collecting a claim. Prohibits the head of a Federal agency from making a loan to a loan applicant who owes a delinquent debt to the Federal Government, including the IRS. Allows the use of administrative charges by the Secretary of the Treasury for improving credit management techniques. | 2025-08-21T20:16:21Z | |
| 104-hr-3754 | 104 | hr | 3754 | Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1997 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-07-08 | 1996-09-16 | Became Public Law No: 104-197. | House | Rep. Packard, Ron [R-CA-48] | CA | R | P000005 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Congressional Operations Title II: Other Agencies Title III: General Provisions Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1997 - Makes appropriations for the legislative branch for FY 1997. Title I: Congressional Operations - Congressional Operations Appropriations Act, 1997 - Appropriates funds for the Senate. (Sec. 1) Broadens the scope of consultant services for majority and minority conference committees to include the administration of the affairs of the committees. (Sec. 2) Authorizes reimbursement to Senators-elect for stationery expenses. (Sec. 3) Allows Senators to lease mobile offices for a period of up to three years (currently, one year). (Sec. 4) Authorizes Senate offices to pay telephone bills from the appropriations for the fiscal year in which the underlying base service period ends. (Sec. 5) Permits the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate to directly, or through the General Services Administration, transfer title to excess or surplus educationally useful equipment to a public school at the lowest possible cost to the school and to the Senate. (Sec. 6) Provides for reimbursement to Senate day care center employees for expenses for the cost of training classes and conferences relating to child care services and for expenses incurred for travel, transportation, and subsistence in connection with such training. (Sec. 7) Requires funds received during FY 1996 by the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate in settlement of a contract claim or dispute (not to exceed $1.45 million) to be deposited into the appropriation account for FY 1997 within the contingent fund of the Senate for such individuals and to be available for the same purposes as are the other funds in that account. (Sec. 8) Requires the Secretary of the Senate, with the oversight and approval of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, to oversee the development and implementation of a comprehensive Senate legislative information system. (Sec. 9) Authorizes the Financial… | 2025-04-07T15:29:46Z | |
| 104-hr-3755 | 104 | hr | 3755 | Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-07-08 | 1996-09-12 | Committee on Appropriations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably. | House | Rep. Porter, John Edward [R-IL-10] | IL | R | P000444 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Department of Labor Title II: Department of Health and Human Services Title III: Department of Education Title IV: Related Agencies Title V: General Provisions Title VI: Commission on Retirement Income Policy Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 - Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 1997 - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 (including certain transfers of funds) for agencies, programs, and various trust funds, within the Department of Labor. Prescribes uses and limitations on the use of funds under this title. (Sec. 107) Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt inmates from minimum wage and overtime requirements. Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 1997 - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 (including certain transfers of funds) for agencies and programs within the Department of Health and Human Services. Prescribes limitations on the use of appropriated funds under this title. (Sec. 216) Directs the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, with the assistance of the Agency for Health Care Policy Research, to report to the appropriate congressional committees a review of research on treatment of end-stage emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by specified surgical procedures, and recommend as to the appropriateness of Medicare coverage of such conditions and procedures. (Sec. 217) Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to increase the maximum allowable State grant allotment. (Sec. 218) Names the new clinical research center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research and Patient Care Center. Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 1997 - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 (including certain transfers of funds) for agencies and progra… | 2025-04-07T15:30:29Z | |
| 104-hr-3756 | 104 | hr | 3756 | Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1997 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-07-08 | 1996-09-12 | Returned to the Calendar. Calendar No. 510. (consideration: CR S10400) | House | Rep. Lightfoot, Jim [R-IA-3] | IA | R | L000305 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Department of the Treasury Title II: Postal Service Title III: Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the President Title IV: Independent Agencies Title V: General Provisions (This Act) Title VI: General Provisions (Departments, Agencies, and Corporations) Title VII: Supplemental Appropriations and Rescissions for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1996 Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1997 - Title I: Department of the Treasury - Treasury Department Appropriations Act, 1997 - Makes appropriations to the Department of the Treasury and its related agencies for FY 1997. (Sec. 119) Amends the Federal criminal code, with respect to licensing and related gun show sales requirements for firearms importers, manufacturers, and dealers, to declare that nothing in such requirements shall be construed to diminish the right of a licensee to conduct "curios or relics" firearms transfers and business away from its business premises with another licensee without regard to whether the place where the business is conducted is located in the State specified on the license of either licensee. Title II: Postal Service - Makes appropriations to the Postal Service Fund for FY 1997. Title III: Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the President - Executive Office Appropriations Act, 1997 - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 for the Executive Office of the President and related offices and programs. Title IV: Independent Agencies - Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 for: (1) the Committee for Purchase from People who are Blind or Severely Disabled; (2) the Federal Election Commission; (3) the Federal Labor Relations Authority; (4) the General Services Administration; (5) the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board; (6) the Merit Systems Protection Board; (7) the National Archives and Records Administr… | 2025-04-07T15:30:29Z | |
| 104-hconres-193 | 104 | hconres | 193 | Expressing the sense of the Congress that the cost of Government spending and regulatory programs should be reduced so that American families will be able to keep more of what they earn. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-06-27 | 1996-07-11 | Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. | House | Rep. DeLay, Tom [R-TX-22] | TX | R | D000217 | 37 | Expresses the sense of the Congress that, as part of balancing the budget and reevaluating the role of government, Federal, State, and local elected officials should carefully consider the cost of Government spending and regulatory programs in the year to come so that American families will be able to keep more of what they earn. | 2025-02-04T16:54:13Z | |
| 104-hr-3675 | 104 | hr | 3675 | Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-06-19 | 1996-09-30 | Became Public Law No: 104-205. | House | Rep. Wolf, Frank R. [R-VA-10] | VA | R | W000672 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Department of Transportation Title II: Related Agencies Title III: General Provisions Title IV: Miscellaneous Highway Provisions Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 - Title I: Department of Transportation - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 (with specified rescissions, limitations on obligations and direct loans, and liquidations of contract authorizations) for: (1) the Office of the Secretary of Transportation; (2) the Coast Guard; (3) the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); (4) the Federal Highway Administration (FHA); (5) the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; (6) the Federal Railroad Administration; (7) the Federal Transit Administration; (8) the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; (9) the Research and Special Programs Administration; (10) the Office of the Inspector General; and (11) the Surface Transportation Board. Requires the use of funds for the Office of Secretary of Transportation to investigate anticompetitive practices in air transportation and enforce specified provisions of Federal law against such practices. Establishes in the Treasury an administrative services franchise fund, to be available without fiscal year limitation, for the costs of capitalizing and operating certain centralized FAA services. Title II: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 for: (1) the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board; and (2) the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Title III: General Provisions - Sets forth specified prohibitions, limitations, permissions, and mandates with respect to the use of appropriations under this Act identical or very similar to those enacted in the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (Public Law 104-50). (Sec. 321) Reduces the amount of funds provided in this Act for the Transportation Administrative Service Center. (Sec. 327) Prohibits the use of funds (as in Public Law 104-50) for emplo… | 2025-04-07T15:30:29Z | |
| 104-hr-3662 | 104 | hr | 3662 | Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-06-18 | 1996-09-17 | Motion to table SP 5353 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 50-50. Record Vote No: 291. | House | Rep. Regula, Ralph [R-OH-16] | OH | R | R000141 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Department of the Interior Title II: Related Agencies Title III: General Provisions Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 - Title I: Department of the Interior - Makes appropriations for the FY 1997 operation of the Department of the Interior, setting forth uses and limitations. Prohibits the National Park Service from spending any funds under this Act for activities in direct response to the United Nations Biodiversity Initiative in the United States. Authorizes the National Park Service (NPS) to transfer NPS funds to State, local, and tribal governments, other public entities, educational institutions, and private nonprofit organizations to carry out NPS programs. Provides certain funds for closure of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, including payments for workers compensation and unemployment compensation for former Bureau employees. Sets forth uses and prohibitions on the use of funds under this title. (Sec. 114) Establishes in the Treasury a franchise fund pilot for capitalizing and operating central administrative services. (Sec. 115) Allows the State of Washington, upon appropriation of a specified amount for the Federal Government to acquire the Elwha and Glines dams, and upon submission to Congress by the State of a binding agreement to remove them within a reasonable period of time, to purchase such dams from the Federal Government for $2. Repeals the Elwha River Ecosystem and Fisheries Restoration Act upon purchase of the dams by the State. (Sec. 116) Extends, for one year, the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission (Massachusetts and Rhode Island). (Sec. 117) Designates and ratifies assignment to the University of Utah as successor to, and beneficiary of, all the existing assets, revenues, funds and rights granted to the State of Utah under the Miners Hospital Grant and the School of Mines Grant. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to accept relinquishment of all remaining and unconveyed entitlement f… | 2025-04-07T15:30:37Z | |
| 104-hr-3666 | 104 | hr | 3666 | Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-06-18 | 1996-09-26 | Became Public Law No: 104-204. | House | Rep. Lewis, Jerry [R-CA-40] | CA | R | L000274 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Department of Veterans Affairs Title II: Department of Housing and Urban Development Title III: Independent Agencies Title IV: General Provisions Title V: Supplemental Title VI: Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act of 1996 Title VII: Parity in the Application of Certain Limits to Mental Health Benefits Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 - Title I: Department of Veterans Affairs - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 to the Department of Veterans Affairs, setting forth uses and limitations for them. Establishes in the Treasury a franchise fund pilot for capitalizing and operating central administrative services. (Sec. 108) Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to convey, without consideration, to the City of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a specified portion of the grounds of the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center, subject to the condition that the City use the real property conveyed in perpetuity solely for public park or recreational purposes. Title II: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), setting forth uses and limitations for them. (Sec. 201) Extends the duration of specified provisions relating to: (1) public housing funding flexibility, under the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996; (2) one-for-one replacement of public and Indian housing, under specified Federal law; (3) public and assisted housing rents, income adjustments, and preferences, under the Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, I and the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996; (4) applicability of such extensions to Indian housing authorities; (5) streamlining of section 8 tenant-based assistance, under the Depart… | 2025-04-07T15:29:58Z | |
| 104-hr-3603 | 104 | hr | 3603 | Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-06-07 | 1996-08-06 | Became Public Law No: 104-180. | House | Rep. Skeen, Joe [R-NM-2] | NM | R | S000463 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Agricultural Programs Title II: Conservation Programs Title III: Rural Economic and Community Development Programs Title IV: Domestic Food Programs Title V: Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Title VI: Related Agencies and Food and Drug Administration Title VII: General Provisions Title VIII: Supplemental Appropriations and Rescission for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1996 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates funds for FY 1997 for the following Department of Agriculture programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) executive operations (Chief Economist, National Appeals Division, Office of Budget and Program Analysis); (3) Chief Financial Officer; (4) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration; (5) Agriculture buildings and facilities and rental payments; (6) hazardous waste management; (7) departmental administration; (8) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations; (9) Office of Communications; (10) Office of the Inspector General; (11) Office of the General Counsel; (12) Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics; (13) Economic Research Service; (14) National Agricultural Statistics Service; (15) Agricultural Research Service (including conveyance to Southeastern Oklahoma State University of the Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Water Quality Laboratory in Durant, Oklahoma); (16) Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service; (17) Native American Institutions Endowment Fund; (18) extension activities; (19) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs; (20) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (21) Agricultural Marketing Service; (22) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration; (23) Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety; (24) Food Saf… | 2025-04-07T15:30:03Z | |
| 104-hr-3566 | 104 | hr | 3566 | To expand the definition of limited tax benefit for purposes of the Line Item Veto Act. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-06-04 | 1996-06-13 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology. | House | Rep. Barrett, Thomas M. [D-WI-5] | WI | D | B000177 | 6 | Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to redefine the term "limited tax benefit" for purposes of the Line Item Veto Act. | 2026-03-23T12:17:56Z | |
| 104-s-1835 | 104 | s | 1835 | A bill to expand the definition of limited tax benefit for purposes of the Line Item Veto. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-06-04 | 1996-06-04 | Read twice and referred jointly to the Committees on Budget; Governmental Affairs pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, that if one Committee reports the other have thirty days to report or be discharged. | Senate | Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI] | WI | D | F000061 | 2 | Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to redefine the term "limited tax benefit" for purposes of the Line Item Veto Act. | 2025-01-14T19:03:55Z | |
| 104-hr-3467 | 104 | hr | 3467 | Saving Our Children: The American Community Renewal Act of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-05-16 | 1996-07-30 | Joint Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Human Resources and by the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families. | House | Rep. Watts, J. C., Jr. [R-OK-4] | OK | R | W000210 | 52 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Designation and Treatment of Renewal Communities Title II: Additional Tax Provisions Title IV (sic): Low-Income Educational Opportunity Scholarship Program Title III (sic): Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Title V (sic): CRA Credit for Investments in Community Development Organizations Located in Renewal Communities Saving Our Children: The American Community Renewal Act of 1996 - Title I: Designation and Treatment of Renewal Communities - Renewing American Communities Act of 1996 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to create a new subchapter on renewal communities (RCs), authorizing designation of not more than 100 areas as RCs if: (1) the areas have pervasive poverty, unemployment, and general distress and meet other requirements; and (2) State and local governments agree to take actions such as tax reduction, crime reduction strategies, and reducing, repealing, or not enforcing within the area certain governmental requirements such as licensing, zoning, and permits. Sets forth special rules for empowerment zones and enterprise communities designated as RCs. Excludes from gross income the capital gain from an RC stock, business property, or partnership interest held more than five years. Allows a deduction for the purchase of RC stock. Allows a deduction to any qualified individual or other person for amounts paid in cash to a family development account for the individual's benefit. Allows family development account use for postsecondary education, first home purchase, business capitalization, medical expenses, and qualified rollovers. Excludes family development accounts from taxation. Requires that the individual resided in an RC and was allowed an earned income credit for the preceding taxable year. Authorizes designation of not more than 25 RCs as FDA matching demonstration areas. Mandates, to the extent provided in appropriations Acts, depositing into each individual's account the amount deposited into that indi… | 2025-08-21T20:14:47Z | |
| 104-hconres-178 | 104 | hconres | 178 | Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 1997 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-05-14 | 1996-06-13 | Message on Senate action sent to the House. | House | Rep. Kasich, John R. [R-OH-12] | OH | R | K000016 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Levels and Amounts Title II: Reconciliation Directions Title III: Budget Enforcement Title IV: Sense of Congress, House, and Senate Provisions Establishes the budget for FY 1997 and sets appropriate budget levels for FY 1998 through 2002. Title I: Levels and Amounts - Sets forth recommended budgetary levels for Federal revenues, total new budget authority, total budget outlays, deficits, public debt, direct loan obligations, and primary loan guarantee commitments. (Sec. 102) Sets forth the amounts of increase in public debt subject to limitation. (Sec. 103) Sets forth Social Security revenues and outlays for purposes of Senate enforcement. (Sec. 104) Sets forth appropriate levels of new budget authority, budget outlays, new direct loan obligations, and new primary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1997 through 2002 for each major functional category. Title II: Reconciliation Directions - Sets forth reconciliation instructions for FY 1997 through 2002 for the authorizing committees. Sets forth instructions in the House of Representatives for: (1) welfare and Medicaid reform and tax relief; (2) Medicare preservation; and (3) tax and miscellaneous direct spending reforms. Establishes a corresponding three-step reconciliation process in the Senate. Title III: Budget Enforcement - Sets forth discretionary spending limits for FY 1997 through 2002. (Sec. 302) Requires amounts realized from the sales of government assets to be scored with respect to the level of budget authority, outlays, or revenues. (Sec. 303) Provides for the determination of the cost of a direct loan under the Federal direct student loan program. (Sec. 304) Provides for deficit neutral adjustments after enactment of legislation which reforms the Superfund program and extends Superfund taxes. (Sec. 305) Authorizes revenue and spending aggregates in the Senate to be reduced and allocations revised for legislation that reduces revenues by providing family tax relief, fuel tax relief, and incentive… | 2025-04-07T15:28:51Z | |
| 104-sconres-57 | 104 | sconres | 57 | An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-05-13 | 1996-05-23 | Returned to the Calendar. Calendar No. 405. (consideration: CR S5550) | Senate | Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM] | NM | R | D000407 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Levels and Amounts Title II: Budgetary Restraints and Rulemaking Title III: Sense of the Congress, House of Representatives, and Senate Establishes the congressional budget for FY 1997 and sets forth appropriate budget levels for FY 1998 through 2002. Title I: Levels and Amounts - Sets forth recommended budgetary levels for Federal revenues, total new budget authority, total budget outlays, deficits, public debt, direct loan obligations, and primary loan guarantee commitments. (Sec. 102) Sets forth amounts of the increase in the public debt for each such fiscal year. (Sec. 103) Sets forth the amounts of Social Security revenues and outlays for each such fiscal year with respect to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund. (Sec. 104) Sets the appropriate levels of new budget authority, budget outlays, new direct loan obligations, and new primary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1997 through 2002 for each major functional category. (Sec. 105) Provides for first and final reconciliations of spending reductions. Directs the Senate Committee on the Budget to report to the Senate a reconciliation bill carrying out all recommendations of specified Senate committees without any substantive revision. Provides for reconciliation of revenue reductions. Directs the Senate Committee on Finance to report to the Senate a reconciliation bill proposing changes in laws within its jurisdiction necessary to reduce, for specified fiscal years and periods: (1) revenues by not more than specified amounts; and (2) outlays by specified amounts. Provides for treatment of reconciliation bills for prior surplus. Title II: Budgetary Restraints and Rulemaking - Sets forth discretionary spending limits for FY 1997 through 2002. (Sec. 202) Authorizes reductions of revenue and spending aggregates and revisions of allocations in the Senate for legislation that reduces revenues by providing family tax relief, fuel tax relief,… | 2025-04-07T15:28:08Z | |
| 104-hconres-174 | 104 | hconres | 174 | Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 1997 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-05-09 | 1996-05-09 | Referred to the House Committee on the Budget. | House | Rep. Neumann, Mark W. [R-WI-1] | WI | R | N000054 | 0 | Establishes the budget for FY 1997 and sets forth appropriate budget levels for FY 1998 through 2002. (Sec. 2) Sets forth recommended budgetary levels for Federal revenues, total new budget authority, total budget outlays, deficits, public debt, direct loan obligations, and primary loan guarantee commitments. (Sec. 3) Sets the appropriate levels of new budget authority, budget outlays, new direct loan obligations, and new primary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1996 through 2002 for each major functional category. (Sec. 4) Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to social security, debt repayment, the consumer price index, the budget process, Government shutdowns and funding lapses, and congressional pensions. | 2025-04-07T15:26:49Z | |
| 104-hr-3414 | 104 | hr | 3414 | To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to provide for a sequestration of all budgetary accounts for fiscal year 1997 (except Social Security, Federal retirement, and interest on the debt) equal to 5 percent of the OMB baseline. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-05-08 | 1996-05-08 | Referred to the House Committee on the Budget. | House | Rep. Campbell, Tom [R-CA-15] | CA | R | C000100 | 0 | Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to require: (1) a sequestration of five percent of the OMB (Office of Management and Budget) baseline for that fiscal year; and (2) the President to immediately fully implement the sequestration. Exempts benefits under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, retirement benefits for members of the uniformed services or U.S. officers or employees, and payments for net interest. | 2025-04-07T15:26:49Z | |
| 104-hr-3392 | 104 | hr | 3392 | Intelligence Budget Accountability Act of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-05-06 | 1996-05-08 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology. | House | Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14] | MI | D | C000714 | 46 | Intelligence Budget Accountability Act of 1996 - Directs the President to include in the annual budget submitted to the Congress a separate, unclassified statement of the appropriations and proposed appropriations for the current fiscal year, and the amount of appropriations requested for the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted, for national and tactical intelligence activities. | 2026-03-23T12:17:56Z | |
| 104-hconres-170 | 104 | hconres | 170 | Providing a sense of Congress that the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation should use dynamic economic modeling in addition to static economic modeling in the preparation of budgetary estimates of proposed changes in Federal revenue law. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-05-02 | 1996-05-02 | Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. | House | Rep. Campbell, Tom [R-CA-15] | CA | R | C000100 | 10 | Declares that, in addition to other estimates, the Joint Committee on Taxation and the Congressional Budget Office should: (1) prepare a fiscal estimate of each proposed change in Federal law (having an impact over $1 million in any year) on the basis of assumptions that estimate the probable behavioral responses of personal and business taxpayers and other entities and the dynamic macro-economic feedback effects of the change; and (2) identify those assumptions. | 2025-04-07T15:26:49Z | |
| 104-s-1722 | 104 | s | 1722 | Working Families Economic Security Act of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-05-02 | 1996-05-02 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Wellstone, Paul D. [D-MN] | MN | D | W000288 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Minimum Wage Guarantee Title II: Income Equity Title III: Worker Protection in Labor Disputes Title IV: Workforce of the Future Subtitle A: General Provisions Subtitle B: Streamlining and Consolidation Subtitle C: Market Building Activities Subtitle D: One-Stop Career Centers Title V: Corporate Accountability Title VI: Health Insurance Reform Subtitle A: Health Care Access, Portability, and Renewability Subtitle B: Application and Enforcement of Standards Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Provisions Title VII: Pensions Title VIII: North American Trade Fairness Act Title IX: Commission on Retirement Income Policy Working Families Economic Security Act of 1996 - Title I: Minimum Wage Guarantee - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the Federal minimum wage to: (1) $4.70 an hour during FY 1997; and (2) $5.15 an hour during FY 1998. Provides for indexation of the minimum wage in FY 2000, and biennially thereafter, according to a formula based on a portion of an average hourly wage nationwide. Title II: Income Equity - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny employers a deduction for payments of excessive compensation (more than 25 times the lowest compensation paid any other employee). Title III: Worker Protection in Labor Disputes - Amends the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to make it an unfair labor practice for an employer to promise, threaten, or take other action to hire a permanent replacement for an employee who: (1) at the beginning of a labor dispute was in a bargaining unit in which a labor organization either was the certified or recognized exclusive representative, or was seeking to be so certified or recognized, on the basis of written authorizations by a majority of unit employees; and (2) in connection with that dispute has engaged in concerted activities for collective bargaining or other mutual aid and prot… | 2025-08-21T20:17:09Z | |
| 104-sjres-54 | 104 | sjres | 54 | A joint resolution proposing a balanced budget constitutional amendment. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-05-02 | 1996-05-02 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] | OR | D | W000779 | 5 | Constitutional Amendment - Requires a balanced Federal budget, unless a three-fifths roll call vote of both Houses of the Congress provides for a specific excess of outlays over receipts. Prohibits an increase in the public debt limit except by a three-fifths roll call vote by both Houses of the Congress. Requires the President to submit a balanced budget to the Congress. Prohibits any bill increasing revenue from becoming law unless approved by a majority roll call vote of both Houses. Provides for waiver during a declared war or when the United States is involved in a military conflict that causes an imminent and serious military threat to national security. Declares that the judicial power of the United States shall not extend to any case or controversy arising under this amendment, except as authorized by adopted legislation. Exempts from total receipts and outlays: (1) receipts from, and outlays to the principal of, borrowing; and (2) receipts and outlays regarding Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 104-hr-3379 | 104 | hr | 3379 | To amend chapter 11 of title 31, United States Code, to require that each President's budget submission to Congress include a detailed plan to achieve a balanced Federal budget, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-05-01 | 1996-05-03 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology. | House | Rep. Condit, Gary A. [D-CA-18] | CA | D | C000670 | 11 | Amends Federal law to require that the President's annual budget include a detailed plan to achieve a balanced budget in the following six years. Requires the Congressional Budget Office's Director to determine, certify, and inform the Congress regarding whether that plan achieves a balanced budget. Requires the Congress, if the budget is certified as not being balanced, to return the budget to the President. Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it not in order in the House to consider any budget concurrent resolution unless it provides for a balanced budget. Allows the House to waive that rule if a declared war is in effect or the United States faces an imminent and serious military threat to national security and is so declared by a joint resolution which becomes law. Prohibits the Rules Committee from reporting any rule or order waiving that rule. | 2026-03-23T12:17:56Z | |
| 104-hr-3351 | 104 | hr | 3351 | Corporate Welfare Reform Act | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-04-30 | 1996-04-30 | Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. | House | Rep. Foglietta, Thomas M. [D-PA-1] | PA | D | F000235 | 23 | Corporate Welfare Reform Act - Establishes the Corporate Independence Commission to study reductions in corporate subsidies to reduce the Federal budget deficit. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth procedures for making recommendations for corporate subsidy reductions. Directs the Chairman of the Commission to develop and publish criteria to be used in making such recommendations based on specified factors, including the number and income categories of individuals affected. Requires the Commission, during every Congress, to identify and review corporate subsidies and, after weighing each subsidy's cost against its value in creating jobs, publish a report recommending corporate subsidy reductions sufficient to raise specified amounts of revenue and alternative methods for funding such subsidies. Directs the Comptroller General to report to the President on the Commission's recommendations. Provides for: (1) the President's approval or disapproval of the recommendations contained in the Commission's report; (2) transmission of a revised list of recommendations for the President's approval; and (3) introduction of legislation to make approved reductions. Establishes a Joint Committee on Corporate Subsidy Reduction which shall have jurisdiction over such legislation and other bills and resolutions which would accomplish the Government-wide reduction or elimination of corporate subsidies. Sets forth congressional procedures for consideration of the legislation. Provides that 45 days after the introduction of a bill under this Act in the House or the Senate, the Commission is authorized to reduce or eliminate any identified corporate subsidy to the extent specified in the transmitted recommendations unless: (1) a joint resolution disapproving all such recommendations becomes law; or (2) a bill introduced under this Act, a bill reported from the Joint Committee, or a bill with respect to which the Joint Committee has been discharged from further consideration becomes law. | 2025-08-21T20:16:14Z | |
| 104-hjres-175 | 104 | hjres | 175 | Deposit Insurance Funds Act of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-04-23 | 1996-04-24 | Became Public Law No: 104-131. | House | Rep. Livingston, Bob [R-LA-1] | LA | R | L000371 | 0 | Amends the Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, I to extend its title I and title II continuing appropriations provisions by one day, from April 24 to April 25, 1996. | 2025-08-21T20:14:02Z | |
| 104-s-1685 | 104 | s | 1685 | American Family Income and Economic Security Act of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-04-18 | 1996-04-18 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000148 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: American Family Economic Security Subtitle A: Wage Security Subtitle B: Retirement Security Subtitle C: Health Security Subtitle D: Employee Security Title II: Incentives for Lifelong Learning Title III: High-Wage Jobs for American Families Subtitle A: Business Incentives Subtitle B: Preservation of American Jobs Subtitle C: Promotion of Long-Term Investments in American Businesses Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions American Family Income and Economic Security Act of 1996 - Title I: American Family Economic Security - Subtitle A: Wage Security - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to raise the minimum wage. Subtitle B: Retirement Security - Part I: IRA Deduction - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (Code) to increase individual retirement account (IRA) income limitations. Provides inflation adjustments for deductible amounts and income limitations. Part II: Nondeductible Tax-Free IRAs - Establishes special nondeductible tax-free IRAs. Part III: Penalty-Free Distributions - Permits distributions from certain qualified retirement plans without penalty for: (1) first home purchases; (2) higher education expenses; (3) financially devastating medical expenses; or (4) certain unemployed persons. Part IV: Plan Loans - Establishes defined contribution plan loan requirements. Subtitle C: Health Security - Part I: Definitions - Defines specified terms. Part II: Health Care Access, Portability, and Renewability - Subpart A: Group Market Rules - Provides for: (1) guaranteed availability and renewability of health plan coverage; and (2) coverage portability and limitations on preexisting condition exclusions; (3) special enrollment periods; and (4) health plan disclosures. Subpart B: Individual Market Rules - Provides for: (1) individual health plan marketability; (2) guaranteed renewability; and (3) State flexibility in individual market reforms. Subpart C: CO… | 2025-08-21T20:14:07Z | |
| 104-hr-3241 | 104 | hr | 3241 | More Power for Empowerment Zones Act of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-04-15 | 1996-05-22 | Executive Comment Requested from DOD. | House | Rep. Foglietta, Thomas M. [D-PA-1] | PA | D | F000235 | 14 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Tax Treatment of Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities Subtitle A: Designation of Additional Empowerment Zones Subtitle B: Increased Incentives for Empowerments Zones and Enterprise Communities Subtitle C: Brownfields Redevelopment Act Title II: Assistance for Infrastructure Improvements and Development Title III: Additional Benefits for Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities Title IV: Regulatory Flexibility More Power for Empowerment Zones Act of 1996 - Title I: Tax Treatment of Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities - Subtitle A: Designation of Additional Empowerment Zones - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the designation of additional empowerment zones. Subtitle B: Increased Incentives for Empowerments Zones and Enterprise Communities - Modifies requirements regarding: (1) the tax exempt status of enterprize zone facility bonds; and (2) expensing. (Sec. 114) Excludes from gross income capital gains on zone assets. Allows deductions for the purchase of enterprise zone stock. (Sec. 115) Allows a business investment deduction for commercial revitalization. Subtitle C: Brownfields Redevelopment Act - Allows: (1) a business credit for empowerment zones for 50 percent of the costs of environmental remediation; and (2) the use of redevelopment bonds for environmental remediation. Title II: Assistance for Infrastructure Improvements and Development - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to: (1) guarantee debt instruments issued by local governments or their designated agencies to finance infrastructure activities to be carried out in empowerment zones or enterprise communities; and (2) require the local government to provide security. Mandates a revolving fund to make loans to local governments for infrastructure activities in empowerment zones or enterprise communities. Authorizes grants to local governments for infrastruct… | 2025-08-21T20:15:45Z | |
| 104-s-1668 | 104 | s | 1668 | American Workers Economic Security Act | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-04-15 | 1996-04-15 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Job and Income Security Subtitle A: Most Favored Companies Subtitle B: Investment in New Technologies Subtitle C: Minimizing the Adverse Impacts of Mergers and Acquisitions Subtitle D: Corporate Restructurings Subtitle E: Expansion of Educational Opportunities for Workers Subtitle F: Elimination of Tax Incentives for Moving Jobs Overseas Subtitle G: Distressed Community Economic Development Bonds Title II: Retirement Security Title III: Severability American Workers Economic Security Act - Title I: Job and Income Security - Subtitle A: Most Favored Companies - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to provide for a 25 percent reduction in corporate tax on taxable income equaling dividends paid by Secretary of Labor-certified most favored companies which provide employees with training and education benefits (through any approved training program), health care benefits (through insurance or otherwise), pension benefits, child care, among other benefits required by the Secretary. (Sec. 102) Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to give a price evaluation preference to contract offers by most favored companies. (Sec. 103) Expresses the sense of the Senate that most favored companies should receive preference in the provision of various forms of Federal direct financial assistance. Subtitle B: Investment in New Technologies - Amends the Small Business Act to reserve specified funds for the small business technology transfer program. (Sec. 112) Amends IRC to provide for permanent extension of the tax credit for research activities. (Sec. 113) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the total level of non-defense research and development spending in the Federal budget should be increased in equal increments over a five fiscal year period to 2.77 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product. Subtitle C: Minimizing the Adverse… | 2025-08-21T20:15:01Z | |
| 104-hjres-170 | 104 | hjres | 170 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-03-29 | 1996-03-29 | Became Public Law No: 104-122. | House | Rep. Livingston, Bob [R-LA-1] | LA | R | L000371 | 0 | Amends the Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, I, as amended, and Public Law 104-92, as amended, to extend the March 29 and April 3 appropriation deadline provisions under such Acts to April 24, 1996. Provides a full year Federal payment to the District of Columbia. Amends the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996, to apply Federal labor-management relations requirements to the Federal Aviation Administration personnel management system developed and implemented under such Act. Amends the Auburn Indian Restoration Act to authorize (currently, require) the Secretary of the Interior to accept California lands into trust status on behalf of the tribe. Makes appropriations through FY 1996 to the Agency for International Development for assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States (including a transfer of funds) for demining and economic revitalization assistance to Bosnia and Herzegovina, under specified requirements and conditions. | 2025-04-07T15:26:36Z | |
| 104-s-1657 | 104 | s | 1657 | A bill requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to make recommendations for reducing the national debt. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-03-29 | 1996-03-29 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Faircloth, Lauch [R-NC] | NC | R | F000437 | 1 | Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct a study of, and report to the Congress recommendations with respect to, methods for reducing the U.S. national debt. | 2025-01-14T18:59:41Z | |
| 104-sres-237 | 104 | sres | 237 | A resolution to express the sense of the Senate regarding reduction of the national debt. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-03-29 | 1996-03-29 | Referred jointly to the Committees on Budget; Governmental Affairs pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, with instructions that if one Committee reports, the other Committee have thirty days to report or be discharged. | Senate | Sen. Faircloth, Lauch [R-NC] | NC | R | F000437 | 0 | Expresses the sense of the Senate that any comprehensive legislation that balances the budget by a certain date and is agreed to by the Congress and the President shall also contain a strategy for reducing the U.S. national debt. | 2025-01-14T19:03:55Z | |
| 104-sres-238 | 104 | sres | 238 | A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that any budget or tax legislation should include expanded access to individual retirement accounts. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-03-29 | 1996-03-29 | Referred jointly to the Committees on Budget; Governmental Affairs pursuant to the order of August, 4, 1977, with instructions that if one Committee reports, the other Committee have thirty days to report or be discharged. | Senate | Sen. Helms, Jesse [R-NC] | NC | R | H000463 | 13 | Expresses the sense of the Senate that any budget agreement or appropriate tax measure coming before Congress this year shall include expanded access to individual retirement accounts. | 2025-01-14T19:03:55Z | |
| 104-hr-3184 | 104 | hr | 3184 | Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-03-28 | 1996-06-06 | Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 302. | House | Rep. Horn, Stephen [R-CA-38] | CA | R | H000789 | 5 | Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996 - Prohibits the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in prescribing risk-based program selection criteria for major programs, from requiring the identification of more programs as major for a particular non-Federal entity, subject to specified exceptions, than would be identified if the major programs were defined as any program for which total expenditures for Federal awards by the non-Federal entity exceed specified dollar amounts or percentages of the non-Federal entity's total Federal expenditures. Directs that, in any fiscal year, a non-Federal entity have either a single audit or a program-specific audit if such entity expends a total Federal award amount in excess of a specified amount. Sets forth audit requirements and exceptions. Requires the non-Federal entity to transmit a reporting package to a Federal clearinghouse and make it available for public inspection within a specified time frame. | 2026-03-23T12:17:56Z | |
| 104-hr-3168 | 104 | hr | 3168 | National Infrastructure Development Act of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-03-27 | 1996-05-17 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy. | House | Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3] | CT | D | D000216 | 5 | National Infrastructure Development Act of 1996 - Establishes as a wholly owned Government corporation: (1) the National Infrastructure Development Corporation (NIDC), which shall make new sources of financing (including public benefit bonds) available for the development of infrastructure facilities; and (2) the National Infrastructure Insurance Corporation (NIIC), which shall be a subsidiary of NIDC issuing insurance, reinsurance and related undertakings with respect to obligations for development of such facilities. Requires NIDC and NIIC to conduct their respective businesses as self-supporting entities. Directs the boards of directors of each to establish criteria for determining eligibility for financial assistance. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) initial targeting of ready-to-go projects; (2) development risk insurance; (3) discretion of NIDC and NIIC to provide assistance; (4) final decisions regarding providing assistance to be made by an independent investment committee; and (5) capitalization, organization, and management of NIDC and NIIC. Requires the NIDC to prepare and revise as necessary a strategic plan for the transition of NIDC and all its subsidiaries to a government-sponsored enterprise, and for the sale or transfer to investors other than the Federal Government of NIDC's voting securities. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-21T20:15:18Z | |
| 104-hr-3162 | 104 | hr | 3162 | National Infrastructure Development Act of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-03-26 | 1996-04-08 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation. | House | Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3] | CT | D | D000216 | 0 | National Infrastructure Development Act of 1996 - Establishes as a wholly owned Government corporation: (1) the National Infrastructure Development Corporation (NIDC), which shall make new sources of financing (including public benefit bonds) available for the development of infrastructure facilities; and (2) the National Infrastructure Insurance Corporation (NIIC), which shall be a subsidiary of NIDC issuing insurance, reinsurance and related undertakings with respect to obligations for development of such facilities. Requires NIDC and NIIC to conduct their respective businesses as self-supporting entities. Directs the boards of directors of each to establish criteria for determining eligibility for financial assistance. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) initial targeting of ready-to-go projects; (2) development risk insurance; (3) discretion of NIDC and NIIC to provide assistance; (4) final decisions regarding providing assistance to be made by an independent investment committee; and (5) capitalization, organization, and management of NIDC and NIIC. Requires the NIDC to prepare and revise as necessary a strategic plan for the transition of NIDC and all its subsidiaries to a government-sponsored enterprise, and for the sale or transfer to investors other than the Federal Government of NIDC's voting securities. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-21T20:14:18Z | |
| 104-hr-3136 | 104 | hr | 3136 | Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-03-21 | 1996-03-29 | Became Public Law No: 104-121. | House | Rep. Archer, Bill [R-TX-7] | TX | R | A000215 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Social Security Earnings Limitation Amendments Title II: Small Business Regulatory Fairness Subtitle A: Regulatory Compliance Simplification Subtitle B: Regulatory Enforcement Reforms Subtitle C: Equal Access to Justice Act Amendments Subtitle D: Regulatory Flexibility Act Amendments Subtitle E: Congressional Review Title III: Public Debt Limit Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996 - Title I: Social Security Earnings Limitation Amendments - Senior Citizens' Right to Work Act of 1996 - Amends title II (Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide, through adjustments in the monthly exempt amount, for increases in the amounts of allowable earnings under the social security earnings limit for individuals who have attained retirement age. (Sec. 103) Earmarks certain OASDI funding for continuing disability reviews under SSA titles II and XVI for FY 1996 through 2002. Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to provide for adjustments to discretionary spending limits under that Act for continuing disability reviews not exceeding specified levels of additional new budget authority and outlays for such reviews increasing on a graduated basis for FY 1996 through 2002. Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to direct the appropriate congressional committee chairmen to: (1) make the prescribed adjustments under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 for continuing disability reviews for FY 1996; and (2) make other specified adjustments to reflect the additional new budget authority for such reviews provided in appropriations measures or conference reports when they are reported, and the additional outlays flowing from the amounts in them for such reviews. Directs the Commissioner of Social Security to: (1) ensure that funds made available for continuing dis… | 2026-03-23T12:17:56Z | |
| 104-hjres-165 | 104 | hjres | 165 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-03-20 | 1996-03-22 | Became Public Law No: 104-118. | House | Rep. Livingston, Bob [R-LA-1] | LA | R | L000371 | 0 | Amends: (1) the Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, I (Pub.L. 104-99) to extend the March 22 appropriations deadline provisions to March 29; and (2) Pub.L. 104-92 to extend the March 22 appropriations deadline provisions to April 3. | 2025-04-07T15:26:36Z | |
| 104-hr-3102 | 104 | hr | 3102 | Common Sense Corporate Responsibility Act of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-03-14 | 1996-03-20 | Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior. | House | Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1] | IN | D | V000108 | 8 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Corporate Tax and Agricultural Related Provisions Title II: Mineral Exploration and Development Subtitle A: Mineral Exploration and Development Subtitle B: Environmental Considerations of Mineral Exploration and Development Subtitle C: Abandoned Locatable Minerals Mine Reclamation Fund Subtitle D: Administrative and Miscellaneous Provisions Common Sense Corporate Responsibility Act of 1996 - Title I: Corporate Tax and Agricultural Related Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the election to take the percentage credit under the Puerto Rico and possessions tax credit provisions; (2) eliminate the exclusion of certain income of foreign sales corporations; and (3) repeal alcohol fuel incentives. (Sec. 104) Amends the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to require the payment of the full cost for the delivery of water used for the production of surplus crops. (Sec. 105) Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to repeal: (1) title III (Export Enhancement Program); and (2) the market promotion program provisions. Title II: Mineral Exploration and Development - Subtitle A: Mineral Exploration and Development - Mineral Exploration and Development Act of 1996 - Sets forth guidelines for mineral exploration on public domain lands. Declares that holders of mining claims located or converted and maintained under this Act have the exclusive right of possession and use of the claimed land for mineral activities. (Sec. 205) Prescribes rules for mining claim location and use of public land surveys. Provides for administrative adjudication of conflicting claims. Mandates a specified location fee for every unpatented mining claim located after the date of enactment of this Act. (Sec. 206) Subjects existing unpatented mining claims, mill sites, and tunnel sites to the provisions of this Act ("converted mining claims"). (Sec. 207) Sets forth certain annual claim maintenance fees. Mandates that a… | 2025-08-21T20:15:19Z | |
| 104-hjres-163 | 104 | hjres | 163 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-03-13 | 1996-03-15 | Became Public Law No: 104-116. | House | Rep. Livingston, Bob [R-LA-1] | LA | R | L000371 | 0 | Amends the Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, I (Public Law 104-99) and Public Law 104-92 to extend March 15 appropriations deadline provisions to March 22. | 2025-04-07T15:26:36Z | |
| 104-hr-3076 | 104 | hr | 3076 | Children's Right to Know Act of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-03-13 | 1996-03-18 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology. | House | Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21] | TX | R | S000583 | 25 | Children's Right to Know Act of 1996 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to direct that the report accompanying the concurrent resolution on the budget include an analysis, prepared after consultation with the Congressional Budget Office Director, of the generational accounting consequences of the concurrent resolution. Amends Federal law to require the President's annual budget to include an analysis of the generational accounting consequences of the budget. | 2026-03-23T12:17:56Z | |
| 104-hr-3021 | 104 | hr | 3021 | To guarantee the continuing full investment of Social Security and other Federal funds in obligations of the United States. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-03-06 | 1996-03-12 | Became Public Law No: 104-115. | House | Rep. Archer, Bill [R-TX-7] | TX | R | A000215 | 0 | Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue to each Federal fund U.S. obligations, under the public debt provisions of the U.S. Code, before March 30, 1996, in an amount not to exceed the sum of: (1) the amounts deposited in such fund on or after the earlier of the date the Secretary would not otherwise be able to issue such obligations to such fund, or March 15, 1996, and before March 30, 1996; and (2) the face amount of obligations held by such fund which mature during such period. Exempts such obligations from the public debt limit until the earlier of: (1) the date of enactment of the first increase in the public debt limit after enactment of this Act; or (2) March 30, 1996. Amends Public Law 104-103 to extend from March 15, 1996, to March 30, 1996, the Secretary's authority to issue U.S. obligations in an amount equal to the monthly insurance benefits payable under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act in March 1996. | 2025-04-07T15:26:46Z | |
| 104-s-1594 | 104 | s | 1594 | An original bill making omnibus consolidated rescissions and appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-03-06 | 1996-03-06 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 343. | Senate | Sen. Hatfield, Mark O. [R-OR] | OR | R | H000343 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Omnibus Appropriations Title I (sic): Department of Justice Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Title III: The Judiciary Title IV: Department of State and Related Agencies Title V: Related Agencies Title VI: General Provisions Title VII: Rescissions Title VIII: Prison Litigation Reform Title I (sic): Fiscal Year 1996 Appropriations Title II: District of Columbia School Reform Subtitle A: District of Columbia Reform Plan Subtitle B: Public Charter Schools Subtitle C: Even Start Subtitle D: World Class Schools Task Force, Core Curriculum, Content Standards, Assessments and Promotion Gates Subtitle E: Per Capita District of Columbia Public School and Public Charter School Funding Subtitle F: School Facilities Repair and Improvement Subtitle G: Residential School Subtitle H: Progress Reports and Accountability Subtitle I: Partnerships with Business Subtitle J: Management and Fiscal Accountability Subtitle K: Personal Accountability and Preservation of School-Based Resources Subtitle L: Establishment and Organization of the Commission on Consensus Reform in the District of Columbia Public Schools Subtitle M: Parent Attendance at Parent-Teacher Conferences Title I (sic): Department of the Interior Title II: Related Agencies Title III: General Provisions Title I (sic): Department of Labor Title II: Department of Health and Human Services Title III: Department of Education Title IV: Related Agencies Title V: General Provisions Title I (sic): Department of Veterans Affairs Title II: Department of Housing and Urban Development Title III: Independent Agencies Title IV: Corporations Title V: Gen… | 2025-04-07T15:30:34Z | |
| 104-hr-3019 | 104 | hr | 3019 | Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-03-05 | 1996-04-30 | Pursuant to the provisions of S.J. Res. 53, enrollment corrections have been made. | House | Rep. Livingston, Bob [R-LA-1] | LA | R | L000371 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Omnibus Appropriations Title I (sic): Department of Justice Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Title III: The Judiciary Title IV: Department of State and Related Agencies Title V: Related Agencies Title VI: General Provisions Title VII: Rescissions Title VIII: Prison Litigation Reform Title I (sic): Fiscal Year 1996 Appropriations Title II: District of Columbia School Reform Title I (sic): Department of the Interior Title II: Related Agencies Title III: General Provisions Title I (sic): Department of Labor Title II: Department of Health and Human Services Title III: Department of Education Title IV: Related Agencies Title V: General Provisions Title VI: Additional Appropriations Title VII: Amendments to the Goals 2000: Educate America Act Title I (sic): Department of Veterans Affairs Title II: Department of Housing and Urban Development Title III: Independent Agencies Title IV: Corporations Title V: General Provisions Title II (sic): Supplemental Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1996 Title III: Rescissions and Offsets Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996 - Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 - Title I: Omnibus Appropriations - Title I: Department of Justice - Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 1996 - Makes FY 1996 appropriations to the Department of Justice, including funding for the Community Relations Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the Federal Prison System. Makes funding available for: (1) the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department; and (2) Boys & Girls Clubs of America for the establishment of such Boys & Girls Clubs in public … | 2025-04-07T15:34:21Z | |
| 104-s-1579 | 104 | s | 1579 | Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-02-27 | 1996-07-05 | Became Public Law No: 104-156. | Senate | Sen. Glenn, John H., Jr. [D-OH] | OH | D | G000236 | 8 | Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996 - Amends the Single Audit Act of 1984 to modify definitions, including the definition of "Federal financial assistance." Prohibits the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in prescribing risk-based program selection criteria for major programs, from requiring the identification of more programs as major for a particular non-Federal entity, subject to specified exceptions, than would be identified if the major programs were defined as any program for which total expenditures for Federal awards by the non-Federal entity exceed specified dollar amounts or percentages of the non-Federal entity's total Federal expenditures. Directs that, in any fiscal year, a non-Federal entity have either a single audit or a program-specific audit if such entity expends a total Federal award amount equal to or in excess of $300,000 or such other specified amount. Sets forth audit requirements and exceptions. Requires a non-Federal entity to transmit a reporting package to a Federal clearinghouse and make it available for public inspection within a specified time frame. | 2025-04-15T16:27:30Z | |
| 104-hr-2968 | 104 | hr | 2968 | To prohibit the use of credit cards by officers and employees of the Federal Government. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-02-23 | 1996-02-28 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology. | House | Rep. Gekas, George W. [R-PA-17] | PA | R | G000121 | 2 | Prohibits any officer or employee of the Federal Government from using for any purpose a credit card issued to such agency (or to such officer or employee in his or her official capacity). | 2026-03-23T12:17:56Z | |
| 104-hr-2965 | 104 | hr | 2965 | To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide an automatic continuing appropriation for the United States Government. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-02-13 | 1996-02-13 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Kleczka, Gerald D. [D-WI-4] | WI | D | K000259 | 0 | Provides for an automatic continuing appropriation for the U.S. Government whenever a regular appropriation bill or continuing resolution for a fiscal year does not become law prior to the beginning of such fiscal year. Appropriates such sums as may be necessary to continue any project or activity for which funds were provided in the preceding fiscal year in the amount provided: (1) in the corresponding regular appropriation Act or continuing resolution for such preceding fiscal year; or (2) if such corresponding appropriation bill or continuing resolution did not become law, then as provided by this Act. Sets forth the terms and conditions relating to such continuing appropriations. Prohibits funding for any project or activity: (1) for which there is no authorization of appropriations for such fiscal year; or (2) during a fiscal year if any other provision of law makes an appropriation, makes funds available, grants continuation authority, or specifically prohibits funding or authority for such project or activity. | 2025-04-07T15:29:59Z | |
| 104-hr-2963 | 104 | hr | 2963 | Keep the Government Open Act of 1996 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-02-06 | 1996-03-05 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1703) | House | Rep. Meek, Carrie P. [D-FL-17] | FL | D | M000628 | 31 | Keep the Government Open Act of 1996 - Amends Federal law to allow an officer or employee of the United States or of the District of Columbia to make a contract or obligation before an appropriation is made if the President determines that an appropriation is likely for that purpose before the end of the fiscal year in an amount exceeding the contract or obligation. Allows a U.S. officer or employee to continue to supply personal services before an appropriation or continuing resolution is enacted if the President determines that an appropriation is likely for that purpose before the end of the fiscal year in an amount exceeding the cost to the government. Requires payment for those services even if no appropriation is enacted if the President so determines. Appropriates funds to pay salaries for each day on which funds are not available (unless an appropriations measure is enacted for the applicable department or agency and the measure makes no appropriation for that salary). | 2026-03-23T12:17:56Z | |
| 104-hr-2924 | 104 | hr | 2924 | To guarantee the timely payment of social security benefits in March 1996. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-02-01 | 1996-02-08 | Became Public Law No: 104-103. | House | Rep. Archer, Bill [R-TX-7] | TX | R | A000215 | 22 | Declares that: (1) Congress intends to pass an increase in the public debt limit before March 1, 1996; and (2) social security beneficiaries should be assured, in the interim, that social security benefits will be paid on a timely basis in March 1996. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue U.S. obligations before March 1, 1996, in an amount equal to the monthly insurance benefits payable under title II (Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act in March 1996. Exempts such obligations from the public debt limit until the earlier of March 15, 1996, or the date of enactment of the first increase in such limit after enactment of this Act. | 2025-04-07T15:26:39Z | |
| 104-hres-360 | 104 | hres | 360 | Affirming the support of the House of Representatives for the preservation of the integrity of the full faith and credit of the United States of America. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-02-01 | 1996-02-01 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Vento, Bruce F. [D-MN-4] | MN | D | V000087 | 27 | Calls for the House of Representatives to immediately enact an increase in the debt limit free of conditions. Affirms continued unequivocal support for the full faith and credit of the United States. Declares that the threat of default should never be employed, issued, or in any way implied in political policy debates in such a manner as would jeopardize the Federal credit rating by casting doubt on whether the Government will honor its debts. | 2025-01-02T17:33:34Z | |
| 104-s-1555 | 104 | s | 1555 | A bill to guarantee the timely payment of social security benefits in March 1996. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-02-01 | 1996-02-01 | Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S726) | Senate | Sen. Dole, Robert J. [R-KS] | KS | R | D000401 | 3 | Declares that: (1) Congress intends to pass an increase in the public debt limit before March 1, 1996; and (2) social security beneficiaries should be assured, in the interim, that social security benefits will be paid on a timely basis in March 1996. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue U.S. obligations before March 1, 1996, in an amount equal to the monthly insurance benefits payable under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act in March 1996. Exempts such obligations from the public debt limit until the earlier of March 15, 1996, or the date of the enactment of the first increase in such limit after the date of the enactment of this Act. | 2016-10-26T07:59:17Z | |
| 104-hconres-137 | 104 | hconres | 137 | Expressing the sense of Congress that mediators should be used in discussions between Congress and the President to produce a balanced budget. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-31 | 1996-02-05 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology. | House | Rep. Minge, David [D-MN-2] | MN | D | M000795 | 7 | Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President and the Congress should use mediators to resolve differences over balancing the budget in seven years. | 2026-03-23T12:17:56Z | |
| 104-hr-2920 | 104 | hr | 2920 | Balanced Budget Act of 1995 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-31 | 1996-01-31 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Smith, Nick [R-MI-7] | MI | R | S000597 | 2 | Balanced Budget Act of 1995 - Prohibits issuing any obligation subject to the limitation (under specified provisions of Federal law relating to the public debt limit) after December 31, 2001, except an obligation issued to refund an obligation issued before January 1, 2002. Provides for the suspension of that prohibition on the enactment of a joint resolution declaring a national emergency. Declares that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, an increase in the public debt limit shall not be effective if it makes the limit greater than: (1) $5.432 trillion between October 1, 1997, and September 30, 1999; or (2) $5.908 trillion after September 30, 1999. | 2025-08-21T20:15:56Z | |
| 104-s-1546 | 104 | s | 1546 | A bill to increase the debt limit. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-30 | 1996-01-30 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD] | SD | D | D000064 | 0 | Amends Federal law to increase the public debt limit to $5.4 trillion. | 2025-04-07T15:23:10Z | |
| 104-hr-2903 | 104 | hr | 2903 | Balanced Budget Act of 1995 for Economic Growth and Fairness | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-26 | 1996-02-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Hazardous Materials, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman. | House | Rep. Kasich, John R. [R-OH-12] | OH | R | K000016 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Banking, Housing, and Related Provisions Title II: Spectrum Allocation Provisions Title III: Medicaid Title IV: Medicare Title V: Welfare Reform Title VI: Federal Retirement Provisions Title VII: Veterans and Related Provisions Title VIII: Assets Sales, User Fees, and other Mandatory Provisions Title IX: Revenues Title X: Budget Enforcement Balanced Budget Act of 1995 for Economic Growth and Fairness - Title I: Banking, Housing, and Related Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Institutions - Directs the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to impose a special assessment on the Savings Association Insurance Fund (SAIF)-assessable deposits of each insured depository institution at a rate applicable to all such institutions that the Board, in its sole discretion, determines will cause the SAIF to achieve the designated reserve ratio on the first business day of January 1996. Allows the Board to exempt weak institutions from such assessment. Mandates exemption from such assessment for certain newly chartered and other specified institutions, but requires such institutions to pay semiannual assessments at certain former rates during calendar years 1996 through 1999. (Sec. 2011) (sic) Authorizes certain institutions facing hardship as a result of the special assessment to elect to pay it in two assessments, plus a third supplemental special assessment, determined according to specified formulae. Prescribes adjustments of the special assessment for Bank Insurance Fund (BIF) member banks and certain savings associations. (Sec. 2012) Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act (FHLBA) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) to revise the assessment authority of the Financing Corporation (FICO), extending FICO assessments to all depository institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) instead of SAIF members only. Repeals specified limits on the amount that may be as… | 2025-08-21T20:15:24Z | |
| 104-s-1533 | 104 | s | 1533 | Community Renewal and Economic Opportunity Act | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-26 | 1996-01-26 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ] | AZ | R | M000303 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Economic Opportunity Subtitle A: Tax Incentives Subtitle B: Contracting Set-Aside Reform Subtitle C: Small Business Mentor Program Title II: Community Infrastructure Title III: Safe Streets Subtitle A: Mandatory Restitution Subtitle B: Asset Forfeiture Assistance Title IV: Educational Opportunity Title V: Family Opportunity Title VI: Volunteer Protection Title VII: Spectrum Auction Community Renewal and Economic Opportunity Act - Title I: Economic Opportunity - Subtitle A: Tax Incentives - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a general ten percent tax credit for qualifying businesses in empowerment zones and enterprise communities. (Sec. 102) Permits an enterprise zone business to elect a ten percent flat tax option. (Sec. 103) Excludes from gross income capital gains from the sale or exchange of a qualified zone asset (as defined by this Act) held for more than five years. (Sec. 104) Increases expensing limits for qualified zone property. (Sec. 105) Excludes from gross income dividends received from zone businesses. (Sec. 106) Increases the work opportunity tax credit and the categories of eligible individuals. Subtitle B: Contracting Set-Aside Reform - Amends the Small Business Act to revise the section 8(a) set-aside program to give preference to economically disadvantaged individuals and small business concerns (as defined by this Act). (Sec. 112) Makes technical and conforming amendments to: (1) specified Federal law; (2) the Federal Home Loan Bank Act; (3) the Small Business Economic Policy Act of 1980; (4) the Small Business Investment Act of 1958; (5) the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act; (6) the Energy Policy Act of 1992; and (7) the Defense Production Act of 1950. Subtitle C: Small Business Mentor Program - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish a small business mentor program to aid businesses owned by economically disadvantag… | 2025-08-21T20:14:25Z | |
| 104-sres-214 | 104 | sres | 214 | A resolution to express the sense of the Senate concerning the payment of social security obligations. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-26 | 1996-01-26 | Referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Brown, Hank [R-CO] | CO | R | B000919 | 0 | Declares the sense of the Senate that, as the Secretary of the Treasury plans for cash flow management in the absence of an extension to the debt limit of the United States, the Secretary shall give first priority to the payment of Social Security benefits over the payment of other Government obligations. | 2025-01-14T18:59:41Z | |
| 104-hr-2880 | 104 | hr | 2880 | Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, I | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-25 | 1996-01-26 | Became Public Law No: 104-99. | House | Rep. Livingston, Bob [R-LA-1] | LA | R | L000371 | 0 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Unnamed Title II: Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Title III: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Title IV: Housing and Urban Development Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, I - Title I: - Makes appropriations for FY 1996 to carry out, at rates not to exceed the current operating rate, the following: (1) the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996; and (2) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996. (Sec. 106) Makes appropriations available until the earlier of: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this Act; (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act without any provision for such project or activity; or (3) March 15, 1996. (Sec. 111) Provides that, except for section 106 provisions, whenever one of the above listed Acts as passed does not include funding for an ongoing project or activity such project or activity may be continued at a rate that is reduced from the current level by 25 percent. (Sec. 112) Provides that, notwithstanding other provisions of this Act, except section 106, whenever the rate of operations for any continuing project or activity for which there is a budget request would result in a furlough of Government employees such rate may be increased to minimum level that would enable the furlough to be avoided. (Sec. 115) Provides that, except for section 106, the rate for operations of the following projects or activities shall be only the minimum necessary to accomplish orderly termination: (1) Child Development Associates Scholarships in the Department of health and Human Services; (2) Dependent Care Planning and Development in the Department of Health and Human Services; (3) Law Related Education in the Department of Education; (4) Dropout Prevention Demonstrations in the De… | 2025-04-07T15:30:29Z | |
| 104-hr-2896 | 104 | hr | 2896 | Balanced Budget Act of 1995 | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-25 | 1996-01-25 | Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Smith, Nick [R-MI-7] | MI | R | S000597 | 13 | Balanced Budget Act of 1995 - Prohibits issuing any obligation subject to the limitation (under specified provisions of Federal law relating to the public debt limit) after December 31, 2001, except an obligation issued to refund an obligation issued before January 1, 2002. Provides for the suspension of that prohibition on the enactment of a joint resolution declaring a national emergency. | 2025-08-21T20:16:22Z | |
| 104-hr-2897 | 104 | hr | 2897 | To increase the public debt limit, to protect the social security trust funds and other federal trust funds and accounts invested in public debt obligations, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-25 | 1996-01-30 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service. | House | Rep. Smith, Nick [R-MI-7] | MI | R | S000597 | 0 | Amends Federal law to increase the public debt limit to $4.92 trillion. Prohibits any U.S. officer or employee from delaying a deposit or credit to, or refraining from investment in public debt obligations in, any Federal fund if the purpose is to reduce or not increase public debt. Allows, notwithstanding the public debt limit, the sale or redemption of public debt obligations held by a covered benefits fund in order to get the cash necessary for payment of benefits or administrative expenses. Prohibits issuance, after December 31, 2001, of public debt obligations subject to limitation under specified provisions of Federal law. Declares that the prohibition does not apply to any obligations issued to refund an obligation issued before January 1, 2002. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, when the Government is unable to borrow sufficient funds because of the public debt limit, to manage the U.S. cash position under the priorities established by the President for making payments. Prohibits any U.S. officer or employee from selling any U.S. property if the primary purpose of the sale is to avoid the public debt limit. | 2025-02-04T16:54:13Z | |
| 104-hjres-157 | 104 | hjres | 157 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-23 | 1996-01-23 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | Extends the law making further continuing appropriations for FY 1996. | 2025-01-02T17:33:51Z | |
| 104-hr-2862 | 104 | hr | 2862 | To permanently increase the public debt limit. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-22 | 1996-01-31 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H978) | House | Rep. Kennelly, Barbara B. [D-CT-1] | CT | D | K000118 | 51 | Amends Federal law to increase the public debt limit to $5.5 trillion. | 2025-01-02T17:37:37Z | |
| 104-hr-2857 | 104 | hr | 2857 | To provide for relief to Federal employees, Federal contractors, and employees of Federal contractors for expenses incurred as a result of nonpayment of basic pay or impediments against contract performance arising from lapses in appropriations. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-05 | 1996-01-23 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service. | House | Rep. Mink, Patsy T. [D-HI-2] | HI | D | M000797 | 7 | Provides that, upon the termination of any period of lapsed appropriations with respect to any agency or instrumentality of the Federal Government or the District of Columbia, Federal employees, Federal contractors, and employees of Federal contractors shall be entitled to reimbursement for financial harm resulting from: (1) any failure to provide for timely payment of basic pay or contract payments during the lapsed period; or (2) the inability of such individual to earn basic pay, to perform the contract, or receive payment under the contract. States that such payments shall be in addition to regular basic pay for Federal employees or payments due Federal contractors under a Federal contract. Provides for administrative remedies for the failure to receive such reimbursement within 60 days after the period of lapsed appropriations involved. | 2025-02-04T16:54:13Z | |
| 104-s-1516 | 104 | s | 1516 | A bill making appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services for retirement pay and medical benefits for commissioned officers of the Public Health Service for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-05 | 1996-01-05 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. | Senate | Sen. Robb, Charles S. [D-VA] | VA | D | R000295 | 0 | Appropriates funds for: (1) retirement pay and medical benefits of Public Health Service commissioned officers; (2) payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection Plan and Survivor Benefits Plan; (3) medical care of dependents and retired personnel under specified provisions of Federal law relating to the armed forces; and (4) payments under provisions of title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act relating to benefits in the case of members of the uniformed services. | 2025-04-07T15:23:12Z | |
| 104-sconres-38 | 104 | sconres | 38 | A concurrent resolution restating the commitment to a seven year balanced budget. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-05 | 1996-01-22 | Held at the desk. | Senate | Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD] | SD | D | D000064 | 0 | Resolves that the President and the Congress shall enact legislation in the second session of the 104th Congress to achieve a balanced budget not later than FY 2002 as estimated by the Congressional Budget Office. Sets forth additional criteria for that budget. | 2025-01-02T17:39:34Z | |
| 104-hjres-156 | 104 | hjres | 156 | Making further continuing appropriations for railroad retirement benefits for fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-04 | 1996-01-04 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7] | MN | D | P000258 | 0 | Makes continuing appropriations for activities under the account heading "Dual Benefits Payment Account" under the Railroad Retirement Board at the current rate, the rate passed by the House of Representatives, or the rate passed by the Senate, whichever is least, until an applicable appropriation is enacted into law or September 30, 1996, whichever is first. Sets forth requirements and limitations. | 2025-01-02T17:33:51Z | |
| 104-sjres-46 | 104 | sjres | 46 | A joint resolution making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996 for the operations of the Passport Office of the Department of State. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-04 | 1996-01-04 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. | Senate | Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY] | NY | D | M001054 | 0 | Makes continuing appropriations for the Passport Office of the bureau of Consular Affairs, Department of State, at the current rate, the rate passed by the House of Representatives, or the rate passed by the Senate, whichever is least, until an applicable appropriation is enacted into law or September 30, 1996, whichever is first. | 2025-01-14T18:18:18Z | |
| 104-hconres-130 | 104 | hconres | 130 | To express the sense of the Congress that the Bureau of Labor Statistics should develop and publish monthly a cost of living index. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-03 | 1996-01-19 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. | House | Rep. Pickett, Owen B. [D-VA-2] | VA | D | P000326 | 1 | Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Bureau of Labor Statistics should develop and publish a monthly cost of living index. | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | |
| 104-hjres-138 | 104 | hjres | 138 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-03 | 1996-01-03 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | Extends the law making further continuing appropriations for FY 1996. | 2025-01-02T17:33:50Z | |
| 104-hjres-139 | 104 | hjres | 139 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-03 | 1996-01-03 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | Extends the law making further continuing appropriations for FY 1996. | 2025-01-02T17:33:51Z | |
| 104-hjres-140 | 104 | hjres | 140 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-03 | 1996-01-03 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | Extends the law making further continuing appropriations for FY 1996. | 2025-01-02T17:33:50Z | |
| 104-hjres-141 | 104 | hjres | 141 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-03 | 1996-01-03 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | Extends the law making further continuing appropriations for FY 1996. | 2025-01-02T17:33:50Z | |
| 104-hjres-142 | 104 | hjres | 142 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-03 | 1996-01-03 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | Extends the law making further continuing appropriations for FY 1996. | 2025-01-02T17:33:51Z | |
| 104-hjres-143 | 104 | hjres | 143 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-03 | 1996-01-03 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | Extends the law making further continuing appropriations for FY 1996. | 2025-01-02T17:33:51Z | |
| 104-hjres-144 | 104 | hjres | 144 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-03 | 1996-01-03 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | Extends the law making further continuing appropriations for FY 1996. | 2025-01-02T17:33:50Z | |
| 104-hjres-145 | 104 | hjres | 145 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-03 | 1996-01-03 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | Extends the law making further continuing appropriations for FY 1996. | 2025-01-02T17:33:50Z | |
| 104-hjres-146 | 104 | hjres | 146 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-03 | 1996-01-03 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | Extends the law making further continuing appropriations for FY 1996. | 2025-01-02T17:33:51Z | |
| 104-hjres-147 | 104 | hjres | 147 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-03 | 1996-01-03 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | Extends the law making further continuing appropriations for FY 1996. | 2025-01-02T17:33:51Z | |
| 104-hjres-148 | 104 | hjres | 148 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-03 | 1996-01-03 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | Extends the law making further continuing appropriations for FY 1996. | 2025-01-02T17:33:50Z | |
| 104-hjres-149 | 104 | hjres | 149 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-03 | 1996-01-03 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | Extends the law making further continuing appropriations for FY 1996. | 2025-01-02T17:33:50Z | |
| 104-hjres-150 | 104 | hjres | 150 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-03 | 1996-01-03 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | Extends the law making further continuing appropriations for FY 1996. | 2025-01-02T17:33:51Z | |
| 104-hjres-151 | 104 | hjres | 151 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-03 | 1996-01-03 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | Amends a specified Federal law making continuing appropriations to extend (for activities for which funding would be available under the appropriations Act for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies for 1996) the specific termination date of appropriations and authority under the continuing appropriations Act to January 12, 1996 (currently, December 15, 1995). | 2025-01-02T17:33:51Z | |
| 104-hjres-152 | 104 | hjres | 152 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-03 | 1996-01-03 | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. | House | Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7] | WI | D | O000007 | 0 | Amends a specified Federal law making continuing appropriations to extend (for activities for which funding would be available under the appropriations Act for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies for 1996) the specific termination date of appropriations and authority under the continuing appropriations Act to January 26, 1996 (currently, December 15, 1995). | 2025-01-02T17:33:51Z | |
| 104-hjres-153 | 104 | hjres | 153 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-03 | 1996-01-04 | Became Public Law No: 104-90. | House | Rep. Walsh, James T. [R-NY-25] | NY | R | W000099 | 0 | Makes continuing appropriations for FY 1996, at a level that is to be no more than the current level, for the District of Columbia. (Sec. 106) Makes appropriations in this title available, unless otherwise provided for in this title or an applicable appropriations Act, until the first of the following events: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity of this title; (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act without any provision for such project or activity; or (3) January 25, 1996. (Sec. 111) Provides that if funding is not provided for an ongoing project or the projects's rate of operations is significantly reduced it may be continued at a minimal level. Defines minimal level as the current rate reduced by 25 percent. (Sec. 116) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this title to implement any system of registration of unmarried cohabiting couples, whether homosexual, lesbian, or heterosexual. | 2025-04-07T15:26:36Z | |
| 104-hjres-155 | 104 | hjres | 155 | Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. | Economics and Public Finance | 1996-01-03 | 1996-01-05 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H191) | House | Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18] | TX | D | J000032 | 59 | Amends a specified Federal law making continuing appropriations to extend the specific termination date of appropriations and authority under that Act to January 19, 1996 (currently, December 15, 1995). Modifies the definition of minimal level (to which operations would be reduced in certain circumstances) to mean a reduction of ten (currently, 25) percent from the current rate. Mandates compensation at standard rates for any U.S. or District of Columbia officer or employee furloughed because of a lapse in appropriations after December 15, 1995. Ratifies certain types of obligations incurred in anticipation of the appropriations made and authority granted by this resolution. | 2025-04-07T15:29:54Z |
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