United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1990
1992 Olympic Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue 1992 Olympic Games commemorative five-dollar gold coins and one-dollar silver coins. Prescribes guidelines for the sale and pricing of such coins and directs the Secretary to ensure that their issuance will not result in any net cost to the United States. Mandates that surcharges be paid to the U.S. Olympic Committee.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Airport and Airway Trust Fund Protection Act of 1990 - Declares that the receipts and disbursements of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund allocable to transportation-related operations: (1) shall not be included in the totals of the Federal budget or the congressional budget; (2) shall be exempt from general budget limitations on expenditures and net lending; and (3) shall be exempt from any sequestration order under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) and shall not be counted for purposes of calculating the Federal deficit.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1990
Designates June 25, 1990, as Korean War Remembrance Day. Authorizes and requests the President to urge that the American flag be flown at half staff on such day in honor of the Americans who died as a result of their service in the Korean War.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990
Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act - Authorizes appropriations for grants to the Government of Puerto Rico for conducting a referendum on the following political status options: (1) independence; (2) statehood; (3) an enhanced commonwealth relationship with the United States; or (4) none of the above. Requires the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs to draft legislation implementing the selected status. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth procedures for consideration of legislation implementing Puerto Rico's status. Requires the enacted legislation to be submitted to the Puerto Rican people for ratification by July 7, 1992. Provides that the legislation, if approved, shall take effect on October 1, 1992. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue code to permit individuals who do not itemize deductions a direct deduction from gross income of charitable deductions in excess of $100.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990
Declares that the Congress acknowledges and appreciates the commitment, devotion, and sacrifices of present and former military families. Designates November 19, 1990, as National Military Families Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990
Designates the Federal building at 340 North Pleasant Valley Road, Winchester, Virginia, known as the Winchester Post Office, as the J. Kenneth Robinson Postal Building.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1990
United States Coinage Reform Act of 1990 - Amends Federal currency law to prescribe the color and content of one-dollar coins. Mandates that the obverse side of the one dollar coin have a design symbolizing the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus (thus replacing the Susan B. Anthony design). Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to cease regular production of one-dollar Federal Reserve notes by a specified date (except for such quantities as are required to meet collectors' needs). Mandates that the seigniorage of the new one-dollar coins be used to offset the reverse seigniorage resulting from the destruction of Susan B. Anthony dollar coins in Government storage.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1990
Judicial Taxation Prohibition Act - Amends the Federal judicial code to deny to inferior Federal courts jurisdiction to issue any remedy, order, writ, or other judicial decree requiring the Federal Government or any State or local government to impose any new tax or to increase any existing tax or tax rate.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1990
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to permit the deferral of payments on student loans during professional internships of any duration (by removing a two-year limitation).
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1990
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the Congress and the States shall have power to prohibit the act of physical desecration of the U.S. flag and to set criminal penalties for such act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1990
Requests the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to publish, within one year, proposed amended regulations that specify the components of an adequate operator training program and certification system for operators of powered industrial trucks.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Comprehensive American Wetlands Act of 1990 - Establishes a comprehensive system for the identification, valuation, preservation, and compensation to the owners of U.S. wetlands, and for providing tax incentives for transfers of wetlands to governments and other specified entities. Makes this Act inapplicable to any coastal wetlands in the United States or to any wetlands in the State of Alaska. Title I: Wetland Preservation - Directs the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) to conduct an inventory to locate, delineate, and determine the special wetland value of all U.S. wetlands subject to this Act. Directs the SCS, upon determining that certain lands may have special wetland value, to refer such determination to: (1) the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for determinations relating to wildlife habitat; (2) the Army Corps of Engineers for determinations relating to flood control (except lands eligible for certain small watershed projects, for which the SCS will make the determinations); (3) the Geological Survey for determinations relating to aquifer recharge; (4) the SCS for determinations relating to sedimentation discharge; and (5) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for determinations relating to water quality. Directs the Cooperative Extension Service for each State to identify practices exempted from regulations under specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA), taking into account existing practices and developing additional practices in consultation with the affected industry or community. Amends the FWPCA to include a similar exemption, with respect to certain areas of navigable waters, for normal crop rotation practices, activities generally acceptable within the agricultural community, or new technology activities proper in the industry or community, as established by the State Cooperative Extension Service. Requires that a list of exempted practices and activities be filed with the EPA Administrator, who shall publish the list as a proposed rule. Directs the EPA Administrator to identify the specific activities and practices for each State exempted by regulation. Requires mitigation as a condition for conversion of wetlands. Requires such mitigation to be, to the extent practicable, a restoration within the same environmental system of the special wetland values converted. Directs the Federal agency that determined the special value of the wetlands to determine the amount of mitigation, in consultation with the affected party. Limits such amount to not more than the following ratios of acreage restored to acreage converted: (1) one to one, for "nonconverted" wetlands; (2) two to one, plus preserving or enhancing in the same environmental system the special wetland values lost, for "special nonconverted" wetlands; and (3) five to one, plus such preservation or enhancement of those values, for "natural" wetlands. Exempts "prior converted" and certain small acreage wetlands from such mitigation requirements. Provides for consideration of construction of artificial wetlands as a mitigating factor. Establishes a wetlands conservation conveyance program. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands from a willing seller by purchase or exchange, to provide for wetlands conservation. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer such lands to appropriate Federal agencies and contract with States for their management. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to evaluate wetlands within any lands acquired by the United States to determine if special wetland values are present and, if so, to administer such lands if practicable. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to include in the agricultural conservation reserve program lands that are not highly erodible but that are wetlands. Limits to 10,000,000 acres the wetlands that may be enrolled in such program. Requires the Secretary, during the 1991 through 1995 crop years, to only enroll wetlands in such program. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to revise conservation reserve credits for wheat, feed grains, cotton, and rice acreage. Allows any reduced, set-aside, or additional diverted cropland acreage to be devoted to water storage in compliance with an established conservation plan approved by the SCS. Doubles such credit for non-converted wetlands, and triples it for prior converted wetlands. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to revise the wetland conservation program with respect to determinations of ineligibility for specified Federal program loans, payments, and benefits for persons who produce agricultural commodities on converted wetland. Allows an exemption from the ineligibility penalty if: (1) an agricultural commodity was produced on converted wetlands as a natural result of a project found to be in the public interest, unless such lands were not used for agriculture before December 23, 1985; or (2) mitigation is carried out in accordance with this Act. Allows persons found to be ineligible appeal to the State Committee of the Agriculture and Soil Conservation Service. Authorizes the State Committee to modify the ineligibility determination after considering specified specified factors. Sets forth procedures for administrative appeals of decisions made under this Act and specified FWPCA provisions relating to wetlands. Directs the EPA Administrator to establish a National Appeals Division for hearing and determining appeals of decisions by employees of the EPA, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Army Corps of Engineers. Title II: Tax Treatment for Certain Transactions Relating to Wetlands - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the charitable contribution base for contributions of wetlands. Grants a capital gains preference for certain sales and exchanges of wetlands by individuals. Allows a specified deduction of capital gains on certain sales and exchanges of wetlands to specified governmental units or any other organization approved by the Secretary of the Interior as a proper custodian of lands with wetland values. Sets forth a special rule for estates and trusts. Disallows such deduction in determining alternative minimum taxable income. Allows amortization of certain expenditures for restoring wetlands.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Calls immediately for Greyhound Lines, Inc., and the Amalgamated Transit Union to resume negotiations under the auspices of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the Secretary of Labor.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 26, 1990, to commemorate the bicentennial of "An Act for the government of the territory of the United States, south of the river Ohio" (from which Tennessee was formed).
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Loans to One Borrower Transition Rule Act of 1990 - Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act to establish a transition period during which specified limits apply to total loans and credit extensions offered by savings associations to any one borrower. Requires the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision to prescribe regulations to implement this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Medicare Physician Regulation Relief Amendments of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require carriers and peer review organizations to release the medical review screen or the associated screening parameter to a physician before notifying such physician that payment for his or her service has been denied. Permits Medicare reimbursement of a patient's regular physician for services provided to such patient by another physician who occasionally covers for the regular physician. Requires Medicare carriers to provide physicians, upon request and without charge, with carrier-generated information which physicians need to submit a payment claim or respond to a carrier inquiry. Allows a medical society or other professional organization representing physicians to represent a group or class of physicians in Medicare payment determinations, reconsiderations, or appeals. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to appoint, based on nominations submitted by national medical organizations representing physicians, a Practicing Physicians Advisory Council with which the Secretary must consult concerning changes in the Medicare program and proposed changes in regulations and carrier operation policies.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Medicare Physician Qualification Act of 1990 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to condition Medicare payments for physician services on the physician: (1) having passed, during the year or during any of the previous seven years, a competency examination developed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, or offered by specified medical organizations and approved by the Secretary; or (2) being licensed as a physician in a State with a physician licensure program that requires periodic relicensure and is approved by the Secretary. Prohibits a physician who does not meet such qualifications from furnishing a service to an individual prior to such individual's written agreement to pay for such service. Directs the Physician Payment Review Commission to conduct a study and report to the Congress on current methodologies of evaluating the competence of physicians.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Textile, Apparel, and Footwear Trade Act of 1990 - Limits the 1990 imports of textiles and textile products classified under a category to an amount equal to 101 percent of the total 1989 imports classified under such category. Limits the 1990 imports of nonrubber footwear classified under a nonrubber footwear category to an amount equal to: (1) the total 1989 imports of nonrubber footwear classified under such category; and (2) in the case of high priced nonrubber footwear, the total 1989 imports of high priced nonrubber footwear classified under such category. Provides for a one-percent annual growth in the amount of permitted imports of textiles and textile products after 1990. Exempts from the limitations imposed under this Act imports of textiles and textile products from U.S. possessions if such articles are exempt from duty under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States and are manufactured by U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents of such a possession. Limits the imports of certain sweaters made in Guam to a specified amount during FY 1990 and to such amount increased by one percent per year in subsequent years. Declares such limitations shall not apply to Canada or Israel. Sets forth limitations on the amount of textile and textile products, classified under certain import categories, which may be imported from beneficiary countries under the Caribbean Basin Initiative. Authorizes the President to: (1) enter into trade agreements to grant new concessions as compensation to the extent required under U.S. trade agreements for the import limits imposed by this Act; and (2) proclaim such modification or continuance of any existing duty on textiles and textile products and on nonrubber footwear as necessary to carry out such agreements. Prohibits the President from reducing any rate of duty by more than ten percent. Requires the President, before entering into such trade agreements, to consider whether a country has violated trade concessions of benefit to the United States and the violation has not been adequately offset. Sets forth requirements governing staged rate reductions in the tariffs of articles affected by this Act. Prohibits the President, except as authorized by this Act, from entering into trade negotiations with any country with respect to duties on textiles, textile products, and nonrubber footwear. Prohibits the President, except as provided in this Act, from decreasing or proposing a decrease in any such duty by any means, including an implementing bill or a proclamation. Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on the administration of this Act. Requires the Secretary of Commerce, ten years after enactment of this Act, to study and report to the Congress on its operation. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a pilot program for the issuance and sale to U.S. companies at public auction of import licenses applicable to categories of textiles. Terminates such licensing program on December 31, 1991, and requires a report to the Congress on its administration.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Provides travel and transportation allowances for the parents of a deceased member of the armed forces for attending the burial ceremonies of such member.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
Tourism Policy and Export Promotion Act of 1990 - Declares it to be the national goal to increase U.S. export earnings from U.S. tourism and transportation services with an eye toward: (1) the elimination of the travel and tourism export deficit of the United States and the U.S trade deficit; and (2) the achievement of a travel and tourism export surplus. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to identify foreign trade barriers to U.S. travel and tourism. Requires the USTR to submit the National Trade Estimate to the President and the Senate Committees on Finance and Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Amends the International Trade Act of 1961 to require each annual tourism trade development plan to focus on those countries in which tourism trade development has the greatest potential for increasing travel and tourism export revenues. Declares that the Congress finds that increased efforts directed at the promotion of rural tourism will contribute to the economic development of rural America. Establishes the Rural Tourism Foundation. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1990
Amends the Tax Reform Act of 1986 to provide for the deductibility of State and local income and sales taxes to the extent such taxes exceed one percent of adjusted gross income.
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