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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 · 23 June 1989
Designates September 1989 as National Minority Health Awareness Month. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) make publicly available information on minority health problems and minority health professionals' careers and contributions; and (2) present public service announcements on health promotion and disease prevention among minority Americans.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1989
Stratospheric Ozone Protection Act of 1989 - Amends the Clean Air Act to list as class I and II substances which are known or may reasonably be anticipated to contribute to stratospheric ozone depletion. Authorizes any person to petition the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to add a chemical to such lists. Requires the Administrator to: (1) add to the class I list any substance having an ozone depletion potential greater than .15; (2) add to the class II list any substance having a significant ozone depletion potential; and (3) assign each listed substance a numerical ozone depletion potential factor, based upon a comparison with chlorofluorocarbon-11. Directs producers and importers of such substances to report annually to the Administrator on the production or import levels of such substances. Makes it unlawful to produce such substances in an amount greater than 1986 levels effective 180 days after enactment of this Act. Requires a further reduction by July 1, 1993, and makes it unlawful, effective July 1, 1996, to produce such substances for other than medical purposes. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate rules under which persons may produce such substances in annual quantities greater than those specified under this Act if such persons obtain the rights to such production from other persons who will be subject to enforceable reductions in such substances which: (1) exceed the reduction otherwise required; (2) are greater than the annual production increase; and (3) would not have occurred in the absence of such transaction. Makes it unlawful to produce any listed substance which yields an ozone depletion potential greater than the 1986 depletion level. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring a 95 percent reduction in ozone depletion potential of such substances by 1997. Provides that if the Administrator fails to promulgate such regulations, it shall be unlawful, effective July 1, 1997, to produce such substances in annual quantities yielding ozone depletion potentials greater than five percent of the 1986 depletion level. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring producers of such substances to reduce production more rapidly if the accelerated schedule is necessary to protect human health and the environment or if the reduction is attainable, based on the availability of substitutes for such substances. Prohibits the importation of such substances or products using such substances, unless the exporting nation has an equivalent or more stringent production reduction program. Requires the Administrator to certify national programs, such certification to be reviewed annually. Equates imports with production when determining a manufacturer's required reductions. Directs the President to prohibit: (1) the export of technologies to produce class I substances; and (2) investment in facilities for producing such substances in nations which are not certified. Requires the Administrator to: (1) review sources containing information on potential chemicals or product substitutes and alternative manufacturing processes as replacements for class I substances; (2) report such findings to the Congress; (3) require producers to provide the EPA with their unpublished health and safety studies on chemical substitutes for such substances and notify the EPA before existing chemicals are put to significant new uses as chlorofluorocarbon and halon substitutes; and (4) annually update such review and, two years after this Act's enactment, include class II substances in such review. Directs the Administrator to promulgate rules applicable to replacements for such substances to require that processes and products that reduce overall risks to public health and the environment are used. Requires the Administrator to publish a list of prohibited substitutes and safe alternatives. Authorizes any person to petition the Administrator to add or remove a substance from such list. Makes it unlawful, after 1992, to manufacture or import any household or commercial appliance containing such substances unless such appliances have apertures that allow the removal of such substances without loss into the atmosphere. Prohibits, after 1990, the introduction of such substances into interstate commerce in pressurized containers weighing less than 15 pounds. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring the maximum feasible reductions in the use of class I substances, including measures to: (1) recover and recycle such substances in manufacturing processes and prior to disposal of products containing such substances; (2) increase the efficiency of the use of such substances; (3) provide for the use of safe alternatives; (4) achieve reductions of at least 50 percent in the use of class I substances for servicing and repairs of household and commercial appliances and in the manufacture of products in which such substances are used as solvents or blowing agents; and (5) achieve reductions, without reduced fire safety, in releases associated with discharges of such substances from fire prevention or extinguishing equipment. Prohibits business establishments from performing services on motor vehicle air conditioners involving refrigerants, unless approved refrigerant recycling equipment is used and persons performing such services have been properly trained and certified. Applies such requirement three years after this Act's enactment to establishments which performed service on fewer than 100 air conditioners during 1990. Requires such establishments to certify to the Administrator that they meet such requirements or serviced fewer than 100 air conditioners during 1990. Requires containers of listed substances to bear labels stating that such substances harm public health and the environment by destroying the ozone layer and disrupting the climate.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1989
Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (the Act) to increase the minimum wage per hour from $3.35 in 1989 to: (1) $3.80 in FY 1990; and (2) $4.25 in FY 1991 and thereafter. Provides for annual adjustments of the minimum wage. Directs the Minimum Wage Review Board (established by this Act), by January 1, 1991, to review current economic data on wages, prices, and other economic indicators and determine how the minimum wage rate should be adjusted. Directs the Board, by October 1, 1991, to transmit to the Congress a recommendation to adjust the rate, including an estimate of the economic effects of doing so. Directs the Board to conduct such reviews and transmit such recommendations annually. Establishes the Minimum Wage Review Board, composed of five members appointed by certain congressional officers. Increases the small business exemption by revising the definition of an enterprise engaged in commerce for purposes of coverage under the Act ("the enterprise test"). Exempts from such coverage those businesses whose annual gross volume of sales or business is less than $500,000 (currently $362,500), effective October 1, 1989. Requires employers who were covered in 1988, but who are exempt under the new threshold, to continue to pay the $3.35 per hour minimum wage (and continue to be covered by overtime and child labor provisions of the Act). Removes the Virgin Islands from coverage by provisions for special industry committee minimum wage determinations and orders, including those involving employment under special certificates for learners, apprentices, and messengers and for students. Adds references to American Samoa under such provisions (American Samoa is currently covered by such provisions through references under other special minimum wage provisions). Removes references to Puerto Rico under such provisions, but continues and revises the special minimum wage treatment of Puerto Rico as follows: (1) in addition to designated types of employees (Federal, hotel, motel, restaurant, and food service) entitled to receive the full Federal minimum wage, employees in industries averaging $4.65 or more per hour would be so entitled; (2) employees in industries averaging from $4.00 to $4.64 per hour would receive the full rate by October 1, 1993, after a four-year period of gradual increases; (3) employees in industries averaging less than $4.00 per hour would receive the full rate by October 1, 1994, after a five-year period of gradual increases; and (4) employees of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a municipality or other governmental entity of the Commonwealth, in categories averaging less than $4.00 per hour and covered by 1985 amendments to the Act, would receive the full rate by October 1, 1995, after a six-year period of gradual increases. Increases the tip credit under the Act from 40 percent to 45 percent for FY 1990 and to 50 percent for FY 1991 and thereafter. (The tip credit deems the amount paid to a tipped employee, for minimum wage purposes, to be increased by an amount determined by the employer, but not by an amount in excess of the specified percentage of the applicable minimum wage rate.) Allows employers to pay a training wage at less than the minimum wage rate. Allows such training wage to be paid only: (1) until the employee has been employed a cumulative total of 60 days by all employers who are required to withhold payroll taxes for such employee; and (2) while such eligible employee is engaged in on-the-job training which is at least 30 days in duration. Prohibits payment of such training wage to migrant or seasonal agricultural workers or nonimmigrant aliens. Makes the individual responsible for providing proof of previous periods of employment with other employers. Allows such training wage to be paid only during the period from October 1, 1989, to September 30, 1991. Sets such training wage at: (1) not less than $3.35 per hour during the year beginning October 1, 1989; and (2) beginning October 1, 1990, not less than $3.35 per hour or 85 percent of the minimum wage, whichever is greater. Prohibits layoffs or termination of employment or reduction of the number of regular employees because of the training wage. Prohibits employee hours at the training wage during any month from exceeding one-fourth of all employee hours in the establishment. Sets forth notice requirements and enforcement provisions. Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to report to the Congress by July 1, 1992, on the effectiveness of the training wage. Exempts from overtime provisions of the Act up to ten hours in any workweek if during such time the employee is receiving certain remedial education. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the rights and protections of the Act should apply to employees of the Senate or any office thereof. Directs the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, within 180 days after the first minimum wage increase under this Act, to report a resolution which applies such rights and protection to Senate employees and establishes the scope of such coverage and remedies, enforcement, and other necessary procedures. Applies the rights and protections under the Act to any employee: (1) in an employment position in, and any employing authority of, the House of Representatives, using remedies and procedures under the Fair Employment Practices Resolution; or (2) employed under the Architect of the Capitol. Adds civil penalties for repeated or willful violations of specified provisions of the Act. Directs the Secretary, within 90 days, to promulgate regulations that interpret a specified professional exemption from overtime provisions under the Act to include computer systems analysts, software engineers, and other similarly skilled professional workers, even if such employees are compensated on an hourly basis, as long as they are compensated at an hourly rate at least six and one-half times greater than the minimum. Directs the Minimum Wage Review Board to contract with the Secretary to provide for the Bureau of Labor Statistics to conduct: (1) a study of the impact of increasing the Federal minimum wage on rural areas and high unemployment areas; and (2) specified surveys and research on the characteristics of minimum wage employment and the impact of modification of the scope of coverage and minimum wage levels under the Act. Directs the Board to submit to specified congressional committees the results of such studies and surveys, which are to be completed by specified deadlines.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1989
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide for joint trusteeship of single-employer pension plans.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1989
Census Equity Act - Requires the Secretary of Commerce to ensure that during any decennial census: (1) no member of the armed forces, civilian employee of the Department of Defense, or dependent of such member or employee, is excluded based on such member or employee being assigned to a post outside the United States; and (2) any alien not lawfully admitted for permanent residence is not included.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1989
Job Corps Amendments Act of 1989 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (the Act) to revise provisions for the Job Corps. Raises the maximum age limit for Job Corps enrollees from 22 to 25, and repeals authority to waive the age limitation for handicapped individuals. Declares that nothing in the Act prohibits transfer of Job Corps participants to and from Training Services programs for the disadvantaged. Increases from ten to 20 percent the maximum percentage of Job Corps enrollees who may be nonresident participants in any year. Prohibits the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) from reducing the number of residential participants during any program year below their number during program year 1989. Prohibits any Department of Labor funds from being used to: (1) close any Job Corps Center that was operating during program year 1989; or (2) carry out any contract with a nongovernmental entity to administer or manage a Civilian Conservation Center of the Job Corps which was not under such a contract as of September 1, 1984. Directs the Secretary to provide child care at or near Job Corps centers for the children of Job Corps participants. Requires each Job Corps Center to provide alcohol or drug abuse counseling, treatment, and related prevention services for enrollees.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1989
Designates August 8, 1989, as National Neighborhood Crime Watch Day.
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
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 · 7 June 1989
Designates the week beginning on the second Sunday in May 1990 as National Tourism Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1989
Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Surtax Repeal Act - Amends the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 to repeal the supplemental Medicare premium. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the existing 33 percent individual income tax rate to the highest income taxpayers. Repeals the phase-out of the 15 percent rate and personal exemptions. Establishes a maximum capital gains rate at 28 percent. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for funding medicare catastrophic benefits by the extension of the individual income tax rate. Makes appropriations of relevant amounts to the following trust funds: (1) the Federal Hospital Insurance Catastrophic Coverage Reserve Fund; (2) the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund; and (3) the Federal Catastrophic Drug Insurance Trust Fund.
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 · 1 June 1989
Provides an opportunity for Federal employees subject to the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and certain Federal employees subject to other retirement systems under the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1964 for Certain Employees and the Foreign Service Act to elect coverage under the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) between July 1 and December 31, 1989. Delays implementation of certain Government pension offset provisions under the Social Security Act. Makes this Act's amendments effective as of January 1, 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1989
Designates the month of October 1989 as National Spina Bifida Month.
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 · 18 May 1989
Food Irradiation Safety and Labeling Requirement Act of 1989 - Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing pork irradiation regulations and the Secretary of Health and Human Services from implementing other food irradiation regulations. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to arrange for and report within two years on a study of the risks to human health and the environment presented by food irradiation. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that food for domestic use or export which has been irradiated be labeled in a prescribed fashion. Requires restaurant menus to indicate when foods have been irradiated. Requires persons irradiating food to report semiannually to the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Designates July 2, 1989, as National Literacy Day.
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 · 17 May 1989
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend for three years, through 1992, the investment tax credit in connection with depreciable solar energy property and geothermal property; and (2) permit this credit against the taxpayer's entire regular tax liability and minimum tax liability.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Family Choices in Child Care Act of 1989 - Title I: Tax Credit for Families with Young Children - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for every child under six in low and moderate-income families. Provides a phaseout of the dependent care tax credit for taxpayers whose adjusted gross incomes exceed $50,000. Makes such tax credit applicable only to the care of individuals who are handicapped. Reduces the tax exclusion for dependent care assistance, except as it applies to the handicapped. Title II: Incentives for Employer-Provided Child Care Benefits - Subtitle A: Credit for Employer Expenditures for Certain Dependent Care Assistance Programs - Allows a tax credit for employers who pay or incur qualified dependent care assistance program expenditures. Subtitle B: Presidential Awards for Outstanding Child Care Projects - Authorizes the President to make presidential awards to individuals and organizations in the private sector for outstanding child care projects. Subtitle C: Study of Barriers to Liability Insurance for Employer-Provided Child Care - Requires the Secretary of Labor to report to the appropriate congressional committees on a study concerning market barriers that might prevent access to liability insurance for child care at or near employee worksites. Title III: Clearinghouse on Child Care Services - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish in the Department of Health and Human Services a clearinghouse on child care services.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Expresses the sense of the Congress that legislation should be considered as soon as practicable that would equalize payments under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to rural and urban hospitals.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1989
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the valuation of farmland for estate tax purposes to eliminate the limit on the reduction in fair market value of certain farmland if such land continues to be farmed for up to 30 years.
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
Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to repeal the requirement that before a nursing facility uses a nurse aide for over four months such aide must complete a State-approved training and/or competency evaluation program.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1989
Constitutional Amendment - Repeals the 22d amendment to the Constitution (limitation on presidential terms).
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
Limits assessments of underpayments with respect to taxable periods beginning before July 1, 1985, in connection with the annual $250 occupational tax on retail liquor and beer dealers. Abates assessments and refunds overpayments of any post-1987 tax.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1989
Workforce 2000 Employment Readiness Act of 1989 - Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to publish reports, including interim reports, on the following employment data: (1) the total number of persons in an occupation group and in the labor force; and (2) the number of such persons, by sex, who are members of each race and ethnic category defined in Directive 15 of the Office of Management and Budget. Requires: (1) one report showing employment data for each occupation group and its hiring area as of April 1, 1990; and (2) further reports with such data as of each tenth year thereafter and any other year in which a mid-decade census is taken. Sets forth requirements for interim reports including deadlines. Requires such reports to include data quality reliability evaluations and recommended improvements. Directs the BLS to publish a biennial survey of compensation of workers, based on data from a representative sample of establishments, by each occupation group and hiring area for that group, broken down by the specified ethnic, racial, and gender categories. Requires each employer to maintain such compensation and other employment records, by employee, as the Secretary of Labor determines are necessary to carry out this Act. Requires maintenance of such records for five years after they are created, unless pending litigation or administrative proceedings require otherwise. Directs the Secretary of Labor to require such records to be maintained by the occupation group and hiring area categories established by the BLS and by the race, ethnic, and sex categories used for the required reports. Authorizes the BLS to require any person or governmental entity to furnish, onsite or offsite, the data and information the BLS needs to carry out its functions under this Act. Makes individually identifiable data and information furnished for such purpose confidential, not to be used for other purposes, and not subject to compulsory process. Sets penalties of fines or imprisonment for failure to keep or provide such data and information. Sets a deadline by which the Bureau of the Census must provide census data necessary for the BLS to perform its functions under this Act. Directs the BLS to establish an advisory council to advise on the implementation of BLS functions under this Act. Terminates such council seven years after its establishment. Directs the Secretary of Labor to report annually to the Congress on implementation of such BLS functions. Requires employers in specified categories covered by this Act to report to an entity jointly designated by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Federal Contract Compliance specified employment information relating to affirmative action programs and goals. Requires all employers with 50 or more employees to report such information annually. Requires Federal contractors or subcontractors with more than 50 employees and with contracts, subcontracts, or purchase orders above a specified amount to report additional information annually. Requires construction contractors or subcontractors with ten or more employees and with a Federal or federally-assisted contract or subcontract above a specified amount to report additional information on skilled craft employees monthly. Substitutes such reports for any required under a specified program, Federal regulations, Executive Order 11246, or title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Directs the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Federal Contract Compliance to: (1) conduct random and systematic audits of such reports; (2) develop and maintain a current list of all contractors required to file them; and (3) report annually to the Congress an analysis of the overall trends they reflect. Requires such report to assess progress of the agency in creating employment opportunities for minorities, women, handicapped individuals, and Vietnam-era veterans. Establishes in the Treasury the Education Improvement Fund. Directs each contracting Federal agency, upon the transfer of any amount of money to a recipient under a contract or other arrangement to which Executive Order 11246 requirements apply, to deduct five-thousandths of such amount and transfer it to the Fund. Reduces such deduction by half in the case of a small business. Provides for reductions of such deduction by the amount contributed by a recipient to programs serving the same purposes as those supported by the Fund. Provides for the allocation of appropriations from the Fund among specified educational programs and activities. Establishes an Advisory Board of the Education Improvement Fund to advise the Secretary of Education with respect to the use of funds for grants to higher education institutions, local education agencies, State education agencies, and vocational education institutions. Directs the Board to: (1) recommend general policies and oversee program operations; (2) appoint panels of distinguished academic scholars to select grant recipients; and (3) report to the Congress at least once every three years on appropriate program modifications. Establishes the Office of the Director of the Fund in the Department of Education. Directs the Secretary of Education to award grants to higher education institutions for undergraduate and graduate scholarships to talented and needy students from underrepresented racial, ethic, or gender groups for career preparation in fields in which they are underrepresented. Limits such grants to one academic year of study and renewal of them to a total period not to exceed five years of undergraduate study and five years of graduate study. Directs the Secretary to give special consideration to awarding grants to historically black colleges and universities, traditionally black higher education institutions, institutions with significant minority populations, and historically female higher education institutions. Requires exclusive use of grant funds for direct scholarship aid to eligible students. Directs the Secretary to award grants to State education agencies, local education agencies, and vocational institutions for more effective programs of instruction for educationally disadvantaged children belonging to specified underrepresented racial, ethnic, and gender groups. Requires use of such grants to strengthen academic skills of such children and prepare them to enter postsecondary programs in fields in which their group is underrepresented and there is a national need. Earmarks certain grant funds also for specified teacher training and retraining programs. Limits grants to one school year of study, with possible annual renewals. Sets forth application and selection requirements. Directs the Secretary to give special consideration to State and local educational agencies in which there is a student population of more than 50 percent educationally disadvantaged children. Requires grant funds to be used for: (1) innovations and improvements in instruction for educationally disadvantaged children from the underrepresented groups; (2) early identification and recruitment of minority and female students to enter fields requiring substantial preparation in mathematics and science, the teaching profession, and other technical fields determined by the Board; (3) assessment of need for minority teachers and planning for current and projected minority teacher shortages; (4) incentive payments to teachers, to encourage minority teacher recruitment and teacher training and retraining in designated fields; (5) midcareer minority entry or reentry into teaching; and (6) workforce development centers composed of consortia of various entities to update teacher skills and prepare underrepresented students for careers in targets areas. Sets forth requirements for preaward review of Federal contractors, applicable in lieu of specified certificates of merit under Executive Order 11246. Prohibits a Federal agency from awarding or otherwise entering into a contract to which the requirements of Executive Order 11246 apply unless the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Federal Contract Compliance has, within the past two years, conducted and approved a preaward review of each pertinent contractor whose contract or subcontract is of a value of $5,000,000 of more. Authorizes the Assistant Secretary to require a preaward review for any other contractor. Authorizes the Assistant Secretary to grant waivers of the preaward review upon certification of the head of the contracting agency that national security and urgent and compelling circumstances require such waiver. Directs the Assistant Secretary to give notice of failure to approve a preaward review to all interested parties. Sets forth a protest procedure for interested parties denied a contract. Provides for administrative enforcement by the Secretary of Labor or the EEOC of this Act and related Executive Orders. Requires treble damages in cases of retaliation for filing a complaint. Requires cancellation, termination, or suspension of the relevant contract or part in cases of repeated failures to comply with an Executive Order or to provide required data. Sets forth civil penalties for violations and provides for judicial review of orders. Prohibits retaliation, including malicious interference with future employment, or discrimination against anyone filing a complaint under these provisions for administrative enforcement. Allows private persons to bring civil actions to obtain appropriate relief, including any relief which would be required by an administrative enforcement order, if they are harmed by a violation of specified Federal laws or orders. Allows the actions against Secretary of Labor to enforce this Act or Executive Order 11246 by any member of the labor force who belongs to a described ethnic, racial, or gender category that is underrepresented in an occupational group in the most recent BLS report. Directs the Secretary to conduct reviews and enforcement in accordance with published rules. Authorizes the Secretary to intervene as a party in such civil actions. Declares that this Act does not affect the availability of any other State or Federal remedies, except that commencing a civil action under this Act bars an individual from commencing one under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with respect to the same claim. Directs the Secretary of Labor to coordinate administration of this Act with the contract compliance requirements of State and local government. Prohibits employers from passing through to the Federal Government specified costs incurred under this Act. Establishes the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Federal Contract Compliance. Vests the functions of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs in such Assistant Secretary. Gives the force and effect of law to specified portions of Executive Order 11246, and related regulations, which mandate enforcement of nondiscrimination and affirmative action requirements in Federal contracts through the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. Prohibits modification or abrogation of such portions of that order and such regulations except by Act of Congress. Provides that any provision of such order or regulations inconsistent with this Act shall have no further force or effect to the extent of that inconsistency. Directs the Secretary of Labor, within 90 days, to report to the Congress a schedule for implementation of data collection and employer reports provisions of this Act. Requires full implementation within four years, except as otherwise provided. Defines "employer" as defined under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but also including any contractor with 15 or more employees.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1989
Establishes a joint committee of the Congress to be known as the Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Labor Relations for the Capitol Police. Directs the committee to formulate a labor relations program for the Capitol Police, which is: (1) based on progressive principles and practices of labor relations programs in the public and private sectors; (2) sensitive to the needs of the Congress; and (3) designed to promote the efficient operation of the Capitol Police. Directs the committee to report its proposed program to both Houses within 180 days after they have agreed to this resolution. Requires such report to present the program in the form of recommended amendments to the Rules of the House of Representatives and the Standing Rules of the Senate. Deems such recommended amendments to be agreed to by both Houses 30 legislative days after the committee reports, except to the extent that such amendments are rejected by either House. Terminates the committee 30 days after the submission of its report.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1989
Cable Consumer Protection Act of 1989 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to repeal certain limitations on the authority of a State or local government to regulate the rates for cable television service. Authorizes a State or franchising authority to require the alteration of rates following any change in service by a cable operator (such as the rearrangement of cable service tiers). Requires such State or franchising authority to issue a final decision on such an alteration of rates within 60 days of public notice and opportunity for hearing. Authorizes a State or franchising authority to prohibit the ownership or control of a cable system by a person because of such person's ownership or control of media of mass communications or other media interest, but limits the enforcement of such prohibition to either: (1) granting or denying a renewal of the franchise; or (2) granting or denying an application to transfer ownership or control of the cable system. Amends Federal copyright law with respect to compulsory licensing requirements for the secondary transmission by a State or local franchising authority of a primary transmission made by a broadcast station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to require cable system compliance with certain must-carry requirements. Provides that a cable system complies with the must-carry requirements if the FCC certifies that such cable system: (1) carries, as part of their basic tier of cable service, specified signals of television broadcast stations; and (2) carries each station on the cable channel on which it was carried on July 19, 1985, or on the channel number assigned to such station by the FCC, or on such other cable channel as may be acceptable to the television broadcast station.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1989
Privacy for Consumers and Workers Act - Requires employers who engage in electronic monitoring to provide each affected employee with prior written notice describing specified aspects of the electronic monitoring directly affecting the employee. Requires employers to notify prospective employees at personal interviews or meetings of existing forms of electronic monitoring which may directly affect them and, upon request, provide them with the written notice provided to employees. Requires employers to provide affected employees with some form of visual or aural notice that indicates that electronic monitoring is taking place, at periodic intervals unless the monitoring is continuous during each of the employee's shifts. Requires employers to provide affected customers with some form of visual or aural notice, at periodic intervals, indicating that telephone service observation is taking place. Requires employers to permit employees or their authorized agents to have access to all personal data obtained by electronic monitoring of their work. Prohibits employers from collecting personal data on an employee which is not relevant to the employee's work performance. Prohibits employers from disclosing personal data obtained by electronic monitoring to any person or business except to the individual employee to whom that data pertains or without the employee's prior written consent, unless disclosure would be: (1) to the employer's officers and employees who need it to perform their duties; (2) to a law enforcement agency for a criminal investigation or prosecution; or (3) pursuant to a proper court order. Prohibits employers from using personal data obtained by electronic monitoring as the exclusive basis for individual employee performance evaluation or disciplinary action, unless the employee is given an opportunity to review the data within a reasonable time after it is obtained. Prohibits employers from using personal data or collective data obtained by electronic monitoring as the sole basis for setting production quotas or work performance expectations. Prohibits employers from maintaining, collecting, using, or disseminating personal data obtained by electronic monitoring which describes how an employee exercises First Amendment rights, unless such use is: (1) expressly authorized by statute or by the employee; or (2) pertinent to and within the scope of an authorized law enforcement activity. Sets forth the following enforcement provisions: (1) civil penalties; (2) injunctive actions by the Secretary of Labor; and (3) private civil actions. Prohibits waiver of rights and procedures provided by this Act, unless such waiver is part of a written settlement by the parties to a pending action or complaint. Directs the Secretary of Labor to issue rules and regulations to carry out this Act within six months. Makes this Act inapplicable to otherwise permissible electronic monitoring by law enforcement agencies in criminal investigations.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1989
Precludes veterans entitled to benefits under the All Volunteer Force Educational Assistance Program from receiving other veterans' educational assistance. Terminates other veterans' educational assistance as of June 30, 1993.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1989
Designates September 8, 1989, as National Pledge of Allegiance Day. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Commission should include the centennial observance of the Pledge of Allegiance in its commemorative activities.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1989
Designates February 18 through February 24, 1990, as National Visiting Nurse Associations Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1989
Consumer Telecommunications Services Act of 1989 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize a telephone operating company or its affiliate to: (1) provide information services, including electronic publishing; and (2) manufacture and provide telecommunications equipment and customer premises equipment, notwithstanding any current restriction or obligation imposed by antitrust laws on the lines-of-business in which a telephone operating company or its affiliates may engage. Prohibits any telephone operating company (TOC) or its affiliate which is engaged in the provision of information services from failing to provide: (1) to other information service providers, opportunities for interconnection (for information services) to the telephone exchange facilities of such company which are comparable and which comply with all necessary regulations prescribed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); or (2) common carriage for the delivery of information services. States that any common carriage regulations prescribed by the FCC shall not relieve a TOC of the obligation to comply with certain orders or any additional regulations prescribed by the FCC concerning open network architecture plans and related requirements. Prohibits any TOC from engaging in electronic publishing in any State using such company's exchange service facilities unless the Commission determines that such TOC does not exercise monopoly control over electronic publishing services in that State. Outlines factors to be considered for the making of such a determination. Prohibits a TOC which has been permitted to commence electronic publishing pursuant to a determination by the FCC from updating information provided by any electronic yellow pages service in any State more frequently than once per month during the first two years after such TOC: (1) establishes an information services gateway system in such State; and (2) commences the provision of electronic yellow pages services using such gateway system. Provides certain exemptions from such prohibitions. Directs the FCC to consult with the Secretary of Commerce and the Attorney General in prescribing regulations to carry out the information services provisions of this Act, but to maintain the exclusive authority to prescribe such regulations. States that such regulations shall supersede all earlier regulations with respect to the provision of information services by TOCs. Prohibits a TOC that is engaged in the business of manufacturing and providing telecommunications equipment and customer premises equipment from failing to provide to other telecommunications equipment manufacturers opportunities to sell such equipment to such TOC which are comparable to the opportunities which the TOC provides to itself or any of its affiliates. Requires any such TOC to comply with all regulations prescribed by the FCC with regard to such telecommunications equipment manufacturers. Requires the FCC to ensure that: (1) manufacturing by a TOC will not harm either competition among manufacturers of telecommunications equipment in the United States or the customers of such telephone exchange services; and (2) the methods by which such companies are required to provide comparable opportunities to other telecommunications equipment manufacturers to sell such equipment to such company are consistent with the public interest. Directs the FCC to consult with the Secretary of Commerce and the Attorney General in prescribing regulations regarding telecommunications equipment manufacturers under this Act, but to maintain exclusive authority to prescribe such regulations. States that such regulations shall supersede all earlier regulations with respect to the manufacture or provision of telecommunications equipment by TOCs. Requires a TOC: (1) to comply with regulations as prescribed by the FCC concerning limitations on the disclosure of customer proprietary network information to any information service personnel of such TOC or its affiliate; (2) to disclose such information, upon request by the customer, to an information service provider designated by the customer; and (3) if such company provides such information to information service personnel of such TOC, to provide such information on the same terms and conditions to any other information service provider upon reasonable request. Prohibits any TOC engaged in either the provision of information services or the manufacture and provision of telecommunications equipment and customer premises equipment under this Act from failing to establish and administer a cost allocation system which effectively prevents the cost of providing such services or manufacturing such equipment from being subsidized by telephone exchange services, or vice versa. Directs the FCC to establish regulations regarding such cost allocation systems. Outlines requirements to be contained in such regulations and provides specific costs which must be included in the cost-allocation system used by such TOCs. Requires the FCC to ensure that economic risks of lines of business of TOCs are not borne by telephone exchange service ratepayers in the event of a business failure. Prohibits the collection of debt from a TOC engaged in the provision of telephone exchange services for a debt incurred by such TOC in its information services division or its manufacturing division. Directs the Commission to prescribe regulations governing the accountability for the transfer of assets between a telephone operating company and its affiliates. Empowers the FCC with the authority to regulate TOCs to carry out this Act. Requires each TOC engaged in any line of business authorized by this Act to comply with certain annual audit requirements. Directs the FCC to adopt rules providing for an expedited review of complaints alleging discriminatory interconnection in violation of the Communications Act of 1934. Provides time constraints for such expedited review. Provides rules of construction concerning the effect of the provisions of this Act on cable television restrictions, State law concerning the regulation of intrastate communication service, and interexchange restrictions.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1989
Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions governing the income tax deduction for the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals to: (1) make the deduction permanent (under current law it will expire after tax year 1989); and (2) phase in an increase in the allowable deduction, reaching 100 percent for taxable years beginning in 1994 and thereafter.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1989
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the targeted jobs income tax credit through 1992 (under current law the credit will expire after December 31, 1989). Amends the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 to authorize appropriations through FY 1992 in connection with the targeted jobs credit. Raises from 23 to 25 years the age limitation with respect to economically disadvantaged youth targeted for credit purposes. Adds as a targeted group under the credit economically disadvantaged individuals who have completed a qualified drug rehabilitation program.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1989
Economic Growth Zone Act of 1989 - Title I: Designation of Economic Growth Zones - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to designate between 200 and 250 nominated areas as economic growth zones over a five-year period. Sets forth the authorities that a State or local government must have in order to nominate an area for such designation. Sets forth the eligibility requirements that an area must meet in order to be nominated for designation, including pervasive poverty, unemployment, and general distress. Permits the Secretary to give preliminary approval to a nominated area as an economic growth zone if: (1) the local government involved has prepared a preliminary economic growth zone development plan containing specified information; and (2) the local government involved prepares a preliminary plan for comprehensive improvement of the infrastructure of such area so as to improve general economic conditions. Permits the Secretary to approve such designation if preliminary approval has been given and specified conditions are met. Sets forth considerations for the final review and approval of an application for designation. Title II: Advisory Neighborhood Councils - Requires the State or local government in which an economic growth zone is designated to establish a neighborhood council to advise the local government on all matters relating to economic growth zone activities. Title III: Assistance for Economic Growth Zones - Requires each local government in which an economic growth zone is located to establish an economic growth zone development fund to be used as a revolving fund for making or guaranteeing loans to small businesses for initial or working capital, or facilities and equipment. Requires each such local government which is a metropolitan city or urban county receiving a community development block grant to dedicate a specified amount of such grant to such fund for at least two consecutive years. Authorizes appropriations for grants to match such amounts dedicated by local governments for FY 1990 through 1994. Sets forth the procedures for making such loans and guarantees. Permits the Secretary to guarantee the notes or other public obligations issued by units of local government for the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, or repair of the infrastructure of economic growth zones located in such units of general local government. Requires that a certain percentage of funds appropriated for urban development action grants for FY 1990 through 1994 be set aside for the purpose of making grants to units of general local government on behalf of projects located within economic growth zones. Requires that preference in the Department of Housing and Urban Development programs be given to any program or organization located in or primarily serving an economic growth zone and to any local government which has an economic growth zone. Permits the Secretary to make mortgage insurance available for eligible properties within an economic growth zone. Provides for the use of vacant or underdeveloped dwellings for economic and community development within such areas. Permits the Secretary to make grants to units of local government and nonprofit organizations for the development of facilities in economic growth zones to be used by new businesses. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994. Amends the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act to require the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation to carry out neighborhood preservation projects in appropriate economic growth zones. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994. Amends the Housing Act of 1964 to permit the Secretary to make loans for the rehabilitation of commercial property in economic growth zones. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994. Prohibits assistance for facility relocation if it adversely affects the employment or economic base of the location from which the facility is to be relocated. Title IV: General Provisions - Requires the Secretary to coordinate the economic growth zone program with other Federal programs. Requires the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act. Requires the Secretary to make annual reports to the Congress on the effects of the designation of such economic growth zones in accomplishing the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1989
Designates May 29, 1989, as the National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the U.S.S. Iowa.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1989
Designates October 22 through October 28, 1989, as World Population Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1989
Amends rule IV of the Rules of the House of Representatives to direct the Sergeant-at-Arms to obtain and distribute the customary metal tags provided for under the District of Columbia Traffic Act, 1925 which identify congressional vehicles.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1989
Job Training Partnership Act Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to revise title II provisions for Training Services for the Disadvantaged. Divides in half the maximum amount which is to be allotted under adult and worker programs among specified U.S. territories and possessions (and provides the other half will be so allotted for youth services). Increases the portion of the State allotment for adult and older worker programs which is to be allocated among service delivery areas (SDAs) within the State. Repeals requirements that a specified portion of a State allotment be available for incentive grants for programs exceeding performance standards and serving hard-to-serve individuals. Provides that only adults (individuals 22 years of age or older) who are economically disadvantaged are eligible for participation in adult programs, with exceptions for those with special barriers to employment. Requires that at least 50 percent of adult program participants in an SDA be individuals who have: (1) reading or mathematics skills below the eighth grade level; (2) a history of long-term dependency on public assistance programs; or (3) a substantially limited or unsuccessful work history. Requires each SDA to make special efforts to identify and serve an equitable number of individuals 55 years of age or older. Requires the SDA and the State job training coordinating council to coordinate delivery of such services to older workers with delivery of specified services under the Older Americans Act of 1965. Revises provisions for summer youth employment and training programs. Redefines youth as individuals age 14 through 21. Sets forth new youth services provisions (similar to those in current law) for territorial and State allotments and within-State allocation. Makes economically disadvantaged youth eligible for youth services, with exceptions for those with special barriers to employment. Requires that at least 50 percent of youth services participants in an SDA be out-of-school youth, with priority given to school dropouts. Grants priority among the remaining participants who are in-school youth to those who are: (1) at risk of becoming dropouts; (2) in need of school-to-work transition assistance; (3) parents; or (4) limited in English-language proficiency. Requires the job training plan to provide for referrals of youth between summer employment and youth services programs. Increases the portion of certain funds which an SDA may use for costs of administration and for joint costs of administration and of certain work experience programs, supportive services, and needs-based payments. Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to assure that States and SDAs will make efforts to increase both adult and youth services and positive outcomes for hard-to-serve individuals. Adds as an appropriate factor in prescribing performance standards for adult training programs the attainment of basic education or employability enhancement skills necessary for successful entry into the job market. Includes disabled and Vietnam-era veterans among the special populations for which variations in performance standards are to be prescribed. Repeals provisions for review of performance standards by the National Commission for Employment Policy. Requires that performance standards for programs of employment and training assistance for dislocated workers make appropriate allowance for the difference in cost resulting from serving workers receiving certain needs-related payments. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and succeeding fiscal years for the following JTPA programs of training services for the disadvantaged: (1) adult and older worker programs; (2) summer youth employment and training programs; and (3) youth services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and succeeding fiscal years for the following federally administered programs: (1) employment and training programs for native Americans and migrant and seasonal farmworkers; (2) veterans' employment programs; (3) national activities; (4) labor market information; (5) National Commission for Employment Policy; and (6) training to fulfill affirmative action obligations. Makes semiannual the reporting requirement for States, administrative entities, and recipients concerning their operations and expenditures under JTPA. Requires such reports to include specified types of information. Directs the Secretary to ensure that all such elements are defined and reported consistently. Directs the Secretary, along with the Secretaries of Education and of Health and Human Services and other appropriate departments, to identify a core set of consistently defined data elements for employment and training programs. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress by January 1, 1991, on such data elements. Repeals a provision which allows commercially available training packages to be purchased without requiring a breakdown of cost components. Prohibits JTPA funds from being used to support a participant in an on-the-job training position beyond the required duration for training for that position, as determined in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary, taking specified source material into consideration.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1989
Amends accounting provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to permit licensed used automobile dealers to use the installment method in connection with retail sales of any automobile that is more than three years old at the time of the sale if: (1) the sales price is $6,000 or less; and (2) the installment obligation arises solely from the sale in question and has a term of 36 months or less.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1989
Live Performing Arts Labor Relations Amendments - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to exclude specified types of employers and performers in the live performing arts from coverage under unfair labor practice provisions: (1) prohibiting specified contracts or agreements between employers and labor organizations; and (2) prohibiting specified actions of labor organizations to force or require cessation of dealings with others, joining of labor or employer organizations, or recognition of or negotiation with labor organizations not certified as representative. Permits such employers to: (1) agree with a labor organization to make membership in it a condition of performing arts employment; and (2) make agreements with a labor organization covering performing artists even if its majority status has not yet been established. Defines "employer" to include purchasers of live musical performance services. Defines "employee" to include independent contractors engaged to perform live musical services.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1989
Employee Educational Assistance Act of 1989 - Repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code that: (1) terminated the income tax exclusion of amounts paid under employee educational assistance programs as of tax year 1989; and (2) deny benefits in connection with graduate work.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1989
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Federal excise taxes should not be increased.