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United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Congress should retain the current Federal tax deduction for State and local income and property taxes.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1990
Illinois Wilderness Act of 1990 - Designates the following lands in the Shawnee National Forest, Illinois, as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) Bald Knob Wilderness; (2) Bay Creek Wilderness; (3) Burden Falls Wilderness; (4) Clear Springs Wilderness; (5) Garden of the Gods Wilderness; (6) Lusk Creek Wilderness; and (7) Panther Den Wilderness. Designates the East Fork Area and the Eagle Creek Area of the Shawnee National Forest as special management, mining, and prospecting areas. Sets a time limit for such prospecting and mining. Provides that these areas shall be designated as wilderness and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System 20 years after enactment of this Act (or eight years after enactment if no prospecting for fluorspar and associated minerals has been done).
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1990
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for a study and report to the Congress on: (1) mechanisms for supporting training in the environmental sciences and environmental research through an umbrella research arm, the National Institutes of the Environment, considering research in a wide variety of disciplines; (2) the current state of extramural research support and undergraduate and graduate training relevant to tropical deforestation, species extinction, ecosystem degradation, biological restoration, use of underutilized resources and sustainable resource use, economic consequences of environmental change, and the impacts of humans and the environment on one another; and (3) mechanisms that can be used to advance environmental research and training, their relationship to existing research programs, and appropriate levels and resources of funding. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1990
Designates October 27, 1990, as National Hostage Awareness Day, in recognition of the 43d birthday of Terry Anderson and his six years in captivity.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1990
Designates August 6, 1990, as Voting Rights Celebration Day.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1990
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to declare that the Congress recognizes that prompt U.S. assistance is necessary to alleviate the emergency in Lithuania caused by the Soviet blockade. Directs the Administrator of the Agency for International Development to: (1) furnish humanitarian assistance to Lithuania during such emergency; and (2) solicit donations of humanitarian assistance for Lithuania and cooperate with private relief agencies attempting to provide such assistance. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to provide all necessary airlift and sealift to transport such assistance as soon as an agreement between the United States and the nations surrounding Lithuania has been concluded. Urges the President to begin negotiations with the nations surrounding Lithuania regarding the importation of critical humanitarian assistance. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1990
Title X Pregnancy Counseling Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from making a grant for the provision of family planning methods or services unless the applicant agrees to provide complete information and counseling regarding pregnancy, and for a pregnant woman who requests information on options for an unintended pregnancy, to provide: (1) nondirective counseling on prenatal care and delivery, infant care, foster care and adoption, and termination of pregnancy; and (2) referrals for the services that are appropriate to the decision of the woman.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1990
Designates September 16 through 22, 1990, as National Rehabilitation Week. Urges each State Governor and local government chief executive to issue proclamations calling upon their citizens to observe such week with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Establishes a National Demonstration Program for Educational Performance Agreements for School Restructuring.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Designates the week of April 7 through 13, 1991, as National County Government Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1990
Depository Institutions' Civil and Criminal Enforcement Act - Amends the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 to change the amount of civil penalty assessed for specified violations from up to $1,000,000 to 25 percent of the violator's net worth. Removes special penalty rules for continuing violations and violations creating gain or loss. Amends Federal criminal law to impose a minimum two-year prison term for certain violations, including theft and embezzlement, involving depository institutions and a minimum one-year prison term for obstruction of justice.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1990
Urges the President to enter into negotiations with the President of Romania to reach an agreement that would allow American families to adopt Romanian children.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1990
Omnibus Space Commercialization Act of 1990 - Title I: Government Owned Space Launch and Launch Support Facilities - Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a comprehensive inventory of all space launch and launch support facilities owned by the United States, identifying facilities that are surplus to public and national security needs, and report to the Congress. Requires all facilities identified as surplus to be referred to the General Services Administration for disposition. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish criteria for and designate launch facilities as Commercial Space Centers. Makes all Centers and associated property, services, and products, including such services and activities in space as are launched from a Center, and proceeds from insurance exempt from all Federal corporate income and other taxes and all Federal excises, imposts, duties, and all other Federal tariffs. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an itemized deduction for individuals and corporations for the aggregate amount, up to a specified maximum, paid for Center stock on the original issue of the stock. Requires gain on disposition of the stock to be treated as ordinary income, with interest charged if the disposition is within three years of purchase. Provides for the tax treatment of the taxpayer if a qualified issuer ceases to be qualified. Sets forth special rules relating to: (1) amounts paid after the close of a taxable year; and (2) a limitation on the amount of the deduction. Adjusts the basis of the stock by the amount of the deduction. Title II: Purchase of Space Transportation Services - Space Transportation Services Purchase Act of 1990 - Requires the Federal Government to purchase space transportation services from commercial providers, unless on a case-by-case basis: (1) the payload requires the unique capabilities of the space shuttle; (2) commercial services are not or would not be available when required; or (3) the use of commercial services poses an unacceptable risk of loss of a unique scientific opportunity. Allows space transportation vehicles to be acquired or owned by the Government only in such circumstances or for research, development, and testing of space transportation technology. Requires the service contracts to be awarded by competitive bidding. Prohibits, subject to exception, requiring submission of cost or pricing data supporting a bid or proposal. Requires performance specifications rather than Federal civilian or military design or construction specifications. Prohibits acceptance of commercial payloads for launch on the shuttle unless: (1) the payload requires the unique capabilities of the shuttle; or (2) launching on the shuttle is important for either national security or foreign policy. Title III: Intellectual Property Disposition - Amends Federal law relating to patents to require that any invention made, used, or sold in outer space on a vehicle or payload under U.S. jurisdiction or control be considered to be made, used, or sold in the United States for purposes of the title of the U.S. Code relating to patents, except for a vehicle or payload: (1) under an international agreement; or (2) carried on the registry of a foreign state in accordance with the Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space. Requires that a commercial provider making an invention under contract with the Government have the same rights as would a small business firm under specified provisions of Federal patent law. Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to require (current law permits) each Federal agency to permit the director of any of its Government-operated Federal laboratories and, in certain circumstances, the director of any of its Government-owned, contractor-operated laboratories to enter into cooperative research and development agreements and to negotiate licensing agreements. Prohibits disclosure of trade secrets or commercial or financial information, that is privileged or confidential under the meaning of specified Federal law, which is obtained by the Government in the conduct of research or as a result of activities under this Act. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Declares that, notwithstanding specified provisions of the Clayton Act and the National Cooperative Research Act of 1984, standing to conduct litigation arising from activities carried out under this Act is reserved to the Department of Justice under the direction of the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission. Makes injunctive relief the sole relief available to the United States in such litigation, notwithstanding specified provisions of such Acts. Requires the Government to indemnify and save harmless commercial providers against any loss or damage to any payload of the United States in the provision of space transportation services or space-related activities, except for gross negligence. Limits monetary damages in the case of gross negligence to replacement or repair costs. Makes the profits of a U.S. person on any product manufactured in outer space, returned to Earth, and sold commercially exempt from Federal corporate income and other taxes and excises, imposts, duties, and any other Federal tariffs. Declares that, subject to exception, in any action against a commercial provider arising from activities under this Act, evidence of failure of the provider to follow military or National Aeronautics and Space Administration specifications shall not, in and of itself, constitute proof of negligence. Establishes a National Award for the Commercialization of Space to consist of a medal and, if funding is available, a cash prize, to be awarded to persons or organizations who have substantially advanced space transportation, manufacturing, or research and development. Authorizes the Chairman of the National Space Council to seek and accept gifts of money from public and private sources to fund the cash prize. Terminates specified provisions of this Act 15 years after enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1990
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the memory of Walt Disney should be honored on the 35th anniversary of his contribution to the American dream (the opening of Disneyland).
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1990
Designates the week of September 31 (sic), 1990, through October 6, 1990, as National Job Skills Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1990
Designates February 16, 1991, as Lithuanian Independence Day.
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 · 14 June 1990
Designates October 1990 as Country Music Month.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990
Designates October 1990 as Polish-American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1990
Fair and Reasonable Payment Limitations Act of 1990 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 with regard to assistance limitations and the Agricultural Act of 1949 with regard to emergency livestock assistance limitations to attribute payments to natural persons in proportion to their ownership interest in a corporation, partnership, or other specified entity. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to set forth specified payment limitations for the 1991 through 1995 crops.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1990
Designates the post office building in Carpentersville, Illinois, as the Robert McClory Post Office.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1990
Designates July 1, 1990, as National Ducks and Wetlands Day.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1990
Savings Association Law Enforcement Improvement Act of 1990 - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) take action to increase the investigation and prosecution of savings association criminal misconduct; (2) take increased action to recover or obtain restitution for losses incurred as a result of savings association fraud or embezzlement; and (3) make quarterly reports to certain congressional committees on the status of savings association criminal investigations and prosecutions and the progress in recovering amounts lost to fraud and embezzlement.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1990
Designates the third Sunday in August 1990 as National Senior Citizens Day.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1990
Designates as South African Freedom Week the week in 1990 coinciding with the first visit of Nelson Mandela to the United States after his release from prison in South Africa.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1990
Urges the President to instruct the Attorney General to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the involvement of Government officials in the savings and loan scandal.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Airport and Airway Trust Fund Protection Act of 1990 - Declares that the receipts and disbursements of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund allocable to transportation-related operations: (1) shall not be included in the totals of the Federal budget or the congressional budget; (2) shall be exempt from general budget limitations on expenditures and net lending; and (3) shall be exempt from any sequestration order under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) and shall not be counted for purposes of calculating the Federal deficit.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Designates November as National American Indian Heritage Month, beginning in 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Designates the week of October 14, 1990, as National Standards Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Designates October 3, 1990, as National Teacher Appreciation Day.
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
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should call for a 1991 White House Conference on Aging.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1990
Designates June 25, 1990, as Korean War Remembrance Day. Authorizes and requests the President to urge that the American flag be flown at half staff on such day in honor of the Americans who died as a result of their service in the Korean War.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1990
Designates June 3 through June 9, 1990, as Week for the National Observance of the 50th Anniversary of World War II.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1990
Peanut Program Modernization Act of 1990 - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal peanut marketing quota provisions. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to replace existing peanut price support provisions with price supports as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture based upon specified factors, including production costs and domestic and foreign demand.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1990
Abandoned Baby Adoption Act of 1990 - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require States to place abandoned babies with preadoptive parents within 30 days of obtaining custody of such babies and to find new preadoptive parents for such babies if the initial preadoptive parents do not petition the courts of the State within 90 days of receiving such babies for an expedited hearing to become their permanent adoptive parents. Treats such babies as children with special needs, thus qualifying their adoptive parents for adoption assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1990
National Advanced Civilian Reactor Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to carry out a comprehensive program of research, development, and demonstration to encourage the civilian application of technologies for the generation of energy from nuclear fission. Conditions assistance under this Act for the prototype demonstration of near-term advanced reactors and long-term advanced reactors on matching non-Federal funds, with international participation allowed. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1990
Designates October 1990 as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1990
Designates the week beginning September 16, 1990, as Emergency Medical Services Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990
Amends Federal law which provides impact aid to local educational agencies in areas affected by Federal activities to deem the United States to own Federal property, for purposes of such impact aid law, if such property met certain conditions prior to its transfer and if the Federal Government has: (1) transferred it to another non-taxable entity; and (2) placed specified use restrictions on it.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990
Designates July 22 through 28, 1990, as National Invent America! Week.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990
Designates the Federal building at 340 North Pleasant Valley Road, Winchester, Virginia, known as the Winchester Post Office, as the J. Kenneth Robinson Postal Building.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990
Federal Pay Reform Act of 1990 - Creates two new pay systems to replace the General Schedule. Establishes the Federal National Pay System (the NS Pay System) which shall have 11 grades designated NS-10 through NS-20 each with a range of rates of basic pay for positions currently classified at grades GS-5 through GS-15 for those classes of positions for which the Government recruits nationally, whose incumbents are usually college graduates, and which are generally professional or administrative in nature. Establishes the Federal Locality Pay System (the LS Pay System) which shall have 15 grades designated LS-1 through LS-15 each with a range of rates of basic pay in each pay area for positions currently classified at grades GS-1 through GS-15 for those classes of positions for which the Government recruits locally, whose incumbents are not usually college graduates, and which are generally clerical or technical in nature. States that it is the policy of the Government that pay for the NS and LS Pay Systems shall be based on the principles that: (1) NS and LS pay rates shall be competitive with the pay of employees in the non-Federal sector for the same levels of work; (2) pay for individual employees shall be tied to performance; (3) there shall be equal pay for substantially equal work under the NS Pay System and in each pay area under the LS Pay System as is currently required under the General Schedule; and (4) pay distinctions shall be maintained in keeping with work distinctions. Authorizes the President to establish minimum and maximum NS pay rates and to keep the overall percentage adjustments in LS pay rates below authorized levels when necessary because of a national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare. Prohibits the maximum rate of basic pay from exceeding the minimum rate by more than 40 percent of the minimum rate payable for each range of rates of basic pay for each grade under such Systems. Prohibits the rates of basic pay for such Systems from exceeding the rate paid for level V of the Executive Schedule. Requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to determine under which such System each class of positions shall be placed to best meet the personnel management needs of the Government. Requires the position classification standards to specify under which System the positions were placed. Provides for the classification of positions exceeding NS-20 in difficulty and responsibility into one senior NS category. Authorizes OPM to: (1) require executive agencies to obtain its approval to classify a position above NS-20; or (2) impose numerical limitations on the number of positions exceeding NS-20 in each agency. Sets the minimum rate for the senior NS category at 120 percent of the minimum rate for NS-20 and the maximum rate at level V of the Executive Schedule. Makes the employees in this category eligible for the differentials, allowances and bonuses provided by this Act. Prohibits application of provisions regarding pay adjustment, pay rate setting, and merit increases to such employees. Excludes positions in the Senior Executive Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration Senior Executive Service from such category. Directs the President to designate an executive branch official as the President's Pay Agent. Provides for annual adjustments by the President to the minimum and maximum rates of basic pay for each grade of the NS Pay System each January based on the recommendations of the President's Pay Agent determined from Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) surveys of non-Federal rates of pay for comparable work to insure the competitiveness of NS pay rates. Directs the President to report to the Congress: (1) when a national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare require that pay be held below the comparability range (the range encompassing amounts ten percent above and below the non-Federal rates of pay reported by BLS surveys); and (2) his or her assessment of the impact of such decision on the Government's ability to recruit and retain well-qualified employees. Requires the Pay Agent to: (1) establish a National Employees Pay Council to consist of representatives of Federal employee unions granted consultation rights by OPM; (2) give thorough consideration to the views of the Council in making pay adjustment recommendations and to convene public hearings to obtain the views of interested parties on such recommendations; and (3) determine what rates within such comparability range would be appropriate to allow agencies to recruit and retain well-qualified employees based on certain factors including turnover and unemployment rates. Directs OPM to: (1) establish pay areas for employees under the LS Pay System based on such factors as local labor market patterns, communicating patterns, and practices of other employers; (2) request BLS surveys of non-Federal rates of pay in each pay area for work comparable to the work performed by such employees; (3) recommend to the Pay Agent the minimum and maximum rates of basic pay for each grade of the LS Pay System in each pay area; and (4) set pay for overseas LS employees. Provides for annual adjustments by the President under the same guidelines established for the NS Pay System. Establishes the Federal Labor-Management Committee to advise OPM in establishing pay areas, requesting surveys, and making recommendations to the Pay Agent. Directs OPM to put the new LS pay rates into effect each January. Provides for setting individual rates of basic pay under the NS and LS Pay Systems as is currently done for employees under the General Schedule except that new appointments above the minimum rate for certain individuals are permitted at all grades (currently they are restricted to GS-11 and above) with the approval of OPM only for appointments in an executive agency (currently all appointments except with respect to those by the Librarian of Congress must be approved by OPM). Sets forth guidelines for setting individual rates of basic pay for: (1) employees promoted or transferred to a position in a higher grade; (2) employees repromoted or transferred to a grade in which they formerly served; (3) certain legislative branch employees; (4) Defense Department overseas teachers; and (5) employees of county committees under provisions providing financial assistance to agricultural producers for carrying out conservation and environmental enhancement measures. Provides that any employee under the NS and LS Pay Systems whose most recent performance rating was at the fully successful level or higher shall, at the time of any annual adjustment by the President, receive a merit increase equal to the increase in the minimum rate of basic pay for the employee's grade under such adjustment. Prohibits such an increase in the rate of basic pay for any employee whose most recent performance rating was below the fully successful level. Grants authority to agency heads to provide an additional pay increase to employees rated at or above the fully successful level in an amount to be determined by the agency heads. Provides for additional pay increases under the LS Pay System to employees whose most recent performance rating was at the fully successful level or higher by an amount of not less than three percent of their rate of basic pay upon completion of: (1) each year of service in their current grade if their rate of basic pay immediately before such increase is in the bottom third of the range of rates of basic pay for the grade in the pay area; and (2) each two years of service in their current grade if their rate of basic pay immediately before such increase is above the bottom third of the range of basic pay for the grade in the pay area but less than the dollar amount that is midway between the minimum and maximum rates of basic pay for the grade in the pay area. Prohibits increases for such employees that increase their rate of basic pay above the dollar amount that is midway between the minimum and maximum rates of basic pay for their grade in the pay area. Permits any employee to request reconsideration of a denial of an additional pay increase or the amount of such an increase. Permits such reconsideration only by an employee in a higher position in the agency than the employee who made the initial decision. Prohibits further appeal of the failure to receive an additional pay increase or the amount of such an increase. Authorizes the President's Pay Agent to allow payment of geographical differentials of up to 25 percent of basic pay for employees under the NS Pay System in areas or localities where the Government would otherwise encounter difficulty in recruiting or retaining employees. Requires a geographic differential to be payable to each employee in the area or locality for which the differential is established. Authorizes the President to establish staffing differentials of up to 60 percent of basic pay for employees under the NS and LS Pay Systems in one or more locations or areas where the Government would otherwise encounter difficulty in recruiting or retaining employees. Authorizes OPM to pay supervisory differentials to supervisors under the NS and LS Pay Systems who are responsible for supervising employees not under their respective pay system if: (1) the midpoint of the range of rates of basic pay for subordinate employees is higher than the midpoint of the range of rates of basic pay for supervisors; and (2) one or more of such subordinate employees would, in the absence of such a differential, be paid more than a supervisor. Prohibits a supervisory differential from causing a supervisor's pay to exceed the pay of the highest paid subordinate employee by more than three percent. Authorizes OPM to permit agency heads to pay lump-sum bonuses of up to 25 percent of basic pay to newly appointed employees under the NS and LS Pay Systems or to an employee who must relocate to accept an NS or LS position if the agency would otherwise encounter difficulty in filling the position. Requires the employee to enter into an agreement to complete a specified period of service with the agency to receive such bonus. Requires the employee to repay the bonus on a pro rata basis upon failure to complete the specified period of such service. Authorizes OPM to permit agency heads to pay retention allowances of up to 25 percent of basic pay to employees under the NS and LS Pay Systems who would otherwise be likely to leave the agency and who have unusually high or unique qualifications or if a special need of the agency for the employee's services makes it essential to retain the employee. Authorizes the payment of performance-based cash awards of up to ten percent of basic pay, or in exceptional cases, up to 20 percent of basic pay, to employees under the NS and LS Pay Systems whose most recent performance rating was at the fully successful level or higher. Limits to level I of the Executive Schedule the aggregate amount of basic pay, differentials, bonuses, allowances, and performance-based cash awards employees under the NS and LS Pay Systems may receive in any calendar year. Revises provisions regarding prevailing rate determinations to: (1) require OPM to schedule full-scale wage surveys every three years and to schedule interim surveys to be conducted each year between consecutive full-scale wage surveys; and (2) lower by four percent of the percentage of the prevailing rate payable for each of the five steps for each grade of a regular wage schedule for nonsupervisory prevailing rate employees. Delays the effective date of wage increases for employees under the NS and LS Pay Systems to the 150th day following the date the wage survey is ordered to be made. Authorizes the President to direct OPM to limit the maximum adjustment to wage rates in any wage area during a calendar year if the President determines that equity with NS and LS employees so requires. Makes grade and pay retention provisions applicable to employees under the NS and LS Pay Systems in the same way they are applied to the General Schedule. Authorizes OPM to extend to NS and LS employees in positions involving health care responsibilities any provision regarding employees in the Veterans Health Services and Research Administration (HSRA) of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Establishes a new pay system for administrative law judges and judges of boards of contract appeals consisting of three or more rates of basic pay set by the President which may not be less than the minimum rate for NS-20 or more than the maximum rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule. Directs OPM to determine the rate of basic pay for each judge based on certain considerations. Changes the current limitation on pay fixed by administrative action by an executive agency head or military department head from the maximum rate for GS-18 to level V of the Executive Schedule. Authorizes the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to permit agency heads to set the rate of basic pay for no more than 400 positions critical to the agency's mission requiring high level scientific or professional expertise, up to 30 of which can be Executive Schedule positions, at a rate of basic pay that does not exceed level I of the Executive Schedule unless the President approves a higher rate. Requires OMB to allocate such positions among agencies. Authorizes OMB to: (1) change such allocations at any time; and (2) require agencies to obtain its approval before paying an employee in such a critical position. Authorizes the President to pay geographic, staffing and supervisory differentials, recruitment and relocation bonuses, and retention allowances to employees under other pay systems upon request by an executive agency head. Limits such payment to level I of the Executive Schedule. Bars judicial review of certain determinations entrusted to the President, the Pay Agent, OMB, and OPM under this Act. Increases the minimum rate for the Senior Executive Service (SES) from the minimum rate for GS-16 to no less than 120 percent of the minimum rate for NS-20. Provides for adjustments to the SES schedule by the President when either the NS Schedule or Executive Schedule is adjusted. Replaces the Performance Management and Recognition System with a new authority for the Pay Agent to establish special occupation pay systems for occupations or groups of occupations that the Pay Agent determines should not be under the NS or LS Pay Systems. Prohibits such System from providing for the waiver of any law that could not be waived as part of a demonstration project conducted by OPM. Limits basic pay under such a system to level V of the Executive Schedule, and total pay that includes any differentials, bonuses, and allowances to level I of the Executive Schedule. Authorizes OPM to permit agencies to grant employees time off duty without loss of pay or leave as an incentive award for superior accomplishment. Authorizes agencies to pay new employees up to two pay periods basic pay if they relocate to accept an appointment with the Government. Eliminates computation of overtime rates and wage-board overtime and Sunday rates under premium pay provisions for employees subject to the overtime pay provisions of the Fair Standards Act of 1938 but deems as overtime hours their hours of work in excess of eight hours in a day for purposes of that Act. Deems as hours of work their hours in a paid non-work status. Provides that hazardous duty differentials may apply to employees in positions inherently involving physical hardship or hazard only if OPM approves of such application. Allows certain employees of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Defense performing emergency work to receive premium pay without regard to the limitation on such pay. Subjects such employees to an annual aggregate pay limitation equal to the maximum rate for NS-20. Authorizes the Director of OPM to waive on a case-by-case basis the application of provisions imposing financial penalties on reemployed civilian retirees under either the Civil Service or Federal Employees' Retirement System or military retirees in scientific, technical, professional, or administrative positions for which there is exceptional difficulty in recruiting or retaining qualified employees. Authorizes agencies to pay: (1) travel and transportation expenses to candidates for Federal employment for job interviews; and (2) travel expenses to new appointees and student trainees, regardless of the nature of their appointment. Increases the maximum uniform allowance from $125 per year to $400 per year and permits OPM to adjust the maximum amount by regulation. Requires OPM to determine the appropriate successor reference in the case of any references to the General Schedule or a grade or rate thereof in any provision of law whether or not amended by this Act. Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to require the President to adjust the rates of basic pay for the Foreign Service Schedule by amounts consistent with adjustments for the NS Pay System. Requires the President to adjust the rates of basic pay for HSRA employees consistent with adjustments for the NS Pay System. Requires the President to determine adjustments in the rates of basic pay and allowances for members of the uniformed services. Limits such pay to level V of the Executive Schedule. Prohibits the reduction of any employee's rate of basic pay as a result of the enactment of this Act. Authorizes the President to establish geographic differentials of up to eight percent of basic pay for payment in January 1991 to employees in the consolidated metropolitan statistical areas of: (1) New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island; (2) San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose; and (3) Los Angeles-Anaheim-Riverside. Authorizes the President to establish staffing differentials equal to five percent of basic pay for payment in January of 1991 to employees whose positions are in grades GS-5 or GS-7 and in a class that is determined by OPM as likely to be under the NS Pay System. Requires this Act to become effective not later than January 1, 1995. Extends the physicians' comparability allowance program from September 30, 1990, to September 30, 1995. Prohibits any service under such program from extending beyond September 30, 1997. Provides that the rates of basic pay of the NS and LS Pay Systems shall take effect in January 1994. Requires the rates of basic pay for the NS Pay Schedule to be set under the pay adjustment process for the General Schedule for the last time in FY 1994 without corresponding adjustments for employees of the Foreign Service and HSRA. Requires the rates of basic pay for the LS Pay Schedule to be set under the new pay procedures in this Act. Requires the rates of basic pay for the Federal Wage System to be determined under the new prevailing rate provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990
Establishes an Official Mail Allowance for franked mailing by Members of the House of Representatives within specified guidelines and limitations. Amends rule XLVI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to: (1) reduce from six to two the number of franked mailings per year per addressee to which a Member after December 31, 1990, is entitled; (2) reduce from six to two, after such date, the number of franked mailings per year per addressee relating solely to a notice of appearance of a scheduled itinerary of a Member; (3) require a Member, before making any mass mailing (including direct response to communications from constituents), to submit a sample or description of the mail matter involved to the House Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards for a statutory compliance advisory opinion; (4) require the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make available for public inspection, semi-annually, a mass mailing report compiled from data provided by the House Committee on Administration; and (5) require that a mass mailing by a Member contain a specified notice on the cover page of the document.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1990
Mexico-United States Trade Act - Directs the President to initiate negotiations with Mexico to obtain a trade agreement providing for: (1) the reduction and eventual elimination of tariff and nontariff trade barriers; (2) the reduction and elimination of duties imposed by the United States; and (3) the establishment of a free trade area between the two countries. Requires the President to consult with specified congressional committees before entering into such agreement. Conditions the implementation of such an agreement on enactment of legislation according to a specified procedure. Prohibits the extension of any trade benefit to countries that are not a party to an agreement by reason of any benefit given to a country that is a party to such agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Directs the President to report to the Congress on whether the Government of India is preventing human rights organizations from visiting India to monitor human rights conditions. Terminates development assistance to India (except for assistance for specified health projects) if the President reports that the Government of India is implementing such policy. Provides for the resumption of assistance to India if the President reports to the Congress that India is no longer implementing such policy.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Israel should take immediate steps to reopen universities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Condemns the restrictions of the print and electronic media imposed by the Soviet Union on journalists attempting to cover events in Lithuania. Urges: (1) General Secretary Gorbachev to rescind restrictions on the admission of Western journalists to, and on freedom of the press in, Lithuania; and (2) President Bush to take steps to facilitate the readmission of Western journalists to Lithuania.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990
Designates the month of October 1990 as Crime Prevention Month.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 26, 1990, to commemorate the bicentennial of "An Act for the government of the territory of the United States, south of the river Ohio" (from which Tennessee was formed).