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United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Designates the week of November 11 through 17, 1990, as National Women Veterans Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1990
Amends the Clean Air Act to add, as a new title, the Relief for Terminated Workers Act. Requires the Secretary of Labor to establish the following benefits for employees terminated as a result of revisions of the Clean Air Act: (1) readjustment allowances similar to trade readjustment allowances under the Trade Act of 1974; and (2) programs for employment services, job search, and relocation allowances similar to programs under such Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1990
Designates the month of May 1990 as National Foster Care Month.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Public Television Cable Carriage Act of 1990 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require each cable operator to carry on its cable system the signals of a qualified local noncommercial educational television station (QLNETS) according to provisions of this Act. Requires the operator of a cable system with 12 or fewer usable activated channels to carry only one QLNETS on such system, while allowing other QLNETSs to be carried at the discretion of the operator. Allows a cable operator which operated beyond the presence of any QLNETS to carry the system of one qualified noncommercial educational station (QNETS) (a nonlocal station) at its discretion. Requires a cable operator with a system of 13 to 36 usable activated channels to carry at least one but not more than three QLNETSs, while allowing other QLNETSs to be carried at its discretion. Requires the cable operator of a system which increases its usable activated channel capacity to more than 36 stations on or after March 29, 1990, to carry on such system each QLNETS requesting carriage, subject to other provisions of this Act. Requires all cable operators to continue to provide carriage to all QLNETSs carried on their systems as of March 29, 1990. Allows such requirement to be waived upon the written consent of the cable operator and any such station. Provides that a cable operator with a capacity of more than 36 channels which is required to carry three QLNETSs shall not be required to carry additional QLNETSs if their programming substantially duplicates the programming broadcast by another QLNETS requesting carriage. Requires a cable operator to retransmit in its entirety the primary video and audio transmission of each QLNETS carried on its cable system, as well as material necessary for the receipt of programming by handicapped persons or for educational or language purposes. Prohibits a QLNETS from being repositioned to a different channel by a cable operator unless the operator notifies the station and all cable subscribers at least 30 days in advance of such change. States that a cable operator: (1) shall not be required to carry any QLNETS which does not deliver a signal of good quality as defined by the Federal Communications Commission; (2) is prohibited from accepting monetary payment or other consideration in exchange for carriage of the signal of a QLNETS, except for certain carriage delivery costs; and (3) is not required to add a QLNETS not already required as of March 29, 1990, where such station would be considered a distant signal for copyright purposes, unless such station reimburses the operator for incremental copyright costs assessed against the operator as the result of such carriage.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Provides travel and transportation allowances for the parents of a deceased member of the armed forces for attending the burial ceremonies of such member.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Nonprofit Organizations Tax-Exempt Bond Reform Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the tax treatment of bonds of certain nonprofit tax-exempt organizations, including private nonprofit educational institutions and hospitals, in a manner similar to governmental bonds.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for amounts imposed by a State or local government as fees for water or sewer services.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
Higher Education Savings Plan Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt distributions from a higher education expenses annuity contract from the ten-percent penalty on premature distributions from annuity contracts. Excludes the premium to purchase such a contract from gift tax liability.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to treat semimanufactured and manufactured glass products as import sensitive and as such ineligible for duty-free treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
Designates July 2, 1990, as National Literacy Day.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1990
Designates the week of October 9 through 13, 1990, as National Health Care Food Service Week.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1990
Designates the week of June 1 through June 7, 1990, as National Polio Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1990
Financial Incentives Going to Help Towns Fighting Drugs Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to designate that one dollar of their tax liability be paid to the Local Anti-Drug Program Trust Fund. Establishes such Fund for grants to counties for: (1) law enforcement activities regarding drug-related crimes; (2) education, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation programs regarding drug abuse; and (3) grants to units of general local government.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1990
Designates April 16, 1990, as National Sarcoidosis Awareness Day.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1990
Designates the month of May 1990 as National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1990
Designates November 16, 1990, as National Philanthropy Day.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1990
Designates the week of November 11 through 17, 1990, as Geography Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1990
ESOP Promotion and Improvement Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow S corporations (certain small business corporations) to participate in employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). Extends the ESOP exception to the ten percent early withdrawal penalty tax to certain ESOP distributions to employees made at any time. (Currently the exception applies only to distributions made before January 1, 1990.) Permits ESOP participants whose compensation does not exceed a certain amount to contribute up to 50 percent of it to the plan. Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to permit payroll deductions for ESOP participants to make certain political contributions.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1990
Designates February 17 through 23, 1991, as National Visiting Nurse Associations Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1990
Designates May 6 through 13, 1990, as Jewish Heritage Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1990
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the proposed postal rate increase is unwarranted and that the U.S. Postal Service should reduce its deficit by cutting costs rather than by increasing postal rates.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1990
Provides for the payment of temporary lodging expenses for visiting family members of military personnel who are hospitalized due to serious illness or injury sustained in the line of duty.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1990
Designates the week of June 24 through June 30, 1990, as National Sheriffs' Week in honor of the 50th anniversary of the National Sheriffs' Association.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Amends Federal law to require the President to include in the annual budget a statement of projected revenues obtained from the anticipated sale, lease, and transfer of Government assets and the estimated price at which the assets would be sold in the private sector.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Urges the Soviet Union to recognize the sovereignty of the Baltic States. Designates June 14, 1990, as Baltic Freedom Day.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Commemorates May 18, 1990, as the 25th anniversary of Head Start.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1990
Designates the week beginning on October 7, 1990, and ending on October 13, 1990, as Mental Illness Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1990
Calls for the retention of sanctions against South Africa under the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act until all conditions for the termination of sanctions are fulfilled and a democratic political process is established.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1990
Social Security Telephone Access Act of 1990 - Amends title VII (Administration) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) maintain telephone access to local Social Security Administration (SSA) offices at the level of access generally available as of October 1, 1989; and (2) ensure that local telephone listings list the address and telephone number of each local SSA office and the SSA toll-free number, indicating that the local number is for information about a specified case or claim while the toll-free number is for general information. Directs the Secretary to establish one- to three-year demonstration projects implementing accountability procedures for at least three telephone service centers operated by the SSA. Requires that the Secretary promptly provide callers who give the Secretary specified identifying information with a written receipt which sets forth: (1) the name of the SSA representative with whom the caller spoke; (2) the date of the call; (3) a description of the nature of the call; (4) any action which the representative indicates will be taken in response to the call; and (5) the information or advice offered by the SSA representative. Requires that: (1) callers be notified that they will be provided with such receipt; and (2) the SSA retain a copy of such receipt. Authorizes the exclusion from such projects of routine calls unrelated to eligibility or benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1990
Foreign Investment Policy Improvements Act - Requires the Bureau of Economic Analysis to use certain business information relating to foreign-owned businesses in the United States (ten percent or more of whose voting securities are owned by foreign persons) when implementing the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act. Amends such Act to authorize and provide for the collection and use of information on direct investments owned or controlled directly or indirectly by foreign governments.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1990
Directs the Secretary of Defense to terminate the MX Rail Garrison program. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated after the enactment of this Act for such program.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1990
Designates March 1990 as Irish-American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1990
Designates October 14, 1990, as Dwight D. Eisenhower Day, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Eisenhower's birth. Requests Members of Congress who are members of the Dwight David Eisenhower Centennial Commission to make arrangements for a joint meeting of the Congress in commemoration of the centennial of the birth of Dwight David Eisenhower.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1990
Designates the second Sunday in October 1990 as National Children's Day.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1990
Designates March 10, 1990, as Harriet Tubman Day.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1990
Designates as Nelson Mandela Week the week in 1990 of Nelson Mandela's first visit to the United States after his prison release in South Africa.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1990
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to require the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations requiring the use of child safety restraint systems on commercial aircraft.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1990
Commercial Activities Contracting Procedures Act of 1990 - Directs executive agencies, including the U.S. Postal Service, to prepare and make public an annual inventory of all commercial activities performed by their employees or by a commercial source under contract. Excludes from such an inventory: (1) commercial activities requiring less than ten full-time equivalent work years annually; (2) governmental functions; and (3) certain preferential procurement programs relating to small disadvantaged business or sheltered workshops for the blind or severely handicapped. Allows labor organizations representing agency employees to petition agency heads to include or exclude a commercial activity from an inventory. Requires the performance of commercial activities included in an inventory to be procured from commercial sources unless the agency head determines that: (1) no commercial source can perform the activity; (2) use of such source would unacceptably delay or disrupt an agency program or activity; (3) the activity affects patient care at a Government-operated hospital and performance of the activity by Government employees would be in the best interest of patient care; (4) the activity is a governmental function; (5) with respect to commercial activities presently being performed by contract, Government employees can perform the work at a lower cost; or (6) with respect to activities presently being performed by Government employees, Government employees can perform the work at a cost no more than ten percent higher than the anticipated cost of contracting out. Requires agencies, before converting the performance of any commercial activity, to conduct a cost comparison analysis that computes all costs on the basis of the final performance work statement. Sets forth exceptions for the preferential procurement programs excluded from the inventory. Directs the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation to establish requirements for conducting such analyses that contain provisions governing the calculation of all relevant costs of performing a commercial activity, the exclusion of certain costs, and the consideration of the use of government property. Requires Federal agency heads to establish a board to review the adequacy of cost comparison analyses and the performance work statements for accuracy and completeness and to consider employee appeals regarding an agency decision not to incorporate their comments and recommendations into a performance work statement. Allows interested parties to appeal a review board decision to an agency head. Prohibits a conversion to contract or in-house performance of any commercial activity within 30 days after a review board decision or while an appeal of a review board decision is pending. Requires Federal agency heads to notify all agency employees performing a commercial activity of each cost comparison analysis initiated with respect to that commercial activity and to keep those employees informed of the progress of each such analysis. Prohibits disclosure of any cost comparison analysis before the agency issues a public notice that the commercial activity will either be converted to contract or to in-house performance or will be performed by Government employees. Requires Federal agency heads to prepare a performance work statement for each commercial activity for which a cost comparison analysis is conducted. Requires such statement to define the scope of work for a commercial activity. Allows commercial activities to be combined for the preparation of such statements under certain circumstances. Requires each agency to provide agency employees who may be adversely affected 60 days to submit comments and recommendations regarding each performance work statement before it is submitted to the review board. Grants an employee the right to appeal to the appropriate review board an agency decision not to incorporate such comments and recommendations into a performance work statement. Requires the review board to sustain the appeal and require the agency to incorporate such recommendation into the performance work statement if the board determines that an agency decision is not substantially justified by the facts of the case or is contrary to law or regulation. Requires agencies to make performance work statements available for public review. Sets forth the duties of the Government and private sector contractors regarding reemployment of employees adversely affected by a conversion to contract performance. Directs the Administrator of Federal Procurement Policy to issue regulations requiring agency heads to report annually to the Office of Federal Procurement Policy on the number and dollar value of agency commercial activities converted to contract or to in-house performance each year and on anticipated savings resulting from such conversions. Directs the Administrator to report annually to the Congress on: (1) such savings and whether the conversions actually resulted in the savings anticipated; (2) the number of Federal and non-Federal employees performing commercial activities for the Government; and (3) the contract number and value for each commercial activity procured by an agency under contract. Provides that General Accounting Office bid protest procedures are not applicable to conversions to contract or to in-house performance. Declares that this Act shall not apply: (1) in any case in which its application would be contrary to a treaty or other lawful agreement between the United States and any other nation; (2) to the Department of Defense in time of a declared war or a military mobilization or other emergency declared, without delegation, by the President or by the Secretary of Defense; or (3) to research or development activities.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Civil Rights Act of 1990 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to provide that: (1) once a complainant has demonstrated that an employment practice results in a disparate impact on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, the respondent has the burden of proving that the practice is justified by business necessity; (2) a complainant need not demonstrate which of a group of practices results in the demonstrated disparate impact; and (3) a respondent need not show business necessity for a specific practice within a group of practices if the respondent shows that that practice does not contribute to the disparate impact. Declares that an unlawful employment practice is established on a demonstration that race, color, religion, sex, or national origin was a motivating factor for any employment practice, even though such practice was also motivated by other factors, but bars certain types of relief if the respondent establishes that it would have taken the same action in the absence of any discrimination. Prohibits a challenge to an employment practice that implements a litigated or consent judgment or order resolving a claim of employment discrimination: (1) by a person who had certain types of notice and opportunity; (2) by a person whose interests were adequately represented by another person who challenged the judgment or order; or (3) if reasonable efforts were made to provide notice to interested persons. Increases to two years the time limit within which a charge of an unlawful employment practice must be filed. Removes provisions setting a separate time limit for charges initially filed with a State or local agency. Declares that a seniority system or practice which is part of a collective bargaining agreement is an unlawful employment practice if it was included in the agreement with the intent to discriminate. Allows, except for disparate impact cases, for compensatory damages (but not back pay) and, where there is malice or reckless or callous indifference, for punitive damages. Allows any party, where compensatory or punitive damages are sought, to demand a jury trial. Includes expert fees and other litigation expenses in any attorney's fees awarded. Prohibits a consent order or judgment settling a claim unless the parties and their counsel attest that a waiver of attorneys' fees was not compelled as a condition of the settlement. Allows to the prevailing party in the original action an award of attorney's fees and costs in defending a challenged judgment or order. Increases to 90 days after final action by a Federal agency the time limit for a Federal employee to bring a civil action. Allows to Federal employees the same interest to compensate for delay in payment as in cases involving non-public parties. Requires Federal civil rights laws to be broadly construed to effect their purpose to eliminate discrimination and provide effective remedies. Prohibits, except as expressly provided, any Federal civil rights law from being construed to restrict or limit the rights, procedures, or remedies available under any other Federal civil rights law. Declares that, 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 contractual relationship.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Amends the Automobile Information Disclosure Act to make its labeling and entry requirements applicable to light duty trucks (of not more than 8,500 pounds) manufactured after October 1, 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Permits the reimbursement of a patient's regular physician under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for services provided to such patient by another physician who occasionally covers for the regular physician.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
B-2 Production Termination Act - Prohibits funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) after FY 1990 from being used to commence production of B-2 aircraft. Limits the use of funds already appropriated to DOD for the B-2 to: (1) the completion of the production of such aircraft which began with funds appropriated for a fiscal year before FY 1991; and (2) research, development, test, and evaluation, including flight testing. Directs the Secretary of Defense to preserve production facilities and tooling for production of such aircraft in order to maintain an option to produce such aircraft in the future.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Makes farm operators with gross incomes or farm entities with gross receipts exceeding specified amounts ineligible for agricultural payments (except disaster assistance) under the Agricultural Act of 1949.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Grants a Federal charter to the Retired Enlisted Association, Incorporated.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1990
Federal Victim's Service and Protection Act of 1990 - Title I: Federal Victim's Services and Protections Compliance - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish an evaluation system for law enforcement officers which rates such officers on their compliance with specified laws protecting victims of crimes; and (2) use such evaluation system to create standards governing services to victims and witnesses in Federal cases and to serve as a model to States and localities. Requires the Office for Victims of Crime to report periodically to the public, the Congress, and the President on victim protections and on compliance with this Act. Title II: The Federal Child Victim's Bill of Rights - Amends the Federal criminal code to require the court, at the earliest possible stage, to determine whether the appointment of a guardian ad litem for a child who is an alleged victim or witness in a criminal proceeding would be in the best interests of the child and if so, to appoint such guardian. Sets forth provisions with respect to the qualifications, duties and powers, and immunity of such guardian. Grants a child testifying at a criminal proceeding the right to be accompanied by an adult. Authorizes the court to order that a child's testimony be taken by closed-circuit television (TV) if it finds that the child is unable to testify in open court because of: (1) the child's persistent refusal to testify despite judicial requests to do so; (2) the child's total inability to communicate about the offense because of extreme fear, failure of memory, or other similar reasons; or (3) the substantial likelihood that the child will suffer substantial emotional trauma from so testifying. Specifies that the prosecuting attorney and the defense attorney shall be present in the room with the child and the child shall be subject to direct and cross-examination. Requires that: (1) the child's testimony be transmitted by closed-circuit TV into the courtroom; (2) the defendant be provided with the means of private, contemporaneous communication with his attorney during the testimony; and (3) the closed-circuit TV transmission relay the defendant's image into the room in which the child is testifying, and the child's testimony into the room in which the defendant is viewing the proceeding. Sets forth provisions with respect to videotaped depositions of child victims and child witnesses. Authorizes the court to permit the child to use anatomical dolls, puppets, drawings, or any other demonstrative device it deems appropriate to assist a child in testifying. Sets forth requirements with respect to competency examinations for child witnesses. Prohibits: (1) the release to the public of the name, or other identifying information about the child victim or child witness except as authorized by the court; and (2) the name and any identifying information from appearing in any public record. Grants the child victim or witness the same right to submit victim impact statements prior to sentencing as prescribed for an adult victim. Directs that child victims or witnesses be assisted by their court appointed guardian ad litem in preparing victim impact statements. Authorizes the court, in any proceeding where a child is called to give testimony, to designate the case as being of special public importance and to expedite the action. Requires the court to ensure a speedy trial and, in deciding whether or not to grant a continuance, to take into account the child's age and the potential adverse impact the delay may have on the child's well-being. Creates a hearsay exception for an out-of-court statement related to sexual abuse, physical abuse, or sexual exploitation of that or another child if the court finds that: (1) the statement possesses particularized guarantees of trustworthiness; (2) the proponent of the statement has given sufficient notice to adverse parties of the intent to introduce the statement; and (3) there is corroborative evidence of the statement or the truth of the statement. Encourages the use of multidisciplinary teams designed to assist child victims or child witnesses. Delineates the role of such teams. Specifies that there shall be no statute of limitations for the prosecution of any child physical abuse, sexual abuse, or sexual exploitation offense. Requires physicians, social workers, teachers, and specified other individuals who, while involved in any such capacities on Federal land or in a federally operated (or contracted) facility, have reason to suspect that a child is an abused or neglected child to immediately report to the appropriate authorities. Grants civil and criminal immunity to individuals who, acting in good faith, make such a report or otherwise provide information or assistance with a report investigation, or legal intervention. Makes failure to report a misdemeanor. Makes spousal privileges and the privileged nature of any communications between physician (or psychotherapist, psychologist, social worker, and any other health care provider) and patient inapplicable in any criminal proceeding after a report of child abuse, neglect, or sexual exploitation. Title III: Child Care Worker Employee Background Check - Requires: (1) each Federal agency and facility that hires, or contracts for hire, individuals involved with the provision of services to children under age 18 to assure that all existing and newly-hired employees undergo a criminal history background check; and (2) all existing staff to receive such checks within six months and prohibits the hiring of additional staff without a check having been initiated. Sets forth procedures with respect to the conduct of such background checks. Specifies that: (1) any conviction for a sex crime, an offense involving a child victim, or a drug offense shall be grounds for denying employment or for dismissal of an employee engaged in specified child care services; (2) an incident in which an individual has been charged, but where the charge has not yet been disposed of, shall permit the employee's suspension from any job-related contact with children until the case is resolved; and (3) convictions of other crimes may be considered if they bear on an individual's fitness to have responsibility for the safety and well-being of children. Sets forth requirements with respect to questions to be asked in employment applications, criminal history records checks, and access to (and the right to challenge the accuracy of) the criminal history report.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1990
Designates October 6, 1990, as German-American Day.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1990
Harvest of Peace Resolution - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should establish as a primary foreign and domestic policy objective the achievement of common security by: (1) negotiating agreements with the Soviet Union and urging other nations to reduce military forces and spending with the goal of halving worldwide military spending by the year 2000; (2) reducing military assistance and arms sales to developing nations; (3) encouraging the peaceful settlement of conflicts; (4) providing increased assistance to developing nations to overcome hunger and poverty, reduce debt burdens, promote human rights, ensure sustainable development, and protect the environment; (5) increasing support domestically for programs that address human needs; (6) helping defense industries and their employees convert to productive nondefense work; and (7) reducing the Federal deficit.
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 · 1 February 1990
Amends the National Labor Relations Act to make it an unfair labor practice for an employer to offer or grant: (1) permanent replacement employee status during a labor dispute; or (2) any employment preference to an individual who worked or indicated a willingness to work during a labor dispute over an employee who exercised specified rights during such dispute.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1990
Rape and Incest Victims' Choice Resolution - Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Federal Medicaid (title XIX of the Social Security Act) funding should be available for the abortion of pregnancies resulting from rape or incest if such acts, considering the physical and mental state of the women involved, are reported promptly.