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United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1990
Designates June 25, 1990, as Korean War Remembrance Day. Authorizes and requests the President to urge that the American flag be flown at half staff on such day in honor of the Americans who died as a result of their service in the Korean War.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1990
Amends Federal law to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire property for use as a visitor center at Salem Maritime National Historic Site, Massachusetts.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1990
Designates the week beginning September 16, 1990, as Emergency Medical Services Week.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1990
Small Business Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 1990 - Amends the Small Business Act to authorize appropriations for specified programs through FY 1994. Authorizes transfers from the disaster loan revolving fund for the administrative expenses of the Small Business Administration (SBA). Modifies the pro rata share guidelines for grant recipients in the small business development center program. Revises the assistance guidelines for small business development center assistance programs. Authorizes the Administrator of Small Business (the Administrator) to make grants or enter into contracts with a State for the purpose of contracting with small businesses to plant trees on State or local government-owned lands. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Administrator to report annually to the President and the Congress regarding the small business tree planting program. Amends the Small Business Administration Reauthorization and Amendment Act of 1988 to extend through FY 1994 the interest rate guidelines for certified development company loans. Modifies the functions of the Office of International Trade. Amends the Business Opportunity Development Reform Act to authorize the Commission on Minority Business Development to accept funds from any other Federal department or agency. Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the President to appoint an SBA Deputy Administrator. Provides guidelines under which a Federal procurement activity which does not solicit small businesses shall document its reasons to the SBA. Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to direct the SBA to develop a plan for greater outreach of procurement and export trade seminars in rural areas. Sets forth funding standards for small business concerns whose eligibility for SBA assistance is premised upon providing expanded job opportunities. Revises the guidelines for SBA loan guarantees of development company debentures held by family business interests. Sets forth criteria for State development companies' eligibility for SBA assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1990
Defense Management Improvement Act - Title I: Military Personnel - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to terminate a selective reenlistment bonus when the term of the reenlistment is not completed or the person ceases to perform in the specialty for which the bonus was paid. Makes permanent the authority of the Secretary to pay such reenlistment bonuses. Authorizes the Secretary to increase the active-duty officer personnel end strength as of the end of a fiscal year. Authorizes the Secretary to redistribute authorized personnel end strengths among: (1) Selected Reserve personnel; (2) active-duty personnel who are paid from active-duty personnel funds; and (3) active-duty personnel and full-time National Guard duty personnel who are paid from reserve personnel funds. Authorizes the necessary transfer of appropriations to pay such redistributed personnel. Prescribes redistribution limitations. Authorizes the involuntary release by the Secretary of the military department concerned of a regular active-duty officer with less than eight years of active commissioned service and the transfer of such officer to the Ready Reserve for the remainder of that officer's period of obligated service. Allows an officer who is retired in a grade below the highest grade held while on active duty, upon approval of the Secretary concerned, to retain the rank and insignia of the highest grade achieved on active duty for a period of 18 months and to be considered to have retired in the higher grade for all purposes other than the computation of retired pay. Provides for the involuntary retirement of Navy commanders and captains who have failed to be promoted to the next higher grade for the second time (commanders) or who have completed 38 years of active naval service (captains). Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to waive the requirement of the convening of a promotion board in certain circumstances in the selection and promotion of officers to the grade of captain (in the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps) or lieutenant (in the Navy). Allows such officers to be considered instead for promotion under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the military department concerned. Provides that officers for whom such waiver is applied and who are not placed on a promotion list by the Secretary concerned shall be considered to have failed to be selected for promotion. Entitles an officer who is directed to perform duty at a location within the limits of his duty station that requires such officer to use overnight accommodations to travel and transportation expenses. Repeals a current limitation on the authorized daily average of enlisted members in pay grades E-8 and E-9 (senior enlisted grade levels). Title II: Acquisition - Repeals a provision of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1990 concerning limitations on multiyear contracting authority of DOD. Commercial Products Acquisition Act of 1990 - Directs the Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, jointly with the Administrator of the General Services Administration, the Secretary of Defense, and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to develop regulations that set forth commercial-style procedures for the acquisition of commercial products by Federal agencies. Requires such regulations to be incorporated into the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Directs the Administrator to prescribe additional regulations to implement this section as it relates to automated data processing equipment. Defines commercial products as products that are: (1) competitively available and sold in significant quantities in the commercial market; and (2) required in the same form as they are available in the commercial market or with only minor modifications that do not alter their essential performance or functional characteristics. Requires that such regulations provide for: (1) a requirement that procedures conducted under this Act be advertised by public notice in the Commerce Business Daily; (2) authority for agency contracting officers to require product offerors to demonstrate the suitability of their product for the agency involved; (3) a waiver of the requirement that a product be sold in significant quantities in the commercial market, under certain circumstances; (4) the issuing of product acquisition solicitations by the contracting officer involved, as well as follow-up activity with respect to such solicitations; (5) prompt publication in the Commerce Business Daily of a notice announcing the award of a contract; and (6) the use of commercial-style contract terms and conditions to the maximum extent that they are consistent with the interests of the Government. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to direct an agency contracting officer to use commercial-style procedures to procure commercial products unless the officer purchases them under simplified small purchase or multiple award schedule procedures or determines and documents that another authorized method of acquisition is more appropriate. Exempts such procured products from certain contracting requirements. States that this section shall apply to the acquisition of automatic data processing equipment. Specifies certain Federal procurements under current Federal law to which the provisions of this section shall not apply. Allows the Secretary of Defense to authorize selected components of DOD, for three years after commercial product procurement regulations are implemented, to conduct a pilot program to test procedures for resolving protests of actions taken in conducting procurements pursuant to such regulations. Outlines procedures for the filing of a protest, its impartial review within ten days, the staying of the award of a contract until such review is completed, a final written decision within 30 days of the filing of the protest, and the designation of the official to decide the protest. Repeals provisions concerning commercial pricing certifications with respect to the purchase of spare or repair parts by the head of a Federal agency. Applies the authority of an agency head to award a contract without discussions with the offerors to any situation in which the greatest benefit to the United States is gained under standards such as price, quantity, design, performance, management or technical capability, delivery, or risk. Specifies provisions of the Small Business Act to which Federal provisions allowing simplified procedures for small purchases (less than $425,000) shall not apply. Replaces specified dollar limitations (ranging from $2,500 to $25,000) after which a procurement will no longer be considered a small purchase (and therefore require certain solicitation and award procedures to be implemented) with the small purchase threshold as established under armed forces defense procurement provisions and under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. (Generally, this threshold is an amount of less than $25,000 at which simplified small purchase procedures may be followed.) Amends the Federal Procurement Policy Act to revise the authority of members of the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to designate certain officials to attend meetings and serve on the Council in place of such members. Requires the Secretary of Defense to prepare an acquisition strategy for each major defense acquisition program prior to completion of full-scale development of such program. (Currently, such strategy must be prepared before full-scale development may begin.) Requires such acquisition strategy to ensure that there will be competitive alternative production sources available for each major program and subsystems of such major program when the establishment of two or more production sources: (1) would likely result in reduced costs; (2) would not result in unacceptable delays in fulfilling DOD needs; and (3) is otherwise in the national security interest. Increases from $100,000 to $500,000 the certified cost or pricing data threshold relating to Federal defense procurement contracts. Repeals a Federal provision requiring short-term repair work on Naval Reserve vessels homeported on the west coast of the United States to use competitive bidding procedures without regard to the area of repair. Repeals: (1) a provision requiring the Secretary of the Navy to ensure, prior to the awarding of a contract for the repair or overhaul of a naval vessel following competition between public and private shipyards, that certain criteria must be met; (2) a provision of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1990 which prohibits the use of funds to enter into vessel repair or overhaul contracts for west coast vessels which include interport differential charges as an evaluation factor for award; (3) a provision restricting the acquisition of core logistics functions by commercial contracts; and (4) a provision pertaining to the performance by defense contractors of commercial activities for the Government. Authorizes the provision of severance pay to foreign nationals under defense contracts in order to comply with the laws of the host nation. Revises Federal provisions concerning the authority of working-capital funded activities of the Army to sell supplies, services, or work outside of DOD. Allows commercial printing and binding work and services to be used in connection with technical data to be delivered under DOD contracts. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to conduct a pilot program for up to six major defense acquisition programs in order to test methods to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the acquisition process. Requires the Secretary to notify the Congress of his intent to include a major defense acquisition program in the pilot program. Amends the Davis-Bacon Act to increase from $2,000 to $250,000 the threshold contract amount after which prevailing wage rate provisions for laborers and mechanics under Federal contracts must apply. Outlines provisions for the determination by the Secretary of Labor of the prevailing wage rate for laborers, mechanics, or helpers under Federal contracts to which such Act applies. Revises a provision of the Act concerning the exclusion of Federal or federally assisted project data from prevailing wage rate determinations. Provides for a separate classification of helpers to laborers and mechanics. Requires a prevailing wage rate determination to be made for such helpers. Prohibits splitting up large contracts into contracts of less than $250,000 in order to avoid the application of wage rate determinations. Outlines actions to be taken by the Secretary of Labor when such contract-splitting has occurred. Requires the Secretary to notify the entity in question that an investigation will be conducted concerning an alleged violation of the Act. Amends the Copeland Act to reduce from weekly to quarterly certain reports required with respect to the weekly wages paid each employee by a contractor or subcontractor required to meet standards of the Davis-Bacon Act. Title III: Civilian Personnel - Repeals a provision which generally prohibits the civil service employment of retired military personnel within 180 days of their retirement. Provides for the waiver of performance rating appraisals for temporary DOD employees serving less than one year unless such individuals are being considered for a pay increase or reappointment. Authorizes reimbursement to Federal employees for house hunting trips to Alaska and Hawaii. (Currently, such reimbursement is permitted for trips only within the continental United States.) Includes employees or family members assigned to Alaska or Hawaii and employees who have signed mandatory mobility agreements as a condition of employment among those for whom transportation of remains, dependents, and effects are authorized. Includes the Republic of Panama as a post of assignment for which separate maintenance allowance may be authorized. Authorizes the President to adjust the maximum ten-dollar remote worksite allowance when considered necessary to alleviate deterrents to hiring and retaining employees at remote work sites. Repeals the requirement that the Congress must authorize civilian personnel end strengths for each component of DOD. Provides that the management of civilian personnel in any fiscal year shall not be subject to any statutory end strength limitation or work year floor or minimum staffing level. Repeals provisions which place numerical limitations on the number of personnel assigned or detailed to management headquarters activities, management headquarters support activities, or to DOD headquarters staff. Amends the Demonstration Cities Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to provide homeowners assistance to Federal employees and nonappropriated fund personnel serving overseas with reemployment rights when a base closure or reduction in the scope of activities is involved. Title IV: Real Property - Directs the Secretary of Defense to request the Administrator of General Services to dispose of land under the control of DOD that is determined to be excess property. Requires the Administrator to deposit half of the net proceeds to a special DOD account to meet DOD's national defense requirements. Permits the Secretary of the military department concerned to receive half of the net proceeds received as rent for leases of property under the control of DOD. Requires the remainder of such proceeds to be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. (Currently, all of such rent proceeds are deposited into the Treasury.)
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1990
AIDS Prevention Act of 1990 - Title I: Preventive Health Services with Respect to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome - Amends the Public Health Service Act to create a new title on preventive health services with respect to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, to make allotments to States, and authorizes the Secretary, through the Director, to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities who have Medicaid provider status and who meet other requirements, for: (1) counseling; (2) testing, including testing for infection, testing regarding the extent of deficiency in the immune system, testing relating to preventing and treating deterioration of the immune system, and testing relating to preventing and treating conditions arising from the infection; and (3) providing therapeutic measures. Requires information regarding the receipt of services to be kept confidential in a manner not inconsistent with applicable law. Requires counseling and written informed consent prior to testing. Allows: (1) use of a pseudonym in signing a consent form; and (2) consent to be given orally when an individual is to undergo testing without providing any identifying information. Requires counseling before testing and, for both individuals with negative and individuals with positive results, after testing. Requires that opportunities be made available for individuals (including women, children, hemophiliacs, and emergency response employees) to undergo counseling under conditions appropriate to their needs. Allows counseling without testing. Requires that testing by grant recipients for infection be carried out in accordance with the requirements of this Act regarding confidentiality, informed consent, and counseling regardless of whether the testing is carried out with Federal funds. Requires grant recipients who regularly provide treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, who regularly provide treatment for intravenous substance abuse, who are family planning clinics, who provide treatment for tuberculosis, or who regularly provide health care for pregnant women offer and encourage preventive health services to individuals to whom the recipient provides services. Requires a State grant recipient to: (1) encourage individuals in the State receiving a transfusion of any blood product between January 1, 1978, and April 1, 1985, to receive preventive health services; and (2) inform such individuals of public health facilities in the geographic area that provide such services. Declares that individual notifications are not required. Requires a State grant recipient to require that any entity carrying out such testing confidentially report to the State public health officer information sufficient to: (1) perform statistical and epidemiological analyses of the incidence of infection; (2) perform statistical and epidemiological analyses of the demographic characteristics of infected individuals; and (3) assess the adequacy of preventive health services. Requires a State grant recipient to require that the State public health officer, to the extent appropriate in the determination of the officer, carry out a program of partner notification with respect to infection. Mandates that States prohibit acts which knowingly expose nonconsenting or other individuals to the etiologic agent through a donation of blood, semen, or breast milk, through sexual activity, through sharing of hypodermic needles, or through any behavior with the intent to expose another nonconsenting person. Requires that States authorize a civil cause of action and a criminal penalty for violation of these prohibitions. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States for preventive health services to individuals sentenced by the State to imprisonment. Requires matching non-Federal contributions in specified ratios. Mandates that States: (1) require testing of prisoners upon entering the State penal system and during the 30-day period before release; (2) inform any penal system employee, on request of the employee, if the employee has a reasonable basis for believing that the employee may have been exposed by an individual to the etiologic agent, of that individual's test results; and (3) inform the spouse of the individual prior to each conjugal visit and prior to release. Requires all prison employees and such spouses to be informed of the availability of the test results. Requires confidentiality of test results, except for the disclosure authorized in these provisions and disclosures as medically necessary. Applies the prison testing requirements only to prisons meeting requirements relating to the prevalence of infection with the etiologic agent or, in the absence of infection data, the prevalence of cases of AIDS in the geographic area in which inmates of the prison involved resided before incarceration. Authorizes appropriations for the prison testing grants. Requires that, to the extent permitted under State law, grant recipients offer substantial opportunities for an individual to undergo counseling and testing without giving any identifying information or using a pseudonym. Prohibits requiring an individual to undergo testing as a condition to receive other health services unless the testing is medically indicated in the provision of the health services sought by an individual. Limits the imposition of fees for preventive health services under this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Requires that counseling programs carried out under this Act: (1) not be designed to promote or encourage, directly, intravenous drug abuse or sexual activity, homosexual or heterosexual; (2) be designed to reduce exposure to and transmission of the etiologic agent for AIDS by providing accurate information; and (3) provide information on the health risks of promiscuous sexual activity and intravenous drug abuse. Title II: Emergency Relief for Areas with Substantial Need for Services - Directs the Secretary, through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to make grants in any metropolitan statistical area (eligible area), as specified by the Secretary, that has reported more than 2,000 AIDS cases and that meets other requirements. Requires that the grants be made only to the chief elected official of the city, urban county, or other political subdivision that administers the public health agency serving the greatest proportion of individuals with AIDS in the eligible area. Requires that the grants be used to: (1) enhance the quality of services to low income individuals and families with HIV disease; (2) deliver outpatient and ambulatory care services, including case management, to such individuals and families, including comprehensive treatment and support services; (3) prevent unnecessary inpatient hospitalization; and (4) expedite the provision of services in the most medically appropriate level. Requires that political subdivision grant recipients agree to provide services only through clinics, sub-acute care facilities, community health centers, hospices, or ambulatory care facilities that: (1) provide health care to a disproportionate share of low-income individuals and families with HIV disease; (2) incur uncompensated costs in providing such care; and (3) with regard to services covered by Medicaid, have Medicaid provider status. Requires the administering local political subdivision to establish: (1) a mechanism to allocate funds and services based on the proportion of AIDS cases and the severity of need of the subdivisions; and (2) an HIV health services planning council. Requires such chief elected official to provide for the council, either by establishing it directly or by designating an existing entity to serve as the council. Provides, at specified times, that one-half of funds appropriated for the grants be used for regular grants and one-half be used for supplemental grants. Requires, in order to receive a grant, that an eligible area submit an application containing, among other elements, an assurance that agencies and institutions in that area that will receive grant funds will be participants in an established HIV community-based continuum of care. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Emergency Response Employees - Directs the Secretary to make grants to States and their political subdivisions to assist in the implementation of Federal law mandating the dissemination of guidelines to emergency response employees (EREs) regarding reducing the risk in the workplace of becoming infected with the etiologic agent for AIDS and circumstances under which exposure may occur. Authorizes appropriations. Requires a medical facility to notify the designated officer of the transporting EREs if the facility determines that a victim the EREs transported to the facility has an infectious disease. Requires a medical facility, upon request of a designated officer of EREs, to notify the designated officer if the facility makes a determination that a victim transported by EREs has an infectious disease. Applies notification requirements to both the facility receiving the victim and, if the victim dies, to the facility ascertaining the cause of death. Sets forth notification procedures. Requires that the public health officer of each State designate one official of each employer of EREs to make requests and receive notifications. Provides for notification of EREs and for requests from an ERE to a designated officer that the designated officer request notification from the medical facility. Declares that the provisions in this Act regarding notification of EREs will not be construed to authorize or require: (1) a medical facility to test a victim of an emergency for any infectious disease; (2) any medical facility, any designated officer, or any ERE to make disclosures with respect to the identity of a victim or an ERE; or (3) failure to respond, or denial of services. Provides for enforcement through injunctions. Title IV: Health Care Services - Authorizes the Secretary, through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to make grants for demonstration projects to provide comprehensive treatment services for individuals infected with the etiologic agent for AIDS. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary, through the Administrator, to make grants to States to assist in purchasing and distributing certain AIDS-related drugs. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Certain Definitions - Sets forth definitions for purposes of the new title of the Public Health Service Act, on preventive health services with respect to AIDS, as added by this Act. Title VI: General Provisions - Mandates a study relating to the incidence of AIDS and infection with the etiologic agent for AIDS in rural areas, and the adequacy of related diagnostic and treatment services in such areas.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990
Declares that the Congress acknowledges and appreciates the commitment, devotion, and sacrifices of present and former military families. Designates November 19, 1990, as National Military Families Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1990
Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to station a traditional procurement center representative at the Department of Agriculture, the Naval Sea Systems Command, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1990
Defense Reports Reduction Act of 1990 - Title I: Elimination and Modification of Reports Required By Law - Part A: Repeal of Existing Report Requirements - Repeals various reporting requirements under Federal armed forces provisions, annual defense authorization and military construction Act, the Defense Industrial Reserve Act, and the Military Selective Service Act. Part B: Modifications to Existing Report Requirements - Modifies existing defense reporting requirements by reducing the frequency of certain reports from a bimonthly to a semiannual basis, from a semiannual to an annual basis, or from an annual to a biennial basis. Increases the threshold amounts for certain spending or costs triggering reporting requirements. Title II: Report Provisions Previously Terminated Under Goldwater-Nichols Act - Repeals specified reporting requirements under armed forces provisions which were terminated by the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 and restores others. Repeals the provisions of such Act that generally terminated all report, notification, or study requirements under Federal armed forces provisions. Title III: Technical and Clerical Amendments - Makes conforming and clerical amendments. Extends from July 1, 1990, to January 1, 1993, the deadline for full integration of fixed wing aircraft at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California, into the range instrumentation system for attack helicopters. Removes as a condition for the transfer of obsolete naval vessels the failure of the Congress to pass a concurrent resolution opposing the transfer.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990
Farms for the Future Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish the Agricultural Resource Conservation Demonstration Program to provide Federal guarantees and interest rate assistance for loans made by lending institutions to State trust funds. Authorizes the Secretary to establish in the Treasury the Agricultural Resource Conservation Revolving Fund. Terminates the Program on September 30, 1996.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Recycling Initiatives Grant Act - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to award grants for conducting research on, or developing, innovative techniques for solid waste recycling. Limits the amount of such grants. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Amend the Internal Revenue Code to require that a hostile stock purchase by a foreign person in a corporate takeover be treated as an asset acquisition by the purchasing corporation. Disallows an income tax deduction for interest on any indebtedness incurred or continued to purchase or carry corporate stock in the domestic corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Urges the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to: (1) use "Super 301" under the Trade Act of 1974 to identify Japan as a priority country for purposes of negotiating the elimination of barriers to U.S. exports; (2) identify as trade-liberalization priorities under "Super 301" Japanese practices that are most costly in terms of lost U.S. exports and most resistant to change through market adjustment or prior negotiations; and (3) in determining such practices, give substantial weight to the worsening bilateral trade deficit in any sector where they prevail. Declares that the Congress considers that: (1) the identification of the trade-liberalization priorities in the 1990 "Super 301" report would reinforce other bilateral trade discussions such as the Structural Impediments Initiative talks and the negotiations regarding priorities in the 1989 "Super 301" report; and (2) use of the "Super 301" trade-liberalization incentive would improve prospects for reducing the U.S.-Japanese trade imbalance.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990
Mickey Leland Peace Dividend Housing Assistance Act of 1990 - Title I: Housing for Low-Income Families - Increases FY 1991 through 1995 budget authority for Housing Act of 1937 section 8 existing housing certificates. Amends such Act to revise section 8 tenant selection preferences, including annual reevaluation of family preference. Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to submit semiannual assisted housing reports to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Community Housing Partnership - Community Housing Partnership Act - Subtitle A: Housing Education and Organizational Support Grants for Community Based Housing Projects - Authorizes the Secretary to provide housing education and organizational support grants to eligible cities and States and directly to nonprofit sponsors and nonprofit organizations. Subtitle B: Community Housing Partnership Grants - Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to cities and States and grants and loans to nonprofit sponsors for acquisition, construction, and rehabilitation of low- and moderate-income housing. Allocates community partnership housing grants as follows: (1) 60 percent to metropolitan and urban areas; (2) 25 percent to States for non-urban use; and (3) 15 percent to nonprofit sponsors. Subtitle C: General Provisions - Defines specified terms for purposes of this title. Authorizes appropriations for subtitle A. Title III: Recycling of Existing Federal Assets - Recycling of Existing Assets for Cost-Effective Housing Act - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States for State housing finance agencies to establish revolving funds for low- to moderate-income rental housing. Requires State matching funds. Requires: (1) States receiving such funds to establish a revolving fund; and (2) agencies to develop affirmative action programs. Sets forth requirements with regard to: (1) rental housing; and (2) eligible properties. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Public Housing Development and Modernization - Increases FY 1991 through 1995 budget authority under the Housing Act of 1937 for: (1) public housing development; and public housing modernization. Amends such Act to revise public housing tenant selection criteria, including annual reevaluation of family preference. Title V: Grants for Preservation of Existing Housing and Security in Public Housing - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for: (1) acquisition and rehabilitation of specified multifamily housing; (2) training and technical assistance to nonprofit sponsors and representative organizations; and (3) public housing security, including Indian public housing. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: Rural Housing Program Funding - Increases FY 1991 through 1995 budget authority under the Housing Act of 1949 for the following rural housing programs: (1) homeownership loan program; (2) very low-income housing repair loan program; (3) farm labor housing loan program; (4) rural rental housing loan program; (5) farm labor housing grant program; (6) housing preservation grant program; and (7) rental assistance payments program. Extends program authority for: (1) rental housing loans; and (2) rural area classification. Title VII: Supportive Services - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to coordinate supportive services in federally assisted housing, including such services as: (1) child care; (2) health monitoring; (3) education and job training; and (4) drug and alcohol counseling. Title VIII: Single Room Occupancy Housing for Homeless Families and Individuals - Increases FY 1991 through 1995 budget authority under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act for section 8 assistance for single room occupancy dwellings. Amends such Act to extend single room occupancy contract authority. Title IX: Miscellaneous - Directs the Comptroller General to audit the Secretary at least annually with respect to activities under this Act, and report to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990
Fair Disclosure in Takeovers Act of 1990 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to mandate the disclosure of specified information to the Securities and Exchange Commission by persons soliciting proxies during the period in which they intend to make tender offers.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990
Designates the month of October 1990 as Crime Prevention Month.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990
Designates May 13, 1990, as National Day in Support of Freedom and Human Rights in China and Tibet.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Mortgage Servicing Transfer Disclosure Act of 1990 - Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to prescribe mortgage servicing disclosure requirements for each person making a federally related mortgage loan to a consumer (including the identity of the person to whom the mortgage servicing contract is transferred). Sets forth guidelines for the treatment of consumer loan payments during the period in which the mortgage loan servicing contract is being transferred. Sets forth liability guidelines for violations of this Act. Authorizes consumer class action suits. Sets forth guidelines for annual notification to the consumer by the mortgage servicer of the consumer's escrow account status, including itemized expenses and anticipated charges.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 26, 1990, to commemorate the bicentennial of "An Act for the government of the territory of the United States, south of the river Ohio" (from which Tennessee was formed).
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Designates January 6 through January 12, 1991, as National Law Enforcement Training Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Commends the United Nations Human Rights Commission for extending the mandate of the Cuba Working Group with regard to the human rights situation in Cuba. Condemns the Government of Cuba for engaging in a consistent pattern of human rights violations and harassment of human rights activists. Calls upon the Cuban Government to: (1) honor its guarantees that individuals who testified before the Cuban Working Group would not be subject to reprisals; (2) release all human rights activists and other political prisoners; and (3) meet universally recognized standards of human rights.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1990
Designates September 9 through 15, 1990, as National Historically Black Colleges Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Ancient Forest Protection Act of 1990 - Establishes the National Ancient Forest Reserve System. Designates certain lands in California, Oregon, and Washington as components of such System. Declares that all Federal lands in such States which qualify as ancient forest or associated forest and are not designated as components of the System shall be managed as if they are. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations with respect to the removal of commercial timber from such lands. Declares it to be U.S. policy to develop and utilize scientific information to study and identify the biological and ecological requirements of ancient forest ecosystems. Directs the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality to study and report to appropriate congressional committees on the biological and physical requirements for the survival of such ecosystems.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to provide that the definition of "owner or operator" (for purposes of liability) does not include: (1) a designated lending institution which acquires control of a facility pursuant to the terms of a security interest held by the person in such facility or in connection with a lease subject to Federal or State banking authorities; (2) a corporate fiduciary which operates or has legal title to a facility pursuant to the terms of an estate or trust; (3) an individual or institution that serves as an indenture trustee and acquires control of a facility as the result of default on a financing document between the trustee and the issuing entity; and (4) an individual fiduciary who has legal title to a facility for purposes of administering an estate or trust.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 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 · 4 April 1990
Textile, Apparel, and Footwear Trade Act of 1990 - Limits the 1990 imports of textiles and textile products classified under a category to an amount equal to 101 percent of the total 1989 imports classified under such category. Limits the 1990 imports of nonrubber footwear classified under a nonrubber footwear category to an amount equal to: (1) the total 1989 imports of nonrubber footwear classified under such category; and (2) in the case of high priced nonrubber footwear, the total 1989 imports of high priced nonrubber footwear classified under such category. Provides for a one-percent annual growth in the amount of permitted imports of textiles and textile products after 1990. Exempts from the limitations imposed under this Act imports of textiles and textile products from U.S. possessions if such articles are exempt from duty under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States and are manufactured by U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents of such a possession. Limits the imports of certain sweaters made in Guam to a specified amount during FY 1990 and to such amount increased by one percent per year in subsequent years. Declares such limitations shall not apply to Canada or Israel. Sets forth limitations on the amount of textile and textile products, classified under certain import categories, which may be imported from beneficiary countries under the Caribbean Basin Initiative. Authorizes the President to: (1) enter into trade agreements to grant new concessions as compensation to the extent required under U.S. trade agreements for the import limits imposed by this Act; and (2) proclaim such modification or continuance of any existing duty on textiles and textile products and on nonrubber footwear as necessary to carry out such agreements. Prohibits the President from reducing any rate of duty by more than ten percent. Requires the President, before entering into such trade agreements, to consider whether a country has violated trade concessions of benefit to the United States and the violation has not been adequately offset. Sets forth requirements governing staged rate reductions in the tariffs of articles affected by this Act. Prohibits the President, except as authorized by this Act, from entering into trade negotiations with any country with respect to duties on textiles, textile products, and nonrubber footwear. Prohibits the President, except as provided in this Act, from decreasing or proposing a decrease in any such duty by any means, including an implementing bill or a proclamation. Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on the administration of this Act. Requires the Secretary of Commerce, ten years after enactment of this Act, to study and report to the Congress on its operation. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a pilot program for the issuance and sale to U.S. companies at public auction of import licenses applicable to categories of textiles. Terminates such licensing program on December 31, 1991, and requires a report to the Congress on its administration.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Designates May 13, 1990, as Infant Mortality Awareness Day.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Commends the Runnin' Rebels of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas for winning the 1990 National Collegiate Athletic Association Men's Basketball Championship.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1990
Designates the week of November 12 through 18, 1990, as National Critical Care Awareness Week.
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
Amends the Congregate Housing Services Act of 1978 to authorize FY 1991 appropriations for congregate housing services.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Designates July 19, 1990, as Flight Attendant Safety Professionals' Day.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Designates September 13, 1990, as National DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Day.
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 · 28 March 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the provisions permitting small issues of tax-exempt bonds to finance manufacturing facilities and farm property.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1990
National Commission on Defense and National Security Act - Establishes the National Commission on Defense and National Security to analyze and make recommendations to the President and the Congress concerning national security and national defense policies including analysis of developments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, German unification, the future of NATO and the Pacific Basin, and potential instability resulting from regional conflicts or economic problems in the developing world.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1990
Designates May 4, 1990, as Department of Education Day.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1990
Commends the United Nations Human Rights Commission for extending the mandate of the Cuba Working Group with regard to the human rights situation in Cuba. Condemns the Government of Cuba for engaging in a consistent pattern of human rights violations and harassment of human rights activists. Calls upon the Cuban Government to: (1) honor its guarantees that individuals who testified before the Cuban Working Group would not be subject to reprisals; (2) release all human rights activists and other political prisoners; and (3) meet universally recognized standards of human rights.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
Tourism Policy and Export Promotion Act of 1990 - Declares it to be the national goal to increase U.S. export earnings from U.S. tourism and transportation services with an eye toward: (1) the elimination of the travel and tourism export deficit of the United States and the U.S trade deficit; and (2) the achievement of a travel and tourism export surplus. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to identify foreign trade barriers to U.S. travel and tourism. Requires the USTR to submit the National Trade Estimate to the President and the Senate Committees on Finance and Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Amends the International Trade Act of 1961 to require each annual tourism trade development plan to focus on those countries in which tourism trade development has the greatest potential for increasing travel and tourism export revenues. Declares that the Congress finds that increased efforts directed at the promotion of rural tourism will contribute to the economic development of rural America. Establishes the Rural Tourism Foundation. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
World War II 50th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should recognize the 50th anniversary of World War II by minting and issuing commemorative coins. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue and mint such coins in five dollar, one dollar, and half dollar denominations. Mandates that surcharges received from the sale of such coins be deposited in a coinage profit fund and allocated, upon separate congressional authorization, to the American Battle Monuments Commission to establish a World War II memorial. Directs the Secretary to report semiannually to the Congress regarding implementation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
Designates the week beginning July 22, 1990, as Lyme Disease Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1990
National Service Act of 1990 - Title I: School-Based and Higher Education Community Service - Part A: School Based Community Service - Schools and Service-Learning Act of 1990 - Subpart I: School-Based Service Learning - Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary, for purposes of this title) to make grants to States for state-wide school-based service learning programs involving local partnerships of local educational agencies (LEAs) and other organizations. Authorizes appropriations. Subpart 2: Youthbuild Projects - Authorizes the Director of the ACTION Agency to make grants for up to 90 percent of the cost of Youthbuild projects. Requires that eligible participants in Youthbuild projects be employed in construction, rehabilitation, or improvement of: (1) residential rental housing for homeless individuals and low-income families; (2) transitional housing for homeless individuals; or (3) facilities for providing health, education, and other social services to low-income families. Requires that participants be provided: (1) service opportunities on such construction or rehabilitation projects which are integrated with appropriate skills training and preapprenticeship or apprenticeship programs; (2) education services; (3) personal and peer supports; (4) leadership development; (5) preparation for an placement in unsubsidized employment; and (6) support services and need-based stipends to enable participation, and support services, for up to six months after completion of training, to assist in retaining employment. Conditions provision of service opportunities upon individual attendance and participation in educational services and activities. Bases participant eligibility, with certain exceptions, on the individual's being: (1) 16 to 24 years of age; (2) economically disadvantaged; and (3) a high school dropout with reading and mathematics skills at or below the eighth grade level. Limits an individual's full-time participation to between six and 18 months. Authorizes appropriations. Subpart 3: Other Federal Volunteer Service Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants and contracts for: (1) rural youth service demonstration projects; (2) model community service and service-learning programs; and (3) model service programs for dropouts and out-of-school youth. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Director of the ACTION Agency to make grants to State Governors for initiatives involving non-school-based voluntary service projects in their States. Sets forth provisions for authorized activities and allotments based on school-age population. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Domestic Volunteer Service Act to authorize appropriations to increase the number of low-income individuals who provide services under the Foster Grandparent Program to children who participate in Head Start programs. Subpart 4: Activities of the Secretary of Education - Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) widely disseminate information about programs under this part; (2) provide for program evaluation, including participant and community opinions; and (3) make such evaluations available to the public, and to congressional committees in the Secretary's annual report. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to or contracts with experienced public and private nonprofit agencies for national or regional clearinghouses for information on volunteer service with respect to subpart 1 programs. Authorizes appropriations. Subpart 5: Volunteer Service Activities of the President - Authorizes the President to make Presidential Awards for School-Based Service recognizing excellence in school-based service programs. Authorizes the President to create an interagency task force to: (1) create and monitor effective measures for coordinating the various parts of this Act; and (2) design a comprehensive Federal service strategy, including specified components. Authorizes appropriations. Subpart 6: General Provisions - Prohibits making grants under this part for any educational program, activity, or service related to sectarian instruction or religious worship, or provided by a school or department of divinity. Applies the General Education Provisions Act to the programs authorized by this part. Part B: Higher Education Community Service - Subpart 1: Innovative Projects for Community Service - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and contracts with higher education institutions, (and other public agencies and nonprofit organizations working in partnership with such institutions) to: (1) enable them to create or expand their student community service activities; (2) encourage student initiated and designed community service projects; and (3) help integrate community service into academic curricula and crediting. Directs the Secretary to make grants to colleges, universities, and other nonprofit organizations to train teachers (and those planning teaching careers), education personnel, and community leaders in skills for developing, supervising, and organizing community service activities. Limits the Federal share under this subpart to not more than 50 percent of the cost of the community service activities. Authorizes appropriations. Subpart 2: Campus-Based Community Work Learning Jobs - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to provide for additional reservations of certain funds for: (1) campus-based community work learning study jobs; and (2) work-study for community service-learning on behalf of low-income individuals and families. Subpart 3: Guaranteed Student Loans - Amends HEA to provide for up to three-year loan deferments under the guaranteed student loan (GSL) and the federally-insured student loan (FISL) program for: (1) certain full-time volunteer service; (2) full-time employment as a professional in drug counseling, prevention, intervention, treatment, or education by a public or nonprofit private agency; and (3) full-time volunteers providing Indian health services. Subpart 4: Direct Loans to Students in Institutions of Higher Education - Amends HEA to provide for certain rates of partial cancellation of loans and certain deferments of loan repayments under the national direct student loan (NDSL) program for: (1) certain full-time volunteer service; (2) full-time employment as a professional in drug counseling and treatment; and (3) full-time volunteers providing Indian health services. Subpart 5: Publication - Amends HEA to require that specified information on student loan deferments and cancellations for certain full-time voluntary service be included in institutional information for students, exit counseling for borrowers, and Department of Education information on student loans. Subpart 6: Student Literacy Corps - Amends HEA to require Student Literacy Corps programs to give priority to tutoring services to illiterate parents of educationally or economically disadvantaged elementary school students, with special emphasis on single-parent households. Authorizes increased appropriations for the Student Literacy Corps. Subpart 7: Student Tutorial Corps Initiative - Amends HEA to create a Student Tutorial Corps. Authorizes the Secretary to make demonstration grants to higher education institutions for student tutorial programs that: (1) encourage their students to tutor educationally disadvantaged students in schools assisted under chapter 1 of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (2) are conducted at such schools, at the request and with the direction of school personnel; and (3) do not displace any of such personnel. Authorizes appropriations. Part C: Peace Corps Volunteer Education Demonstration Program Act - Authorizes the Director of the Peace Corps (the Director) to carry out a training and educational benefits demonstration program. Makes eligible for such program participation any individual who: (1) has satisfactorily completed at least two years at a higher education institution, is enrolled in a bachelor's degree program of at least four years and will complete it within two years; (2) agrees to serve at least three years as a Peace Corps volunteer; and (3) is selected under a specified competitive process. Requires the Director to provide a Peace Corps training program for the selectees as part of their course of study at their institution. Requires that selectees receive certain educational benefits to cover costs of their last two years of study. Requires repayment if the individual fails to complete the educational program or the service requirement. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to collect such repayments. Requires the Director and the Secretary to evaluate such demonstration program jointly and submit an interim and a final report to the President and the Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: To Establish the American Conservation and Youth Service Corps - Part A: American Conservation Corps - Establishes the American Conservation Corps (ACC), to be administered by Federal agencies and through a State grant component. Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to establish the Federal component of the ACC within their agencies to administer programs on Federal lands. Encourages Federal agencies to enter into program agreements with program agencies, local governments, and nonprofit organizations. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a program of grants to States to administer the State component of the ACC involving work on non-Federal public lands and waters. Directs each Governor to designate a State program agency. Requires States carrying out such programs to provide mechanisms for participation by local governments and nonprofit organizations. Authorizes the ACC to carry out conservation, rehabilitation, and improvement projects relating to: (1) wildlife habitat, rangelands, parks, recreational areas; (2) urban revitalization and historical and cultural sites; (3) fish and fisheries; (4) roads and trails; (5) erosion, floods, droughts, and storm damage assistance and control; (6) streams, lakes, waterfront harbors, and ports; (7) wetlands protection and pollution control; (8) insect, disease, rodent, and fire prevention and control; (9) improvement of abandoned railroad beds and rights-of-way; (10) energy conservation, renewable resources, and biomass recovery; (11) reclamation and improvement of strip-mined land; and (12) forestry, nursery, and cultural operations. Limits such projects to those on public lands or Indian lands, except where the administering Secretary determines that a project involving other lands will provide a public benefit. Part B: Youth Service Corps - Requires the Director of the ACTION Agency to appoint an Assistant Director to make grants for youth service projects to eligible public and private nonprofit agencies, and to otherwise administer Youth Service Corps (YSC) programs under this part. Provides for designation of specific activities as eligible service categories if: (1) they are of substantial social benefit in meeting unmet human, social (especially poverty-related), or environmental needs in a community; (2) they will not interfere unreasonably with employment availability and terms of employees of sponsoring organizations; and (3) participants are qualified for such activities. Allows such service categories to include service in: (1) State, local, and regional governmental agencies; (2) nursing homes, hospices, senior centers, hospitals, local libraries, parks, recreational facilities, day care centers, and schools; (3) law enforcement, penal, and probation agencies; (4) private nonprofit social services organizations; (5) rehabilitation or improvement of public facilities or neighborhoods, literacy programs, weatherization and repair of low-income housing, energy conservation (including solar energy), removal of public facility architectural barriers to the handicapped, and conservation, maintenance, or restoration of natural resources on publicly held lands; and (6) any other nonpartisan civic activities and services determined appropriate by the Assistant Director. Prohibits such service categories from including any position in any: (1) business organized for profit; (2) labor union; (3) partisan political organization; (4) religious organization, unless the position does not involve any religious functions; or (5) domestic or personal service organization. Part C: Youth Skills Enhancement - Requires the administering Secretary or the Assistant Director (as the case may be) to provide guidance and assistance to States in securing certification of training skills or academic credit for competencies developed under this title. Directs each program agency to maintain or enhance, through programs and projects under this title, the educational skills of program enrollees. Directs appropriate State and local officials to certify standards and procedures (that meet specified Federal criteria) for awarding academic credit and certifying educational attainment in such programs. Part D: Administrative Provisions - Sets forth requirements for award of grants to eligible entities, including matching requirements and limitations on use of funds. Limits enrollment in the ACC and YSC to individuals who, at the time of enrollment, are: (1) 16 through 25 years old (15 through 21 for summer programs); and (2) U.S. citizens or nationals or lawful permanent resident aliens. Requires the State job training coordinating council to appoint an advisory board for oversight and review of ACC and YSC projects under this title. Authorizes appropriations. Part E: Youth Service Clearinghouses - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior and the Director of the ACTION Agency to provide financial assistance to one or more national or regional clearinghouses on youth corps and youth service. Allows experienced public and private nonprofit agencies to apply for such assistance, and sets forth required clearinghouse functions.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Foreign Tax Equity Act of 1990 - Title I: Treatment of Certain Foreign-Owned Corporations - Applies the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1989 amendments regarding information reporting requirements by certain foreign-owned corporations to taxable years beginning on or before July 10, 1989. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish information reporting requirements for foreign corporations engaged in business within the United States. Extends the statute of limitations for the assessment of any foreign-related deficiency by an additional period of not more than three years. Title II: Tax on Disposition of Stock in Domestic Corporations by 10-Percent Foreign Shareholders - Provides that if any nonresident alien or foreign corporation is a ten-percent shareholder in any domestic corporation, any gain or loss from the disposition of any stock in such domestic corporation shall be taken into account as if the taxpayer were effectively connected with U.S. trade or business. Requires a withholding agent to withhold ten percent of the tax realized on certain stock dispositions by such ten-percent shareholders.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1990
Family Unity and Employment Opportunity Immigration Act of 1990 - Title I: Family-Sponsored and Employment-Based Immigration - Subtitle A: Admission and Status - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to reorganize the standards for entry of permanent resident aliens around family-sponsored immigrants and employment-based immigrants. Revises: (1) the preference system for allocation of visas; (2) the petitioning procedure; and (3) the labor certification process. Grants a temporary stay of deportation and a work authorization to certain eligible immigrants who are spouses or children of legalized aliens. Revises: (1) certain nonimmigrant classifications; and (2) the qualifications for admission of aliens (and families) in religious occupations. Denies nonimmigrant (crewmember) status to aliens intending to perform services on board U.S. vessels or aircraft during a labor dispute where there is a strike or lockout in the bargaining unit of the employer for which the alien intends to perform such services. Subtitle B: Education and Training of American Workers - Directs the Attorney General to charge $1,000 fees (with certain exceptions) to any employer petitioning to import into the United States an alien falling in specified employment-based categories. Requires the Secretary of Labor, from an account into which such fees are deposited, to make grants to States to provide educational assistance and training for U.S. workers. Title II: Other Provisions Regarding Immigrant Visas - Directs the Attorney General to adjust to (conditional) permanent resident status the status of certain qualifying aliens who are natives of an adversely affected foreign state. Makes available up to 25,000 immigrant visa numbers in each of FY 1991 through 1993 to qualified: (1) displaced aliens from Eastern Europe; and (2) immigrants from Africa. Declares that for numerical limitation purposes Hong Kong shall be treated as a separate foreign state, and not as a colony or other component or dependent area of a foreign state, beginning with FY 1991. Title III: Other Immigration Provisions - Subtitle A: Provisions Relating to Marriage Fraud - Provides for a waiver of the conditional residence requirement for a foreign spouse who: (1) entered the qualifying marriage in good faith; and (2) can show through credible evidence that he or she was battered by, or subject to extreme mental cruelty perpetrated by, his or her spouse or parent. Provides a bona fide marriage exception to the foreign residence requirement for marriages entered into during certain immigration proceedings. Subtitle B: Provisions Relating to Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 - Prohibits discrimination based on national origin or citizenship status with respect to the terms and conditions of employment. Repeals the requirement that aliens file a declaration of intention to become a citizen in order to file an anti-discrimination complaint. Adds an extra year to the deadline for applying for adjustment of status from temporary to permanent residence. Permits judicial review of regulations, policies, and practices and court-ordered remedies for certain administrative actions. Disqualifies certain legalized aliens from cash assistance welfare programs only, not all financial assistance programs. Repeals certain paperwork requirements for recruiters and referrers. Provides for special immigrant status for certain aliens declared dependent on a juvenile court. Directs the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization to provide for a system for collection and dissemination of information useful in evaluating the social, economic, environmental, and demographic impact of immigration laws. Exempts travelers from Belize from the immigration inspection user fee. Title IV: Removal of Criminal Aliens - Revises the definition of aggravated felony to include illicit trafficking in controlled substances. Grants Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officers the power to make arrests for any offense against the United States. Directs the Commissioner to provide for the fingerprinting and photographing of each alien 14 or over against whom a deportation proceeding is commenced. Revises the condition for an alien's release from custody pending determination of deportability. Declares that any judicial recommendations against deportation shall not be taken into account in a deportation proceeding in determining the number of convictions for crimes involving moral turpitude. Revises: (1) the requirements for the notice given to an alien (or alien's counsel of record) about a deportation hearing; and (2) the limitations on discretionary relief from deportation. Declares that no time during the pendency of administrative or judicial proceedings shall be counted as periods of continuous physical presence for suspension of deportation. Repeals a proviso indicating that a written request from a prosecutor or judge obliges the Attorney General to deport an alien before his or her release from the correctional institution where he or she is confined. Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require States, as a condition for receiving drug control and system improvement grants, to provide INS without fee the certified conviction records of aliens convicted of violating State criminal laws. Provides for deportation for attempted violations of controlled substances laws. Revises the definition of good moral character to exclude persons convicted of an aggravated felony (not just, as current law provides, the crime of murder).
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1990
Congratulates: (1) the people of Lithuania on their recent multiparty elections; (2) the new Government on its decision to restore Lithuanian independence; and (3) the new Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania. Urges the Soviet Government to enter into negotiations with the new Lithuanian Government on an equal basis and to refrain from acts of political and economic intimidation against Lithuania. Urges the President to: (1) strengthen and seek ways to demonstrate his commitment to an independent and democratic Lithuania; (2) take steps toward normalizing diplomatic relations with the Lithuanian Government; (3) seek effective political support among our allies as Lithuania attempts to negotiate credits in Western markets; and (4) seek ways to make appropriate technical assistance available to the Lithuanian people.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1990
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover colon cancer preventive screening examinations, an annual physical examination performed by a physician or nurse practitioner, and verbal and written mental health screening examinations if a demonstration project to be conducted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services proves such examinations to be cost-effective or of moderate cost but measurably health enhancing.
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 week of October 13 through October 20, 1990, as American Textile Industry Bicentennial Week.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1990
Designates the week beginning September 16, 1990, as National Give the Kids a Fighting Chance Week.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1990
Designates the week beginning June 10, 1990, as National Scleroderma Awareness Week.