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United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1991
Overseas Teachers Act - Amends the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act with respect to teacher recruitment, leave, compensation, conditions of employment, and entry into competitive service.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1991
Amends Federal law to declare that the Tax Reform Act of 1986 shall be applied and administered as if the three-year basis recovery rule applicable to government employees' annuities had not been repealed.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1991
Directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to conduct, during calendar years 1992 and 1993, a demonstration project to determine the feasibility and desirability of including certain benefits relating to the treatment of drug abuse and alcohol abuse among the types of benefits provided under health insurance plans for Federal employees. Requires OPM to coordinate such project with other related programs and to make a final report to specified congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1991
Condemns the recent violence by Soviet forces in Lithuania. Calls upon President Gorbachev to immediately cease the use of force against the people and the democratically-elected governments of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia and supports President Bush's condemnation of such Soviet actions in Lithuania. Calls upon the President to: (1) make this issue a priority item on the agenda of the upcoming U.S.-Soviet summit or otherwise to convey the message directly to the Soviet Government; (2) review bilateral relations and, in consultation with European allies, consider coordinated economic sanctions if the Soviets continue such actions; and (3) consider other ways to demonstrate the U.S. commitment to nonrecognition of the forcible annexation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union and to show support for the people of the Baltic States. Calls upon the Soviet Government to: (1) enter into peaceful and meaningful negotiations with Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia on the nature of their future relations; (2) resolve peacefully disputes with all Soviet republics; and (3) abide by its obligations under the Helsinki Final Act, the United Nations Charter, and other international documents to respect human rights and self-determination. Urges that the new conflict resolution mechanisms created within the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in November 1990 be employed to help resolve this crisis peacefully.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1991
Directs the Secretary of Defense, upon request, to relieve the following members of the armed forces from performing duty in a region designated as an area of hostile fire or imminent danger: (1) the husband or wife if both are assigned to duty in such region and they have a minor child; and (2) a single parent with a minor child who is assigned to duty in such a region. Directs the Secretary to endeavor to reassign a person relieved of such duty to another assignment which does not require the separation of the member from such minor child. Authorizes the Secretary to delay the date of discharge or retirement of a member so relieved, as appropriate.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1991
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Defense should revise current guidelines relating to news media coverage of activities in the Persian Gulf region to ensure that the news media has timely access to all unclassified information and activities other than information and activities that, if disclosed, would endanger the lives or security of U.S. forces.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1991
Amends Federal law to repeal provisions mandating the imposition of fees on owners or operators of recreational vessels over 16 feet in length.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1991
Christopher Columbus Coin and Fellowship Act - Title I: Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Coins - Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than a specified number of five-dollar gold coins, one-dollar silver coins, and half-dollar clad coins emblematic of the quincentenary of the discovery of America. Sets forth certain features of such coins and provides for their design, issuance, and sale. Terminates the minting of such coins after June 30, 1993. Requires the Secretary to deposit surcharges from the sale of such coins in the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Fund for use by the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation. Declares that no law governing procurement or public contracts shall be applicable to the procurement of goods and services necessary for carrying out this Act, except that this provision shall not relieve any person from complying with any law relating to equal employment opportunity. Mandates that all amounts received from coin sales be deposited in the coinage profit fund. Title II: Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation - Christopher Columbus Fellowship Act - Establishes the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation to award fellowships to outstanding individuals to encourage new discoveries in all fields of endeavor for the benefit of mankind. Establishes the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Fund. Directs the Foundation to report to the President and to the Congress annually on its operations.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1991
Youthbuild Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide grants for Youthbuild projects which shall employ economically and educationally disadvantaged youth to help construct or rehabilitate rental and transitional housing for homeless persons and low-income families. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1991
Designates December 7, 1991, as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1991
Employee Educational Assistance Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the income tax exclusion of amounts paid under employee educational assistance programs. (Under current law the exclusion expires for taxable years beginning after December 31, 1991.)
United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1991
Designates the week of October 13 through 19, 1991, as National Radon Action Week.
United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1991
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the last Friday of April 1991 as National Arbor Day.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1991
Designates March 25, 1991, as Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to modify the ban on honoraria to allow Federal officers and employees, other than Representatives in, or Delegates or Resident Commissioners to, the Congress, presidential appointees, and commissioned officers of the Uniformed Services whose pay grade equals or exceeds grade 0-7, to receive an honorarium for an article in a bona fide publication, a speech, or an appearance if: (1) the subject of the article, speech, or appearance and the reason for which the honorarium is paid is unrelated to the recipient's official duties or status; and (2) the party offering the honorarium has no interests that may be substantially affected by the performance or nonperformance of the recipient's official duties. Prohibits the amount of such honorarium accepted from exceeding the usual and customary fee for the services for which the honorarium is paid, up to $2,000. Subjects the acceptance of any honorarium to financial disclosure under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Financial Industry Reform and Capital Enforcement Act - Title I: Creation and Control of Depository Institution Holding Companies - Sets forth the terms and conditions under which a depository institution holding company (DIHC) can be established and must be operated. Requires any DIHC seeking to acquire control of an insured bank, an insured institution, a bank holding company, a savings and loan holding company, or a depository institution holding company to comply with the requirements of the Change in Bank Control Act. Permits the appropriate Federal regulatory agency (the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or the Federal Home Loan Bank Board) to adopt rules and regulations to prevent an insured bank or institution that is controlled by a DIHC from engaging in unsafe or unsound practices. Subjects DIHCs to the same restrictions on affiliate transactions that are imposed upon member banks (banks which are members of a Federal Reserve bank) under the Federal Reserve Act. Requires the appropriate Federal regulatory agency to notify a DIHC immediately upon finding that an insured depository institution under its control is not in compliance with minimum capital adequacy requirements. Authorizes such agency to require the DIHC to: (1) provide a bond or guarantee; (2) maintain a segregated account of cash or investment securities earmarked for such noncomplying institution; or (3) contribute to the noncomplying institution's surplus capital an amount necessary to bring it into compliance. Prohibits an insured depository institution that has been notified of its noncompliant status from declaring or paying out any dividends. Requires the DIHC to return to the noncomplying institution immediately any dividends received during a specified period before receipt of such notification. Prescribes guidelines for the appointment of a Federal conservator or for divestiture if a DHIC does not bring a noncomplying institution within Federal guidelines. Authorizes judicial review of a Federal conservatorship or divestiture order. Prohibits Federal regulatory agencies from imposing requirements pertaining to the capitalization of a DIHC. Subjects interstate acquisitions: (1) of an insured bank by a DIHC to the same restrictions applicable to bank holding companies under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956; and (2) of an additional savings association by a DIHC to the same restrictions applicable to savings and loan companies. Prohibits Federal and State governments from enacting laws that discriminate against DIHCs. Prohibits insured banks and institutions that are associated with a DIHC from: (1) dealing in or underwriting securities; (2) underwriting insurance; or (3) investing in or developing real estate. Subjects DIHCs to the tying provisions of the Bank Holding Company Act Amendments of 1970 and to the insider lending prohibitions of the Federal Reserve Act. Makes conforming amendments to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956. Amends the Federal Reserve Act to provide that, for the purpose of restricting loans or extending credit to affiliates, a loan or extension of credit shall not be deemed to be made to an affiliate if: (1) the approval of such loan or extension of credit was in accordance with the same standards and procedures and on substantially the same terms that apply to similar loans or extensions of credit; and (2) such loan or extension of credit was not made for the purpose of evading any of the requirements of such Act. Amends the Banking Act of 1933 to make certain provisions which prohibit member banks from becoming affiliated with securities corporations inapplicable to member banks which are controlled by DIHCs. Makes conforming amendments to the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the National Housing Act. Requires the acquisitions of DIHCs controlling insured institutions to be in accordance with the procedures of such Acts. Amends the Clayton Act to exempt acquisitions of insured banks and institutions by DIHCs from the premerger notification requirements of the Depository Institution Affiliation Act, the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and the National Housing Act. Makes conforming amendments to the Community Reinvestment Act. Title II: Supervisory Improvements - Establishes a National Financial Services Oversight Committee to: (1) establish uniform principles and standards for the examination and supervision of financial services providers; (2) report to the Congress recommendations for an improved examination process and whether the number or compensation of Federal examiners should be increased; and (3) make recommendations to Federal regulatory agencies to maintain uniformity in Federal regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Department of Arts and Humanities Organization Act - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Arts and Humanities. Sets forth provisions for a Secretary of Arts and Humanities and other officers and employees of such Department. Directs the Secretary to submit an annual report to the President, for transmittal to the Congress, on Department activities.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Breast Cancer Treatment Informed Consent Act - Requires any State receiving funds under titles V (Maternal and Child Health Block Grant) or XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act or under the preventive health service provisions of the Public Health Service Act to require any physician or surgeon licensed to practice medicine in such State to inform any breast cancer patient of alternative methods of treatment for breast cancer before such treatment is begun. Requires that the patients be informed by means of: (1) a standardized written summary in layman's language and in a language understood by the patient of alternative methods of treatment; and (2) an explanation of the treatment options described in such written summary together with the risks associated with each procedure relative to each patient's particular medical circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Prevention, Identification, and Treatment of Elder Abuse Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an office known as the National Center on Elder Abuse to: (1) compile an annual summary of recently conducted research on elder abuse; (2) develop and maintain an information clearinghouse on all programs for the prevention and treatment of such abuse; (3) compile training materials for personnel engaged in elder abuse prevention; (4) provide technical assistance for the planning and implementation of programs relating to the problems of elder abuse; and (5) investigate the causes and national incidence of elder abuse. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to or enter into contracts with public agencies or nonprofit organizations for demonstration projects designed to prevent and treat elder abuse. Sets forth the terms and conditions for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States for the development and implementation of elder abuse prevention and treatment programs. Requires such States to have in effect a State elder abuse law with mandatory reporting provisions. Sets forth other requirements for eligibility. Prohibits the use of assistance for construction of facilities. Directs the Secretary to establish criteria to achieve equitable distribution of assistance among the States. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Authorizes to be appropriated, in addition to sums already authorized, a certain amount to the National Cancer Institute for breast cancer research other than research which involves treatment or clinical trials.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Recyclable Materials Technology and Markets Development Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) conduct a study of markets for postconsumer materials (defined as materials that have served their intended end-use by an entity other than an industrial establishment); and (2) establish an Office of Recycling Research and Information in the Department of Commerce. Requires the Director of Recycling Research and Information to: (1) make grants for studies and scientific research relating to recycling of postconsumer materials; and (2) conduct a public outreach program to provide information to secondary school students, State and local governments, and the general public. Requires each manufacturer of a recyclable product to recycle, or provide for the recycling of, increasing minimum percentages of the products manufactured during specified years. Directs the Secretary to designate a product as recyclable if it may feasibly be recycled, as determined by the Secretary. Prohibits manufacturing a product for which the prescribed recycling rate was not met for the preceding year. Provides for civil fines for violating the prohibition. Prohibits manufacturing a nonrecyclable product if a recyclable substitute is readily available. Directs the Secretary to designate a product as nonrecyclable if it is not technically or economically feasible to be recycled. Authorizes the Secretary to require nonrecyclable products to be so labeled. Provides for civil fines for violating the prohibition. Provides for recycling seals of approval for recyclable products and for products containing a certain percentage of recycled postconsumer materials.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Pay Equity Technical Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to develop and implement a continuing program of information dissemination, research, and technical assistance to public and private entities with respect to correction of wage-setting practices, and reduction or elimination of wage disparities, to the extent that they are based on the sex, race, or national origin of the employee, rather than on the work performed and other appropriate factors.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Defense Production Act Amendments of 1991 -Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to restate the defense mobilization preparedness policy of the United States. Places the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in charge of coordinating the efforts to maintain geographical dispersion of defense facilities. (Currently, the Office of Defense Mobilization is in charge of such effort.) Requires executive agencies and departments responsible for defense acquisition to continuously assess the capability of the defense industrial base to satisfy near-term and mobilization production requirements. States that plans and programs to carry out the policy stated above shall duly consider the promotion of efficiency and competition. Repeals as inconsistent with changes made under this Act the National Commission on Supplies and Shortages Act of 1974. Expresses certain congressional findings disapproving the growing U.S. dependency on foreign sources for parts and materials used to manufacture major weapons systems for our national defense, and requests the strengthening of the industrial capability of the United States to independently produce its major weapons systems. Directs the President, before the end of the five-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, to limit to domestic manufacturing and assembly sources those existing or new weapons and weapon parts or components which the President determines are critical to: (1) maintain in case of national emergency or to achieve national mobilization; or (2) establish or maintain essential engineering, research, or development capabilities. Directs the President, in all defense-related procurement actions, to consider: (1) the extent to which domestic sources for the materials or services being procured can meet defense needs for six months following a declaration of war or other hostilities; (2) the effect the procurement would have on U.S. industrial capacity; and (3) a comparison of costs and benefits of acquiring such products off-shore or domestically. Requires the President to report to the Congress on action taken. Authorizes the President to use certain existing incentives to implement these provisions, subject to specified limitations. Directs the President to designate those weapons, weapon systems, and industries determined to be critically needed for the national defense to be given first priority for assistance under this Act for the modernization of manufacturing facilities and equipment and the production of materials. Directs the President to seek to develop the domestic production of materials, services, and skills affecting a critical weapon, weapon system, or industry that is in short supply. Directs the President, in providing such assistance, to give a strong preference to contractors and subcontractors which are small- and medium-sized businesses. Authorizes funds under the Defense Production Act of 1950 to be set aside to guarantee the purchase or lease of advanced manufacturing equipment and related services. Outlines conditions under which small business subcontractors will be given assistance preference by the President. Establishes an information system on the domestic defense industrial base to be incorporated into the Defense Information Network (DINET). Specifies certain reviews and other information required to be included in the analysis of the production base for any major defense procurement project which is included in the information system. Directs the President, in establishing the information system, to require the Secretary of each military department to incorporate in such system a complete analysis of the production base of no fewer than four weapons of such department which are major weapon systems. Requires the President to provide for a strategic plan for maximizing the use and usefulness of the information system by incorporating in such system a complete analysis of the production base for each major system begun after enactment of this Act. Requires interagency consultation and coordination. Directs the President, upon the establishment of the information system, to convene a task force to establish guidelines and procedures to ensure that all Federal departments and agencies acquiring information with respect to the domestic defense industrial base are fully participating in the system. Authorizes appropriations. Extends through FY 1995 the provisions of the Defense Production Act of 1950, except for certain provisions of title I of such Act, which terminate at the end of FY 1992. Extends the authorization of appropriations under such Act. Requires the President to submit an annual report to the Congress on the expansion of productive capacity and supply. Prohibits the use of any authority provided under title I of such Act for the production of chemical or biological weapons except under written authorization by the President. Permits executives being trained and organized in the National Defense Executive Reserve and participating in voluntary agreements or plans of action under direction of the President and pursuant to treaty obligations to be given antitrust and breach of contract immunity when undertaking any emergency actions. Exempts such activities from provisions of the National Advisory Committee Act. Establishes a conflict-of-interests exemption for executives serving in the National Defense Executive Reserve and for those engaged in voluntary planning for defense mobilization purposes. Describes the scope of the exemption and specifies activities to which the exemption shall not extend. Provides notice and financial disclosure requirements. Exempts such activities from provisions of the Advisory Committee Act. Establishes the Congressional Commission on the Evaluation of the Defense Industrial Base Policy to develop criteria for evaluating the national policy for maintaining the strength of the domestic defense industrial base. Requires the Commission to consider the extent to which the authority, policy, plans, budgets, and programs of each Federal agency and department which has any responsibility for maintaining the strength of the domestic industrial base: (1) are adequate for maintaining the strength of the domestic defense industrial base; and (2) are being effectively implemented and sufficiently coordinated with other appropriate departments and agencies. Requires the Commission to submit interim and final reports to the Congress and the President on findings with respect to the domestic defense industrial base, together with recommendations for legislative, administrative, or policy action. Terminates the Commission on September 30, 1992. Authorizes appropriations. Revises certain definitions under the Defense Production Act of 1950. Directs the President to prepare and submit biennially to the Congress the projected capacity and potential prospects for the use of alternative and renewable sources of energy for defense mobilization, industrial preparedness, and related purposes. Extends through FY 1992 a loan guaranty program under the Geothermal Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1974. Repeals specified Federal law made inconsistent by the provisions of this Act, including the National Commission on Supplies and Shortages Act of 1974 which established such Commission to curb dependence on foreign sources for certain natural resources.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Federal Employees Health Care Freedom-of-Choice Act - Authorizes direct payment or reimbursement to be made to Federal employees under provisions relating to employee health benefits for services performed by a: (1) chiropractor; (2) marriage family therapist; and (3) mental health counselor. Declares that this Act does not supersede or preempt any State or local law which relates to licensing or certification of health practitioners.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Permits certain veterans with service-connected disabilities who are retired members of the uniformed services to receive compensation concurrently with retired pay, without deduction from either.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that disability insurance benefits for an individual having a terminal illness shall begin with the first month such individual has such illness.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to extend its expiration date to June 30, 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Private Sector Capital Incentive Act of 1991 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to authorize, with prior written approval from the responsible Federal banking agency, specified conversion transactions by savings associations insured by the Savings Association Insurance Fund (SAIF) with banks insured by the Bank Insurance Fund (BIF) and vice versa, notwithstanding the moratorium on such conversions imposed under the Federal Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) (which does not expire until August 1994). Prescribes guidelines for assessments on deposits attributable to depository institutions that were former members of either the BIF or the SAIF. Revises the guidelines for: (1) semi-annual assessments; and (2) Federal Reserve Board approval of conversion transactions. Provides that losses incurred by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) due to the default of a depository institution that has engaged in a conversion transaction shall be allocated between the BIF and the SAIF to reflect the amount of insured deposits of the resulting institution which were assessed by the respective Funds. Prohibits approval of any transaction that amounts to a transfer of an institution's Federal deposit insurance from one fund to the other. Requires disapproval of any application for a transaction unless the acquiring, assuming, or resulting depository institution meets all applicable capital standards. Provides for post-moratorium FDIC approval of conversion transactions by any acquiring, assuming, or resulting depository institution after payment of prescribed entrance and exit fees. Amends the Revised Statutes of the United States and the Home Owners' Loan Act to authorize the acquisition of a Federal savings association by any insured depository institution. Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to revise the guidelines for savings associations acquisitions by certain companies which control banks but are not treated as bank holding companies.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Repeals provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 that restrict the types of scholarships and fellowship grants that may be excluded from gross income for income tax purposes. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for interest on a qualified educational loan incurred to pay the educational expenses of the taxpayer, spouse, or dependent. Eliminates the current requirement that such indebtedness be secured by an interest in real property.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the low-income housing credit permanent.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Enterprise Zone Jobs-Creation Act of 1991 - Title I: Designation of Enterprise Zones - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Secretary) to designate enterprise zones for purposes of providing tax and regulatory relief and improving local services. Limits choices to areas nominated by States and local governments. Limits the total number of areas that may be designated, and the time period of the designation. Authorizes the Secretary to designate a zone only if the area meets certain locational, demographic, unemployment, and poverty criteria. Requires nominating local governments, as a condition of the Secretary's designation, to agree in writing to follow a course of action that may include reducing tax rates, improving local services, simplifying or streamlining regulation of business, and providing job training to area residents. Describes areas to which the Secretary must give preference in selecting areas for designation. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress every four years on the effects of such enterprise zones' designation in accomplishing the purposes of this Act. Title II: Federal Income Tax Incentives - Allows a nonrefundable income tax credit to enterprise zone employees for five percent of any wages earned as do not exceed a specified amount. Phases out such credit. Provides for the nonrecognition of capital gain on the sale of enterprise zone property. Allows a taxpayer a deduction on the aggregate amount paid for the purchase of enterprise stock on its original issue by a qualified issuer. Requires any gain from the disposition of the stock to be treated as ordinary income. Title III: Regulatory Flexibility - Amends Federal law to revise the definition of "small entity" for purposes of the analysis of regulatory functions to include qualified business, government, and nonprofit enterprises operating within enterprise zones. Authorizes Federal agencies, upon request by a designating government, to waive or modify rules and regulations pertaining to the implementation of projects or activities within an enterprise zone. Requires agencies to approve the request if the resulting benefits of job creation, community development, or economic revitalization outweigh the public interest in retaining the rule unchanged. Disallows waiver or modification of a rule that would directly violate a statutory requirement or present a danger to the public health and safety. Title IV: Establishment of Foreign-Trade Zones in Enterprise Zones - Requires the Foreign-Trade Zone Board to consider on a priority basis and to expedite the processing of applications for the establishment of foreign-trade zones within enterprise zones. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to give priority to, and expedite applications for, the establishment of ports of entry necessary to establish such zones. Title V: Repeal of Title VII of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 - Repeals title VII (enterprise zone development) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Civil Rights Act of 1991 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to provide for the burdens of proof which must be met by the various parties when an allegation of an unlawful employment practice is based on disparate impact. ( Wards Cove Packing Co. Inc. v. Atonio, 1989, held that, in cases brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the burden is on the plaintiff to prove an employer had no business necessity for a practice with discriminatory effects.) Allows a rule barring employment based on illegal discriminatory intent. Declares that, when an employment practice is alleged to have mixed motives, an unlawful employment practice is established when it is shown that a discriminatory basis was a contributing factor, even though other factors also contributed. Bars certain types of relief and limits damages to the injury that is attributable to the unlawful practice. Provides for the finality of litigated or consent judgments or orders resolving an employment discrimination claim, barring actions (challenging an employment practice that implements and is within the scope of a judgment or order) by persons who had certain types of notice and opportunity. Modifies the time limitations within which certain actions must be taken in alleged employment discrimination cases. (In Lorance v. AT&T Technologies, the Supreme Court held that seniority plans cannot be challenged as discriminatory unless complaints are filed soon after the plans are adopted.) Declares the application of a seniority system, if the system was included in a collective bargaining agreement with discriminatory intent, an unlawful employment practice. Allows punitive damages, certain types of compensatory damages, and jury trials only in connection with certain claims of intentional discrimination under the Act or under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Allows any party, if compensatory or punitive damages are sought, to demand a jury trial. Includes expert fees and other litigation expenses in attorney's fees which may be awarded in certain circumstances. Prohibits consent orders or judgments settling a claim, or stipulations of dismissal, unless the parties or their counsel attest that a waiver of all or substantially all attorney's fees was not compelled as a condition of the settlement.( Independent Federation of Flight Attendants v. Zipes held that attorneys' fees can be recovered under Title VII against losing intervenors only if the intervenor's action is frivolous, unreasonable, or without foundation.) Allows the court, in its discretion to promote fairness, in a proceeding in which a judgment or order granting relief under employment discrimination provisions is challenged, to allow the prevailing party in the original action to recover attorney's fees and costs incurred in defending the judgment or order. Extends the time limit for filing against the Government a civil action involving employment discrimination. Requires, except for prejudgment interest on compensatory damages, the same interest payment by the Government as in cases involving non-public parties. Requires all Federal civil rights laws to be interpreted broadly to provide equal opportunity and provide effective remedies. Prohibits, except as expressly provided, interpreting any Federal civil rights law to repeal or amend by implication any other such law. Prohibits using this Act as a basis for limiting civil rights laws not expressly amended by this Act. Amends Federal law to declare that: (1) for purposes of provisions relating to equal rights under the law, the right to make and enforce contracts includes the making, performance, modification, and termination of contracts, and the enjoyment of all benefits, privileges, terms, and conditions of the contract; and (2) the rights protected by the amended provisions are protected against impairment by non-governmental discrimination as well as against impairment under color of State law. (In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled, in Patterson v. McLean Credit Union, that an 1866 law forbidding discrimination in contracts applies only to hiring agreements, not on-the-job bias.) Prohibits construing the amendments made by this Act to: (1) require or encourage an employer to adopt hiring or promotion quotas; or (2) affect court-ordered remedies, affirmative action, or conciliation agreements that are otherwise in accordance with the law. Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to apply equal employment opportunities provisions to the Congress, with enforcement as determined by each House of the Congress. Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to modify requirements, including time limitations, regarding filing of a civil action. Requires the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to notify the person aggrieved if an age discrimination charge is dismissed by the Commission. Allows a civil suit to be brought within a specified time limit after the dismissal. Encourages the use of alternative means of dispute resolution to resolve disputes arising under the Acts amended by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1991 - Title I: General Requirements for Leave - Establishes certain requirements for family and medical leave for permanent employees. (Excludes from such coverage: (1) employees at worksites at which the employer employs less than 50 persons, if the total number of employees of that employer within 75 miles of that worksite is less than 50; and (2) Federal officers and employees covered under title II of this Act.) Entitles employees to 12 workweeks of leave during any 12-month period because of: (1) the birth of their child; (2) the placement of a child for their adoption or foster care; (3) their care of a child, spouse, or parent who has a serious health condition; or (4) their own serious health condition which makes them unable to perform the functions of their position. Conditions such leave for the birth or placement of a child as follows: (1) the entitlement ends 12 months after the birth or placement; (2) both parents may not take such leave at the same time; and (3) such leave may not be taken intermittently unless employee and employer agree otherwise. Allows all leave to which an employee is entitled under this title: (1) to be taken on a reduced leave schedule, upon agreement with the employer; and (2) to consist of unpaid leave, except under specified conditions when substitution of certain types of paid leave may be elected or required. Declares that nothing in this Act shall require an employer to provide paid sick or medical leave in any situation in which the employer would not normally provide any such paid leave. Requires employees to: (1) give reasonable notice of the need for leave to which they are entitled under this Act, when foreseeable; and (2) make a reasonable effort to schedule medical treatment or supervision so as not to disrupt unduly the employer's operations, subject to approval of the health care provider. Allows limitation of the dual aggregate leave entitlement to 12 weeks in any 12-month period, in the case of spouses employed by the same employer, if such leave is for the birth or placement of a child or for the care of a sick parent. Sets forth conditions of certification for leave entitlements under this Act, including provisions relating to: (1) sufficient certification; (2) explanation of inability to perform job functions; (3) second opinion; (4) resolution of conflicting opinions; and (5) subsequent recertification. Sets forth employment and benefits protections relating to leave entitlements under this Act, including provisions relating to: (1) restoration to position; (2) denial of such restoration in the case of certain highly compensated employees; (3) maintenance of health benefits; and (4) no bar to agreement concerning alternative employment. Prohibits employers or other persons from interfering with employee rights under this Act or from discriminating against any individual because of participation in proceedings or inquiries under this Act. Provides for administrative enforcement of this title by the Secretary of Labor, as well as enforcement by civil action. Sets forth provisions for investigative authority, injunctive and monetary relief, attorneys' fees, and limitation of actions. Sets forth special rules concerning employees of local educational agencies, including provisions relating to intermittent leave for instructional employees, periods near the completion of an academic term, and reduction of liability. Requires employers to post notice of the pertinent provisions of this title. Requires fines for willful violations of such requirement. Directs the Secretary of Labor to prescribe regulations to carry out this title. Title II: Family Leave and Temporary Medical Leave for Civil Service Employees - Amends specified Federal law to entitle civil service employees to family and temporary medical leave for specified periods. Allows such employees up to: (1) 18 administrative workweeks in any 24-month period for family leave (i.e., leave because of the birth or placement of a child or care of a sick child or parent), but such leave may not be used at a time more than 12 months after such birth or placement; and (2) 26 administrative workweeks during any 12-month period for temporary medical leave. Provides that such leave will be without pay. Allows employees to substitute other types of paid leave for part of such leave. Provides for protection for job position and health insurance benefits of employees using such leave. Sets forth certification provisions and prohibitions against coercion. Directs the Office of Personnel Management to prescribe regulations for administration of this title which are consistent with the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Labor under title I of this Act. Title III: Commission on Leave - Establishes the Commission on Leave. Requires the Commission to report on its study of family and medical leave (which may include legislative recommendations concerning coverage of small businesses and alternative and equivalent State enforcement of this Act with respect to employees of local educational agencies) to the Congress within two years after the Commission first meets. Terminates the Commission within 30 days after its report to the Congress. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Sets forth the effect of this Act on existing laws and existing employment benefits. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed to discourage employers from adopting more generous leave policies. Directs the Secretary of Labor to prescribe regulations to carry out this title within 60 days. Title V: Coverage of Congressional Employees - Applies the rights and protections under title I of this Act to employees of the House of Representatives, except for the exemption concerning highly compensated employees. Requires that the remedies and procedures under the Fair Employment Practices Resolution be applied in administering such coverage.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Flight Attendant Duty Time Act - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to initiate a rulemaking proceeding to establish limitations on duty time for flight attendants. Requires the Secretary to issue final regulations by a specified deadline. Prohibits any air carrier from operating an aircraft using a flight attendant who has been on duty in excess of specified hours or who has had less than a specified number of hours of rest if such regulations have not been promulgated by a certain time. Permits modification of the specified hours of duty if the Secretary determines such modification is in the public interest and submits a copy of the modifying regulations to certain congressional committees.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to make it an unfair labor practice for an employer to offer or grant: (1) permanent replacement employee status during a labor dispute; or (2) any employment preference to an individual who worked or indicated a willingness to work during a labor dispute over an employee who exercised specified rights during such dispute and who is working for, or has unconditionally offered to return to work for, the employer.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act - Makes it unlawful for any licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer a handgun to an unlicensed individual unless: (1) after the most recent proposal of such transfer by the individual, the transferor has received a statement of eligibility from the individual, has notified the chief law enforcement officer for such individual's place of residence about the proposed transfer, and either has received a response indicating that such transfer is not prohibited by law or has not received a response indicating otherwise within seven days; (2) the individual has presented to the transferor a statement from the officer, issued in the past ten days, that the individual requires a handgun because of a threat to him or his family; (3) the individual has presented to the transferor a permit to possess a handgun that has been issued in the past five years by the State in which the transfer is to take place under a State law which requires law enforcement verification of the individual's legal qualification to possess a handgun; (4) State law either requires a waiting period of at least seven days or requires that an authorized government official verifies that the information available to such official does not indicate that possession of a handgun by the purchaser would be unlawful; or (5) the transferor has received a report from any system of felon identification established by the Attorney General under the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 that the individual's possession or receipt of the handgun would not violate Federal, State, or local law. Requires the statement of eligibility to include a statement that the individual: (1) is not under indictment for and has not been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year; (2) is not a fugitive; (3) is not an unlawful user of, or addicted to, a controlled substance; (4) has not been adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to a mental institution; (5) is not an alien who is illegally in the United States; (6) has not been dishonorably discharged from the armed forces; and (7) is not a person who has renounced U.S. citizenship. Requires any transferor who, after a transfer, receives a report from such officer that receipt or possession of the handgun by the individual violates the law, to: (1) furnish information about the transfer and the individual to the chief law enforcement officer of the transferor's place of business and the individual's place of residence; and (2) keep confidential any information received which is not otherwise available to the public, with exceptions. Requires a transferor to retain a copy of the individual's statement. Requires the law enforcement officer to destroy any copy of the individual's sworn statement and any record containing information derived from such statement within 30 days, unless such officer determines that the transaction would violate Federal, State, or local law.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Ovarian Cancer Research Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the Director of the National Cancer Institute, to conduct or support basic research on certain aspects of ovarian cancer. Prohibits the Secretary from conducting or supporting clinical research on the same matters. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Comprehensive Health Care for All Americans Act (Claude Pepper Comprehensive Health Care Act) - Division A: Comprehensive Health Care Act - Comprehensive Health Care Act - Title I: Universal Eligibility and Enrollment - Makes a U.S. resident who is a lawful resident alien or a U.S. citizen or national eligible to enroll in a health plan approved by the Comprehensive Health Care (CHC) program of the State in which he or she resides. Allows the National CHC Board to make classes of nonimmigrant aliens eligible for coverage. Makes the enrollment of Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) beneficiaries applicable only to benefits not covered by the Medicare program. Title II: Benefits and Providers - Lists the basic health services which health plans must provide, to which Federal funding will be limited, and which may not include items or services for which Medicare coverage is unavailable. Permits States or health plans to offer additional health care benefits. Prohibits private health insurance from duplicating basic health service coverage. Restricts limitations on the amount, duration, or scope of basic health services to be provided to enrollees. Makes Medicare provider standards applicable to providers of basic health services. Authorizes the National CHC Board to impose additional conditions on providers of high-risk, high-cost, elective, or over-utilized items or services. Title III: Financing - Sets forth the procedure for determining CHC program budgets and the formula for determining the Federal share of expenditures. Establishes a Health Security Partnership Fund for each State into which revenues to finance the CHC program shall be placed. Requires each State CHC program to make monthly payments to health plans equal to their adjusted average per capita costs for required services provided to each class of enrollee they serve. Requires providers to accept payment from health plans on an assigned basis. Directs the National CHC Board to develop financial incentives in payment methods to promote a continuum of care. Pays institutional providers pursuant to a biennial prospective budgeting system to be developed by each State. Pays physicians pursuant to payment schedules based on a national relative value scale to be developed by the National CHC Board, but allows alternative payment mechanisms if they are no more costly than the payment schedules. Makes CHC payment methodologies established in a State applicable to Medicare payments for services furnished in such State. Provides States with Federal funds for implementing their CHC programs. Limits the cost-sharing amounts health plans may charge enrollees. Bans the imposition of any cost-sharing requirements on individuals whose family income is less than 200 percent of the Federal poverty level. Establishes the Federal Long-Term Care Trust Fund from which Federal payments to States for long-term care benefits in the State shall be made. Title IV: Administration - Establishes a National CHC Board as an independent agency responsible for the overall administration of the Comprehensive Health Care Act. Directs each State to submit its CHC program to the National CHC Board for review of the program's compliance with specified requirements. Imposes sanctions against States whose program fails to meet such requirements and who fail to take corrective action within 90 days of a finding of noncompliance. Requires the National CHC Board to establish a National Commission on Quality to establish, evaluate, and update national minimum standards to assure the quality of CHC services and to monitor State CHC Boards' quality assurance efforts. Requires each State CHC Board to establish a State Commission on Quality to implement national minimum standards in each State. Directs the National CHC Board to establish a National Advisory Commission on Technology Assessment and Clinical Effectiveness to make recommendations related to the effectiveness of health care items and procedures, and the possible coverage of new drugs and technological procedures and discontinuance from coverage of inefficient procedures. Establishes a National Resources Equalization Fund to be administered by the National CHC Board and used to augment the capability of medically underdeveloped areas to provide CHC services and to strengthen their abilities to provide local services. Authorizes appropriations for such Fund. Title V: Effective Dates; Transition; Relation to Other Programs - Makes the CHC program applicable to health care services furnished during the third calendar year beginning after this Act's enactment. Authorizes appropriations for the planning and development of State CHC programs. Requires Federal Employee Health Benefit Plans to be CHC-approved. Establishes the CHC program's relationship to other health care programs, making the Medicare program the primary payor in the event of duplicative CHC program coverage and the Medicaid program (title XIX of the Social Security Act) inapplicable in States having an operative State CHC program. Division B: Life Care Long-Term Care Protection Act - Lifecare Long-Term Care Protection Act - Adds a new title to the Social Security Act: Lifecare Long-Term Care Protection Program. Requires Long-Term Care Screening Agencies to assess individuals' eligibility for home and community-based care and Long-Term Care Case Management Agencies to conduct comprehensive needs assessments of eligible individuals, develop plans of care for such individuals, review such plans at least once every three months, and maintain a registry of qualified providers of home and community-based and nursing home care to assist individuals in choosing qualified providers to carry out their care plan. Sets the method for determining State fund contributions. Requires that the family be treated as a partner in the provision of long-term care. Sets forth eligibility requirements for home and community-based care services, including requirements that the individual be: (1) 65 or older, under age 19, or eligible for benefits under part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act as the result of a disability; and (2) dependent, cognitively impaired, or unable to perform daily living activities without assistance or supervision. Enumerates the criteria for receipt of respite care benefits. Lists those entities considered to be qualified service providers, including adult day health care centers certified by the State. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to make monthly payments to each case management agency equal to amounts allotted by the screening agency for eligible individuals in the case management agency's jurisdiction. Requires such agencies to make direct payments to qualified providers of home and community-based care which shall be accepted as payment in full for such services. Limits payments for home health and community-based care for the next three years to 65 percent of the average amount payable for Medicare nursing home care and, for subsequent years, to the costs of nursing home care minus the costs of room and board. Allots payments among individuals on the basis of severity of need with chronically ill individuals receiving amounts equivalent to Medicaid (title XIX of the Social Security Act) payments for institutional care. Establishes the Home and Community-Based Care Advisory Council to review and assist the Secretary in the implementation of home and community-based care. Requires States to establish quality assurance boards to monitor quality of care and a community advisory board for each case management agency. Establishes a home and community-based care consumers' bill of rights. Imposes quality assurance requirements on providers of such care, including the requirement that they implement consumer grievance review mechanisms, ensure that their employees and other providers whom they have under contract have received adequate training, and annually evaluate the care furnished by such employees and providers. Establishes certification procedures for a survey of home care agencies, home health agencies, and adult day care health centers to determine eligibility for participation in the program under this Act. Outlines reimbursement procedures. Provides, subject to certain limitations, for nursing facility services for up to six months for individuals who are eligible for home and community-based care services. Allows additional nursing home coverage if: (1) the individual has not been an inpatient for at least six consecutive months; (2) the diagnosis is different; or (3) there has been a substantial worsening of the individual's condition since the latest discharge. Directs the Secretary to establish an optional insurance program for individuals 45 and over to cover nursing home stays that exceed six months. Prescribes procedures for setting premium rates and requires annual rate revisions by the Secretary. States that the rates are expected to cover 45 percent of the estimated nursing home costs of stays exceeding six months. Covers a portion of a low-income individuals' premium and room and board costs. Requires the Secretary to give individuals the option of purchasing coverage of nursing home stays exceeding six months without regard to age. Requires the Secretary, to the extent feasible, to establish a prospective payment mechanism for payment of nursing home services that takes into account the expected resource utilization of the patient based on the degree of disability and other factors. Requires the making of grants to schools of nursing, social work, allied health, and public health of universities to develop training programs for the provision of home and community-based care and nursing home care for the elderly, the disabled, and chronically ill children, and in the administration of such programs. Authorizes appropriations. Requires that grants be made to State-approved programs to train individuals in the provision of home health aide services. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the making of grants to university schools of nursing to develop model consumer training programs regarding the delivery of home care services. Authorizes appropriations. Requires that grants or contracts be made to assist public and private nonprofit entities in meeting the costs of developing centers for multidisciplinary health planning development and assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to conduct demonstration projects to determine the relative effectiveness, cost, and impact on quality of long-term home care of using different models of providing and reimbursing long-term home care services for seriously mentally ill individuals and family caregivers. Authorizes appropriations from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund. Mandates demonstration projects on the feasibility of providing long-term home care benefits for working-age individuals with severe functional limitations. Directs the Secretary to make specified amounts available from such Fund. Division C: Grants to States for Establishment and Implementation of State Health Objectives Plans - Health Objectives 2000 Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for allotments to States for developing and implementing a plan to develop and collect data on the public health needs and status of State residents. Requires the plan to provide, for FY 1993 and thereafter, for use of the allotments for additional purposes described in specified provisions relating to preventive health and health services block grants. Requires the State plan to contain, among other elements, a set of at least five State health objectives chosen from the National Health Priorities described by the Secretary under this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) the National Health Objectives Advisory Committee; (2) National Health Priorities (NHPs) to form the basis for all activities that receive assistance under this Act; (3) from the NHPs, a set of Core Priorities that shall be included in each State Plan; and (4) an estimate of the personnel and training needed to accomplish the NHPs. Directs the Secretary, from the amounts made available for allotments, to use: (1) a limited amount for the professional training of public health personnel; and (2) remaining amounts to assist research, pilot and demonstration projects, and programs the Secretary determines to show the potential impact of regional or national significance with respect to NHPs. Repeals specified provisions relating to preventive health and health services block grants. Division D: Independence for Older Americans - Independence for Older Americans Act - Title I: Geriatric Research and Training Centers - Amends the Public Health Service Act to modify the purposes, affiliations, and activities of Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (formerly centers of geriatric research and training). Title II: Availability of Information to Health Professionals, Older Americans, and the General Public - Directs the Secretary to prepare a comprehensive plan for a National Independence for Older Americans Information Program. Provides for the establishment of an information clearinghouse, a toll-free telephone communications system, and public information campaigns concerning the maintenance and improvement of the health and independence of older Americans. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title. Title III: Prevention of and Recovery from Chronic Illness - Requires the National Institute on Aging to support research, and report to the Congress on the most effective: (1) techniques of geriatric assessment; (2) method of targeting comprehensive geriatric assessment to appropriate populations of older persons to determine their health care needs; and (3) means of providing for such needs to maximize health and independence. Directs the Secretary to develop: (1) model techniques to aid in the prevention and rehabilitation of older persons from frailty and other mobility problems; and (2) model curricula for the health professions for training in the use of such techniques. Authorizes the National Institute on Aging to establish up to five demonstration programs at Comprehensive Independence Research Training and Demonstration Centers to prevent the loss of mobility and to help frail older persons regain independence, using existing and experimental techniques. Directs the Secretary to conduct research on the extent to which falls are associated with the loss of an individual's confidence in functioning independently and his or her need for long-term care. Requires the Secretary to develop and report to the Congress on the development of: (1) model techniques to aid in the recovery and rehabilitation of older persons from chronic and debilitating illness; and (2) model curricula for the health professions for training in the use of such techniques. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title. Title IV: Research on Health, Retirement, and Independence - Directs the Secretary to: (1) commence a ten-year health and retirement history survey; and (2) establish an advisory panel on data collection to review existing government surveys and census data to coordinate information on the health and retirement status of older Americans. Requires the National Center for Health Statistics to: (1) include persons age 75 and over in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; (2) develop questions related to health promotion and disease prevention for older persons for inclusion in the National Health Interview Survey and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; and (3) develop questions related to the health promotion and disease prevention practices of health care providers with special relevance to older persons for inclusion in the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. Directs the National Institute on Aging to request proposals from individual and team investigators on behavioral, social, and environmental mechanisms for promoting the health and independence of older Americans. Authorizes appropriations for carrying out this title. Title V: Authorization of Appropriations for NIH - Authorizes appropriations to be added to the National Institute on Aging and other institutes in proportion to their current spending levels on aging research. Division E: Authorization of Additional Funds for Research for AIDS, Hypertension, Sickle Cell Anemia, Infant Mortality, and Breast Cancer - Authorizes additional appropriations for research for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), hypertension, sickle cell anemia, infant mortality, and breast cancer.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Veterans' Compensation Amendments of 1991 - Increases the rates of: (1) veterans' disability compensation; (2) additional compensation for veterans' dependents; (3) the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans; (4) dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children; and (5) supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for disabled adult children. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to adjust administratively the rates of disability compensation payable to persons who are not in receipt of compensation for service-connected disability or death.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Decennial Census Accuracy Improvement Act of 1991 - Amends Federal census law to require the Secretary of Commerce to determine whether the tabulations of population of the respective States should be adjusted in order to correct for any under- or over-counting. Provides that the tabulation for a State shall not be complete unless: (1) the Secretary determines that no adjustment is required in the tabulation of population for any State; or (2) appropriate adjustments for each State have been made, if it is determined that adjustment would improve the accuracy of census counts. Requires that any incomplete tabulation reported to a State to be identified as preliminary and subject to adjustment. States that if the deadline cannot be met to complete and report such data to the respective States the Secretary shall: (1) provide advance written notice to the Congress (including a statement of reasons and the anticipated compliance date); and (2) have until the second July 15th after the decennial census date to complete and report the tabulation of population to the respective States. Applies this Act to data obtained from the 1990 decennial census or any to follow. Deems as a reference to such tabulation in its completed form as determined by this Act, any requirement under Federal law that a tabulation of population for a State (as obtained in the 1990 or a later decennial census) be used. Requires the Secretary to report on the data obtained from the 1990 decennial census to the appropriate congressional committees. Declares that the authority to use the "sampling" statistical method shall be governed by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Federal Employees' Political Activities Act of 1991 - Prohibits an employee from using or attempting to use official authority or influence to interfere with or affect the result of any election. Prohibits an employee from using or attempting to use official authority to intimidate, threaten, coerce, command, or influence: (1) any individual for the purpose of interfering with the right of any individual to vote as the individual may choose, or of causing any individual to vote, or not to vote, for any candidate or measure in any election; (2) any person to give or withhold any political contribution; or (3) any person to engage, or not to engage, in any form of political activity. Prohibits an employee from using, attempting to use, or permitting the use of any official information, unless such information is available to the general public. Prohibits an employee from: (1) giving or offering to give a political contribution to any individual either to vote or to refrain from voting, or to vote for or against any candidate or measure, in any election; (2) soliciting, accepting, or receiving a political contribution to vote or refrain from voting, or to vote for or against any candidate or measure, in any election; or (3) giving or handing over a political contribution to a superior of the employee. Prohibits an employee from soliciting, accepting, or receiving, or from being in any manner concerned with soliciting, accepting, or receiving, a political contribution: (1) from another employee (or a member of another employee's immediate family) with respect to whom the employee is a superior; or (2) in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties by a Federal employee or official or an individual receiving salary or compensation from the Treasury. Prohibits an employee from soliciting, accepting, or receiving a political contribution from, or giving a political contribution to, any person who: (1) has, or is seeking to obtain, contractual or other business or financial relations with the employing agency; (2) conducts operations or activities which are regulated by that agency; or (3) has interests which may be substantially affected by the performance of the employee's official duties. Directs the Special Counsel of the Merit Systems Protection Board to prescribe regulations which exempt employees from such prohibitions. Prohibits an employee from engaging in political activity: (1) while on duty; (2) in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties by a Federal employee or official; (3) while wearing a uniform or official insignia identifying the office or position of the employee; or (4) while using any vehicle owned or leased by the Government. Exempts certain high level political appointees from such prohibitions if the costs associated with the political activity are not paid for by money derived from the Treasury. Authorizes leave without pay or accrued annual leave to an employee who is a candidate, upon request, to allow such employee to engage in activities relating to that candidacy. Declares that such request may be denied if the exigencies of the public business so require. Declares that such employee may be required to take leave without pay or accrued annual leave in order to be a candidate if activities relating to the candidacy interfere with the employee's performance of duties. Applies this Act to postal employees and employees of the Postal Rate Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to enable an insured individual's spouse who has attained the age of 50 and is not entitled to any other monthly benefits to obtain a transition benefit for four months upon the death of the insured individual. Establishes the amount of such transition benefit at 71.5 percent of the primary insurance amount of the insured individual or, if it is higher, 71.5 percent of the primary insurance amount of the spouse.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to restore the minimum monthly social security benefit with respect to benefits for months after December 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide full benefits for disabled widows and widowers without regard to age or any previous reduction in OASDI benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Social Security Modernization Act of 1991 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) Of the Social Security Act to provide that the combined earnings of a married couple which are attributable to the period of their marriage shall be shared equally between them for purposes of determining the eligibility for and amount of OASDI benefits to which each spouse is or may become separately entitled. Credits the survivor of the marriage with 100 percent of the combined total wages for the period of the marriage. Provides that this Act shall not apply in specified cases where it would result in a reduction of OASDI benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that an individual's "years of coverage" for purposes of computing such individual's primary insurance amount under title II shall include those years (up to a specified maximum) during which such individual had a child age six or under in his or her care for more than six months.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the requirement that the amount of monthly benefits payable to a spouse, surviving spouse, or parent be reduced by the amount such individual receives in monthly payments from a Federal or State pension plan.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the weeks beginning on November 24, 1991, and November 22, 1992, as National Family Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Designates the month of May 1991 as National Huntington's Disease Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 1991 as Older Americans Month.