United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1990
Title I: National Writing Program - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to enter into a contract with the National Writing Project (a nonprofit educational organization) to support costs of programs of teacher training and classroom research to improve the teaching of writing and the quality of student writing and learning. Directs the Project to establish a National Advisory Board. Title II: Research and Development - Directs the Secretary, through the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, to make grants to individuals and higher education institutions for research on the teaching of writing. Title III: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1996.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1990
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the memory of Walt Disney should be honored on the 35th anniversary of his contribution to the American dream (the opening of Disneyland).
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1990
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to reduce the age of eligibility for widow's and widower's insurance benefits from age 60 to age 55. Provides disability-based widow's and widower's insurance benefits without regard to the recipient's age. Eliminates the reduction of widow's and widower's insurance benefits on account of early retirement.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1990
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to disregard up to five additional years from the calculation of an individual's annual earnings for OASDI benefit computation purposes if such individual's earnings for each such additional year were less than $5,000 due to his or her need to care for a child or chronically dependent relative.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1990
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide that the combined earnings of a couple which are attributable to the period of their marriage shall be divided and shared between them for OASDI eligibility and benefit purposes if they become divorced after at least three years of marriage and agree in writing to such division and sharing.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990
Financial Crimes Prosecution and Recovery Act of 1990 - Title I: National Commission on Financial Crimes - Establishes the National Commission on Financial Crimes to investigate fraud and abuse in the financial services industry and to recommend procedures for improving interagency cooperation and tactics for law enforcement officers in the investigation and prosecution of financial crimes. Sets forth provisions with respect to the membership, powers, pay, reporting requirements, and termination of the Commission. Title II: Improvements in Administration of the Department of Justice - Directs the Attorney General to establish a financial crimes strike force in each Federal judicial district which is in the top quartile of such districts with respect to the total number of criminal referrals filed with the Attorney General by the appropriate Federal banking agencies relating to residents of, or persons located in, such district. Provides for local control of each such strike force, through the U.S. Attorney for such district, except as otherwise provided by the Attorney General. Sets forth provisions regarding pay for attorneys on financial crimes strike forces. Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish a merit system to recognize and reward outstanding efforts of individuals engaged in the investigation and prosecution of financial crimes; (2) prohibit any U.S. attorney or any other attorney employed by the Department of Justice from taking into account the dollar amount of any loss incurred in connection with any financial crime in making a determination with respect to the investigation or prosecution of such crime; and (3) prescribe by regulation that the investigation of any referral from an appropriate Federal banking agency related to a financial crime involving an insured depository institution in default or in danger of default, or of any troubled institution, be given priority in case management. Amends the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 to make specified civil money penalties collected under such Act available to the Attorney General to carry out any provision of law. Amends the Federal criminal code to grant specified officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation administrative subpoena authority regarding specified financial crimes. Sets forth provisions: (1) with respect to standards governing production of items subpoenaed; and (2) granting persons complying in good faith with a summons or order issued under this Act and producing the materials sought immunity from civil liability to the consumer for such production or nondisclosure of such production. Title III: Improvements in the Administration of the FDIC and the RTC - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) to grant subpoena authority to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) as a conservator or receiver or for carrying out authority with respect to an insured depository institution. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to grant the FDIC and the RTC access to Internal Revenue Service returns and return information upon written requests by the respective Board of Directors and upon certification by the Board that it has a substantial need for such returns or return information. Amends the FDIA to authorize Federal banking agencies, in conducting any investigation, examination, or enforcement action under such Act, to: (1) request the assistance of any foreign banking authority; (2) maintain an office outside the United States for such purposes; (3) provide assistance to a foreign banking authority, upon request, if the requesting authority is conducting an investigation involving a violation of laws or regulations relating to banking matters that the requesting authority administers or enforces; and (4) conduct such an investigation as is necessary to collect information and evidence pertinent to such a request without regard to whether the facts stated in the request also constitute a violation of U.S. law. Authorizes the FDIC and the RTC, as conservator or receiver of any insured depository institution, to request the assistance of any foreign banking authority and provide assistance to any such authority in accordance with this Act. Requires the FDIC and the RTC to each maintain a permanent office to coordinate foreign investigations or investigations on behalf of foreign banking authorities. Authorizes the Board of Directors of the FDIC to act in its own name and through its own attorneys in any action or proceeding in which the FDIC is an interested party, whether in its corporate capacity or as conservator or receiver for any insured depository institution. Grants priority to the FDIC over certain claims or actions filed or begun against an affiliated party of the insured depository institution by depositors, creditors, or shareholders of the institution after enactment of this Act. Authorizes the FDIC, as conservator or receiver for any insured depository institution, to avoid any transfer of interest of an institution-affiliated party or any transfer of interest or obligation of person determined to be a debtor of the institution that was made within five years of appointment of the FDIC as conservator or receiver, if such party made such transfer or incurred such liability with intent to hinder, delay, or defraud the insured depository institution. Specifies circumstances under which the FDIC may recover the property transferred or the value of such property. Sets forth provisions regarding prejudgment attachments of assets where an institution-affiliated party may be required to provide restitution to the institution or where the party is a debtor of the institution, and where the assets will be dissipated or otherwise placed beyond the jurisdiction of the court or FDIC before any recovery may be completed unless a trustee is appointed. Establishes criminal penalties for knowingly concealing assets or property from the FDIC or the RTC as a conservator or receiver for any insured depository institution. Requires each Federal banking agency to require directors of depository institutions to complete an educational course on their duties as directors every three years. Authorizes a court or the Attorney General to direct disclosures of matters occurring before a grand jury during an investigation of a banking law violation to identified personnel of a financial institution regulatory agency upon a finding of substantial need, subject to specified conditions. Excludes the payment of restitution under specified Acts including the FDIA from discharge under bankruptcy provisions. Amends the Federal criminal code to subject to civil forfeiture property which constitutes or is derived from proceeds traceable to mail fraud, or fraud by wire, radio, or television, affecting a financial institution. Amends the FDIA, the Federal Credit Union Act, the Revised Statutes, the Federal Reserve Act, the Bank Holding Company Acts of 1956 and 1970, and the Home Owners' Loan Act to permit the appropriate Federal banking agency, the FDIC, or, in the case of the latter statute, the Director, to apply to specified courts to recover from a depository institution administrative costs arising out of actions taken to recover a civil penalty. Title IV: Taxpayer Recovery Act - Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990 - Makes an exception to a discharge in bankruptcy for: (1) restitution that the debtor has been ordered to pay by a State or Federal court in any criminal proceeding arising from an act that caused a loss to any bank, savings association, or credit union (bank); or (2) damages provided in any judgment, order, or consent decree entered in any State or Federal court, or in any settlement agreement entered into by the debtor, arising from any act involving fraud or reckless disregard for the law committed with respect to any such institution. Requires that any individual acting as a director, officer, or institution-affiliated party of a bank be considered to be acting in a fiduciary capacity with respect to such institution for purposes of a provision making an exception to a discharge from bankruptcy involving fraud or defalcation while acting in such capacity. Specifies that reliance by a creditor will not be required to establish an exception to discharge if the creditor is a financial regulatory agency that is a successor to a bank. Sets forth time limits for the filing of a complaint objecting to the discharge of a debt owed to: (1) a bank that is closed, is in receivership or conservatorship, or is sold to another bank in a transaction assisted by a financial regulatory agency; or (2) such an agency. Specifies that an individual debtor who has committed an act involving fraud or reckless disregard for the law or is subsequently adjudicated to have committed such an act during the pendency of his bankruptcy proceeding with respect to any bank that is in receivership or conservatorship or that is sold to another bank assisted by a financial regulatory agency shall not be exempt from: (1) more than $7,500 in value of the debtor's aggregate interest in any real property that the debtor uses as a residence: and (2) the debtor's interest in any insurance policy or annuity.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990
Korean War Veterans Memorial Thirty-Eighth Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should recognize the 38th anniversary of the Korean War by minting and issuing a silver dollar coin. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue one-dollar silver coins to commemorate the 38th anniversary of the ending of the Korean War. Terminates such authority after December 31, 1991. Mandates that surcharges from the sale of such coins be used for the Korean War Veterans Memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1990
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to revise the definition of a "contribution or expenditure" by a national bank, corporation, or labor organization to: (1) include communications to influence any election for Federal office by a corporation to its stockholders and executive or administrative personnel and their families or by a labor organization to its members and their families; and (2) repeal provisions excluding non-partisan registration and get-out-the-vote campaigns. Requires any payments by corporations or labor organizations for all other communications and for the establishment of, and solicitation of contributions for, a separate segregated fund for purposes relating to any such election to be disclosed to the Federal Election Commission in the same manner as for contributions or expenditures. Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to subject to the limitations and reporting requirements for expenditures any payment for a mixed political activity (an activity, such as a voter registration program, for both influencing an election for Federal office and for other purposes) by a national or State committee of a political party. Requires such a payment to be made only from an account subject to the requirements of that Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1990
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to: (1) require unauthorized political advertising that advocates the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate or solicits any contribution to contain a statement at the beginning and end that is easily readable or audible which identifies the person who paid for such advertising and specifies that the advertising is not authorized by any candidate; (2) allow House candidates to certify to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) their intention to limit to $100,000 their total expenditures from personal funds and the personal funds of their immediate family; (3) provide that the opponent of a candidate who spends more than such amount or who does not make such a certification shall no longer be subject to the limitations on contributions; and (4) direct the FEC to prescribe regulations for making such certifications.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1990
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit candidates for the House of Representatives from accepting contributions from persons other than local individual residents totaling in excess of the total contributions accepted from local individual residents.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1990
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to: (1) require any individual required to file a statement of independent expenditures in an aggregate amount or value in excess of $250 during a calendar year to certify that such expenditures are from personal funds and to identify the financial institution from which any instrument is drawn to make such expenditures; (2) prohibit States from making any contribution or expenditure with respect to a Federal election or acting as an intermediary or conduit with respect to such contribution; (3) require disclosure of debt settlement and loan security agreements; (4) include as contributions any gift, subscription, loan, or deposit of money or anything of value made by any person to draft or encourage a clearly identified individual as a candidate for Federal office; and (5) treat such a contribution as a contribution to a candidate whether or not the individual actually becomes a candidate, for purposes of the limitations on contributions to any candidate for Federal office. Requires Members of, or Members-elect to, the House of Representatives to account for all franked mail excluding franked mail with a simplified form of address for delivery within the Member's congressional district.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1990
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to: (1) exclude from the annual limitation on total individual contributions those contributions to national, State, and local committees of political parties that, in the aggregate, do not exceed $25,000 in a calendar year; (2) remove the limitations on contributions by the national or State committee of a political party or by a House or Senate campaign committee of a political party to candidates in general elections for Federal office; (3) allow national and State committees of a political party to match the total amount of independent expenditures made against their respective candidates in congressional elections; (4) establish guidelines for determining the Federal election portion of amounts paid by national and State committees of a political party for a mixed political activity (an activity, such as a voter registration program, for both influencing an election for Federal office and for other purposes); (5) subject such payments to the limitations and reporting requirements for expenditures; (6) require such payments to be made only from an account subject to the requirements of that Act; (7) repeal provisions excluding funds for constructing or purchasing office facilities from the definition of a "contribution"; (8) define "local committee" as an organization that is responsible for the daily operation of a political party at the local level; and (9) allow such local committees to make contributions and expenditures without limitation to any candidate who is affiliated with the party the committee represents and who is a candidate for Senator or Representative in the State involved. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for qualified political contributions to candidates for State or Federal office. Limits such credit to $250 for a taxable year.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1990
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to: (1) establish a separate limitation of $1,000 with respect to nonparty multicandidate political committee contributions to any candidate for Federal office (currently, all multicandidate political committee contributions to such candidates are subject to a $5,000 limitation); (2) prohibit separate segregated funds established by corporations or labor organizations for political purposes from acting as intermediaries or conduits with respect to contributions to such a candidate; (3) prohibit a political committee that is not an authorized committee of such a candidate and is not a political committee of a political party from transferring funds to any other such political committee; (4) prohibit such a candidate from establishing, maintaining, financing, or controlling a political committee, other than the principal campaign committee of the candidate; and (5) prohibit a principal campaign committee of such a candidate from making any contribution to any other principal campaign committee (other than the principal campaign committee of the same individual as a candidate for another Federal office).
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1990
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit labor organizations from using dues or agency fees for political purposes, unless the employee paying the dues or fees approves of such use. Permits employees to revoke their approval. Requires labor organizations using such dues or fees to notify annually the employees paying dues or agency fees of such prohibition and of their right to revoke their approval.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1990
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to: (1) remove the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives as ex officio members of the Federal Election Commission; and (2) require all designations, statements, and reports required to be filed under that Act to be filed with the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1990
Savings Association Law Enforcement Improvement Act of 1990 - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) take action to increase the investigation and prosecution of savings association criminal misconduct; (2) take increased action to recover or obtain restitution for losses incurred as a result of savings association fraud or embezzlement; and (3) make quarterly reports to certain congressional committees on the status of savings association criminal investigations and prosecutions and the progress in recovering amounts lost to fraud and embezzlement.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1990
Amtrak Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 1990 - Amends the Rail Passenger Service Act to authorize appropriations through FY 1992 for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak). Limits the liability for certain rail accidents occurring in the District of Columbia to no more than the limits of coverage maintained by a publicly funded commuter transportation authority established under Virginia law to indemnify Amtrak or any railroad over which the authority conducts its operations. Authorizes the use of proceeds from the sale of railroad lines that were acquired and rehabilitated with funds under the Rail Safety and Service Improvement Act of 1982 for similar purposes with respect to railroad lines connected with such a line for the purpose of continued rail service on them. Requires Amtrak to cooperate with the efforts of the Washington State Department of Transportation in designing a study of the feasibility of reestablishing rail service between Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Directs Amtrak to study and report to the Congress on the revenue and cost implications of separating the California Zephyr-Desert Wind-Pioneer train into two service routes serving a southern and a control route through Iowa. Prohibits the compensation of any rail or motor carrier employee who works in more than one State from being subject to State income taxes in any State but the State in which the employee resides. Amends the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to treat Amtrak as a publicly funded rail carrier with respect to its contribution toward employees' unemployment compensation benefits. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to study and report to the Congress on the potential need among Class II and Class III railroads for Federal guarantees of obligations for funding rehabilitation and improvement of facilities and equipment, acquisition of new railroad facilities, or refinancing of existing debt.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1990
Urges the President to instruct the Attorney General to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the involvement of Government officials in the savings and loan scandal.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1990
1992 Olympic Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue 1992 Olympic Games commemorative five-dollar gold coins and one-dollar silver coins. Prescribes guidelines for the sale and pricing of such coins and directs the Secretary to ensure that their issuance will not result in any net cost to the United States. Mandates that surcharges be paid to the U.S. Olympic Committee.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Groundwater Management and Water Quality Control Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to provide technical and financial assistance through loans and grants to non-Federal organizations to implement projects to: (1) maintain groundwater pumping levels and prevent long-term overdraft of aquifers; (2) develop surface and groundwater conjunctive use facilities to conserve water that would otherwise be wasted; (3) prevent groundwater contamination from toxic spills and other pollution sources; (4) clean up and treat contaminated groundwater; (5) provide water to rural and municipal water supply systems; and (6) restore, create, and enhance wetlands and other environmental resources. Outlines the terms and conditions for such assistance which include a non-Federal cost share of at least 25 percent of the total allowable estimated cost of the project. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for up to half of the costs of those portions of the project which are: (1) not revenue producing; (2) beneficial to the public; and (3) appropriate for Federal and other financial assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to approve such a project upon the concurrence of appropriate State officials and when the Secretary finds the project to be feasible and has assurance that any loan will be repaid. Authorizes the Secretary to negotiate a contract to implement such a project after its approval. Outlines contract requirements including maximum loan and grant amounts, length of the loan period, and the applicable rate of interest. Makes an organization not meeting such requirements which proposes to implement a project having an economic value or revenue producing water function that meets Federal cost-benefit criteria eligible for grants under this Act. Subjects the planning and construction of any project under this Act to the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Provides for short-term emergency projects for relief of drought or water quality control problems. Requires all non-Federal project works and facilities constructed under this Act to remain under the jurisdiction and control of the local organization. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act and for emergency projects.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Designates: (1) the House of Representatives office building at C Street and New Jersey Avenue, Southeast, District of Columbia, known as House of Representatives Office Building Annex No. 1, as the Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. House of Representatives Office Building; and (2) the House office building at 3d and D Streets, Southwest, District of Columbia, known as House of Representatives Office Building Annex No. 2, as the Gerald R. Ford House of Representatives Office Building.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1990
Urges the President to initiate consultations and negotiations with East European countries (Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia) under the authority of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to reach trade agreements that establish free trade areas between the United States and such countries. Authorizes the President to designate other East European countries (including Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) as eligible East European countries if such a country is taking steps toward: (1) political pluralism; (2) economic reform based upon progress toward a market-oriented economy; (3) respect for internationally recognized human rights; and (4) a willingness to build a friendly relationship with the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1990
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the President should submit the Convention for the Protection of the Natural Resources and Environment of the South Pacific Region to the Senate for ratification; (2) the Senate should give its advice and consent to ratification without delay; and (3) the United States should commit resources to support the Work Program of the South Pacific Regional Environment Program and activities to implement the Convention.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1990
Medicare Bone Mass Measurement Coverage Act of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare coverage of bone mass measurements.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1990
Osteoporosis and Related Bone Disorders Research, Education, and Health Services Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMSD) and the Director of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to expand and intensify research on osteoporosis and related bone disorders. Requires, with respect to osteoporosis and related bone disorders: (1) the NIAMSD Director to increase the number of Specialized Centers of Research; and (2) the NIA Director to increase the number of program project grants devoted to creating centers of excellence. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services the Interagency Council on Osteoporosis and Related Disorders and the Advisory Panel on Osteoporosis and Related Disorders. Authorizes appropriations for the Advisory Panel. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make up to three grants to establish model health promotion projects for community-based education on osteoporosis, with each project targeting one of these groups: young and teenage girls, midlife women, and older men and women. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the NIAMSD Director to make grants or enter into contracts to establish a Resource Center on Osteoporosis and Related Disorders to: (1) disseminate information about research results, services, and educational materials to health professionals, patients, and the public; and (2) coordinate regional training programs for the development of health professional resource networks. Requires grant and contract recipients to establish: (1) a central computerized information system to, among other matters, translate scientific and technical information into information readily understandable by the general public; and (2) a national toll-free telephone information line. Requires the grant or contract recipient to charge fees for providing information, but allows exceptions for individuals and organizations unable to pay. Authorization appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1990
Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that: (1) continued whaling and commercialization of whale meat are a violation of the International Whaling Commission moratorium; (2) the Secretary of Commerce should certify any nation for continued whaling activities rejected as scientifically invalid by the Commission; (3) the President should order an embargo on a significant quantity of fishery products from nations found to be diminishing the effectiveness of the International Whaling Convention; (4) the President should use all diplomatic tools to convince whaling nations to comply with decisions of the Commission; and (5) the President should use all diplomatic tools to encourage support of Commission member nations for a long-term solution to problems before the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1990
Agriculture Environmental Restoration Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to carry out an agriculture environmental restoration program which shall: (1) identify and clean up hazardous substances released from facilities owned or formerly owned by the Department of Agriculture (Department); and (2) determine whether groundwater contamination has occurred at such sites, including well water testing and warnings to persons in the affected vicinity. Directs the Secretary to carry out: (1) hazardous waste research, development, and demonstration programs; and (2) related information collection and dissemination. Establishes in the Department the Agriculture Environmental Restoration Fund. Directs: (1) the Secretary to notify the Secretary of Health and Human Services of the most commonly found unregulated hazardous substances at Department facilities; (2) the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure the timely preparation of toxicological profiles of such substances; (3) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prepare hazardous substance health advisories; and (4) the Secretary to notify the appropriate EPA offices and State and local authorities with regard to environmental restoration activities. Requires the Secretary, whenever possible, to establish a technical review committee to comment on releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances at Department of Agriculture facilities. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1990
Agricultural Development and Trade Act of 1990 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to revise policy provisions. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) increase the U.S. contribution of food aid and encourage other donor countries to increase contributions toward meeting new food aid requirements; and (2) encourage other advanced nations to make increased food aid contributions to combat world hunger and malnutrition through the expansion of international food and agricultural assistance programs. Directs the President to: (1) carry out through the Agency for International Development (AID) a program under which agricultural commodities are donated to least developed countries and the revenue from the sale of such commodities may be used for economic development activities; and (2) implement, through the Secretary of Agriculture, a program to offer agricultural commodities for sale on credit to developing countries and to carry out domestic agricultural trade development activities with the local currency proceeds associated with the repayment of loans. Considers a country to be a: (1) least developed country if the country meets poverty criteria established by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) Civil Works Preference or such country is a food deficit country and is characterized by high levels of malnutrition among significant numbers of its population; and (2) a developing country if such country has a shortage of foreign exchange earnings and has difficulty meeting its food needs through commercial channels. Sets forth indicators of national food deficit and malnutrition. Prohibits such assistance to any government engaging in a consistent pattern of human rights violations. Waives such prohibition if the food assistance is targeted to the most needy people and made available through channels other than the government. Authorizes the Administrator to execute agreements with least developed countries to provide commodities on a grant basis. Requires the Administrator, in allocating such commodities, to give priority to least developed countries that: (1) demonstrate the greatest need for food; (2) demonstrate the capacity to use food assistance effectively; and (3) are willing to promote food security. Directs the Administrator to arrange for the transportation of such commodities. Requires agreements to be entered into by November 30 of the fiscal year in which the commodities are to be shipped. Authorizes agricultural commodities provided to a least developed country to be: (1) used in the recipient country for direct feeding programs or the development of emergency food reserves or distributed through commercial channels; or (2) sold in such country, with the proceeds of the sale distributed in accordance with this Act. Requires revenues generated from the sale of agricultural commodities to be disbursed in the recipient country in accordance with a local currency agreement between the recipient country and the Administrator. Requires amounts in local currency accounts to be used for specific economic development purposes in the recipient country. Provides that at least ten percent of such amounts shall be used by the country to support indigenous nongovernmental organizations, nonprofit agricultural organizations, and cooperatives that are active in rural development, sustainable agricultural production, and environmental protection projects in the country. Authorizes the Secretary to execute agreements with developing countries to provide for the sale of agricultural commodities on a deferred payment basis. Requires the Secretary, in allocating such commodities, to give priority to developing countries that: (1) demonstrate the greatest need for food; (2) are listed on the priority list under title I of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978; and (3) have the potential to become commercial markets for competitively priced U.S. agricultural commodities. Permits only the Secretary or the Commodity Credit Corporation to serve as purchasing or shipping agents, or both, with respect to such commodities. Authorizes the Secretary or the Corporation to establish fees for such services. Sets forth terms and conditions of sales of such commodities. Authorizes the Secretary to defer payments for up to seven years after the last delivery of commodities to a developing country. Requires proceeds from payments made in foreign currencies by developing countries to be used to: (1) develop markets for U.S. agricultural commodities on a mutually beneficial basis; (2) make agricultural business development loans to U.S. businesses; (3) make agricultural facility loans to domestic or foreign entities; (4) promote agricultural trade development; (5) conduct agricultural trade development activities in recipient countries; (6) conduct agriculture and forestry research; and (7) make payments to the United States for previous obligations of recipient countries. Makes foreign currencies used by the Secretary (other than for research or U.S. obligations) exempt from a prohibition on the use of foreign credits by Federal agencies under the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1953. Prohibits purchases of agricultural commodities from private stock or purchase of ocean transportation under this Act unless such purchases are made on an invitation for bid that is publicly advertised in the United States. Prohibits commissions or other payments to selling or purchasing agents in the purchase of such commodities and transportation, unless determined appropriate by the Secretary. Sets forth reporting requirements with respect to commissions or payments made to agents of the importing country. Makes suppliers of commodities or ocean transportation who fail to file reports, or who file false reports, ineligible to furnish commodities or transportation financed under this Act for five years. Prohibits freight agents employed by the Secretary, the Corporation, or AID from representing any supplier of commodities, freight or ancillary services, or any foreign government during the period of their contracts with the United States. Authorizes the Secretary, in entering into agreements for the sale of high protein, blended, or fortified foods to developing countries, to waive payments (equal to the costs of processing, enrichment, or fortification) if specified conditions are met. Requires the Corporation to make available to the Administrator agricultural commodities for least developed countries. Authorizes the Corporation to finance the sale and export of commodities for developing countries. Permits the Corporation to make commodities available on a cost and freight basis. Limits the total value of agreements entered into with respect to such commodities. Revises famine relief provisions to authorize the President, through the Administrator, to provide agricultural commodities to foreign countries to: (1) alleviate hunger, mortality, and morbidity; and (2) promote sound environmental practices. Makes eligible to receive such assistance: (1) private voluntary organizations or cooperatives that are registered with the Administrator; or (2) intergovernmental organizations. Earmarks a specified amount of funds for expanding such programs and for meeting administrative costs of such organizations. Sets forth specified requirements for organizations to ensure that commodities are used effectively and in the areas of greatest need. Directs the Administrator to give priority to U.S. organizations or cooperatives. Permits agreements between the Administrator and such organizations to provide for the sale or barter of commodities in the recipient country. Requires the Administrator to ensure that such organizations can sell at least ten percent of the amount of all commodities distributed under non-emergency programs for each fiscal year in order to generate foreign currency proceeds. Authorizes the Administrator to provide assistance to such organizations in the sale of commodities in such countries. Sets forth minimum levels of commodities available for food distribution. Establishes the Food Aid Consultative Group to review issues concerning the effectiveness of procedures governing food assistance programs and private voluntary organizations, cooperatives, and indigenous nongovernmental organizations. Requires the Corporation to make available commodities to carry out food assistance programs. Revises administrative procedures with respect to agricultural commodity proposals. Revises the President's authorities with respect to the farmer-to-farmer program and extends such program to least developed and middle-income countries and newly-emerging democracies. Sets forth minimum amounts of funding for such program. Establishes a Food for Freedom Program. Authorizes the President to enter into agreements to provide agricultural commodities to eligible countries to support democratization, the granting of individual liberties, and the promotion of economic freedom. Permits commodities to be made available on a grant basis or on credit terms. Requires a country, in order to be eligible, to: (1) have begun a transformation to a representative democracy; (2) have made commitments to expand free enterprise in the agricultural economy; or (3) have begun to implement comprehensive economic reforms that will temporarily increase the likelihood of malnutrition in vulnerable groups. Sets forth the duties of the Corporation with respect to the program. Limits the amount of Corporation funds to be used for the program. Sets forth elements of agreements to carry out the program. Prohibits the transshipment or resale of commodities unless authorized by the President. Prohibits any agreement under the program if such agreement would result in: (1) the inability of the Corporation to provide sufficient commodities to carry out specified food assistance, domestic commodity, or agricultural trade programs; (2) a shortage in the domestic supply of commodities required under the agreement; or (3) the inability of the Corporation to maintain adequate carryover stocks to meet an emergency or meet the requirements of any Act. Authorizes the President to use a certain amount of Corporation funds to provide assistance to strengthen private sector agriculture in recipient countries. Requires the Secretary to determine the agricultural commodities and quantities for disposition. Authorizes the Secretary to suspend the disposition of a commodity if the disposition would reduce the domestic supply of the commodity below that needed to meet domestic requirements, adequate carryover, and anticipated exports. Exempts from such suspension commodities used for urgent humanitarian purposes. Makes alcoholic beverages and tobacco products ineligible for disposition. Prohibits any commodity from being made available unless the Secretary or the Administrator determines that: (1) adequate storage facilities are available in the recipient country to prevent the spoilage or waste of the commodity; and (2) the distribution of the commodity in the country will not result in a disincentive to, or interference with, domestic production or marketing. Directs the Administrator or the Secretary to: (1) ensure that the importation of U.S. commodities and the use of local currencies for development purposes will not have a disruptive impact on the farmers or local economy of the recipient country; (2) ensure that private trade channels are used with respect to specified sales and donations and that small businesses have a fair opportunity to participate in sales; (3) assure that sales or donations will not disrupt world prices or normal trade patterns; (4) obtain commitments from recipient countries that they will publicize the commodities are being provided as food for peace; (5) encourage the U.S. private sector and private importers in developing countries to participate in programs under this Act; and (6) safeguard U.S. marketings and avoid displacing sales that would otherwise be made for cash dollars. Prohibits the handling of commodities by government military forces or an insurgent group, except under certain conditions. Requires the Administrator to encourage all parties to a conflict to permit safe passage of commodities and other relief supplies and to establish safe zones for recovery activities. Authorizes the President to waive payments by eligible developing countries for food aid loan obligations. Makes a country eligible if the country meets least developed country criteria or a specified structural adjustment facility or similar arrangement is in effect with respect to the country. Permits the President to provide debt relief only if a request is made in the annual budget. Prohibits countries receiving debt relief from receiving food aid loans for a period of two years. Prohibits agreements to finance sales or provide assistance under this Act from being entered into after 1995. Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on the progress toward food security and the elimination of malnutrition in countries receiving U.S. food assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Classifies expenditures under this Act as expenditures for international affairs and finance. Sets forth the required value of commodities acquired under the Agricultural Act of 1949. Revises provisions of the Agricultural Act of 1949 to permit the Secretary to provide eligible commodities for food assistance programs and the Food for Freedom Program established by this Act. Authorizes foreign currency proceeds generated in Poland to be used for activities that would: (1) improve the quality of life of the Polish people; and (2) strengthen and support activities of private, nongovernmental institutions in Poland.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1990
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to permit the deferral of payments on student loans during professional internships of any duration (by removing a two-year limitation).
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1990
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the Congress and the States shall have power to prohibit the act of physical desecration of the U.S. flag and to set criminal penalties for such act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Export Facilitation Act of 1990 - Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 with respect to the export of U.S. goods and technology to foreign countries. Requires the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to grant an export distribution license primarily on the basis of the reliability of an applicant and foreign consignees to prevent the diversion of items to an unauthorized use or consignee. (Current language refers to "controlled countries" only.) Requires the Secretary to modify each item on the control list to specify performance and other identifying characteristics of technical data subject to national security and foreign policy controls, or to export controls under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978. Declares that as of September 30, 1991, no permission may be required for the reexport of goods or technology to, or reexport of such items from, a country which maintains export controls on such items cooperatively with the United States pursuant to the agreement of the Coordinating Committee. Authorizes the Secretary to require permission for export or reexport of such items to unreliable end users. Requires the Secretary, if he or she determines a country is noncompliant with such agreement, to require permission to export or reexport such items to such country, and to reexport them from that country. Declares that no permission may be required to reexport U.S. technology from a country when the technology to be reexported is incorporated in other technology, and other specified conditions are met. Requires the Secretary with respect to the definition of "supercomputer" to establish and publish in the Federal Register a performance-based indexing system to ensure that such definition and all controls and security safeguard procedures on supercomputer exports and reexports are commensurate with technological advances. Sets forth circumstances under which such safeguards are not required. Directs the Secretary of State to seek the approval of the Coordinating Committee for the following proposal: (1) that no permission be required to export goods or technology (the export of which to China would require only notification of Coordinating Committee members) to any foreign country; and (2) that there shall be favorable consideration of any license application to export goods and technology at a higher technical level, for civil end uses, to Eastern European countries that were controlled as of January 1, 1990, but that meet specified criteria, and enforce certain safeguards against the diversion of such items to other controlled countries or unauthorized consignees, or to unauthorized uses. Requires the Secretary, no later than 30 days after the Coordinating Committee approves such proposal, to publish: (1) those changes in the goods and technology subject to controls, and the changes in those controls, made pursuant to such proposal; and (2) a list of Eastern European countries that meet certain diversion safeguards criteria. Directs the Secretary to implement such proposal by a date established by the Coordinating Committee. Authorizes the approval of export license applications for exports or reexports to the Soviet Union of goods or technology for civil uses only. Declares it to be U.S. policy to: (1) approve general exceptions, on behalf of U.S. exporters, to the Industrial List portion of the International Control List of the Coordinating Committee, and to support identical exceptions for exporters from countries in the Committee; and (2) provide specific guidelines to U.S. exporters with respect to goods, sectors, and end users eligible for such exceptions, and to notify such exporters of all agreements adopted by the Committee with respect to such exceptions. Requires the Secretary of State to propose to the Coordinating Committee that exports of telecommunications equipment for civil end use to certain countries (other than a country for which no permission to export may be required or a controlled country ineligible for favorable consideration) require no more than notification of the Committee. Prohibits items from being included on both the Commodity Control List and the United States Munitions List. Terminates, as of September 30, 1992, all national security controls on the export of goods and technology to countries other than a controlled country. Removes such items from the Commodity Control List. Requires the Secretary of State, no later than November 1, 1992, to submit a proposal to the Committee to remove from the International Control List for export to controlled countries all items no longer on the Commodity Control List for other than controlled countries. Declares that, in specified circumstances, approval shall be presumed for license for export to a country of any controlled goods, without regard to their technical specifications, for trade show purposes. Declares that any license for the export of goods or technology shall also authorize the export of operation technical data related to such items, whether or not such data is referenced in such license. Changes from discretionary to mandatory the Secretary's authority to issue regulations that establish indexing procedures which provide for automatic increases (instead of the currently authorized annual increases) in the performance levels of certain goods or technology subject to export licensing controls. Requires removal of goods or technology which no longer meet the performance levels increased pursuant to such procedures from the commodity control list, unless a U.S. agency objects to such removal and the Secretary determines subsequently that they shall not be removed. Directs the Secretary to require technical advisory committees to establish indexing procedures for certain goods or technology. Requires the Secretary of State to submit to the Coordinating Committee any U.S. proposal that would apply a final determination affecting U.S. exports to controlled countries. Makes the Secretary a member of the permanent U.S. delegation to the Coordinating Committee. Requires the Secretary, or a designee, to be represented at any negotiations with other countries with regard to their cooperation in restricting the export of goods and technology which could be detrimental to the security of the United States. Requires the Secretary to publish the full text of the International Control List of the Coordinating Committee, together with all notes and understandings concerning that list agreed to by the Committee. Requires the Secretary to consult with the Secretary of Defense in reviewing export license applications for the export of goods and technology to: (1) the Soviet Union; (2) Eastern European countries which do not qualify for favorable consideration as determined by the Coordinating Committee; and (3) any controlled country when the end uses of the goods or technology will not be civil. Requires the Secretary to notify the Secretary of Defense of any export license request before expiration of the time within which the President may disapprove such exports. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to waive consideration of any such proposed export. Increases the criminal and civil penalties for violations of the national security and foreign policy export control laws of the United States. Sets forth a statute of limitations for any administrative sanction or civil action to recover penalties under this Act. Provides for the judicial review of determinations made under this Act (except discretionary control list determinations). Declares that the provisions of this Act shall be self-executing. Authorizes appropriations. Extends the Export Administration Act of 1979 through 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Bone Marrow Registry Act of 1990 - Amends provisions of the Public Health Service Act providing for the establishment of a voluntary bone marrow donor registry to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that the types of marrow represented in the registry provide adequate representation of the U.S. population. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990
Indian Housing Improvement Act of 1990 - Title I: Indian Public Housing - Increases budget authority for Indian public housing grants under the United States Housing Act of 1937. Reserves specified community development block grant amounts for an Indian public housing child care demonstration program. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to make Indian self-help housing eligible for comprehensive improvement assistance. Title II: Section 8 Voucher Program Eligibility for Indian Housing Authorities - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to make Indian housing authorities eligible for the section 8 housing voucher program. Title III: Inclusion of Indian Tribes Under McKinney Homeless Assistance Act Programs - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to add the National Congress of American Indians to the Emergency Food and Shelter Program National Board. Makes Indian tribes eligible for: (1) comprehensive homeless assistance; (2) emergency shelter grants; (3) the supportive housing demonstration program; (4) section 8 assistance for single room occupancy dwellings; and (5) grants for education for homeless children and youth. Amends the Public Health Service Act to make Indian tribes eligible for: (1) community mental health services block grants; and (2) community mental health services demonstration projects for chronically ill homeless individuals. Title IV: Miscellaneous Indian Housing Program Provisions - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to require the Secretary of Agriculture, in the event of a Farmers Home Administration loan default on Indian public land, to: (1) pursue liquidation only after offering to transfer the account to an eligible tribal member, the tribe, or the Indian housing authority; and (2) dispose of the property only to one of such entities. Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study of neighborhood development opportunities on Indian trust lands. Authorizes: (1) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to waive Indian housing program matching fund requirements; and (2) the related use of Federal funds for matching amounts.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the administration should: (1) be commended for its quick action in addressing the humanitarian crisis in northern Ethiopia; and (2) impress upon Ethiopia's opposition groups that the U.S. attitude toward each such group will be greatly influenced by their cooperation in facilitating relief efforts and by steps they take in negotiating a lasting political settlement. Requests the President to urge: (1) the parties to the conflict in northern Ethiopia to agree to a ceasefire, to accept free passage of relief, and to permit the United Nations (U.N.) to assume a prominent role in coordinating international relief efforts; (2) Soviet President Gorbachev to press the Ethiopian Government to agree to such actions; and (3) nations supplying military assistance to the warring parties in Ethiopia to use their influence to facilitate a ceasefire and end external military flows. Urges the President: (1) until the Ethiopian Government takes such actions, to oppose favorable treatment of such Government by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to continue to oppose upgrading of U.S. diplomatic relations with such Government, and to prohibit the importation of Ethiopian coffee; and (2) after the Ethiopian Government takes such actions and has made substantial progress in effecting macroeconomic reform and in negotiating a settlement of Ethiopia's internal wars, to begin the normalization of relations and to support an expanded World Bank and IMF role in Ethiopia.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Conservation Forestry Act of 1990 - Title I: National Goals for Windbreaks, Shelterbelts, Wildlife Corridors, and Sustainable Agroforestry Systems - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish national goals for windbreaks, shelterbelts, wildlife corridors, and sustainable agroforestry systems. Title II: Agroforestry Research - Directs the Secretary to establish a Semiarid Agroforestry Research, Development, and Demonstration Center at Forest Service facilities at Lincoln, Nebraska. Requires the Director of the Center to establish a National Clearinghouse on Agroforestry Conservation and Promotion. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Programs to Promote Tree Planting and Windbreak and Shelterbelt Establishment and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Conservation Reserve Program - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the conservation reserve program (CRP) through 1995. Provides for a minimum CRP acreage planted to trees. Makes cropland suitable for shelterbelts, windbreaks, wildlife corridors, or filter strips eligible for the CRP. Gives special consideration for such eligibility to cropland influencing surface or groundwater quality. Provides for cost sharing assistance. Makes uncropped wetlands and marginal pastureland eligible for the CRP if the owner agrees to plant trees on such land. Provides for cost sharing assistance. Subtitle B: Agricultural Conservation Program - Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to provide financial assistance for the establishment of shelterbelts or windbreaks under the agricultural conservation program. Subtitle C: Great Plains Conservation Program - Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to provide financial assistance for the establishment of shelterbelts or windbreaks under the Great Plains conservation program.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Loans to One Borrower Transition Rule Act of 1990 - Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act to establish a transition period during which specified limits apply to total loans and credit extensions offered by savings associations to any one borrower. Requires the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision to prescribe regulations to implement this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Commends the United Nations Human Rights Commission for extending the mandate of the Cuba Working Group with regard to the human rights situation in Cuba. Condemns the Government of Cuba for engaging in a consistent pattern of human rights violations and harassment of human rights activists. Calls upon the Cuban Government to: (1) honor its guarantees that individuals who testified before the Cuban Working Group would not be subject to reprisals; (2) release all human rights activists and other political prisoners; and (3) meet universally recognized standards of human rights.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1990
Foreign Investment Policy Improvements Act - Requires the Secretary of Commerce to issue a report on foreign direct investment in the United States. Requires the General Accounting Office to submit to a specified congressional committee a report analyzing and making recommendations with respect to the Secretary's report. Requires the Bureau of Economic Analysis to use certain business information relating to foreign-owned businesses in the United States (ten percent or more of whose voting securities are owned by foreign persons) when implementing the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act. Requires the Bureau, in a specified report, to include information on international investment in property in the United States by foreign persons, with separate tables listing businesses (50 percent or more, and 50 percent or less, of whose voting securities are owned or controlled by foreign persons). Amends such Act to authorize and provide for the collection and use of information on direct investments owned or controlled directly or indirectly by foreign governments. Increases, and makes mandatory, the civil penalties for failure to provide information under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Amends title XVIIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover services performed by a physician assistant regardless of the setting or geographical location in which such services are rendered.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Ancient Forest Protection Act of 1990 - Establishes the National Ancient Forest Reserve System. Designates certain lands in California, Oregon, and Washington as components of such System. Declares that all Federal lands in such States which qualify as ancient forest or associated forest and are not designated as components of the System shall be managed as if they are. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations with respect to the removal of commercial timber from such lands. Declares it to be U.S. policy to develop and utilize scientific information to study and identify the biological and ecological requirements of ancient forest ecosystems. Directs the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality to study and report to appropriate congressional committees on the biological and physical requirements for the survival of such ecosystems.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to provide that the definition of "owner or operator" (for purposes of liability) does not include: (1) a designated lending institution which acquires control of a facility pursuant to the terms of a security interest held by the person in such facility or in connection with a lease subject to Federal or State banking authorities; (2) a corporate fiduciary which operates or has legal title to a facility pursuant to the terms of an estate or trust; (3) an individual or institution that serves as an indenture trustee and acquires control of a facility as the result of default on a financing document between the trustee and the issuing entity; and (4) an individual fiduciary who has legal title to a facility for purposes of administering an estate or trust.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
National Flood Insurance Compliance, Mitigation, and Erosion Management Act of 1990 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (the Act) to terminate the flooded property purchase and loan program. Terminates the erosion-threatened structures program. Establishes a system of ratings and incentives for community floodplain management. Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (the Director) to: (1) evaluate the floodplain and erosion management measures taken by areas (and subdivisions) for which national flood insurance coverage has been made available; and (2) provide incentives in the form of reduced premium rates for such flood insurance coverage in areas that have adopted exemplary or particularly effective measures for such management. Requires such program to be carried out with amounts from the National Flood Insurance Fund. Terminates such program after ten years, or sooner if Congress so legislates. Requires the Director to report to specified congressional committees. Authorizes programs funding. Establishes a program of mitigation insurance for flood and erosion damage. Requires the Director to provide, under the Federal flood insurance program, for such mitigation insurance to: (1) reduce damage and losses from future floods to structures in special flood hazard areas and other areas; and (2) prevent damages to structures along shorelines subject to erosion. Provides for supplemental or separate contracts and separate premiums and claims for such insurance. Prohibits mitigation insurance claim payments to relocate or demolish structures subject to imminent erosion damage unless the appropriate public body has adopted erosion management measures that prohibit construction in 30-year erosion setback areas and limit construction in 60-year erosion setback areas. Prohibits federally-regulated or insured lending institutions from making any loan secured by a building or mobile home unless such property is covered by mitigation insurance at a rate determined necessary by the Director. Requires such mitigation insurance for any property located in: (1) an area of special flood hazards on which a structure was constructed before adoption of a flood insurance rate map by the relevant community participating in the national flood insurance program; or (2) erosion hazard zone along the Great Lakes' shoreline or U.S. tidal waters' coastline in a community that has adopted adequate erosion management measures. Authorizes the Director to make available mitigation insurance for any property for which it is not required, whether or not such property is located in an area of special flood hazards on which a structure was constructed or substantially improved after adoption of a flood insurance rate map. Requires the Director to: (1) assess erosion hazard zone surcharges on flood insurance contracts for shoreline or coastline structures in communities that have not adopted adequate erosion management measures; and (2) certify imminent erosion dangers to structures in such communities. Allows the payment of mitigation insurance claims for mitigation activities only: (1) for structures that have been continuously covered by both flood and mitigation insurance for specified periods; and (2) if such structures suffer specified types of flood or imminent erosion damage. Requires mitigation claim payments for repetitive or substantial flood damage to be used only for mitigation activities to demolish, relocate, elevate, or floodproof the structure, in the most cost-effective and technically feasible manner. Authorizes alternative activities on a case-by-case basis. Requires, in the case of substantial flood damage claims, that the payment be used for flood protection and compliance with community measures for floodplain management. Bases certain future insurance coverage requirements and premium rates on compliance or noncompliance with floodplain management measures, and on payment or on nonpayment of a claim for repetitive flood damage. Requires mitigation claim payments for imminent erosion damage to be used only for certain relocation or demolition activities, in amounts based on specified formulas, within a specified time period. Limits flood insurance claims payments and coverage after such period and for structures in communities that have not adopted certain erosion measures. Sets forth requirements for mitigation insurance premiums and surcharges, and for certain appeals by owners of structures covered by such insurance. Sets forth limitations on flood insurance coverage in areas of extreme erosion risk. Prohibits the Director from making flood insurance available for any new or substantially improved construction within the ten-year erosion setback established. Modifies the floodplain management requirement for participation for areas not adopting erosion management measures. Prohibits after community adoption of the applicable flood insurance rate map, new flood insurance coverage from being provided in any area (or subdivision) for which the appropriate management measures, unless that body has adopted adequate land use and control measures containing certain building standards and base flood elevation standards. Requires updating of flood maps and assessment and mapping of erosion zones. Provides for funding administrative and operational responsibilities added by this Act. Increases the maximum flood insurance coverage amounts for residential property buildings and contents and business and church property buildings. Removes a ceiling on certain required coverage.
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