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Bill· HRH.R. 4444 (100th)open

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit tax-free sales of certain fuels, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1988

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit, with limited exceptions, the imposition of the excise tax on diesel and aviation fuels in connection with sales to a purchaser for use in public intercity, local, or school buses or for statutorily nontaxable uses (including off-highway business uses, State or local government uses, and shipping uses). Sets forth registration requirements for both sellers and purchasers participating in exempt sales. Establishes reporting requirements for producers and importers and penalties for failure to report. Permits expedited procedures for refunds or income tax credits with respect to retail sales of diesel and aviation fuel employed in nontaxable uses. Provides for the payment of interest in connection with such refunds. Treats marine retailers of taxable fuel as producers for purposes of the excise tax on diesel and aviation fuels.

Bill· HRH.R. 4446 (100th)open

Drug-Free America Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1988

Drug-Free America Act of 1988 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to establish criteria for the imposition of the death penalty when, during the course of a continuing criminal enterprise drug offense, an individual knowingly causes the death of another. Requires the Government, for such offense, to serve notice upon the defendant a reasonable time before trial or acceptance of a plea, disclosing that it intends to seek the death penalty and the aggravating factors upon which it will rely. Requires a separate sentencing hearing before a jury, or the court upon motion by the defendant, when the defendant is found guilty or pleads guilty to such offense. Allows the defendant and the Government to present any information relevant to sentencing without regard to the rules of evidence, but permits information to be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading of the jury. Directs the court, or the jury by unanimous vote, to impose the death penalty upon finding that such sentence is justified based on consideration of both aggravating and mitigating factors. Sets forth some mitigating factors to be considered by the jury or the court when imposing its sentence. Includes as aggravating factors: (1) the intentional nature of the act which resulted in the victim's death; (2) previous convictions for offenses for which life imprisonment or death is authorized; and (3) the especially heinous, cruel, or depraved nature of the offense. Requires the court to instruct the jury not to consider the race, color, national origin, creed, or sex of the defendant in its consideration of the sentence. Allows the court to impose a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for such offenses when the death penalty is not imposed. Establishes procedures for appeal from a death sentence. Requires the Court of Appeals, upon consideration of the record and the information and procedures of the sentencing hearing, to affirm the decision if: (1) the sentence was not imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or arbitrariness; and (2) the information supports the finding of aggravating factors or the absence of mitigating factors. Requires the court to provide a written explanation of its determination. Provides increased criminal penalties for the possession of a mixture or substance which contains cocaine base (crack). Establishes recordkeeping and reporting requirements for the manufacture, distribution, importation, and exportation of listed precursor and essential chemicals. Prohibits the distribution of such chemicals unless the recipient provides a certification of lawful use and proper identification. Establishes exemptions from such requirements: (1) for the distribution of such chemicals between agents or employees within a single facility; (2) for the delivery of such chemicals to or by common carriers; (3) if the Attorney General determines that such requirements are not necessary for the enforcement of this Act; and (4) if products containing such chemicals are lawfully marketed under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Establishes an import-export permit requirement for listed precursors and a declaration requirement for listed essential chemicals. Includes as precursor chemicals: (1) N-Acetylanthranilic acid; (2) Anthranilic acid; (3) Ergotamine tartrate; (4) Ergonovine maleate; (5) Phenylacetic acid; (6) Ephedrine; (7) Pseudoephedrine; (8) Benzyl cyanide; (9) Benzyl chloride; and (10) Piperidine. Includes as essential chemicals: (1) Potassium permanganate; (2) Acetic anhydride; (3) Acetone; and (4) Ethyl ether. Establishes a mechanism and criteria for adding or deleting chemicals from such lists. Prohibits the transfer of commercial tableting and encapsulating machines unless a certification of lawful use and proper identification are provided. Establishes reporting requirements for such transfers. Establishes criminal penalties for the unlawful: (1) possession, manufacture, distribution, sale, importation, or exportation of a precursor or essential chemical; and (2) possession, manufacture, distribution, or importation of drug manufacturing equipment, tableting or encapsulating machines, and gelatin capsules. Subjects all listed precursor and essential chemicals, drug manufacturing equipment, tableting and encapsulating machines, and gelatin capsules which have been imported, exported, manufactured, possessed, or distributed in violation of such Act (as well as all conveyances and equipment) to forfeiture to the United States. Directs the Attorney General to maintain an active program, both domestic and international, to curtail the diversion of precursor and essential chemicals. Grants the Attorney General subpoena power with respect to precursor and essential chemicals. Provides additional civil penalties for certain Controlled Substances Act violations involving heroin or cocaine. States that individuals who have been convicted of violations involving a controlled substance, or of criminal violations regarding certain reporting or recordkeeping requirements, shall be ineligible for any license or permit issued under the authority of the United States for a specified period of time. Provides that any permit or license held at the time of the conviction shall be revoked. Amends the Public Health Service Act to require States receiving Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Mental Health Services Block Grants to make grants for demonstration projects which provide treatment services to expectant mothers. Establishes in the Executive Office of the President the Office of the Director of National Drug Control Policy to be headed by a Director, who shall be responsible for: (1) developing, reviewing, implementing, and enforcing U.S. policy with respect to drug control and abuse; (2) directing and coordinating U.S. efforts to halt the importation, manufacture, distribution, and use of illicit drugs; and (3) preparing a National and International Drug Control Strategy. Terminates the National Drug Enforcement Policy Board 90 days after the appointment of the Director. Makes conforming amendments to the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 and the Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1996. Makes supplemental appropriations for Coast Guard drug enforcement activities. Authorizes Coast Guard vessels and aircraft to fire at or into vessels which are liable to seizure or examination that do not bring-to after being ordered to do so by an authorized vessel or aircraft. Grants the commanding officer of the authorized vessel or aircraft immunity for such actions. Allows the Commandant of the Coast Guard to indemnify members or employees of the Coast Guard against any claim arising out of an act committed within the scope of their official drug enforcement duties. Amends the Controlled Substances Act to extend jurisdiction over possession offenses to U.S. vessels and aircraft (and vessels and aircraft subject to the operation of the law of the United States). Subjects any U.S. citizen or resident on board any vessel to Federal criminal penalties for manufacturing, possessing, or distributing a controlled substance. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the suppression of international narcotics trafficking is a major security objective of the United States and the most important national security objective within the Western Hemisphere. Allows the Secretary of Defense to provide equipment to, or assign members of the armed forces to assist, foreign governments in the enforcement of drug laws. Provides for the assignment of members of the armed forces to assist Federal agencies in drug interdiction activities. Requires the Secretary to prepare a plan to implement such provision. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to evaluate alternatives to the use of deadly force as a means of forcing suspected drug-smuggling aircraft entering the United States to land. Requires the Secretary to submit such recommendations to the Congress in the form of proposed legislation. Directs the Secretary to submit proposed legislation to the Congress relating to special restrictions and inspections for vessels and aircraft arriving from drug-producing countries. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to modify the factors to be considered by the President when determining whether to certify a country as having cooperated with United States drug interdiction programs. Directs the President to consider whether such countries have taken the steps necessary to eliminate the laundering of drug-related profits. Amends Federal law to include electronic fund transfers within the definition of "money instruments." Amends the National Forest System Drug Control Act of 1986 to provide additional law enforcement authority for the Forest Service in dealing with Controlled Substances Act violations by: (1) removing the limitation on the number of Service personnel who may exercise specified law enforcement powers; and (2) permitting the exercise of such powers by Service personnel outside of the boundaries of the National Forest System. Grants the Service authority, with respect to the specified law enforcement powers, to: (1) coordinate investigations and enforcement activities and prepare national and regional strategy plans in coordination with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and (2) cooperate with the Attorney General in carrying out the seizure and forfeiture provisions of the Controlled Substances Act as such activities relate to the manufacture, distribution, or dispensing of controlled substances within the System. Establishes criminal penalties for polluting Federal lands while manufacturing, distributing, or dispensing a controlled substance. Amends the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 to grant the Postal Service certain seizure and law enforcement authority with respect to Controlled Substances Act violations. States that all moneys and proceeds from such seizures shall be deposited in the Postal Service Fund (and later withdrawn and paid into the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund). States that any person convicted of a drug-related offense shall be ineligible for any form of student assistance provided under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Requires any person applying for such assistance to file a statement with the institution certifying that the person has not been convicted of a drug-related offense. Requires the Secretary of Education to prescribe methods for verifying such statements. Amends the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 to require State educational agencies to distribute funds for State and local programs for drug abuse education and prevention programs on the basis of relative enrollments in public and private, nonprofit schools (currently, on the basis of the relative number of children in the school-age population) within an area. Requires local applications for funds for a three-year period to include a description of: (1) the extent and nature of the current drug and alcohol problem in the schools of the applicant; (2) the applicant's drug and alcohol policy; and (3) how the applicant will monitor program effectiveness. Requires applicants to submit a progress report to State educational agencies for the preceding two years in order to receive funds for the third year. Requires the report to show reasonable progress toward accomplishing program objectives or a modified plan to meet such objectives. Requires States to report annually to the Secretary with specified information on programs funded under this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1991 to carry out the provisions of such Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 to the building and facilities account, Federal Prison System, for the construction, acquisition, remodeling, and equipping of prisons. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the National Institute of Justice should conduct a research project to obtain, on a voluntary basis, and analyze urine samples from individuals who are arrested to determine whether they use controlled substances. Amends the Federal criminal code to make regular drug testing and refrainment from any use of controlled substances mandatory conditions of parole and probation. Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require Drug Law Enforcement Program grant recipients to provide additional matching funds. Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to exclude any individual who uses or is addicted to illegal drugs from the definition of an individual with handicaps, for purposes of specified provisions. Amends specified Federal law which prohibits discrimination against Federal employees or applicants for Federal employment to provide that such prohibition shall not be construed to permit or require the employment of an individual who uses illegal drugs.

Bill· HRH.R. 4302 (100th)referred

Federal Law Enforcement Officers Death Penalty Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1988

Federal Law Enforcement Officers Death Penalty Act of 1988 - Amends the Federal criminal code to subject any person who is found guilty of the first degree murder of a Federal law enforcement officer, or certain other Federal officials or employees, to the penalty of death. Establishes procedures for the imposition of the death penalty in such cases. Provides that no person who was less than 18 years of age may be sentenced to death. Sets forth mitigating and aggravating factors to be considered by the jury in determining whether the death sentence will be imposed. Requires the Government to serve notice upon the defendant a reasonable time before trial or acceptance of a plea that it intends to seek the death penalty, as well as notice of the aggravating factors upon which it will rely. Provides that no presentence report shall be prepared in such cases. Requires a separate sentencing hearing before a jury or the court (upon motion by the defendant) when the defendant is convicted and the Government has filed notice that it intends to seek the death penalty. Allows the Government and the defendant to present any information relevant to a mitigating or aggravating factor without regard to the rules of evidence, but permits information to be excluded where its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of creating unfair prejudice, confusing the issues, or misleading the jury. Conditions imposition of the death penalty on a unanimous finding by the jury or, if there is no jury, the court, that: (1) the aggravating factors found to exist sufficiently outweigh any mitigating factor found to exist; or (2) in the absence of a mitigating factor, the aggravating factors alone are sufficient to justify a sentence of death. Requires the court to instruct the jury not to consider the race, color, national origin, creed, or sex of the defendant in its consideration of the death sentence. Directs the court to impose the death sentence upon a finding that such sentence is justified. Establishes procedures for appeal from a death sentence. Requires the court of appeals, upon consideration of the record and the information and procedures of the sentencing hearing, and any special finding, to affirm the decision if: (1) the sentence was not imposed under influence of passion, prejudice, or arbitrariness; and (2) the information supports the special finding of the existence of an aggravating factor. Requires the court to provide a written explanation of its determination. Establishes procedures for the implementation of the death sentence.

Bill· HRH.R. 4271 (100th)open

Amended Military Construction Authorization Act, 1989

United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1988

Amended Military Construction Authorization Act, 1989 - Title I: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design activities, and to improve existing military family housing units (waiving maximum amounts per unit in some locations) in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after FY 1988 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering services and construction designs, and military family housing functions. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Extends the authorization for certain FY 1985, 1986, and 1987 military construction projects. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design activities, and improve existing military family housing units (waiving maximum amounts per unit in some locations) in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1988 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Navy. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design activities and improve existing military family housing units (waiving maximum amounts per unit in some locations) in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1988 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Air Force. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Extends the authorization for certain prior-year military construction projects. Title IV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire three family housing units at classified locations for a specified amount and to improve existing military family housing units in a specified amount. Authorizes the Secretary to contribute funds to the Government of the Netherlands for the U.S. share of the cost of a certain international education project in Brunssum, Netherlands. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 to authorize the Secretary to carry out military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law for conforming storage facilities. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for fiscal years beginning after FY 1988 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program, and authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal years after FY 1988 for such contributions. Title VI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1988 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and Reserve forces in specified amounts. Title VII: Expiration of Authorizations; Effective Dates - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles I through V of this Act on October 1, 1990, or the date of enactment of the Military Construction Authorization Act for fiscal year 1991, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Title VIII: General Provisions - Increases from 20 to 32 years the permissible length of long-term facilities contracts authorized to be entered into by the Secretary of the military department concerned. (Such contracts provide for the provision of ancillary services on or near a military installation.) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 to allow military rental housing program agreements to include provisions which allow for free utilities, trash collection, and entomological services to be provided for occupants of rental housing on Government land to the same extent that these services are provided to occupants of Government-owned housing. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make grants or provide other appropriate community planning assistance required by a publicly-announced planned major reduction in DOD spending affecting the community, or by the encroachment of surrounding civilian community on an installation, if the Secretary determines that such assistance is necessary. Requires a planned reduction to involve the loss of at least 1,000 or more full-time DOD and contractor employee positions in a community during a five-year peroid in order to qualify for such assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to provide community planning assistance in specified amounts for communities located near newly-established Light Infantry Division Posts and Navy Strategic Dispersal Program homeports. Terminates such authority on September 30, 1991.

Bill· HRH.R. 4230 (100th)open

Omnibus Antidrug Abuse Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1988

Omnibus Antidrug Abuse Act of 1988 - Title I: Drug Enforcement and Personnel Enhancement - Subtitle A: Asset Forfeiture Fund Amendments Act of 1988 - Department of Justice and Department of Treasury Assets Forfeiture Fund Amendments Act of 1988 - States that expenditures out of the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund and the Customs Forfeiture Fund shall not be scored as outlays which either increase or decrease the Federal budget deficit. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide that the Customs Forfeiture Fund shall be available to the U.S. Customs Service permanently. Authorizes the transfer of funds from the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund to the Building and Facilities account of the Federal prison system for the construction of correctional institutions, and to the Support of United States Prisoners in non-Federal Institutions account of the Department of Justice. Allows the Attorney General, with respect to the DOJ Assets Forfeiture Fund, and the Commissioner of Customs, with respect to the Customs Forfeiture Fund, to exempt the procurement of supplies and services under such funds if necessary to maintain the security and confidentiality of related criminal or civil investigations. Amends the Controlled Substances Act to require the Attorney General to ensure the equitable transfer of forfeited property to the appropriate State and local law enforcement agency or prosecutor's office. Subtitle B: State and Local Narcotics Control Assistance Act of 1988 - Part A: Establishment of the Bureau of Justice Assistance - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to: (1) develop an annual State and Local Strategic Drug Control Plan; and (2) publish and disseminate information on the condition and progress of drug control activities. Requires the Bureau to: (1) coordinate Federal, State, and local government efforts toward a national drug control strategy; (2) serve as the coordinating Federal agency with respect to the submission of State and local applications for grant-in-aid programs under the Antidrug Abuse Act of 1986; and (3) maintain a liaison with Federal agencies having drug control authority. Part B: Drug Control Formula Grant Program - Authorizes the Bureau to make grants to States having approved statewide drug control strategies for: (1) Zero Tolerance Enforcement Programs that effect heightened public awareness of and support for local drug control enforcement projects; (2) Multi-Jurisdictional Task Force Programs; (3) Drug Control Law Enforcement Training Programs; (4) Multi-Jurisdictional Intelligence and Data Sharing Programs; (5) Judicial Drug Control Training Programs; (6) Prison Treatment Programs; (7) Drug Treatment for Youthful Offenders Programs; and (8) Statewide and National Intelligence Systems Programs. Requires the executive officer of each participating State to designate a State drug control office to: (1) prepare applications to obtain funds under this Program; and (2) administer such funds. Requires the chief executive officer of each participating State to maintain a State Drug Control Board to: (1) analyze the drug control problems within the State; (2) prepare a statewide drug control strategy; (3) receive, review, and approve (or disapprove) applications from State agencies and units of local governments; (4) prepare annual reports containing assessments of the State drug control program; and (5) assure fund accountability, auditing, and evaluation of programs and projects funded under the Program. Permits the establishment of local drug control offices to prepare and coordinate drug control strategies and implement the provisions of this Act at the local level. States that each jurisdiction which is eligible to have a local drug control office shall establish local drug control boards to: (1) analyze the drug control problem within that jurisdiction; (2) prepare a jurisdiction-wide drug control strategy; (3) receive, review, and approve (or disapprove) applications from units of local government; and (4) prepare annual reports containing assessments of the drug control program. Directs the Bureau to establish a National Drug Control Assistance Coordination Board to provide for the representation of drug control agencies at the Federal, State, and local levels for the purpose of articulating national drug control priorities, programs, and resource needs. Sets forth: (1) State application procedures under the Program; (2) certain limitations on the use of Program funds for administrative expenses; and (3) procedures for the allocation and distribution of Program funds. Part C: Drug Control Discretionary Grant Program - Authorizes the Bureau to develop programs and make grants to public agencies and private nonprofit organizations for technical assistance, training, and national scope and demonstration projects in support of any of the purposes specified in part B of this subsection (Drug Control Formula Grant Program), and any purpose specified in the strategic drug control plan developed by the Bureau. Sets forth application requirements with respect to such program and procedures for the allocation and distribution of program funds. Provides that grants under this program shall be for a period not to exceed three years (may be extended for up to two years under certain circumstances). Part D: Targeted State and Local Strategic Drug Control Plan - Requires the Bureau to complete an annual National Strategic Drug Control Plan which targets the most critical drug control problems that are most effectively resolved at the State and local levels. Part E: Miscellaneous Amendments to Justice Assistance Act of 1984 - Allows Criminal Justice Facility Construction grants to cover 80 percent of the estimated costs of approved construction. (Current law allows such grants to cover 20 percent of such costs.) Part F: Administrative Provisions - Authorizes the Bureau to establish such rules, regulations, and procedures as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this subtitle. Directs the Bureau to prepare a "Program Brief" and an "Implementation Guide" for each of the programs and projects contained in the formula grant programs. States that the functions, powers, and duties specified in this subsection to be carried out by the Bureau shall not be transferred elsewhere in the Department of Justice unless specifically authorized by the Congress. Allows the Bureau to arrange with and reimburse other Federal departments and agencies for the performance of functions under this subtitle only if the funds are to benefit the units of State and local government. Sets forth program and project evaluation and reporting requirements. Part G: Funding - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991 to carry out the grant programs authorized under this subtitle. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for salaries and expenses of the Bureau. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991 for grants to State and local governments for the construction of correctional facilities. Part H: Relationship with the Justice Assistance Act of 1984 - Directs the Bureau to administer any funds available to it under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 in such a manner as to compensate for the increase in cases resulting from apprehensions and accelerated prosecutions of persons accused of drug trafficking, possession, and related offenses. Encourages State and local jurisdictions to participate in funding under this Act. Subtitle C: Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act of 1988 - Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act of 1988 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to establish recordkeeping and reporting requirements for the manufacture, distribution, importation, and exportation of listed precursor and essential chemicals. Prohibits the distribution of such chemicals unless the recipient provides a certification of lawful use and proper identification. Establishes exemptions from such requirements: (1) for the distribution of such chemicals between agents or employees within a single facility; (2) for the delivery of such chemicals to or by common carriers; (3) where the Attorney General determines that such requirements are not necessary for the enforcement of this Act; and (4) where products containing such chemicals are lawfully marketed under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Establishes an import-export notice and declaration requirement for listed precursor and essential chemicals. Includes as precursor chemicals: (1) N-Acetylanthranilic acid; (2) Anthranilic acid; (3) Ergotamine tartrate; (4) Ergonovine maleate; (5) Phenylacetic acid; (6) Ephedrine; (7) Pseudoephedrine; (8) Benzyl cyanide; (9) Benzyl chloride; and (10) Piperidine. Includes as essential chemicals: (1) Potassium permanganate; (2) Acetic anhydride; (3) Acetone; and (4) Ethyl ether. Establishes a mechanism and criteria for adding or deleting chemicals from such lists. Prohibits the transfer of commercial tableting and encapsulating machines unless a certification of lawful use and proper identification are provided. Establishes reporting requirements for such transfers. Establishes criminal penalties for the unlawful: (1) possession, manufacture, distribution, sale, importation, or exportation of a precursor or essential chemical; and (2) possession, manufacture, distribution, or importation of drug manufacturing equipment, tableting or encapsulating machines, and gelatin capsules. Subjects all listed precursor and essential chemicals, drug manufacturing equipment, tableting and encapsulating machines, and gelatin capsules which have been imported, exported, manufactured, possessed, or distributed in violation of such Act (as well as all conveyances and equipment) to forfeiture to the United States. Directs the Attorney General to maintain an active program, both domestic and international, to curtail the diversion of precursor and essential chemicals. Grants the Attorney General subpoena power with respect to precursor and essential chemicals. Subtitle D: Comprehensive Federal Law Enforcement Officer Improvements Act of 1988 - Comprehensive Federal Law Enforcement Officer Improvements Act of 1988 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to increase the basic level of public safety officer death benefits. Removes the requirement that parent beneficiaries be dependents of the deceased officer. Establishes the National Advisory Commission on Law Enforcement to study the methods and rates of compensation of law enforcement officers. Requires the Commission to report the results of such study to the President and the Congress within six months of enactment of this Act. Subtitle E: Deportation of Convicted Foreign Drug Inmates - Violent Criminal Alien Deportation Act - Allows the Attorney General to order the deportation of any alien convicted of an aggravated violent felony. Allows the District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service for the district in which the alien was sentenced and convicted to issue the order of deportation on behalf of the Attorney General. Sets forth procedures for the appeal of such a deportation order. Subtitle F: Customs Enforcement Amendments Act of 1988 - Customs Enforcement Amendments Act of 1988 - Requires the pilot of any aircraft, prior to departing the United States, to comply with advance notification and reporting requirements prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce. Establishes civil penalties for violations of such requirements. Increases the penalties for failing to declare controlled substances brought into the United States. States that a declaration of forfeiture by a customs officer shall have the same force and effect as a final decree and order of forfeiture in a judicial forfeiture proceeding in a U.S. District Court. Provides that title in such forfeited property shall be deemed to vest in the United States free of any liens or encumbrances (with certain exceptions). Allows the Secretary of the Treasury to retain forfeited property for official use. Allows the Secretary to transfer forfeited property to any Federal agency, to any State or local law enforcement agency, or to any foreign government that cooperates with the U.S. Customs Service in joint enforcement operations. States that any person who is convicted of a criminal offense under any law administered or enforced by the Customs Service involving the Bank Secrecy Act, Money Laundering Act, or the Controlled Substances Act shall be fined the reasonable costs of the investigation and prosecution. Authorizes the Secretary of State to make regulations prescribing procedures for marking the passports of those convicted of controlled substances offenses. Provides for the revocation of the passports of those convicted of a controlled substances violation, or any criminal violation of the Bank Secrecy Act or the Money Laundering Act. Establishes procedures for the reissuance of such passports. Grants the Secretary of the Treasury certain powers (including the power to subpoena witnesses and compel their testimony) which are necessary to the enforcement of laws relating to the importation or exportation of prohibited merchandise. Amends the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute to include in the definition of "racketeering activity" acts relating to: (1) the illegal exportation of munitions; (2) the illegal exportation of merchandise; (3) criminal violations of the Trading With the Enemy Act; or (4) criminal sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to provide civil penalties for failing to report the transfer of ownership of an aircraft to the Secretary as required under such Act. Subjects such aircraft to seizure and forfeiture. Subtitle G: Authorization of Additional Appropriations for Drug Enforcement Personnel, Fiscal Year 1989 - Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1989 for the: (1) Coast Guard for drug enforcement personnel; (2) U.S. Customs Service for drug enforcement personnel; (3) Immigration and Naturalization Service Border Patrol for drug interdiction personnel; (4) Immigration and Naturalization Service for criminal investigator personnel, and for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force in New York City; (5) Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; (6) Drug Enforcement Administration; (7) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for drug enforcement personnel; (8) U.S. Marshals Service; and (9) Federal Prison System. Subtitle H: Miscellaneous Law Enforcement Provisions - Authorizes rewards to be paid for assisting in, or furnishing information which leads to, the capture of an escaped Federal prisoner or a person who has violated parole or probation or defaulted on bail bond. Makes it unlawful for any person to carry a dangerous weapon into a Federal courthouse. Authorizes the Attorney General to make payments for the support of U.S. prisoners in non-Federal institutions. Title II: International Narcotics Control and Assistance to Foreign Countries - Subtitle A: International Drug Eradication Improvement Program - Establishes within the Department of State, under the Office of International Narcotics Matters, an International Special Operations Drug Eradication Squadron to: (1) provide special assistance to drug source countries who request drug eradication assistance; and (2) participate in joint international drug eradication operations in drug source countries. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for the International Narcotics Matters program at the Department of State for the procurement and maintenance of aircraft and for Squadron personnel. Directs the Secretary of State to establish guidelines and procedures to govern the deployment of the Squadron. Subtitle B: International Narcotics Matters Improvement and Special Assistance Programs - Establishes under the Agency for International Development (AID) a special economic assistance incentive grant program to provide assistance to drug source countries that meet specific eradication goals during FY 1989, 1990, and 1991. Sets forth grant eligibility requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991 for AID. Requires the Comptroller General of the United States to monitor such program. Requires the Attorney General, the Director of AID, and representatives of the House and Senate to meet at the start of FY 1991 to consider whether such program should be continued beyond FY 1991. Subtitle C: Amendments to Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as Amended - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to list additional factors to be considered by the President when determining whether to certify that a foreign country is cooperating with the United States in its international narcotics control efforts. Subtitle D: International Narcotics Matters Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 and 1990 for the economic assistance incentive grant program. Earmarks specified amounts of FY 1989 and 1990 appropriations for: (1) developing safe and effective herbicides for use in the aerial eradication of coca; (2) the procurement of weapons to defend aircraft involved in narcotics control efforts; and (3) pilot and aircraft maintenance training for narcotics control activity. Provides that funds withheld from countries which fail to take adequate steps to halt illicit drug production or trafficking may be reallocated to countries which take such steps. Lists additional requirements (regarding coca production, possession, and distribution) which must be met by Bolivia before receiving FY 1989 assistance. Limits FY 1989 and 1990 international narcotics control assistance for Mexico. Withholds $1,000,000 of such assistance until Mexico has fully investigated (and prosecuted those responsible for) the murder, detention, and torture of certain Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents. Directs the Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters to provide more narcotics control assistance to those drug-transit countries which are not "major drug-transit countries" and which are cooperating with the United States in its international narcotics control efforts. Authorizes additional funding for activities aimed at increasing awareness of the efforts of production and trafficking of illicit narcotics in source and transit countries. Directs the Secretary of State and the Attorney General to develop a model extradition treaty with respect to narcotics-related violations, a model legal assistance treaty, and model comprehensive anti-narcotics legislation. Subjects any transfer by the United States of property seized or forfeited in connection with narcotics-related activities to a foreign country for narcotics control purposes to the regular reprogramming procedures applicable under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Requires that the annual narcotics control reports include: (1) a description of the assistance provided by the DEA and the Customs Service to each country; (2) a description of the assistance provided by each country to the DEA and Customs Service; (3) an expression, in numerical terms, of achievable reductions in illicit drug production; and (4) a description of U.S. assistance denied to each major illicit drug producing and drug-transit country. Subtitle E: Latin American Antidrug Strike Force - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the operations of international illegal drug smuggling organizations pose a threat to the national security of the member states of the Organization of American States (OAS); (2) illegal international drug smuggling organizations threaten to overwhelm small nations; (3) members of OAS should coordinate their efforts to fight the illegal drug trade; (4) the formation of a multinational strike force to conduct operations against illegal drug smuggling organizations is necessary; (5) the United States should initiate diplomatic discussions to achieve an agreement to establish and operate the Latin American Antidrug Strike Force; and (6) the United States stands ready to provide equipment, training, and financial resources to support the Strike Force, but believes that Strike Force personnel should be provided by those states facing the most serious threat. Establishes the position of Ambassador at Large and Coordinator for Western Hemisphere Antidrug Efforts to: (1) coordinate the efforts of all U.S. bureaus and agencies involved in antidrug efforts; (2) report to the Secretary and to the Chairman of the National Drug Policy Board on the effectiveness of the operations and level of cooperation of such bureaus and agencies; (3) be a member of all interagency groups with authority or oversight over U.S. international drug policy or operations; (4) undertake diplomatic discussions with OAS members regarding the formation of a multinational strike force intended to conduct operations against international illegal drug trafficking organizations in the Western Hemisphere; and (5) seek to secure participation in the strike force by those Western Hemisphere states most threatened by international illegal drug trafficking organizations. Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees on the progress made toward establishing the multinational strike force. Requires the Secretary of Defense to develop a plan for the establishment, training, equipping, and operation of the multinational strike force. Title III: Drug Interdiction Asset Improvement and Enhancement - National Drug Interdiction Asset Improvement and Enhancement Act of 1988 - Subtitle A: Coast Guard - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for the Coast Guard for the procurement of marine and air drug interdiction assets. Subtitle B: United States Customs Service - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for the U.S. Customs Service for the procurement, operation, and maintenance of certain drug interdiction assets. Subtitle C: Department of Defense Drug Interdiction Assistance - Department of Defense Drug Interdiction Assistance Act of 1988 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for the Department of Defense for the enhancement of drug interdiction assistance activities. Subtitle D: Drug Enforcement Administration - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for the DEA for the establishment of an International Drug Interdiction helicopter force and for the enhancement of the El Paso Intelligence Center. Subtitle E: Immigration and Naturalization Service/Border Patrol - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for the Department of Justice for the procurement of drug interdiction-related equipment for Border Patrol drug enforcement personnel. Subtitle F: Establishment of Interagency Southwest Border Drug Interdiction Mobile Corridor Task Force - Establishes an Interagency Southwest Border Drug Interdiction Mobile Corridor Task Force to: (1) conduct a joint drug interdiction operation between ports of entry along the southwest border of the United States, from Texas to California; (2) assist and augment other law enforcement agencies along such border in the interdiction of illegal drugs and the arrest of narcotics traffickers; and (3) assist State and local law enforcement officials along such border in the interdiction of illegal drugs and the arrest of narcotics traffickers. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for the Department of Justice for such task force. Subtitle G: United States-Bahamas Drug Interdiction Task Force - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for the U.S.-Bahamas Drug Interdiction Task Force. Subtitle H: Special Drug Interdiction Support - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for Puerto Rico, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, and Hawaii for special drug interdiction support. Requires the recipients of special drug interdiction assistance to submit periodic reports to the Congress regarding the status of the procurement of resources and related operation and maintenance expenditures authorized under this subtitle. Title IV: Demand Reduction - Subtitle A: Treatment and Rehabilitation - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish drug abuse demonstration projects for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug dependent offenders who could otherwise be subject to incarceration. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991 to carry out such projects. Subtitle B: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation - Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation Improvement Act of 1988 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991 for the basic Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Block Grant Program. Requires that at least 49 per cent of such appropriations be made available for alcohol and drug abuse programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991 for substance abuse emergency drug treatment programs to be targeted to those States and communities where the substance abuse problem is most acute. Requires that all States eligible to receive basic and emergency Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Mental Health Block Grants develop Statewide substance abuse treatment facilities plans. Allows such States to expend up to 1.5 percent of their grants to develop and prepare such plans, and up to 40 per cent of such grants to acquire, construct, or renovate such facilities. Subtitle C: Amendments to the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act - Amends the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 to authorize appropriations for FY 1988 through 1991 to carry out the provisions of such Act. Makes technical amendments to such Act with respect to eligibility, application, and reporting requirements. Title V: National Drug Enforcement Agency Reorganization and Coordination - Subtitle A: Establishment of Office of Enforcement and Border Affairs in Department of Treasury - National Border Coordination and Reorganization Act of 1988 - Part A: Establishment and Officers - Establishes within the Department of the Treasury the Office of Enforcement and Border Affairs which shall consist of: (1) the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement; and (2) the Coast Guard. Provides that the Office of Enforcement and Border Affairs shall be headed by the Under Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement and Border Affairs. Establishes within the Office of Enforcement and Border Affairs: (1) the Office of Border Management Affairs, which shall be headed by the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Border Management Affairs; and (2) the Office of Narcotics Interdiction, which shall be headed by the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Narcotics Interdiction. Part B: Transfer of the Coast Guard to Office of Enforcement and Border Affairs - Transfers the Coast Guard from the Department of Transportation to the Office of Enforcement and Border Affairs of the Department of the Treasury. Subtitle B: Department of Defense Drug Interdiction Reorganization - Establishes within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Drug Interdiction and Enforcement to supervise Department of Defense drug interdiction and enforcement activities. Title VI: Research and Development for Law Enforcement Agencies - Subtitle A: Establishment of New Research and Development Programs to Assist Federal Law Enforcement Agencies - Directs the Attorney General to establish a Research and Technology Group under the National Drug Policy Board to review the research, development, technology, and evaluation programs of the Department of Defense and development programs of other nondefense Federal agencies to assist their applicability to the operations, programs, and missions of the Federal law enforcement agencies. Directs the Attorney General to establish a Research, Technology and Acquisition Advisory Board to make recommendations to the National Drug Policy Board through the Research and Technology Group. Requires the President to designate and establish within existing facilities of the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, the Department of Energy, the National Security Agency, and the Central Intelligence Agency, at least eight new National Technology Centers to develop technologies for application to Federal law enforcement missions. Redesignates certain existing Government facilities as National Technology Development Centers. Requires the Comptroller General of the United States to monitor the establishment of such centers. Subtitle B: Cargo Container Drug Detection Research and Development - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for the U.S. Customs Service for accelerating the development and availability of X-ray detection, nitrate detection, or other technologies to be utilized for the detection of illegal narcotics in cargo containers entering the United States. Title VII: Drug Enforcement Training Improvement - Subtitle A: The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Improvement Act of 1988 - Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Improvement Act of 1988 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center to increase the level of drug enforcement training. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. States that support for the State and local law enforcement training program and the training programs for drug enforcement officers from foreign countries shall be maintained at no less that the FY 1989 level during such years. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to expand the advanced training programs for Federal law enforcement agencies at the Marana, Arizona, satellite facility of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. Requires the Secretary to submit reports to the appropriate congressional committees on such expansion. Subtitle B: Department of Justice Training Facilities Improvement Act of 1988 - Department of Justice Training Facilities Improvement Act of 1988 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for the Department of Justice for existing law enforcement training facilities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for the expansion of such facilities and for new Department training facilities. Directs the Attorney General to report to the appropriate congressional committees on plans for improving such facilities. Subtitle C: Federal Law Enforcement Language Training Improvement Act of 1988 - Authorizes the Department of Defense to provide foreign language training at the Defense Language Institute to special agents of Federal civilian agencies involved in drug law enforcement. Authorizes the Department of State to provide similar training at the Foreign Service Institute. Authorizes the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Customs Service, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service to: (1) detail investigative personnel to such Institutes; and (2) reimburse the Departments of Defense and State for the cost of such training. Authorizes appropriations for the Customs Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service for such training. Subtitle D: Authorization of Appropriations for Special Training Centers - Requires the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to establish a national training center in El Reno, Oklahoma, for the training of Federal, State, and local prison officials in drug rehabilitation programs. Establishes the National Advisory Panel on Prison Rehabilitation Programs to oversee the operation of such center. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for such center. Title VIII: Drug Testing in the Private Sector - Prohibits any employer in interstate commerce, on the basis of a drug test administered to an applicant or employee (unless the drug test is conducted in a laboratory which meets specified requirements), from: (1) refusing to hire an applicant for employment; (2) taking adverse action against an employee; or (3) discharging an employee. Subjects any employer who takes such prohibited actions to civil penalties. Title IX: Congressional Policy Regarding Additional Funding for Fiscal Year 1989 for Antidrug Abuse Programs - States how the levels of new budget authority and outlays required to carry out the programs, activities, and initiatives contained in this Act shall be accommodated in the budget process.

Bill· HRH.R. 4221 (100th)open

Section 457 Clarification Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1988

Section 457 Clarification Act of 1988 - Amends Internal Revenue Code accounting rules governing the year of inclusion of compensation deferred under qualified plans of State and local governments and of private tax-exempt organizations. Declares the rules to be inapplicable to both nonelective deferred compensation and basic employee benefits, including bona fide vacation plans, sick leave plans, sabbatical leave, and similar benefits.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 510 (100th)referred

A joint resolution to designate January 26, 1989, as "Sean MacBride Day".

United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1988

Designates January 26, 1989, as Sean MacBride Day, marking the 85th anniversary of the birth of the late Sean MacBride, cofounder of Amnesty International and sponsor of the MacBride Principles opposing religious discrimination in Northern Ireland.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 265 (100th)referred

A concurrent resolution commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act, which occurs on June 25, 1988.

United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1988

Requests the President to issue a proclamation commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act, which occurs on June 25, 1988. (The Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act, formerly known as the Wagner-O'Day Act, provides employment and ancillary support services to blind and handicapped individuals.)

Bill· HRH.R. 4150 (100th)referred

Postal Reorganization Act Amendments of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1988

Postal Reorganization Act of 1988 - Declares that the receipts and disbursements of the Postal Service Fund: (1) shall not be included in the totals of the Federal budget or the congressional budget; (2) shall be exempt from Federal budget limitations on expenditures and net lending; and (3) shall not be counted for purposes of calculating the Federal deficit. Repeals certain limitations on postal borrowing authority. Increases the limitations on postal borrowing authority.

Bill· HRH.R. 4127 (100th)open

American Heritage Trust Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1988

American Heritage Trust Act of 1988 - Title I: American Heritage Trust - Establishes the American Heritage Trust, comprised of the Land and Water Conservation Fund and the Historic Preservation Fund, to provide funding for the preservation of America's natural, historical, cultural, and outdoor recreational areas. Title II: Land and Water Conservation Fund - Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to invest a portion of the Land and Water Conservation Fund in public debt securities. Requires that the interest from such investments be used to provide for the preservation of the Nation's recreational areas. Sets forth a formula for the allocation of such interest income to the Federal Government and the States. Sets forth specified requirements with respect to the apportionment of such income to local and State governments. Repeals a specified section concerning publicity and signing provisions. Title III: Historic Preservation Fund - Amends the National Historic Preservation Act to extend the Historic Preservation Fund through 2015. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to invest a portion of such Fund in public debt securities. Requires that the interest from such investments be used for the preservation of historic sites. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Requires the owner of any site that benefits from moneys derived from the American Heritage Trust to install a sign indicating that fact.

Law· HJRESH.J.Res. 485 (100th)enacted

A joint resolution designating June 26 through July 2, 1988, as "National Safety Belt Use Week".

United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1988

Designates the week of June 26 through July 2, 1988, as National Safety Belt Use Week. Authorizes and requests the President to: (1) urge the people to wear safety belts and use child safety seats; and (2) encourage State and local governments and concerned organizations and officials to promote greater use of these safety devices.

Bill· HRH.R. 4000 (100th)open

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to minimize the paperwork requirements in order for State and local governments to purchase diesel fuel tax-free.

United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1988

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the excise tax on diesel and aviation fuels any sales of fuel for exclusive State or local governmental use. (Under current law, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to issue regulations exempting such sales.) Prohibits the Secretary from requiring reporting or registration in connection with this tax exemption and exempt sales.

Bill· HRH.R. 4011 (100th)referred

A bill to amend the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 to provide that the requirements for the operation of commercial motor vehicles will not apply to the operation of certain farm and firefighting vehicles.

United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1988

Amends the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 to declare that its requirements do not apply to: (1) motor vehicles registered for farm use which are driven less than 15,000 miles per year; or (2) motor vehicles used solely for fire fighting purposes.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 474 (100th)open

A joint resolution designating June 14, 1988, as "Baltic Freedom Day".

United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1988

Expresses disapproval of the refusal of the U.S.S.R. to recognize the sovereignty of the Baltic Republics. Designates June 14, 1988, as Baltic Freedom Day. Authorizes and requests the President to submit the issue of the Baltic Republics to the United Nations.

Law· HJRESH.J.Res. 470 (100th)enacted

A joint resolution to designate March 29, 1988, as "Education Day U.S.A.".

United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1988

Designates March 29, 1988, the 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 an international scroll of honor.

Bill· HRH.R. 3956 (100th)referred

Food and Nutrition Programs Protection Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1988

Food and Nutrition Programs Protection Act of 1988 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to make discretionary certain purchase-based milk price support reductions which are currently mandatory. Increases the amount of purchases necessary for such reductions to become effective. Increases the amount of purchases necessary for certain milk price increases to become effective.