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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Secret Service Protective Privilege 
Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.

    (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) The physical safety of the Nation's top elected 
        officials is a public good of transcendent importance.
            (2) By virtue of the critical importance of the Office of 
        the President, the President and those in direct line of the 
        Presidency are subject to unique and mortal jeopardy--jeopardy 
        that in turn threatens profound disruption to our system of 
        representative government and to the security and future of the 
        Nation.
            (3) The physical safety of visiting heads of foreign states 
        and foreign governments is also a matter of paramount 
        importance. The assassination of such a person while on 
        American soil could have calamitous consequences for our 
        foreign relations and national security.
            (4) Given these grave concerns, Congress has provided for 
        the Secret Service to protect the President and those in direct 
        line of the Presidency, and has directed that these officials 
        may not waive such protection. Congress has also provided for 
        the Secret Service to protect visiting heads of foreign states 
        and foreign governments.
            (5) The protective strategy of the Secret Service depends 
        critically on the ability of its personnel to maintain close 
        and unremitting physical proximity to the protectee.
            (6) Secret Service personnel must remain at the side of the 
        protectee on occasions of confidential conversations and, as a 
        result, may overhear top secret discussions, diplomatic 
        exchanges, sensitive conversations, and matters of personal 
        privacy.
            (7) The necessary level of proximity can be maintained only 
        in an atmosphere of complete trust and confidence between the 
        protectee and his or her protectors.
            (8) If a protectee has reason to doubt the confidentiality 
        of actions or conversations taken in sight or hearing of Secret 
        Service personnel, the protectee may seek to push the 
        protective envelope away or undermine it to the point at which 
        it could no longer be fully effective.
            (9) The possibility that Secret Service personnel might be 
        compelled to testify against their protectees could induce 
        foreign nations to refuse Secret Service protection in future 
        state visits, making it impossible for the Secret Service to 
        fulfill its important statutory mission of protecting the life 
        and safety of foreign dignitaries.
            (10) A privilege protecting information acquired by Secret 
        Service personnel while performing their protective function in 
        physical proximity to a protectee will preserve the security of 
        the protectee by lessening the incentive of the protectee to 
        distance Secret Service personnel in situations in which there 
        is some risk to the safety of the protectee.
            (11) Recognition of a protective function privilege for the 
        President and those in direct line of the Presidency, and for 
        visiting heads of foreign states and foreign governments, will 
        promote sufficiently important interests to outweigh the need 
        for probative evidence.
            (12) Because Secret Service personnel retain law 
        enforcement responsibility even while engaged in their 
        protective function, the privilege must be subject to a crime/
        treason exception.
    (b) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are--
            (1) to facilitate the relationship of trust and confidence 
        between Secret Service personnel and certain protected 
        officials that is essential to the ability of the Secret 
        Service to protect these officials, and the Nation, from the 
        risk of assassination; and
            (2) to ensure that Secret Service personnel are not 
        precluded from testifying in a criminal investigation or 
        prosecution about unlawful activity committed within their view 
        or hearing.

SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROTECTIVE FUNCTION PRIVILEGE.

    (a) Admissibility of Information Acquired by Secret Service 
Personnel While Performing Their Protective Function.--Chapter 203 of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 
3056 the following:
``Sec. 3056A. Testimony by Secret Service personnel; protective 
              function privilege
    ``(a) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Protectee.--The term `protectee' means--
                    ``(A) the President;
                    ``(B) the Vice President (or other officer next in 
                the order of succession to the Office of President);
                    ``(C) the President-elect;
                    ``(D) the Vice President-elect; and
                    ``(E) visiting heads of foreign states or foreign 
                governments who, at the time and place concerned, are 
                being provided protection by the United States Secret 
                Service.
            ``(2) Secret service personnel.--The term `Secret Service 
        personnel' means any officer or agent of the United States 
        Secret Service.
    ``(b) General Rule of Privilege.--Subject to subsection (c), 
testimony by Secret Service personnel or former Secret Service 
personnel regarding information affecting a protectee that was acquired 
during the performance of a protective function in physical proximity 
to the protectee shall not be received in evidence or otherwise 
disclosed in any trial, hearing, or other proceeding in or before any 
court, grand jury, department, officer, agency, regulatory body, or 
other authority of the United States, a State, or a political 
subdivision thereof.
    ``(c) Exceptions.--There is no privilege under this section--
            ``(1) with respect to information that, at the time the 
        information was acquired by Secret Service personnel, was 
        sufficient to provide reasonable grounds to believe that a 
        crime had been, was being, or would be committed; or
            ``(2) if the privilege is waived by the protectee or the 
        legal representative of a protectee or deceased protectee.
    ``(d) Concurrent Privileges.--The proximity of Secret Service 
personnel to a protectee engaged in a privileged communication with 
another shall not, by itself, defeat an otherwise valid claim of 
privilege.''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The analysis for chapter 
203 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the 
item relating to section 3056 the following:

``3056A. Testimony by Secret Service personnel; protective function 
                            privilege.''.

SEC. 4. APPLICATION.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall apply to any 
proceeding commenced on or after the date of enactment of this Act.

Ex Output:
Secret Service Protective Privilege Act of 1999 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit testimony by Secret Service personnel or former personnel regarding information affecting a protectee (defined as the President, Vice President, and specified other officials) that was acquired during the performance of a protective function in physical proximity to the protectee from being received in evidence or otherwise disclosed in any proceeding in or before any court, grand jury, department, officer, agency, regulatory body, or other authority of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision thereof. 
Makes exceptions: (1) with respect to information that, at the time it was acquired by Secret Service personnel, was sufficient to provide reasonable grounds to believe that a crime had been, was being, or would be committed; or (2) if the privilege is waived by the protectee or the legal representative of a protectee or deceased protectee. 
Specifies that the proximity of Secret Service personnel to a protectee engaged in a privileged communication with another shall not, by itself, defeat an otherwise valid claim of privilege.


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Working Families 
Child Care Act of 1997''.
    (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as 
follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings.
Sec. 3. Assistance for low-income working families.
Sec. 4. Grants for child care supply shortages.
Sec. 5. Report on access to child care by low-income working families.
Sec. 6. Effective date.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) Availability and affordability of quality child care is 
        a major obstacle for working parents who struggle to remain 
        self-sufficient.
                    (A) Compared to all other income groups, the 
                working poor are the least likely to receive assistance 
                with their child care costs.
                    (B) Low-income families spend 24 percent of their 
                household income on child care, whereas middle-income 
                families spend 6 percent of their household income on 
                child care.
                    (C) 38 States have waiting lists for child care for 
                the working poor. Among those States, Georgia has 
                41,000 individuals on its waiting list, Texas has 
                36,000 individuals on its waiting list, and Illinois 
                and Alabama each have 20,000 individuals on their 
                waiting lists.
                    (D) One survey of low-income families on a waiting 
                list for subsidized child care found that of those 
                families paying for child care out of their own funds, 
                71 percent faced serious debt or bankruptcy.
                    (E) Half of the States and the District of 
                Columbia, even before the enactment of the Personal 
                Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act 
                of 1996 (Public Law 104-193, 110 Stat. 2105) during the 
                104th Congress, increased the proportion of child care 
                slots or dollars going to families on welfare, rather 
                than to working poor families.
            (2) The Congressional Budget Office estimates that there 
        will be $1,400,000,000 less expenditures of child care funds 
        for working poor families as a result of the States 
        implementing the work requirements imposed under the Personal 
        Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 
        (Public Law 104-193, 110 Stat. 2105).
            (3) Important types of child care are not available in 
        certain States including infant care, school-age care, care for 
        children with disabilities and special health care needs, and 
        child care for parents with unconventional or shifting work 
        hours.
                    (A) A 1995 State study by the Comptroller General 
                of the United States found a shortage of child care for 
                infants and children with special needs in inner 
                cities, and a shortage of all types of child care in 
                rural areas.
                    (B) Only one-third of the schools in low-income 
                neighborhoods offer school-age child care, compared 
                with 52 percent of schools in more affluent areas 
                offering such care.
                    (C) Eighth-graders who are left home alone for 11 
                or more hours a week report significantly greater use 
                of cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana than eighth-
                graders who are not left home alone.
                    (D) Existing child care arrangements do not 
                accommodate the work schedules of many working women. 
                According to a 1995 statistic published by the 
                Department of Labor, 14,300,000 workers, nearly 1 in 5 
                full-time workers work nonstandard hours, and more than 
                1 in 3 of those workers are women.
                    (E) Only 10 percent of child care centers and 6 
                percent of family day care providers offer child care 
                on weekends. Yet one-third of working mothers with 
                annual incomes below the poverty level and one-quarter 
                of mothers with annual incomes above the poverty level 
                but below $25,000 work on weekends.
                    (F) Less than 30 percent of Head Start programs 
                operate on a full-time, full-year basis.

SEC. 3. ASSISTANCE FOR LOW-INCOME WORKING FAMILIES.

    Section 658B of the Child Care Development Block Grant Act of 1990 
(42 U.S.C. 9858) is amended to read as follows:

``SEC. 658B. FUNDING OF GRANTS.

    ``(a) Authorization of Appropriations.--Except as provided in 
subsection (b), there is authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this subchapter $2,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1997 through 
2002.
    ``(b) Appropriation.--The Secretary shall pay, from funds in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $1,400,000,000 for fiscal years 
1997 through 2002, through the awarding of grants to States under this 
subchapter for the purpose of providing child care services for 
families who have left the State program of assistance under part A of 
title IV of the Social Security Act because of employment, families 
that are at risk of becoming dependent on such assistance program, and 
low-income working families described in section 658E(c)(3)(D). Funds 
shall be paid under this subsection to the States in the same manner, 
and subject to the same requirements and limitations, as funds are paid 
to the States under section 418 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
618).''.

SEC. 4. GRANTS FOR CHILD CARE SUPPLY SHORTAGES.

    (a) Grants for Child Care Supply Shortages.--Section 658E(c)(3) of 
the Child Care Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
9858c(c)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) Child care supply shortages.--
                            ``(i) In general.--A State shall ensure 
                        that 100 percent of amounts paid to the State 
                        out of funds appropriated under section 
                        658B(a)(2) with respect to each of the fiscal 
                        years 1997 through 2002 shall be used to carry 
                        out child care activities described in clause 
                        (ii) in geographic areas within the State that 
                        have a shortage, as determined by the State, in 
                        consultation with localities, of child care 
                        services.
                            ``(ii) Child care activities described.--
                        The child care activities described in this 
                        clause include the following:
                                    ``(I) Infant care programs.
                                    ``(II) Before- and after-school 
                                child care programs.
                                    ``(III) Resource and referral 
                                programs.
                                    ``(IV) Nontraditional work hours 
                                child care programs.
                                    ``(V) Extending the hours of pre-
                                kindergarten programs to provide full-
                                day services.
                                    ``(VI) Any other child care 
                                programs that the Secretary determines 
                                are appropriate.''.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 658B(a) of the Child 
Care Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858(a)), as 
amended by section 2, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Except as provided in'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2) 
        and''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Child care supply shortages.--There is authorized to 
        be appropriated to carry out section 658E(c)(3)(E), 
        $500,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1997 through 2002.''.
    (c) Conforming Amendment.--Section 658(c)(3)(A) of the Child Care 
Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858c(c)(3)(A)) is 
amended by striking ``(D)'' and inserting ``(E)''.

SEC. 5. REPORT ON ACCESS TO CHILD CARE BY LOW-INCOME WORKING FAMILIES.

    (a) State Reporting Requirement.--Section 658K(a)(2) of the Child 
Care Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858i(a)(2)) is 
amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``and'' at the end; 
        and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (E), the following:
                    ``(F) the total number of families described in 
                section 658B(b) that were eligible for but did not 
                receive assistance under this subchapter or under 
                section 418 of the Social Security Act and a 
                description of the obstacles to providing such 
                assistance; and
                    ``(G) the total number of families described in 
                section 658B(b) that received assistance provided under 
                this subchapter or under section 418 of the Social 
                Security Act and a description of the manner in which 
                that assistance was provided;''.
    (b) Secretarial Reporting Requirement.--Section 658L of the Child 
Care Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858j) is amended 
by inserting ``, with particular emphasis on access of low-income 
working families,'' after ``public''.

SEC. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act take effect as if 
included in the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work 
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-193, 110 Stat. 
2105).

Ex Output:
Working Families Child Care Act of 1997 - Amends the Child Care Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to extend its authorization of appropriations through FY 2002. 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, from (additional) Treasury funds not otherwise appropriated, to award grants to States to provide child care services for:  (1) families who have left the State program of assistance under part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) of title IV of the Social Security Act because of employment; (2) families that are at risk of becoming dependent on such assistance program; and (3) low-income working families meeting specified criteria. 
Authorizes appropriations for grants to States for child care activities in areas of the State that have child care supply shortages.  Includes among such child care activities programs for: (1) infant care; (2) before- and after-school; (3) resources and referrals; (4) nontraditional work hours; (5) extending the hours of pre-kindergarten programs to provide full-day services; and (6) any other program the Secretary deems appropriate. 
Requires State reports to include information on access to child care by low-income working families.  Requires reports of the Secretary to place particular emphasis on such access. 
(Sec. 6) Makes this Act effective as if included in the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-193).


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Health Insurance Claim Prompt 
Payment Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2. PROMPT PAYMENT OF PROVIDER CLAIMS.

    (a) Group Health Plans.--
            (1) Public health service act amendments.--Subpart 2 of 
        part A of title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act (as 
        added by section 604(a) of the Newborns' and Mothers' Health 
        Protection Act of 1996 and amended by section 703(a) of the 
        Mental Health Parity Act of 1996) is amended by adding at the 
        end the following new section:

``SEC. 2706. STANDARDS RELATING TO PROMPT PAYMENT OF PROVIDER CLAIMS.

    ``(a) In General.--To the extent that a group health plan, or a 
health insurance issuer offering group health insurance coverage, fails 
to provide for the issue, mailing, or transmission of payment for a 
clean claim within 30 calendar days after the date the plan or issuer 
receives a clean claim, the plan or issuer shall provide for payment of 
interest on the unpaid balance at the rate of interest and for the same 
period specified in section 1842(c)(2)(C) of the Social Security Act 
for purposes of part B of title XVIII of such Act.
    ``(b) Contract Limitations.--No provision of a contract between a 
group health plan and a provider of health services, or between a 
health insurance issuer and a provider of health services in relation 
to provision of items and services in connection with group health 
insurance coverage by the issuer, shall be given effect to the extent 
it prevents the application of subsection (a). Such a provision may be 
given effect to the extent it--
            ``(1) requires payment to be made more promptly than as 
        provided in subsection (a),
            ``(2) provides for a higher interest rate than that 
        provided under subsection (a), or
            ``(3) otherwise provides for greater sanctions or remedies 
        in the case of a failure by a plan or issuer to make prompt 
        payment on claims under the plan or under the health insurance 
        coverage involved.
    ``(c) Clean Claim Defined.--For purposes of this section, the term 
`clean claim' means a claim that has no defect or impropriety 
(including any lack of any required substantiating documentation) or 
particular circumstance requiring special treatment that prevents 
timely payment from being made on the claim under the group health plan 
or health insurance coverage involved.''.
            (2) ERISA amendments.--(A) Subpart B of part 7 of subtitle 
        B of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 
        1974 (as added by section 603(a) of the Newborns' and Mothers' 
        Health Protection Act of 1996 and amended by section 702(a) of 
        the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996) is amended by adding at 
        the end the following new section:

``SEC. 713. STANDARDS RELATING TO PROMPT PAYMENT OF PROVIDER CLAIMS.

    ``(a) In General.--To the extent that a group health plan, or a 
health insurance issuer offering group health insurance coverage, fails 
to provide for the issue, mailing, or transmission of payment for a 
clean claim within 30 calendar days after the date the plan or issuer 
receives a clean claim, the plan or issuer shall provide for payment of 
interest on the unpaid balance at the rate of interest and for the same 
period specified in section 1842(c)(2)(C) of the Social Security Act 
for purposes of part B of title XVIII of such Act.
    ``(b) Contract Limitations.--No provision of a contract between a 
group health plan and a provider of health services, or between a 
health insurance issuer and a provider of health services in relation 
to provision of items and services in connection with group health 
insurance coverage by the issuer, shall be given effect to the extent 
it prevents the application of subsection (a). Such a provision may be 
given effect to the extent it--
            ``(1) requires payment to be made more promptly than as 
        provided in subsection (a),
            ``(2) provides for a higher interest rate than that 
        provided under subsection (a), or
            ``(3) otherwise provides for greater sanctions or remedies 
        in the case of a failure by a plan or issuer to make prompt 
        payment on claims under the plan or under the health insurance 
        coverage involved.
    ``(c) Clean Claim Defined.--For purposes of this section, the term 
`clean claim' means a claim that has no defect or impropriety 
(including any lack of any required substantiating documentation) or 
particular circumstance requiring special treatment that prevents 
timely payment from being made on the claim under the group health plan 
or health insurance coverage involved.''.
            (B) Section 732(a) of such Act (29 U.S.C. 1191a(a)), as 
        amended by section 603(b)(2) of Public Law 104-204, is amended 
        by striking ``section 711'' and inserting ``sections 711 and 
        713''.
            (C) The table of contents in section 1 of such Act is 
        amended by inserting after the item relating to section 712 the 
        following new item:

``Sec. 713. Standards relating to prompt payment of provider claims.''.
    (b) Individual Health Insurance.--Part B of title XXVII of the 
Public Health Service Act (as added by section 605(a) of the Newborn's 
and Mother's Health Protection Act of 1996) is amended by inserting 
after section 2751 the following new section:

``SEC. 2752. STANDARDS RELATING TO PROMPT PAYMENT OF PROVIDER CLAIMS.

    ``The provisions of section 2706 shall apply to health insurance 
coverage offered by a health insurance issuer in the individual market 
in the same manner as it applies to health insurance coverage offered 
by a health insurance issuer in connection with a group health plan in 
the small or large group market.''.
    (c) Effective Dates.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply with respect to payment for items and services furnished on or 
after the date this is 1 year after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.

Ex Output:

Health Insurance Claim Prompt Payment Act of 1997 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act, as amended by the Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act of 1996 and the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996, to:  (1) require group health plans and group and individual health insurance coverage to pay interest on clean provider claims that are not paid within 30 days; and (2) establish standards relating to prompt payment of such claims.