United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1990
Central American Democracy and Development Act - Declares that it is U.S. policy to: (1) encourage and support the Central American countries in efforts to build democracy, restore peace, establish respect for human rights, expand economic opportunities, and improve living conditions; (2) support and encourage dialogue as the proper means of resolving armed conflicts in Central America; (3) assist in, and secure greater international support for, the recommendations of the International Commission on Central American Recovery and Development; (4) participate in, and contribute to, the United Nations Development Programme for its Special Plan of Economic Cooperation for Central America; (5) help organize a partnership among donor countries and the Central American countries to provide a means of mobilizing resources and promoting a forum for dialogue about issues of development, democracy, social justice, and human rights; and (6) support and promote the President's proposed Enterprise for the Americas Initiative to assist Central American countries in opening their economies and managing their foreign debt. Requires the United States, if requested by the governments of Central America, to provide assistance for the development of the Central American Development Coordination Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1990
International Narcotics Control Act of 1990 - Authorizes appropriations for economic and development assistance for FY 1991 for Andean countries under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA). Specifies an amount of such economic assistance that should be used to provide assistance for Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru for: (1) administration of justice programs; (2) protection of judges, other government officials, and members of the press against narco-terrorist attacks; and (3) training, technical assistance, and equipment for the Office of Special Investigations and the Special Prosecutor for Human Rights in Colombia. Extends authority for administration of justice programs under the FAA. Authorizes appropriations for military and law enforcement assistance for Andean countries under the Arms Export Control Act (AECA). Conditions such aid on: (1) the country having a democratic government; and (2) the armed forces and law enforcement agencies of the country not engaging in a consistent pattern of gross human rights violations. Specifies authorized uses of funds for law enforcement (anti-narcotics) training and equipment, subject to certain monetary limitations, and sets forth conditions under which such assistance may be increased. Specifies forms of assistance subject to limitation. Limits the aggregate acquisition cost to the United States of excess defense articles ordered by the President in FY 1991 for delivery to Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru under the FAA. Waives existing grant limitations on the transfer of excess defense articles with respect to such countries in FY 1991 under the FAA and AECA. Authorizes the use of funds from appropriations for military and law enforcement assistance for Andean countries under the AECA to finance the leasing of aircraft under such Act, subject to specified requirements concerning payment of the cost of such leases and reimbursement of the Special Defense Acquisition Fund. Conditions the provision of economic and development assistance and military and law enforcement assistance under this Act and the transfer of excess defense articles to Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru under the FAA upon a presidential determination that: (1) the recipient country is implementing programs to reduce the flow of cocaine to the United States in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral agreement to which the United States is a party; (2) the armed forces and law enforcement agencies of such country are not engaged in a consistent pattern of gross human rights violations and the government of such country has made certain progress in protecting such rights; and (3) such government has effective control over police and military operations related to counternarcotics and counter insurgency activities. Requires the President, not less than 15 days before such funds are obligated, to transmit to specified congressional committees a written notification specifying the country receiving assistance, the type and value of such assistance, the law enforcement agencies or other units that will receive the assistance, and an explanation of how such assistance will further specified narcotics-control objectives. Waives: (1) certain requirements with respect to narcotics-related assistance for Andean countries, such as the Brooke-Alexander Amendment, provided the President has made such determination; and (2) the FAA requirement to withhold 50 percent of assistance pending certification, if the President determines that application of the certification requirement would be contrary to the national interest and so notifies the appropriate congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations under the FAA for international narcotics control assistance. Authorizes the President to provide development and economic assistance to a foreign country under the FAA to promote the production, processing, and marketing of products or commodities to reduce dependence upon the production of crops from which narcotic and psychotropic drugs are derived. Makes exceptions to the FAA requirement that aircraft provided to foreign countries for narcotics control purposes be leased rather than sold. Requires the President to submit to the Congress a monthly report listing the number of members of the U.S. armed forces assigned to each Andean country. Authorizes certain increases in the number of members of the U.S. armed forces in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru where the President determines that such increases are required by U.S. national interests. Amends the International Narcotics Control Act of 1989 to make certification procedures inapplicable to certain major drug-transit countries for FY 1991. Authorizes the transfer of foreign military financing program funds to economic programs. Authorizes the Secretary of State to order the surrender of a U.S. citizen to a foreign country, even if the United States is not obligated to do so by treaty, upon request of such country if the other requirements of such treaty are met. Requires the President to notify specified congressional committees at least 15 days before obligating FAA or AECA funds for narcotics-related assistance for Afghanistan. Directs the President to: (1) implement a program of instruction to train host country pilots and other flight crew members to fly the aircraft involved in counter narcotics efforts in Andean countries that have been made available by the U.S. Government; and (2) ensure that, within 18 months, flight crews composed of host country personnel replace all U.S. Government pilots and other flight crew members in airborne counternarcotics operations in the Andean countries. Bars the use of FAA or AECA funds for the procurement of surface water craft for counternarcotics programs in the Andean countries until the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense have jointly assessed, audited, and submitted a report to the Congress on the specific goals and objectives of such programs. Amends: (1) the FAA to authorize the use of excess defense articles transferred to a major illicit drug producing country if such country ensures that such articles will be used primarily (currently, only) in support of antinarcotics activities; and (2) the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to make certain restrictions under such Act and under the AECA inapplicable to the sale of defense articles or services made on or before September 30, 1992 (under current law, 1990).
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1990
Motor Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Act of 1990 - Amends the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act to establish average fuel economy standards for passenger automobiles for model years 1995 and thereafter and automobiles other than passenger automobiles (light trucks) for model years 1995 and thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary), after FY 1995, to modify such standards for model year 2001 and thereafter. Directs the Secretary, in response to petitions filed at least 12 months in advance of the model year, to conduct a rulemaking proceeding to determine whether to increase or decrease such standard to a level that is the maximum feasible average fuel economy for that model year, except that such standard shall not be reduced below a 30 percent increase over the average fuel economy achieved by the manufacturer of such vehicle for model year 1988. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to report annually to specified congressional committees on a study which: (1) examines the accuracy of fuel economy testing of passenger automobiles and light trucks; and (2) assesses the extent to which fuel economy deteriorates during the lifetime of such vehicles. Directs the Secretary of Energy to distribute at least 100 explanatory booklets each year to every dealer and additional numbers if requested. Requires the Secretary to provide for a review and report to the Congress by the National Academy of Sciences of the current state of research and development in light truck fuel economy and passenger automobile fuel economy and an assessment of the potential for improving the fuel efficiency and reducing the energy consumption of passenger automobiles and light trucks. Requires the Secretary of Energy to study and report to the Congress on the future options for regulating the fuel efficiency of such vehicles beyond 2001. Doubles the civil penalty for repeated violations of the fuel economy standard. Sets forth criteria with respect to the testing of fuel economy for small passenger automobiles that contain airbags.
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
Violence Against Women Act of 1990 - Title I: Safe Streets for Women - Safe Streets for Women Act of 1990 - Subtitle A: Federal Penalties for Sex Crimes - Amends Federal law to require the U.S. Sentencing Commission to create or amend guidelines to provide for: (1) up to twice the term of imprisonment or fine for violation, after the first conviction, of Federal laws relating to sexual abuse or similar laws of any State or foreign country; and (2) specified minimum terms of imprisonment for aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, and abusive sexual contact. Amends the Federal criminal code to increase the penalties for sexual abuse of a minor or ward and for abusive sexual contact. Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to promulgate guidelines or amend existing guidelines to incorporate the increase in maximum penalties for aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, abusive sexual contact, and sexual abuse of a minor or award. Requires that a court order restitution for violations of such Federal sexual abuse laws. Subtitle B: Law Enforcement and Prosecution Grants to Reduce Violent Crime Against Women - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to areas of high intensity crime against women. Requires that the grants be used for personnel, equipment, training, technical assistance, and information systems for the more widespread apprehension, prosecution, and adjudication of persons committing violent crimes against women. Authorizes the Director to make grants to States, for use by States and their subdivisions, for purposes outlined in this Act and to reduce the rate of violent crimes against women. Authorizes the Director, in addition to the grants under this subtitle, to direct any Federal agency, with or without reimbursement, to use its authorities and resources in support of State and local assistance efforts. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Safety for Women in Public Transit and Public Parks - Directs the Secretary of Transportation, from funds authorized under existing provisions, to make capital grants for the prevention of crime and to increase security in existing and future public transportation systems. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and loans to States and local public bodies to increase the safety of public transportation through lighting, camera surveillance, security phones, or other projects. Sets the Federal share of each project at 90 percent of the net cost. Directs the Secretary to provide grants and loans to study ways to reduce violent crimes against women in public transit through better design or operation of public transit systems. Amends the Land and Water Conservation Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of the Interior to provide grants for capital improvements and other measures to increase safety in public parks and recreation areas. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary to: (1) direct the chief law enforcement official within the National Park Service to compile a list of areas within the national park system with the highest rates of violent crime and make recommendations for capital improvements and other measures needed to reduce the rates of violent crime, including sexual assault; and (2) obligate up to $10,000,000 to the national park system for safety measures such as increasing lighting, providing emergency telephone lines, and increasing security and law enforcement personnel. Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize funding for: (1) rape prevention and education programs conducted by rape crisis centers; and (2) rape prevention demonstration projects to develop and evaluate techniques for lowering the overall incidence of rape by 20 percent by the year 2000 and for reducing the trauma and long-term impact of rape. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: National Commission on Violent Crime Against Women - Establishes the National Commission on Violent Crime Against Women to promote a national consensus on violent crime against women and to make recommendations on reducing such crime. Authorizes appropriations. Terminates the Commission after submission of its final report, subject to extension by the President for up to one year. Title II: Safe Homes for Women - Safe Homes for Women Act of 1990 - Subtitle A: Interstate Enforcement - Provides for a Federal term of imprisonment or fine, in addition to any State penalties, for any person who travels or causes another (including the intended victim) to travel in interstate commerce with intent to injure his or her spouse and who violates a law of any State concerning domestic or family violence. Provides for imprisonment and fines for interstate violation of protection orders, including increased penalties for repeated offenses and for offenses involving serious bodily injury. Mandates that a court order restitution to the victim of an offense under this Act. Requires, provided certain conditions are met, that a protection order issued by the court of one State be accorded full faith and credit by the court of another State. Subtitle B: Arrest in Spousal Abuse Cases - Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) to prohibit a State or locality from receiving a grant under existing provisions if, as a matter of policy or law, it discriminates against family violence victims by prohibiting or discouraging the arrest of persons committing family violence. Declares that proof that a State or locality permits warrantless misdemeanor arrests based on probable cause in domestic violence situations is sufficient, but not necessary, to show such nondiscrimination. Requires certification of compliance. Amends provisions of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 relating to grants for crime victim assistance to require certification that a State does not engage in such discrimination against family violence victims. Makes warrantless misdemeanor arrests sufficient to show compliance. Bars any State, locality, or group of States or localities from receiving funds under such Act without certification that it does not discriminate against victims of family violence by prohibiting or discouraging the arrest of persons committing family violence. Amends the FVPSA to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to eligible States, municipalities, or local government entities, with regard to spousal or family violence, to centralize police enforcement, tracking of cases, prosecution, and judicial responsibility. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to delegate to the Attorney General responsibility for carrying out these provisions and transfer to the Attorney General a limited amount of funds appropriated under existing provisions. Subtitle C: Funding for Shelters - Amends the FVPSA to authorize appropriations to carry out that Act, earmarking at least 60 percent of funds appropriated for State demonstration grants to prevent family violence and provide immediate shelter and related assistance. Subtitle D: Judicial Training - Directs the Attorney General, from funds appropriated under specified provisions of the FVPSA, to provide a certain amount to the State Justice Institute for developing model programs for training judges in the laws of the States on spousal abuse and family violence. Title III: Civil Rights - Declares that all persons within the United States shall have the same rights, privileges, and immunities in every State as are enjoyed by all other persons to be free from crimes of violence motivated by the victim's gender (defined as rape, sexual assault, or abusive sexual contact motivated by gender-based animus). Makes any person, including a person who acts under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of any State, who deprives another of the rights, privileges, and immunities secured by the Constitution and laws as enumerated by this Act liable to the injured party for compensatory and punitive damages.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1990
Sanctions Against Iraq Act of 1990 - Title I: Imposition of Trade Embargo - Sets forth congressional declarations concerning Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Requires the President to inform and consult with the Congress regarding the international crisis caused by such invasion, including U.S. actions. Directs the President to impose the following sanctions against Iraq: (1) blocking of all Iraqi property within the possession or control of the United States; (2) prohibiting the importation of Iraqi goods or services; (3) prohibiting the exportation of U.S. goods (including agricultural products) and technology or services, except food and medical supplies, to Iraq; and (4) prohibiting any transportation involving Iraq or Iraqi persons, vessels, or aircraft. Sets forth additional import sanctions. Title II: Additional Sanctions with Respect to Iraq - Sets forth congressional findings with respect to human rights violations by Iraq. Prohibits: (1) the United States from selling any items on the United States Munitions List to Iraq; (2) the issuing of licenses for the export of such items to Iraq; and (3) the issuing of licenses under the Export Administration Act of 1979 for the export to Iraq of chemical or biological agents for the production of chemical or biological weapons. Presumes denial of export license applications for the export of goods or technology: (1) which could enhance the ability of Iraq to support international terrorism; or (2) to an end user in such country that is engaged in missile or chemical or biological weapons proliferation activities. Sets forth a list of specified items for which a license is required to export such items to Iraq. Prohibits the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or the Secretary of Commerce from issuing a license for the export of nuclear material or technology to Iraq. Requires the United States to oppose financial or technical assistance to Iraq by international financial institutions. Requires the denial of credits or credit guarantees through the Export-Import Bank to Iraq. Authorizes the President to waive the sanctions authorized under this Act in certain circumstances if he certifies to the Congress Iraq's compliance with specified demands. Calls upon the President to seek multilateral cooperation to: (1) deny dangerous technologies to Iraq; and (2) induce such country to respect internationally recognized human rights, especially in the areas in northern Iraq which are inhabited by Kurds.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1990
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that October 1990 should be designated as National Ellis Island Month, in recognition of Ellis Island's upcoming centennial.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1990
Title I: Research - Subtitle A: Health Research Act - Women's Health Research Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health the Office of Women's Health to coordinate all activities and research of the Department of Health and Human Services relating to disease, disorders, or other health conditions that are unique to, more prevalent in, or more serious for women, or for which risk factors or interventions are different for women. Establishes in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) the National Center for Women's Health Research and Development. Requires the Center, with respect to women's health research, to: (1) identify research projects conducted or supported by each agency of the NIH and of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA); (2) evaluate such projects and select those that have particular merit; (3) provide amounts to the agencies for the projects; and (4) take other actions. Requires the Director of the Center to: (1) investigate the extent to which women are being included in NIH or ADAMHA research; (2) investigate whether the projects are being carried out in accordance with policies regarding the inclusion of women; (3) coordinate NIH and ADAMHA research with respect to women's health; and (4) take other actions. Requires the Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to conduct a program for clinical research in obstetrics and gynecology. Requires the Director of the Center to establish the National Women's Health Data Bank and the National Women's Health Clearinghouse. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish: (1) within the Center the National Women's Health Clinical Research Advisory Board; and (2) the Interagency Council on Women's Health Research and Development. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Clinical Trials Fairness Act - Clinical Trials Fairness Act - Amends provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to the national research institutes and provisions relating to the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure, in conducting or supporting clinical research, that women and minority groups are included as research subjects, unless inappropriate. Requires that any project be designed and carried out so as to provide for a valid analysis of whether the research variables affect women or minorities differently than other subjects. Directs the Secretary to establish within the advisory council of each institute and each agency of ADAMHA a Clinical Research Equity Subcommittee to review all clinical research of that agency to determine whether the research is being conducted in accordance with requirements of this Act. Provides for suspension or revocation of the authority for any project the Secretary determines is not being conducted in accordance with those requirements. Defines "minority groups" to mean racial and ethnic minority groups. Requires that the technical and scientific peer review process in the institutes and ADAMHA include an evaluation of the inclusion of women and minority groups as research subjects. Subtitle C: Breast Cancer Research - Authorizes appropriations to the National Cancer Institute for breast cancer research other than research that involves treatment or clinical trials. Subtitle D: Contraceptive and Infertility Research Centers Act of 1990 - Contraception and Infertility Research Centers Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Institute of Child Health and Human Development to make grants and enter into contracts for centers for improving methods of contraception and centers for diagnosing and treating infertility. Requires the Director, subject to appropriations, to provide for three centers on contraception and two centers on infertility. Requires each center to: (1) conduct clinical and other applied research; (2) develop training protocols for and conduct training of physicians, scientists, nurses, and other health and allied health professionals; (3) develop model continuing education programs; and (4) disseminate information to such professionals. Allows a center to use the funds to provide: (1) stipends for health and allied health professionals enrolled in the training programs; and (2) fees to individuals serving as subjects in the clinical trials. Requires each center to use the facilities of a single institution, or be formed from a consortium of cooperating institutions, meeting requirements as prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Allows support for a center to be for a period of up to five years, with extensions of one or more periods of up to five years if the center's operations have been reviewed by a peer review group and the group has so recommended. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary to establish a program of entering into agreements with health professionals, including graduate students, under which the professionals agree to conduct research with respect to contraception or infertility in consideration of the Government agreeing to repay, for each year of such service, not more than a specified amount of the principal and interest of their educational loans. Applies provisions of the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program to this program, except as inconsistent. Authorizes appropriations. Requires amounts appropriated to remain available until the end of the second fiscal year after they are appropriated. Subtitle E: Contraception and Infertility - Declares that the Congress should: (1) establish a program of research for the development of methods of contraception and methods of diagnosing and treating infertility; (2) provide adequate long-term resources for the program; (3) ensure that Federal programs with respect to sexually transmitted diseases adequately respond to the role of such diseases in infertility; (4) ensure public education on contraception and infertility; (5) establish as Federal goals the development, by the year 2010, of improved barrier methods to protect against pregnancy and diseases, new methods of contraception for use by men, a vaccine-like drug for women that prevents pregnancy for a significant period of time without other specified effects, and new and improved techniques of diagnosing and treating infertility; (6) require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reestablish the Ethical Advisory Board in order to facilitate research with respect to infertility; (7) review the policies and procedures of the Food and Drug Administration with respect to expediting approval of drugs and devices for use by the public, especially with respect to contraception and infertility; and (8) determine to what extent measures can be implemented by public or private entities to resolve liability issues involved with drugs and devices concerned with contraception and infertility. Subtitle F: Women and AIDS Research Initiative - Women and AIDS Research Initiative Amendments of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, or both, to establish a program to conduct biomedical and behavioral research on cases of infection with the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in women. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct the research directly or through grants. Specifies forms of research to be included. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes appropriations for grants for community-based clinical trials on experimental treatments for such infection for women. Allows the Director of the NIH to authorize grantees to expend the grants to provide individuals with such transportation, child care, and other incidental services as may be necessary to enable the individuals to participate as subjects in the trials. Subtitle G: Osteoporosis and Related Disorders Research - Osteoporosis and Related Bone Disorders Research, Education, and Health Services Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMSD) and the Director of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to expand and intensify research on osteoporosis and related bone disorders. Requires, with respect to osteoporosis and related bone disorders: (1) the NIAMSD Director to increase the number of Specialized Centers of Research; and (2) the NIA Director to increase the number of program project grants devoted to creating centers of excellence. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services the Interagency Council on Osteoporosis and Related Disorders and the Advisory Panel on Osteoporosis and Related Disorders. Authorizes appropriations for the Advisory Panel. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make up to three grants to establish model health promotion projects for community-based education on osteoporosis, with each project targeting one of these groups: young and teenage girls, midlife women, and older men and women. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the NIAMSD Director to make grants or enter into contracts to establish a Resource Center on Osteoporosis and Related Disorders to: (1) disseminate information about research results, services, and educational materials to health professionals, patients, and the public; and (2) coordinate regional training for the development of health professional resource networks. Requires grant and contract recipients to establish: (1) a central computerized information system to, among other matters, translate scientific and technical information into information readily understandable by the general public; and (2) a national toll-free telephone information line. Requires the grant or contract recipient to charge fees for providing information, but allows exceptions for individuals and organizations unable to pay. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Services - Subtitle A: Informed Consent for Breast Cancer Treatment - Breast Cancer Treatment Informed Consent Act - Requires any State receiving funds under titles V (Maternal and Child Health Block Grant) or XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act or under the preventive health service provisions of the Public Health Service Act to require any physician or surgeon licensed to practice medicine in such State to inform any breast cancer patient of alternative methods of treatment for breast cancer before such treatment is begun. Requires that the patients be informed by means of: (1) a standardized written summary in layman's language and in a language understood by the patient of alternative methods of treatment; and (2) an explanation of the treatment options described in such written summary together with the risks associated with each procedure relative to each patient's particular medical circumstances. Subtitle B: Reimbursement for Certain Nurse Practitioners Under Medicare and Medicaid - Women's Health Care Coverage Expansion Act of 1990 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare and Medicaid coverage of obstetrical and gynecological services furnished by nurse practitioners. Subtitle C: Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenthood Act of 1990 - Mickey Leland Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Parenthood Act of 1990 - Replaces the current title XX (Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects) of the Public Health Service Act with a new title on adolescent pregnancy prevention, care, and research grants. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to provide care services to pregnant adolescents and adolescent parents and prevention services to nonpregnant adolescents. Lists permissible uses for the grants. Requires that grantees charge fees for services only according to a fee schedule approved by the Secretary that bases fees on income. Prohibits a grantee from discriminating on the basis of an individual's inability to pay for services. Sets forth priorities in making the grants. Provides for the amount of a grant. Prohibits the Federal portion of the grant from exceeding 75 percent of annual program costs. Allows non-Federal contributions to be in cash or in kind. Allows the Secretary to waive the 75 percent limitation in accordance with criteria established by regulation. Sets forth descriptions and assurances which must be included in grant applications. Requires grant recipients to spend between three and ten percent to conduct, through an independent entity, an evaluation of the services supported. Directs the Secretary to coordinate Federal policies and programs providing services relating to the prevention of initial and recurrent adolescent pregnancies and providing care for pregnant adolescents and adolescent parents. Requires grant recipients to coordinate activities with other grant recipients in the same locality. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to support: (1) research concerning the societal causes and consequences of pregnancy, childbearing, and child rearing for adolescent females and males; (2) evaluative research to identify services that reduce adolescent pregnancy rates and that improve the outcome of adolescent childbearing; and (3) the dissemination of information from programs and research relating to adolescent pregnancy and parenthood. Allows research and dissemination grants to be made for one year, with renewals for four additional one-year periods. Limits the amount of a grant for direct costs, but allows: (1) additional amounts for indirect costs as the Secretary deems appropriate; and (2) the Secretary to waive the limitation. Sets forth allowed and prohibited uses of the funds. Directs the Secretary to coordinate research and dissemination activities carried out under these provisions with such activities carried out by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Directs the Secretary to establish a system for the review of applications that is substantially similar to the system for scientific peer review of the NIH. Requires the creation of a panel to review applications. Requires grants to be made from among programs the panel has determined to be of scientific merit. Authorizes appropriations for carrying out the title added by this subtitle. Prohibits use of funds for grants under this subtitle for payment for the performance of an abortion. Subtitle D: COBRA Displaced Family Amendments Act of 1990 - COBRA Displaced Family Amendments of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Public Health Service Act to declare that specified provisions relating to the required period of group health plan continuation coverage do not apply to the qualifying events of death, divorce, or legal separation involving a beneficiary who is 50 years old or older. Requires that coverage continue until the 23rd birthday for a beneficiary under 20 years old at the time of such an event involving a covered employee 50 years old or older. Entitles beneficiaries who have applied for, but not received, a determination of disability before the end of an 18 month period after the qualifying event to a continuation period of 29 months. Requires that notice of the option to enroll under a conversion plan be given during the 120-day period ending 60 days before the expiration of the continuation coverage. (Current law requires such notice be given during the 180-day period ending on the expiration date of the continuation coverage.) Allows continuation coverage to end on the date on which the employer or successor employer (currently, the employer) ceases to provide any group health plan to any employee. Subtitle E: Federal Employee Family-Building Act - Federal Employee Family-Building Act of 1989 - Requires any contract for health benefits for Federal employees that provides obstetrical benefits to also provide benefits for family-building procedures. Provides that payment terms or conditions under such contracts shall be no more restrictive for family-building benefits than for obstetrical benefits. Requires such contracts to provide that: (1) benefits shall consist of reimbursement for reasonable and necessary medical expenses and counseling fees directly relating to the adoption of a child; and (2) benefits shall be available in connection with obstetrical care for the biological mother and medical care for the child if, or to the extent that, the pre-adoptive or adoptive parent or parents are legally responsible for the cost of such care. Directs the Office of Personnel Management to authorize the use of sick leave for purposes relating to family-building procedures. Defines "family-building procedure" as a medical procedure to overcome infertility (including procedures to achieve pregnancy and procedures to carry pregnancy to term) and procedures relating to child adoption. Title III: Prevention - Subtitle A: Medicaid Infant Mortality Amendments of 1990 - Medicaid Infant Mortality Amendments of 1990 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to phase-in mandatory State coverage of pregnant women and infants whose family income is below 185 percent of the Federal poverty level. Deducts child and medical care costs from the income eligibility test. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to the Congress by July 1, 1991, on State error rates in determining the Medicaid eligibility of pregnant women and infants. Suspends error rate penalties attributable to such eligibility determinations made from July 1, 1989, until one year after the Secretary's report. Authorizes States to provide Medicaid coverage of prenatal home visitation services for high-risk pregnant women and/or postpartum home visitation services for high-risk infants. Excuses women, during and for 60 days after pregnancy, from a requirement to cooperate in: (1) establishing paternity regarding a child born out of wedlock; (2) obtaining support and payments. Subtitle B: Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Prevention Act of 1990 - Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Prevention Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, to make grants to States, with regard to breast and cervical cancer, for screening, referrals and follow-up services, public information and education programs, education and training for health professionals, quality monitoring of screening, and evaluations of such activities. Sets forth preferences in making the grants and requires equitable geographical distribution. Requires matching non-Federal funds in a specified ratio. Requires that States agree to: (1) provide all of certain services by a specified date; (2) switch to any improved screening procedures which become available and are recommended for use; and (3) assure the quality of any screening procedures used. Directs the Secretary to establish guidelines for assuring the quality of mammography and cytological screening conducted under these provisions. Requires that low-income women be given priority in the provision of services. Requires that a charge for services, if any: (1) be made according to a public schedule; (2) be adjusted for income of the woman involved; and (3) not be imposed on any woman with incomes below the poverty line. Requires services to be provided throughout a State, including to members of any Indian tribe or tribal organization. Authorizes the Secretary to provide training and technical assistance. Directs the Secretary to provide for annual evaluations of programs carried out under this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Limits the number of grants made to seven in FY 1991. Subtitle C: Mammography Reimbursement Under Medicare - Part 1: Screening Mammography Medicare Coverage Act of 1989 - Screening Mammography Medicare Coverage Act of 1989 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover screening mammographies for women over age 34 under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of the Medicare program. Part 2: The Rose Kushner Medicare Screening Mammography Act of 1990 - Rose Kushner Medicare Screening Mammography Act of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover screening mammographies for women over age 34 at a frequency which varies on the basis of a woman's age and risk of developing breast cancer. Finances such coverage by increasing the Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) premium. Part 3: Older Women's Breast Cancer Prevention Act of 1990 - Older Women's Breast Cancer Prevention Act of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover screening mammographies for Medicare-eligible women whose last screening mammographies were performed more than 11 months previously. Determines the payment amount for such service pursuant to a fee schedule. Subtitle D: Coverage of Bone Mass Measurement Under Medicare - Medicare Bone Mass Measurement Coverage Act of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare coverage of bone mass measurements. Subtitle E: Women and AIDS Outreach and Prevention Act - Women and AIDS Outreach and Prevention Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants regarding prevention of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other sexually transmitted diseases in women, including preventive health services, screening, providing treatment (for such diseases other than AIDS), referrals, and follow-up services. Requires that a grantee be an entity that provides health or voluntary family planning services: (1) to a significant number of low-income women; and (2) in an area with a significant number of AIDS cases in women and in newborn infants. Requires that grantees maintain the confidentiality of information on individuals, subject to complying with applicable law. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle F: Infertility Prevention Demonstration Projects of 1990 - Infertility Prevention Demonstration Projects Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants for demonstration projects for the prevention and control of the sexually transmitted disease known as chlamydia, including by providing: (1) to women services relating to counseling, screening, treatment, referrals, follow-up, and outreach; and (2) public information and education and data collection. Requires that grantees be grant recipients under specified provisions that provide preventive gynecological health care. Prohibits charging for the services or information. Authorizes appropriations. Limits the number of grants to ten in fiscal year 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1990
Declares that the President should: (1) reorder U.S. priorities concerning nuclear weapons to take into account the reduced necessity for nuclear testing and the urgent need for environmental cleanup; (2) convey to the Soviet Union the desire of the United States to resume bilateral nuclear testing talks and agree on a timetable for the early achievement of a verifiable comprehensive test ban; and (3) express to the signatories of the Limited Test Ban Treaty U.S. willingness to pursue negotiations in the conference called to amend the Treaty and provide for such test ban.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1990
Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from engaging in any leasing activity with respect to specified submerged lands of the Outer Continental Shelf off the State of Florida. Declares that it is the sole responsibility of the United States to buy back any existing oil or gas lease on such lands. Directs the Secretary to promulgate guidelines for the United States to follow when buying back such leases. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1990
Designates August 1, 1990, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Authorizes and requests the President to: (1) reassert American commitment to the Helsinki Accords; (2) raise the issue of noncompliance with such Accords with any signatory nation which may be in violation; (3) convey to all signatories of such Accords that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is vital to progress in the ongoing Helsinki process; and (4) develop new proposals to advance the human rights objectives of the Helsinki process, including the self-determination of peoples.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Aviation Security Improvement Act of 1990 - Title I: Aviation Security - Establishes as a position within the Department of Transportation an Assistant Secretary for Transportation Security and Intelligence, appointed by the President for a term of five years, who shall be responsible for the development of transportation security. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to report annually to the Congress on transportation security, including appropriate recommendations. Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to establish the position of Assistant Administrator for Civil Aviation Security. Requires the Assistant Administrator to review and prescribe measures to strengthen: (1) controls over checked baggage in air transportation, including measures to ensure baggage reconciliation with respect to passengers who meet Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) criteria as possibly having explosive devices in such baggage; (2) control of individuals with access to aircraft; (3) testing of security systems; (4) use of modern x-ray equipment; and (5) prescreening of passengers. Directs the Administrator of the FAA (Administrator) to establish the position of Federal Security Manager and initiate placement of such managers at U.S. airports. Sets forth the duties of such managers. Requires the Administrator to establish the position of Foreign Security Liaison Officer, who shall be stationed outside the United States and be liaison of the Assistant Administrator with foreign security authorities concerning implementation of Federal Security requirements. Directs the Administrator to issue regulations that subject air carrier personnel with unescorted access to domestic and foreign aircraft or secured areas of domestic airports serving U.S. or foreign air carriers to preemployment and postemployment investigations, including fingerprinting. Requires the Administrator and the Attorney General to establish fees to cover expenses incurred in carrying out this Act. Directs the Administrator of the FAA to prescribe standards for the hiring, continued employment, and contracting of air carrier and airport security personnel. Requires the Administrator to conduct an assessment of current and potential threats to the domestic air transportation system, including the security of individual airports. Directs the Administrator to establish a program to accelerate and expand the research, development, and implementation of technologies and procedures to counteract terrorist acts against civil aviation. Requires the Administrator to: (1) complete a review of threats to civil aviation; and (2) establish a scientific advisory board to review and advise on the progress of such program. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits the deployment or purchase of explosive detection equipment unless the Administrator certifies that it can reliably detect explosive material which can cause catastrophic damage to commercial aircraft with 60 or more passenger seats. Requires air carriers, airport operators, travel agents, and employees who receive information of a threat to civil aviation to provide such information to: (1) an official of the FAA; (2) the Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Transportation Security and Intelligence; or (3) other appropriate officials. Requires the Administrator to cancel flights in the event that passenger safety from such a threat cannot be ensured. Requires the Postmaster General to issue regulations to permit the screening by air carriers of mail not sealed against inspection. Requires the Administrator to require screening of mail and cargo by air carriers or their agents before the transport of such materials. Directs the Administrator to develop model standards for airport design and construction to allow for maximum security enhancement. Directs the heads of the agencies of the intelligence community to promulgate policies and procedures to ensure that intelligence reports concerning international terrorism are made available to other members of the intelligence community and the FAA. Directs the Director of Central Intelligence to designate at least one intelligence officer of the Central Intelligence Agency to serve in a senior staff position in the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Transportation. Requires the intelligence community and the FAA to review and revise all memoranda of understanding and other agreements between them. Title II: United States Response to Terrorism Affecting Americans Abroad - Declares that the Department of State (the Department) shall be responsible for negotiating aviation security agreements with foreign countries concerning implementation of U.S. rules and regulations which affect the foreign operations of U.S. air carriers, foreign air carriers, and foreign airports. Establishes within the Department the position of Coordinator for International Aviation Security. Requires the Administrator to require all air carriers, including foreign air carriers, to provide a passenger manifest of any flight to appropriate representatives of the Department not more than one hour after such carrier is notified of an aviation disaster outside the United States involving such flight. Authorizes the use of passport fees collected by the Department for the purchase and installation of machines able to read U.S. passports and facilitate the collection of specified data. Declares it to be the policy of the Department to notify promptly the families of victims of aviation disasters abroad, including timely written notice. Directs the Secretary of State (Secretary) to issue guidelines to provide that in the event of an aviation disaster involving U.S. citizens abroad, the Department will assign a specific individual, and an alternate, as the Department liaison for the family of each such citizen. Requires the Secretary to ensure that a toll-free telephone number is reserved for the use of the families of citizens who have been involved in such disasters. Requires the Secretary to institute a supplemental program of training in disaster management for all consular officers. Directs the Secretary to issue guidelines to provide that in the event of an international aviation disaster involving U.S. citizens abroad at least: (1) one senior officer from the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the Department shall be dispatched to the disaster site; and (2) one Department employee shall be dispatched to such site to provide assistance and to act as an ombudsman with foreign local authorities for the victims' families. Requires the Secretary to promulgate: (1) criteria for Department staffing of disaster sites abroad; and (2) procedures for the deployment of a crisis team. Declares it to be the policy of the Department to provide arrangements for the preparation and transport to the United States of the remains of citizens who die abroad, as well as for disposition of personal effects. Requires the Secretary to compile an assessment of the Department response to the Pan American Airways Flight 103 aviation disaster over Lockerbie, Scotland, together with guidelines for future response to such disasters, for distribution to Embassy and consular posts abroad. Requires the Secretary to promulgate guidelines with respect to recognition for the families of U.S. citizens who are killed through acts of terrorism abroad. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should propose a protocol to the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Transportation by Air (the Warsaw Convention) which would raise the limit on carrier liability above the $130,000 limit set under Montreal Protocol Three. Directs the President to submit to the Congress a legislative proposal to authorize the United States to provide monetary and tax relief as compensation to U.S. citizens who are victims of terrorism. Requires the Secretary to issue regulations to establish, under the Bureau of Consular Affairs, an electronic bulletin board accessible to the general public.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1990
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire and manage the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site in Washington, D.C. Establishes the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site Advisory Commission. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990
Korean War Veterans Memorial Thirty-Eighth Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should recognize the 38th anniversary of the Korean War by minting and issuing a silver dollar coin. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue one-dollar silver coins to commemorate the 38th anniversary of the ending of the Korean War. Terminates such authority after December 31, 1991. Mandates that surcharges from the sale of such coins be used for the Korean War Veterans Memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1990
1992 Olympic Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue 1992 Olympic Games commemorative five-dollar gold coins and one-dollar silver coins. Prescribes guidelines for the sale and pricing of such coins and directs the Secretary to ensure that their issuance will not result in any net cost to the United States. Mandates that surcharges be paid to the U.S. Olympic Committee.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Designates: (1) the House of Representatives office building at C Street and New Jersey Avenue, Southeast, District of Columbia, known as House of Representatives Office Building Annex No. 1, as the Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. House of Representatives Office Building; and (2) the House office building at 3d and D Streets, Southwest, District of Columbia, known as House of Representatives Office Building Annex No. 2, as the Gerald R. Ford House of Representatives Office Building.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1990
Offshore Lease Buyback Act of 1990 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to provide that compensation a lessee is entitled to receive as a result of a lease cancellation may be made in the form of a credit bonus, rent, royalty, or permit fee payments.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1990
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to give priority consideration to the inclusion of the lower St. Johns River, Florida, in the National Estuary Program.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1990
Medicare Bone Mass Measurement Coverage Act of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare coverage of bone mass measurements.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1990
Osteoporosis and Related Bone Disorders Research, Education, and Health Services Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMSD) and the Director of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to expand and intensify research on osteoporosis and related bone disorders. Requires, with respect to osteoporosis and related bone disorders: (1) the NIAMSD Director to increase the number of Specialized Centers of Research; and (2) the NIA Director to increase the number of program project grants devoted to creating centers of excellence. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services the Interagency Council on Osteoporosis and Related Disorders and the Advisory Panel on Osteoporosis and Related Disorders. Authorizes appropriations for the Advisory Panel. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make up to three grants to establish model health promotion projects for community-based education on osteoporosis, with each project targeting one of these groups: young and teenage girls, midlife women, and older men and women. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the NIAMSD Director to make grants or enter into contracts to establish a Resource Center on Osteoporosis and Related Disorders to: (1) disseminate information about research results, services, and educational materials to health professionals, patients, and the public; and (2) coordinate regional training programs for the development of health professional resource networks. Requires grant and contract recipients to establish: (1) a central computerized information system to, among other matters, translate scientific and technical information into information readily understandable by the general public; and (2) a national toll-free telephone information line. Requires the grant or contract recipient to charge fees for providing information, but allows exceptions for individuals and organizations unable to pay. Authorization appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1990
Expresses sympathy to the families of those killed in the democracy protests in China. Commends those involved in the democracy movement. Urges the Chinese Government to release all persons detained for the peaceful expression of their views and to refrain from persecuting the movement's participants. Calls upon the Chinese Government to respect internationally recognized human rights.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1990
Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that: (1) continued whaling and commercialization of whale meat are a violation of the International Whaling Commission moratorium; (2) the Secretary of Commerce should certify any nation for continued whaling activities rejected as scientifically invalid by the Commission; (3) the President should order an embargo on a significant quantity of fishery products from nations found to be diminishing the effectiveness of the International Whaling Convention; (4) the President should use all diplomatic tools to convince whaling nations to comply with decisions of the Commission; and (5) the President should use all diplomatic tools to encourage support of Commission member nations for a long-term solution to problems before the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990
Drug Emergency Areas Act of 1990 - Amends the National Narcotics Leadership Act of 1988 to replace language with respect to the designation of high intensity drug trafficking areas with provisions authorizing the President to declare a State or part of a State to be a drug emergency area. Requires requests for such a declaration to be made, in writing, by the Governor or chief executive officer of any affected State or local government and forwarded to the President through the Director of National Drug Control Policy. Allows cities, counties, or States to submit a joint request. Requires requests to be based on a written finding that the emergency is of such severity and magnitude that it is beyond the capability of the State or local government to respond and Federal assistance is necessary. Prohibits the President from limiting declarations made under this Act to highly-populated centers of drug trafficking, drug use, or drug-related violence. Requires the President to consider applications from governments of less populated areas. Requires each Governor or chief executive officer, as part of such requests and as a prerequisite to such assistance, to: (1) take appropriate action under State or local law to respond to the crisis and furnish information on the nature and amount of State and local resources which have been or will be committed to alleviating the emergency; (2) certify that State and local government obligations and expenditures will comply with all applicable cost-sharing requirements; and (3) submit a detailed plan outlining the requesting government's short- and long-term plans to respond to the emergency. Requires the Director to review requests submitted and forward the application to the President, along with a recommendation. Authorizes the President to make grants to State or local governments of up to $50,000,000 for any single emergency. Limits the Federal share to 75 percent of the costs necessary to implement the short- and long-term plan. Limits the duration of assistance to a drug disaster area to one year, after which the Governors or chief executive officers may apply for an extension of up to 180 days. Requires each State or local government receiving Federal assistance to balance the allocation of such assistance evenly between drug supply and demand reduction efforts, unless State or local conditions dictate otherwise. Authorizes the President to: (1) direct any Federal agency to utilize its authorities and resources to support State and local efforts; and (2) provide technical and advisory assistance. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1990
Trauma-Care Center Revitalization Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants for the operating expenses of trauma-care centers with substantial uncompensated costs in areas with significant violence arising from drug abuse. Gives priority to centers: (1) receiving State or political subdivision support not connected to any Federal program; or (2) in areas where a trauma center has ceased participation, or because of uncompensated costs will be unable to participate, in the trauma care system. Limits support for a center to three years, subject to extension by the Secretary for one additional year. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Export Facilitation Act of 1990 - Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 with respect to the export of U.S. goods and technology to foreign countries. Requires the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to grant an export distribution license primarily on the basis of the reliability of an applicant and foreign consignees to prevent the diversion of items to an unauthorized use or consignee. (Current language refers to "controlled countries" only.) Requires the Secretary to modify each item on the control list to specify performance and other identifying characteristics of technical data subject to national security and foreign policy controls, or to export controls under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978. Declares that as of September 30, 1991, no permission may be required for the reexport of goods or technology to, or reexport of such items from, a country which maintains export controls on such items cooperatively with the United States pursuant to the agreement of the Coordinating Committee. Authorizes the Secretary to require permission for export or reexport of such items to unreliable end users. Requires the Secretary, if he or she determines a country is noncompliant with such agreement, to require permission to export or reexport such items to such country, and to reexport them from that country. Declares that no permission may be required to reexport U.S. technology from a country when the technology to be reexported is incorporated in other technology, and other specified conditions are met. Requires the Secretary with respect to the definition of "supercomputer" to establish and publish in the Federal Register a performance-based indexing system to ensure that such definition and all controls and security safeguard procedures on supercomputer exports and reexports are commensurate with technological advances. Sets forth circumstances under which such safeguards are not required. Directs the Secretary of State to seek the approval of the Coordinating Committee for the following proposal: (1) that no permission be required to export goods or technology (the export of which to China would require only notification of Coordinating Committee members) to any foreign country; and (2) that there shall be favorable consideration of any license application to export goods and technology at a higher technical level, for civil end uses, to Eastern European countries that were controlled as of January 1, 1990, but that meet specified criteria, and enforce certain safeguards against the diversion of such items to other controlled countries or unauthorized consignees, or to unauthorized uses. Requires the Secretary, no later than 30 days after the Coordinating Committee approves such proposal, to publish: (1) those changes in the goods and technology subject to controls, and the changes in those controls, made pursuant to such proposal; and (2) a list of Eastern European countries that meet certain diversion safeguards criteria. Directs the Secretary to implement such proposal by a date established by the Coordinating Committee. Authorizes the approval of export license applications for exports or reexports to the Soviet Union of goods or technology for civil uses only. Declares it to be U.S. policy to: (1) approve general exceptions, on behalf of U.S. exporters, to the Industrial List portion of the International Control List of the Coordinating Committee, and to support identical exceptions for exporters from countries in the Committee; and (2) provide specific guidelines to U.S. exporters with respect to goods, sectors, and end users eligible for such exceptions, and to notify such exporters of all agreements adopted by the Committee with respect to such exceptions. Requires the Secretary of State to propose to the Coordinating Committee that exports of telecommunications equipment for civil end use to certain countries (other than a country for which no permission to export may be required or a controlled country ineligible for favorable consideration) require no more than notification of the Committee. Prohibits items from being included on both the Commodity Control List and the United States Munitions List. Terminates, as of September 30, 1992, all national security controls on the export of goods and technology to countries other than a controlled country. Removes such items from the Commodity Control List. Requires the Secretary of State, no later than November 1, 1992, to submit a proposal to the Committee to remove from the International Control List for export to controlled countries all items no longer on the Commodity Control List for other than controlled countries. Declares that, in specified circumstances, approval shall be presumed for license for export to a country of any controlled goods, without regard to their technical specifications, for trade show purposes. Declares that any license for the export of goods or technology shall also authorize the export of operation technical data related to such items, whether or not such data is referenced in such license. Changes from discretionary to mandatory the Secretary's authority to issue regulations that establish indexing procedures which provide for automatic increases (instead of the currently authorized annual increases) in the performance levels of certain goods or technology subject to export licensing controls. Requires removal of goods or technology which no longer meet the performance levels increased pursuant to such procedures from the commodity control list, unless a U.S. agency objects to such removal and the Secretary determines subsequently that they shall not be removed. Directs the Secretary to require technical advisory committees to establish indexing procedures for certain goods or technology. Requires the Secretary of State to submit to the Coordinating Committee any U.S. proposal that would apply a final determination affecting U.S. exports to controlled countries. Makes the Secretary a member of the permanent U.S. delegation to the Coordinating Committee. Requires the Secretary, or a designee, to be represented at any negotiations with other countries with regard to their cooperation in restricting the export of goods and technology which could be detrimental to the security of the United States. Requires the Secretary to publish the full text of the International Control List of the Coordinating Committee, together with all notes and understandings concerning that list agreed to by the Committee. Requires the Secretary to consult with the Secretary of Defense in reviewing export license applications for the export of goods and technology to: (1) the Soviet Union; (2) Eastern European countries which do not qualify for favorable consideration as determined by the Coordinating Committee; and (3) any controlled country when the end uses of the goods or technology will not be civil. Requires the Secretary to notify the Secretary of Defense of any export license request before expiration of the time within which the President may disapprove such exports. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to waive consideration of any such proposed export. Increases the criminal and civil penalties for violations of the national security and foreign policy export control laws of the United States. Sets forth a statute of limitations for any administrative sanction or civil action to recover penalties under this Act. Provides for the judicial review of determinations made under this Act (except discretionary control list determinations). Declares that the provisions of this Act shall be self-executing. Authorizes appropriations. Extends the Export Administration Act of 1979 through 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Bone Marrow Registry Act of 1990 - Amends provisions of the Public Health Service Act providing for the establishment of a voluntary bone marrow donor registry to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that the types of marrow represented in the registry provide adequate representation of the U.S. population. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Supplemental Assistance for Emerging Democracies Act of 1990 - Title I: Supplemental Assistance for Fiscal Year 1990 - Authorizes supplemental appropriations for assistance to Panama for FY 1990. Earmarks specified amounts of such assistance for: (1) development assistance; (2) private sector and public investment revitalization; (3) payments of arrearages to international financial institutions; and (4) public administration, administration of justice, and law enforcement training, education, and equipment (includes assistance for other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean). Permits only nonlethal law enforcement equipment to be provided to Panama. Makes limitations on the amount of assistance for law enforcement and the administration of justice under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 inapplicable to assistance provided under this Act. Sets forth reprogramming and notification procedures for specified assistance provided under this title. Commends the Endara government for freezing Panamanian bank accounts implicated in narcotics-related and other illegal financial transactions and notes the willingness of such government to enter into negotiations for information sharing on such transactions. Deems Panama to be one of the "highest priority" countries under the International Narcotics Control Act of 1988 for purposes of negotiations concerning laundering of U.S. currency. Prohibits more than 50 percent of funds appropriated for Panama from being expended until the Secretary of the Treasury has reported to the Congress that Panama is negotiating in good faith to reach an agreement for exchanging records with respect to international currency transactions in connection with narcotics investigations. Permits the President to make a bilateral assistance certification under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (related to countries cooperating with respect to narcotic traffic and money laundering) for Panama for FY 1991 only if an agreement has been signed by the United States and Panama that provides for mutual access to financial transaction and bank records for purposes of drug law enforcement proceedings. Waives provisions of law which prohibit assistance to countries in default on loan repayments to the United States with respect to assistance to Panama and Nicaragua under this Act. Authorizes supplemental appropriations for assistance to Nicaragua for FY 1990. Earmarks specified amounts of such assistance for: (1) the Nicaraguan economy; (2) payments of arrearages to international financial institutions; and (3) the voluntary demobilization, repatriation, and resettlement of members of the Nicaraguan Resistance and their families (subject to certain conditions) and of refugees and displaced persons. Repeals a provision which prohibits assistance for victims of civil strife from being channeled through the Nicaraguan Government. Permits assistance to Nicaragua to be used for law enforcement training and services. Authorizes the suspension of assistance to Nicaragua if: (1) there is not a peaceful and complete transition from the existing Sandinista government to the elected Government of Nicaragua; or (2) it is in U.S. interests to suspend such assistance. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should work toward an orderly, peaceful, and complete transfer of power to the duly elected Government of Nicaragua. Earmarks a specified amount of funds made available under this Act for administrative expenses of the Agency for International Development (AID). Authorizes supplemental appropriations for FY 1990 assistance to Haiti for election assistance and the financing of critical imports. Permits anti-terrorism assistance to be provided to Haiti for FY 1990. Makes the provision of such assistance subject to the conditions of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990, except for the requirement that Haiti restore its 1987 Constitution. Authorizes supplemental appropriations for assistance to the Caribbean for FY 1990. Earmarks a specified amount of such assistance for the Eastern Caribbean. Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to increase the amount authorized to be appropriated for migration and refugee assistance for FY 1990. Amends the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 to raise the limit on the amount authorized to be appropriated for the U.S. Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund. Provides for the transfer of excess amounts in the Fund for: (1) the reimbursement of State and local governments for expenses incurred with respect to migrants; (2) assistance to the African-American Hebrew community in Israel; and (3) a U.S. contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East. Authorizes supplemental appropriations for FY 1990 for Namibia to finance budgetary support and development activities. Earmarks a specified amount of such assistance for an AID mission in Namibia. Authorizes supplemental appropriations for FY 1990 for economic and development assistance for Subsaharan Africa. Expresses the sense of the Congress that as of the date Namibia became self-governing, the definition of South Africa in the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 ceased to apply to Namibia. Authorizes supplemental appropriations for FY 1990 for assistance to encourage negotiations for a peaceful transition to democracy in South Africa. Provides that assistance shall only be available for organizations committed to a suspension of violence in the context of such negotiations. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the issuance of guaranties to eligible investors to assure against losses incurred in connection with loans made for housing projects for immigrants in Israel. Title II: Other Authorizations - Authorizes the Director of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) to make grants to the Claude and Mildred Pepper Scholarship Program of the Washington Workshops Foundation to enable foreign students to study the workings of the U.S. Government. Authorizes appropriations. Amends specified Acts to increase the amounts authorized for interparliamentary conferences with Canada and Mexico. Urges the Secretary of State to enter into negotiations with Panama and the Pan American Health Organization to assure a satisfactory transition of control of the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine to the Pan American Health Organization. Authorizes appropriations to the Pan American Health Organization for the Institute. Continues the USIA au pair programs until another U.S. agency is authorized to implement such programs. Repeals a provision of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990 concerning appropriations for the Department of State and USIA. Repeals a provision of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 which places limits on the obligation or expenditure of funds for the Board of International Broadcasting. Title III: Development Fund for Africa - Development Fund for Africa Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to provide assistance for long-term development in Subsaharan Africa. Provides that the purpose of such assistance is to help the poor majority of Subsaharan Africans to participate in development through economic growth that is equitable, participatory, environmentally sustainable, and self-reliant. Requires AID to take into account the local-level perspective of poor Subsaharan Africans during the planning process for project and program assistance. Declares that AID should make available funds for private and voluntary organizations which have demonstrated effectiveness in, or a commitment to, the promotion of local activities on behalf of development in Subsaharan Africa. Provides for the participation and integration of African women in such development activities. Requires such assistance to emphasize projects to address critical sectoral priorities for long-term development. Designates such priorities as: (1) increased agricultural production and the maintenance and restoration of renewable natural resources; (2) improved health conditions; (3) increased access to voluntary family planning services; (4) improved relevance, equity, and efficiency of education; and (5) the development of income-generating opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed. Imposes minimum levels of assistance for certain critical sectors. Requires the assistance to be concentrated in countries that will make the most effective use of such assistance. Sets forth uses for local currencies generated by such assistance. Permits funds made available under this Act to be used to assist Subsaharan African countries in increasing their capacity to participate in donor coordination mechanisms. Provides that it is U.S. policy that such funds are not used by a country to repay loans, with exceptions. Sets forth transfer authorities and reprogramming notifications with respect to such funds. Permits such funds to be used to assist specified sector projects supported by the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC). Expresses the sense of the Congress that the authorization of appropriations to carry out this Act should be extended whenever appropriate. Authorizes the AID Administrator to transfer a specified amount of funds to increase AID resources for development activities in Subsaharan Africa. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to repeal provisions concerning educational assistance for victims of apartheid and the Sahel development program. Title IV: Caribbean Regional Development - Sets forth U.S. policy with respect to development and economic assistance for the Caribbean. Requires priority in providing development assistance to be given to supporting indigenous democratic Caribbean institutions that represent and benefit the poor. States that in determining the eligibility of a Caribbean country for development assistance, the per capita income of such country shall be no greater than the per capita income of the Caribbean as a whole. Requires priority in the allocation of assistance to the Caribbean to be given to: (1) food self-sufficiency; (2) rural development; (3) community-based agro-industries; (4) small- and medium-sized farm and manufacturing enterprises; (5) the expansion of tourism; (6) regional integration; (7) the upgrading of technical and managerial skills; (8) support for renewable natural resources; (9) private sector development; (10) democratic development and the administration of justice; and (11) human services and human resources development. Denies assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms Export Control Act to any Caribbean country not enforcing workers' rights. Exempts development or narcotics control assistance from such prohibition. Prohibits AID from providing assistance for the use of any substance in a Caribbean country if such use is prohibited under the country's or U.S. public health laws. Requires AID to ensure the active participation of women in the development process. Directs AID to: (1) take into account the perspectives of the poor in the development process; and (2) monitor socioeconomic conditions in the Caribbean and the effect of U.S. assistance on such conditions. Title V: El Salvador - Declares that it shall be U.S. policy to: (1) support the Central American Presidents' Agreement of December 1989, calling upon the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) to cease hostilities; (2) support an active role for the United Nations Secretary General and the Secretary General of the Organization of American States in negotiating between the El Salvadoran Government and the FMLN to achieve a cease-fire and a settlement to the conflict; and (3) review periodically the level of military assistance for El Salvador. Withholds half of the funds allocated for military assistance to El Salvador for FY 1990 and 1991 unless the President reports to the Congress that: (1) the FMLN is declining to participate in good faith in such negotiations and is failing to support an active role for the United Nations Secretary General; (2) the United States has proof that the FMLN is continuing to acquire significant shipments of lethal military equipment from outside El Salvador; (3) the survival of the El Salvadoran Government is being jeopardized by sustained offensive military actions by the FMLN. Limits the amount of FY 1991 military assistance for El Salvador. Permits only half of the assistance that is not being withheld to be obligated before March 1, 1991. Provides for the transfer of withheld military assistance to development assistance accounts for assistance to El Salvador or, with respect to FY 1990 military assistance, for cancellation expenses of military assistance programs for El Salvador. Terminates all military assistance to El Salvador for FY 1990 and 1991 if the President reports to the Congress that the El Salvadoran Government: (1) has been deposed by coup or decree; (2) is declining to participate in good faith in negotiations or is failing to support an active role for the United Nations Secretary General; or (3) is failing to conduct an investigation into, and prosecution of those responsible for, the November 1989 murders at the University of Central America. Provides for the resumption of such assistance if the President finds that such facts no longer prevail. Requires the President to report to the Congress on the situation in El Salvador. Directs the Secretary of State to carry out a program of education, training, and dialogue to strengthen democratic political and legal institutions in El Salvador. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth expedited congressional review procedures with respect to resolutions concerning military assistance to El Salvador.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990
International Affairs Authorization Act of 1990 - Title I: Assistance for Eastern Europe - Amends the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 to make eligible for SEED benefits any Eastern European country taking steps toward: (1) political pluralism and economic reform; (2) respect for human rights; and (3) a willingness to build a friendly relationship with the United States. (Currently, most SEED programs target Hungary and Poland.) Extends specified structural adjustment, debt reduction, and stabilization assistance to such countries. Authorizes the Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID) to provide assistance to support private sector development in Eastern Europe and U.S. participation in capital projects. Extends technical assistance and training for labor market transition to eligible Eastern European countries. Requires AID to develop a Free Enterprise Corps to extend U.S. business and management expertise to Eastern Europe to assist in the development of private enterprise. Requires the Corps to provide technical assistance to private enterprises, provided that the host country government and the beneficiary enterprise make matching contributions with respect to such assistance. Extends assistance for the development of Peace Corps and Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) programs and credit unions to eligible Eastern European countries. Applies provisions governing the use of Polish currency generated by agricultural assistance to local Eastern European currencies generated by such assistance. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to extend OPIC programs in such countries and to increase the amount available for loans from OPIC's Direct Investment Fund. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the ceiling provided in the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991 on OPIC's loan guaranty program should be increased to permit the expansion of such program into eligible Eastern European countries. Amends the SEED Act of 1989 to extend Export-Import Bank programs to Czechoslovakia. Revises provisions concerning the Trade Credit Insurance Program for Poland to permit guarantees under such Program to be provided only for short- and medium-term guarantees and insurance. Extends Trade and Development Program activities to eligible Eastern European countries. Urges the President to seek bilateral investment treaties with eligible Eastern European countries to establish a legal framework for U.S. investment in such countries. Extends educational and cultural exchange programs and the scholarship partnership program to eligible Eastern European countries. Declares that the USIA Director should consider establishing a program to provide fellowships to U.S. citizens for assisting Eastern European countries in acquiring skills necessary for the transition to democratic, free-market systems. Authorizes the AID Administrator to use funds available for the scholarship partnership program for scholarships to enable Eastern European students to study at American institutions of higher education in Europe. Extends assistance for the support of democratic institutions and environmental protection activities to eligible Eastern European countries. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to offer assistance to Hungary for the restoration of the Danube River at the site of the canceled Nagymaros Dam. Applies a provision concerning investments in energy efficiency to eligible Eastern European countries. Declares that the possibilities for the conversion to public lands and wildlife areas of undeveloped lands between Eastern and Western European borders should be explored. Directs Federal agencies responsible for administering specified SEED agricultural and technical assistance programs to submit environmental impact statements with respect to such programs. Requires entities involved in private enterprise development in Eastern Europe to establish environmental assessment and sustainable agriculture requirements for their activities. Revises provisions concerning medical assistance to Poland to make funds available for medical training, health care planning, and the improvement of health care in eligible Eastern European countries. Authorizes the provision of assistance to support the infrastructure for a housing sector in eligible Eastern European countries. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to raise the limit on the amount authorized for housing investment guarantees to permit the expansion of the guaranty program into eligible Eastern European countries. Earmarks a specified amount of SEED funds for United Nations Population Fund and International Planned Parenthood Federation activities in Romania (provided that Romania is an eligible Eastern European country). Redesignates the SEED Information Center System as the Eastern European Business Information Center System. Requires the System to develop special information on business opportunities in the communications, broadcasting, and information fields for use by U.S. industry and the SEED Program coordinator. Applies provisions encouraging voluntary assistance to Poland and Hungary to all eligible Eastern European countries. Urges the President to assign additional Foreign Service members to Eastern Europe. Revises reporting requirements. Authorizes the President to suspend or reduce SEED assistance to an Eastern European country if he reports to the Congress that such country is restricting the transit through that country of Jews or other ethnic or religious groups emigrating from the Soviet Union. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1991 for specified SEED programs. Sets forth provisions concerning the reallocation of SEED funds. Permits funds authorized to be appropriated for specified SEED programs to be appropriated by the annual Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1991 for Trade and Development Program activities in eligible Eastern European countries. Raises the ceiling on the amount of SEED funds available for AID administrative expenses. Amends the American Aid to Poland Act of 1988 and the Agricultural Act of 1949 to apply provisions concerning the use of proceeds from the sale of agricultural commodities in Poland by nongovernmental entities to Polish governmental agencies. Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to increase the amount authorized to be appropriated for FY 1991 for Soviet-East European research and training. Amends the Soviet-Eastern European Research and Training Act of 1983 to revise a specified reporting requirement and to repeal a provision which terminates the Soviet-East European research and training program on a specified date. Title II: Foreign Assistance Authorization Legislation - Enacts H.R. 2655 (the International Cooperation Act of 1989) as passed by the House of Representatives on June 29, 1989, with the exception of specified provisions superseded by similar provisions enacted by this Act. Provides that titles I through VI of such Act shall take effect during FY 1991. Title III: Other Foreign Assistance Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for assistance to Nicaragua for FY 1991. Earmarks specified amounts of such assistance for: (1) restoring the productive capacity of the Nicaraguan economy; and (2) long-term economic growth and development. Sets forth reallocation and notification procedures with respect to such assistance. Permits such assistance to be used for the training of Nicaraguan law enforcement personnel by the Office of Security of the Department of State. Authorizes additional appropriations for economic and foreign military financing assistance for Andean countries for FY 1991. Requires the military assistance to be used to control illicit narcotics production and trafficking. Permits the provision of military assistance to an Andean country only if such country has a democratic government and the country's armed forces do not engage in a consistent pattern of human rights violations. Authorizes the provision of assistance to an Andean country only if the President determines that such country is implementing programs to reduce the flow of cocaine to the United States in accordance with a formal agreement. Applies a specified human rights reporting requirement with respect to Andean countries for which assistance is being proposed. Waives provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 which prohibit assistance to countries in default on loan payments to the United States with respect to narcotics-related assistance to Andean countries. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1991 for international narcotics control and antiterrorism assistance. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for assistance (except military assistance) to emerging democracies or countries with democratic governments emerging from civil strife. Permits the President to transfer funds for such uses without regard to a specified limitation on the transfer of funds between accounts. Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to increase the amount authorized to be appropriated for migration and refugee assistance for FY 1991. Earmarks a specified amount of such assistance for reimbursement of State and local governments for expenses incurred with respect to migrants. Provides for the transfer of excess amounts in the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund to such governments for such reimbursements. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 to increase the amounts authorized to be appropriated for the Inter-American Foundation. Declares that the following policies should govern U.S. assistance for Haiti: (1) assistance should be withheld unless a credible transition to democracy is underway; (2) assistance should be provided on a step-by-step basis in response to specific actions by the Haitian Government to foster a free and democratic society; and (3) regular and sustained assistance should be provided once a civilian, elected government is in power, the armed forces are abiding by the Constitution, and steps are being taken to assure observance of human rights. Prohibits the provision of assistance to Haiti unless Haiti has embarked upon a credible transition to democracy. Exempts specified assistance from such prohibition. Makes available development, economic support, antiterrorism, and Inter-American Foundation assistance to Haiti for FY 1991 if such conditions are met. Designates specified sections of this Act as the "Mickey Leland African and Caribbean Development Act of 1990." Authorizes appropriations for Africa famine recovery and development. Earmarks a specified amount of such funds for Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) projects and for assistance to Namibia. Waives provisions of law which prohibit assistance to countries in default on loan repayments to the United States with respect to such assistance. Urges the President to use diplomatic means to protect the security of SADCC projects and urges the South African Government to respect the territorial integrity of SADCC states and refrain from military aggression across its borders. Amends the African Development Foundation Act to authorize appropriations for the African Development Foundation for FY 1991. Amends the International Cooperation Act of 1989 to lower the ceiling on the amount of foreign military financing for Guatemala. Conditions the provision of such financing on human rights and political crime investigations by the Guatemalan Government. Permits the President to release nongovernmental organizations from loan repayment commitments under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit funds from being denied to grant or contract applicants because of the voluntary reproductive care services or information they provide with other funding, subject to certain restrictions and statutory prohibitions against using funds for abortion. Title IV: Peace Corps - Amends the Peace Corps Act to authorize appropriations for the Peace Corps for FY 1991 through 1993. Title V: Department of State - Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to increase the amounts authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State for FY 1991 for specified administration of foreign affairs and international organizations and conferences accounts. Earmarks a specified amount of foreign affairs assistance for the U.S. diplomatic and consular mission in Apia, Western Samoa. Makes available funds for the U.S. assessed contributions to international organizations (subject to limitations) for prior years. Authorizes appropriations for the construction of the U.S. embassy and related facilities in Moscow. Prohibits the Soviet Union from occupying any chancery building in Washington, D.C., until the U.S. embassy in Moscow is ready for occupancy. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the U.S. observer to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization should remain in Paris, France. Repeals a provision of the Arms Export Control Act concerning the crediting of munitions control registration fees to a Department of State account. Title VI: United States Informational, Educational, and Cultural Programs - Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to decrease the amount authorized to be appropriated for USIA salaries and expenses for FY 1991. Increases the amount authorized to be appropriated for USIA television and film services for FY 1991. Makes amounts available for the Seville World's Fair available for the International Exposition in Genoa, Italy. Increases the amounts authorized to be appropriated for FY 1991 to the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs for salaries and expenses, the Fulbright exchange program, and the international visitors program. Earmarks a specified amount of the Bureau's funds for exchange activities associated with the 1993 World University Games in Buffalo, New York. Increases the amounts authorized to be appropriated for FY 1991 for Voice of America salaries and expenses and for radio and television broadcasting to Cuba. Requires the USIA Director to make available to the Schomburg Center for Black Studies in New York copies of photographic works by Richard Saunders. Title VII: United States Commission on Southern Africa - United States Commission on Southern Africa Act - Establishes the United States Commission on Southern Africa to develop skilled personnel in South Africa and Namibia, particularly in middle management business and government positions, by providing for the training of disadvantaged South Africans and Namibians in the fields of education, health care, law, and housing. Authorizes the Commission to: (1) implement and provide funds for human resource development programs; and (2) provide scholarships and internships for appropriate study. Prohibits Commission funds from being used to finance programs conducted by organizations financed or controlled by the Government of South Africa. Sets forth auditing, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary of State to grant a specified amount to the Commission for FY 1991. Title VIII: Limitations and Restrictions Concerning Trade and Other Transactions with Cuba - Prohibits the issuance of licenses for certain transactions between U.S.-controlled firms in third countries and Cuba. Makes subject to seizure, forfeiture, and sale by the United States any vessel which: (1) enters Cuba to engage in trade more than 60 days after this Act's enactment date; and (2) within 180 days after departure from Cuba, enters the United States to engage in trade. Authorizes the President to reduce economic support fund assistance for countries which import sugar from Cuba. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should urge countries that import Cuban sugar and do not receive American assistance to import sugar from Central American or Caribbean countries with democratically-elected governments. Amends the Trading With the Enemy Act to authorize the imposition of civil penalties for violations of such Act. Title IX: Miscellaneous Provisions - Sets forth U.S. policy with respect to a lasting solution to the Cyprus conflict. Requires the President to undertake negotiations with Eastern European nations and the Soviet Union to implement a strategy to facilitate the transit of Soviet emigrants, including specified religious and ethnic minorities.
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