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                                                             ISSN 1069-7799
                                  ALAWON
                      ALA Washington Office Newsline
                     An electronic publication of the
              American Library Association Washington Office

                            Volume 2, Number 45
                             October 14, 1993

   In this issue: (105 lines)
     HOUSE APPROVES CONFERENCE REPORT ON FY94 LABOR-HHS-EDUCATION
          APPROPRIATIONS BILL
     HOUSE PASSES COPYRIGHT ROYALTY TRIBUNAL REFORM ACT

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                     HOUSE APPROVES CONFERENCE REPORT
              ON FY94 LABOR-HHS-EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS BILL

On Thursday, October 7, the House approved the Conference Report on HR 2518
(H. Rept. 103-275), the FY94 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education
appropriations bill, by a vote of 311-115.  Library programs remain the
same as FY93 levels except for LSCA II, Library Construction,  which
received an increase of $1,208,000, half the difference between the House
number of $16,584,000 and the Senate's $19,000,000.  LSCA V, Foreign
Language Materials, was zeroed out by both House and Senate.  Conferees did
set aside $2,500,000 of the $2,802,000 for HEA II-B research and
demonstration for "a demonstration of high technology library bibliographic
databases," but specifically declined to earmark the funds, as had the
Senate, stating that "these funds are to be awarded competitively." 
Conference Report numbers are as follows:

PROGRAM (amounts in thousands)        FY94 HSE.    FY94 SEN.     CONFERENCE
                                      PASSED       PASSED        REPORT
LIBRARY SERVICES & 
  CONSTRUCTION ACT                   $127,658      $130,074      $128,866
Title I, public. lib. services         83,227        83,227        83,227
     II, pub. lib. construction        16,584        19,000        17,792
    III, interlibrary cooperation      19,749        19,749        19,749
     IV, Indian library services           (2 % of LSCA I, II, & III)
      V, foreign language materials         0             0             0
     VI, library literacy programs      8,098         8,098         8,098
                           
HIGHER EDUCATION ACT                   18,425        18,425        18,425
Title II-A, college library tech.       3,873         3,873         3,873
      II-B, library education           4,960         4,960         4,960
      II-B, research & demo.            2,802         2,802         2,802
      II-C, research libraries          5,808         5,808         5,808
      VI sec 607, foreign res. mat.       982           982           982

ESEA Ch. 2 school block grant         394,425       394,696       394,696
Natl. Ctr. for Educ. Statistics        77,850        77,850        77,850
NCLIS                                     904           904           904
NLM & MLAA                            118,481       120,481       119,981

The Conferees also approved a line item appropriation of $105,000,000 for
implementation of the Goals 2000 legislation which has not yet been
approved by Congress.  The conference report states, "This amount includes
$5,000,000 for new initiatives to integrate technology into school
curricula, if authorized."  The agreement provides that if the Goals 2000
legislation is not enacted by April 1, 1994, then "the funds provided will
be applied to the short-fall in the Pell Grant program as proposed by the
Senate."  The Goals 2000 legislation, currently awaiting action in the
House was held for the reprinting of the bill, now HR 3210, and
reintroduced with the Administration's changes by Reps. Dale Kildee and
William Ford (D-MI) on October 5.  The House Rules Committee will meet the
week of October 11 to take testimony and grant a rule on the bill.

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            HOUSE PASSES COPYRIGHT ROYALTY TRIBUNAL REFORM ACT

On October 12, the House passed HR 2840, the Copyright Royalty Tribunal
Reform Act of 1993.  The bill would abolish the Copyright Royalty Tribunal
and replace it with copyright arbitration royalty panels appointed as
needed by the Librarian of Congress upon the recommendation of the Register
of Copyrights.  The bill was adopted under a suspension of the rules in the
House so a roll call vote was not taken.  The Senate Subcommittee on
Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks held a hearing on S. 1346, the companion
bill, on October 5.  For the full text of HR 2840, see the _Congressional
Record_, October 12, 1993, pp. H7698-7702.

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