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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 · 8 March 1990
Designates July 10, 1990, as Wyoming Centennial Day.
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 · 5 March 1990
Urges the President and the United States Trade Representative: (1) not to include civil air transport services under the General Agreement on Trade in Services that is being negotiated under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; nor (2) to require future negotiations to include such services under such Agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Black Lung Benefits Equity Act - Amends the Black Lung Benefits Act to provide that, when benefits are paid for at least two years after an initial determination of eligibility, repayment of such benefits will not be required even upon a final determination of ineligibility.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Office of Inspector General Law Enforcement Act of 1990 - Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to grant criminal investigators of the Offices of Inspector General who perform any duty of a law enforcement officer the authority to: (1) obtain and execute search and arrest warrants and serve subpoenas and summonses; (2) make felony arrests and arrests without warrant for offenses against the United States committed in their presence; and (3) carry and use firearms.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the 25th anniversary of the enactment of the Older Americans Act of 1965 and its successful implementation should be recognized; (2) contributions at all levels of the aging network should be acknowledged and commended; and (3) support for the Act and its primary goal should be reaffirmed.
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 · 28 February 1990
Allows Members of the House of Representatives to include in any franked mass mailing the telephone numbers of any State or local government agency or nonprofit private organization that can assist victims of rape, incest, spouse abuse, or child abuse.
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 · 27 February 1990
Declares it to be U.S. policy that there should be: (1) recognition and commemoration of the 25th anniversary of Federal aid to elementary and secondary education; (2) a renewed, sustained commitment to Federal aid to educating children who are disadvantaged members of special populations, with limited English proficiency, or with handicaps, and illiterate adults; and (3) a specified annual increase in funding for the program for disadvantaged children under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Designates March 30, 1990, as National Doctor's Day.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Designates May 16, 1990, as National Employee Health and Fitness Day.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1990
Benjamin Franklin Memorial Fire Service Bill of Rights Act - Title I: Minting of Benjamin Franklin National Memorial Commemorative Coin - Benjamin Franklin National Memorial Commemorative Coin Act - Provides for the sale of Benjamin Franklin commemorative coins at a surcharge of which 25 percent shall be paid to the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial and the remainder be distributed in specified percentages to the National Fire Center and Museum Account, the National Hero Scholarship Account, the Firefighter Tuition Assistance Account, the Hazardous Materials Response Computer Account, the Research and Education Account, and the Burn Research Grant Account of the Firefighter Assistance Trust Fund (Fund). Prohibits the issuance of such coins from resulting in any net cost to the Federal government. Title II: Fire Service Bill of Rights - Fire Service Bill of Rights Act - Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to establish a fire service bill of rights. Establishes the National Fire Center and Museum in the District of Columbia to provide information about the fire service and safety to the public and fire services. Establishes a National Hero Scholarship to fund the higher education of a child, spouse, or dependent parent of a deceased firefighter. Establishes a scholarship providing tuition assistance to firefighters for higher education in fire safety or protection. Authorizes the Administrator of the United States Fire Administration to use amounts in the Research and Education Account of the Fund to fund other specified programs under the Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 and the provision of information concerning surplus Federal property and infectious diseases pursuant to this Act. Establishes the Firefighter Assistance Trust Fund. Places the National Academy for Fire Prevention and Control within the United States Fire Administration. Directs the Administrator to provide States with funds from the Hazardous Materials Response Computer Account of the fund for distribution to local fire services that wish to purchase computer equipment. Directs the Administrator to make a grant from the Burn Research Grant Account of the Fund to one national firefighter's burn foundation dedicated to reducing burn injuries. Requires the Administrator to prepare and make available to fire services, upon request, a manual describing Federal procedures for disposing of surplus property and highlighting how fire services could obtain such property. Directs the Administrator to distribute to such marshals information on the infectious diseases to which firefighters are particularly vulnerable. Permits the Administrator, in certain circumstances, to award to a domestic firm a contract that, under the use of competitive procedures, would be awarded to a foreign firm.
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
Designates the week beginning on October 7, 1990, and ending on October 13, 1990, as Mental Illness Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1990
OSHA Criminal Penalty Reform Act - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to increase criminal penalties (fines and prison sentences) for specified violations. Makes criminal offenses, with specified penalties under OSHA, willful violations of OSHA standards, rules, or regulations if they: (1) result in serious bodily injury to an employee; or (2) recklessly endanger an employee. Makes corporate directors, officers, or agents of employers liable for the same penalties as employers directly involved in OSHA violations, if such individuals are found to have willfully authorized, ordered, or acquiesced in such violations. Prohibits penalties or fines from being paid for such individuals from corporate funds. Provides that nothing in OSHA shall preclude State and local law enforcement agencies from conducting criminal prosecutions under State or local laws.
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 the second Sunday in October 1990 as National Children's Day.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1990
Federal Used Property for Domestic Use Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to authorize the Administrator of the General Services Administration to make available to foreign governments or international relief agencies for humanitarian relief purposes nonlethal surplus personal property. Requires transfer of such property to the Secretary of State for distribution. Repeals provisions authorizing the Secretary of Defense to make available for humanitarian relief purposes any nonlethal excess supplies of the Department of Defense.
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
Grants a Federal charter to the Retired Enlisted Association, Incorporated.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Designates March 25, 1990, as Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Designates the period of November 18 through November 24, 1990, as National Adoption Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1990
Medicare Supplemental Insurance Reform Act of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit a Medicare supplemental policy from being sold in any State if the policy's premium exceeds its premium for the previous year by a percentage greater than the projected percentage increase in Medicare costs, unless the premium increase has been approved by the State pursuant to a specified process providing for the detailed review of the reasonableness of such increase. Prohibits the sale of a Medicare supplemental policy which has neither been certified by the Secretary of Health and Human Services as meeting NAIC (National Association of Insurance Commissioners) Model Standards and returning a specified percentage of premiums as benefits, nor determined by a State regulatory program to be returning the requisite percentage of premiums as benefits. Increases the percentage of premiums which must be returned to policyholders as benefits. Requires that each State having a Medicare supplemental policy regulatory program maintain and make available to consumers a listing of the most recent year's ratio of benefits provided to, and premiums collected for, each policy sold in the State.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1990
Redesignates a Federal building in Birmingham, Alabama, as the Robert S. Vance Federal Building.
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 · 1 February 1990
Medicaid Frail Elderly Community Care Amendments of 1990 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to permit States to provide Medicaid coverage of community care for functionally disabled elderly individuals. Considers individuals who are unable to perform at least two daily living activities or who have Alzheimer's disease and require substantial assistance or supervision as functionally disabled individuals. Defines a covered community care setting as a nonresidential setting or a residential setting in which more than two unrelated adults reside and personal services are provided. Requires that community care be provided to each client in accordance with an individual community care plan (ICCP) prepared and periodically reviewed and revised by a community care case manager on the basis of the manager's consultation with the client and a comprehensive functional assessment of a client's needs conducted by an interdisciplinary team before his or her receipt of care and at least annually thereafter. Sets a ceiling on Medicaid payments to States for community care. Reduces Federal Medicaid payments to States that reduce their Medicaid community care expenditures below their FY 1990 expenditures for such care. Requires that community care and community care settings meet requirements, to be developed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, concerning client rights, the quality of such care, and safety and sanitation. Imposes specified minimum requirements on such care and settings, including certain Medicaid requirements currently applicable to nursing facilities. Requires that community care settings: (1) disclose persons having an ownership or control interest in the setting; and (2) exclude a person from such interest if he or she has been excluded from the Medicaid program or had an interest in a community care setting repeatedly found to have provided substandard care. Makes: (1) the Secretary responsible for certifying that State community care providers and settings comply with Medicaid requirements; and (2) States responsible for certifying that other community care providers and settings comply with Medicaid requirements. Requires that providers and settings be certified annually. Bases community care setting certification on an annual, unannounced survey. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop a protocol for conducting surveys; and (2) conduct sample surveys of community care settings, within two months of State surveys, to test the adequacy of State surveys. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a special survey of a setting or a review of a provider when there is reason to question its compliance with this Act. Prohibits the use of surveyors who have an interest in the provider or setting being surveyed. Requires States and the Secretary to investigate complaints against providers or settings concerning violations of this Act's requirements. Requires each State to provide, through the State agency responsible for the certification of such providers and settings, for the receipt, review, and investigation of allegations of client neglect and abuse, and of misappropriation of client property by providers. Requires that: (1) certain information regarding providers and settings and their compliance with this Act's requirements be made available to the public; and (2) State Medicaid fraud and abuse control units be given access to provider or setting survey and certification information. Requires that when the Secretary or State determines that a provider's or setting's deficiencies immediately jeopardize the client's health and safety, immediate action be taken to remove the jeopardy and correct the deficiencies or the provider's or setting's participation in Medicaid be terminated. Authorizes the Secretary or States to terminate a community care provider's participation in the Medicaid program and to impose a civil monetary penalty for failure to meet this Act's requirements. Sets forth the Secretary's responsibilities relating to community care requirements. Requires that State Medicaid payment rates for community care be reasonable and adequate to meet the costs of providing such care efficiently, economically, and in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and standards. Prohibits the coverage of substandard community care, penalties imposed for such care, and community care furnished by family members.
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 · 1 February 1990
Medicaid Hospice Amendments of 1990 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require States to provide Medicaid coverage of hospice care.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1990
Requires cost-of-living adjustments to take effect for FY 1991 for persons receiving: (1) civil service retirement pay from the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (2) military retired pay; or (3) an annuity under a veterans survivors' benefits program. Prohibits any reduction or suspension of such adjustments under any presidential order or any other provision of law, except applicable Federal civil service retirement or armed forces provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1990
Requires cost-of-living adjustments to take effect in FY 1991 for persons receiving military retired pay or an annuity under a veterans survivors' benefits program. Prohibits any reduction or suspension of such adjustments under any presidential order or any other provision of law, except applicable Federal armed forces provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Attendant Allowance Adjustment Act - Revises the maximum amount the Secretary of Labor may pay for compensation for services of attendants for disabled Federal employees receiving workers' compensation to the amount paid monthly for attendant services under the applicable State Medicaid plan. Requires biennial cost-of-living adjustments in such compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Provides for all Federal civilian and military retirees to receive the full cost-of-living adjustment in annuities payable under Federal retirement systems for FY 1991. (Includes benefits payable under the Civil Service Retirement and Disability System, military retirement and survivor benefit programs, the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System, the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and railroad retirement programs.)
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 · 30 January 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the current inquiries into the activities of the British West Midlands Crime Squad must be extended to cover the period of the Birmingham bombings of November 21, 1974; (2) the British Prime Minister should call upon the British Home Secretary to reopen the case of the Birmingham Six (those convicted for the bombings); (3) the convictions of such individuals should be quashed; and (4) the President should raise with the British Prime Minister concern for the basic human rights violations and miscarriage of justice arising from the continued incarceration of such individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) it would be inequitable for Civil Service retirees to receive smaller cost-of-living adjustments to their pensions than Social Security retirement beneficiaries; and (2) any budget adopted by the Congress should provide for full cost-of-living adjustments for all individuals receiving a Federal retirement pension or benefit.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1990
Medicare Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Payment Amendments of 1990 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish uniform national fee schedule payment rates for certified registered nurse anesthetist services.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1990
Designates April 22 through April 28, 1990, as National Crime Victims' Rights Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1990
Medicare Benefit Improvements Act of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover screening mammographies for women over age 34 at a frequency which varies on the basis of a woman's age and risk of developing breast cancer. Covers up to 80 hours of annual in-home respite care furnished to an individual who has incurred expenses equal to a specified Medicare Part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) cost-sharing limit and, for the preceding three months, has been unable to perform at least two specified daily living activities without the assistance of an uncompensated primary caregiver with whom he or she resides. Covers nursing care and home health aide services as home health services if such services are needed less than seven days each week or are needed for up to 38 consecutive days. Amends part A (Hospital Insurance) of the Medicare program to create an extension period of hospice care for terminally ill beneficiaries which is to follow the two 90-day periods and the subsequent 30-day period of hospice care coverage currently provided in an individual's lifetime. Increases the Medicare part B premium.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide financial assistance to the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars for construction and related costs of a student residence and classroom building in Washington, D.C. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1993.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Government Printing Office Improvement Act of 1990 - Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of appropriated funds by any executive branch entity to: (1) establish any in-plant printing facility unless such facility has been specifically authorized by law; or (2) procure any printing or other information products and services related to the production of Government publications (including forms) from commercial sources unless such procurement is by or through the Government Printing Office (GPO). Requires printing and other information products and services authorized by law, which the Public Printer is not able or equipped to do at GPO, to be produced elsewhere under contracts made by the Public Printer with the approval of the Joint Committee on Printing. Requires the Superintendent of Documents to include data on information services in the comprehensive index of public documents. Authorizes the Superintendent to allow depository libraries access to information services subject to agreement between the Superintendent and the Government component issuing the service on the terms and conditions of access, including cost sharing arrangements.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Rose Kushner Medicare Screening Mammography Act of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover screening mammographies for women over age 34 at a frequency which varies on the basis of a woman's age and risk of developing breast cancer. Finances such coverage by increasing the Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) premium.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Department of Environmental Protection Act - Title I: Establishment of Department of Environmental Protection - Redesignates the Environmental Protection Agency as the Department of Environmental Protection, an executive department to be administered by a Secretary of Environmental Protection. Establishes within the Department: (1) an Office of International Environmental Affairs; (2) an Office of Enforcement; and (3) a Center for Environmental Statistics (Center). Encourages the Secretary to assist the Secretary of State in negotiating and administering international environmental protection agreements and participating in the work of international environmental protection organizations. Encourages the Secretary to continue the Department's role in conducting international environmental research and providing technical assistance to other nations to improve environmental quality. Requires the Secretary to establish an Advisory Committee on Environmental Statistics to advise the Center and the Congress on the collection and dissemination of statistical data. Directs the Secretary to maintain a comprehensive guide to the Department's environmental and public health information services. Requires the Secretary to establish an Advisory Committee on Public Access to provide recommendations on improving public access to departmental information. Directs the Secretary to: (1) study the use of computer telecommunications and other means to provide for access to such information; and (2) permit the reduction or waiver of user fees for such access. Title II: Commission on Environmental Administration - Establishes the Commission on Environmental Administration to analyze and make recommendations on specified reorganization and management issues in the Department. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Boot Camp Prison Demonstration Program Act of 1990 - Directs the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Prisons, to establish four military-style boot camp prisons within the Federal prison system. Requires the Attorney General to ensure that such prisons provide educational and counseling programs as part of the inmates' confinement. Amends the Federal criminal code to provide such prisons as a sentencing option and an alternative to conventional prisons for defendants who: (1) are sentenced to 12 to 16 months in prison; (2) are under 25 years of age; (3) are able-bodied; (4) have been convicted of a serious but nonviolent offense; (5) have no serious prior criminal history; and (6) consent to such confinement. Credits an inmate placed in a prison boot camp with three days toward completion of the sentence for each day served in such camp. Terminates such prisons five years after this Act's enactment. Directs the Attorney General to evaluate such prisons and report to the Congress within four and one-half years with respect to the efficacy of such prisons with an assessment of: (1) recidivism rates of defendants sentenced to boot camp prisons as compared to similar defendants not sentenced to such prisons; and (2) the cost effectiveness of such prisons as compared to conventional prisons. Authorizes the Attorney General, after consultation with the Secretary of Defense, to use closed military facilities for such prisons. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Extends nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation treatment) to products of Czechoslovakia for a five-year period. Requires a bilateral commercial agreement to be in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Makes supplemental FY 1990 appropriations for the Department of Health and Human Services' low-income home energy assistance program for States with specified home heating cost increases.