Laws of the 105th Congress

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 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 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 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 amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend certain programs with respect to women's health research and prevention activities at the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

To establish a program to support a transition to democracy in Iraq.

To amend the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to provide children with increased access to food and nutrition assistance, to simplify program operations and improve program management, to extend certain authorities contained in those Acts through fiscal year 2003, and for other purposes.

To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of Thomas Alva Edison and the 125th anniversary of Edison's invention of the light bulb, and for other purposes.

To amend title 18, United States Code, to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation, and for other purposes.

To express United States foreign policy with respect to, and to strengthen United States advocacy on behalf of, individuals persecuted in foreign countries on account of religion; to authorize United States actions in response to violations of religious freedom in foreign countries; to establish an Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom within the Department of State, a Commission on International Religious Freedom, and a Special Adviser on International Religious Freedom within the National Security Council; and for other purposes.

To amend the Armored Car Industry Reciprocity Act of 1993 to clarify certain requirements and to improve the flow of interstate commerce.

To amend title VI and X of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve and expand charter schools.

Making omnibus consolidated and emergency appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.

Making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.

Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1999 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.

Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1999 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1999, and for other purposes.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the program for mammography quality standards.

To correct a provision relating to termination of benefits for convicted persons.

Making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.

To extend the authorization of programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.

Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1999, and for other purposes.

Making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.

To grant the consent of the Congress to the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact.

Finding the Government of Iraq in unacceptable and material breach of its international obligations.

To designate the auditorium located within the Sandia Technology Transfer Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the “Steve Schiff Auditorium”.

To amend the Federal Credit Union Act to clarify existing law with regard to the field of membership of Federal credit unions, to preserve the integrity and purpose of Federal credit unions, to enhance supervisory oversight of insured credit unions, and for other purposes.

To designate the United States courthouse to be constructed at the corner of Superior and Huron Roads, in Cleveland, Ohio, as the “Carl B. Stokes United States Courthouse”.

To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for the National Science Foundation, and for other purposes.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restructure and reform the Internal Revenue Service, and for other purposes.

To establish within the United States National Park Service the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program, and for other purposes.

To establish felony violations for the failure to pay legal child support obligations, and for other purposes.

To ensure that federally funded agricultural research, extension, and education address high-priority concerns with national or multistate significance, to reform, extend, and eliminate certain agricultural research programs, and for other purposes.

To improve the criminal law relating to fraud against consumers.

To amend title 11, United States Code, to protect certain charitable contributions, and for other purposes.

To amend Part L of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.

To redesignate the Federal building located at 717 Madison Place, NW., in the District of Columbia, as the “Howard T. Markey National Courts Building”.

To authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes.

Expressing the sense of the Congress on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the modern State of Israel and reaffirming the bonds of friendship and cooperation between the United States and Israel.

Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.

To provide surveillance, research, and services aimed at prevention of birth defects, and for other purposes.

Disapproving the cancellations transmitted by the President on October 6, 1997, regarding Public Law 105-45.

To rename the Washington National Airport located in the District of Columbia and Virginia as the “Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport”.

To require the Attorney General to establish a program in local prisons to identify, prior to arraignment, criminal aliens and aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States, and for other purposes.

Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.

Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.

To waive time limitations specified by law in order to allow the Medal of Honor to be awarded to Robert R. Ingram of Jacksonville, Florida, for acts of valor while a Navy Hospital Corpsman in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam conflict.