Rep. Hiler, John Patrick [R-IN-3]

An amendment to restrict funding necessary to carry out the provisions of the Traficant amendment (immediately preceeding) to authorizations from the Nehemiah Housing Opportunity Fund.

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An amendment to impose as additional Urban Development Action Grant criteria the following: ? Determination must be made as to whether a project will utilize a building of at least 100,000 square feet, or land upon which is principally sited a building that is at least 100,000 square feet, that is at least 20 years old, has been vacant for at least 3 years, and is no longer functionally useful for its originally intended purpose. Additionally, it must be determined whether or not a State or local community has established a significant program, such as tax incentives, targeted toward this class of structure or land.

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An amendment to reduce the authorization for deferred participation loans and guarantees of debentures from $4,010,000,000 to $3,056,000,000.

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An amendment to H.R. 3135, Legislative Appropriations for FY'84, to reduce Congressional Budget Office salaries and expenses from $16,300,00 to $15,566,250.

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An amendment directing the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to conduct a survey and demonstration program assessing the ability of private small and disadvantaged businesses to provide quality services to Federal departments and agencies at fair and reasonable fees.

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An amendment to reduce funding for the business loan and investment fund of the Small Business Administration from $216,000,000 to $121,000,000.

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An amendment to freeze grants for Small Business Development Centers at the FY 1987 level.

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An amendment to reduce funds for the Business Loan and Investment Fund by $3 million, and to earmark $39 million only for loans to Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Companies by deleting the funding for additional capital for new direct loan obligations in the entire amount of $97 million.

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An amendment to the Shelby amendment to require that by 270 days from enactment, hazardous waste produced by generators of from 250 kg/month to 1000 kg/month which is shipped off the site of production to declare the waste on EPA Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifests. Within 540 days this shall apply to those generating from 100 kg/month to 1000 kg/month. And lastly, within 810 days it is to apply to firms generating from 25 kg/month to 1000 kg/month.

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An amendment adding a new title requiring that if the authorization levels contained in the bill exceed the levels contained in either the House or Senate passed version of the Budget (whichever is lower), appropriate cuts must be made to ensure compliance with the lower number.

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Four amendments en bloc to reduce funds in the bill: 1) Salaries & Expenses, National Endowment for the Arts, from $134,400,000 to $114,275,000. 2) Matching Grants, National Endowment for the Arts, from $30,600,000 to $29,600,000. 3) Salaries & Expenses, National Endowment for the Humanities from $120,500,000 to $102,132,000. 4) Matching Grants, National Endowment for the Humanities from $29,500,000 to $27,928,000.

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An amendment to direct HUD to report on the inspection of manufactured homes and the relationship between the cost of such inspections and the fee charged for such inspections.

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An amendment to strike authorizing language for the Urban Development Action (UDAG) program.

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Budget Process Reform Act

United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1990

Budget Process Reform Act - Title I: Statement of Congressional Purpose - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to facilitate rational, informed, and timely decisions by the Congress. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Federal budget process should focus the attention of policymakers and the public on the aggregate impact of Federal spending on the economy, and on the tradeoffs that must be made among priorities in order to control overall levels of spending. Declares that the budget process should contain safeguards against delay and inaction, so that temporary shut-downs of the Government may be avoided. Title II: Binding Budget Law - Requires the Congress to enact a binding budget law, in the form of a joint resolution, by April 15 of the calendar year before that in which the fiscal period commences. Requires the budget law to fit on a single page, which sets forth specific budget ceilings in major functional categories. Makes it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any spending bill affecting spending in a major functional category unless and until a joint resolution on the budget is enacted. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to prohibit baseline budgeting. Requires the budget to include comparisons of current fiscal year and proposed subsequent fiscal year spending. Title III: Enforcement Mechanisms - Subtitle A: Super majority Required to Break Budget Law - Requires a two-thirds majority vote in the House and the Senate to consider any spending bill prior to the enactment of the budget law. Requires the Congressional Budget Office to provide to the Congress an estimate of the costs in each major functional category of any spending bill as soon as practicable after its introduction. Limits such estimates to those bills likely to result in costs of more than $10,000,000. Requires a two-thirds affirmative vote in the House and the Senate to consider over-budget spending bills. Requires a two-thirds affirmative vote in the House and the Senate to waive any provision of this Act. Subtitle B: Limited Enhanced Rescission Authority - Amends the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to limit the President's rescission authority to spending that is above the limits of the budget law. Subtitle C: "Blank Check" Appropriations Prohibited - Declares the intent of the Congress to end open-ended, "blank check" appropriations which typically authorize spending "such sums as may be necessary." Requires fixed-dollar appropriations for every account except social security and interest on the debt. Prohibits open-ended appropriations. Requires Executive agencies to adjust benefit levels to ensure that appropriations for entitlement programs are not exceeded. Subtitle D: "Pay As You Go" Requirement for New Spending - Prohibits the Congress from considering any legislation which exceeds the budget ceiling unless it offsets such increased spending with an equal amount of reductions. Requires a two-thirds affirmative vote in the House and the Senate to waive such prohibition. Title IV: Sustaining Mechanism - Makes appropriations to provide for an automatic continuing resolution if for any account an appropriation for a fiscal period does not become law before the beginning of such period. Restricts legislation providing funding to the Committees on Appropriations. Title V: Protection of Social Security - Provides that no reduction in benefits under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act shall be made as a consequence of this Act. Title VI: Timetable - Revises the timetable for the congressional budget process. Title VII: Conforming Amendments - Makes various technical and conforming amendments, including changing references to a concurrent resolution on the budget to references to a joint resolution on the budget. Title VIII: Definitions and Rules of Interpretation - Sets forth definitions for specified terms. Title IX: Effective Date - Declares the effective date of this Act to be January 1, 1991, applicable to fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1991.

Civil Rights Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1990

Civil Rights Act of 1990 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to provide for the burden of proof which the complaining party and the respondent must meet in certain situations relating to unlawful employment practices based on disparate impact. Allows a rule barring employment of an individual who currently and knowingly uses or possesses an illegal drug unless the rule is adopted or applied with intent to discriminate. Allows establishment of an unlawful employment practice on a demonstration that a certain basis was a motivating factor for a practice, even though other factors also motivated the practice. Prohibits certain types of relief on a demonstration that the respondent would have taken the same action in the absence of any discrimination. Allows, on such a showing, declaratory and injunctive relief, attorney's fees, and costs. Provides for the finality of litigated or consent judgements or orders, barring actions (challenging an employment practice required by a judgment or order) by persons who had certain types of notice and opportunity. Declares that an alleged unlawful employment practice occurs, with regard to a seniority system, when: (1) the system is adopted; (2) an individual becomes subject to the system; or (3) a person is injured by application of the system or provision, adopted for an intentionally discriminatory purpose, whether or not the discriminatory purpose is apparent on the face of the provision. Allows a court, in fashioning remedies for unlawful intentional employment discrimination, to require the respondent to pay a specified amount if: (1) needed to deter the respondent from engaging in such practices; and (2) otherwise justified by the equities, consistent with the purposes of the equal employment opportunities provisions of the Act, and in the public interest. Requires all employment discrimination cases to be heard and determined by a judge, except that, if the court determines that the claims presented may require the payments authorized by this paragraph and that a jury trial is constitutionally required for such relief, a jury may be empaneled to determine such issues and no others. Allows expert fees to be included in attorney's fees awarded to the prevailing party in an employment discrimination case. Extends the time limit for an aggrieved employee or employment applicant to file a civil action after notice of final action by a department, agency, or unit of the Federal Government. Requires the same interest to compensate for delay in payment by the Government as in cases involving non-public parties. Amends Federal law to declare that: (1) for purposes of provisions relating to equal rights under the law, the right to make and enforce contracts includes the making, performance, modification, and termination of contracts, and the enjoyment of all benefits, privileges, terms, and conditions of the contract; and (2) the rights protected by the amended provisions are protected against impairment by non-governmental discrimination as well as against impairment under color of State law. Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to require the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to notify the person aggrieved if an age discrimination charge is dismissed by the Commission. Allows a civil suit to be brought within a specified time limit after the dismissal. Provides for the application of this Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to the Senate, the House of Representatives, and instrumentalities of the Congress. Prohibits construing the amendments made by this Act, or any statute amended by this Act, so as to require, permit, or result in the adoption or implementation of quotas. Encourages the use of alternative means of dispute resolution to resolve disputes arising under the Acts amended by this Act.

To designate November 2, 1990, as a national day of prayer for members of American military forces and American citizens stationed or held in the Middle East, and for their families.

United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1990

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should declare November 2, 1990, a national day of prayer for: (1) members of American military forces and American citizens stationed or held hostage in the Middle East, and for their families; and (2) American and Iraqi authorities to bring about a just resolution of the Persian Gulf crisis.

To salute and congratulate the people of Poland as they commemorate the two-hundreth anniversary of the adoption of the Polish Constitution on May 3, 1991.

United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1990

Salutes and congratulates the people of Poland as they commemorate the 200th anniversary of the adoption of the Polish Constitution on May 3, 1991. Directs the Library of Congress to commemorate the anniversary with appropriate ceremonies.

Expressing the sense of the Congress that the crisis created by Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait must be addressed and resolved on its own terms separately from other conflicts in the region.

United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1990

Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the crisis created by Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait must be addressed and resolved separately from other conflicts in the region; and (2) the President should continue to thwart any effort to link such crisis with the Arab-Israeli conflict.

To designate November 16, 1990, as "National Federation of the Blind Day".

United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1990

Designates November 16, 1990, as National Federation of the Blind Day.

To designate the third week of February 1991 as "National Parents and Teachers Association Week".

United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1990

Designates the third week of February 1991 as National Parents and Teachers Association Week.

Coin Design Modernization Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1990

Coin Design Modernization Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) select a coin whose reverse side shall be designed to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution; and (2) select new designs for the reverse sides of coins whose thematic representation shall include specified constitutional concepts. Prohibits the Secretary from implementing the latter design changes unless the Congress approves. Mandates that amounts in the coinage profit fund which are attributable to net profits from the sale of uncirculated and proof sets of coins shall be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury for the sole purpose of reducing the national debt.

1996 Olympic Commemorative Coin Act

United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1990

1996 Olympic Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue 1996 Olympic Games commemorative coins in five-dollar gold coins, one-dollar silver coins, and half-dollar clad coins. Prohibits the minting of such coins after June 30, 1997. Prescribes guidelines for the sale and pricing of such coins. Mandates that: (1) surcharges be paid to the U.S. Olympic Committee; (2) all amounts received from the sale of coins be deposited in the coinage profit fund; and (3) the Secretary takes steps to ensure that the coin issuance will not result in any net cost to the United States. Sets forth adequate security criteria for payment of such coins.

To provide for the temporary continuance of essential government services for Americans.

United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1990

Authorizes the President, in order to protect health and safety of human life, to decrease the sequester amounts specified in the order issued August 25, 1990, under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Requires an increase in the sequester amount in other accounts, programs, projects, or activities to the extent amounts were decreased in such order.

To amend the Act incorporating the American Legion so as to redefine eligiblity for membership therein.

United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1990

Amends Federal law to redefine eligibility for membership in the American Legion.