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United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1989
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Committees on Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means should review the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 and hold hearings in the process of such review.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1989
Urges the administration to refrain from submitting any proposal to include maritime transportation in the forthcoming General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) discussions regarding trade in services industries and to oppose any proposals by foreign nations which are similar or which could result in a contraction of the U.S.-flag merchant marine.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1989
Expresses the sense of the Congress that a postage stamp should be issued in honor of Claude Pepper.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1989
Air Toxics Control Act of 1989 - Amends the Clean Air Act to establish a list of hazardous air pollutants. Permits any person to petition the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for additions to or deletions from such list. Requires the presentation of adequate data concerning health or environmental effects for such additions or deletions. Prohibits air pollutants for which national air quality standards have been established, with specified exceptions, from being added to such list. Directs the Administrator to review and revise such list at least every five years. Requires the Administrator to list and establish emissions standards for categories of major emitting facilities. Establishes a timetable for the promulgation of such standards, requiring standards for all categories within eight years of this Act's enactment. Directs the Administrator to review and, if necessary, revise such standards at least every five years. Requires the Administrator, within four years of promulgating standards for a category, to evaluate risks to human health and the environment remaining after application of such standards. Provides for revisions of such standards for carcinogens or other pollutants not meeting emissions thresholds. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate design, equipment, work practice, and operation standards for major emitting facilities under this Act. Directs the Administrator to promulgate such standards when it is infeasible to establish a numerical emission limitation standard for any category. Requires such standards to: (1) achieve reductions comparable to numerical emission limitations under this Act; (2) include leak prevention, detection, and correction requirements unless the Administrator finds such requirements infeasible or unnecessary; (3) require owners or operators of major emitting facilities to carry out annual safety inspections to locate leaks and unpermitted releases and to report the results of such inspections to the permitting authority; and (4) include procedures for monitoring or measuring emissions and for demonstrating compliance with such requirements. Authorizes the Administrator to establish a de minimis level for emissions from categories of facilities under this Act, provided that such level does not exceed 10 tons annually for any single hazardous air pollutant or 25 tons annually for a combination of such pollutants. Makes it unlawful to construct or modify a major emitting facility or to emit any pollutant subject to this Act's standards, except in compliance with a permit. Outlines the requirements of the permit program. Limits permits to five-year periods. Requires inspections of facilities for permit issuances or renewals. Authorizes the issuance of a temporary permit if a facility owner or operator certifies that the facility is in compliance with applicable standards. Requires the permitting authority to review and inspect such facility to determine whether a full permit should be issued. Requires compliance with standards by existing facilities within three years of the promulgation or revision of such standards. Exempts facilities from standards for carcinogens or nonthreshold air pollutants if a permit contains alternative emission limitations which will prevent adverse health or environmental effects. Grants extensions for permit compliance to existing facilities under specified conditions. Authorizes the President to exempt any facility from any standards for up to two years if the technology to implement such standards is unavailable and the operation of the facility is required for national security reasons. Authorizes additional two-year extensions of such exemptions. Requires the President to report to the Congress with respect to each exemption or extension. Allows exemptions from emission standards for facilities which achieved reductions of at least 95 percent from uncontrolled emissions of a hazardous air pollutant prior to proposal of the standard. Directs the Administrator to conduct an urban pollution research program to include: (1) ambient monitoring for a broad range of hazardous air pollutants in a representative number of urban locations; (2) analysis to characterize the area sources of such pollution and the health risks posed by such pollutants; and (3) consideration of factors which elevate such health risks. Requires State air pollution agencies which receive Federal grants and have responsibility for metropolitan areas with populations over 250,000 to establish monitoring programs to measure the concentrations of hazardous air pollutants. Directs the Administrator to list and promulgate emissions standards for categories of area sources of hazardous air pollutants. Establishes a timetable for the promulgation of such standards, requiring standards for all categories within eight years of this Act's enactment. Requires the Administrator to review and, if necessary, revise such standards at least every five years. Authorizes States to submit to the Administrator for approval programs for the implementation and enforcement of permits or standards concerning areas sources. Permits the transfer of the Administrator's enforcement authorities to a State. Requires the Administrator to publish guidance for use in program development. Sets forth provisions regarding approval of such programs. Requires the Administrator to review State programs at least every two years and to withdraw approval of any program if determined that a State is not administering or enforcing such program. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to States for program development. Requires the Administrator to: (1) investigate the sources of atmospheric deposition of hazardous air pollutants on the Great Lakes and tributary waters and evaluate the adverse human health and environmental effects of such deposition; (2) report the results of such investigation to the Congress; and (3) promulgate further emissions standards or control measures necessary to prevent the effects of such deposition. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress on the implementation of certain requirements under this Act and to maintain a database on pollutants and sources subject to provisions of this Act. Requires such report to identify specific metropolitan areas which experience high risks to human health as the result of hazardous air pollutant emissions and the sources of such emissions. Makes available to the public any information submitted to a permitting authority. Directs the Administrator to establish and maintain an air toxics clearinghouse, control technology center, and risk information center to provide technical assistance and information to States, local agencies, and the public on emissions reduction. Requires the Administrator to review and, if necessary, revise risk evaluation guidelines at least every five years. Require such evaluations to evaluate direct and indirect exposure pathways. Directs the Administrator to establish standards and procedures for the certification of persons preparing such evaluations. Requires the Administrator to publish a list of air pollutants which: (1) are emitted by motor vehicles into the ambient air or into the interior of a motor vehicle; and (2) cause or contribute to air pollution which may result in serious adverse effects to human health or the environment. Sets forth the same petitioning, review, revision, and risk evaluation procedures as those applicable to major emitting facilities. Establishes diesel particulates emissions standards for: (1) passenger vehicles and light trucks manufactured after 1991; and (2) heavy trucks and buses manufactured after 1990. Makes it unlawful, on the later of one year after this Act's enactment or January 1, 1991, to sell or introduce into commerce any leaded gasoline for use as a motor vehicle fuel. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations for the reduction of particulates from existing diesel buses. Permits requirements for municipal transit buses to be more stringent than those applicable to other buses. Directs the Administrator to list at least 100 substances which, as the result of an accidental release, may cause adverse human health or environmental effects. Treats liquids and gases identified by the Secretary of Transportation as toxic by inhalation as listed under this section if the Administrator fails to list 100 substances by the required deadline. Requires the Administrator to review substances which are not on such list but are listed under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, this Act, and the list identified by the Secretary for possible additions to the list. Provides for petitioning and modification of such list, as appropriate. Requires the Administrator to update such list at least every five years. Directs the Administrator to: (1) establish de minimis quantities of listed substances; and (2) promulgate regulations to provide for prevention and detection of accidental releases of such substances from covered facilities and for response to such releases by owners or operators of such facilities. Requires such regulations to include monitoring, inspection, recordkeeping, storage, design, equipment, work practice, and operational requirements. Directs owners or operators of such facilities to implement risk management plans to detect and prevent or minimize accidental releases. Requires such plans to include hazard assessments, prevention programs, and response measures. Directs the Administrator to promulgate guidelines to assist in the preparation of such plans. Sets forth compliance and enforcement provisions. Requires the President to establish within the EPA an independent Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board to: (1) investigate and report on accidental chemical releases; (2) propose corrective safety steps for chemical facilities; and (3) promulgate requirements for the reporting of such releases. Authorizes the Board to hold hearings, secure written reports from persons handling chemicals, obtain autopsy reports, and conduct inspections of any facility where an accidental release has occurred. Makes information obtained by the Board, with the exception of information concerning trade secrets, available to the public. Directs the Administrator to set forth reasons for any refusal to implement a recommendation of the Board. Requires the Board to report annually to the Congress on recommendations submitted to the Administrator regarding accidental releases. Authorizes appropriations. Repeals certain provisions of the Clean Air Act concerning the revision of stationary source regulations. Increases penalties for specified violations of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1989
Hazardous Materials Transportation Act Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (the Act) to require the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations requiring any generator of a shipment of hazardous materials to transmit a manifest of its contents and the license plate or other identifying number of the carrier to the central reporting system and data center. Requires the Secretary to enter into a contract under which a private entity shall establish a central reporting system and data center to provide law enforcement and firefighting personnel with information and advice on dealing with emergencies connected with the transportation of hazardous materials (currently the Secretary is required to establish and maintain such a system and data center). Prohibits the appropriation of Federal funds for such system and data center. Permits the private entity to impose a fee for manifesting such a shipment if the generator is a Federal agency. Directs the Secretary to study the flow of hazardous materials in the United States. Requires the Secretary, in collaboration with the private entity, to report the results of such study to the Congress. Increases both civil and criminal penalties for violations under the Act. Sets forth specified terms and conditions with respect to the private entity's establishment and maintenance of the reporting system and data center.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1989
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an agreement for the transfer of specified monkeys used in research at the Institute for Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland, to Primarily Primates, Inc., an animal sanctuary in San Antonio, Texas, the teaching zoo known as Moorpark College in Moorpark, California, or the San Diego Zoo in San Diego, California.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1989
Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding admissions of minority students to institutions of higher education, especially with respect to illegal exclusion and illegal racial discrimination against Asian-Americans and other groups.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1989
Designates January 25, 1990, as the American Coal Miner Day in honor and recognition of the United Mine Workers of America's centennial anniversary.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1989
Authorizes the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to present a bronze medal to individuals: (1) who were members of the armed forces and were present in Hawaii on December 7, 1941; and (2) who participated in combat operations that day against Japanese military forces attacking Hawaii. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike such medals. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal. Authorizes appropriations which are to be reimbursed out of the proceeds from sales of the medals.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1989
Designates July 4, 1989, as July 4th Family Celebration Day.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1989
Designates the week beginning on the second Sunday in May 1990 as National Tourism Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1989
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to increase the number of criminal investigators assigned to its Office of Criminal Investigations by at least 30 percent in each of the next five fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1989
Designates June 21, 1989, as Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner Day. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has helped to fulfill the promise of democracy in this Nation. Reaffirms the goal of removing remaining barriers to full voter participation in this Nation.
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1989
Oil Spill Tax Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code relating to trade or business expenses to disallow the deduction for oil and hazardous substances cleanup costs if the Secretary of the Treasury receives notification from the relevant authority that the taxpayer has failed to comply with specified Federal environmental law. Disallows such deduction where it can be shown that the oil or hazardous substance discharge was the result of willful negligence or willful misconduct. Reduces the tax attributes of the taxpayer by the amount disallowed. Disallows a deduction for losses resulting from any oil or hazardous substance discharge if the cleanup costs of such discharge are disallowed as a deduction. Sets forth time limits for: (1) the Secretary to assess any deficiency attributable to the notification of noncompliance with Federal environmental law; and (2) the taxpayer to file a claim for credit or refund attributable to receipt of such notification. Establishes an account in the Treasury to consist of the increase in revenues resulting under this Act. Makes such amounts available for: (1) the revolving fund under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act for expenses related to removal of discharged oil; or (2) the Hazardous Substance Superfund. Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees on the decrease of Federal revenues because of the allowance of the deduction for oil and hazardous substances cleanup costs. Requires the Secretary to report annually to such committees on the amount expended on environmental cleanup costs and the amount accruing to the Treasury by reason of the disallowance of such deduction.
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1989
States that the appropriate congressional committees shall give due consideration at the earliest possible date to the formulation and advancement of a rural economic development legislative package.
United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1989
Smith-Wyden Rural Health Care Improvement Act of 1989 - Title I: Tax Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for family practice physicians, nurse practitioners, and certified physicians' assistants who serve in rural and medically underserved areas. Allows such individuals a tax deduction for education loan interest. Title II: Provisions Relating to Rural Health Care - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for clinical social workers in rural health clinics. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make additional payments for Medicare-dependent, small, rural hospitals from October 1, 1989, and on or before September 30, 1994. Directs the Secretary to provide for an additional payment after October 1, 1994, for each critical access facility designated by the Medicare Geographical Classification/Critical Access Facility Review Board. Establishes such Board to: (1) designate certain hospitals as critical access facilities; (2) hear appeals from rural hospitals which the Secretary determines do not qualify for treatment as being located in an adjacent urban metropolitan statistical area; and (3) conduct hearings with respect to the refusal of the Secretary to consider a hospital a sole community hospital. Requires the Board to report to the Congress on its activities. Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1992 for area health education centers.
United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1989
Designates the month of October 1989 as National Spina Bifida Month.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1989
Aviation Security and Terrorism Commission Act of 1989 - Establishes the Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism to investigate events leading up to and surrounding the destruction of Pan American World Airways flight 103 on December 21, 1988, and the destruction of Korean Air Lines flight 007 on August 31, 1983. Terminates the Commission 30 days after it makes required reports.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1989
Preventive Health Measures Act of 1989 - Title I: Preventive Health Amendments to Public Health Service Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations from FY 1990 through 1992 for the provision of grants for preventive health services other than immunizations. Includes programs for the deterrence of smoking and substance abuse by children and adolescents among the preventive health service programs receiving grants. Authorizes appropriations from FY 1990 through 1992 for the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant program. Authorizes States to use grant amounts on demonstration projects for the inclusion of preventive health courses in the curriculum of schools that train health professionals. Title II: Preventive Health Amendment to Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant - Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act to increase authorized appropriations under such title from FY 1990 through 1992. Title III: Preventive Health Amendments for the Elderly under Medicare and under Internal Revenue Code - Subtitle A: Medicare Coverage of Additional Preventive Services - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover a beneficiary's annual routine eye and hearing examination and a diabetic beneficiary's annual podiatric foot examination. Subtitle B: Medicare Coverage of Adult Day Care Services - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of the Medicare program to cover 125 days of adult day care per year provided to a clinically impaired individual who, but for the provision of such care, would require the level of care provided in a hospital or nursing facility. Requires that covered adult day care programs provide such care pursuant to a written plan of care which is established and periodically reviewed by the program's multidisciplinary team of personnel which includes at least: (1) a physician; (2) a registered professional nurse and a social worker; (3) a consultant with physical or occupational therapy or speech-language pathology skills; and (4) as needed, a dietitian. Sets forth additional program requirements. Imposes a coinsurance amount of five dollars per day of adult day care on beneficiaries, but no deductible. Provides for State participation in establishing adult day care program requirements and certifying the compliance of such programs with those requirements. Subtitle C: Medicare Coverage of Increased Home Care - Includes periodic chore services performed in the home of an aged, blind, or disabled adult when such individual is not able to perform such services and respite care services provided for no more than 52 days per year by persons who have successfully completed a homemaker/home health aide training program as covered home health care. Covers home health services provided in adult day care centers. Subtitle D: Income Tax Credit for Maintaining Households Which Include Dependents Who Have Attained Age 65 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a $250 tax credit to individuals who maintain households which include dependents who have attained age 65. Title IV: Further Preventive Health Amendments to Internal Revenue Code - Allows a tax credit of ten percent of the expenses a taxpayer incurs for a weight reduction or exercise program or a program to stop smoking. Increases excise taxes on cigarettes. Establishes the Health Maintenance Trust Fund into which certain cigarette tax revenues shall be deposited for use in: (1) implementing the amendments made by title I of this Act; (2) covering the decrease in Treasury revenues resulting from this Act's health maintenance expense credit; and (3) implementing programs discouraging cigarette smoking as well as disease prevention and health promotion programs unrelated to smoking.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1989
Amends Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 provisions relating to correctional facility use of surplus property to allow the Administrator of General Services to transfer or convey to any State or nonprofit institution property determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to be required for substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation under an appropriate program approved by the Secretary. Declares that transfers and conveyances under this Act shall be made by the Administrator without monetary consideration to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1989
Older Americans' Freedom to Work Act of 1989 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to remove the limitation on the amount of outside income which beneficiaries who have attained retirement age may earn without incurring a reduction in benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1989
Designates the week beginning April 8, 1990, as National Telecommunicators Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1989
Amends Federal law relating to merchant seamen licenses, including licenses as masters, mates, engineers, pilots, operators, and radio officers, to prohibit the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating from issuing or renewing a license, and to require the Secretary to suspend or revoke a license issued, to an individual who the Secretary determines is a current or chronic abuser of alcohol or who fails to make available to the Secretary all information contained in the National Driver Register regarding that individual's motor vehicle driving record. Directs the Secretary to conduct investigations to determine if an individual who holds a license issued by the Secretary is a current or chronic abuser of alcohol if the Secretary receives information regarding any alcohol-related misconduct of the individual or that the individual has been found guilty of an alcohol-related infraction resulting in suspension or revocation of a motor vehicle operator license. Authorizes the Secretary to request an individual who holds a license issued by the Secretary to make available to the Secretary all information contained in the National Driver Register regarding the motor vehicle driving record of that individual. Prohibits the Secretary from terminating a license suspension until the individual provides sufficient proof that the individual is no longer a current or chronic abuser of alcohol. Amends the National Driver Register Act of 1982 to authorize applicants for and holders of such licenses to request the chief State driver licensing official to transmit to the Secretary information regarding such applicants' or holders' motor vehicle driving records. Prescribes the use of such information by the Secretary. Precludes access to information that was entered more than five years before the date of request unless it relates to revocations or suspensions which are still in effect on the date of request.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1989
Designates November 19 through November 25, 1989, as National Family Caregivers Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1989
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Guillermo Endara of the Civic Democratic Opposition Alliance should be invited to address a joint meeting of the Congress concerning the situation in Panama.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1989
Authorizes the President to present a gold medal to the family of the late Captain Don S. Gentile in recognition of his service as a fighter pilot ace of World War II. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal. Provides that appropriations used to carry out this Act shall be reimbursed out of the sale proceeds.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Filipino World War II Veterans Naturalization Act of 1989 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the naturalization of certain Filipino World War II veterans. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Act - Sets forth U.S. policy concerning chemical and biological weapons. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to issue such regulations, licenses, and orders as may be required to control the export of materials, equipment, and technology having significance for the manufacture or use of chemical and biological weapons. Makes subject to the penalties imposed by the Export Administration Act of 1979 any person who violates any regulation, license, or order issued by the Secretary. Requires the Secretary of State to assess the risk of the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons. Specifies particular matters to be considered by such assessment and requires such assessment to give particular attention to the materials, equipment, and technology that have direct significance for the production and use of chemical and biological weapons. Requires the Secretary of State to submit to the Congress a biannual report describing the status of: (1) control of the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons; (2) efforts to prevent the spread of such weapons; and (3) programs to control the export of materials, equipment, and technology having direct significance for the production of chemical and biological weapons. Requires the Secretary of State to establish a Chemical Industry Advisory Group to provide advice to the Secretary concerning such assessment and such biannual report. Requires the Secretary of State to inform the appropriate committees of the Congress of developments of significance to the proliferation and control of chemical and biological weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to require the Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to provide leadership and coordination with respect to policies affecting procurement programs for rural areas. Directs the Administrator to: (1) coordinate with and advise State and local officials with regard to Federal efforts to encourage procurement in rural areas with the aim of fostering economic development in such areas; (2) establish specific rural area procurement targets for executive agencies consistent with awards or contracts for small business concerns; and (3) encourage the use of set asides or other appropriate methods for meeting procurement targets for rural areas. Requires executive agencies to provide assistance in carrying out the Administrator's responsibilities for rural area programs.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Emergency Community Water Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an emergency water assistance grant program for specified communities adversely affected by drought in 1988 or 1989. Authorizes FY 1990 appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act Amendment of 1989 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish loan rates for rural health care and related facilities based solely on the income of the area to be served.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Rural Development Data Base Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) develop and make available to the public within the Department of Agriculture a Federal rural development programs data base; and (2) submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees. Authorizes the Secretary to appoint a related advisory panel.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Rural Development Reorganization Act of 1989 - Title I: Reorganization of the Department of Agriculture - Renames the Department of Agriculture the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development to establish and maintain a revitalized nationwide rural development program as set forth in the Rural Development Act of 1972, the Rural Development Policy Act of 1980, and this Act. Establishes in such Department a Rural Development Administration. Directs the Secretary to transfer to the Rural Development Administration those agencies, offices, or entities in the Department performing rural development functions. Authorizes the transfer of rural housing offices. Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to expand the number of designated assistance areas from 225 to 450. Establishes within the Rural Development Administration an Office of Advocacy for Rural Development. Directs the Secretary to report, by geographical areas of the United States, to the Congress: (1) within six months after enactment of this Act on the extent to which rural development offices and activities of the Federal Government were located or relocated to rural areas during FY 1981 through 1986; and (2) within six months after the end of each fiscal year beginning with FY 1989 on the extent to which Federal offices and activities were located or relocated to rural areas. Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to target specified private fund economic development investments made by Rural Electrification Administration borrowers. Title II: State Cooperative Agreements and Plans - Authorizes the Administrator, Rural Development Administration, to enter into cooperative agreements with States: (1) to delegate to any State the authority to cooperate in carrying out the provisions of this Act; and (2) to assist States in the development and administration of Federal programs that provide educational opportunities, job training, health services, business expansion, and other specified benefits to rural residents. Conditions any agreement or financial assistance under this Act upon a State's submission for approval of a comprehensive plan for a State rural development program. Permits the Secretary and other Federal agency heads to enter into agreements with State and local governments to provide educational training, job training, health services, and other benefits to rural residents. Directs the Administrator in cooperation with the Secretary to use the Cooperative State Extension Service to inform rural residents about such programs. Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee certain financial institution loans made for specified rural development purposes. Title III: Rural Technology Grants - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary to make grants to nonprofit institutions to establish rural technology development centers. Gives priority to projects that will serve depressed rural areas. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1992 appropriations. Title IV: Miscellaneous Amendments - Makes conforming amendments to the Community Economic Development Act of 1981 and other Federal law. Title V: Administrative Provisions - Sets forth administrative provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Designates July 2, 1989, as National Literacy Day.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Designates the period of November 20 through November 26, 1989, as National Adoption Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Designates September 14, 1989, as National DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Day.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Designates January 7 through January 13, 1990, as National Law Enforcement Training Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Designates the week beginning June 11, 1989, as National Scleroderma Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Designates 1990 as the International Year of Bible Reading.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should revoke Executive Order 12072; and (2) the Secretary of Agriculture should utilize criteria in full compliance with the Rural Development Act of 1972 when selecting Federal facility locations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1989
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend for three years, through 1992, the investment tax credit in connection with depreciable solar energy property and geothermal property; and (2) permit this credit against the taxpayer's entire regular tax liability and minimum tax liability.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1989
Rural Housing Improvement Act of 1989 - Title I: Rural Housing Loan Guarantees - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to establish a guaranteed loan program for moderate income rural borrowers to acquire or rehabilitate single-family homes. Gives priority to first-time homebuyers. Provides for: (1) lender guarantee fees; (2) loan refinancing; (3) nonassumption of loans; and (4) geographic loan targeting. Title II: Agricultural Mortgage Secondary Market - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to expand the definition of "agricultural real estate" for purposes of the agricultural mortgage secondary market. Title III: Technical Assistance - Provides technical assistance for the programs under titles I and II of this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1989
Dire Emergency Veterans Medical Care Supplemental Appropriations Act for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1989 - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations to the Department of Veterans Affairs for FY 1989 for veterans' medical care.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1989
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution and the Secretary of Commerce should observe the U.S. census bicentennial with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Amends the Federal judicial code to prohibit States from: (1) imposing a higher tax assessment ratio upon natural gas transmission property than is imposed upon other commercial and industrial property; (2) collecting an ad valorem property tax on natural gas transmission property at a tax rate that exceeds the rate applicable to commercial and industrial property in the same assessment jurisdiction; and (3) imposing any other tax that discriminates against a natural gas company subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, with an exception for fees charged gas companies for safety, environmental, or land use purposes. Grants Federal district courts concurrent jurisdiction (without regard to the amount in controversy or the citizenship of the parties) to enjoin, suspend, restrain, or set aside such discriminatory tax treatment. Permits relief only if the ratio of assessed value to true market value of natural gas transmission property exceeds by at least five percent that of other commercial and industrial property in the taxing jurisdiction.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Head Start Expansion Amendments of 1989 - Title I: Amendments to the Head Start Act - Amends the Head Start Act to define "full-working-day" as at least ten hours per day. Authorizes Head Start programs to provide child care services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994: (1) Head Start services other than child care services; and (2) if the appropriation for such other services equals or exceeds such authorization, a new program of child care services. Authorizes the use of a portion of a State's allotment to enable Head Start programs to provide child care services Monday through Friday throughout the year so that eligible children receive full-day Head Start services (including child care), if such child care is necessary for parents to work or attend a job training or educational program. Title II: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a one-year delay in indexing (for inflation) income tax rates and personal exemptions.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Amends the Federal criminal code to make it unlawful for any person: (1) who has been convicted in any court of a drug crime to possess a firearm; and (2) to transfer a firearm to any other person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such other person is under indictment for, or has been convicted in any court of, a drug crime. Provides penalties for a violation. Sets forth additional penalties for possession of a firearm during a drug crime. Provides enhanced penalties if the firearm is a machinegun or is equipped with a firearm silencer or muffler and for subsequent convictions.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act - Establishes in the Treasury the Atmospheric Nuclear Testing Compensation Trust Fund for claims for injuries and death due to exposure to radiation from nuclear testing or uranium mining in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico during certain time periods. Confers exclusive jurisdiction upon the Atmospheric Nuclear Testing Compensation Trust Fund Board of Directors to process personal injury claims and payments. Subjects any findings and awards made by the Board to judicial review. Prescribes guidelines for Board determination of compassionate claims relating to open air nuclear testing and uranium mining in specified areas. Sets forth a statute of limitations for filing claims, and restricts the amount of attorney's fees which may be received. Insulates the award of damages from insurance claims or payments. Declares the Federal Tort Claims Act inapplicable to radiation compensation actions and confers liability upon the United States regarding such claims to the same extent as a private individual under like circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Slepak Principles Act - Declares it is the purpose of this Act to create principles, similar to those proposed by Vladamir Slepak (a founding member of the Moscow Helsinki Monitoring Group) governing the conduct of industrial cooperation projects of U.S. nationals in the Soviet Union and the Baltic States. Expresses the sense of the Congress that U.S. nationals engaged in such projects should adhere to the Slepak Principles and thus: (1) provide no assistance for the Soviet military; (2) suspend the use of goods produced by forced labor; (3) seek the protection of human rights as it relates to Soviet employee rights; (4) decline to participate in any project if it uses a structure used for religious activities; (5) pose no danger to Soviet employees; (6) refuse to extend untied loans to the Soviet Union; and (7) strive to use business enterprises that are not controlled by the Soviet Union. Sets forth specified registration and reporting requirements. Declares that U.S. agencies may intercede with a foreign government or foreign national regarding export marketing activity on behalf of a U.S. national if such national adheres to the Slepak Principles.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Changes the date for which Memorial Day is designated as a legal public holiday from the last Monday in May to May 30. Changes Memorial Day as a particular day for displaying the flag from the last Monday in May to May 30. Makes Memorial Day an exception to the observance on Mondays.