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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Revenue Provisions Title II: Income Security and Human Resource Amendments Subtitle A: Amendments Relating to Old-Age, Survivors, and Disabilty Insurance Program Subtitle B: Human Resources Provisions Title III: Tariff and Customs Technical Corrections Act of 1993 - Title I: Revenue Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make technical corrections to amendments made by the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1990 (title XI of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990) with respect to: (1) individual income tax provisions; (2) excise taxes; (3) certain revenue increases; (4) the extension of certain expiring tax provisions; (5) energy incentives; (6) small business incentives; and (7) the repeal of expired or obsolete provisions. Makes technical corrections to amendments made by title XII (Pensions) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 concerning: (1) treatment of hedge bond rules; (2) treatment of dispositions of U.S. real property interests; (3) treatment of passive activity credits; (4) certain foreign provisions; (5) certain bond-financed facilities; (6) Medicare entitlements; (7) real estate mortgage investment conduits; (8) veterans' reemployment rights; (9) harbor maintenance tax; and (10) regulated investment companies. Title II: Income Security and Human Resource Amendments - Subtitle A: Amendments Relating to Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program - Makes technical corrections to the Social Security Act and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 relating to the Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance program (OASDI). Eliminates certain dollar rounding requirements with respect to OASDI benefits, the earnings test exemption, and adjustments to the health insurance tax contribution base. Subtitle B: Human Resources Provisions - Makes technical corrections to the Social Security Act, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 to make technical corrections related to income security and human resources provisions. Title III: Tariff and Customs - Makes technical amendments to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, the Customs and Trade Act of 1990, the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, the Andean Preference Act, and the Tariff Act of 1930.
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Rep. Rostenkowski, Dan [D-IL-5] · D–IL
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