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State-by-State Comparison of Selected Electricity Restructuring Provisions
Since 1996, twenty-one states have restructured their electricity markets. While the extent of this restructuring varies by state, four issues have generally been considered by all state legislatures: stranded costs, aggregation, universal service, and public benefits. This report compares the treatment of these issues in the restructuring legislation of the twenty-one states. Using information collected directly from the relevant state laws and the rules promulgated by state public utility commissions, this report provides a state-by-state comparison of the restructuring provisions relating to the four issues.
Date:
January 13, 2000
Creator:
Abel, Amy & Shimabukuro, Jon O.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA): Overview and Current Legal Developments
This report provides an overview of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and discusses current legal and legislative developments.
Date:
March 13, 2000
Creator:
Jones, Kimberly D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Can Tax Policy Improve Economic Competitiveness?
This report mainly discusses whether Tax Policy Improve Economic Competitiveness or not.
Date:
March 13, 2000
Creator:
Brumbaugh, David L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Asbestos Compensation Act of 2000
This report summarizes H.R. 1283, 106th Congress, the Asbestos Compensation Act of 2000, as ordered to be reported with amendments by the House Committee on the Judiciary on March 16, 2000. The bill would create an administrative procedure for asbestos liability claims.
Date:
April 13, 2000
Creator:
Cohen, Henry
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Global Climate Change : A . Survey of Scientifi c Research and Policy Report s
None
Date:
April 13, 2000
Creator:
Morrissey, Wayne A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Global Climate Change: A Survey of Scientific Research and Policy Reports
This report is intended to guide the reader through U.S. global climate change policy from the passage of the National Climate Program Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-367) through the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, where the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) was opened for signatures. It offers a summary of scientific research on global climate change and related U.S. policy and identifies what many consider to be important milestones in the international policy debate on global climate change.
Date:
April 13, 2000
Creator:
Morrissey, Wayne A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
TAXPAYER BILL OF RIGHTS 2000: H.R. 4163
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Date:
April 13, 2000
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Victims’ Rights Amendment: Background & Issues Associated With Proposals to Amend the United States Constitution
This report provides an examination of historical proposals to add a victim's rights amendment to the United States Constitution in the context of debate over issues associated with such amendments and n light of existing state and federal victims right laws.
Date:
April 13, 2000
Creator:
Doyle, Charles
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Americans with Disabilities Notification Act, H.R. 3590, 106th Congress
This report is on The Americans with Disabilities Notification Act, H.R. 3590, 106th Congress
Date:
June 13, 2000
Creator:
Jones, Nancy Lee
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Space Programs: Civilian, Military, and Commercial
This report includes information regarding various United States space programs. This information includes issues and budgets related to the space programs
Date:
June 13, 2000
Creator:
Smith, Marcia S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pension Policy: The Connection to Job Stability and Job Security
None
Date:
September 13, 2000
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2001: Energy and Water Development
Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Subcommittees on Energy and Water Development Appropriations.
Date:
October 13, 2000
Creator:
Humphries, Marc & Behrens, Carl E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Medicaid and SCHIP Provisions in H.R. 5291 and S. 3165 (the 2000 Medicare “Refinement Bills”)
None
Date:
October 13, 2000
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Most-Favored-Nation Status of the People's Republic of China
Particularly since the Tiananmen Square incident of June 4, 1989, the U.S. Congress has considered two diametrically opposed types of action regarding China's nondiscriminatory, or most-favored-nation (MFN; normal-trade-relations) tariff status in trade with the United States. One has been its total withdrawal, the other--of more recent origin--its extension on a permanent basis.
Date:
October 13, 2000
Creator:
Pregelj, Vladimir N.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Research and Development: Priority Setting and Consolidation in Science Budgeting
None
Date:
October 13, 2000
Creator:
Knezo, Genevieve J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Crop Insurance and the Agriculture Risk Protection Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-224)
None
Date:
November 13, 2000
Creator:
Chite, Ralph M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fruits and Vegetables: Ongoing Issues for Congress
The FY2001 appropriations for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and related agencies (P.L. 106-387/H.R. 4461) was signed into law on October 28, 2000. The act addressed agricultural emergency assistance (disasters and market losses) for specific fruits, vegetables, and nursery; contingency funding for APHIS to control crop diseases; funding for the methyl bromide transition program; and funding for the National Organic Program. It also would provide for the establishment of a marketing order for Hass avocados, and would redirect the duties charged foreign countries for dumping to injured farmers, ranchers, and others.
Date:
November 13, 2000
Creator:
Branaman, Brenda
System:
The UNT Digital Library
World Heritage Convention and U.S. National Parks
None
Date:
November 13, 2000
Creator:
McHugh, Lois
System:
The UNT Digital Library
World Heritage Convention and U.S. National Parks
P.L. 106-429, in which H.R. 5526, the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs appropriations act for 2001 was referenced, contained language prohibiting funding from this bill for the United Nations World Heritage Fund. This Fund provides technical assistance to countries requesting help in protecting World Heritage sites. On May 20, 1999, the House passed (by voice vote) the American Land Sovereignty Protection Act (H.R. 883), which requires congressional approval to add any additional U.S. national parks and monuments to the World Heritage List, a UNESCO-administered list established by the 1972 World Heritage Convention. This paper describes the operation of the UNESCO Convention and will be updated periodically.
Date:
November 13, 2000
Creator:
McHugh, Lois B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural Marketing Assistance Loans and Loan Deficiency Payments
This report discusses marketing assistance loans for major crops. The debate surrounds enlarging the program to create further farm income support.
Date:
December 13, 2000
Creator:
Womach, Jasper
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural Marketing Assistance Loans and Loan Deficiency Payments
Marketing assistance loans for the major crops were designed to facilitate orderly marketing by providing short-term financing so that farmers could pay their bills right after harvest and spread their sales over the entire marketing year. However, the persistence of very low commodity prices transformed the loan program into a major vehicle of farm income support. Marketing loan program benefits (primarily loan deficiency payments, LDPs) to farmers amounted to about $5.9 billion in 1999, and will exceed $6.5 billion in 2000. Such levels of use and high costs have revealed several administrative problems and given rise to several policy issues. Some policy makers have favored broadening the scope and enhancing the benefits of the program to achieve greater farm income support. Anticipated adverse market impacts have discouraged adoption of these proposals to date. A persistent policy issue is the payment limitation on marketing loan gains.
Date:
December 13, 2000
Creator:
Womach, Jasper
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Electoral Vote Counts in Congress: Survey of Certain Congressional Practices
This report surveys certain aspects of the historical congressional practice in counting the presidential electoral votes in Congress.
Date:
December 13, 2000
Creator:
Maskell, Jack; Halstead, T. J. & Welborn, Angie
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Middle East: Domestic Politics and the Peace Process – Proceedings of a CRS Seminar
None
Date:
December 13, 2000
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's FY2001 Budget Request and FY2001-FY2002 Authorization: Description and Analysis
None
Date:
January 13, 2001
Creator:
Rowberg, Richard E. & Hatch, Erin C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library