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United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989
Grants a Federal charter to the 82nd Airborne Division Association, Incorporated.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989
Hunger Emergency Assistance and Relief Trust Act of 1989 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals to designate on their income tax returns a contribution of all or part of their tax refunds to the Hunger Emergency Assistance and Relief Trust. Establishes in the Treasury the Hunger Emergency Assistance and Relief Trust (trust fund) to distribute hunger relief funds to qualified nonprofit hunger relief services organizations. Appropriates to the trust fund amounts equal to those designated on tax returns. Describes standards and procedures for the distribution of trust fund monies. Specifies a number of restrictions with respect to the activities of recipient organizations, including limitations on administrative expenses. Requires the Hunger Commission to submit to specified congressional committees an annual report detailing trust fund expenditures. Establishes a Hunger Commission to administer the distribution of funds to qualified hunger relief services organizations on a matching grant basis. Permits a maximum award of $100,000 to any single qualified organization in any fiscal year. Requires that: (1) at least 50 percent of amounts received into the trust fund in any year be paid to qualified organizations; and (2) monies in the trust fund be distributed within 180 days of their receipt there. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989
Pay Equity Technical Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to develop and implement a continuing program of information dissemination, research, and technical assistance to public and private entities with respect to correction of wage-setting practices, and reduction or elimination of wage disparities, to the extent that they are based on the sex, race, or national origin of the employee, rather than on the work performed and other appropriate factors.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989
Public Utility Holding Company Modernization Act of 1989 - Amends the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 with respect to unlawful transactions by registered public utility holding companies to permit a subsidiary company which is neither a holding company nor a public utility company to issue and sell securities solely for the purpose of financing its business. Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to exempt a subsidiary of a registered holding company from the proscription against the issuance or selling of its own securities (including the alteration of stockholder rights to such securities) if such transactions are solely for its business and have been expressly authorized by the State regulatory authority. Permits a registered holding company to acquire: (1) business interests of a non-public utility nature whose book value aggregates 15 percent of its total consolidated assets; and (2) additional business interests which the Commission finds consistent with the public interest or the protection of investors or consumers.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989
Amends rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit consideration of bills or resolutions making appropriations under the jurisdiction of more than one subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee for periods after November 30 of a fiscal year, unless three-fifths of the House votes to waive or suspend this provision.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989
Establishes in the House of Representatives the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families to conduct a comprehensive study and review of the problems of children, youth, and families.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989
Establishes in the House of Representatives the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control to conduct continuing oversight and review of the problems of narcotics, drug, and polydrug abuse and control.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1988
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Amateur Basketball Association United States of America and the U.S. Olympic Committee should promote the adoption of rules that would make all basketball players eligible to compete in the Olympic games; and (2) the U.S. Olympic Committee should promote the elimination of the distinction between amateur and professional athletes in all sports for purposes of eligibility to compete in the Olympic games.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1988
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) hospital payments for FY 1990 should not be reduced below levels provided in current law for such fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1988
Smoke-Free Hospitals Act of 1988 - Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to exclude a hospital from participation in the Medicare (title XVIII of the Act) or Medicaid (title XIX of the Act) program unless it prohibits the sale and smoking of tobacco products within its building or on its grounds. Excepts smoking permitted for research purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1988
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the provisions of the Omnibus Drug Initiative Act of 1988 amending the formula for allocating funds to State and local governments for drug control activities should not be enacted; and (2) the current allocation formula under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 should be maintained.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1988
Expresses the sense of the Congress that both the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates should publicly support making specified appropriated amounts available for obligation for the space station program, and should endorse its continued funding.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1988
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) national air transportation priorities and planning must be established which meet prescribed criteria (including deregulation); and (2) a bipartisan White House Conference should be convened in 1989 to develop a national aviation policy.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1988
Congratulates Israel and Egypt for a decade of peace based upon the Camp David accords. Calls upon other Arab states and Palestinians to join in the peace process, renounce the state of war and acts of violence, and enter into direct negotiations with Israel to achieve a lasting peace.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1988
Prevention of Genocide Act of 1988 - Makes certain findings concerning the use of chemical weapons by Iraq and Iraq's treatment of the Kurdish people. Requires the U.S. Executive Director or representative at all international financial institutions to vote against all loans to Iraq. Prohibits the provision of any assistance, the sale of any kind of military equipment, the provision of any credits, or the provision of any credit guarantees to Iraq. Prohibits the sale or transfer to Iraq of any item subject to export control by any agency of the United States. Prohibits the importation of any oil or petroleum products produced in Iraq. Authorizes the President to waive such sanctions if he determines and certifies to the Congress that: (1) Iraq is not committing genocide against the Kurdish population in Iraq; and (2) Iraq is not using chemical weapons banned by the 1925 Geneva Conventions and has provided reliable assurances that it will not use such weapons. Expresses the sense of the Congress: (1) commending the Government of Turkey for its humanitarian decision to host thousands of Kurdish people fleeing extermination in Iraq; and (2) that the United States shall provide assistance to Kurdish refugees in need of medical treatment and other humanitarian aid.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 1988
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) rededicate itself to attaining leadership in space activities; (2) increase budget resources for the space program; (3) pursue a strong program of both manned and unmanned space activities, including development of a permanently manned space station; and (4) seek opportunities for international cooperation in space.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1988
Condemns the Romanian Government's systematic violation of human rights. Protests the planned program of destruction of traditional settlements in violation of human rights, minority cultural rights, and property rights. Urges institutional reforms by the Romanian Government to comply with international agreements, including the Helsinki Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Urges continued presidential and Secretary of State action to bring about reforms. Urges the President not to consider providing any special benefit for Romania until a thorough human rights reform is instituted, including substantial actual improvement in the right of emigration, the rights of national minorities, and freedom of religion.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1988
Eliminates post-1968 service in the National Guard as a prerequisite to civil service retirement credit for former National Guard technicians. Amends the National Guard Technicians Act of 1968 to eliminate post-1968 service as a prerequisite for National Guard technicians to receiving credit in the determination of length of Federal civil service for purposes of leave, Federal employees' death and disability compensation, group life and health insurance, severance pay, tenure, and status. Sets forth rules for applying provisions of this Act to affected individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1988
Condemns human rights suppressions and civil liberties violations by the Nicaraguan Government. Declares that the expulsion from Nicaragua of U.S. diplomatic representatives is intolerable. Calls on Nicaragua to implement true democratic reforms in keeping with the Esquipulas II and Sapoa accords and to comply with international standards concerning the treatment of political prisoners. Urges Central American leaders to convene and assess the conditions in Nicaragua. Urges both parties to the Nicaraguan conflict to abide by the ceasefire and resume peace negotiations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1988
Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission from adopting revisions of the rules and policies in the proceeding "Policy and Rules Concerning Rates for Dominant Carrier," CC Docket 87-313, unless the changes expressly provide for: (1) the proper functioning of the long-term support mechanisms for the carrier common line rates administered by the National Exchange Carrier Association; (2) the maintenance of uniform nationwide long distance rates by dominant interexchange carriers; and (3) the use of an industry-wide rate of return to determine costs for access tariffs and to calculate the Universal Service Fund. Requires the FCC to report to the Congress the compliance of revisions with these conditions. Postpones effectiveness of any rule or policy revisions until 60 days have elapsed during which both Houses of the Congress are in session.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1988
Declares that all parties seeking a settlement of the conflict in Cambodia, including the United States, should have among their highest priorities the restoration of an independent Cambodia and the protection of the Cambodian people from a return to power by the Khmer Rouge. Calls on Vietnam to withdraw its forces from Cambodia and deny haven to the Khmer Rouge. Declares that the United States and the international community should use all means available to prevent a return to power of Pol Pot. Calls on the President to seek inclusion, in United Nations resolutions relating to Cambodia, the principle that those responsible for acts of genocide and human rights violations shall not return to power in Cambodia upon the withdrawal of foreign occupation forces. Encourages support of non-Communist Cambodian forces. Declares that the United States, in consultation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, should consider whether a Cambodian settlement could be facilitated by an international conference on Cambodia and international peacekeeping forces.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1988
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Government of Nicaragua should: (1) fulfill its pledge in the Esquipulas II agreement to grant a general amnesty to all political prisoners; (2) cease inhumane torture and holding prisoners incommunicado; (3) end random arrests for purposes of political intimidation; (4) allow human rights observers in all parts of prison facilities; (5) compensate former political prisoners; and (6) cease human rights violations.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1988
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to add Alaska natives and Oklahoma's Indians to the Indian tribes qualifying for waste water treatment assistance under the Water Quality Act of 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1988
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prevent double-counting of income in the conduct of needs analysis for student assistance programs under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1988
Amends Federal law relating to Interstate highway construction funds to provide that any State which voluntarily reduces the period of availability of apportioned funds for any fiscal year shall be ineligible to receive funds for the succeeding fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1988
Amends the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act to require manufacturers and importers of cigarettes to place warnings on packages and in advertisements that the nicotine in cigarettes is an addictive drug.
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1988
Designates the United States Post Office Building at 700 Main Street, Danville, Virginia, as the Dan Daniel Post Office Building.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1988
Aviation Safety Research Act of 1988 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to initiate aviation maintenance and safety research, including: (1) fire and smoke resistance technologies; (2) specified aspects of aircraft maintenance and structural technologies; (3) the relationship between human factors and aviation accidents; and (4) air traffic control. Requires the Administrator to submit a national aviation research plan to the Congress. Cites plan contents. Requires the Administrator to report annually to certain congressional committees concerning the previous year's research accomplishments. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1990 for aviation projects.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1988
Designates the week beginning November 13, 1988, as National Craniofacial Deformity Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1988
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Protection Act of 1988 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to direct the Director of the National Park Service to provide for the constant presence of law enforcement officers at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Allows the Secretary to accept and use any donated funds for such purpose. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1988
Earmarks a specified amount of funds made available to the Economic Support Fund for FY 1989 to be used for a grant to the National Endowment for Democracy to promote democracy in Nicaragua. Requires that such funds be used in a manner consistent with the Guatemala Peace Accords of August 7, 1987, and the Agreement between the Government of Nicaragua and the Nicaraguan Resistance of March 23, 1988. Specifies that such funds may be provided only to internal groups that have renounced violence and support a negotiated settlement to the conflict in Nicaragua.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1988
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the Federal Aviation Administration should give high priority to establishing an immediate research and development program regarding the structural deterioration of aging aircraft; and (2) the Federal Government, as part of such research program, should consider purchasing a representative sample of aircraft from the fleet of aging aircraft for extensive testing and tear down inspections and for gathering data regarding such aircrafts' airworthiness.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1988
Declares that the Congress recognizes the heroic acts of civilian construction workers who participated in the defense of Wake Island during its invasion by Japan between December 8 and December 23, 1941.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1988
Expresses U.S. policy that Nicaragua should undertake specified reforms, such as reinstating due process and fair trials, ending torture, conducting free elections, allowing an uncensored free press, ensuring the right to strike and to publish for unions, allowing the Catholic Church to reopen its offices, and ending the forced relocation of Indians and Creoles. Urges all countries in Central America to continue to work toward achieving the democratic principles and processes specified in the August 7, 1987, Central American peace accord.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1988
Multiyear National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act - Title I: National Aeronautics and Space Capital Development Program - Directs the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), for FY 1989 through 1993, to: (1) request at least 20 percent of NASA's total budget for science and applications activities; (2) begin specified missions in accordance with priorities enumerated in this Act; and (3) establish budget line items for specified equipment. Requires the Administrator, before December 31, 1992, to establish a "Mission to Planet Earth" program that utilizes satellites to establish a comprehensive understanding of the biogeochemical processes affecting global change. Declares congressional objectives with respect to U.S. space exploration activities, including as a major goal an international manned mission to Mars. Directs the Administrator: (1) for FY 1989 through 1992, to maintain a vigorous program to identify technologies needed to facilitate human exploration of the solar system; and (2) before December 31, 1992, to initiate development of a focused program directed toward a manned mission to Mars. Requires NASA to report biennially to the President and to the Congress on specified topics relating to space settlements. Declares the sense of the Congress that the United States will require the services of a heavy-lift launch vehicle during the 1990's. Directs the Administrator to: (1) undertake a focused program aimed at increasing the safety and efficiency of the space shuttle and reducing its cost; (2) complete system definition studies for a shuttle-derived heavy-lift launch vehicle, report on such a vehicle and its proposed mission by September 30, 1989, and initiate its development before December 31, 1993; (3) initiate concept studies for advanced space transfer and support vehicles in FY 1990; and (4) initiate and implement certain programs relating to expendable launch vehicles. Directs the Administrator to undertake activities to maximize the commercial use of space, including: (1) promoting joint endeavor agreements and ensuring the availability of flight opportunities for commercial users; and (2) charging space shuttle launch prices for commercial and foreign users in accordance with established law. Directs the Administrator: (1) before October 1, 1992, to increase the request for aeronautical research and technology development and validation activities to 15 percent of the total NASA budget; (2) in FY 1989 through 1993, to engage in specified aeronautical research and technology development activities, including the maintenance and enhancement of a complement of national facilities for carrying out these activities; and (3) to increase the number of full-time civil service personnel engaged in these activities by 50 percent over the 1989 level. Directs the Administrator to: (1) encourage the practical application of technologies developed through NASA activities; (2) seek to expand the Industrial Applications Centers network system; and (3) contract for implementation of the Industrial Applications Center in Oklahoma. Requires the Administrator, for FY 1989 through 1993, to develop a plan for necessary facilities construction. Directs the Administrator to establish a program of human resource development and authorizes the establishment, subject to the approval of the Office of Personnel Management, of an Enhanced Personnel Management Demonstration Project. Sets forth criteria to govern this project. Requires the Administrator to report economic assumptions and specified facility and fiscal estimates to specified congressional committees, by January 15, 1989. Title II: 3-Year Authorization - Authorizes FY 1989 through 1991 appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for specified activities relating to: (1) research and development; (2) space flight, control, and data communications; (3) construction of facilities; and (4) research and program management, including scientific consultations. Permits appropriations for the first two categories to be used for certain items of a capital nature (other than land acquisition) required for the performance of research and development contracts, and for grants to nonprofit research organizations to augment their research facilities. Prohibits the use of these funds for the construction of any major facility whose estimated cost exceeds $500,000, unless the Administrator of NASA notifies specified congressional leadership and committees. Permits upward variances of funds for facilities construction under circumstances outlined in this Act. Authorizes certain fund transfers and makes available specified funds for the construction and modification of laboratories and other installations. Requires the Administrator to notify specified congressional leadership and committees of the nature, cost, and need for such construction before expending the funds in question. Prohibits, until 30 days following congressional receipt of the Administrator's full explanation, the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this Act for any program that: (1) has been eliminated by the Congress; (2) is in excess of the amount actually authorized for the particular program (except for construction of facilities); or (3) has not been presented to either of the relevant congressional committees. Declares it to be the sense of the Congress that it is in the national interest to consider the widest geographical distribution, whenever feasible, in allotting Federal research funds and that NASA should explore ways to do so. Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to authorize certain NASA-related personnel to make warrantless arrests, under limited circumstances, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Administrator and approved by the Attorney General. Establishes the National Mars Commission to: (1) develop a strategy for international cooperation on unmanned Mars projects, including safeguards against unwanted transfers of technology; and (2) prepare a detailed proposal for a cooperative manned Mars mission with the Soviet Union and any other interested nations. Details membership and administrative features of the Commission. Directs the Commission, six months after this Act's enactment, to prepare and submit to both the President and the Congress: (1) a report outlining preliminary cooperative strategies with respect to both independent unmanned Mars projects and a joint manned mission with the Soviet Union and any other interested nations; and (2) a final proposal for a joint manned Mars mission by participating countries. Terminates the Commission 30 days following the submission of its final report. Authorizes the Administrator to initiate procedures for competitive procurement of a commercially developed microgravity research space facility to be placed in orbit by the end of FY 1993. Requires the Administrator to: (1) report a final selection and related details regarding such a facility to specified congressional committees no later than the date when the President submits the NASA FY 1990 budget request; and (2) keep the committees informed of activities and negotiations relating to the microgravity research facility. Requires the express authorization of the Congress before the Administrator may sign any contract for the acquisition of such a facility. Prescribes conditions that must apply in connection with the authorization of funding for and the maintenance and utilization of such a facility. Directs the Administrator to make expended external tanks of the space shuttle fleet available at no cost to certain U.S. commercial and nonprofit endeavors for five years after this Act's enactment. Makes at least five tanks available to nonprofit organizations specializing in scientific research for suborbital intertank experiments. Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to include as part of the national space program's policy and purpose the congressional declaration that U.S. aeronautical and space activities should be conducted in a way that will preserve U.S. preeminence in these fields through research and technology development related to associated manufacturing processes. Title III: Ten Year Strategic Plan - Directs the Administrator to: (1) undertake a program of science and applications, including the robotic exploration of other solar system bodies and the enhancement of understanding of the behavior of biological systems in the space environment; (2) pursue the continued manned exploration of the solar system and low-Earth orbit, including the establishment of an operational U.S. International Space Station and missions involving Mars and the moon; (3) improve both the manned and unmanned space transportation systems; and (4) conduct a program in aeronautics research and technology development and validation, and, with the Department of Defense, conduct a flight demonstration program targeting specified goals. Title IV: Commercial Space Launch Act Authorization - Amends the Commercial Space Launch Act to authorize FY 1989 through 1991 appropriations for activities under such Act. Title V: Civil Space Programs in the Department of Commerce - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to propose authorizing legislation for Department of Commerce activities in support of civil space commercial programs and to present the legislation to specified congressional committees by July 15, 1988. Title VI: Drug-Free Workplace - Prohibits any entity from receiving a grant or contract authorized under this Act unless it certifies that it will provide a drug-free workplace by: (1) publishing a policy statement prohibiting the unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensation, or possession of a controlled substance while in the workplace; and (2) requiring each employee to certify receipt and understanding of and agreement to abide by the published policy. Requires all grants and contracts authorized under this Act to contain a provision mandating the withholding of payments if any employee of the recipient entity is convicted for controlled substance violations occurring in the workplace. Sets out guidelines to govern the administration of such withholding, including notice and hearing provisions. Waives these grant and contract award and funding limitations if the head of the granting or contracting agency determines that their application would severely disrupt the operation of the recipient to the detriment of the Federal Government or the general public.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1988
Cigarette Testing and Liability Act of 1988 - Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to require the Federal Trade Commission to provide for a continuing study of the constituents of tobacco smoke, including: (1) random testing of cigarettes produced or sold in the United States to determine the amount of specified ingredients of the smoke of cigarettes; and (2) the levels of such ingredients when people change their smoking behavior to compensate for lower levels of nicotine. Directs the Commission to: (1) arrange for a laboratory of the Federal Government or a private, nonprofit laboratory with no connection to a tobacco company to conduct the study; (2) require, as a condition to the arrangement, that the laboratory conduct similar studies for private nonprofit groups; and (3) report annually to the Congress on the results of the study. Amends the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act to provide that compliance with cigarette labeling and advertising requirements does not relieve any person from liability under common law or State statutory law.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1988
Designates specified land as the Manassas National Battlefield Addition. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land within the boundaries of the Addition and to administer such lands as part of the Manassas National Battlefield Park, Virginia. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1988
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to determine the payments to be made to hospitals under Medicare's prospective payment system on the basis of a blend of hospital-specific rates and a national rate, depending on the degree to which costs vary within specific diagnosis-related groups. Eliminates the urban or rural classification of an area as a consideration in hospital payment determinations. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) identify relevant labor markets for hospitals; (2) establish a methodology to determine the proportion of hospital costs which are wage-related and compare the hospital wage level in each labor market with the national average hospital wage level; and (3) take into account differences among hospitals in part and full-time employment patterns.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1988
Expresses the sense of the Congress that certain officers and the crew of the U.S.S. Bonefish should be recognized and commended for their efforts to save their fellow shipmates when an explosion and fire threatened their submarine.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1988
Biotechnology Science Coordination and Competitiveness Act of 1988 - Establishes the National Biotechnology Policy Commission to evaluate Government, as well as non-confidential privately funded, biotechnology activities, including both basic and applied research and the development of related commercial industries and products. Directs the Commission, beginning in 1990, to submit to the President and to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives biannual reports containing recommendations in connection with specified biotechnology-related topics. Mandates that these reports be published and made available to the public.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1988
Uranium Revitalization, Tailings Reclamation and Enrichment Act of 1988 - Title I: Uranium Revitalization - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to extend from 1983 to the year 2000 the period during which the Secretary of Energy (the Secretary) is required to monitor the viability of the domestic uranium mining and milling industry. Sets forth a formula for the calculation of user charges to be paid by civilian nuclear power reactor licensees with fuel assemblies containing foreign uranium between January 1, 1988, to January 1, 2001. Prohibits Federal bodies from entering into foreign uranium purchase contracts. Restricts the use of federally-owned natural uranium stockpiles to: (1) military purposes; (2) Federal research; and (3) production activities by the United States Enrichment Corporation. Exempts the Tennessee Valley Authority from the foreign purchase prohibition. Title II: Tailings Reclamation - Provides that remedial action with respect to uranium shall be performed according to statutory guidelines by the site owner or licensee at the active site. Requires that such owners' reclamation expenses be reimbursed from the Uranium Mill Tailings Fund (established by this Act). Identifies the active sites that qualify for such reimbursement. Establishes the Uranium Mill Tailings Fund, which shall consist of contributions from: (1) States in which active sites are located; (2) site owners or licensees; (3) the Federal Government; and (4) user fees. Prescribes guidelines for: (1) Fund administration; (2) contributions; (3) participation; and (4) reimbursement for expenditures for remedial actions (including at thorium sites). States that the sole liability and financial obligation udner Federal law for remedial action at active uranium and thorium sites shall consist of the contributions, fines, and work performed by: (1) active site owner licensees; or (2) persons using source or special nuclear material for a civilian nuclear power reactor to generate electrical energy. Title III: United States Enrichment Corporation - Establishes the United States Enrichment Corporation as a wholly-owned Government corporation to acquire, operate, and market uranium enrichment activities on a commercial, profitable basis. Mandates that its corporate structure be self-financing in order to obviate the need for Federal financing. States that the Corporation Administrator shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Establishes an Advisory Board to review Corporation policies and performance. Transfers certain Department of Energy property to the Corporation. Requires the Corporation to establish charges to its customers that will recover costs of decommissioning and decontamination of Corporation property. Requires the Corporation to report annually regarding its activities to the President, the Secretary, and certain congressional committees. Prescribes licensing and taxation guidelines for the Corporation. Sets guidelines for payments in lieu of taxes by the corporation to States and local governments. Requires the Administrator to make recommendations to the President and the Congress by December 31, 1998, regarding the transfer of the Corporation's functions and assets to private ownership. Establishes the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund to cover the Corporation's decommissioning and decontamination expenses. Directs the Secretary to indemnify Corporation contractors for nuclear hazards incidents as if such contractors were contractors of the Secretary. Eliminates the treatment of uranium enrichment facilities as production facilities under the Atomic Energy Act with respect to the importation of such facilities into the United States (thus subjecting them to less stringent licensing requirements). Prohibits the Corporation's total FY 1989 expenditures from exceeding its total FY 1989 receipts.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1988
Declares that the Congress acknowledges and appreciates the commitment, devotion, and sacrifices of present and former military families. Designates November 21, 1988, as National Military Families Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1988
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover, on a reasonable charge basis, the services of a clinical psychologist which would otherwise be covered if furnished by a physician or as incident to a physician's service.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1988
Sets standards to assure the safe transportation of school children to, from, or on military installations owned or controlled by the United States and located outside the United States. Directs the Secretary of each military department to provide that the commanding officer of each U.S. military installation which has personnel with school children contract or otherwise provide for the use of motor vehicles as school buses to transport children to and from a Department of Defense Office of Dependent Schools (DODDS) institution. Sets minimum precautions to be taken by DODDS and each military department to protect school children from injury while being transported to and from DODDS institutions. Directs DODDS to develop a training program for all persons who operate school buses and makes successful completion of such program a prerequisite to operating a school bus. Specifies that such program shall include training in areas such as safe boarding and discharging of school children, safe driving techniques, and first-aid. Directs the appropriate Secretary to require each DODDS school to hold drills in leaving school buses under emergency conditions. Sets requirements for school bus equipment, including warning devices, warning signs, and safety belts. Directs that school buses be maintained as required by local law. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to issue and enforce other lawful maintenance regulations which are reasonably likely to make the transportation of school children safer. Sets forth mandatory qualifications for school bus operators, including English language ability and passage of a special examination on the safe operation of a school bus. Prohibits any military department from hiring any person to operate a school bus transporting pupils unless such person meets specified requirements, including passing a physical examination, providing a copy of department of motor vehicle (DMV) records showing that the person had not been convicted of certain driving or criminal offenses, is between the ages of 18 and 70, and successfully completed a first-aid course. Requires that results of the physical examination and DMV records be furnished annually. Prohibits any operator from performing services in excess of eight hours in any 24-hour period or from operating a school bus without wearing a safety lap belt. Sets forth procedures for establishing bus routes, loading and unloading of passengers, seating of passengers, and railroad crossings to maximize safety. Makes a person guilty of reckless driving if he or she fails to stop when approaching from any direction a clearly marked school bus which is taking on or discharging school children on Federal property, unless the bus is stopped on the other side of a divided roadway or on a driveway which is separated by a physical barrier or unpaved area from the roadway on which he is driving. Sets a maximum speed limit of 25 miles per hour on U.S.-owned or controlled property, between "school" or "school crossing" signs. Establishes additional requirements related to signs.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1988
Global Poverty Reduction Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to direct the President to develop a plan to ensure that U.S. development assistance contributes measurably toward eradicating the worst aspects of absolute poverty by the year 2000. Requires that such plan include target dates for reaching specific measurable goals whose attainment would contribute to direct improvements in the living standards of the poorest 40 percent of the population. Specifies that such goals shall include reducing the mortality rate of infants under age five, increasing the female literacy rate, and reducing the percentages of populations below the absolute poverty level by specified amounts by the year 2000. Directs that primary emphasis of development activities to restore the renewable natural resource base shall be on small-scale, affordable, low-risk local projects featuring close consultation with, and involvement of, local people at all stages of project design and implementation. Requires the President to submit the plan to the Congress by July 1, 1989. Requires all U.S. development assistance to be directed at attaining plan goals between October 1, 1989, and December 31, 2000. Requires the President to submit annual reports to the Congress detailing progress toward achieving plan goals. Directs the Comptroller General to review and comment on each report issued. Directs the President to host an international development conference for heads of governments of development assistance donor and recipient countries by October 16, 1989, to conclude an international agreement on eliminating the worst aspects of absolute poverty by the year 2000.
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.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1988
Emergency Assistance for the Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance Act - Transfers to the President a specified sum of unobligated funds to provide humanitarian assistance to the Nicaraguan democratic resistance and transportation for such assistance. Earmarks a specified amount of such assistance for the purchase, repair, and transportation of communications equipment. Provides that such transferred funds shall remain available until March 31, 1989. Declares it to be U.S. policy to assist all groups within the resistance which are committed to work for democratic national reconciliation in Nicaragua and which respect international standards of conduct. Prohibits assistance for groups violating human rights or engaging in drug smuggling, or the significant misuse of public or private funds. Directs the President to use authority under this Act to encourage the resistance to broaden its representative base, increase the responsiveness of military forces to civilian leadership, and continue to participate in the diplomatic process. Requires the President to make a determination and report to the Congress on certain actions taken by the resistance such as willingness to participate in the diplomatic effort, efforts to eliminate human rights abuses, and measures assuring accountability of funds, before such funds may be used. Makes the Secretary of State responsible for policy guidance, coordination, and supervision of Government activities under this Act. Requires the establishment of standards, procedures, and controls to ensure accountability of funds. Sets limitations on the activities of U.S. Government personnel in Nicaragua. Directs the Secretary of Defense to make available through March 31, 1989, passive air defense equipment to assure the safety of transportation provided under this Act. Provides that, after a ceasefire is negotiated between the Government of Nicaragua and the resistance, delivery of the remaining assistance shall be made in accordance with the terms of the ceasefire agreement. Welcomes proposals by the President to the Congress for bilateral and multilateral action to: (1) provide additional economic assistance to the democratic countries of Central America; (2) facilitate the growth of their economies; (3) provide a more realistic plan to assist such countries in managing their foreign debt; (4) develop these initiatives in concert with democratic allies; and (5) lift the embargo on trade and other transactions against Nicaragua, and include Nicaragua as eligible for assistance, if it is in compliance with the Guatemala Accords. Sets forth: (1) time periods during which the President may request additional assistance for the resistance, after consultation with the Congress; and (2) congressional priority procedures for taking up such requests.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1988
Calls for the reestablishment of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America to study the nature of U.S. interests in the region and the threats now posed to those interests. Directs the Commission to provide advice to the President, the Secretary of State, and the Congress on a long-term U.S. policy and on a means of building a national consensus on a comprehensive U.S. policy for the region.
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.