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United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1990
Designates the Labor Day Weekend beginning on September 1, 1990, as National Drive for Life Weekend.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1990
Designates August 6, 1990, as Voting Rights Celebration Day.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1990
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Federal excise taxes upon emissions from fossil fuels or upon the carbon content of fuels should not be imposed.
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
Support for Democracy and Human Rights in China Act of 1990 - Prohibits most-favored-nation treatment for Chinese products. Terminates such prohibition upon the President's certification to the Congress that China: (1) has ceased committing violations of internationally recognized human rights; (2) has ceased persecution of pro-democracy movement members; (3) permits unrestricted emigration; and (4) has ceased religious persecution in China and Tibet.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1990
Summer Science Academy Act of 1990 - Directs the National Science Foundation to make grants, contracts, or agreements for at least 20 Summer Science Academies for talented students, particularly economically disadvantaged, minority students, in grades seven through 12 to study mathematics, science, engineering design, and communications. Authorizes appropriations.
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 · 28 June 1990
Aid for Trade Act of 1990 - Title I: Use of Foreign Assistance Funds - Allocates, on a percentage basis, bilateral economic assistance for FY 1992 through 1996 for the construction, design, or servicing of capital projects. Limits the use of such assistance to the procurement of U.S. goods and services. Sets specified percentage limits on cash transfers with respect to such economic assistance and Economic Support Funds for FY 1992 through 1996. Requires the Comptroller General to submit to the Congress a study of cash transfer assistance. Declares that nothing in this Act is intended to reduce the amount of bilateral economic assistance (including grants) for any fiscal year for least-developed beneficiary developing countries. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require the Administrator of each agency, in determining the geographic code for the purchase of goods and services, not to grant any waivers from Geographic Codes 000 (United States only) or 941 (United States and least-developed countries) except for specified reasons. Requires the Administrator of the Agency for International Development to report annually to the Congress on such waivers. Title II: Increase in Credit Authority - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to direct the Export-Import Bank to increase its direct loans for FY 1992 through 1996 by 15 percent per year. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 to the Tied Aid Credit Fund. Amends the Trade and Development Enhancement Act of 1983 to authorize appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 to finance a tied aid credit activity. Title III: Eastern Europe Recovery Program - Establishes the Eastern European Loan Guarantee Program to be administered through the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to provide guarantees to U.S. lenders and exporters for projects which provide for the export of U.S.-made products and services to Eastern Europe. Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to extend the authority of the Bank to make interest subsidy payments to lenders who provide loans in support of U.S. exports through October 1, 1993. Authorizes appropriations to the Bank for FY 1992 and 1993 with respect to such payments for use in Eastern Europe only. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the amount of direct investment loans that the Corporation must make each fiscal year. Earmarks a specified amount of such loans to promote the activities of U.S. small businesses in Eastern Europe. Title IV: General Provisions - Defines "bilateral economic assistance."
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Designates the week of April 7 through 13, 1991, as National County Government Week.
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 · 20 June 1990
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for loss of nationality and deportation for willful and malicious destruction or mutilation of the U.S. flag.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990
Designates October 1990 as Country Music Month.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990
Designates October 1990 as Polish-American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1990
Designates September 9 through 15, 1990, as Rural Small Business Week.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1990
Designates July 22, 1990, as Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Family Appreciation Day.
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 · 7 June 1990
Designates the third Sunday in August 1990 as National Senior Citizens Day.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1990
Federal Employee Placement and Retraining Act - Directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish and maintain a list for priority placement of certain civilian Department of Defense (DOD) employees who are notified of separation due to a major reduction in force and have not declined offers of employment for other DOD positions within their commuting area for which they qualify and which will not provide a cut in pay. Requires DOD to fill vacant positions within a particular commuting area with the individuals listed to be placed in positions in that particular area unless there are no such individuals who are qualified for such positions. Grants individuals listed for priority placement who apply for agency positions for which they are qualified priority over individuals not so listed. Terminates an individual's eligibility to remain on such a list: (1) six months after the individual's separation; (2) upon the request of an individual to have his or her name removed from the list; or (3) upon such an individual's acceptance of an offer of employment for an agency position for which he or she is qualified and which will not result in a cut in pay. Requires the Secretary of Defense to file a certificate with the Administrator of OPM which identifies such DOD employees as eligible to apply for the following assistance made available under this title: (1) supplemental severance allowances; (2) supplemental wage allowance; (3) job search allowance; (4) relocation allowances; (5) job retraining programs; and (6) counseling, testing, and placement services and supportive and other employment services provided under any other Federal law. Entitles such employees to: (1) continued health insurance coverage while receiving severance pay if they pay the employee contributions required for such coverage; and (2) early retirement benefits. Requires the Administrator to provide notice and information to such employees about such assistance and the application procedures. Authorizes payment of a supplemental severance allowance to such employees who meet specified conditions concerning the length of former DOD employment. Requires such employees to be enrolled in or have completed a job retraining program approved by the Administrator unless the Administrator or the State or a State agency determines that such a program is not feasible or appropriate. Sets forth amounts of such allowances payable, reduced by any payments received during approved retraining. Requires such payments to be coordinated with benefits provided under other Federal training programs. Provides supplemental wage allowances in lieu of supplemental severance allowances to adversely affected workers covered by such a certification who accept full-time employment at an average weekly wage that is less than their average weekly wage during DOD employment. Limits the dollar amounts of such supplemental allowances. Allows such workers to file applications with the Administrator to receive allowances to cover a certain amount of the expenses of searching and relocating for other employment, under certain conditions. Authorizes the Administrator to approve worker training under specified conditions and give priority to on-the-job training. Requires such benefits to be coordinated with other Federal training programs. Outlines other training program conditions, requirements, and limitations. Directs the Administrator to make every reasonable effort to secure for such workers the employment services made available under this Act. Outlines provisions concerning: (1) agreements between the Administrator and a State for provision of such assistance; (2) the determination and provision of such assistance by the Administrator in the absence of any State agreement; (3) payments to States under an agreement concerning sums necessary to make such assistance payments to affected workers; (4) liabilities of certifying and disbursing officers; (5) fraud and the recovery of overpayments in the provision of such assistance; and (6) penalties in connection with the disclosure of false information to receive such assistance. Gives the Administrator subpoena power to make eligibility determinations under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to OPM for FY 1990 through 1995 to carry out this Act.
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 · 5 June 1990
Amends Federal bankruptcy law regarding debtor discharges to provide that an individual debtor is not discharged from making restitution payments under certain Federal criminal sentences.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Disapproves the recommendation of the President to extend nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation) to the products of China.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1990
Disaster Assistance Act of 1990 - Title I: Emergency Crop Loss Assistance - Subtitle A: Annual Crops - Extends disaster crop loss assistance through the 1990 crop year for wheat, feed grains, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, soybeans, and other nonprogram crops. Extends crop quality reduction disaster assistance through the 1990 crop year. Reduces disaster assistance payments in relation to Federal crop insurance payments. Requires producers to obtain Federal crop insurance for 1991 in order to be eligible for disaster payments and other specified assistance for 1990 crop losses. Sets forth exempted circumstances. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to announce within a specified time the conditions for establishing a 1990 farm yield for forage-use-crops. Limits assistance under this Act to $100,000. Authorizes the substitution of crop insurance program yields for 1990 disaster assistance eligibility purposes. Subtitle B: Orchards - Provides disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent value in seedlings) to orchardists who suffered qualifying tree losses as a result of 1990 freeze, earthquake, or related condition. Expresses the sense of the Congress that Federal crop insurance should be made available to all orchard crops. Subtitle C: Forest Crops - Provides disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent in seedlings) to commercial tree farmers who suffered qualifying tree seedling losses as a result of 1990 drought, earthquake or related condition. Subtitle D: Additional Assistance - Prohibits the Secretary from reducing rental payments to an owner or operator who hays or grazes livestock during the 1990 crop year on land subject to a conservation reserve program contract to the extent that such owner or operator carries out and pays for specified additional conservation practices. Directs the Secretary to establish the emergency agricultural restoration program to restore the productivity of cropland degraded by floods or other natural disasters. Authorizes appropriations beginning with FY 1991. Subtitle E: Administrative Provisions - Makes a person with qualifying annual gross income (as defined by this Act) in excess of $2,000,000 ineligible for assistance under this Act. Title II: Disaster Credit and Forbearance - Makes producers who suffered 1990 crop losses eligible for emergency loans even if they had crop insurance. Directs the Secretary to make 1991 direct and guaranteed farm operating loans (including funds from the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund) available to producers who suffered 1990 crop losses due to moisture, freeze, or related condition, and 1988 or 1990 crop losses due to drought or related condition. Title III: Rural Businesses - Directs the Secretary to provide loan guarantees through the Rural Development Insurance Fund to rural business enterprises (including Indian tribes) which have suffered disaster damage in 1989 or 1990. Limits: (1) individual guarantees to the lesser of 90 percent of principal and interest or $2,500,000; and (2) aggregate guarantees to $200,000,000. Title IV: General Provisions - Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 to base the determination of the 1989 harvestable amount of sugarcane on the quantity of recoverable sugar. Directs the Secretary to compensate livestock producers for certain flood-caused losses in 1990 if such losses exceed specified fair market values.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1990
Disaster Assistance Act of 1990 - Title I: Emergency Crop Loss Assistance - Subtitle A: Annual Crops - Extends disaster crop loss assistance through the 1990 crop year for wheat, feed grains, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, soybeans, and other nonprogram crops. Extends crop quality reduction disaster assistance through the 1990 crop year. Reduces disaster assistance payments in relation to Federal crop insurance payments. Requires producers to obtain Federal crop insurance for 1991 in order to be eligible for disaster payments and other specified assistance for 1990 crop losses. Sets forth exempted circumstances. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to announce within a specified time the conditions for establishing a 1990 farm yield for forage-use-crops. Limits assistance under this Act to $100,000. Authorizes the substitution of crop insurance program yields for 1990 disaster assistance eligibility purposes. Subtitle B: Orchards - Provides disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent value in seedlings) to orchardists who suffered qualifying tree losses as a result of 1990 freeze, earthquake, or related condition. Expresses the sense of the Congress that Federal crop insurance should be made available to all orchard crops. Subtitle C: Forest Crops - Provides disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent in seedlings) to commercial tree farmers who suffered qualifying tree seedling losses as a result of 1990 drought, earthquake, or related condition. Subtitle D: Additional Assistance - Prohibits the Secretary from reducing rental payments to an owner or operator who hays or grazes livestock during the 1990 crop year on land subject to a conservation reserve program contract to the extent that such owner or operator carries out and pays for specified additional conservation practices. Subtitle E: Administrative Provisions - Makes a person with qualifying annual gross income (as defined by this Act) in excess of $2,000,000 ineligible for assistance under this Act. Title II: Disaster Credit and Forbearance - Makes producers who suffered 1990 crop losses eligible for emergency loans even if they had crop insurance. Directs the Secretary to make 1991 direct and guaranteed farm operating loans (including funds from the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund) available to producers who suffered 1990 crop losses due to moisture, freeze, or related condition, and 1989 or 1990 crop losses due to drought or related condition. Title III: Rural Businesses - Directs the Secretary to provide loan guarantees through the Rural Development Insurance Fund to rural business enterprises (including Indian tribes) which have suffered disaster damage in 1989 or 1990. Limits: (1) individual guarantees to the lesser of 90 percent of principal and interest or $2,500,000; and (2) aggregate guarantees to $200,000,000. Title IV: General Provisions - Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 to base the determination of the 1989 harvestable amount of sugarcane on the quantity of recoverable sugar.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1990
Medigap Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to penalize individuals who issue, sell, or renew Medicare supplemental policies which are in violation of this Act's standards or offer to sell a policy in a State that has not approved such policy. Requires that Medicare supplemental policy issuers: (1) cover a core group of basic benefits and, if they offer other benefits, issue a policy covering only such basic benefits; (2) provide prospective purchasers of a policy with a summary information sheet describing policy benefits and the amount of any premiums attributable to optional benefits; (3) guarantee the renewability of policies; (4) offer each group policyholder terminating their coverage or group membership the right to continued coverage under an individual policy (the policyholder ending his or her group membership may also opt for continued coverage under the group policy) or, if the old group policy is replaced by a new group policy, the right to coverage under a new group policy without exclusion for preexisting conditions; and (5) suspend policy benefits and premiums upon the policyholder's indication that he or she is entitled to Medicaid (title XIX of the Social Security Act) benefits. Requires the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) or, upon the NAIC's default, the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate simplification standards which set the core group of basic benefits policies must provide, limit the additional benefit packages that may be provided, and establish a uniform language and format to be used with respect to policy benefits. Prohibits the sale of policies which do not meet such standards, though permits approved waivers of such standards to test new or innovative benefits. Directs the Secretary to request the NAIC to educate Medicare beneficiaries on the simplification standards. Increases the civil monetary penalty for knowingly selling a policy which duplicates health benefits to which an individual is already entitled. Permits persons aggrieved by duplicative coverage to recover triple damages in a civil suit. Prohibits a policy issuer from selling a policy without: (1) obtaining a written statement of the buyer indicating any health policies of the same type or Medicaid coverage the buyer may have; and (2) notifying the buyer of the possibility and effect of their coverage under the Medicaid program and the address and telephone number of any State Medicare supplemental policy counseling program and the State Medicaid office. Prohibits the issuer from selling a policy to a person who indicates that he or she is covered by the Medicaid program or has duplicative health benefits. Penalizes individuals who sell a policy in violation of such requirements. Increases the percentage of premiums which must be returned to policyholders as benefits. Establishes a process whereby States must approve premium increases prior to their implementation. Requires public hearings for any premium increase request exceeding twice the percentage increase in the medical care component of the consumer price index. Limits Medicare supplemental policy sales commissions. Authorizes appropriations for a matching grant program to assist States in establishing counseling programs to aid Medicare-eligible individuals in choosing Medicare supplemental policies. Prohibits such policies from denying a claim for losses incurred more than six months from the effective date of coverage for a preexisting condition.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1990
Rural Small Business Enhancement Act of 1990 - Title I: Loan Programs - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of Small Business to make loans to rural economic development entities which must use them for: (1) the creation and expansion of business concerns; and (2) rural small business incubators. Prescribes lending guidelines. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Rural Small Business Investment Companies - Modifies the capital requirements for certain companies licensed to assist rural small business concerns. Authorizes paid-in capital to include contributions by State and local governments and nonprofit institutions. Title III: Technical Assistance for Rural Small Business Concerns - Establishes an Office of Rural Affairs (the Office) in the Small Business Administration to be headed by an Associate Administrator who shall: (1) ensure that rural small businesses receive a percentage of financial assistance representative of the population and economic needs in their areas; (2) compile specified rural business statistics; and (3) disseminate information regarding sources of assistance. Mandates that rural area statistics compiled by the Office be included in the President's annual report on small business and competition. Directs the Administrator to: (1) make grants to rural economic development entities to fund a portion of the salaries and expenses of rural technical assistance specialists; (2) report to the Congress regarding the effectiveness of such grants; (3) make marketing assistance grants for rural small businesses; and (4) make grants to assist marketing studies regarding tourism promotion in rural areas. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth matching grant requirements. Title IV: Infrastructure Improvement - Amends the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 to increase the authorization for rural Federal-aid highways. Mandates that each State conduct a rural scenic byways preservation and improvement program with Federal amounts apportioned for construction projects on such byways. Outlines funding guidelines. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: National Commission on Rural America - Establishes the National Commission on Rural America to evaluate and report to the Congress on specified aspects of the Federal rural assistance program. Terminates the Commission after it submits such report. Title VI: Research and Reporting Requirements - Directs the Administration to study and report to the Congress on methods to: (1) assist rural small businesses to obtain Government contracts; and (2) expand the export of goods and services provided by such businesses. Directs the Administrator to compile and distribute to the public and the Congress a catalog of Federal rural small business assistance programs.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1990
Designates the week beginning September 16, 1990, as Emergency Medical Services Week.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1990
Small Business Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 1990 - Amends the Small Business Act to authorize appropriations for specified programs through FY 1994. Authorizes transfers from the disaster loan revolving fund for the administrative expenses of the Small Business Administration (SBA). Modifies the pro rata share guidelines for grant recipients in the small business development center program. Revises the assistance guidelines for small business development center assistance programs. Authorizes the Administrator of Small Business (the Administrator) to make grants or enter into contracts with a State for the purpose of contracting with small businesses to plant trees on State or local government-owned lands. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Administrator to report annually to the President and the Congress regarding the small business tree planting program. Amends the Small Business Administration Reauthorization and Amendment Act of 1988 to extend through FY 1994 the interest rate guidelines for certified development company loans. Modifies the functions of the Office of International Trade. Amends the Business Opportunity Development Reform Act to authorize the Commission on Minority Business Development to accept funds from any other Federal department or agency. Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the President to appoint an SBA Deputy Administrator. Provides guidelines under which a Federal procurement activity which does not solicit small businesses shall document its reasons to the SBA. Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to direct the SBA to develop a plan for greater outreach of procurement and export trade seminars in rural areas. Sets forth funding standards for small business concerns whose eligibility for SBA assistance is premised upon providing expanded job opportunities. Revises the guidelines for SBA loan guarantees of development company debentures held by family business interests. Sets forth criteria for State development companies' eligibility for SBA assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990
Satellite Viewers' Rights Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require providers of satellite-delivered television programming to: (1) make such programming available to home satellite users for private viewing; (2) establish reasonable and nondiscriminatory criteria for such programming when making it available through any other person for distribution so that non-cable distributors shall qualify to distribute such programming for private viewing by home satellite antenna users; and (3) establish prices, terms, and conditions for the wholesale distribution of satellite-delivered programming which do not discriminate in distribution to distributors for cable television subscribers and distributors to home satellite antenna users. Allows for the charging of different rates which are attributable to differences in cost, volume discounts, bona fide prior agreements, or to the transmission of network television programming by any person who encrypts such programming if such person is not engaged directly in retail distribution of programming to home satellite antenna users and is not affiliated with any cable television system operator. Allows persons affected by violations of this Act to bring an action in a U.S. district court or other appropriate court. Provides remedies and fines for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990
Declares that the Congress acknowledges and appreciates the commitment, devotion, and sacrifices of present and former military families. Designates November 19, 1990, as National Military Families Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990
Federal Pay Reform Act of 1990 - Creates two new pay systems to replace the General Schedule. Establishes the Federal National Pay System (the NS Pay System) which shall have 11 grades designated NS-10 through NS-20 each with a range of rates of basic pay for positions currently classified at grades GS-5 through GS-15 for those classes of positions for which the Government recruits nationally, whose incumbents are usually college graduates, and which are generally professional or administrative in nature. Establishes the Federal Locality Pay System (the LS Pay System) which shall have 15 grades designated LS-1 through LS-15 each with a range of rates of basic pay in each pay area for positions currently classified at grades GS-1 through GS-15 for those classes of positions for which the Government recruits locally, whose incumbents are not usually college graduates, and which are generally clerical or technical in nature. States that it is the policy of the Government that pay for the NS and LS Pay Systems shall be based on the principles that: (1) NS and LS pay rates shall be competitive with the pay of employees in the non-Federal sector for the same levels of work; (2) pay for individual employees shall be tied to performance; (3) there shall be equal pay for substantially equal work under the NS Pay System and in each pay area under the LS Pay System as is currently required under the General Schedule; and (4) pay distinctions shall be maintained in keeping with work distinctions. Authorizes the President to establish minimum and maximum NS pay rates and to keep the overall percentage adjustments in LS pay rates below authorized levels when necessary because of a national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare. Prohibits the maximum rate of basic pay from exceeding the minimum rate by more than 40 percent of the minimum rate payable for each range of rates of basic pay for each grade under such Systems. Prohibits the rates of basic pay for such Systems from exceeding the rate paid for level V of the Executive Schedule. Requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to determine under which such System each class of positions shall be placed to best meet the personnel management needs of the Government. Requires the position classification standards to specify under which System the positions were placed. Provides for the classification of positions exceeding NS-20 in difficulty and responsibility into one senior NS category. Authorizes OPM to: (1) require executive agencies to obtain its approval to classify a position above NS-20; or (2) impose numerical limitations on the number of positions exceeding NS-20 in each agency. Sets the minimum rate for the senior NS category at 120 percent of the minimum rate for NS-20 and the maximum rate at level V of the Executive Schedule. Makes the employees in this category eligible for the differentials, allowances and bonuses provided by this Act. Prohibits application of provisions regarding pay adjustment, pay rate setting, and merit increases to such employees. Excludes positions in the Senior Executive Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration Senior Executive Service from such category. Directs the President to designate an executive branch official as the President's Pay Agent. Provides for annual adjustments by the President to the minimum and maximum rates of basic pay for each grade of the NS Pay System each January based on the recommendations of the President's Pay Agent determined from Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) surveys of non-Federal rates of pay for comparable work to insure the competitiveness of NS pay rates. Directs the President to report to the Congress: (1) when a national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare require that pay be held below the comparability range (the range encompassing amounts ten percent above and below the non-Federal rates of pay reported by BLS surveys); and (2) his or her assessment of the impact of such decision on the Government's ability to recruit and retain well-qualified employees. Requires the Pay Agent to: (1) establish a National Employees Pay Council to consist of representatives of Federal employee unions granted consultation rights by OPM; (2) give thorough consideration to the views of the Council in making pay adjustment recommendations and to convene public hearings to obtain the views of interested parties on such recommendations; and (3) determine what rates within such comparability range would be appropriate to allow agencies to recruit and retain well-qualified employees based on certain factors including turnover and unemployment rates. Directs OPM to: (1) establish pay areas for employees under the LS Pay System based on such factors as local labor market patterns, communicating patterns, and practices of other employers; (2) request BLS surveys of non-Federal rates of pay in each pay area for work comparable to the work performed by such employees; (3) recommend to the Pay Agent the minimum and maximum rates of basic pay for each grade of the LS Pay System in each pay area; and (4) set pay for overseas LS employees. Provides for annual adjustments by the President under the same guidelines established for the NS Pay System. Establishes the Federal Labor-Management Committee to advise OPM in establishing pay areas, requesting surveys, and making recommendations to the Pay Agent. Directs OPM to put the new LS pay rates into effect each January. Provides for setting individual rates of basic pay under the NS and LS Pay Systems as is currently done for employees under the General Schedule except that new appointments above the minimum rate for certain individuals are permitted at all grades (currently they are restricted to GS-11 and above) with the approval of OPM only for appointments in an executive agency (currently all appointments except with respect to those by the Librarian of Congress must be approved by OPM). Sets forth guidelines for setting individual rates of basic pay for: (1) employees promoted or transferred to a position in a higher grade; (2) employees repromoted or transferred to a grade in which they formerly served; (3) certain legislative branch employees; (4) Defense Department overseas teachers; and (5) employees of county committees under provisions providing financial assistance to agricultural producers for carrying out conservation and environmental enhancement measures. Provides that any employee under the NS and LS Pay Systems whose most recent performance rating was at the fully successful level or higher shall, at the time of any annual adjustment by the President, receive a merit increase equal to the increase in the minimum rate of basic pay for the employee's grade under such adjustment. Prohibits such an increase in the rate of basic pay for any employee whose most recent performance rating was below the fully successful level. Grants authority to agency heads to provide an additional pay increase to employees rated at or above the fully successful level in an amount to be determined by the agency heads. Provides for additional pay increases under the LS Pay System to employees whose most recent performance rating was at the fully successful level or higher by an amount of not less than three percent of their rate of basic pay upon completion of: (1) each year of service in their current grade if their rate of basic pay immediately before such increase is in the bottom third of the range of rates of basic pay for the grade in the pay area; and (2) each two years of service in their current grade if their rate of basic pay immediately before such increase is above the bottom third of the range of basic pay for the grade in the pay area but less than the dollar amount that is midway between the minimum and maximum rates of basic pay for the grade in the pay area. Prohibits increases for such employees that increase their rate of basic pay above the dollar amount that is midway between the minimum and maximum rates of basic pay for their grade in the pay area. Permits any employee to request reconsideration of a denial of an additional pay increase or the amount of such an increase. Permits such reconsideration only by an employee in a higher position in the agency than the employee who made the initial decision. Prohibits further appeal of the failure to receive an additional pay increase or the amount of such an increase. Authorizes the President's Pay Agent to allow payment of geographical differentials of up to 25 percent of basic pay for employees under the NS Pay System in areas or localities where the Government would otherwise encounter difficulty in recruiting or retaining employees. Requires a geographic differential to be payable to each employee in the area or locality for which the differential is established. Authorizes the President to establish staffing differentials of up to 60 percent of basic pay for employees under the NS and LS Pay Systems in one or more locations or areas where the Government would otherwise encounter difficulty in recruiting or retaining employees. Authorizes OPM to pay supervisory differentials to supervisors under the NS and LS Pay Systems who are responsible for supervising employees not under their respective pay system if: (1) the midpoint of the range of rates of basic pay for subordinate employees is higher than the midpoint of the range of rates of basic pay for supervisors; and (2) one or more of such subordinate employees would, in the absence of such a differential, be paid more than a supervisor. Prohibits a supervisory differential from causing a supervisor's pay to exceed the pay of the highest paid subordinate employee by more than three percent. Authorizes OPM to permit agency heads to pay lump-sum bonuses of up to 25 percent of basic pay to newly appointed employees under the NS and LS Pay Systems or to an employee who must relocate to accept an NS or LS position if the agency would otherwise encounter difficulty in filling the position. Requires the employee to enter into an agreement to complete a specified period of service with the agency to receive such bonus. Requires the employee to repay the bonus on a pro rata basis upon failure to complete the specified period of such service. Authorizes OPM to permit agency heads to pay retention allowances of up to 25 percent of basic pay to employees under the NS and LS Pay Systems who would otherwise be likely to leave the agency and who have unusually high or unique qualifications or if a special need of the agency for the employee's services makes it essential to retain the employee. Authorizes the payment of performance-based cash awards of up to ten percent of basic pay, or in exceptional cases, up to 20 percent of basic pay, to employees under the NS and LS Pay Systems whose most recent performance rating was at the fully successful level or higher. Limits to level I of the Executive Schedule the aggregate amount of basic pay, differentials, bonuses, allowances, and performance-based cash awards employees under the NS and LS Pay Systems may receive in any calendar year. Revises provisions regarding prevailing rate determinations to: (1) require OPM to schedule full-scale wage surveys every three years and to schedule interim surveys to be conducted each year between consecutive full-scale wage surveys; and (2) lower by four percent of the percentage of the prevailing rate payable for each of the five steps for each grade of a regular wage schedule for nonsupervisory prevailing rate employees. Delays the effective date of wage increases for employees under the NS and LS Pay Systems to the 150th day following the date the wage survey is ordered to be made. Authorizes the President to direct OPM to limit the maximum adjustment to wage rates in any wage area during a calendar year if the President determines that equity with NS and LS employees so requires. Makes grade and pay retention provisions applicable to employees under the NS and LS Pay Systems in the same way they are applied to the General Schedule. Authorizes OPM to extend to NS and LS employees in positions involving health care responsibilities any provision regarding employees in the Veterans Health Services and Research Administration (HSRA) of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Establishes a new pay system for administrative law judges and judges of boards of contract appeals consisting of three or more rates of basic pay set by the President which may not be less than the minimum rate for NS-20 or more than the maximum rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule. Directs OPM to determine the rate of basic pay for each judge based on certain considerations. Changes the current limitation on pay fixed by administrative action by an executive agency head or military department head from the maximum rate for GS-18 to level V of the Executive Schedule. Authorizes the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to permit agency heads to set the rate of basic pay for no more than 400 positions critical to the agency's mission requiring high level scientific or professional expertise, up to 30 of which can be Executive Schedule positions, at a rate of basic pay that does not exceed level I of the Executive Schedule unless the President approves a higher rate. Requires OMB to allocate such positions among agencies. Authorizes OMB to: (1) change such allocations at any time; and (2) require agencies to obtain its approval before paying an employee in such a critical position. Authorizes the President to pay geographic, staffing and supervisory differentials, recruitment and relocation bonuses, and retention allowances to employees under other pay systems upon request by an executive agency head. Limits such payment to level I of the Executive Schedule. Bars judicial review of certain determinations entrusted to the President, the Pay Agent, OMB, and OPM under this Act. Increases the minimum rate for the Senior Executive Service (SES) from the minimum rate for GS-16 to no less than 120 percent of the minimum rate for NS-20. Provides for adjustments to the SES schedule by the President when either the NS Schedule or Executive Schedule is adjusted. Replaces the Performance Management and Recognition System with a new authority for the Pay Agent to establish special occupation pay systems for occupations or groups of occupations that the Pay Agent determines should not be under the NS or LS Pay Systems. Prohibits such System from providing for the waiver of any law that could not be waived as part of a demonstration project conducted by OPM. Limits basic pay under such a system to level V of the Executive Schedule, and total pay that includes any differentials, bonuses, and allowances to level I of the Executive Schedule. Authorizes OPM to permit agencies to grant employees time off duty without loss of pay or leave as an incentive award for superior accomplishment. Authorizes agencies to pay new employees up to two pay periods basic pay if they relocate to accept an appointment with the Government. Eliminates computation of overtime rates and wage-board overtime and Sunday rates under premium pay provisions for employees subject to the overtime pay provisions of the Fair Standards Act of 1938 but deems as overtime hours their hours of work in excess of eight hours in a day for purposes of that Act. Deems as hours of work their hours in a paid non-work status. Provides that hazardous duty differentials may apply to employees in positions inherently involving physical hardship or hazard only if OPM approves of such application. Allows certain employees of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Defense performing emergency work to receive premium pay without regard to the limitation on such pay. Subjects such employees to an annual aggregate pay limitation equal to the maximum rate for NS-20. Authorizes the Director of OPM to waive on a case-by-case basis the application of provisions imposing financial penalties on reemployed civilian retirees under either the Civil Service or Federal Employees' Retirement System or military retirees in scientific, technical, professional, or administrative positions for which there is exceptional difficulty in recruiting or retaining qualified employees. Authorizes agencies to pay: (1) travel and transportation expenses to candidates for Federal employment for job interviews; and (2) travel expenses to new appointees and student trainees, regardless of the nature of their appointment. Increases the maximum uniform allowance from $125 per year to $400 per year and permits OPM to adjust the maximum amount by regulation. Requires OPM to determine the appropriate successor reference in the case of any references to the General Schedule or a grade or rate thereof in any provision of law whether or not amended by this Act. Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to require the President to adjust the rates of basic pay for the Foreign Service Schedule by amounts consistent with adjustments for the NS Pay System. Requires the President to adjust the rates of basic pay for HSRA employees consistent with adjustments for the NS Pay System. Requires the President to determine adjustments in the rates of basic pay and allowances for members of the uniformed services. Limits such pay to level V of the Executive Schedule. Prohibits the reduction of any employee's rate of basic pay as a result of the enactment of this Act. Authorizes the President to establish geographic differentials of up to eight percent of basic pay for payment in January 1991 to employees in the consolidated metropolitan statistical areas of: (1) New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island; (2) San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose; and (3) Los Angeles-Anaheim-Riverside. Authorizes the President to establish staffing differentials equal to five percent of basic pay for payment in January of 1991 to employees whose positions are in grades GS-5 or GS-7 and in a class that is determined by OPM as likely to be under the NS Pay System. Requires this Act to become effective not later than January 1, 1995. Extends the physicians' comparability allowance program from September 30, 1990, to September 30, 1995. Prohibits any service under such program from extending beyond September 30, 1997. Provides that the rates of basic pay of the NS and LS Pay Systems shall take effect in January 1994. Requires the rates of basic pay for the NS Pay Schedule to be set under the pay adjustment process for the General Schedule for the last time in FY 1994 without corresponding adjustments for employees of the Foreign Service and HSRA. Requires the rates of basic pay for the LS Pay Schedule to be set under the new pay procedures in this Act. Requires the rates of basic pay for the Federal Wage System to be determined under the new prevailing rate provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990
Special Program of Recreational Training Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants for youth sports programs in public housing projects with substantial drug problems to qualified: (1) States; (2) local governments; (3) public housing agencies; and (4) nonprofit organizations providing youth sports services programs. Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to allocate appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to prescribe conditions under which the U.S. International Trade Commission must temporarily exclude from entry into the United States patent, copyright, trademark, or mask work articles which it is investigating for alleged infringement and unfair import trade practices.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the Supreme Court or any inferior court of the United States from ordering a State or political subdivision, or an official of such State or subdivision, from laying or increasing taxes.
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 · 26 April 1990
Oil and Gas Small Investor Incentive Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the amount of excess intangible drilling costs for non-geothermal oil and gas properties as an item of tax preference under the alternative minimum tax. Revises the exception of oil and gas working interests to the passive activity loss rules by including taxpayers who hold any working interest in any oil or gas property through an entity which limits the taxpayer's liability with respect to such interest to a specified extent.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Calls immediately for Greyhound Lines, Inc., and the Amalgamated Transit Union to resume negotiations under the auspices of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the Secretary of Labor.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Urges the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to: (1) use "Super 301" under the Trade Act of 1974 to identify Japan as a priority country for purposes of negotiating the elimination of barriers to U.S. exports; (2) identify as trade-liberalization priorities under "Super 301" Japanese practices that are most costly in terms of lost U.S. exports and most resistant to change through market adjustment or prior negotiations; and (3) in determining such practices, give substantial weight to the worsening bilateral trade deficit in any sector where they prevail. Declares that the Congress considers that: (1) the identification of the trade-liberalization priorities in the 1990 "Super 301" report would reinforce other bilateral trade discussions such as the Structural Impediments Initiative talks and the negotiations regarding priorities in the 1989 "Super 301" report; and (2) use of the "Super 301" trade-liberalization incentive would improve prospects for reducing the U.S.-Japanese trade imbalance.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990
Designates the month of October 1990 as Crime Prevention Month.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 26, 1990, to commemorate the bicentennial of "An Act for the government of the territory of the United States, south of the river Ohio" (from which Tennessee was formed).
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Designates January 6 through January 12, 1991, as National Law Enforcement Training Week.
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 · 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 · 18 April 1990
Department of Defense Civilian Employee Retirement Incentive Act - Allows certain employees of the Department of Defense serving in entities undergoing a major reorganization, reduction in force, or transfer of functions to elect to have five years added to their age upon separation, their total creditable service, or a combination thereof (not to exceed five years) for purposes of determining retirement eligibility and benefits under the Civil Service and Federal Employees' Retirement Systems.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1990
Savings and Loan Recovery Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal bankruptcy code to exempt from a bankruptcy discharge: (1) a criminal restitution order issued against a person who has caused loss to a financial institution; (2) an order for damages arising from fraud or reckless disregard for the law involving a financial institution; and (3) judgments obtained by the FDIC against officers and directors for breach of fiduciary duty. Extends from 60 to 120 days the time during which an objection to a discharge in bankruptcy petition may be filed. Restricts to $7,500 the amount of real estate or insurance assets which may be shielded under the homestead exemption to the bankruptcy code.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1990
Designates September 9 through 15, 1990, as National Historically Black Colleges Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
National Health Service Corps Revitalization Amendments of 1990 - Title I: Revisions in General Program for National Health Service Corps - Amends the Public Health Service Act provisions relating to the purpose of the National Health Service Corps to require that the Secretary of Health and Human Services use the Corps to provide primary health services in health manpower shortage areas. Removes a limitation on the dollar amount of pay increases which may be granted to a Corps member during the first 36 months of service. Removes provisions directing the Secretary, in assigning Corps members, to: (1) give priority to meeting Indian Health Service and other indian tribe or tribal organization needs; and (2) provide special consideration to homeless populations who do not have access to primary health care services. Applies certain definitions to provisions relating to Corps scholarship and loan programs as well as to provisions relating directly to the Corps. Requires that a complete descriptive list of health manpower shortage areas be published in the Federal Register by specified deadlines. Includes in the definition of "medical facility": (1) health programs or facilities operated by a tribe or tribal organization; and (2) facilities used in connection with provisions relating to health services for homeless individuals. Allows the Secretary to assign members of the Corps to an entity to provide health services in a health manpower shortage area only if there has been (currently, will be) appropriate and efficient use of Corps members assigned to that entity for the area. Removes certain provisions relating to priorities and considerations in assigning Corps personnel, replacing some such provisions with similarly worded provisions. Sets forth the exclusive factors the Secretary may consider in determining the areas with the greatest shortages. Requires annual publication in the Federal Register of a list of areas that are to be given priority in the assignment of Corps members and, for FY 1991, a list of entities authorized to receive assignments of Corps members. Replaces provisions relating to grants and contracts for programs respecting preparation for practice of individuals subject to a service obligation with provisions: (1) concerning consideration of characteristics of Corps members in making assignments; (2) requiring certain types of counseling of Corps members; (3) requiring assistance to Corps members in establishing local professional relationships; (4) directing the Secretary to provide assistance regarding temporary relief from Corps duties in order to pursue continuing education or other interests, including vacations; and (5) directing the Secretary to carry out activities to determine the characteristics of health professionals who are more likely to remain in shortage areas after completion of Corps service, and to determine the appropriate conditions for the assignment of certified nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, and physician assistants. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs of National Health Service Corps - Replaces measures providing for the establishment of the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program with similar provisions directing the Secretary to establish such a Scholarship Program to assure, with respect to primary health services, an adequate supply of health professionals. (Current law makes no reference to primary health services.) Requires that an agreement to work as a provider of primary health services in a shortage area (currently, an agreement to work in a shortage area) be a part of the scholarship contract. Alters the priorities in providing contracts under the Scholarship Program to include an individual with characteristics that increase the probability that the individual will continue to serve in a shortage area after completion of obligated service. Changes the required contents of an annual report mandated by current law regarding the Scholarship Program. Replaces measures providing for the establishment of the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program with similar provisions directing the Secretary to establish such a Loan Repayment Program to assure, with respect to the provision of primary health services, an adequate supply of health professionals. (Current law makes no reference to primary health services.) Requires that an agreement to work as a provider of primary health services in a shortage area (currently, an agreement to work in a shortage area) be a part of the loan repayment contract. Changes eligibility procedures for the Loan Repayment Program. Replaces provisions governing priorities in providing loan repayment contracts with provisions directing the Secretary to give priority to an individual who has characteristics that increase the probability that the individual will continue to serve in a shortage area after completion of obligated service. Increases the limit on the amount the Secretary may pay for each year of obligated service. Removes provisions allowing fulfillment of a service obligation in the Indian Health Service or in a program or facility operated by a tribe or a tribal organization. Requires (currently, allows) the Secretary to pay all (currently, part or all) of any increase in Federal income tax liability of an individual which arises as a result of the loan repayments. Changes the required contents of an annual report mandated by current law regarding the Loan Repayment Program. Requires that an annual report concerning the Scholarship Program and the Loan Repayment Program cover the next five years rather than the next three years. Authorizes appropriations, requiring set-asides in certain percentages for new applicants and for applicants in specified fields. Title III: State Offices of Rural Health - Authorizes the Secretary, through the Director of the Office of Rural Health Policy, to make grants to States for improving health care in rural areas through the operation of State offices of rural health. Requires recipient States to agree that such office will be provided with a minimum annual budget. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits making grants under this program after the aggregate amounts appropriated reach a specified level. Title IV: General Provisions - Specifies the effective dates of provisions of this 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
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
Medicare Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Payment Amendments of 1990 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish uniform national fee schedule payment rates for certified registered nurse anesthetist services.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the implementation of sanctions against a hospital for violating Medicare emergency medical condition screening and treatment requirements until a peer review organization makes a finding as to whether such a violation has occurred.