Laws of the 105th Congress

To support programs of grants to States to address the assistive technology needs of individuals with disabilities, and for other purposes.

To reauthorize and make reforms to programs authorized by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 and the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to consolidate and reauthorize health professions and minority and disadvantaged health education programs, and for other purposes.

To provide for improved management and increased accountability for certain National Park Service programs, and for other purposes.

To provide financial assistance for higher education to the dependents of Federal, State, and local public safety officers who are killed or permanently and totally disabled as the result of a traumatic injury sustained in the line of duty.

To establish a commission to assist in commemoration of the centennial of powered flight and the achievements of the Wright brothers.

To extend certain programs under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act and the Energy Conservation and Production Act, and for other purposes.

To provide for the disposition of certain funds appropriated to pay judgment in favor of the Mississippi Sioux Indians, and for other purposes.

To throttle criminal use of guns.

To support sustainable and broad-based agricultural and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa, and for other purposes.

To approve a governing international fishery agreement between the United States and the Republic of Poland, and for other purposes.

To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.

To amend the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to provide that the annuities of certain special agents and security personnel of the Department of State be computed in the same way as applies generally with respect to Federal law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.

Granting the consent of Congress to the Pacific Northwest Emergency Management Arrangement.

To eliminate restrictions on the acquisition of certain land contiguous to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

To amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require food stamp State agencies to take certain actions to ensure that food stamp coupons are not issued for deceased individuals, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study of options for the design, development, implementation, and operation of a national database to track participation in Federal means-tested publicassistance programs, and for other purposes.

To establish the Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site, and for other purposes.

Granting the consent and approval of Congress to an interstate forest fire protection compact.

To modify the boundaries of the Bandelier National Monument to include the lands within the headwaters of the Upper Alamo Watershed which drain into the Monument and which are not currently within the jurisdiction of a Federal land management agency, to authorize purchase or donation of those lands, and for other purposes.

To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to require the Secretary of State to submit an annual report to Congress concerning diplomatic immunity.

To amend title 28, United States Code, with respect to the enforcement of child custody and visitation orders.

To make available to the Ukrainian Museum and Archives the USIA television program “Window on America”.

To direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to conduct a feasibility study and construct a project to reclaim the Salton Sea, and for other purposes.

To authorize and request the President to award the congressional Medal of Honor posthumously to Theodore Roosevelt for his gallant and heroic actions in the attack on San Juan Heights, Cuba, during the Spanish- American War.

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for the testing of certain persons who are incarcerated or ordered detained before trial, for the presence of the human immunodeficiency virus, and for other purposes.

To provide for compassionate payments with regard to individuals with blood-clotting disorders, such as hemophilia, who contracted human immunodeficiency virus due to contaminated antihemophilic factor, and for other purposes.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve benefits and services provided to Persian Gulf War veterans, to provide a cost-of-living adjustment in rates of compensation paid to veterans with service-connected disabilities, to enhance programs providing health care, compensation, education, insurance, and other benefits for veterans, and for other purposes.

To protect the sanctity of contracts and leases entered into by surface patent holders with respect to coalbed methane gas.

To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 to improve the competitiveness of American business and promote foreign commerce, and for other purposes.

To amend the boundaries of Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site in the State of Montana.

To provide for the acquisition of lands formerly occupied by the Franklin D. Roosevelt family at Hyde Park, New York, and for other purposes.

To amend the Weir Farm National Historic Site Establishment Act of 1990 to authorize the acquisition of additional acreage for the historic site to permit the development of visitor and administrative facilities and to authorize the appropriation of additional amounts for the acquisition of real and personal property, and for other purposes.

To eliminate unnecessary and wasteful Federal reports.

To amend the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to extend certain authorizations, and for other purposes.

To extend into fiscal year 1999 the visa processing period for diversity applicants whose visa processing was suspended during fiscal year 1998 due to embassy bombings.

To require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to improve the access for persons with disabilities to outdoor recreational opportunities made available to the public.

To authorize funds for the payment of salaries and expenses of the Patent and Trademark Office, and for other purposes.

To amend the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to place limitations on controlled substances brought into the United States.

To establish the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes.

To authorize the Automobile National Heritage Area in the State of Michigan, and for other purposes.

To codify without substantive change laws related to Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations and to improve the United States Code.

To amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to limit the conduct of securities class actions under State law, and for other purposes.

To authorize the construction of the Fall River Water Users District Rural Water System and authorize financial assistance to the Fall River Water Users District, a nonprofit corporation, in the planning and construction of the water supply system, and for other purposes.

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain facilities of the Minidoka project to the Burley Irrigation District, and for other purposes.

Appointing the day for the convening of the first session of the One Hundred Sixth Congress.

Recognizing the accomplishments of Inspectors General since their creation in 1978 in preventing and detecting waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement, and in promoting economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in the Federal Government.

Granting the consent of Congress to the Potomac Highlands Airport Authority Compact entered into between the States of Maryland and West Virginia.

To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act with respect to furnishing and using consumer reports for employment purposes.

To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey title to the Tunnison Lab Hagerman Field Station in Gooding County, Idaho, to the University of Idaho.

To amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to extend the legislative authority for the Black Patriots Foundation to establish a commemorative work.