United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to make it an unfair labor practice for an employer to offer or grant: (1) permanent replacement employee status during a labor dispute; or (2) any employment preference to an individual who worked or indicated a willingness to work during a labor dispute over an employee who exercised specified rights during such dispute and who is working for, or has unconditionally offered to return to work for, the employer.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amateur Radio Spectrum Protection Act of 1991 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from diminishing existing allocations of spectrum (available radio frequencies) to the amateur radio service after January 1, 1991. Requires the FCC to provide replacement spectrum to the service for any frequency reallocation after such date.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Provides a limited antitrust exemption from State and Federal laws for: (1) actions taken to develop independent natural gas producers' cooperative associations; or (2) actions taken by such associations to implement plans to market natural gas in interstate commerce. Conditions such exemption upon such actions': (1) being necessary to market natural gas; and (2) not being taken for the purpose of reducing competition.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends provisions of existing law relating to equal rights under the law to specifically include within the right to make and enforce contracts the making, performance, modification, and termination of contracts, including surety contracts, and the enjoyment of all benefits, privileges, terms, and conditions of the contractual relationship.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit any Member of Congress or congressional candidate from making contributions to any other Member or congressional candidate. Prohibits Members from soliciting and accepting contributions with respect to any election of congressional leadership officers.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to eligible groups of individuals who may be affected by the treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste at a solid waste facility seeking a permit under such Act. Sets forth eligibility requirements. Permits such grants to be used for technical assistance to: (1) interpret information with regard to the nature of the hazardous waste to be managed at the facility; (2) interpret information concerning the potential threats to human health, the environment, and the economy posed by the facility; (3) interpret information regarding the suitability of the proposed site and the record of the permit applicant; and (4) prepare views for presentation at a public hearing on the issuance of the permit. Limits the amount of such grants. Requires grant recipients to contribute a specified percentage of the costs of the assistance. Waives the contribution requirement under certain circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in determining whether to issue a permit for the treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste, to investigate the applicant's record in owning or operating other hazardous waste facilities, including whether there have been past or pending proceedings against the applicant for violations of Federal or State laws in the operation of such facilities. Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to set forth the same investigation requirement with respect to the issuance of permits for the construction of polychlorinated biphenyl incineration facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Ovarian Cancer Research Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the Director of the National Cancer Institute, to conduct or support basic research on certain aspects of ovarian cancer. Prohibits the Secretary from conducting or supporting clinical research on the same matters. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends the National Gas Policy Act of 1978 (relating to the enforcement of maximum prices for first sales of natural gas) to provide that certain refunds or penalties do not apply if the sales price exceeded the maximum statutory price solely because of a certain court decision which vacated a specified Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Order.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
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 · 3 January 1991
Federal Employees' Political Activities Act of 1991 - Prohibits an employee from using or attempting to use official authority or influence to interfere with or affect the result of any election. Prohibits an employee from using or attempting to use official authority to intimidate, threaten, coerce, command, or influence: (1) any individual for the purpose of interfering with the right of any individual to vote as the individual may choose, or of causing any individual to vote, or not to vote, for any candidate or measure in any election; (2) any person to give or withhold any political contribution; or (3) any person to engage, or not to engage, in any form of political activity. Prohibits an employee from using, attempting to use, or permitting the use of any official information, unless such information is available to the general public. Prohibits an employee from: (1) giving or offering to give a political contribution to any individual either to vote or to refrain from voting, or to vote for or against any candidate or measure, in any election; (2) soliciting, accepting, or receiving a political contribution to vote or refrain from voting, or to vote for or against any candidate or measure, in any election; or (3) giving or handing over a political contribution to a superior of the employee. Prohibits an employee from soliciting, accepting, or receiving, or from being in any manner concerned with soliciting, accepting, or receiving, a political contribution: (1) from another employee (or a member of another employee's immediate family) with respect to whom the employee is a superior; or (2) in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties by a Federal employee or official or an individual receiving salary or compensation from the Treasury. Prohibits an employee from soliciting, accepting, or receiving a political contribution from, or giving a political contribution to, any person who: (1) has, or is seeking to obtain, contractual or other business or financial relations with the employing agency; (2) conducts operations or activities which are regulated by that agency; or (3) has interests which may be substantially affected by the performance of the employee's official duties. Directs the Special Counsel of the Merit Systems Protection Board to prescribe regulations which exempt employees from such prohibitions. Prohibits an employee from engaging in political activity: (1) while on duty; (2) in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties by a Federal employee or official; (3) while wearing a uniform or official insignia identifying the office or position of the employee; or (4) while using any vehicle owned or leased by the Government. Exempts certain high level political appointees from such prohibitions if the costs associated with the political activity are not paid for by money derived from the Treasury. Authorizes leave without pay or accrued annual leave to an employee who is a candidate, upon request, to allow such employee to engage in activities relating to that candidacy. Declares that such request may be denied if the exigencies of the public business so require. Declares that such employee may be required to take leave without pay or accrued annual leave in order to be a candidate if activities relating to the candidacy interfere with the employee's performance of duties. Applies this Act to postal employees and employees of the Postal Rate Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that payment under a life insurance contract to an insured who is terminally ill be treated as a death benefit, making such payment eligible for exclusion from gross income. Provides that any reference to life insurance shall be treated as referring to a qualified terminal illness rider. Provides for the tax treatment of such riders. Describes such a rider as one which provides for payments to an insured upon the insured's becoming terminally ill.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a 100 percent tax on income from frozen Iraqi assets. Authorizes the President to modify such tax if the armed forces of Iraq withdraw from Kuwait within the time and in the manner determined by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Directs the President to furnish to the House of Representatives specified documents discussing: (1) estimated casualties that would be suffered by U.S. military personnel or by military and civilian personnel of other countries in combat operations under Operation Desert Shield; (2) the possibility that a U.S. combat operation would be the catalyst for a wider, regional conflict; (3) the long-term effects of exposure to the biological and chemical weapons now available to the Iraqi Government or the effects of attacking Iraqi facilities that produce such weapons or components of such weapons; (4) the effect of an armed conflict on the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf region to the United States, our Western allies, or Japan; (5) possible targets of terrorist activity as a result of U.S. participation in combat activities in the Persian Gulf or estimated casualties of possible terrorist activities within the United States as a result of such activities; (6) U.S. efforts to obtain or increase the participation of other countries in Operation Desert Shield, the commitments obtained, and any tradeoffs agreed upon; (7) budgetary options for paying for Operation Desert Shield; and (8) options regarding a post-conflict Iraq should a military conflict occur, including the possibility of a permanent United States or United Nations presence in Iraq.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Establishes in the House of Representatives the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control to conduct continuing oversight and review of the problems of narcotics, drug, and polydrug abuse and control.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should fundamentally reassess the necessity of underground nuclear explosions and instruct his representatives to the Limited Test Ban Treaty Amendment Conference to support a comprehensive test ban amendment.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1990
Designates the room numbered H-235 in the House of Representatives wing of the Capitol as the Lindy Claiborne Boggs Congressional Women's Reading Room.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1990
Ethics in Foreign Lobbying Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit multicandidate political committees or separate segregated funds of certain organizations or corporations which are controlled by foreign persons from making any contributions or expenditures with respect to an election for Federal office. Directs the Federal Election Commission to require reporting of ownership interest percentages and to list them. Prohibits foreign nationals from participating in the decisionmaking process of domestic organizations engaged in Federal, State, or local election-related activities. Establishes within the Federal Election Commission a clearinghouse of public information regarding the political activities of foreign principals and their agents. Amends the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to require agents to file quarterly supplemental registration statements. Provides that a foreign principal's legal representative in U.S. courts may only be exempted from filing registration statements upon the submission of an affirmative request for such exemption. Establishes civil penalties for violation of the registration requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1990
Prohibits the proposed sales to Saudi Arabia of armored vehicles (including M1A2 tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles), AH-64 APACHE attack helicopters, PATRIOT guided missile units, and related defense articles and services, that were reported to the Congress pursuant to the Arms Export Control Act on September 27, 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President and Secretary of State should personally intervene with the Soviet President and Foreign Minister to secure permission for Anatoly Genis to emigrate from the Soviet Union without further delay to reunite with his family.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1990
Declares that: (1) the President should withdraw his request for authority to forgive the military assistance debts owed to the United States by the Egyptian Government; (2) if the President fails to withdraw that request, the Congress should reject it; and (3) the President should develop a plan for the sharing of the costs and responsibilities of checking Iraq's aggression.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1990
Medicaid Prescription Drug Fair Access and Pricing Act of 1990 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to condition Medicaid coverage of outpatient drugs provided by a manufacturer upon such manufacturer providing a quarterly rebate to each State Medicaid agency so that such agencies end up spending no more for single source and innovator multiple source drugs than the best price charged other customers and recover, for the purchase of other covered drugs, ten percent of the amount charged retail pharmacies and wholesalers for such drugs. Sets the best price at the lower of the best price in the marketplace when the drug is dispensed or the best price in the marketplace as of September 1, 1990, indexed to the consumer price index. Sets a floor and ceiling on manufacturer rebates. Authorizes a physician to obtain prior Medicaid approval to dispense a single source or innovator multiple source drug that is not subject to a rebate. Requires Medicaid prior approval programs to operate 24 hours a day and provide an immediate response to a physician's inquiry. Requires each State to develop a drug review program, by January 1, 1993, to assure that prescriptions are appropriate, medically necessary, and unlikely to result in adverse medical results. Includes prospective and retrospective drug prescription review and physician and pharmacist education in such program. Provides enhanced Federal funding of the cost of such programs. Provides that this Act does not require States to provide Medicaid coverage for the covered outpatient drugs of a manufacturer which requires, as a condition for the purchase of such drugs, that the manufacturer be paid for associated services or tests provided only by the manufacturer or its designee. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study on the therapeutic interchangeability of drugs.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1990
Patent Competitiveness and Technological Innovation Act of 1990 - Title I: Patents in Space - Patents in Space Act - Amends Federal patent law to provide that any invention made, used, or sold in outer space on a space object or component under the jurisdiction or control of the United States shall be considered made, used, or sold within the United States unless: (1) it has been specifically identified and otherwise provided for in an international agreement which the United States has signed; or (2) it is carried on the registry of a foreign state in accordance with the Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space. Declares that any invention carried on such registry shall be considered made, used, or sold within the United States if it has been specifically so agreed in an international agreement between the United States and the state of registry. Applies this provision to all patents granted before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act, with certain exceptions. Title II: Transgenic Animal Patent Improvements - Transgenic Animal Patent Improvement Act - Amends Federal patent law to declare that it shall not be an act of infringement for a person to: (1) reproduce a patented transgenic farm animal through breeding; (2) use it in the farming operation; or (3) sell it or its reproductive material in the farming operation (including germ cells, sperm, eggs or embryos). Authorizes the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks to accept a deposit of biological material to satisfy patent application requirements. Declares that human beings are not patentable subject matter. Title III: Patent Remedy Clarification - Patent Remedy Clarification Act - Amends Federal patent law to declare that neither the States, their officers, nor their instrumentalities are immune from infringement liability. Provides the same remedies for infringement against State entities as are available against any private entity. Title IV: Research, Experimentation, an Competitiveness - Research, Experimentation, and Competitiveness Act of 1990 - Amends Federal patent law to declare it shall not be an act of infringement to make or use a patent invention solely for research or experimentation purposes unless the invention's primary purpose is research or experimentation. States that if a patented invention has a primary purpose of research or experimentation it shall not be an act of infringement to study, evaluate, or characterize it to create a product outside the scope of the patent covering the invention. Title V: Contractor Invention Rights - Contractor Invention Rights Act - Amends Federal patent law regarding patent rights in inventions made with Federal assistance to outline the parameters of contractors rights in inventions developed pursuant to a Federal contract. Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) consider certain principles of national security and sensitive information when implementing contractor invention rights; and (2) review contractor standards of conduct for resolving potential conflicts of interest, including those involving Department of Energy personnel, contractors, or the current business associates of former Department of Energy employees.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1990
Iraqi Anti-Aggression and Windfall Confiscation Act of 1990 - Authorizes and directs the President to take the following actions with respect to the property and interests in property of the Iraqi Government blocked pursuant to a specified executive order: (1) make all dividends and interest which accrue to such blocked property the property of the United States and transfer such property to the Treasury; and (2) require the Secretary of the Treasury to determine if any account has realized any windfall gain as a result of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and to transfer such amounts to the Treasury. Directs the President to determine whether the property and interest in the property of the Kuwaiti Government and Kuwaiti nationals that was confiscated by the Iraqi Government has been relinquished and returned to the legitimate owners or full restitution has been made. Authorizes the President, if determined that the Iraqi Government has failed to return or make full restitution for such property, to confiscate all property and interest in the blocked property of the Iraqi Government. Makes such confiscated property U.S. property. Authorizes appropriations. Permits the President to waive any of this Act's requirements if it is essential to the U.S. national interests.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1990
IRCA Anti-Discrimination Amendments of 1990 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend General Accounting Office employer sanction reporting requirements. Includes certain seasonal agricultural workers within the scope of such anti-discrimination employment provisions. Requires public dissemination of information about anti-discrimination protections under such Act and under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Repeals the requirement that an alien must file a declaration of intention to become a citizen in order to be covered by such anti-discrimination provisions. Repeals the provision awarding attorney's fees only if the losing party's argument is without reasonable legal and factual foundation. Revises and increases employer civil money penalties. Establishes criminal penalties for pattern or practice violations. Permits a person who was discriminated against by an employer while merely testing such employer's employment practices to file a complaint. Treats certain employer documentary practices as employment practices for purposes of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1990
Desert Shield Burden-Sharing Act of 1990 - Directs the President to determine whether each foreign country that receives trade benefits from the United States is making a commensurate contribution to the multinational military mobilization carried out in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Requires the President to impose an additional duty on dutiable products and a duty on duty-free products of countries that are found not to be contributing to the mobilization. Provides for the termination of such duties. Establishes the Desert Shield Reimbursement Fund to receive duties collected under this Act. Makes the Fund available solely to reimburse appropriations made to support U.S. participation in the mobilization.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990
Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to affirm State authority to regulate the disposal of certain low-level radioactive waste for which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission does not require disposal in a licensed facility.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990
Prohibits a State which is not a member of an interstate compact for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste from siting a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility within 60 miles of an international border. Sets forth distance requirements applicable to the siting of radioactive waste disposal facilities near critical habitats of endangered and threatened species, wetlands, and important archaeological sites. Exempts from the provisions of this Act existing facilities in: Barnwell, South Carolina; Richland, Washington; and Beatty, Nevada.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission to establish a joint board to develop standards to maintain and enhance the quality of telephone exchange service by local carriers to be enforced by the Commission and State commissions. Requires the joint board to: (1) direct local carriers to submit to the Commission and State commissions quarterly uniform data reports regarding compliance with such standards; (2) recommend periodic independent audits of local exchange carrier compliance; and (3) recommend penalties to ensure compliance.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990
Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to authorize the Commissioner of Customs to make a grant to assist an institution of higher education in establishing in Texas a North-South Center for the Study of Western Hemisphere Trade, which shall promote cultural exchange and trade between Western Hemisphere countries. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990
Amends provisions of existing law relating to equal rights under the law to specifically include within the right to make and enforce contracts the making, performance, modification, and termination of contracts, including surety contracts, and the enjoyment of all benefits, privileges, terms, and conditions of the contractual relationship.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990
Directs the United States Postal Service to study and report to the Congress on ways to encourage the greater use of recycled paper by mailers of third-class mail matter along with recommendations for appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1990
Banking Law Enforcement Act of 1990 - Title I: Enhanced Criminal Penalties - Amends Federal criminal law to establish criminal penalties (including imprisonment) for the concealment of assets from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) (acting as conservator or receiver), the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), or the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Board (acting as conservator or liquidating agent). Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Insurance Act to prohibit certain felons convicted of dishonesty or breach of trust from controlling or participating in the affairs of a depository institution for a minimum ten-year period. Amends Federal criminal law to establish criminal penalties (including imprisonment) for obstructing any examination of a financial institution. Increases from 20 years to 30 years the maximum prison term for bank fraud and embezzlement. Establishes a ten-year statute of limitations for the prosecution of racketeering offenses involving financial institutions. Extends money laundering prohibitions to include funds from specified bank crimes. Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to promulgate guidelines for increased penalties for certain bank crime convictions in which the defendant derived more than $1,000,000 in gross receipts from the offense. Provides for restoration of forfeited property and for restitution to bank crime victims. Sets forth maximum criminal fines and minimum imprisonment terms for certain continuing financial crime enterprises (i.e., certain violations committed by at least four persons acting in concert). Title II: Protecting Assets from Wrongful Disposition - Authorizes the Attorney General to obtain a court order enjoining or restraining the alienation or disposition of property obtained as a result of a banking law violation. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to set forth attachment procedures. Amends Federal bankruptcy law to provide that the trustee shall be deemed to have assumed a debtor's commitment to a Federal depository institution regulatory agency to maintain the capital of an insured depository institution (thus precluding the trustee from rejecting such commitment as an executory contract which can be avoided as a discharge in bankruptcy). Exempts a Federal depository institution regulatory agency acting as conservator for an insured depository institution from the requirement of proving reasonable reliance upon a false writing supplied by a debtor who is an institution-affiliated party. Prohibits a discharge in bankruptcy for debts resulting from the debtor's failure to fulfill a commitment to a Federal financial institution regulatory agency to maintain the capital of an insured depository institution. Exempts a Federal depository institution regulatory agency acting as conservator for an insured depository institution from the requirement of a timely nondischargeability request (including notice and hearing) when seeking to recover a debt relating to malfeasance. Declares that for specified cases of deceitful conduct, any institution-affiliated party of an insured depository institution (or credit union) shall be deemed to have been acting in a fiduciary capacity with respect to any debt owed to a Federal banking regulatory agency (thus making such debt nondischargeable in bankruptcy). Sets forth as a prerequisite for a bankruptcy reorganization plan that the debtor will: (1) maintain any commitment to a Federal banking regulatory agency to maintain the capital of an insured depository institution; and (2) continue to be obligated for any debt to such agency for failure to fulfill such commitment. Makes certain debts owed by an institution-affiliated party to an insured depository institution under Federal receivership nondischargeable under a consumer debt bankruptcy plan. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to empower the FDIC and the NCUA (acting as conservators) to avoid fraudulent conveyances by a debtor institution-affiliated party. Prohibits an insured depository institution or credit union which does not meet minimum Federal capitalization requirements from making golden parachute payments, covered benefit payments, or certain payments in anticipation of insolvency to an institution-affiliated party without prior written Federal agency approval. Cites conditions under which insured depository institutions and credit unions may make golden parachute payments and covered benefits payments with FDIC or NCUAB approval. Amends the Federal criminal code to revise the civil and criminal forfeiture guidelines for: (1) property affecting a financial institution; and (2) fraudulent offenses involving the sale of assets held by Federal banking regulatory agencies. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to prohibit certain convicted felony debtors whose default to an insured financial institution in receivership will cause substantial loss from acquiring any asset of the institution (except with respect to repayment). Title III: Improved Procedures for Handling Banking-Related Cases - Amends Federal criminal law to authorize wiretaps for bank fraud and related offenses. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to set forth reciprocal assistance guidelines for foreign investigations by Federal banking agencies and investigations on behalf of foreign banking authorities. Amends the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) to extend from five to ten years the statute of limitations for commencing a civil action for Federal bank law violations. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the National Credit Union Act to grant the FDIC, the RTC, and the NCUA subpoena authority. Title IV: Structural Reforms to Improve the Federal Response to Crimes Affecting Financial Institutions - Establishes within the Office of the Deputy Attorney General in the Department of Justice a Financial Institutions Fraud Unit, headed by a Special Counsel who shall report directly to the Deputy Attorney General. Terminates such Office five years after enactment of this Act. Empowers the Special Counsel to investigate and prosecute criminal activity involving the financial services industry. Directs the Attorney General to establish: (1) financial institutions fraud task forces; and (2) a senior interagency group to assist in identifying the most significant financial institution fraud cases, to allocate investigative and prosecutorial resources, and to expedite interagency coordination and prosecution of financial institutions fraud. Amends Federal criminal law to authorize the Secret Service (under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury) to detect and arrest persons who violate banking laws with respect to financial institutions and the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC). Title V: Reporting Requirements - Directs the Attorney General to report quarterly to the Congress regarding financial institution crimes. Requires the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to present annual statistical tables to the Congress on the business imposed on the Federal courts by the savings and loan crisis. Title VI: National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement - Establishes the National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement to make investigations and recommendations regarding specified aspects of the savings and loan crisis. Requires the Commission to submit a final report to the President and the Congress within one year after enactment of this Act. Terminates the Commission 30 days after the submission of such final report. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII: Authorizations - Amends the FIRREA to authorize appropriations to the Attorney General and the Federal Court System for bank crime cases.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1990
Troubled Defense Programs Accountability Act - Prohibits funds appropriated for a major system from being released to the Secretary of the military department concerned until the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition finds, and the Comptroller of the Department of Defense concurs, that the system meets established requirements and criteria (in terms of cost, schedule, technical specifications, and testing). Authorizes the Comptroller to release funds for a major system to the extent necessary to enable the system to meet such requirements and criteria. Requires the Secretary of each military department, at the beginning of each fiscal year, to establish a funding schedule (expressed as projected costs for meeting requirements and criteria) for each major system. Directs each Secretary to maintain and update such schedules to reflect changes in requirements, criteria, and projected costs. Requires the Comptroller to review such schedules.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990
United States-Mexico Border Health and Environment Act - Directs the Secretary of State to establish within the Department of State an organizational unit to address health and environmental problems along the U.S.-Mexican border. Requires the President to appoint a Coordinator of Border Health and the Environment to operate such unit. Establishes an Advisory Committee on Border Health and the Environment. Requests the President to direct the Secretary to enter into negotiations with the Government of Mexico to encourage the appointment of a Coordinator of Border Health and the Environment in Mexico for purposes of developing joint solutions and prevention programs regarding health and environmental problems in the area adjacent to the U.S.-Mexican boundary. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1990
Nonconventional Fuels Credit Extension and Modification Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source to wells or facilities in service before January 1, 1993 (currently, January 1, 1991) and sold before January 1, 2001. Redefines gas produced from a tight formation to include only gas: (1) which is committed or dedicated on April 20, 1977, to interstate commerce; or (2) which is produced from a well drilled after the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1990
Lead Battery Recycling Incentives Act - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate regulations for persons who generate, transport, store, recycle, or dispose of spent lead-acid batteries. Requires the Administrator, in developing such regulations, to conduct an analysis of the economic impact of the regulations on the recycling industry. Sets forth required elements of such regulations, including specific requirements for: (1) the storage and transfer of batteries by generators; (2) recordkeeping by battery generators, transporters, and recyclers; and (3) management practices of recyclers. Directs battery retailers to accept from customers used lead-acid batteries of the same type and quantity of the batteries sold. Requires transporters to acquire an identification number from the EPA or the State enforcing this Act. Directs the Administrator to implement education activities to inform the public about the environmental and safety hazards associated with improper handling and disposal of spent lead-acid batteries. Authorizes appropriations. Applies such requirements to batteries which are transported to or managed by a lead-acid battery recycling facility, a secondary lead smelter, or any facility that prepares batteries for recycling by means of exposing lead to the atmosphere. Requires producers or importers of lead-acid batteries to recycle, for the ten-year period beginning 24 months after this Act's enactment, an amount of spent lead equal to at least the amount determined by multiplying the amount of lead in the batteries produced or imported by such persons by the recycling percentage established by the Administrator. Authorizes compliance with such requirement by: (1) reclaiming lead from such batteries and using it in the production of new batteries; (2) purchasing reclaimed lead from secondary lead smelters for purposes of producing new batteries or shielding; or (3) purchasing recycling credits. Directs producers or importers to report annually to the Administrator on the amount of virgin and secondary lead used in new lead-acid batteries produced or imported by such persons. Requires the Administrator to establish a recycling percentage that is two points higher than the existing recycling rate for spent lead in used lead-acid batteries. Increases such percentage by two points annually. Authorizes the Administrator to reduce or waive the two percent increase if the rate exceeds 95 percent. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations to allow: (1) producers or importers of lead-acid batteries to create credits for recycling an amount of batteries greater than required; and (2) producers or importers of new batteries to purchase such credits for purposes of complying with this Act. Sets forth minimum requirements for the credit system. Applies battery recycling requirements to persons who produce or import more than 10,000 pounds of new lead-acid batteries annually. Sets the recycling percentage at 90 percent if the Administrator fails to promulgate recycling regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1990
Children's and Communities' Mental Health Systems Improvement Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to replace a subpart relating to State comprehensive mental health services plans with a subpart relating to comprehensive mental health services for children with serious emotional disturbances. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, to make grants to States for comprehensive community mental health services to children with serious emotional disturbances. Prohibits the Secretary from making a grant to a State unless the State is receiving payments under alcohol and drug abuse and mental health services block grant provisions. Requires non-Federal contributions in a specified ratio. Requires State grantees to: (1) establish and operate one or more systems, through grants or contracts, to provide specified types of mental health services to children under 21 years of age; (2) enter into a memorandum of understanding with providers of medical, educational, vocational counseling and vocational rehabilitation, and protection and advocacy services to facilitate the provision of such services without use of grant funds or non-Federal contributions made with respect to the grant; (3) provide case management services; (4) provide services in the language and cultural context that is most appropriate for the child involved; and (5) develop and implement an individualized plan of services for each child admitted to the system. Describes additional services for which a State system may provide. Prohibits the Secretary from making a grant to a State unless the State has a plan, approved by the Secretary, for the development of a State-wide system of care for community-based services for children with serious emotional disturbances. Requires that parents of children with serious emotional disturbances be included as members of the mental health planning council established under existing provisions. Requires that, if a charge is imposed for services under a grant, the charge be made according to a public schedule, adjusted to reflect the income of the family of the child, and not imposed on any child whose family has income and resources at or below the poverty line. Limits grants to States to four years. Allows a State system established under a grant to receive grant funds for two years. Directs the Secretary to provide to a State, on request: (1) technical assistance regarding grant applications; and (2) training and technical assistance on the planning, development, and operation of the systems under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to provide the technical assistance directly or through grants or contracts. Authorizes appropriations, earmarking a specified sum for the technical assistance and training. Limits the number of grants to ten in FY 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1990
National Commission to Support Law Enforcement Act - Establishes the National Commission to Support Law Enforcement to study and recommend changes regarding law enforcement agencies and law enforcement issues on the Federal, State, and local levels.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1990
FHA Protection and Homeownership Preservation Act of 1990 - Amends the National Housing Act to limit the maximum amount of a Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insured mortgage principal to a property's appraised value. Sets forth periodic premium payment schedules. Limits FHA rebates on unearned premiums. Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to: (1) insure that the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund attains specified capital ratios; (2) conduct annual Fund audits; and (3) adjust premiums as necessary. Authorizes periodic mortgage insurance safety premiums.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1990
Title I: Amendment to Title 31, United States Code - Amends Federal law to require that any budget submitted by the President not be in deficit. Provides that if the President determines that a balanced budget is not feasible, and submits written reasons in support of such determination, then the President may submit two budgets, one in compliance and one in deficit. Title II: Amendment to Congressional Budget Act of 1974 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require that any budget submitted by the congressional Budget Committees not be in deficit. Provides that if either committee determines that it is infeasible to submit a balanced budget, then such committee may submit two budgets, one of which is in deficit, together with written reasons for such determination. Requires each concurrent resolution on the budget to contain reconciliation directives necessary to implement the resolution. Requires the Committee on Rules of the House of Representatives, if it reports any rule or order providing for the consideration of any concurrent resolution on the budget, to: (1) provide for the consideration of the text of any balanced budget concurrent resolution reported by the House Committee on the Budget; and (2) provide for the consideration of the text of each concurrent resolution on the budget introduced by the Majority Leader as representing the President's budget. Requires a separate vote on each budget. Requires the Majority Leader to introduce a concurrent resolution on the budget reflecting, without substantive revision, each budget submitted by the President. Makes it always in order in the Senate to consider a budget resolution consisting of the text of a budget submitted by the President. Title III: Effective Date - Makes this Act effective for the concurrent resolution on the budget for FY 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1990
Robert Noyce National Math and Science Teachers Corps Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award up to 5,000 scholarships annually to assist individuals in obtaining a teaching degree (with individual limits of four such scholarships for undergraduate study and two for graduate study). Requires scholarship recipients to agree to: (1) teach science or mathematics in an elementary or secondary school eligible for certain payments for disadvantaged children's education, for at least two years for each fiscal year the recipient received such a scholarship; or (2) repay such scholarship in whole or in part, depending on the amount of required teaching done. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1990
Title X Pregnancy Counseling Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from making a grant for the provision of family planning methods or services unless the applicant agrees to provide complete information and counseling regarding pregnancy, and for a pregnant woman who requests information on options for an unintended pregnancy, to provide: (1) nondirective counseling on prenatal care and delivery, infant care, foster care and adoption, and termination of pregnancy; and (2) referrals for the services that are appropriate to the decision of the woman.
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