SUMMARY AS OF:
11/17/1999--Introduced.
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 Agency
Title V: Related Agencies
Title VI: General Provisions
Title VII: Rescissions
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 - Makes appropriations for FY 2000 for the
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the judiciary, and related
agencies.
Title I: Department of Justice - Department of Justice Appropriations
Act, 2000 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice for: (1) general
administration; (2) a Joint Automated Booking System; (3) conversion to
narrowband communications; (4) counterterrorism activities; (5) payments of
costs of telecommunications carriers in complying with capability requirements;
(6) administration of pardon and clemency petitions and immigration-related
activities; (7) the Office of Inspector General; (8) the U.S. Parole Commission;
(9) legal activities; (10) antitrust activities; (11) the Offices of U.S.
Attorneys; (12) the U.S. Trustee Program; (13) the Foreign Claims Settlement
Commission; (14) the U.S. Marshals Service, including an amount for Federal
prisoner detention; (15) fees and expenses of witnesses; (16) the Community
Relations Service; (17) certain uses of the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (18)
administrative expenses related to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act; (19)
the Radiation Exposure Compensation Trust Fund; (20) interagency law enforcement
with respect to organized crime drug trafficking; (21) the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI); (22) construction for specified agencies; (23) the Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA); (24) the Immigration and Naturalization
Service (INS); (25) the Federal prison system, including an amount for buildings
and facilities; (26) the Office of Justice programs; (27) State and local law
enforcement assistance; (28) the Executive Office for Weed and Seed; (29)
community oriented policing services; (30) juvenile justice programs; and (31)
public safety officers' benefits.
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds.
(Sec. 103) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this title to: (1) pay
for abortions except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the
fetus were carried to term, or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to
perform or facilitate an abortion.
(Sec. 109) Makes certain provisions of the Departments of Commerce, Justice,
and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 relating
to the obligation of certain counterterrorism funds without regard to Federal
acquisition rules and restriction on information disclosure in specified actions
filed by prisoners applicable to FY 2000 and thereafter.
(Sec. 112) Makes a provision of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations
Act, 1999 relating to grants for assistance to the victims of Pan Am Flight 103
applicable for FY 2000.
(Sec. 113) Amends the Federal judicial code to increase certain bankruptcy
filing fees and the percentage of such fees to be deposited into the U.S.
Trustee System Fund and a fund for operation and maintenance of the U.S. courts.
(Sec. 115) Prohibits the use of funds made available by any Act to pay
premium pay to any Department of Justice attorney.
(Sec. 117) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Attorney
General to grant a national interest waiver of a requirement that certain
professional aliens' services be sought by U.S. employers before a visa is
offered on behalf of any alien physician with respect to whom a petition for
preference classification has been filed if: (1) such physician agrees to work
in an area designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services as having a
shortage of health care professionals or at a health care facility under the
jurisdiction of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and (2) a Federal agency or
State department of public health has previously determined the physician's work
in such an area or at such facility was in the public interest.
Bars the issuance of a permanent resident visa to such an alien and
adjustment of status to permanent resident alien until the alien has worked full
time as a physician for an aggregate of five years in the health care shortage
areas described in this section. Reduces such work requirement to three years
for physicians for whom waivers were filed prior to November 1, 1998.
(Sec. 118) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make permanent the
land border inspection fee program. (Currently, such program expires on
September 30, 2000.)
(Sec. 119) Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to make funds available
from the Crime Victims Fund for the U.S. Attorneys Offices to improve services
for the benefit of crime victims in the Federal criminal justice system.
(Sec. 120) Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
to authorize the FBI Director to establish an index of analyses of DNA samples
voluntarily contributed from relatives of missing persons.
Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies - Department of
Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 - Makes appropriations
for the Department of Commerce for: (1) the Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative; (2) the International Trade Commission; (3) the International
Trade Administration; (4) export administration and national security
activities; (5) the Economic Development Administration; (6) minority business
development; (7) economic and statistical analysis programs; (8) the Census
Bureau; (9) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (10)
public telecommunications facilities planning and construction grants; (11)
information infrastructure grants; (12) the Patent and Trademark Office; (13)
the Under Secretary for Technology-Office of Technology Policy; (14) the
National Institute of Standards and Technology, including amounts for the
Manufacturing Extension Partnership and the Advanced Technology Program and for
construction of new research facilities; (15) the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, including amounts for procurement, acquisition, and
construction of capital assets; (16) restoration of Pacific salmon populations;
(17) the Coastal Zone Management Fund; (18) the Fishermen's Contingency Fund;
(19) the Foreign Fishing Observer Fund; (20) the fisheries finance program
account; (21) general administration; and (22) the Office of Inspector General.
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds.
Rescinds all unobligated balances in the Fisheries Promotional Fund.
(Sec. 210) Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management
Act to increase the number of members of the New England Fishery Management
Council.
Title III: The Judiciary - Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2000 - Makes
appropriations for: (1) the Supreme Court, including an amount for care of the
building and grounds; (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; (3)
the U.S. Court of International Trade; (4) the courts of appeals, district
courts, and other judicial services; (5) defender services; (6) fees of jurors
and commissioners; (7) court security; (8) the Administrative Office of the U.S.
Courts; (9) the Federal Judicial Center; (10) judicial retirement funds; and
(11) the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds.
(Sec. 307) Approves the consolidation of the Office of the Bankruptcy Clerk
with the Office of the District Clerk of Court in the Southern District of West
Virginia.
(Sec. 308) Amends provisions of the Federal criminal code regarding adequate
representation of defendants to prohibit the amount of fees paid for legal
services from being used as a reason to justify limited public disclosure of
such amount in cases where limited disclosure is authorized to protect the
defendant's interest. Applies such requirement to all disclosures related to any
criminal trial or appeal involving a death sentence where the underlying alleged
criminal conduct took place on or after April 19, 1995.
(Sec. 309) Requires the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate,
to appoint three additional district judges for the district of Arizona, four
additional district judges for the middle district of Florida, and two
additional district judges for the district of Nevada.
Authorizes appropriations.
Title IV: Department of State and Related Agency - Department of State
and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2000 - Makes appropriations for the
Department of State for: (1) administration of foreign affairs, diplomatic and
consular programs; (2) the Capital Investment Fund; (3) the Office of Inspector
General; (4) educational and cultural exchange programs; (5) representation
allowances; (6) protection of foreign missions and officials; (7) security and
maintenance of U.S. missions; (8) emergencies in the diplomatic and consular
service; (9) the repatriation loans program account; (10) the American Institute
in Taiwan; (11) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (12)
international organizations, conferences, peacekeeping, and commissions,
including an amount to reduce amounts owed by the United States to the United
Nations; (13) the Asia Foundation; (14) the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships,
Incorporated; (15) the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program; (16) the East-West
Center; (17) the North-South Center; and (18) the National Endowment for
Democracy.
Makes appropriations for the Broadcasting Board of Governors for
international broadcasting operations, broadcasting to Cuba, and capital
improvements.
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on funds appropriated under
this title.
(Sec. 404) Makes a certain provision of the Department of State and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 regarding a fee for the issuance of combined
border crossing cards and nonimmigrant visas effective in FY 2000 and
thereafter.
(Sec. 405) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act by the Department
of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide assistance to the
Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation.
(Sec. 406) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for the
United Nations from being used by the United Nations for the enforcement of any
treaty, resolution, or regulation authorizing the United Nations to tax any
aspect of the Internet.
Title V: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for the: (1) Maritime
Administration for maritime security, operations and training, and the maritime
guaranteed loan program; (2) Commission for the Preservation of America's
Heritage Abroad; (3) Commission on Civil Rights; (4) Advisory Commission on
Electronic Commerce; (5) Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (6)
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); (7) Federal Communications
Commission; (8) Federal Maritime Commission; (9) Federal Trade Commission; (10)
Legal Services Corporation; (11) Marine Mammal Commission; (12) Securities and
Exchange Commission; (13) Small Business Administration, including amounts for
the Office of Inspector General and business and disaster loans; and (14) State
Justice Institute.
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds.
Title VI: General Provisions - Sets forth limitations on the use of
funds under this Act.
(Sec. 607) Sets forth Buy American provisions.
(Sec. 608) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to: (1)
enforce any EEOC guidelines covering harassment based on religion if such
guidelines do not differ from proposed guidelines of October 1, 1993; (2) pay
for costs incurred in operating certain diplomatic or consular posts in Vietnam
or increasing the number of personnel assigned to such posts until the President
makes a specified certification; or (3) provide specified personal comforts in
the Federal prison system.
(Sec. 609) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act for any
United Nations undertaking if: (1) such undertaking is a peacekeeping mission
and will involve U.S. armed forces under the control of a foreign national; and
(2) the President's military advisors have not submitted a recommendation that
such involvement is in the national security interest and the President has not
submitted such recommendation to Congress.
(Sec. 617) Makes funds provided by this Act unavailable to promote the sale
or export of tobacco or tobacco products or to seek the reduction or removal by
any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing of such products, except
for restrictions which are not applied equally to products of the same type.
(Sec. 618) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to issue
visas to certain individuals from Haiti, including those involved in specified
extrajudicial and political killings.
(Sec. 619) Bars funds appropriated under any law from being used for: (1) the
implementation of any tax or fee in connection with any criminal background
check system that implements requirements under the Federal criminal code in
connection with certain restrictions on the transfer of firearms; and (2) any
such system that does not result in the destruction of information submitted by
persons determined not to be prohibited from owning a firearm.
(Sec. 621) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to propose or
issue rules or orders for implementing the Kyoto Protocol.
(Sec. 622) Makes an additional amount available for SBA salaries and expenses
and earmarks such amount for specified uses.
(Sec. 623) Establishes a Northern Boundary and Transboundary Rivers
Restoration and Enhancement Fund and a Southern Boundary Restoration and
Enhancement Fund to be held by the Pacific Salmon Commission and available for
activities relating to salmon restoration, enhancement, and research,
conservation of salmon habitat, and implementation of the Pacific Salmon Treaty
and related agreements.
Makes funds under this section unavailable until certain conditions to the
1999 Agreement of the United States and Canada on the Treaty Between the
Government of the United States and the Government of Canada Concerning Pacific
Salmon, 1985 have been fulfilled.
Requires the Secretary of Commerce, during the term of the 1999 Agreement, to
determine whether Southern U.S. fisheries (directed Pacific salmon fisheries in
Washington, Oregon, and the Snake River basin of Idaho) are likely to cause
jeopardy to, or adversely modify designated critical habitat of, any salmonid
species listed under the Endangered Species Act before the Secretary may
initiate or reinitiate consultation on Alaska fisheries under such Act.
Prohibits the Secretary, during the term of the Agreement, from initiating or
reinitiating such consultation on Alaska fisheries until: (1) the Pacific Salmon
Commission has had a reasonable opportunity to implement the provisions of the
Agreement; and (2) he determines that implementation actions under the Agreement
will not return escapements as expeditiously as possible to maximum sustainable
yield or other biologically-based objectives agreed to by the Commission.
Requires the Secretary to notify specified congressional committees of intent to
initiate or reinitiate such consultation.
Authorizes appropriations for: (1) the capitalization of the Funds; and (2)
salmon habitat restoration, stock enhancement, and research, and implementation
of the Pacific Salmon Treaty and related agreements.
(Sec. 627) Bars the use of funds appropriated in this Act for purposes of
granting immigrant or nonimmigrant visas to citizens or residents of countries
that the Attorney General has determined deny or unreasonably delay accepting
the return of certain deportable aliens.
(Sec. 628) Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of
Justice in this Act for transporting any maximum or high security prisoner to
any prison other than one certified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as
appropriately secure.
(Sec. 629) Bars the use of funds made available by this Act for participation
by U.S. delegates to the Standing Consultative Commission unless the President
certifies to the Appropriations Committees that the U.S. Government is not
implementing the Memorandum of Understanding Relating to the Treaty Between the
United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the
limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems of May 26, 1972, entered into on
September 26, 1997, by the United States, Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and
Ukraine, or until the Senate provides its advice and consent to the Memorandum.
Title VII: Rescissions - Reduces amounts available for the DEA Drug
Diversion Control Fee Account.
Rescinds a specified amount appropriated to the INS Immigration Emergency
Fund.
Rescinds a specified amount for the Department of State for international
broadcasting operations of the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
Rescinds a specified amount of funds for the SBA's business loans program
account.