United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1990
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that any funds from spending reductions for the Department of Defense and related agencies incorporated in the budget for FY 1991 should be applied to deficit reduction and taxpayer relief.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income the value of any subsidy provided by a public utility to a customer for the purchase or installation of energy or water conservation measures.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1990
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to include parts and accessories of handicapped aids for tariff treatment under the Schedule.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1990
Export Enhancement Act of 1990 - Title I: Export Administration Act - Directs the President, in light of the rapidly changing strategic environment, to: (1) assess the current list of controlled countries and determine whether it remains appropriate; and (2) review specified export control criteria under the Export Administration Act of 1979. Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to require controls on exports to Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania to be no more rigorous than similar controls on China as of January 1, 1989, if such countries have export control safeguards equivalent to those of China. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to identify those nonmilitary industries that can undertake projects to assist the economic reforms in the Soviet Union. Requires approval of export licenses for goods or technology at higher levels for such projects unless the end-user presents a significant risk of diversion to a military use. Authorizes the issuance of licenses for the export or reexport of goods and technology to Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, or Romania. Declares that, under specified circumstances, there shall be a presumption of approval of a license for export to any country (currently, only China) of any controlled goods, without regard to their technical specifications, for trade show purposes. Declares that such approval shall not apply, for any trade show in the Soviet Union, to supercomputers, goods or technology for sensitive nuclear uses, or devices for interception of wire or oral communications. Prohibits any item subject to national security controls under the Export Administration Act of 1979 from being subject to controls under the Arms Export Control Act. Authorizes any dissenting agency head to notify the Secretary of his or her objection in any situation where there is a dispute about the applicability of controls under either Act. Directs the Secretary to designate an official of the Department of Commerce to represent the Secretary permanently in the U.S. delegation to the Coordination Committee. Requires the Secretary to review the goods and technology available from newly industrialized countries to determine if they are of such a sophistication as to warrant multilateral control. Requires the Secretary of State, if controls are necessary, to negotiate with such countries to obtain their participation in the Coordinating Committee. Authorizes the Secretary to refer regulatory authority with respect to national security controls to any other Federal agency and to the appropriate technical advisory committee. Requires regulations issued by the Secretary with respect to periodic removal of goods and technology from national security controls as they become obsolete to provide for annual increases in the performance levels of such items. (Currently such increases are authorized but not required.) Denies application of any national security controls to the export of control list goods and technology to a country not on the controlled country list unless the Secretary determines and reports to the Congress that continued controls on such items are necessary. Requires notice of any items removed from the list to the Coordinating Committee for multilateral East-West decontrol consideration. Places the National Security Control Office of the Department of Defense under the direction of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition (instead of, as currently, the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy). Title II: Trade and Investment - Amends the Support for East European Democracy Act of 1989 to direct the President to confer nondiscriminatory (most-favored-nation) trade status on Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, the German Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and the Soviet Union. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to make Czechslovakia, East Germany, and the Soviet Union eligible for trade benefits under the Generalized System of Preferences. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to make Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Romania eligible for Overseas Private Investment Corporation programs. Authorizes the Export-Import Bank to guarantee, insure, finance, and extend credit in connection with the purchase or lease of any product by Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, or Romania.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1990
Designates the week of July 22 to July 29, 1990, as National Week of Recognition and Remembrance for Those Who Served in the Korean War. Authorizes and requests the President to urge that the American flag be flown at half staff on July 27, 1990, in honor of those Americans who died as a result of their service in Korea.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1990
Designates April 6, 1990, the 88th birthday of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, as Education Day, U.S.A. Calls on heads of state of the world to join the President of the United States in this tribute by signing scrolls of honor commemorating the 40th anniversary of Schneerson's leadership of the Lubavitch movement. Welcomes the cooperation of the Department of State in extending the good office of the U.S. missions to the Lubavitcher emissaries.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) deny the charitable deduction for contributions to organizations that participate in voter registration drives; (2) deny the tax-exempt status of organizations that participate in such drives; and (3) establish an excise tax on nonpermitted participation by tax-exempt organizations in such drives.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that countries comprising the European Community shall constitute a single country for purposes of taxing foreign base company income.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Congratulates Violeta Chamorro on her electoral victory in Nicaragua and Daniel Ortega for ensuring that the election was free and fair. Urges the current Government to comply with the law in turning over power to the National Opposition Union (UNO), including the separation of the military from Sandinista control. Commends Ortega and Chamorro for calling for an end to arms shipments to guerillas fighting in El Salvador. Supports: (1) the speedy negotiation of a ceasefire in Nicaragua; (2) the peaceful reintegration of the resistance into Nicaraguan society; and (3) the removal of sanctions enacted against Nicaragua in 1985, contingent upon an effective and fair transition of power to UNO and presidential certification that arms shipments to the FMLN guerillas have ceased. Encourages other nations to cooperate with and assist Nicaragua in rebuilding.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1990
Export Administration Act of 1990 - Authorizes the President to prohibit or curtail the export of U.S. goods or technology or the export of such items by any person subject to U.S. jurisdiction. Applies such authority to the transfer of such items within the United States to embassies and affiliates of controlled countries. Declares that a presumption of approval shall apply to any export to a country which is a member of the Coordinating Committee, or subject to an agreement with the United States restricting the export of goods and technology, or is not controlled, provided such item is not a critical component of a U.S. or controlled country military system and there is no risk of diversion. Sets forth circumstances under which there shall be a presumption of approval to exports to a controlled country. Sets forth instances in which: (1) permission to export goods and technology is not required; or (2) restrictions on the export of such items may not be imposed. Requires the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to establish and publish a list of controlled countries. Makes the Secretary responsible for negotiating with other countries, including non-participants in the Coordinating Committee, about their cooperation in restricting the export of goods and technology. Requires the Secretary to establish a list of all goods and technology subject to control under this Act. Requires the Secretary to review the availability of such items to controlled countries from sources outside of the United States, including countries which participate with the United States in multilateral export controls of such items. Authorizes the issuance of specified export licenses, including: (1) general licenses for the export of goods and services; (2) distribution licenses; and (3) operations licenses for the export and reexport of technology and related goods. Requires export controls which are maintained unilaterally by the United States to expire six months after they are imposed, except in specified cases. Directs the Secretary to enter into negotiations with member countries of the Coordinating Committee and countries covered by an agreement with the United States restricting the export of goods and technology with respect to specified measures that could be taken to increase the effectiveness of multilateral export controls. Subjects certain export applications to multilateral review. Authorizes the President to prohibit the export of goods and technology (except medicine and certain food exports) in order to further U.S. foreign policy. Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of State to notify specified congressional committees before any export license is approved for goods and technology valued at more than $1,000,000 to any country that supports international terrorism. Subjects export of crime control and detection instruments and equipment to validated licensing. Extends for one year certain export controls against South Africa. Directs the President to issue regulations prohibiting any U.S. person from knowingly supporting any boycott imposed by a foreign country and not supported by the United States against a country friendly to the United States. Provides for administrative penalties and sanctions imposed under this Act. Requires the President to appoint an Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration. Provides for appointment of technical advisory committees regarding any goods or technology difficult to evaluate under this Act. Provides for enforcement of export controls authorized under this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1990
Nursing Home Access to Respiratory Therapy Act of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to include respiratory therapy within covered extended care services.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1990
International Voluntary Family Planning Assistance Act of 1990 - Authorizes appropriations for international population planning assistance. Earmarks a specified amount of such funds for the United Nations Population Fund if: (1) the Fund maintains such funds in a separate account, without commingling; (2) none of the funds are made available for China; and (3) any agreement to obligate such funds expressly states that the full amount granted by the agreement will be refunded to the United States if U.S. funds are used for family planning in China or abortions in any country. Prohibits any funds appropriated under this Act from being used for abortions.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1990
Requires the President, with respect to each year after 1989, to determine whether: (1) there was a reduction in the quantity of illicit coca produced or in illicit coca activities in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru; and (2) any reduction is attributable to the implementation of social or economic alternatives in such countries. Authorizes the President, if an affirmative determination with respect to such a country is made, to apply special trade treatment to articles that: (1) are products of such country; and (2) are entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption in U.S. customs territory in the year following the year such determination was made. Prohibits such special treatment if specified actions under the Narcotics Control Trade Act are in effect with respect to such country. Authorizes the President to provide economic assistance to Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru to promote the production, processing, or marketing of agricultural commodity exports, excluding commodities from which narcotic and psychotropic drugs are derived. Waives provisions of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act that prohibit economic assistance for the growth or production in a foreign country of commodities which would compete with similar U.S. commodities with respect to such assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit any items which are included on the Commodity Control List from being included on the United States Munitions List (which shall consist only of specially designed items of military or intelligence application). Provides for determinations of the appropriate control lists on which items are to be included.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Savings and Economic Growth Act of 1990 - Title I: Capital Gains Provisions - Subtitle A: Reduction in Capital Gains Tax - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the capital gains rate for noncorporate taxpayers through a deduction of: (1) 30 percent for assets held at least three years; (2) 20 percent for assets held at least two years; and (3) ten percent for assets held at least one year. Provides for the treatment of collectibles as short-term gains or losses (making them ineligible for such deduction). Disallows the capital gains deduction in computing the alternative minimum tax. Subtitle B: Depreciation Recapture - Provides for the treatment of gain from the disposition of certain depreciable realty as ordinary income. Title II: Home Ownership and Savings Incentives - Allows an exemption from the ten-percent additional tax on early distributions from qualified retirement plans up to $10,000, if the distribution is used to make a first-home purchase at a cost of no more than 110 percent of the median home price in the geographic area where the residence is located. Allows an individual (other than a dependent) to establish a family savings account for the exclusive benefit of an individual and the individual's beneficiaries. Limits contributions to such accounts to $2,500 for the taxable year, if the individual's adjusted income does not exceed $60,000 ($120,000 in the case of joint returns). Subjects the family savings account to the tax imposed on unrelated business income of tax-exempt organizations. Provides that distributions paid out of such accounts shall not be included in gross income, except for earnings on contributions held less than seven years. Establishes a ten-percent additional tax on earnings on contributions held less than three years.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1990
Designates September 21, 1990, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Recognizes the National League of Families POW/MIA flag as the official symbol of the United States' commitment to resolving the fates of Americans still prisoner or missing in action in Southeast Asia.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Urges the President to seek the consent of the Senate to the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations on November 20, 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1990
Commercial Technology Export Act of 1990 - Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to provide specific guidelines for the export of nonmilitary items to Warsaw Pact countries, in light of Soviet troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, Glasnost, and Perestroika. Requires publication of decisions on requests for general exceptions to the International Control List of the Coordinating Committee in order to assure equal access for U.S. exporters to controlled-country markets.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1990
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce, on or before December 31, 1992, the column two rate of duty on paper cutting machines for making up paper pulp, paper, or paperboard.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1990
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend, through December 31, 1992, the reduction of column two duty on large, sheet-fed offset printing presses.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1990
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize Overseas Private Investment Corporation programs for Czechoslovakia. Directs that the projects supported enhance the nongovernmental sector and reduce state involvement in the economy.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Amends Federal law to authorize and request the President to designate May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month annually, beginning in 1990. (Current law designates a seven-day period beginning on May 4, 1979).
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Expedited Consideration of Proposed Rescissions Act of 1990 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require a special message, in the case of budget authority proposed to be rescinded or reserved, to include language amending the law authorizing such programs to allow them to continue to function at the proposed new level of budget authority. Allows the President to transmit to both Houses of the Congress, for expedited consideration, one or more special messages proposing to rescind all or part of any item of budget authority provided in an appropriation bill. Requires that such special message be transmitted not later than three days after the President approves the appropriation bill and be accompanied by a draft bill or joint resolution that would, if enacted, rescind the budget authority proposed to be rescinded. Sets forth House and Senate procedures for the expedited consideration of such a proposal.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Export Development Task Force Act of 1990 - Establishes the Bipartisan Task Force on Export Development and Promotion to review all Federal activities and programs that assist U.S. businesses in export development or promotion of nonagricultural goods and services, including financing programs. Establishes the Interagency Working Group on Export Development to develop export markets for U.S. nonagricultural goods and services.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1989
Freedom of Choice Act of 1989 - Provides that a State may not restrict the right of a woman to choose to terminate a pregnancy: (1) before fetal viability; or (2) at any time, if such termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the woman. Allows a State to impose requirements medically necessary to protect the life or health of such women.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1989
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal to Laurance Spelman Rockefeller in recognition of his leadership on behalf of natural resource conservation and historic preservation. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal.
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 1989
Social Security Preservation and Budget Process Reform Act of 1989 - Title I: Social Security Preservation - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to extend its provisions until 1999. Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to exclude, beginning with FY 1994, Federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund receipts and outlays from Federal deficit determinations. Declares that all interest payments to the trust funds shall be outlays for purposes of calculating the deficit. Establishes allowable maximum deficits for FY 1993 through 1997, to reach zero with respect to FY 1998. Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to extend the prohibition on extraneous matters in reconciliation measures in the Senate until September 30, 1998. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to prohibit the House of Representatives or the Senate from considering legislation that would decrease the actuarial soundness of the social security trust funds. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to pay old age, survivors and disability insurance benefits notwithstanding any failure to increase the public debt limit. Title II: Additional Budget Process Reforms - Revises the prohibition against counting as savings the transfer of outlays, receipts, or revenue from one fiscal year to another. Provides for counting new entitlement authority against a House committee's allocation of such authority for a fiscal year. Prohibits a provision of a reconciliation bill or resolution from being counted as savings if it would cause a decrease in savings for the current fiscal year and the next four fiscal years. Requires the House Committee on the Budget to delete extraneous matter from reconciliation legislation before reporting such legislation to the House. Revises reporting requirements about Federal spending by the Office of Management and Budget, the President, and the Comptroller General.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1989
Amends Federal law to require the Secretary of the Treasury to make timely payments of benefits under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act despite the public debt limit.
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