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United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1989
Prohibits the importation of meat, wine, cheese, or any other edible agricultural commodity from Romania.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1989
Designates April 22, 1990, as Earth Day for public activities that promote global environmental preservation.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1989
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that individuals throughout the United States should observe Independence Day, July 4, 1989, as Take Pride in the Flag Day to celebrate the 213th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the 201st anniversary of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1989
Supports the President in his call for clemency for the pro-democracy demonstrators arrested in the People's Republic of China. Calls upon the Chinese leadership to stay further executions of those arrested in the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators throughout China.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1989
Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a safety standard under the Consumer Product Safety Act to require manufacturers of liquid consumer products to include denatonium benzoate in the products if the products present a hazard if ingested by children.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1989
Emergency Chinese Adjustment of Status Facilitation Act of 1989 - Waives the two-year home country residence requirement for nationals of the People's Republic of China in the United States on a student (J) visa. Continues the legal status of nonimmigrant nationals of the People's Republic of China in the United States for adjustment or change of status purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1989
Forest Users' Protection Act of 1989 - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide criminal penalties for cutting, spiking, injuring, or destroying any tree on land owned or held in trust by the Government. Provides increased penalties for subsequent violations or when a personal injury or property damage exceeding $500 results. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a reward to any individual who provides information which leads to the finding of a civil violation or a criminal conviction under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1989
Drug Utilization Review Act of 1989 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the establishment of a Drug Utilization Review System (System) providing participating pharmacies, pharmacists, and dispensing physicians with prompt 24-hour electronic access to a medication profile for each Medicare beneficiary for whom they prescribe a covered outpatient drug. Requires that such system identify potential adverse drug reactions that may result from: (1) the interaction of the prescribed drug with other drugs being used by the beneficiary and with a known allergy, physical condition or illness presented by the beneficiary; and (2) misuse of the prescribed drug. Requires that participating pharmacies, pharmacists and dispensing physicians having access to the System agree that: (1) no beneficiary will be required to disclose medication profile information as a condition of receiving benefits; (2) the beneficiary's medication profile will not be accessed without the beneficiary's specific and voluntary authorization; (3) data acquired will not be disclosed to anyone other than the beneficiary, except when consultations between those involved in the beneficiary's health care are medically necessary; and (4) each beneficiary shall receive written notice of such requirements. Penalizes, by fine and/or imprisonment, those guilty of the unauthorized disclosure of medication profile information. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study and report to the Congress by October 1, 1992, on the efficacy of expanding the System to include all Medicare-eligible outpatients who are inpatients and information on over-the-counter drugs and biologicals.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1989
International Cooperation Act of 1989 - Title I: Economic Assistance - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to revise policy provisions concerning economic assistance. Sets forth the objectives of U.S. development cooperation policy and economic assistance programs as the: (1) promotion of broad based economic growth; (2) improvement of resource management to bring about environmentally and economically sustainable patterns of development; (3) alleviation of poverty through the development of human resources; and (4) promotion of democracy and political, social, and economic pluralism. Requires the President to use the authorities of this Act to provide assistance to meet long-term development needs in developing countries. Authorizes the President to provide such assistance to promote specified activities contributing to broad based, sustainable, and participatory development and economic growth. Directs the President to develop a plan to ensure that U.S. development assistance contributes measurably to eradicating the worst aspects of absolute poverty by the year 2000 and to seek international cooperation in achieving the goals of such plan. Requires such plan to include the following goals for the year 2000: (1) reduction of under-five mortality rates by at least 50 percent of the 1980 rates or to not more than 70 per 1000 live births, whichever achieves the greatest reduction; (2) achievement of universal primary education and at least 80 percent female literacy for age groups defined by each country; (3) reduction of the proportion of the population living in absolute poverty by at least 50 percent of the 1980 proportion; and (4) such other quantifiable goals that the President determines to be crucial to the elimination of poverty. Directs the President to submit such plan to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for family planning projects. Earmarks funds for child survival and health activities out of amounts made available for development and economic support assistance for FY 1990 and 1991. Requires the President to use such assistance and assistance for famine recovery and development in Africa for: (1) special health needs of children and mothers; and (2) activities relating to research on and the treatment and control of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Directs the President to use assistance available under this title to improve the performance of institutions of democracy and to promote pluralism. Outlines programs eligible for funding under this title, including programs to: (1) encourage the growth of independent associations; (2) increase awareness of internationally recognized human rights and to support victims of human rights abuses; (3) support a free and independent press; (4) provide training, scholarships, and exchanges for continuing legal education and to promote the role of the bar in judicial selection, ethical standards, and legal reform; and (5) increase the availability of legal publications and to support the revision of legal codes and procedures. Requires a substantial portion of such assistance to be provided to nongovernmental organizations. Provides that funds made available for famine recovery and development in Africa may be used only for countries in Subsaharan Africa. Increases the amount of grants that may be made available to nongovernmental organizations in South Africa promoting efforts to foster a just society and to help victims of apartheid. Earmarks a specified amount of funds made available under this title for assistance to disadvantaged South Africans, to include scholarships, assistance to promote the participation of disadvantaged South Africans in trade unions, private enterprise, and alternative education and community development programs. Authorizes the President to use funds available under this title to: (1) support activities to reduce illicit cultivation of narcotic and psychotropic drugs and other controlled substances by stimulating broader development opportunities; and (2) increase awareness of the effects of production and trafficking of such substances on source and transit countries. Permits the deposit into the private sector revolving fund of a specified amount of funds made available under this title for FY 1990 and 1991. Grants the President (currently, the agency responsible for administering this section) certain authorities with respect to the revolving fund. Removes a restriction on the amount required to be available in the guaranty reserve of such fund. Authorizes funds made available under this title to be used for: (1) economic and social development through regional cooperation and integration; (2) development education programs for U.S. citizens; and (3) U.S. research and educational institutions for developing and carrying out programs for the economic and social development of developing countries. Requires agencies responsible for environmental programs in developing countries to prepare initial examinations of such programs to ensure that such programs are environmentally sustainable. Declares that beneficiary countries should bear a share of the costs of development assistance programs under this Act. Prohibits funds made available under this title from being used for military or paramilitary purposes. Authorizes the President to furnish economic support assistance to countries and organizations to promote economic or political stability. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for such assistance. Declares that economic support assistance should be provided through commodity import programs, project assistance, sector programs, or the provision of U.S. goods and services. Permits such assistance to be provided as a cash transfer only pursuant to an agreement requiring that the country spend an amount equal to such transfer to purchase U.S. goods and services. Requires such agreements to include provisions to ensure that representatives of the U.S. Comptroller General have access to necessary records and personnel for monitoring and auditing purposes. Exempts from such requirements countries which: (1) receive less than $10,000,000 cash transfer assistance annually; or (2) have certain agreements with the United States. Authorizes the President to waive the requirements of this section when it is in the national interest. Requires the President to report such waivers to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Authorizes the President to make voluntary grants to international organizations to carry out this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991. Earmarks specified amounts of such appropriations for the United Nations Development Program, the United Nations Children's Fund, and the United Nations University. Earmarks a specified amount of funds made available under this title for the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Authorizes funds to be earmarked for the International Atomic Energy Agency only if the Secretary of State determines and reports to the Congress that Israel is not being denied the right to participate in the Agency. Prohibits the United States from making contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East unless the Agency assures that no U.S. contribution is used to assist any refugee who: (1) is receiving military training as a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) or any other guerrilla organization; or (2) has engaged in any act of terrorism. Requires the President to report annually to the Congress (currently, semiannually) on U.S. voluntary contributions to international organizations. Applies evaluation and auditing procedures for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Asian Development Bank to the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, the Inter-American Investment Corporation, the African Development Bank, the African Development Fund, and the Asian Development Fund. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United Nations Development Program should allocate at least $8,000,000 per fiscal year to develop and implement area management plans to ensure the protection of national parks and reserves of global biological significance under immediate threat of the loss of biological diversity; and (2) consideration be given to providing grants to nongovernmental organizations to undertake such activities. Requests the President to instruct the U.S. representative to the Administration and Governing Committee of the United Nations Development Program to express the sense of the Congress with respect to such plans. Requires the President, in FY 1990 and 1991, to designate at least five countries in which development assistance or assistance for famine recovery and development in Africa is furnished for the purpose of evaluating programs of the United Nations to which U.S. voluntary contributions are made. Revises provisions regarding the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). Directs OPIC to report to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations prior to issuing insurance for civil strife or business interruptions in instances where risks are significantly expanded. Requires OPIC to maintain development impact profiles on each insured, financed, or reinsured project. Directs OPIC to: (1) give preferences to projects sponsored by U.S. small businesses; and (2) maintain the proportion of projects sponsored by or significantly involving such businesses at a level of at least 30 percent of all projects. Authorizes OPIC to establish a revolving fund to be available solely for a pilot equity finance program. Authorizes (currently, requires) OPIC to charge fees for any service performed under this title. Authorizes the Inspector General of the administering agency (currently, the Agency for International Development) to conduct audits, investigations, and security activities of OPIC. Eliminates OPIC's exemption from Federal taxation. Revises the authorities of the Director of the Trade and Development Agency (replaces the Trade and Development Program). Requires the Agency to disseminate information about its activities to the private sector. Sets forth the duties of the Inspector General of the administering agency with respect to the Agency. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for international disaster assistance. Permits the President to appoint a Special Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance to: (1) promote maximum effectiveness and coordination in responses to foreign disasters by U.S. agencies and between the United States and other donors; and (2) formulate and update contingency plans for providing such disaster relief. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for American schools, libraries, and hospital centers abroad. Authorizes the President (currently, the administering agency) to provide guarantees to the Export-Import Bank in connection with liabilities incurred with respect to exports to Central America. Revises a provision concerning limits on guarantee commitments to limit to $200,000,000 outstanding commitments of contingent liability for loan principal during any fiscal year. Authorizes the Bank, in connection with guarantees or insurance, to charge fees and premiums commensurate with the Bank's administrative costs and the risks covered by the administering agency's guarantees. Terminates the President's authority to guarantee liabilities after FY 1992. Revises provisions concerning the housing and urban development guarantee program. Raises the limit on: (1) the face value of guarantees with respect to any country; (2) the average face value of guarantees; and (3) the total principal amount of guarantees issued. Terminates authorities with respect to housing guarantees after FY 1993. Deems to be payments made by eligible developing countries to the United States for economic assistance loans: (1) local currency deposited in local currency accounts to be used for specific development purposes; and (2) payments waived by the President under certain conditions. Directs the President to notify specified congressional committees on any approved debt relief. Authorizes the President to use funds made available under this title for grants to enable nongovernmental organizations to: (1) purchase debt obligations owed by developing countries to commercial lending institutions or private parties; and (2) cancel such obligations subject to the President's approval, to the extent that such country makes available assets or policy commitments to promote the objectives of this title. Authorizes Federal agencies to: (1) furnish services and commodities on an advance-of-funds or reimbursement basis to friendly countries, international organizations, the American Red Cross, and private voluntary organizations registered with and approved by the administering agency; and (2) contract with individuals for personal services abroad or in the United States to perform such services in lieu of Federal employees. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for operating expenses of the agency administering this title and of the Office of the Inspector General of such agency. Permits funds authorized to be appropriated under this title for development assistance, economic support assistance, or assistance for famine recovery and development in Africa to be used for such operating expenses. Requires the administrator of the administering agency to: (1) establish a system of quantitative and qualitative indicators of country, regional, and centrally funded program and development achievement; (2) create and support systems of data collection and analysis to produce objective and timely reports; (3) strengthen the linkage between evaluation findings and policy and program formulation by the agency and assure the widest possible distribution of formal evaluation findings; and (4) develop with the Inspector General of the agency an appropriate division of responsibility and system of coordination. Directs the administrator to establish within such agency a Center for Development Information and Evaluation. Requires the Director of the Center to report annually to the Congress on: (1) progress toward achieving the four basic objectives set forth under this title; and (2) a country-by-country analysis of the impact on economic development in each country during the preceding three to five years of U.S. economic assistance programs, with a discussion of U.S. interests that were served by such assistance. Directs the administrator to establish a Center for University Cooperation in Development and a Center for Voluntary Cooperation in Development. Provides that the respective purposes of such centers shall be to strengthen the partnership for development between the U.S. Government and: (1) U.S. institutions of higher education engaged in education, research, and public service programs relevant to developing countries; and (2) U.S. private voluntary organizations, cooperatives, and credit unions engaged in activities relevant to such countries. Establishes a private sector advisory board for the administering agency. Requires the administrator to establish procedures to ensure coordination of the activities and recommendations of such boards. Title II: Military Assistance and Sales Programs - Chapter 1: Consolidation of Military Assistance Accounts - Revises U.S. policy provisions concerning military assistance to express needs for more equitable distribution of collective defense responsibilities and multilateral controls on transfers of defense articles and services. Revises the President's authority to furnish military assistance to friendly countries to permit the President to: (1) finance the sale of defense articles or services; or (2) finance the procurement of such articles (under certain circumstances and with notification of the appropriate congressional committees) by any member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) or any major non-NATO ally through leases from U.S. commercial suppliers. Requires sales under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act which are wholly paid from funds made available on a grant basis under this Act or were transferred or made available under former authorities prior to this Act's enactment to be priced to exclude the costs of salaries of members of the U.S. armed forces, other than members of the Coast Guard. Prohibits members of the U.S. armed forces detailed to carry out certain services under this Act from performing duties of a combat nature. Prohibits funds made available under this chapter from being used for any research or development activities, manufacturing or production, or other work performed by a foreign government or firm pursuant to an offset arrangement with a U.S. firm in connection with the procurement of defense articles or services by a foreign country. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to funds made available for Israel for FY 1990 and 1991. Prohibits assistance from being furnished under this chapter in any case involving coproduction or licensed production outside the United States of any defense article of U.S. origin unless the President furnishes full information on the proposed transaction to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Prohibits the obligation of certain assistance for the procurement of: (1) any vessel of war built pursuant to a prime contract awarded to a foreign shipyard; or (2) any weapons system or other major system for a vessel of war built pursuant to such a contract awarded to a foreign rather than a U.S. shipyard because of unfair foreign competition. Exempts from such prohibition vessels of war built in the foreign country which is the recipient of such assistance or built pursuant to a prime contract signed before the effective date of this Act. Requires assistance agreements under this chapter to grant the U.S. Government the express right to deobligate any furnished funds that have not been committed for an approved use by the end of a 3-year period. Authorizes assistance provided under this chapter to be on a grant or credit basis. Outlines criteria to be considered by the President in determining the terms of assistance. Requires repayment in U.S. dollars within 12 years of the signature of a loan agreement for credit assistance. Provides that the interest rate on such loans shall be at least five percent annually. Outlines disbursement procedures for funds used to finance the procurement of defense articles and services. Makes provisions concerning eligibility for the receipt of defense articles or services applicable to the financing of such articles or services. Makes defense articles sold or leased under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act or furnished under predecessor foreign assistance or military sales legislation subject to the eligibility provisions of this title. Raises the ceiling on the value of defense articles and services authorized to be made available under certain emergencies. Authorizes the President to transfer excess defense articles to any country: (1) which is a major illicit drug producing country in Latin America and the Caribbean with a democratic government; and (2) whose armed forces do not engage consistently in gross violations of human rights. Requires such countries to ensure that such articles will be used only in support of antinarcotic activities. Declares that the Congress intends that excess defense articles be made available to maintain the military balance in the Eastern Mediterranean. Requires the President to ensure, over a three-year period beginning in FY 1990, that the ratio of the value of such articles made available for Turkey to those made available for Greece closely approximates the ratio of the amount of foreign military financing provided for Turkey to the amount provided for Greece. Directs the Secretary of State to determine the eligibility of illicit drug producing countries to receive excess defense articles under this Act. Limits the aggregate value of such articles transferred to such a country to $10,000,000 per fiscal year. Limits the aggregate acquisition cost to the United States of excess defense articles ordered for foreign countries or organizations pursuant to this chapter or to sales under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act to $250,000,000 (exclusive of ships and onboard stores and supplies). Directs the President to establish controls to make financed commercial arms sales subject to monitoring and auditing requirements no less stringent in accountability than requirements of Federal Acquisition Regulation applicable to sales under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act relating to improper business practices and personal conflict of interest, quality assurance, payment, price, and profit. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this chapter for FY 1990 and 1991. Earmarks specified amounts of such appropriations for financing government-to-government procurement under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act. Sets aside two percent of such appropriations for assistance to otherwise eligible countries for which the Congress has not by law specified an amount of assistance. Requires the President, at least 15 days before obligating funds for a country under this chapter, to notify specified congressional committees. Revises provisions concerning the location of stockpiles. Places ceilings on the value of additions to stockpiles for FY 1990 and 1991. Requires at least one member of the U.S. armed forces assigned to each country overseas to be primarily responsible for monitoring international security assistance and sales programs. Prohibits more than six members of the armed forces from being assigned to a country in Africa (other than Egypt, Morocco, or Tunisia) unless the President determines and reports to the Congress that U.S. interests require that more than six members be assigned to such country. Authorizes the President to furnish military education and training to foreign military and civilian personnel. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for: (1) international military education and training; and (2) peacekeeping activities. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Arms Export Control Act. Revises a provision concerning the Guaranty Reserve Fund under such Act. Repeals a provision concerning the availability of funds for procurement of defense articles and services outside the United States. Makes requirements under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 concerning the disposition of defense articles and services inapplicable on the effective date of this title. Chapter 2: Foreign Military Sales Program - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to rename such Act as the Defense Trade and Export Control Act. Repeals a provision concerning purposes for military sales or leases. Deems references to the Arms Export Control Act to be references to the Defense Trade and Export Control Act. Requires the President to take the following steps to address the financial management problems that exist with respect to payments on account of sales under such Act: (1) establish a new account for the deposit of funds with respect to any sale of defense articles or services or certain design and construction services entered into after FY 1990 in order to isolate financial transactions relating to new sales; (2) establish a centralized accounting system with respect to payments under such Act; (3) improve coordination and uniformity among the accounting and billing systems maintained by each of the military services with respect to such sales; and (4) reconcile the discrepancies between reported disbursements and reported performance with respect to sales which are still being implemented and those which have been completed. Directs the President to notify the Congress at least 30 days before designating a country as a major non-NATO ally or terminating such a designation. Deems Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, and the Republic of Korea to have been so designated by the President. Revises provisions concerning: (1) presidential certifications and congressional procedures for certain arms transfers, export and manufacturing licenses, and leases of defense articles to foreign countries or international organizations; and (2) contents of required reports on arms sales, coproduction agreements, and price and availability estimates. Applies certain sanctions if: (1) a foreign party to a coproduction agreement violates the restrictions in such agreement regarding unauthorized third party transfers or dispositions of defense articles or services or technical data provided under such agreement; and (2) the violation is substantial. Lists such sanctions as: (1) the suspension of the authority or license to produce defense articles abroad granted by all coproduction agreements to which such foreign party is a party; and (2) a prohibition on the issuance or approval of licenses for such party. Requires the President to report to the Congress with respect to such determinations. Authorizes up to $500,000 of registration fees for munitions control licenses to be credited to a Department of State account. Disqualifies for financing under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for 12 months any contracts of a person convicted or debarred for a violation of international traffic in arms regulations under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act. Requires the biennial review of international traffic in arms regulations. Revises provisions regarding administrative surcharges for the sale of defense articles or services from Department of Defense stocks. Prohibits the sale of antitank shells containing a depleted uranium component to any country except a NATO member country, a major non-NATO ally, or Pakistan. Repeals provisions concerning: (1) discrimination; (2) restraint in arms sales to Subsaharan Africa; (3) foreign military sales credit standards; (4) foreign military sales to less developed countries; and (5) technical amendments to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Title III: Assistance to Combat International Terrorism and Narcotics Trafficking - Chapter I: Permanent Authorities, Requirements, and Restrictions - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to incorporate provisions of the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985 concerning coordination of U.s. antiterrorism assistance. Permits antiterrorism training services to be conducted outside the United States under certain circumstances. Authorizes appropriations for antiterrorism assistance for FY 1990 and 1991. Prohibits the United States from providing any assistance under this Act, the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, the Peace Corps Act, or the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to any country which the President determines: (1) grants sanctuary from prosecution to any individual or group which has committed an act of international terrorism; or (2) otherwise supports international terrorism. Waives such prohibition if the President determines that national security or humanitarian reasons justify such waiver. Declares that if sanctions are imposed upon a country because of its support for international terrorism, the President should call upon other countries to impose similar sanctions on such country. Incorporates provisions of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 concerning coordination of U.S. anti-narcotics assistance into the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for narcotics control assistance. Directs the President to monitor and report to the Congress on the use of herbicides for aerial eradication of drug crops (currently, coca) and any impacts on the environment and human health. Incorporates provisions of a specified Act concerning retention of title to aircraft and records of aircraft use into the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Waives certain restrictions on assistance to countries in arrears or default to the United States to permit assistance to such countries (if major illicit drug producers) if such countries had verifiable net reductions in the production of controlled substances. Authorizes the President to release a country which is a major illicit drug producer because of coca production from any obligation to the U.S. Government of principal and interest on a U.S. loan or credits if the President determines that such country is participating in a program for the use of a herbicide for the aerial eradication of coca. Incorporates provisions of the International Narcotics Control Act of 1988 concerning reporting requirements for the Secretary of State into the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Revises provisions concerning reporting requirements and certification procedures with respect to international narcotics control. Chapter 2: Assistance for Narcotics-Related Purposes - Requires the Secretary of State to use at least $500,000 of narcotics control funds in each of FY 1990 and 1991 to finance the testing and use of safe and effective herbicides for the aerial eradication of coca. Earmarks $1,000,000 in foreign military financing funds for each of FY 1990 and 1991 for defensive arms for aircraft used in narcotics control eradication or interdiction efforts. Earmarks $2,000,000 in military education and training assistance for each of FY 1990 and 1991 for education and training in the operation and maintenance of equipment used in narcotics control interdiction and eradication efforts for eligible countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Permits the provision of such assistance only to foreign law enforcement agencies or other units organized for the specific purpose of narcotics enforcement. Allows the provision of narcotics control assistance and military assistance for antinarcotics efforts only to Latin American and Caribbean countries which meet the same eligibility requirements as those specified under title II for the receipt of excess defense articles. Waives restrictions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 concerning police training and prohibitions on foreign military financing (for FY 1991) with respect to such countries. Directs the President to report to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the provision of military assistance for antinarcotics efforts. Earmarks a specified amount of funds made available for foreign military financing for FY 1990 and 1991 to provide such assistance to Caribbean and Latin American countries. Chapter 3: Provisions Relating to Assistance Recipients - Prohibits the provision of economic and military assistance to Bolivia unless the President certifies that Bolivia has enacted legislation to establish legal coca requirements and make unlicensed coca production illegal. Authorizes the President to make certain certifications under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 with respect to Boliva only if the Government of Bolivia; (1) has entered into the narcotics cooperation agreement with the United States specified in the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985; (2) has fully achieved the eradication targets specified in such agreement; and (3) has begun a program of forced eradication of illicit coca cultivation if the targets for voluntary eradication are not being met or continued. Outlines elements to be included in a certain project agreement document for Bolivia for FY 1990 and 1991. Requires the President, in making determinations with respect to Peru concerning narcotics control cooperation, to give foremost consideration to whether Peru made substantial progress in meeting its coca eradication targets during the previous year. Limits the amount of narcotics control assistance to be provided to Mexico in FY 1990 and 1991. Requires congressional notification if additional assistance to Mexico is to be made. Waives restrictions on U.S. assistance for major drug-transit countries for FY 1990 and 1991 if the President makes a specific certification to the Congress. Earmarks a specified amount of funds made available for narcotics control assistance for FY 1990 and 1991 to any country which: (1) is a major illicit drug producing country because of coca production; and (2) met or exceeded its coca eradication targets or has otherwise taken actions which have significantly reduced the amount of cocaine flowing to the United States. Title IV: Special Authorities, Restrictions on Assistance, and Reports - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to permit up to ten percent of funds made available to carry out such Act to be transferred to, and used for, any other account under such Act. Prohibits the transfer of funds made available for: (1) foreign military financing; (2) OPIC; (3) the trade credit insurance program; (4) the housing and urban development guarantee program; or (5) assistance for famine recovery and development in Africa. Limits the increase in any account due to such transfers to 20 percent of the amount otherwise made available to such account. Authorizes the President, when it is essential to the national interest or national security interest, to waive restrictions concerning nonmilitary assistance and military assistance, sales, and leases upon notification of the Congress. Revises provisions regarding limitations on such funding. Authorizes the President to use any funds made available under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for emergency purposes except for funds made available for development assistance or assistance for famine recovery and development in Africa. Limits such assistance to $50,000,000 per fiscal year. Requires the President to report to specified congressional committees upon exercising such authority. Prohibits such assistance from being used to pay for gifts for any foreign official. Authorizes the President to adopt as a U.S. contract or obligation any contract with a United States or third-country contractor which had been funded with assistance prior to the termination of such assistance. Applies termination provisions to any provision of law. Requires the President to consider, in any case in which a restriction on assistance would be applicable, whether assistance for nongovernmental organizations is in the U.S. national interest. Directs the President to notify specified congressional committees upon furnishing restricted assistance to a nongovernmental organization. Exempts from such restrictions assistance for training activities as long as the recipient country has a democratically elected government and the assistance is otherwise consistent with this Act. Prohibits assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 from being furnished for: (1) a country whose government engages in a consistent pattern of human rights violations; (2) a country whose government has expropriated the property of any U.S. person, repudiated or nullified a contract with a U.S. person, or taken any other action which has the effect of seizing control of such person's property and has not provided adequate compensation or is not engaged in good faith efforts to negotiate a settlement; and (3) direct support for activities to increase exports of agricultural, textile, or apparel commodities from developing countries if such exports would be in direct competition with U.S. exports and can reasonably be expected to cause substantial injury to U.S. exporters of the same or similar commodities. Exempts from such prohibitions assistance: (1) for alleviation of suffering resulting from a disaster; and (2) to be furnished through nongovernmental organizations to directly benefit poor people or to promote increased respect for human rights and the development of democracy. Directs the President to report to the Speaker of the House and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with respect to assistance provided for such exceptions. Requires the President to maintain a list of Communist countries for purposes of restricting assistance. Authorizes the President to remove or exempt a country from the list or prohibitions on assistance, with prior notification of the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Outlines factors to be considered in the drafting of such list, including the human rights practices of countries in question. Authorizes the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, at the request of the President, to evaluate the value of any expropriated property of a U.S. person and render an advisory opinion to such person, the President, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Prohibits funds made available to carry out the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or currencies generated under such Act to be used to support foreign law enforcement forces or intelligence, with specified exceptions. Prohibits the provision of certain funds for: (1) Central Intelligence Agency operations in foreign countries unless the President finds that an operation is important to U.S. national security; and (2) activities related to abortion or involuntary sterilization as a method of family planning. Revises provisions concerning prohibitions on assistance to countries involved in the transfer of nuclear materials or in nuclear detonations. Requires consideration to be given to excluding from assistance any country which seizes or imposes a penalty or sanction against any U.S. fishing vessel on account of fishing in international waters. Prohibits assistance to any country which is more than one year in arrears to the U.S. Government on loan payments under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or former authorities of the Arms Export Control Act. Prohibits the provision of assistance to any government of Cuba, except as deemed necessary, until such government: (1) takes steps to return to U.S. citizens and entities certain property taken by the Government of Cuba after January 1, 1959; or (2) provides compensation to such citizens. Outlines required elements of annual congressional presentation documents on foreign assistance. Directs the Secretary of State to promote increased respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms throughout the world. Requires the President to conduct U.S. assistance and military sales programs in a manner which will: (1) promote and advance human rights; (2) strengthen relationships between civilian and military sectors appropriate to a democratic system of government; and (3) avoid identification of the United States with governments which deny their people human rights and fundamental freedoms. Directs the Secretary to report annually to: (1) the Congress on the observance of human rights in each foreign country, including information on coercion in population control; and (2) the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, upon the request of such committees for a report on any specific country. Revises provisions concerning congressional notification for program changes and reprogramming of funds. Directs the President to submit to specified congressional committees quarterly reports on funds obligated for development and economic support assistance. Makes technical amendments to a provision concerning the exercise of special authorities by the President. Directs the President to report annually to the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on: (1) the percentage of the budget of each country receiving assistance under this Act that is devoted to military purposes; and (2) the degree to which such countries are using foreign exchange or other resources to acquire military equipment. Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on: (1) money, property, and services made available under this Act; and (2) gifts accepted under the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 with respect to functions under this Act. Directs the administrator for title I of this Act to report to the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee whenever a foreign country requires a private organization to pay taxes on any funds provided to such organization under economic assistance programs of this Act. Title V: General Provisions - Makes technical amendments to provisions concerning the authorities of the Secretaries of Defense and State. Directs the President to designate a single agency to administer title I and specified chapters of title VI of this Act. Makes technical amendments to provisions concerning: (1) the publication of presidential determinations; (2) the allocation and reimbursement of funds among Federal agencies; and (3) general assistance authorities. Limits to ten (currently, five) years contracts or agreements entailing commitments for the expenditure of funds under this Act. Makes technical amendments to provisions concerning administrative uses of funds. Removes a limit on the amount of funds to be made available for education of dependents of U.S. personnel stationed abroad. Authorizes the use of funds made available for development or economic support assistance for reimbursement to Federal and State agencies and institutions of higher education which detail employees to carry out such assistance. Excludes such employees from Federal personnel ceilings. Applies a certain requirement for specific authorization of appropriations for foreign assistance to assistance for the Peace Corps. Authorizes deobligated funds to be reobligated for the purpose for which they were originally appropriated. Provides that if an amount appropriated for a fiscal year pursuant to any authorization of appropriations provided by this Act is less than the authorization amount and this Act provides for earmarked funds, such funds shall be deemed to be reduced to an amount bearing the same ratio to such funds as the amount appropriated bears to the authorization amount. Exempts funds for Israel or Egypt from such reductions. Makes technical amendments to provisions concerning the use of foreign currencies owned by the United States. Authorizes the use of such currencies for certain assistance under this Act if in excess of amounts required for payment by U.S. agencies of obligations outside the United States. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, in cases where assistance to a recipient country will result in the accrual of foreign currency proceeds to the United States, to require assistance agreements to include provisions for the receipt of interest on proceeds deposited in authorized depositories. Directs the President to take steps to assure that: (1) recipient countries contribute local currencies to meet the cost of services rendered in connection with assistance programs; and (2) foreign currencies owned by the United States are utilized to meet the costs of such services. Authorizes nongovernmental organizations to invest local currencies which accrue to such organizations as a result of certain assistance provided under this Act and the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and to use interest earned on such investments for assistance purposes. Makes technical amendments to policy provisions concerning the use of private enterprise for the procurement of commodities and defense articles and services. Authorizes the use of Federal facilities for technical assistance purposes when such facilities are not competitive with private enterprise. Outlines procurement methods and standards. Requires administrators of this Act to report to the Congress on revised procurement and contracting procedures. Allows (currently, requires) the use of excess personal property or property already owned by a Federal agency (if a substantial savings would occur) in lieu of, or supplementary to, the procurement of new items for U.S.-assisted programs. Makes technical amendments to provisions concerning excess property. Removes a ceiling on the amount of domestic excess property that may be held. Prohibits excess property from being made available for use under certain titles of this Act, unless approval is given and the administrator makes certain determinations regarding such property. Makes technical amendments to provisions concerning personnel. Removes a limit on the number of contracts with experts, consultants, and retired officers which may be renewed annually. Authorizes personnel detailed to foreign governments or organizations to be assigned on a leave without pay status. Permits the detailing or assignment of Department of Defense personnel to any civil office to carry out this Act. Title VI: Technical and Conforming Provisions - Amends existing law to incorporate provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 concerning the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. Prohibits U.S. courts from declining on the ground of the Federal act of state doctrine to make a determination on the merits of international law in any case in which claim of title or right to property is asserted by any party, based upon a confiscation after January 1, 1959, by a State in violation of international law. Exempts from such prohibition cases in which: (1) an act of a foreign state is not contrary to international law or cases with respect to a right to property acquired pursuant to an irrevocable letter of credit issued in good faith prior to the time of taking; or (2) the President determines that application of such doctrine is required by U.S. foreign policy interests. Amends Federal provisions governing coins and currency to grant the Secretary of the Treasury: (1) responsibility with respect to foreign credits owed to or by the United States; and (2) sole authority to establish for all foreign currencies or credits the exchange rates at which such currencies are to be reported by Federal agencies. Redesignates the Trade and Development Program as the Trade and Development Agency. Makes technical and conforming amendments to specified Acts. Repeals specified Acts. Title VII: Latin America and the Caribbean - Chapter I: Central America - Expresses the sense of the Congress concerning the development of, and U.S. assistance for, the adoption of a plan by the governments of Central American countries consistent with the recommendations of the International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development. Declares that the United States should assist in the implementation of the Commission's proposals in order to support the Central American Recovery and Development Program. Authorizes funds made available for economic support assistance for FY 1990 and 1991 to be used for a U.S. contribution to the United Nations Development Program for the Special Plan of Economic Cooperation for Central America. Requires the President to assist Central American governments in efforts to coordinate donor assistance. Authorizes funds made available for economic support assistance for FY 1990 and 1991 to be used for such efforts. Expresses the sense of the Congress that there should be closer cooperation between the United States and the Organization of American States (OAS), including the payment by the United States of its contributions to such organization. Prohibits the provision of any military aircraft to any Central American country unless specified congressional committees are notified in advance. Requires the Secretary of State to notify such committees whenever any helicopters or other military aircraft are provided to such countries by any foreign country. Expresses congressional support for the Bush Administration's policy of linking U.S. assistance for El Salvador to promotion of a political settlement of the conflict, an end to human rights abuses, and respect for democracy and the rule of law. Limits the amount of military financing to be made available to El Salvador for FY 1990 and 1991. Authorizes up to 60 percent of such financing to be obligated after specified dates only if the President reports to the Congress that the Government and armed forces of El Salvador: (1) were actively seeking to achieve an equitable political settlement of the conflict, including free and fair elections, through a mutual cease fire and a dialogue with opposition forces; and (2) made demonstrated progress in protecting internationally recognized human rights and in respect for and protection of the rights of the press, speech, assembly, and association, internationally recognized worker rights, and other attributes of political pluralism and democracy. Withholds a specified amount from military assistance to be made available to El Salvador until the Government of El Salvador has: (1) pursued all legal avenues to bring to trial those responsible for the September 1988 massacre of ten peasants near the town of San Francisco, El Salvador; and (2) satisfied its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Internationally Protected Persons Including Diplomatic Agents with respect to the prosecution or extradition of those responsible for the murder of Mark Pearlman in January 1981. Permits the expenditure of such funds only with prior notification of specified congressional committees. Prohibits the obligation of economic and food assistance for El Salvador until the President reports to the Congress that the Government and armed forces of El Salvador are adhering to their stated policy of allowing international humanitarian organizations and religious relief agencies free access to conflict areas, with specified exceptions. Prohibits the use of such assistance for El Salvador for FY 1990 and 1991 for programs administered by the National Commission on the Restoration of Areas (CONARA) unless the President reports to the Congress that such assistance meets specified requirements. Provides that economic and food assistance for El Salvador for FY 1990 and 1991: (1) may not be used for the forced relocation of the civilian population, to coerce participation in civil defense patrols, or as a reward for political activities; (2) shall be used only for programs which are controlled and implemented by civilian agencies independent of military operations; and (3) shall, to the maximum extent possible, be channeled through private voluntary organizations with a proven record of providing assistance for basic human needs. Requires at least one-third of agricultural commodities made available for El Salvador for FY 1990 and 1991 under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to be provided to private voluntary organizations. Authorizes funds made available for FY 1990 and 1991 to be obligated to El Salvador for assistance in judicial reform only with prior notification of specified congressional committees. Sets forth congressional review procedures concerning privileged joint resolutions with regard to assistance to El Salvador. Limits the amount of military assistance to be made available to Guatemala for FY 1990 and 1991. Prohibits the obligation of such assistance unless, during the preceding fiscal year: (1) the civilian government gained authority in relation to the military and there was progress in separating the military and civilian police forces; (2) there was increased respect for the rights of freedom of the press, speech, assembly, and association and other attributes of political pluralism; (3) progress has been made in reducing political killings and other human rights violations; (4) people were not forced to participate in civil defense patrols; (5) the Guatemalan military did not harass Guatemalan human rights organizations; and (6) the office of the Guatemalan human rights ombudsman was adequately funded and functioned effectively. Authorizes the obligation of such funds only with prior notification of specified congressional committees. Prohibits the use of: (1) military financing for FY 1990 and 1991 by the Government of Guatemala for the procurement of weapons, ammunition, or aircraft (unless unarmed); and (2) authorities of the Defense Trade and Export Control Act to export such items to Guatemala during FY 1990 and 1991. Exempts from such prohibition the export under such Act of certain M-16 rifles to Guatemala with prior notification of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Applies requirements for the use of economic and food assistance by El Salvador to Guatemala. Requires the Secretary of State to study and report to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the Guatemalan system of military justice for the investigation of offenses by military personnel and the prosecution of those responsible for such offenses. Makes funds available for such study from amounts allocated for FY 1990 for foreign military financing. Prohibits the provision of foreign military financing and international military education assistance for police and prison authorities in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras during FY 1990 and 1991. Earmarks a specified amount of economic support assistance for Costa Rica for FY 1990. Prohibits the provision of assistance to any person or group engaging in an insurgency or rebellion against the Government of Nicaragua. Prohibits the United States from entering into any agreement or understanding under which a recipient of U.S. economic or military assistance or purchaser of U.S. military equipment shall provide assistance of any kind to such persons or groups. Requires the United States to: (1) encourage monitoring of the 1990 Nicaraguan elections by the United Nations and the OAS; and (2) pay an appropriate share of the costs of such monitoring. Declares that the United States should encourage the establishment, and pay an appropriate share of the costs, of United Nations verification units to monitor compliance with the peace accord agreed to by the governments of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua on February 14, 1989, and all subsequent agreements in furtherance of such accord. Chapter 2: The Caribbean - Caribbean Regional Development Act of 1989 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require that priority in the provision of development assistance to the Caribbean shall be given to supporting indigenous Caribbean institutions that represent, work with, and benefit the poor. States that for purposes of determining the eligibility of any Caribbean country for development assistance, the per capita income of that country shall be deemed to be no greater than the per capita income for the Caribbean as a whole. Requires that priority in the allocation of funds and local currencies for development and economic support assistance for the Caribbean be given to: (1) food self-sufficiency; (2) rural development; (3) community-based agro-industries; (4) financial resources for small- and medium-sized farm and manufacturing enterprises; (5) expansion of tourism; (6) regional integration; (7) upgrading technical and managerial skills; (8) enhancing the natural resource base; (9) private sector development; (10) development of democratic institutions and the administration of justice; and (11) access to human services and assistance for human resources development. Prohibits the provision of any assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (except for development or international narcotics control assistance) for: (1) any government of any country in the Caribbean that does not enforce internationally recognized worker rights; and (2) a Caribbean country if the provision of that assistance would be inconsistent with promoting respect for international recognized worker rights. Authorizes such assistance if that government is taking steps to implement laws that demonstrate significant advancement in providing internationally recognized worker rights throughout the country. Prohibits the agency responsible for administering title I of this Act from providing any assistance for the use of any chemical or other substance in the Caribbean if such use: (1) is not permitted under the public health laws of that nation; or (2) would not be permitted in the United States under U.S. public health laws. Specifies that in the provision of development assistance to the Caribbean, such agency shall place emphasis on ensuring the active participation of Caribbean women in the development process. Requires such agency to: (1) consult with Caribbean organizations that work with the poor in all stages of the design and implementation of assistance policies; and (2) monitor socioeconomic conditions in the Caribbean and the effect of economic assistance programs and policies on those conditions. Requires the Office of Technology Assessment to conduct an evaluation of and report to the Congress on the performance of such agency in carrying out this Act. Earmarks: (1) economic support and development assistance for FY 1990 and 1991 for assistance to the Caribbean; and (2) a specified amount, out of Caribbean assistance, to the Eastern Caribbean and Belize. Prohibits the provision of assistance to Haiti under any Act for FY 1990 and 1991 unless the Government of Haiti has embarked upon a credible transition to democracy by: (1) restoring the 1987 Constitution; (2) appointing an independent electoral commission to conduct free, fair, and open elections as soon as possible; and (3) taking adequate steps to provide electoral security. Requires the President to notify specified congressional committees prior to the obligation of funds for such assistance. Exempts from such prohibition assistance: (1) provided through private voluntary or nongovernmental organizations to meet humanitarian and developmental needs or to promote respect for human rights and democracy; (2) provided by or through the Inter-American Foundation, OPIC, or the Peace Corps; (3) to enable the continuation of migrant and narcotics interdiction operations; (4) for the financing of education for Haitians in the United States; and (5) to an independent electoral commission responsible for the holding of elections consistent with the 1987 Constitution. Earmarks economic support assistance for FY 1990 and 1991 for Haiti if: (1) such conditions are met; (2) a civilian government is in power and such government was elected in free, fair, and open elections consistent with the 1987 Constitution that were held under international supervision; and (3) the armed forces have demonstrated a willingness to submit to legally constituted civilian authority and to abide by the Constitution. Provides that such funds are in addition to funds provided for Caribbean regional development. Chapter 3: South America - Declares that the Congress supports the democratic transition underway in Chile and intends to assist the new government with assistance to: (1) strengthen democratic institutions; and (2) establish a new relationship with the Chilean armed forces appropriate to a democratic system of government. Earmarks a specified amount of funds made available for international military education and training for FY 1990 and 1991 for Chile. Prohibits the obligation of such funds until: (1) a civilian, democratically elected president is in power in Chile and has requested such funds; (2) human rights are being respected and the civilian government is exercising independent and effective authority; and (3) the Chilean Government is making good faith efforts to resolve the murders of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt. Authorizes the obligation of such funds only with prior notification of specified congressional committees. Amends the International Security and Cooperation Act of 1981 to exempt from a prohibition on assistance to Chile certain aircraft parts, tools, technical manuals, or related services to enhance the safety of Chilean Air Force aircraft. Prohibits the use of funds made available for FY 1990 and 1991 for foreign military financing for assistance to Paraguay until: (1) a democratic government is in power in Paraguay as a result of a free and fair election; (2) the practice of torture and abuse of individuals held in detention by the military and security forces has ended; (3) procedures have been instituted by the Paraguayan Government to ensure that those arrested are promptly charged and brought to trial; (4) political rights necessary for democracy have been restored and steps toward internal reconciliation have been taken by such government. Authorizes the obligation of such funds only with prior notification of specified congressional committees. Authorizes the provision of development and economic support assistance to Peru for FY 1990 and 1991 to combat illicit narcotics production, trafficking, and use in Peru. Earmarks a specified amount of funds made available for human rights and democratic initiatives for FY 1990 and 1991 for Peru for the reopening and expansion of the Office of the Special Prosecutor to Investigate Disappearances. Chapter 4: Other Provisions Relating to the Region - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 to authorize appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for the Inter-American Foundation. Provides for the suspension of assistance allocated for FY 1990 and 1991 for any Latin American or Caribbean country if an elected president of such a country is deposed by military coup or decree. Expresses congressional concern about the continuing pattern of human rights abuses in countries with civilian regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Directs the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs to submit to the Congress a special analysis of the human rights situation in such countries, along with recommendations to combat such abuses. Makes assistance available for countries with democratically-elected governments in such regions. Permits the provision of such assistance to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras only with prior notification of specified congressional committees. Prohibits the use of such funds for: (1) lethal equipment; and (2) the participation of Department of Defense personnel and members of the U.S. armed forces in law enforcement training. Limits law enforcement assistance for Latin America and the Caribbean to 25 percent of the total amount authorized to be appropriated for such assistance under this Act. Title VIII: Europe and the Middle East - Chapter 1: Assistance to Further Middle East Peace - Earmarks funds for military financing and economic support assistance for Israel for FY 1990 and 1991. Makes certain amounts of military financing available for the procurement of defense articles and services by Israel. Earmarks funds for military financing and development and economic support assistance for Egypt for FY 1990 and 1991. Authorizes a limited amount of economic support assistance to be provided as a cash transfer under the condition that Egypt will undertake additional and significant economic reforms. Earmarks specified amounts for FY 1990 and 1991 for: (1) military financing and economic support and development assistance for Jordan; (2) development assistance for the West Bank/Gaza direct program and for regional cooperative projects in the Middle East; and (3) economic support assistance for scholarships to enable Israeli Arabs to attend institutions of higher education in the United States. Authorizes a grant for such scholarships to be made only if private sector contributions to the scholarship endowment total at least $5,000,000 by the end of FY 1990. Chapter 2: Other Provisions Relating to the Middle East - Requires the President to provide information on the impact of proposed arms transfers to the Middle East to the Congress: (1) concurrent with certain certifications concerning specified transfers under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act; and (2) at least 30 days before approving any transfer of certain missiles or associated launchers. Directs the President to report to the Congress on: (1) the Middle East arms balance based upon the impact of U.S. transfers of defense articles to the region; (2) how U.S. policy goals are advanced by such transfers; and (3) what type of military or economic compensation is required to countries whose qualitative edge the United States is committed to maintaining. Expresses concern over the proliferation of sophisticated and deadly weapons in the Middle East. Urges the President to: (1) call for multilateral talks among the world's major arms suppliers to draw up guidelines to govern weapons transfers to the Middle East; (2) urge our allies to cease or slow such transfers; (3) encourage the Soviet Union to restrain its allies on the issue of proliferation; (4) raise such issues with China to encourage a more responsible policy by the Chinese Government; and (5) initiate bilateral talks with friendly potential arms recipients in the Middle East to restrain the transfer of such arms. Requires the President to report to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the progress in achieving such goals. Declares that military financing for Jordan is provided in recognition of the progress Jordan has made for peace in the Middle East. Authorizes the President to make a certain submission under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act with respect to proposed arms sales to Jordan only if such submission states that Jordan is publicly committed to recognition of Israel and to negotiating with Israel under United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338. Declares that: (1) the use of military financing to finance the procurement by Jordan of advanced aircraft, new air defense weapons systems, or other advanced military systems would constitute the use of such financing for a significantly different purpose than was justified to the Congress; and (2) any proposal to use such financing for such procurement would be subject to notification and reprogramming procedures under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Prohibits the United States from selling or making available Stinger missiles to any Persian Gulf country. Makes certain prohibitions concerning the transfer of Stingers inapplicable to Stingers previously transferred to Bahrain if the President notifies the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that: (1) the Stingers are needed by Bahrain to counter an immediate air threat or to protect U.S. personnel, facilities, equipment, or operations; (2) no other appropriate system is available from the United States; and (3) Bahrain has agreed to safeguards to protect against diversion of the Stingers as may be required by the United States and to return to the control of the United States all Stingers transferred or replaced at any time. Authorizes the replacement, pursuant to certain determinations by the President, of Stingers previously made available to Bahrain that were fired or destroyed. Permits Stingers to be made available to Oman, provided that: (1) the number of Stingers controlled by Oman is limited to ten; (2) certain certifications by the President are made to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; and (3) the President makes the same determinations required for Stingers transferred to Bahrain. Requires Stingers made available to Oman pursuant to this Act to be returned to the possession of the United States by the end of FY 1991, unless the President determines that certain conditions warranting the control of such missiles by Oman continue to apply and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations are notified. Directs the President to report annually to such committees an accounting for all Stingers made available to Bahrain and Oman by the United States. Prohibits the sale of defense articles or services to Qatar under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act until the President has notified the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that Qatar has returned to the United States all illegally obtained Stingers. Earmarks funds for development assistance for FY 1990 and 1991 for cooperative development projects among the United States, Israel, and developing countries. Authorizes the President, during FY 1990 and 1991, to make certain submissions with respect to proposed sales under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act to countries in the Middle East which have acquired intermediate-range ballistic missiles made by China only if the President determines that such countries do not have chemical, biological, or nuclear warheads for such missiles. Requires the President to notify the Congress promptly if such a country has acquired such warheads after such determination has been made. Chapter 3: Eastern Mediterranean - Requires U.S. policy regarding Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey to be directed toward maintaining a stable and peaceful atmosphere in the Eastern Mediterranean region such that: (1) the United States shall actively support the resolution of differences through negotiations; (2) the United States will accord full support and high priority to efforts to bring about a prompt, peaceful settlement on Cyprus; (3) all defense articles furnished by the United States to Eastern Mediterranean countries will be used only in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the Defense Trade and Export Control Act, and the agreements under which such articles were furnished; (4) the United States will furnish military assistance for Greece and Turkey only when such assistance is intended solely for defensive purposes and to ensure that the present balance of military strength between Greece and Turkey is maintained; (5) any agreement entered into by the United States for the provision of any defense article on the U.S. Munitions List shall expressly state that the article is being provided only with the understanding that the article will not be transferred to, or used to further the division of, Cyprus; and (6) the United States shall use its influence to achieve the withdrawal of Turkish military forces from Cyprus. Directs the President to report to the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on progress made toward a solution of the Cyprus problem. Earmarks specified amounts of development assistance for FY 1990 and 1991 for Cyprus and for bicommunal development projects in Cyprus. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Government of Greece should adhere to the U.S.-Greek extradition treaty by granting the extradition of Mohammed Rashid; and (2) a failure to extradite such individual would be regarded as a breach of such treaty and would cause grave concern regarding the Greek Government's stated commitment to combat international terrorism. States that the Congress deplores the decision of the Greek Government to permit Abdel al-Zomar to leave Greece and to deny the extradition request of Italy. Earmarks specified amounts of funds for military financing for FY 1990 and 1991 for Greece and Turkey. Chapter 4: Other Provisions - Earmarks a specified amount of economic support assistance for FY 1990 and 1991 for the U.S. contribution to the Anglo-Irish International Fund. Authorizes such contribution only if the Fund agrees to an audit to determine whether funds are being distributed in accordance with the principle of equality of opportunity and nondiscrimination in employment, without regard to religious affiliation, and are addressing the needs of both communities of Northern Ireland. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Board of the International Fund should give great weight in the allocation of funds contributed to the International Fund by the United States to projects to create permanent, full-time jobs in areas that have suffered most severely from the instability of recent years. Amends the Anglo-Irish Agreement Support Act of 1986 to repeal certification requirements and to incorporate such requirements into annual reporting requirements under such Act. Prohibits funds made available for economic support assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 from being used for a contribution to the International Fund until 15 days after such annual report has been submitted. Title IX: Asia and the Pacific - Chapter 1: East Asia and the Pacific - Directs the President, in determining whether to furnish assistance to Burma under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (other than emergency humanitarian assistance) and to make sales of defense articles or services to Burma during FY 1990 and 1991, to take into account whether the Government of Burma: (1) has held free and fair elections and a civilian government has assumed power, including whether international rights of freedom of speech, the press, and assembly were respected during the electoral campaign, the elections were conducted in the presence of international observers, and whether there is an independent judiciary; and (2) is committed to implementing fundamental economic reforms to ensure that U.S. assistance can be used effectively. Directs the President, during FY 1990 and 1991, to notify specified congressional committees before: (1) obligating funds for any assistance for Burma under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; or (2) issuing a letter of offer to sell any defense articles or services to Burma under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act. Authorizes the President to make available to non-Communist resistance forces in Cambodia funds made available for military financing and economic support assistance for FY 1990 and 1991. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of such funds to promote the capacity of the Khmer Rouge to conduct military or paramilitary operations in Cambodia or Indochina. Authorizes the President to use: (1) funds available for development and economic support assistance for FY 1990 and 1991 for nonmilitary training of non-Communist Cambodians outside of Cambodia in skills that would be used by them upon returning to Cambodia in the context of internationally acceptable political settlement in such country; and (2) funds available for FY 1990 and 1991 for U.S. contributions to an international program of relief and reconstruction in Cambodia in the context of such a political settlement. Prohibits the provision of military financing and international military education and training made available for FY 1990 and 1991 to Fiji unless the President certifies to the Congress that Fiji has returned to a freely elected democratic government under a constitution acceptable to all communities in Fiji. Allows uncommitted balances of loans made since October 1, 1984, to the Philippines pursuant to the former authority of the Arms Export Control Act to be disbursed without requirement for repayment of principal or interest to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriation Acts. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to express the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States should participate with multilateral financial institutions and other bilateral donors in an economic reform and development program in the Philippines; and (2) a multiyear commitment of resources by the United States, donors, and institutions with a continued reform effort and leadership role by the Government of the Philippines will be necessary to ensure continued economic growth in the Philippines and enhanced participation of the Filipino people in the democratic process. Authorizes the President to provide assistance to promote the four basic objectives of this Act. Links such assistance to progress by the Government of the Philippines in implementing its economic, structural, judicial, and administrative reform program and includes support for: (1) programs necessary to stimulate and strengthen private sector growth, voluntary debt reduction, import liberalization, export growth and diversification, and the privatization of enterprises; and (2) greater U.S. participation in such sector. Requires the Secretary of State and the administrator of title I of this Act, beginning with the submission of the budget request for FY 1991, to report annually to the Congress on progress in implementing the objectives of this program. Authorizes appropriations. Limits the amount of appropriations for FY 1990. Authorizes the President to transfer funds available to carry out other provisions of this Act to carry out the Philippine program without regard to the 20 percent limitation, except that: (1) the total amount of transferred funds and funds appropriated for such programs during FY 1990 may not exceed $200,000,000; and (2) the total amount so transferred in any fiscal year may not exceed the amount requested for such programs. Prohibits funds appropriated for FY 1990 from being made available until the President has received a document developed by the Government of the Philippines and acceptable to the bilateral donors and multilateral financial institutions that sets forth the framework and objectives of macroeconomic, administrative, and structural reforms and voluntary debt reduction programs which the multilateral assistance program is designed to support. Requires such reforms to include specific measures to enhance debt exchange programs, facilitate market-oriented debt reduction programs and debt-equity exchanges, and to encourage foreign investment by simplifying licensing and registration requirements. Prohibits the obligation of funds for the Philippines unless the President reports to the Congress that a majority of the assistance will be provided by other bilateral donors and multilateral financial institutions. Authorizes the obligation of such funds only upon prior notification of the Congress. Expresses the sense of the Congress that prior to requesting additional amounts to carry out this Act, the President should take into account: (1) the progress being made by the Philippines toward achieving such reform objectives; (2) the extent of participation by the bilateral donors and multilateral financial institutions; and (3) the efforts to coordinate the assistance program. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the coordination of objectives and programs by donors, institutions, and the Government of the Philippines is critical to the success of the multilateral assistance program; (2) all donors should simplify procurement and disbursement procedures to ensure that conditions on the provision or use of assistance are complementary; and (3) the Philippines will ensure the most effective use of such assistance. Earmarks specified amounts out of amounts allocated for the South Pacific regional program for scholarships for study at postsecondary institutions in the United States for FY 1990 and 1991. Requires the President to transfer a specified amount of development and economic support assistance for Asia Programs for FY 1990 and 1991 for expenses incurred by the Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should use available appropriations to provide up to $200,000 in each of FY 1990 and 1991 to support joint U.S.-Laotian efforts to resolve questions concerning Vietnam era prisoners of war or those missing in action; and (2) the President should encourage the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to actively undertake study and consultation appropriate to consider for membership in the OECD the Governments of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Chapter 2: South Asia - Authorizes the President to make available development and economic support assistance funds for the provision of food, medicine, or other humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people. States that the primary purpose of U.S. economic assistance for Bangladesh is to foster economic development and political pluralism. Requires the President to take specific factors into account in determining whether to provide economic assistance to Bangladesh. Expresses the sense of the Congress that India and Nepal should work together to resolve differences in their relationship. States that the primary purpose of U.S. assistance for Pakistan is to support democracy and that the maintenance of a democratic government in Pakistan is a precondition for continued U.S. assistance. Reaffirms the commitment made in a 1959 United States-Pakistan agreement relating to aggression from a Communist-dominated state. Requires the United States to continue to ensure that defense articles provided by the United States to Pakistan are used solely for defensive or nonaggressive purposes specified in the Defense Trade and Export Control Act. Authorizes the President to waive any prohibitions under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 with respect to Pakistan if such waiver is in the U.S. national interest. Prohibits: (1) the provision of assistance or sale of defense articles or services to Pakistan unless the President certifies to the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Pakistan does not possess a nuclear explosive device and that such assistance will reduce significantly the risk that Pakistan will possess such a device; and (2) the aggregate amount of assistance available for Pakistan for FY 1990 and 1991 under such Act and the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 from being less than the aggregate amount made available for FY 1989. Earmarks specified amounts of development assistance available for Pakistan for FY 1990 and 1991 for literacy programs for females. Title X: Africa - Chapter 1: Africa Famine Recovery and Development - Africa Famine Recovery and Development Act - Authorizes the President to provide project and program assistance for long-term development in Subsaharan Africa. Requires the purpose of such assistance to be to help the poor majority of men and women in Subsaharan Africa to participate in a process of long-term development through economic growth that is equitable, participatory, environmentally sustainable, and self-reliant. Provides that such assistance should also encourage private sector development and promote individual initiatives and help to reduce the role of central governments in areas more appropriate for the private sector. Requires the administering agency to: (1) take into account the local-level perspective of the rural and urban poor in Subsaharan Africa during the planning process for project assistance under this Act; and (2) make available funds for a significant long-term expansion of development efforts by private and voluntary organizations which have demonstrated effectiveness in or commitment to the promotion of local grass-roots activities on behalf of long-term development in Subsaharan Africa. Requires: (1) the close consultation and involvement of local people in projects that have a local focus; and (2) the participation and integration of African women in development projects assisted by this Act. Requires the administering agency to use the program assistance provided by this Act to: (1) emphasize projects to address critical sectoral priorities for long-term development; and (2) promote reform of national economic policies to support these priorities. Sets forth examples of national economic policy reforms which can be supported by assistance provided by this Act. Requires such reforms to include provisions to protect vulnerable groups, especially poor farmers and the urban poor, from possible negative consequences of such reforms. Authorizes limited amounts of assistance furnished under this Act to be used to address other long-term development priorities in Subsaharan Africa with prior notification of specified congressional committees. Designates as the critical sectoral priorities for long-term development: (1) increased agricultural production and the maintenance and restoration of renewable natural resources; (2) improved health conditions; (3) voluntary family planning services; (4) improved relevance and efficiency of education; and (5) development of income generating opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed. Imposes minimum levels of assistance for certain critical sectors. Requires the assistance provided under this Act to be concentrated in countries that will make the most effective use of such assistance. Prohibits the administering agency from using less than specified amounts for in-country natural resources and environmental training in Subsaharan Africa. Specifies uses for local currencies generated by assistance provided under this Act and other Acts. Provides that funds made available under this Act may be used to assist the countries in Subsaharan Africa to increase their capacity to participate in donor coordination mechanisms at the country, regional, and sector levels. Requires that it be the policy of the United States that the funds made available by this Act are not used by a country to repay loans, with exceptions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994 for long-term development assistance for Subsaharan Africa. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the authorization should be extended whenever appropriate. Requires the administrator of the administering agency to develop a plan for organizational changes within such agency in order to carry out the long-term development assistance program for Subsaharan Africa with maximum effectiveness. Requires the administrator to submit such plan to specified congressional committees. Authorizes the administrator to transfer certain funds in order to increase the agency resources for development assistance activities for Subsaharan Africa. Requires the annual report by the President to the Congress on foreign assistance programs to include a report on the progress made in carrying out this Act. Makes reprogramming notification requirements inapplicable to funds used to carry out this Act. Makes conforming amendments to various Acts. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the purposes of the African Development Foundation are consistent with the purposes of this Act. Amends the African Development Foundation Act to: (1) authorize appropriations for the African Development Foundation for FY 1990 and 1991; and (2) require that no more than four members of the Foundation's Board are from any one political party. Repeals a provision of such Act requiring the expiration of the Foundation's authorities on September 30, 1990. Expresses the sense of the Congress that special efforts should be undertaken to reduce trade barriers and promote economic interchange between the United States and developing countries in Subsaharan Africa. Chapter 2: Other Provisions Relating to Sub-Saharan Africa - Earmarks specified amounts of economic support assistance made available for FY 1990 and 1991 for Subsaharan Africa. Earmarks specified amounts of development assistance made available for FY 1990 and 1991 to assist sector projects supported by the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC). Provides that such funds shall be available for the transportation, manpower development, agricultural and natural resources, energy, and industrial development and trade sectors. Urges: (1) the President to use diplomatic means to protect the security of such projects; and (2) the Government of South Africa to respect the territorial integrity of SADCC states and to refrain from military aggression across its borders. Requires the President, in determining whether to furnish assistance to Burundi for FY 1990 and 1991, to take into account whether the Government of Burundi is: (1) making progress in advancing internal reform of its military and civil administration and ensuring discipline and control in interactions with people of Hutu ethnicity; and (2) making progress in reversing patterns of discrimination against the majority Hutu. Declares that the provision of development and economic support assistance to Kenya for FY 1990 and 1991 shall bear a relation to significant steps by the Government of Kenya to increase respect for human rights. Requires the Secretary of State, during 1990 and 1991, to report to specified congressional committees on the steps taken by the United States to carry out such policy. Requires the President, in determining whether to furnish economic and military financing assistance to Liberia for FY 1990 and 1991, to take into account whether the Government of Liberia has: (1) demonstrated its commitment to economic reform; and (2) has taken significant steps to increase respect for human rights. Declares that it shall be U.S. policy to: (1) continue and expand bilateral development assistance to Mozambique; (2) strengthen Mozambique's transport sector through U.S. assistance to the SADCC; (3) identify additional opportunities for U.S. support of Mozambique's reconstruction; (4) contribute to Mozambique's national reconciliation in ways which do not legitimate the behavior of the Mozambique National Resistance (RENAMO) or subordinate Mozambique's sovereign interests to RENAMO's principal patron, South Africa; and (5) encourage international support for generous levels of emergency humanitarian aid for displaced or otherwise at-risk Mozambicans, including Mozambican refugees in neighboring countries. Requires the United States to use diplomatic and other means to condemn and achieve the immediate termination of South African and other external assistance to RENAMO. Declares that the provision of economic support and military financing assistance to Mozambique shall bear a relation to significant steps by the Mozambican Government to increase respect for human rights and raise hope for a political settlement. Directs the Secretary of State to report to specified congressional committees on U.S. actions concerning Mozambique. Requires the President, in determining whether to furnish economic support and military financing assistance to Somalia, to take into account whether the Government of Somalia has taken steps to increase respect for human rights that provide hope for political reconciliation. Authorizes assistance under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 for FY 1990 and 1991 to be provided to refugees in Somalia only if: (1) an impartial counting of eligible beneficiaries of food assistance by the United States and other donors has been completed; and (2) all beneficiaries of such assistance are disarmed and the amount of such assistance does not exceed the number of beneficiaries. Requires international disaster assistance provided by the United States to northern Somalia on account of the violence in 1988 to directly benefit the victims of such violence, with primary emphasis on the original inhabitants of the regions affected. Directs the President, in determining whether to furnish economic support and military financing assistance to Sudan, to take into account whether the Government of Sudan has: (1) made substantial progress in the effective delivery of increased relief to displaced populations in areas controlled by the Sudanese Government; and (2) made good faith efforts to achieve progress in negotiations with the Sudan People's Liberation Army for a national peace accord. Limits the amount of military financing to be made available to Zaire for FY 1990 and 1991. Prohibits the provision of economic support assistance to Zaire for FY 1990 and 1991. Requires assistance for famine recovery and development in Africa and development assistance for Zaire for FY 1990 and 1991 to be provided through private voluntary organizations to the maximum extent practicable. Encourages the President to use funds available for FY 1990 and 1991 for funding at levels greater than those for previous years for treatment of and research on AIDS in Africa. Requires the President to notify specified congressional committees prior to the obligation of funds for Burundi, Liberia, Somalia, and Sudan. Chapter 3: Other Provisions Relating to Africa - Declares that: (1) it is in the interest of the United States to encourage the promotion of human rights and political and economic freedom in African countries; and (2) the President, in furnishing assistance to such countries for FY 1990 and 1991, should consider each country's record in human rights and economic reform and its friendship to the United States. Title XI: Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to set deadlines for payments for agricultural commodity sales made for foreign currencies. Prohibits the use of more than five percent of foreign currencies obtained for use from such sales to defray administrative costs of the U.S. Government. Prohibits the use of proceeds for private sector development activities to support any activity to increase exports of agricultural, textile, or apparel commodities from a developing country if such exports: (1) would be in direct competition with U.S. exports; and (2) can reasonably be expected to cause substantial injury to U.S. exporters of similar commodities. Title XII: Peace Corps - Amends the Peace Corps Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991. Authorizes Peace Corps technical publications to be sold at cost in furtherance of the purposes of such Act. Permits up to $200,000 of the proceeds of such sales to be credited to the applicable Peace Corps appropriation. Title XIII: United States Commission on Southern Africa - United States Commission on Southern Africa Act - Establishes the United States Commission on Southern Africa to solicit private sector funds to develop skilled personnel in South Africa and Namibia, particularly in middle management business and government positions, by providing for the training of disadvantaged South Africans and Namibians in the fields of education, health care, law, and housing. Authorizes the Commission to establish and provide funds for human resource development programs and to provide scholarships and internships for appropriate study and training. Prohibits the use of such funds for programs conducted by or through South African organizations which are financed or controlled by the Government of South Africa. Authorizes the use of such funds only for programs which clearly reflect the objective of an end to apartheid. Provides for the annual audit of the Commission by certified public accountants. Authorizes the U.S. Comptroller General to carry out an annual audit of the Commission. Requires the Comptroller General to report such audits to the Congress. Directs the Commission to ensure that: (1) recipients of Commission assistance keep separate accounts of such assistance and records to facilitate effective audits; and (2) the Commission has access to such records. Requires the Commission to report annually to the Congress on its activities. Directs the Secretary of State to grant $1,000,000 of funds made available to the Department of State to the Commission for FY 1990. Title XIV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the administrator of title I of this Act to use U.S.-owned excess foreign currencies to: (1) carry out the purposes of title I of this Act; and (2) support any institution providing education for a significant number of U.S. nationals. Prohibits such currencies from being used in Communist countries. Requires at least ten percent of the aggregate amounts of development and famine recovery and development in Africa assistance for each of FY 1990 and 1991 to be made available only for activities of the following U.S. organizations and individuals: (1) business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals; (2) historically black colleges and universities; (3) colleges and universities in which more than 40 percent of the students are Hispanic Americans; and (4) private voluntary organizations controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. Directs the administrator, with respect to development and famine recovery and development in Africa assistance for FY 1990 and 1991, to: (1) utilize the authority of the Small Business Act; (2) enter into contracts with small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals; and (3) issue regulations requiring contracts in excess of $500,000 to require at least ten percent of the dollar value of such contracts to be subcontracted to minority U.S. organizations and individuals, except under specified conditions. Requires persons with contract authority in the administering agency to notify the agency's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization before advertising contracts in excess of $100,000. Directs the administrator to: (1) include as part of the performance evaluations of agency mission directors such directors' efforts to carry out such contracting; and (2) report annually to the Congress on such contracts. Declares that it is U.S. policy to: (1) oppose restrictive trade practices or boycotts imposed by foreign countries against any U.S. person or countries friendly to the United States; and (2) encourage the world's major trading nations to refuse to take actions which have the effect of supporting such trade practices or boycotts. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to report annually on the extent to which members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade encourage actions which further or support such boycotts.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1989
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to the State of Washington Puget Sound Water Quality Authority or its successor for use in: (1) implementing and updating the Puget Sound Water Quality Management Plan; (2) implementing a program for ambient monitoring of the water quality of Puget Sound; (3) supporting research which will increase understanding of Puget Sound and human impacts on the Sound; and (4) conducting other activities related to improving the water quality of Puget Sound. Limits Federal funding to no more than 75 percent of the costs of grant activities. Requires the Authority or its successor to report to the Administrator by January 31 of each year on the grant activities of the preceding year. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1989
Democracy, Liberty, and Justice in the People's Republic of China Act of 1989 - Imposes the following sanctions against the Government of the People's Republic of China unless and until the President determines and submits a notification to the Congress that such Government has: (1) abandoned its campaign of violence against unarmed civilians; (2) lifted martial law; and (3) made significant progress in providing for democracy, liberty, and justice in Tibet and China. Prohibits: (1) any Government agency from extending any loan, credit, credit guarantee, or insurance to China; and (2) any funds from being made available for activities of the Trade Development Program with respect to China. Urges the Secretary of State to encourage U.S. allies to suspend any of their programs providing similar support to China. Prohibits nondiscriminatory treatment of Chinese products. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors to specified multilateral financial institutions to: (1) oppose any loan, grant, or other form of economic or technical assistance to China; (2) propose and support downgrading China's membership status to that of an observer; and (3) urge other democratic countries to support such actions. Directs the U.S. Trade Representative to instruct the U.S. Representatives to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to support the suspension of observer status for China at GATT. Bans Government funding for any commercial agreement with China and for U.S. participation in the U.S.-China Joint Committee on Commerce and Trade and the U.S.-China Commission on Trade. Suspends all licenses currently issued for export to China of items on the U.S. Munitions Control List or Commercial Control List. Prohibits the expenditure of Federal funds for the processing or issuance of licenses required to export such items. Directs the Secretary of State to instruct the U.S. Representative to the Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) to oppose the export of any COCOM-controlled items by any COCOM participating country to China. Urges the Secretary to encourage U.S. allies to join U.S. efforts to oppose such exports and suspend the export of other military items and advanced technology. Authorizes the President to limit the importation of any product or service of a foreign country to the extent to which such country benefits from, or otherwise takes commercial advantage of, any sanction or prohibition imposed under this Act. Prohibits: (1) U.S.-Chinese military cooperation; and (2) funding for U.S. participation under any U.S.-China agreement or protocol on scientific cooperation. Directs the Attorney General to treat sympathetically requests by students from Tibet and China studying in the United States for Extended Voluntary Departure status.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1989
Education Partnership Act of 1989 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a student mentor pilot program under part C (Work-Study Programs) of title IV (Student Assistance) of such Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to designate from ten to 100 institutions of higher education that may use a portion of their work-study funds allocations to establish such a pilot program to test the feasibility of using such funds to provide incentives to eligible college students to engage in mentor activities to help disadvantaged youths who are at risk of dropping out of elementary or secondary school. Directs the Secretary, within three years, to report to the Congress an evaluation of such program.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1989
Urges the administration to refrain from submitting any proposal to include maritime transportation in the forthcoming General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) discussions regarding trade in services industries and to oppose any proposals by foreign nations which are similar or which could result in a contraction of the U.S.-flag merchant marine.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1989
Expresses the sense of the Congress that a postage stamp should be issued in honor of Claude Pepper.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1989
Air Toxics Control Act of 1989 - Amends the Clean Air Act to establish a list of hazardous air pollutants. Permits any person to petition the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for additions to or deletions from such list. Requires the presentation of adequate data concerning health or environmental effects for such additions or deletions. Prohibits air pollutants for which national air quality standards have been established, with specified exceptions, from being added to such list. Directs the Administrator to review and revise such list at least every five years. Requires the Administrator to list and establish emissions standards for categories of major emitting facilities. Establishes a timetable for the promulgation of such standards, requiring standards for all categories within eight years of this Act's enactment. Directs the Administrator to review and, if necessary, revise such standards at least every five years. Requires the Administrator, within four years of promulgating standards for a category, to evaluate risks to human health and the environment remaining after application of such standards. Provides for revisions of such standards for carcinogens or other pollutants not meeting emissions thresholds. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate design, equipment, work practice, and operation standards for major emitting facilities under this Act. Directs the Administrator to promulgate such standards when it is infeasible to establish a numerical emission limitation standard for any category. Requires such standards to: (1) achieve reductions comparable to numerical emission limitations under this Act; (2) include leak prevention, detection, and correction requirements unless the Administrator finds such requirements infeasible or unnecessary; (3) require owners or operators of major emitting facilities to carry out annual safety inspections to locate leaks and unpermitted releases and to report the results of such inspections to the permitting authority; and (4) include procedures for monitoring or measuring emissions and for demonstrating compliance with such requirements. Authorizes the Administrator to establish a de minimis level for emissions from categories of facilities under this Act, provided that such level does not exceed 10 tons annually for any single hazardous air pollutant or 25 tons annually for a combination of such pollutants. Makes it unlawful to construct or modify a major emitting facility or to emit any pollutant subject to this Act's standards, except in compliance with a permit. Outlines the requirements of the permit program. Limits permits to five-year periods. Requires inspections of facilities for permit issuances or renewals. Authorizes the issuance of a temporary permit if a facility owner or operator certifies that the facility is in compliance with applicable standards. Requires the permitting authority to review and inspect such facility to determine whether a full permit should be issued. Requires compliance with standards by existing facilities within three years of the promulgation or revision of such standards. Exempts facilities from standards for carcinogens or nonthreshold air pollutants if a permit contains alternative emission limitations which will prevent adverse health or environmental effects. Grants extensions for permit compliance to existing facilities under specified conditions. Authorizes the President to exempt any facility from any standards for up to two years if the technology to implement such standards is unavailable and the operation of the facility is required for national security reasons. Authorizes additional two-year extensions of such exemptions. Requires the President to report to the Congress with respect to each exemption or extension. Allows exemptions from emission standards for facilities which achieved reductions of at least 95 percent from uncontrolled emissions of a hazardous air pollutant prior to proposal of the standard. Directs the Administrator to conduct an urban pollution research program to include: (1) ambient monitoring for a broad range of hazardous air pollutants in a representative number of urban locations; (2) analysis to characterize the area sources of such pollution and the health risks posed by such pollutants; and (3) consideration of factors which elevate such health risks. Requires State air pollution agencies which receive Federal grants and have responsibility for metropolitan areas with populations over 250,000 to establish monitoring programs to measure the concentrations of hazardous air pollutants. Directs the Administrator to list and promulgate emissions standards for categories of area sources of hazardous air pollutants. Establishes a timetable for the promulgation of such standards, requiring standards for all categories within eight years of this Act's enactment. Requires the Administrator to review and, if necessary, revise such standards at least every five years. Authorizes States to submit to the Administrator for approval programs for the implementation and enforcement of permits or standards concerning areas sources. Permits the transfer of the Administrator's enforcement authorities to a State. Requires the Administrator to publish guidance for use in program development. Sets forth provisions regarding approval of such programs. Requires the Administrator to review State programs at least every two years and to withdraw approval of any program if determined that a State is not administering or enforcing such program. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to States for program development. Requires the Administrator to: (1) investigate the sources of atmospheric deposition of hazardous air pollutants on the Great Lakes and tributary waters and evaluate the adverse human health and environmental effects of such deposition; (2) report the results of such investigation to the Congress; and (3) promulgate further emissions standards or control measures necessary to prevent the effects of such deposition. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress on the implementation of certain requirements under this Act and to maintain a database on pollutants and sources subject to provisions of this Act. Requires such report to identify specific metropolitan areas which experience high risks to human health as the result of hazardous air pollutant emissions and the sources of such emissions. Makes available to the public any information submitted to a permitting authority. Directs the Administrator to establish and maintain an air toxics clearinghouse, control technology center, and risk information center to provide technical assistance and information to States, local agencies, and the public on emissions reduction. Requires the Administrator to review and, if necessary, revise risk evaluation guidelines at least every five years. Require such evaluations to evaluate direct and indirect exposure pathways. Directs the Administrator to establish standards and procedures for the certification of persons preparing such evaluations. Requires the Administrator to publish a list of air pollutants which: (1) are emitted by motor vehicles into the ambient air or into the interior of a motor vehicle; and (2) cause or contribute to air pollution which may result in serious adverse effects to human health or the environment. Sets forth the same petitioning, review, revision, and risk evaluation procedures as those applicable to major emitting facilities. Establishes diesel particulates emissions standards for: (1) passenger vehicles and light trucks manufactured after 1991; and (2) heavy trucks and buses manufactured after 1990. Makes it unlawful, on the later of one year after this Act's enactment or January 1, 1991, to sell or introduce into commerce any leaded gasoline for use as a motor vehicle fuel. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations for the reduction of particulates from existing diesel buses. Permits requirements for municipal transit buses to be more stringent than those applicable to other buses. Directs the Administrator to list at least 100 substances which, as the result of an accidental release, may cause adverse human health or environmental effects. Treats liquids and gases identified by the Secretary of Transportation as toxic by inhalation as listed under this section if the Administrator fails to list 100 substances by the required deadline. Requires the Administrator to review substances which are not on such list but are listed under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, this Act, and the list identified by the Secretary for possible additions to the list. Provides for petitioning and modification of such list, as appropriate. Requires the Administrator to update such list at least every five years. Directs the Administrator to: (1) establish de minimis quantities of listed substances; and (2) promulgate regulations to provide for prevention and detection of accidental releases of such substances from covered facilities and for response to such releases by owners or operators of such facilities. Requires such regulations to include monitoring, inspection, recordkeeping, storage, design, equipment, work practice, and operational requirements. Directs owners or operators of such facilities to implement risk management plans to detect and prevent or minimize accidental releases. Requires such plans to include hazard assessments, prevention programs, and response measures. Directs the Administrator to promulgate guidelines to assist in the preparation of such plans. Sets forth compliance and enforcement provisions. Requires the President to establish within the EPA an independent Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board to: (1) investigate and report on accidental chemical releases; (2) propose corrective safety steps for chemical facilities; and (3) promulgate requirements for the reporting of such releases. Authorizes the Board to hold hearings, secure written reports from persons handling chemicals, obtain autopsy reports, and conduct inspections of any facility where an accidental release has occurred. Makes information obtained by the Board, with the exception of information concerning trade secrets, available to the public. Directs the Administrator to set forth reasons for any refusal to implement a recommendation of the Board. Requires the Board to report annually to the Congress on recommendations submitted to the Administrator regarding accidental releases. Authorizes appropriations. Repeals certain provisions of the Clean Air Act concerning the revision of stationary source regulations. Increases penalties for specified violations of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1989
Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to state that a permit issued to a Federal facility for hazardous waste management shall be deemed to be issued to the operator and that sovereign immunity does not extend to such operator. Prohibits any Federal agency from entering into a contract with a person convicted of an offense under such Act or with any affiliate of such persons for the procurement of goods, materials, or services, if such contract is to be performed at any facility at which the violation which gave rise to the conviction occurred and if such facility is owned, leased, or supervised by such person or affiliate. Continues such prohibition until the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency certifies that the condition giving rise to such conviction has been corrected. Requires the President to issue an order: (1) requiring each Federal agency authorized to enter into contracts and each Federal agency empowered to extend Federal assistance by way of grant, loan, or contract to implement such prohibition in such contracting or assistance activities; and (2) setting forth procedures, sanctions, penalties, and such other provisions as the President deems necessary to carry out the requirements of such order. Permits exemptions as specified. Directs the President to report annually to the Congress on the implementation of such prohibition. Prohibits any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States from: (1) paying any amount of a fine or penalty, or a payment under a settlement agreement, for a violation or alleged violation of such Act imposed on or agreed to be paid by any person other than the United States or an officer or employee of the United States; (2) providing counsel for any such person; or (3) providing funding for such counsel unless such person prevails or substantially prevails in the proceeding. Makes such prohibitions inapplicable to any person carrying out a contract with the United States for the operation of any U.S.-owned facility if: (1) the person notified the United States of the specific conditions which gave rise to the violation or alleged violation as soon as such person knew, or reasonably should have known, of such conditions; (2) the person could not correct the violation or alleged violation without the authorization of, or funding from, the United States; and (3) the United States has failed to provide such authorization or funding.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1989
Workers' Political Rights Act of 1989 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to include political committees among those entities to which contributions by national banks, corporations, or labor organizations are restricted. Provides that communications to its members and their families and the establishment of, and solicitation of contributions for, a separate segregated political fund by a labor organization shall not be considered to be prohibited political contributions or expenditures only if such organization provides to employees it represents written notification of the following information: (1) that no employee is required to join the labor organization, and if the collective bargaining agreement purports to require membership in, or the payment of any amounts to, such organization, the employee instead may pay an agency fee to such organization; (2) the amount of the agency fee for the current year and the amount of union membership dues, initiation fees, and assessments for the current year; (3) that employees who choose to join the union will be subject to the labor organization's reasonable internal rules, regulations, and discipline; (4) that employees who resign from such organization may do so without being subject to internal union discipline for any post-resignation conduct; (5) that the amount of the agency fee for the current year is limited to the employee's pro rata cost of the labor organization's exclusive representation services to the collective bargaining unit; (6) that a procedure is in place to determine those costs which are chargeable to agency fee payors and such procedures are fully explained; and (7) that due regard is given to the fact that the labor organization holds a fiduciary position of trust with respect to the employees it represents and that the rights of employees to associate freely are not infringed any more than necessary for such organization to defray its reasonable costs of providing exclusive representation services. Requires a labor organization which does not provide employees with such notification to finance those political activities which are not considered contributions or expenditures with funds collected for its separate, segregated political fund.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1989
Hazardous Materials Transportation Act Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (the Act) to require the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations requiring any generator of a shipment of hazardous materials to transmit a manifest of its contents and the license plate or other identifying number of the carrier to the central reporting system and data center. Requires the Secretary to enter into a contract under which a private entity shall establish a central reporting system and data center to provide law enforcement and firefighting personnel with information and advice on dealing with emergencies connected with the transportation of hazardous materials (currently the Secretary is required to establish and maintain such a system and data center). Prohibits the appropriation of Federal funds for such system and data center. Permits the private entity to impose a fee for manifesting such a shipment if the generator is a Federal agency. Directs the Secretary to study the flow of hazardous materials in the United States. Requires the Secretary, in collaboration with the private entity, to report the results of such study to the Congress. Increases both civil and criminal penalties for violations under the Act. Sets forth specified terms and conditions with respect to the private entity's establishment and maintenance of the reporting system and data center.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1989
North American Wetlands Conservation Act - Establishes a North American Wetlands Conservation Advisory Committee to advise the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission. Sets forth elements to be considered by the Committee in making recommendations for wetlands conservation projects. Requires the Committee to submit annual descriptions to the Commission and the appropriate congressional committees of projects recommended for Federal funding. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to carry out approved projects with funding available under this Act and the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act. Requires lands, waters, or other interests acquired by the Secretary to carry out such projects to be included in the National Wildlife Refuge System, except as otherwise provided in this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to convey to States or public or private agencies approved by States any real property interest acquired with funding provided by this Act, upon a finding that such interests can be better managed if not retained in the National Wildlife Refuge System. Subjects such conveyances to conditions that will ensure that the interests will be administered for the long-term conservation and management of fish and wildlife and that will provide for compatible public access and use. Directs the Secretary to grant funds to public and private entities for carrying out wetlands conservation projects in Canada and Mexico. Subjects the granting of such funds to the same conditions applicable to Federal conveyances of property interests to States. Provides that property interests acquired with such funds shall not become part of the National Wildlife Refuge System. Amends the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to invest in interest-bearing obligations such portion of the wildlife restoration fund not required for the current year's withdrawals. Sets forth authorized investment activities and the required use of interest held on obligations in such fund. Excludes such interest from revenues to be deducted for administrative expenses. Authorizes additional appropriations. Allocates funds made available under this Act and the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act. Limits the Federal contribution to wetlands conservation projects to 75 percent of the total cost for projects in Canada and Mexico and 50 percent for projects in the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) make progress payments to wetlands conservation projects; and (2) enter into agreements to make payments on initial portions of such projects, subject to the availability of Federal funds. Requires law enforcement proceeds of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to be deposited in a certain fund pursuant to the Refuge Revenue Sharing Act. Exempts from such requirement: (1) amounts used for rewards or costs of temporary care under the Endangered Species Act of 1973; and (2) amounts required to be deposited into the cooperative endangered species conservation fund under such Act. Requires the head of each Federal agency responsible for acquiring, managing, or disposing of Federal lands and waters to cooperate with the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore, protect, and enhance the wetland ecosystems and other habitats for migratory birds and fish and wildlife within such lands and waters. Directs such agencies, in the consideration of land disposal alternatives, to give priority to transfers of property for conservation purposes. Requires the Secretary to report biennially to the appropriate congressional committees on: (1) the estimated number of wetland acres and habitat that were restored, protected, or enhanced for migratory birds during such two-year period; and (2) trends in the population size and distribution of North American migratory birds. Directs the Secretary to report annually to such committees on the status of wetlands conservation projects and expenditures. Requires the Secretary, in 1991 and quinquennially thereafter, to revise the North American Waterfowl Management Plan with appropriate Canadian and Mexican officials. Prohibits funds made available under this Act and the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act from being used for fish and wildlife mitigation purposes under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act or the Water Resources Development Act of 1986. Amends the Migratory Bird Conservation Act to provide that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (in lieu of the Secretary of Transportation) shall be a member of the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1989
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an agreement for the transfer of specified monkeys used in research at the Institute for Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland, to Primarily Primates, Inc., an animal sanctuary in San Antonio, Texas, the teaching zoo known as Moorpark College in Moorpark, California, or the San Diego Zoo in San Diego, California.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1989
Designates November 16, 1989, as Interstitial Cystitis Awareness Day.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1989
Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding admissions of minority students to institutions of higher education, especially with respect to illegal exclusion and illegal racial discrimination against Asian-Americans and other groups.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1989
Comprehensive Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety Act of 1989 - Amends the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (the Act) to require the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations for the safe transportation of hazardous materials in intrastate, interstate, and foreign commerce. Preempts State law with respect to: (1) classification and packaging of hazardous materials; (2) preparation of shipping documents; (3) notification of the unintentional release of such materials in transportation; (4) highway routing; and (5) the design and testing of packaging used in the transportation of such materials. Directs the Secretary to issue standards, including specified requirements, for the designation of highway routes for the transportation of hazardous materials by motor carriers. Requires each person who owns or operates public warehouses or terminals that store hazardous materials under active shipping papers to submit to the Secretary a registration statement containing specified information. Sets forth certain exemptions from this requirement. Requires the Secretary to collect an annual fee from each person required to submit a registration statement. Sets forth a civil penalty for persons who fail to pay such fee. Limits to no more than five percent of fee collections any proceeds available for administrative costs. Directs the Secretary to issue standards for the training to be given by all persons (or employers) causing the transport, or transporting, hazardous materials. Requires such persons to provide training meeting such standards. Prohibits any motor carrier or motor private carrier from transporting class A or B explosives, liquified petroleum or liquified natural gas, or hazardous material designated extremely toxic by inhalation, or any highway route controlled quantity of radioactive materials, unless such carrier possesses a valid safety permit authorizing it to transport such materials. Provides for issuance, suspension, and revocation of such permits. Repeals the publication requirement for renewal of exemptions from regulations governing the transportation of hazardous materials. Revises the definition of "radioactive materials" to exclude material which the Secretary determines is of such low order of radioactivity that when transported it does not pose a significant hazard to health or safety. Directs the Secretary to conduct a continuing review of all aspects of the transportation of hazardous materials and take appropriate steps to assure the safe transportation of such materials. (Currently, the Secretary is required only to recommend such steps.) Sets forth a civil penalty of not less than $250 in the case of an employee, or $1,000 in the case of all other persons, for violations committed under this Act. Preempts State requirements with requirements established under such Act if: (1) compliance with both State requirement and any requirement of the Act is not possible; (2) the State requirement as enforced creates an obstacle to the execution of a requirement under this Act; or (3) such State requirement regulates a subject preempted under such Act. Provides for waiver of preemption by the Secretary. Allows a person who is adversely affected by a decision to preempt or waive preemption to petition for judicial review with the appropriate U.S. district court. Directs the Secretary to issue a final rule prohibiting any motor carrier with an unsatisfactory safety rating from operating certain commercial motor vehicles, including vehicles transporting hazardous materials, until such carrier receives a conditional or satisfactory rating. Requires the Secretary to make grants to State, local, and regional governmental entities to improve planning for responding to emergencies involving transportation of hazardous materials and for training emergency personnel. Requires a grant applicant to submit to the Secretary a plan describing and justifying the activities to be carried out. Specifies the uses for such grants. Sets forth training requirements. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress a report that discusses, analyses, and provides recommendations with respect to hazardous materials transportation safety. Requires the Secretary, in cooperation with the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to assist State, local, and regional governments to improve emergency responses to accidents involving the transportation of hazardous materials. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations establishing similar emergency and accident response procedures for rail carriers. Directs the Federal Railroad Administration to hire one professional engineer to specialize in the development of improved tank car specifications, inspections, and regulations. Directs the Secretary to establish procedures for providing copies of enforcement actions against regulation violators to State or local government officials. Requires the Secretary to employ additional safety inspectors for the Federal Railroad Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, and the Research and Special Programs Administration to assist in inspections focusing on the transportation of hazardous materials.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1989
Increases from $40,000 to $90,000 the amount of Veterans' Mortgage Life Insurance available to veterans who qualify for the specially adapted housing grant.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1989
White House Conference on Homelessness Act - Directs the President to call a National White House Conference on Homelessness. Provides for State and regional conferences. Requires a report to the President and to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1989
Designates June 21, 1989, as Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner Day. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has helped to fulfill the promise of democracy in this Nation. Reaffirms the goal of removing remaining barriers to full voter participation in this Nation.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1989
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to capital gains to exempt from treatment as a passive foreign investment company any controlled foreign corporation whose active income is currently taxable to its U.S. shareholders as passive income. Eliminates the asset test for purposes of defining a passive foreign investment company.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1989
Older Americans' Freedom to Work Act of 1989 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to remove the limitation on the amount of outside income which beneficiaries who have attained retirement age may earn without incurring a reduction in benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1989
Amends Federal law relating to merchant seamen licenses, including licenses as masters, mates, engineers, pilots, operators, and radio officers, to prohibit the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating from issuing or renewing a license, and to require the Secretary to suspend or revoke a license issued, to an individual who the Secretary determines is a current or chronic abuser of alcohol or who fails to make available to the Secretary all information contained in the National Driver Register regarding that individual's motor vehicle driving record. Directs the Secretary to conduct investigations to determine if an individual who holds a license issued by the Secretary is a current or chronic abuser of alcohol if the Secretary receives information regarding any alcohol-related misconduct of the individual or that the individual has been found guilty of an alcohol-related infraction resulting in suspension or revocation of a motor vehicle operator license. Authorizes the Secretary to request an individual who holds a license issued by the Secretary to make available to the Secretary all information contained in the National Driver Register regarding the motor vehicle driving record of that individual. Prohibits the Secretary from terminating a license suspension until the individual provides sufficient proof that the individual is no longer a current or chronic abuser of alcohol. Amends the National Driver Register Act of 1982 to authorize applicants for and holders of such licenses to request the chief State driver licensing official to transmit to the Secretary information regarding such applicants' or holders' motor vehicle driving records. Prescribes the use of such information by the Secretary. Precludes access to information that was entered more than five years before the date of request unless it relates to revocations or suspensions which are still in effect on the date of request.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1989
American Family Act of 1989 - Title I: Programs Focusing on Education - Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary for purposes of this title) to make five-year grants to not more than ten State educational agencies for school-based management projects in one or more local educational agencies (LEAs) in those States. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to authorize the Secretary to make grants to LEAs for parental choice open enrollment programs in public schools. Requires an independent evaluation of such programs to be reported to the Congress by October 1, 1992. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990. Amends ESEA to direct the Secretary to make grants to eligible LEAs for character education programs. Requires LEAs, as a condition of eligibility for such grants, to certify that the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag is part of the daily program of each of their elementary and secondary schools. Directs the Secretary to disseminate information on successful character education programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990. Directs the Secretary to make bootstrap school program competitive grants to eligible LEAs which serve qualified areas to enhance the quality of primary and secondary education. Requires that special consideration be given to applications that describe programs which will serve poverty areas. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990. Directs the Secretary to make three-year grants to not more than five States to provide bonus pay to special education teachers as an incentive to keep them in that field. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Title II: Family Support and Stability - Requires congressional committees to include family impact statements in their reports of public bills or joint resolutions. Makes it not in order for either House of the Congress to consider a public bill or joint resolution if the committee report does not contain such a statement. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to direct the Congressional Budget Office to assist such committees, at their request, to prepare such statements. Requires each executive agency to include a family impact statement in every recommendation or report on a proposal for legislation or other major Federal action significantly affecting families in the United States. Requires each agency to use approaches and develop procedures to give appropriate consideration to potential effects of its proposed actions, decisions, and activities on such families. Requires agency review of existing authorities, rules, and policies and procedures, and a report to the President and the Congress on such review, with recommendations, within one year after enactment of this Act. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a refundable child tax credit and a refundable child and dependent care tax credit. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended by the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987, to direct public housing agencies to set maximum monthly rents for their tenants. Amends the Federal criminal code to make it a Federal criminal offense to leave or remain outside a State for the purpose of avoiding payment of arrearages in child support. Title III: Programs Focusing on Children - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to eligible applicant organizations to improve health, family, and preschool services for families with children under age 13. Sets forth eligibility requirements for such organizations, including location in or near a high risk area for infant mortality, teenage pregnancy, or high school dropouts. Includes among such services prenatal and postnatal care, nutritional lunches, on-site nurse practitioners, family drop-in centers, Head Start program associated services, parenting education, drug abuse prevention, family- or center-based child care, and after-school child care. Gives primary consideration to the service delivery location. Limits such grants to a specified portion of start-up costs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990. Directs the Secretary of Education to allot funds to State education agencies, according to a formula based on State population, for demonstration grants for LEA early childhood education programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990. Directs the Secretary of Education to make a grant to each of 20 eligible applicant LEAs for early childhood family education programs in public schools that are in the greatest need. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 for grants to schools in greatest need. Directs the Secretary of Education to disseminate to States and LEAs information on the Parents as Teachers Program National Center sponsored by the State of Missouri and the Early Childhood Education Project sponsored by the State of Minnesota. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990. Directs the Secretary of HHS to make grants to eligible applicant organizations for family preservation programs to assist families in order to prevent the placement of children in foster care. Requires that such assistance include all of the following: (1) clothing; (2) cleaning and housing locator services; (3) family counseling and communication skills services; and (4) referrals to other organizations and State agencies. Gives preference to applicants in areas with the highest percentages of children in foster care, but requires that a diversity of geographical areas be represented among grant recipient locations. Requires that ten grants for training, technical assistance, and program implementation be made in ten different geographical areas. Directs the Secretary of HHS to enter into a contract with a selected organization to study and report on the effectiveness of programs receiving such grants. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction for certain limited expenses of adopting a child with special needs. Amends Federal law relating to the Armed Forces to authorize the Secretary of Defense to reimburse any member of the armed forces serving on active duty for certain limited expenses of adopting a child under age 18. Repeals specified provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 which provided for a test program for reimbursement of adoption expenses. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for an exclusion from the gross income of an employee of certain limited amounts paid or expenses incurred by the employer for adoption assistance provided to the employee if it is furnished under an adoption assistance program. Amends Federal law to provide for reimbursement to a Federal employee of certain limited expenses of adopting a child under age 18 (but not including an adoption in which one of the adopting parents is the biological parent). Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to prescribe regulations for such child adoption benefits, except that specified officials of legislative and judicial branches shall prescribe regulations for their respective employees. Directs the Attorney General to make incentive grants to eligible States which by September 30, 1990, enact and enforce State laws requiring juvenile offenders and their parents to pay restitution to their victims. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990. Directs the Attorney General to make incentive grants to eligible States which by September 30, 1990, enact and enforce State laws that require juvenile offenders to pay restitution to their victims and to: (1) serve a term of confinement at a correctional facility if their offense was violent; or (2) perform community service if their offense was nonviolent. Sets forth eligibility requirements identical to those for the aforementioned grants for restitution laws. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990. Directs the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (the Administrator) to make incentive grants to eligible States which by September 30, 1990, enact and enforce State laws that: (1) provide for appropriate treatment for alcohol and drug abuse, counseling, and employment of juvenile offenders upon release; and (2) require that a single caseworker be assigned to each such juvenile to obtain available services, coordinate the juvenile's activities, and perform all required supervisory functions. Bases such grants on need, giving special consideration to States containing areas in which a large number of juveniles participate in activities of gangs that commit crimes. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to eligible States to carry out not fewer than ten demonstration projects to provide character education to juveniles confined to juvenile detention facilities for being delinquent. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990. Directs the Administrator to establish and operate a clearinghouse on juvenile justice in the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention for information on criminal gangs with juvenile members. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to private nonprofit community-based organizations for activities to prevent or reduce the participation of juveniles in the activities of gangs that commit crimes. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990. Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to eliminate restrictions on the child's insurance eligibility of individuals who are legally adopted in the United States by parents who are already entitled to old-age or disability insurance benefits. Directs the Secretary of Education to make three-year grants to not more than five States to provide bonus pay to special education teachers as an incentive to keep them in that field. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. (These provisions are identical to provisions at the end of title I of this Act.) Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to authorize the Secretary of HHS to make not more than eight grants to nonprofit private entities for demonstration projects to provide model shelters for victims of family violence and their dependents. Requires grant recipients to: (1) also use non-Federal contributions; (2) provide a variety of specified services; (3) utilize a significant number of volunteers; (4) respond to emergencies at all hours; (5) encourage victims and dependents to reside at the shelter for from three to 12 months; (6) provide at least 40 beds; and (7) assure their future access to other resources to continue operation. Requires equitable geographic distribution, including one grant for a model shelter in the District of Columbia. Requires evaluation of such projects and dissemination of results. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990. Terminates such grants program after a specified aggregate amount has been obligated. Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of HHS to establish, and the Assistant Secretary of Health to administer, a program of demonstration grants to teaching hospitals or community mental health centers with staff affiliations with teaching hospitals to provide comprehensive family drug treatment programs and social work follow-up for individuals in such programs. Directs the Assistant Secretary of Health to award ten such grants in limited amounts and terms. Requires grant recipients to provide program evaluation data to media agencies within their State and to State and local agencies involved in drug-related activities. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Sunset Provision - Terminates the grant programs established by this Act at the end of the last fiscal year for which appropriations are authorized.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1989
Designates November 19 through November 25, 1989, as National Family Caregivers Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1989
Urges: (1) the Chinese Government to respect and affirm internationally recognized human rights and to repeal martial law; (2) protesting students to continue their fight in nonviolent ways; and (3) the Secretary of State to take appropriate action to protect protesting students' and workers' rights. Commends the protesting students' commitment to nonviolent principles of protest. Declares that any violent response by China could affect Sino-American relations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Pipeline-Hazardous Waste Anti-Dumping Act of 1989 - Amends the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to prohibit, by regulation, with specified exceptions, the tending for transportation in crude oil pipeline facilities of any used oil, waste oil, solvent, salt, metal, chemical (including chlorinated or oxygenated hydrocarbons), or other substance determined to pose an unreasonable threat of damage or injury to pipeline facilities, human beings, or the environment.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Garnishment Equalization Act of 1989 - Provides for the treatment of Federal pay in the same manner as non-Federal pay with respect to garnishment.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Designates the period of November 20 through November 26, 1989, as National Adoption Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Designates September 14, 1989, as National DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Day.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Designates January 7 through January 13, 1990, as National Law Enforcement Training Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Designates the week beginning June 11, 1989, as National Scleroderma Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Head Start Expansion Amendments of 1989 - Title I: Amendments to the Head Start Act - Amends the Head Start Act to define "full-working-day" as at least ten hours per day. Authorizes Head Start programs to provide child care services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994: (1) Head Start services other than child care services; and (2) if the appropriation for such other services equals or exceeds such authorization, a new program of child care services. Authorizes the use of a portion of a State's allotment to enable Head Start programs to provide child care services Monday through Friday throughout the year so that eligible children receive full-day Head Start services (including child care), if such child care is necessary for parents to work or attend a job training or educational program. Title II: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a one-year delay in indexing (for inflation) income tax rates and personal exemptions.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Slepak Principles Act - Declares it is the purpose of this Act to create principles, similar to those proposed by Vladamir Slepak (a founding member of the Moscow Helsinki Monitoring Group) governing the conduct of industrial cooperation projects of U.S. nationals in the Soviet Union and the Baltic States. Expresses the sense of the Congress that U.S. nationals engaged in such projects should adhere to the Slepak Principles and thus: (1) provide no assistance for the Soviet military; (2) suspend the use of goods produced by forced labor; (3) seek the protection of human rights as it relates to Soviet employee rights; (4) decline to participate in any project if it uses a structure used for religious activities; (5) pose no danger to Soviet employees; (6) refuse to extend untied loans to the Soviet Union; and (7) strive to use business enterprises that are not controlled by the Soviet Union. Sets forth specified registration and reporting requirements. Declares that U.S. agencies may intercede with a foreign government or foreign national regarding export marketing activity on behalf of a U.S. national if such national adheres to the Slepak Principles.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Changes the date for which Memorial Day is designated as a legal public holiday from the last Monday in May to May 30. Changes Memorial Day as a particular day for displaying the flag from the last Monday in May to May 30. Makes Memorial Day an exception to the observance on Mondays.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Condemns General Manuel Noriega's actions with respect to the May 7th Panamanian election, the violent attack on Guillermo Endara and others by armed thugs acting on Noriega's behalf, and the expulsion of nine international journalists. Calls on General Noriega and the Panamanian Defense Forces to: (1) honor the election by recognizing Guillermo Endara as the victorious presidential candidate; and (2) respect the internationally recognized human rights of the Panamanian people. Calls on the world community of democratic nations to rebuke General Noriega's actions. Calls on the President to consult with the Western Hemisphere democracies in developing a common effort to urge the General to honor the election results. Supports the President's policy steps as an appropriate response to the Panamanian crisis. Expresses Congress' desire to work with the President to determine U.S. foreign policy in Panama.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1989
Clean Air Restoration Act of 1989 - Title I: General Provisions for Nonattainment Areas - Amends the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to publish guidelines for enhanced State monitoring of ozone, oxides of nitrogen, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), carbon monoxide, and particulate matter 10 (PM 10) and for improved inventories of emissions of such substances. Directs the Administrator to establish emissions factors for estimating emissions of such substances from stationary sources which emit less than 25 tons per year of such pollutants. Requires State plan revisions submitted after this Act's enactment for ozone, carbon monoxide, or PM 10 nonattainment areas to provide for the maintenance of the attainment standard for 20 years after such submission. Directs the Administrator to periodically review and revise such plans, as necessary, to insure the maintenance of such standard. Revises the boundaries of ozone and carbon monoxide nonattainment areas which are classified as Extreme or Severe and are located within Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) or Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas (CMSA) to include the entire MSA or CMSA. Authorizes the Administrator to modify nonattainment areas classified as Moderate or serious for ozone, carbon monoxide, or PM 10 to encompass the entire MSA or CMSA if such modification is necessary to attain the air quality standard. Requires permits issued in nonattainment areas for stationary sources to provide for: (1) quarterly reports to the permitting authority on monitoring measures; and (2) annual certifications to such authority demonstrating compliance with such permit. Prohibits the issuance of any permit unless such authority has conducted an on-site inspection of the source or emissions unit. Allows new or modified stationary sources to comply with any offset requirement for increased emissions of any air pollutant by obtaining enforceable emissions reductions of such pollutant from other sources in the same nonattainment area. Requires such reductions to be in effect by the time such sources commence operation and to insure that the total tonnage of increased emissions is offset by a greater reduction in the actual emissions from other area sources. Title II: Provisions Applicable to Ozone Nonattainment Areas - Classifies ozone nonattainment areas as Moderate, Serious, Severe, or Extreme, based upon the percentage by which the air quality standard is exceeded in the area. Authorizes the Administrator to adjust the classification of areas which would be classified in another category if the ozone level in such areas were ten percent greater or less. Requires the Administrator to promulgate special rules for rural nonattainment areas where area sources do not make significant contributions to the ozone concentration in such areas. Directs States with classified ozone nonattainment areas to submit compliance strategies to the Administrator. Requires such strategies to provide for: (1) meeting an initial milestone for emissions reductions; (2) improved monitoring of ozone, oxides of nitrogen, and VOCs; (3) annual statements from owners or operators of stationary sources showing emissions of oxides of nitrogen and VOCs; and (4) annual emissions inventories to be submitted to the Administrator. Waives the requirement for owners or operators of stationary sources which emit less than 25 tons annually of VOCs if the State provides an inventory of emissions of such sources. Applies requirements for State permits with respect to air quality standards to statements for stationary sources which emit 25 tons or more annually of oxides of nitrogen or VOCs. Deems such sources to be major stationary sources. Establishes fees to be collected by States for each ton of emissions of such substances and approval procedures for compliance strategies. Directs the Administrator to publish oxides of nitrogen and VOC emissions reduction targets for Serious, Severe, and Extreme ozone nonattainment areas. Provides for reductions or increases in such targets based upon percentage reductions or increases over a 1988 emissions inventory. Directs the Administrator to publish a VOC emissions reduction milestone for such areas to require a 20 percent reduction in emissions within four years of this Act's enactment based upon the 1988 emissions inventory. Requires additional milestones to be achieved within eight and 12 years of this Act's enactment. Sets forth attainment dates of four, eight, 12, and 16 years, respectively, for Moderate, Serious, Severe, and Extreme areas. Requires State implementation plans for Serious, Severe, and Extreme areas to be revised to include measures for meeting targets and milestones, conforming with compliance strategies, and attaining and maintaining revised ozone standards. Sets forth approval procedures for such plans. Requires the Administrator to audit biennially and, if necessary, revise such plans to assure compliance. Includes specified ratios for offsets of increased emissions by new or modified sources in permit requirements for Moderate areas. Requires compliance strategies or revised implementation plans for Serious and Severe areas to contain a permit program covering the construction and operation of certain new or modified emissions units. Requires certain emissions offsets by the time such units enter operation. Provides that such plans or strategies shall: (1) contain a motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program to reduce in-use emissions of VOCs and oxides of nitrogen in Serious areas; and (2) require the use of fill nozzles in such areas which prevent vapor discharge and vehicle fuel tank overflows on nozzle disconnect. Applies the nozzle requirement only to facilities which sell more than 10,000 gallons of gasoline per month (50,000 gallons per month in the case of certain independent small business gasoline marketers). Waives such requirement when the Administrator determines that onboard emissions control systems are in widespread use throughout the motor vehicle fleet. Requires such plans or strategies to require all buses which are purchased or leased by State or local governments after January 1, 1992, (for which such governments enter into contracts or for which engines are replaced after such date) and which are used for public transportation in Serious areas to be low-emission vehicles using low-emission fuels. Requires permits for the operation of certain existing stationary sources in Serious, Severe, and Extreme areas. Requires such strategies or plans to establish a schedule requiring at least 30 percent of the new motor vehicles registered in Severe areas by 1998 to be low-emission vehicles using low-emission fuels. Prohibits the use of an emissions reduction trading program to comply with the reasonably available control technology requirement applicable to such sources under the Clean Air Act. Requires tanks used for motor vehicle liquid fuel storage in such areas to be capable of storing methanol. Prohibits the use of Federal funds for transportation planning in such areas unless the Administrator determines that such planning uses all available techniques for reducing aggregate vehicle emissions. Requires all new motor vehicles owned or operated by persons owning or operating 15 or more vehicles in a Severe area after 1992 to be low-emission vehicles using low-emission fuels. Provides that compliance strategies and State implementation plans for Extreme areas shall contain the same requirements as those for Severe areas. Provides that, eight years after this Act's enactment, each electric utility and industrial and commercial boiler emitting more than 25 tons annually of oxides of nitrogen in such areas shall: (1) burn natural gas, methanol, or ethanol (or a comparably low polluting fuel) as a primary fuel; or (2) use advance control technology for reduction of such emissions. Establishes a schedule for increasing in annual increments the percentage of new motor vehicles registered in such areas which are low-emission vehicles. Requires all model year 2000 vehicles to be low-emission vehicles. Authorizes the establishment of traffic control measures during heavy traffic hours to reduce the use of high polluting vehicles in such areas. Allows an Extreme area to apply for a four-year extension of the attainment date. Directs the Administrator to grant such extension if the area is reasonably expected to meet minimum emissions reduction targets and the implementation plan is adequate to meet the attainment standard by the extended date. Sets forth procedures to be applied in the case of noncompliance with plan and compliance strategy requirements, including emissions offsets for new or modified stationary sources or emissions units at a ratio of three to one and a prohibition on the approval of, or awarding of Federal funds for, highway projects in non-complying areas. Sets forth deadlines for States to demonstrate that all measures in compliance strategies have been implemented and that milestones have been met. Provides for reclassification of areas or the implementation of additional measures, including economic incentive programs in Severe and Extreme areas, if a State fails to meet emissions reduction milestones or to submit a demonstration. Directs the Administrator to establish guidelines for such programs. Sets forth administrative procedures for making determinations, including provisional determinations, of attainment of air quality standards during a three-year period. Directs the Administrator to reclassify Moderate, Serious, or Severe areas which fail to meet attainment deadlines into the next, more stringent, category. Requires States with Extreme areas failing to meet such deadlines to submit plan revisions providing for: (1) emissions offsets at a ratio of three to one for new or modified sources or emissions units in such areas; and (2) an economic incentives program to aid in reducing the total tonnage of VOC and oxides of nitrogen emissions by at least five percent annually prior to attainment of the standard. Establishes an ozone transport region comprised of coastal States on the east coast between Maine and Maryland and the CMSA including the District of Columbia. Authorizes the creation of additional regions, as necessary. Directs the Administrator to establish an ozone transport commission for each region. Requires each State within a region to submit to the Administrator a revised implementation plan which requires compliance with emission levels as if the region were classified as a Serious area for ozone. Exempts regions within a State that do not contribute significantly to ozone concentrations in Serious, Severe, or Extreme areas. Permits States or subdivisions to petition the Administrator for the inclusion of another State or portion of a State within an ozone transport region. Requires the Administrator to develop criteria for determining transboundary pollution for ozone. Authorizes the Administrator to pay up to 100 percent of the program costs of such commissions for two years. Directs the Administrator to: (1) list all categories of commercial and consumer solvents, architectural and other surface coatings, pesticide applications, traffic coatings, and military specification coatings which release significant evaporative emissions of VOCs; and (2) promulgate standards biennially, for eight years, to reduce emissions from the highest priority group of such substances to the lowest feasible emissions rate. Requires the Administrator to publish a list of the 12 categories of stationary sources for which control technologies have not been published and which make the most significant contribution to the formation of ozone air pollution. Directs the Administrator to publish guidance for such sources, including guidelines for monitoring emissions of VOCs and oxides of nitrogen, and review and, if necessary, update such guidelines. Requires owners or operators of sources emitting ten tons or more of VOCs annually to reduce such emissions by a specified percentage if guidance for such source has not been published. Directs the Administrator to publish a control technology document regarding control of VOC emissions from the loading of petroleum products on or off of vessels. Provides that such emissions shall be considered to be direct emissions of the onshore terminal. Title III: Provisions Applicable to Carbon Monoxide Nonattainment Areas - Classifies carbon monoxide nonattainment areas as Moderate, Serious, or Severe. Authorizes the Administrator to adjust such classifications under conditions parallel to those for ozone nonattainment areas. Requires the Administrator to publish carbon monoxide concentration milestones for Serious and Severe areas to be achieved within four and eight years of this Act's enactment, respectively. Sets forth attainment dates of four, eight, and twelve years, respectively, for Moderate, Serious, and Severe areas. Sets forth requirements parallel to those for ozone nonattainment areas for State plan revisions, content, approval, and auditing. Requires plans for Serious and Severe areas to include: (1) motor vehicle inspection and maintenance programs to reduce in-use carbon monoxide emissions; and (2) provisions requiring the use of oxygenated fuels for all gasoline-powered motor vehicles during periods identified as having carbon monoxide concentrations potentially in excess of air quality standards. Directs the Administrator to promulgate guidelines allowing the use of marketable oxygen credits from fuels with higher oxygen contents than required to offset the sale or use of fuels with lower contents than required. Waives the oxygenated fuel requirement upon a demonstration that the use of such fuels would prevent or interfere with an area's attainment of a standard for any other air pollutant. Requires persons selling oxygenated fuel to label the fuel dispensing system accordingly. Sets forth requirements parallel to those for ozone nonattainment areas for: (1) permit programs and emissions offsets in Severe areas; (2) persons owning or operating more than 15 vehicles in such areas; and (3) funding for transportation planning. Provides for a $5 per vehicle annual registration fee in such areas. Makes registration revenues available to the State air pollution control agency for developing carbon monoxide emissions reduction strategies. Sets forth requirements parallel to those for ozone nonattainment areas for noncompliance procedures and State demonstrations. Provides for the implementation of an incentives program to reduce vehicle miles traveled in Severe areas if milestones or demonstration requirements have not been met. Provides for reclassification and plan revision procedures parallel to those required for Severe and Extreme ozone nonattainment areas. Title IV: Provisions Applicable to PM 10 Nonattainment Areas - Classifies PM 10 nonattainment areas as Serious or Severe. Sets forth attainment dates of four and eight years after this Act's enactment, respectively, for Serious and Severe areas. Directs the Administrator to publish PM 10 concentration milestones for Severe areas to require a 50 percent reduction in concentrations within four years of this Act's enactment. Sets forth requirements parallel to those for ozone and carbon monoxide nonattainment areas for: (1) State plan revisions, content, approval, and auditing; and (2) permit programs for Serious and Severe areas. Requires permits for the operation of: (1) certain existing sources in Severe areas; and (2) new, modified, and existing sources of PM 10 precursors where such emissions contribute significantly to PM 10 concentrations in nonattainment areas. Sets forth requirements parallel to those for ozone and carbon monoxide nonattainment areas for noncompliance, State demonstrations, reclassifications, and plan revisions. Allows States which have submitted plan revisions for Severe areas to apply for a two-year extension of the attainment date. Provides that three to one offset requirements shall not apply to areas granted such extensions. Waives any PM 10 requirements if determined that anthropogenic sources of PM 10 do not contribute significantly to the violation of the PM 10 standard in the area. Directs the Administrator to: (1) list all important categories of PM 10 emissions and precursors; and (2) publish biennial guidelines concerning the best available control technology for PM 10 emissions from stationary sources in the highest priority group. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations for PM 10 emissions reduction from existing diesel buses in Severe areas to require the use of lower polluting fuels. Requires State plans to include annual PM 10 emissions inventories to be submitted to the Administrator. Provides for revisions of such plans if air quality standards are modified. Requires plans to contain measures to improve the ambient monitoring of PM 10. Title V: Mobile Sources - Sets standards for emissions of hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and particulates from: (1) passenger cars and light duty trucks manufactured after 1991; and (2) heavy duty trucks and buses manufactured after 1990. Directs the Administrator to promulgate standards for vehicles using low-emissions fuel. Requires the Administrator to evaluate and, if necessary, revise such standards at least every four years. Directs the Administrator to establish a minimum percentage of new motor vehicles to be certified as low-emissions vehicles. Requires the Administrator to promulgate emissions standards for internal combustion engines used in any vehicle or machine manufactured after January 1, 1993. Requires such standards to be proportional to those for motor vehicle engines of comparable horsepower using the same fuel. Directs the Administrator to add an idle test to the Federal Test Procedure for emissions from light duty vehicles manufactured after 1991. Permits only ten percent of vehicles manufactured after 1990 in a selective enforcement audit to fail motor vehicle testing. Requires the Administrator to review and revise, as necessary, testing regulations to insure that vehicles are tested under circumstances reflecting actual current driving conditions. Requires each vehicle and engine to comply with the applicable emissions standard (Current law permits averaging). Provides that the useful life of vehicles and engines manufactured after 1994 shall be ten years or 100,000 miles. Makes technical amendments to prohibitions on tampering with vehicle emission control devices. Directs the Administrator to require the use of best available technology to control evaporative emissions from motor vehicles for a vehicle's useful life. Sets standards for emission of hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and evaporative hydrocarbons from motorcycles manufactured after 1991. Requires the installation of onboard emission diagnostic equipment on motor vehicles. Directs the Administrator to: (1) promulgate regulations to reduce evaporative emissions from motor vehicle fuels; and (2) establish a standard for gasoline volatility. Requires new light duty motor vehicles manufactured in the second year after standards are promulgated to be equipped with onboard evaporative emissions control systems. Provides for carbon monoxide emissions testing at 20 degrees Fahrenheit of passenger cars and light duty trucks manufactured after model year 1992. Sets emissions standards at such temperature. Title VI: Miscellaneous Provisions - Requires the Administrator to establish requirements to control air pollution from Outer Continental Shelf sources. Authorizes States adjacent to such sources to submit to the Administrator procedures for enforcing such requirements. Directs the Administrator to delegate enforcement authority to States with adequate procedures. Authorizes the Administrator to substitute maximum allowable increases in particulate matter smaller than or equal to ten micrometers (PM 10) for maximum allowable increases in such matter specified under the Clean Air Act. Authorizes the Administrator to: (1) treat Indian tribes as States under the Clean Air Act; (2) delegate to such tribes primary responsibility for assuring air pollution control; and (3) provide such tribes grant and contract assistance to carry out such functions. Outlines requirements for such authorization. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate other means for administering such authorities where such treatment is inappropriate. Directs the Administrator to list nonattainment areas for air pollutants other than those covered by this Act when a new or revised air quality standard is promulgated. Applies the PM 10 standards, excepting attainment deadlines and provisions relating to diesel buses, to such areas. Requires the Administrator to make information regarding emissions control technology available to States and the public through a central database. Repeals provisions concerning enforcement orders and violations by owners or operators of major stationary sources. Requires States to submit plan revisions for nonattainment areas failing to meet attainment deadlines for air pollutants other than those covered by this Act. Requires new or modified sources of such pollutants to comply with provisions of this Act and applies an emissions offset ratio of three to one to such pollutants. Directs the Administrator to conduct biennial audits of motor vehicle inspection and maintenance programs in Severe or Extreme ozone or carbon monoxide nonattainment areas. Increases and expands the scope of penalties and violations of the Clean Air Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1989
Low-Income Housing Credit Act of 1989 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the low-income housing income tax credit (under current law the credit will expire after tax year 1989). Permits States a one-year carryover of unused credit authority. Assigns carryovers to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to allocate to eligible States applying for excess credit. Allows the credit only if an extended low-income housing commitment (beyond the current 15-year period) is in effect with respect to any building for the relevant taxable year. Describes procedures to effect transition to a non-low-income use in connection with such extensions. Permits the credit in connection with the acquisition of an existing building only if the taxpayer incurs rehabilitation expenditures of at least $3,000 per unit. Revises rent restrictions to: (1) declare unnecessary a required rent reduction below the initial rent if the median gross income of the area decreases; (2) permit higher rent if units are occupied by higher income individuals and the project has an operating deficit; (3) base income limitations on the number of bedrooms in a unit; and (4) use State median gross income in certain low-income housing status determinations. Broadens categories of existing buildings eligible for a waiver of the ten-year requirement for the low-income housing credit. Revises credit provisions relating to single-room occupancy units and special needs housing. Loosens restrictions that limit credit benefits in connection with buildings financed with tax-exempt bonds and below market loans. Permits the credit to be allocated: (1) on a project basis; and (2) in connection with owner-occupied buildings of four units or less if a development plan is submitted. Directs housing credit agencies to adopt plans for allocating credit amounts among projects, prohibiting the credit with respect to any building not included in such a plan. Modifies at-risk rules in connection with buildings subject to the historic rehabilitation credit and those associated with financing provided by certain nonprofit organizations. Sets the tax credit rate on a semiannual rather than monthly basis. Increases the credit in connection with buildings in high cost areas (low-income census tracts or difficult development areas).
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1989
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress and the President, prior to each fiscal year, to agree on an estimate of total receipts (except those derived from borrowing) for that fiscal year by enactment of a joint single subject resolution. Prohibits outlays for that year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding this amount unless the Congress, by a three-fifths roll call vote of each House, authorizes a specific excess of outlays over receipts. Requires a three-fifths roll call vote of each House to increase the public debt. Directs the President to submit a balanced budget to the Congress. Requires the approval of a majority of the total membership of each House by roll call vote before any bill to increase revenue may become law. Waives these provisions when a declaration of war is in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1989
Designates October 16, 1989, and October 16, 1990, as World Food Day.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1989
Recognizes the two centuries of service by the U.S. Coast Guard.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1989
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1989 - Title I: General Prohibition Against Discrimination - Declares that it shall be discriminatory, on the basis of disability, to deny opportunities or to afford them unequally, to provide opportunities less effectively (or differently or separately, unless necessary for effectiveness), to assist an organization or individual that discriminates, or to otherwise limit opportunities enjoyed by others. Prohibits the use of standards, criteria, or administrative methods that have the purpose or effect of discrimination or perpetuate discrimination. Declares it discriminatory to deny equal opportunities because of the relationship or association of an individual with another individual with a disability. Allows as a defense to a charge of discrimination that an application of standards or criteria has been demonstrated to be both necessary and substantially related to the ability of an individual to take advantage of the essential components of the opportunity, and that the taking advantage cannot be accomplished by reasonable accommodations, modifications, or the provision of auxiliary aids or services. Title II: Employment - Prohibits discrimination by any employer, employment agency, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee against any qualified individual with a disability in job application procedures, hiring or discharge, compensation, advancement, training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. Lists types of actions construed to be discrimination. Makes the remedies set forth in specified provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other specified Federal law available to any individual who believes that he or she is being or is about to be subjected to discrimination in violation of this Act. Title III: Public Services - Declares that no qualified individual with a disability shall be excluded from the participation in, denied the benefits of, or subjected to discrimination by a State, or by an agency, political subdivision, or other instrumentality of a State. Lists types of actions deemed, for purposes of this Act and specified provisions of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to be discrimination with regard to public transportation. Makes the remedies and rights set forth in specified provisions of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 available to any individual who believes that he or she is being or is about to be subjected to discrimination in violation of this Act. Title IV: Public Accommodations and Services Operated by Private Entities - Prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in the enjoyment of any place of public accommodation. Lists types of actions construed to be discrimination. Prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in public transportation services provided by a private entity that is primarily engaged in transporting people, but that is not in the principal business of air transportation. Lists types of actions construed to be discrimination. Makes specified provisions of the Fair Housing Act relating to enforcement available, subject to exception, to any aggrieved individual. Title V: Telecommunications Relay Services - Defines "telecommunications relay services" to mean services that enable simultaneous communication between individuals who use telecommunications devices for the deaf (TDDs) or other nonvoice terminal devices and individuals who do not use such devices. Declares it discriminatory for any common carrier that offers telephone services to the public to fail to provide interstate or intrastate telecommunication relay services that are equal to those provided to their customers who are able to use voice services, except in any State in which services are provided through an entity designated by the State. Declares it discrimination by a State that makes such a designation if the State fails to provide interstate or intrastate relay services that are equal to those provided to their voice customers. Makes specified provisions of the Fair Housing Act relating to enforcement available, subject to exception, to any aggrieved individual. Requires the Federal Communications Commission to enforce this title. Makes specified provisions of the Communications Act of 1934 apply with respect to the enforcement of this title. Provides for cease and desist orders by the Commission and for monetary penalties. Title VI: Miscellaneous Provisions - Prohibits retaliatory discrimination against any individual because of actions related to this Act. Declares that a State shall not be immune under the 11th Amendment to the Constitution from an action in Federal court for a violation of this Act. Requires the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board to issue minimum guidelines to supplement the existing Minimum Guidelines and Requirements for Accessible Design. Allows the awarding of reasonable attorney's fees, in certain circumstances, in any action or proceeding under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1989
Rape Prevention Act of 1989 - Directs the Attorney General to make grants to public and nonprofit private community organizations for the purpose of establishing or operating local projects to combat rape and other forms of sexual assault. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1989
Advanced Television Competitiveness Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to provide for the establishment of an industry-led consortium, to be known as TV Tech, to conduct research, development, and manufacturing activities in the field of high definition television and other advanced television systems. Outlines membership provisions concerning TV Tech. Requires the Directorate of TV Tech (the controlling group) to appoint from among employees of firms that are members of TV Tech a Commercial Coordinating Group to coordinate and advise on the commercially related activities of TV Tech and a Technical Coordinating Group to coordinate and advise on the technical activities of TV Tech. Requires the Directorate to establish a variety of projects related to advanced television system technologies, each to be supervised by a project leader. Provides a Project Leaders Coordinating Group to facilitate the sharing among projects of costs, planning, and the dissemination of obtained information. Establishes an Advisory Council on Federal Participation in TV Tech to: (1) advise the Directorate on appropriate goals for activities; and (2) conduct an annual review of TV Tech activities to determine progress made in achieving the purposes of this Act. Outlines membership and funding provisions for the Council. Provides that the conduct of any person making or performing a contract to carry out activities authorized by this Act shall not be considered illegal per se under antitrust laws, but shall be judged on the basis of its reasonableness. Provides that, for the purposes of damages recovery and attorneys' fees, conduct authorized by this Act shall be considered within the scope of a notification under appropriate provisions of the National Cooperative Research Act of 1984. Permits TV Tech to enter into contracts which would result in the transfer to any person outside the United States of technology developed in the United States only when authorized by the Directorate, in consultation with the Advisory Council. Permits a non-U.S.-owned firm to obtain licensing rights from TV Tech with respect to technology developed in the United States only if: (1) all royalties connected with such license are retained by TV Tech or a U.S.-owned firm; and (2) all components are manufactured in the United States, unless special circumstances warrant otherwise. Provides for reversion to TV Tech of all patents held by a member firm of TV Tech which ceases to be a U.S.-owned firm. Allows research and development programs undertaken by TV Tech to culminate in pilot projects as appropriate. Authorizes TV Tech to enter into agreements with a State to encourage development of full-scale projects at the State level.