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United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1990
Designates February 7, 1991, as National Women and Girls in Sports Day.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1990
Designates November 4 through 11, 1990, as National Key Club Week.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1990
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States should seek international cooperation on the issues identified at the Interparliamentary Conference on the Global Environment, including: (1) limiting the emissions of greenhouse gases; (2) providing economic assistance to developing countries for environmental protection efforts; (3) developing environmental protection technologies; (4) strengthening the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer; (5) initiating a convention for global forest protection and strengthening the Tropical Forestry Action Plan; (6) establishing a convention on protection of biological diversity; (7) increasing investments in, and commitments to, international family planning; (8) controlling source pollution; (9) recognizing the environmental impacts of trade and development assistance and mitigating adverse impacts; and (10) focusing on environmental protection issues in assistance programs.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1990
Commemorates the 20th anniversary of the enactment of the Rail Passenger Service Act establishing the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak).
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990
Employee Benefits Simplification Act - Title I: Nondiscrimination Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to employee benefit plans. Redefines the term "highly compensated employee" for pension, profit sharing, and stock bonus plans, etc., purposes. Makes such employee one who is a five-percent owner or who has compensation from the employer in excess of $50,000. Provides a special rule where no employees are treated as highly compensated. Redefines "compensation" to mean, in general, the amount of wages shown on the W-2 form for the calendar year. Allows self-employed individuals to use their earned income amount. Includes the following deferrals as those which an employer may elect to take into account when determining salary reduction contributions: (1) deferred compensation plans of State and local government and tax-exempt organizations; (2) contributions to an employee trust; and (3) trusts for benefit payments funded by employer contributions. Permits an employer to elect to use base pay for all purposes, other than indentifying highly compensated employees, in lieu of W-2 compensation. Provides that the cost of living adjustment with respect to any calendar year is based on the increase in the applicable index as of the close of the calendar quarter ending September 30 of the preceding calendar year. Requires the rounding of such amounts to the nearest $1,000, except that elective deferrals and elective contributions to simplified employee pensions are to be rounded to the nearest $100. Provides that the minimum participation rule applies only to defined benefit pension plans. Requires such plans to benefit not less than 25 employees, or the greater of 40 percent of all employees or two employees (or if there is only one employee, such employee). Sets forth alternative methods of meeting nondiscrimination requirements for cash or deferred arrangements, including specified contribution and notice requirements. Sets forth alternative methods of satisfying the nondiscrimination test for matching contributions. Revises the method for distributing excess contributions to highly compensated employees. Title II: Distributions - Allows distributions from qualified pension plans to be rolled over tax-free to an individual retirement account or another qualified plan or annuity. Eliminates five-year forward averaging for lump-sum distributions from qualified plans. Requires certain tax-free distributions to be made in the form of a direct trustee-to-trustee transfer to an eligible individual retirement plan. Sets forth administrative requirements in making such distributions. Requires distributions to be made from qualified plans by April 1 of the calendar year following the later of: (1) the calendar year in which the employee attains age 70; or (2) the calendar year in which the employee retires. (Present law requires such distributions no later than April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the employee attains age 70 1/2.) Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Revises the definition of a leased employee to include one whose services are performed under the control of a service recipient, instead of one whose services are historically performed by employees. Replaces the 59 1/2- and 70 1/2-year age requirement with 59- and 70-year age requirements for specified pension plans. Eliminates the special aggregation rules that apply to plans maintained by owner-employees that do not apply to other qualified plans. Makes the 150 percent current liability limitation on the deduction allowed for employer contributions to qualified pension plans inapplicable to multi-employer plans. Repeals the present law annual valuation requirement for such plans and applies the prior law requirement that valuations be performed at least every three years. Sets forth affiliation requirements for employers jointly maintaining a voluntary employees' beneficiary association. Makes the following limitations inapplicable to plans maintained by State and local governments and certain tax-exempt organizations: (1) excess benefit limitations; (2) compensation limitation on benefits; (3) limitations on disability and survivor benefits; and (4) the limitation on benefits exceeding 100 percent of the participant's average compensation. Modifies provisions relating to simplified employee pensions. Increases the number of allowable participants for salary reduction arrangements from 25 to 100. Allows participation after one year of service (currently, three years of service is required). Repeals the requirement that at least 50 percent of eligible employees participate in a salary reduction arrangement. Eliminates certain requirements regarding contributions on behalf of disabled employees. Allows rural cooperative plans which include cash or deferred arrangements to make distributions to participants after attainment of age 59. Includes reports of pension and annuity payments in information returns and payee statements. Eliminates reports of designated distributions from the scope of the $25 per day penalty. Provides a $10 reporting threshold for designated distributions.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1990
State Thrift Deposit Insurance Premium Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to direct the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to determine and apportion among the States the cumulative cost of Federal assistance provided to State-chartered savings associations for case resolutions. Declares as "high risk" any State whose share of State resolution costs exceeds twice its share of 1980 State deposits. Mandates that each high risk State pay to the Savings Association Insurance Fund prescribed premiums reflecting such risk. Sets forth insurance termination procedures if a State fails to pay the required premium. Requires depositor notification of such insurance termination.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1990
Amends Federal law providing impact aid for local educational agencies in areas affected by Federal activity to revise discretionary allocation provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1990
Cable Viewers Protection Act of 1990 - Requires the Federal Communications Commission to: (1) develop and publish in the Federal Register a list of areas where enforcement of syndicated exclusivity regulations has eliminated programming from crossing U.S. time zones. Exempts cable systems in such areas from being required to delete programming pursuant to such rules between the date such list is published and January 1, 1992. Directs the Commission to complete, and report to the Congress by January 1, 1991, a study of problems caused in cable programming in areas of time zone overlaps, including recommendations on how best to revise regulations to protect the rights of local broadcasters while allowing local residents the opportunity to view programming adversely affected by such rules.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1990
National Forest Hunter Safety and Protection Act of 1990 - Prescribes civil penalties for knowingly interfering with the conduct of a lawful hunt in a national forest or on lands affected with a Federal interest. Authorizes injunctive relief, the recovery of actual and punitive damages, and the awarding of attorney's fees. Grants hunting and sportsman's organizations standing to bring suit under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1990
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to design, construct, and maintain a memorial at the Custer Battlefield National Monument in Montana to: (1) honor and recognize the Indians who fought to preserve their land and culture in the Battle of the Little Bighorn; (2) provide visitors with an improved understanding of the events leading up to and the consequences of the Battle; and (3) encourage peace and brotherhood among people of all races. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory Committee for a Native American Memorial at Custer National Monument. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1990
Designates October 18, 1990, as National Hardwood Day.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1990
Value-Added Agricultural Trade Act of 1990 - States that U.S. policy shall provide for increased emphasis on overseas sales of value-added agricultural products. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to take appropriate steps to implement such goal. Directs the President in determining Department of Agriculture budgets to provide special consideration for export enhancement funding based on such products' additions to Treasury revenues and the U.S. balance of payments. States that United States representatives at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations should continue to work for the elimination of agricultural trade barriers and other obstacles to U.S. sales abroad of value-added agricultural products. Directs the Secretary to provide U.S. agricultural exporters with assistance to overcome unfair foreign trade practices. Amends the Agricultural Trade and Development Assistance Act of 1954 to require that at least 75 percent of all famine relief and other donations be in the form of processed or fortified products or bagged commodities. (Currently, such requirement applies only to nonemergency programs.) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 and the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to make short-term export credit guarantees for wood and processed wood products available under conditions comparable to other agricultural products. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1990
Designates the week of April 7 through 13, 1991, as National County Government Week.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1990
Designates October 20 through 28, 1990, as National Red Ribbon Week for a Drug-Free America.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1990
Kootenai and Lolo National Forest Management Act of 1990 - Designates certain lands in the Kootenai and Lolo National Forests, Montana, as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. States that Congress does not intend that the wilderness designation will lead to the creation of protective buffer zones around it. Expresses congressional findings regarding agreements on wilderness and timber supplies in the area. Requires that nondesignated lands be managed for multiple use, stating that those lands need not be managed for the purpose of protecting their suitability for wilderness designation prior to revision of the initial land and resource management plans. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Amends Federal law to include in the Nez Perce National Historical Park, Idaho, certain historical sites in the States of Oregon, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, and Oklahoma. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) acquire State and locally-owned lands or interests only by donation or exchange; and (2) purchase private lands or interests only on a willing seller basis. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 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 · 22 June 1990
Designates August 1, 1990, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Authorizes and requests the President to: (1) reassert American commitment to the Helsinki Accords; (2) raise the issue of noncompliance with such Accords with any signatory nation which may be in violation; (3)convey to all signatories of such Accords that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is vital to progress in the ongoing Helsinki process; and (4) develop new proposals to advance the human rights objectives of the Helsinki process, including the self-determination of peoples.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990
Financial Crimes Prosecution and Recovery Act of 1990 - Title I: National Commission on Financial Crimes - Establishes the National Commission on Financial Crimes to investigate fraud and abuse in the financial services industry and to recommend procedures for improving interagency cooperation and tactics for law enforcement officers in the investigation and prosecution of financial crimes. Sets forth provisions with respect to the membership, powers, pay, reporting requirements, and termination of the Commission. Title II: Improvements in Administration of the Department of Justice - Directs the Attorney General to establish a financial crimes strike force in each Federal judicial district which is in the top quartile of such districts with respect to the total number of criminal referrals filed with the Attorney General by the appropriate Federal banking agencies relating to residents of, or persons located in, such district. Provides for local control of each such strike force, through the U.S. Attorney for such district, except as otherwise provided by the Attorney General. Sets forth provisions regarding pay for attorneys on financial crimes strike forces. Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish a merit system to recognize and reward outstanding efforts of individuals engaged in the investigation and prosecution of financial crimes; (2) prohibit any U.S. attorney or any other attorney employed by the Department of Justice from taking into account the dollar amount of any loss incurred in connection with any financial crime in making a determination with respect to the investigation or prosecution of such crime; and (3) prescribe by regulation that the investigation of any referral from an appropriate Federal banking agency related to a financial crime involving an insured depository institution in default or in danger of default, or of any troubled institution, be given priority in case management. Amends the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 to make specified civil money penalties collected under such Act available to the Attorney General to carry out any provision of law. Amends the Federal criminal code to grant specified officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation administrative subpoena authority regarding specified financial crimes. Sets forth provisions: (1) with respect to standards governing production of items subpoenaed; and (2) granting persons complying in good faith with a summons or order issued under this Act and producing the materials sought immunity from civil liability to the consumer for such production or nondisclosure of such production. Title III: Improvements in the Administration of the FDIC and the RTC - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) to grant subpoena authority to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) as a conservator or receiver or for carrying out authority with respect to an insured depository institution. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to grant the FDIC and the RTC access to Internal Revenue Service returns and return information upon written requests by the respective Board of Directors and upon certification by the Board that it has a substantial need for such returns or return information. Amends the FDIA to authorize Federal banking agencies, in conducting any investigation, examination, or enforcement action under such Act, to: (1) request the assistance of any foreign banking authority; (2) maintain an office outside the United States for such purposes; (3) provide assistance to a foreign banking authority, upon request, if the requesting authority is conducting an investigation involving a violation of laws or regulations relating to banking matters that the requesting authority administers or enforces; and (4) conduct such an investigation as is necessary to collect information and evidence pertinent to such a request without regard to whether the facts stated in the request also constitute a violation of U.S. law. Authorizes the FDIC and the RTC, as conservator or receiver of any insured depository institution, to request the assistance of any foreign banking authority and provide assistance to any such authority in accordance with this Act. Requires the FDIC and the RTC to each maintain a permanent office to coordinate foreign investigations or investigations on behalf of foreign banking authorities. Authorizes the Board of Directors of the FDIC to act in its own name and through its own attorneys in any action or proceeding in which the FDIC is an interested party, whether in its corporate capacity or as conservator or receiver for any insured depository institution. Grants priority to the FDIC over certain claims or actions filed or begun against an affiliated party of the insured depository institution by depositors, creditors, or shareholders of the institution after enactment of this Act. Authorizes the FDIC, as conservator or receiver for any insured depository institution, to avoid any transfer of interest of an institution-affiliated party or any transfer of interest or obligation of person determined to be a debtor of the institution that was made within five years of appointment of the FDIC as conservator or receiver, if such party made such transfer or incurred such liability with intent to hinder, delay, or defraud the insured depository institution. Specifies circumstances under which the FDIC may recover the property transferred or the value of such property. Sets forth provisions regarding prejudgment attachments of assets where an institution-affiliated party may be required to provide restitution to the institution or where the party is a debtor of the institution, and where the assets will be dissipated or otherwise placed beyond the jurisdiction of the court or FDIC before any recovery may be completed unless a trustee is appointed. Establishes criminal penalties for knowingly concealing assets or property from the FDIC or the RTC as a conservator or receiver for any insured depository institution. Requires each Federal banking agency to require directors of depository institutions to complete an educational course on their duties as directors every three years. Authorizes a court or the Attorney General to direct disclosures of matters occurring before a grand jury during an investigation of a banking law violation to identified personnel of a financial institution regulatory agency upon a finding of substantial need, subject to specified conditions. Excludes the payment of restitution under specified Acts, including the FDIA from discharge under bankruptcy provisions. Amends the Federal criminal code to subject to civil forfeiture property which constitutes or is derived from proceeds traceable to mail fraud, or fraud by wire, radio, or television, affecting a financial institution. Amends the FDIA, the Federal Credit Union Act, the Revised Statutes, the Federal Reserve Act, the Bank Holding Company Acts of 1956 and 1970, and the Home Owners' Loan Act to permit the appropriate Federal banking agency, the FDIC, or, in the case of the latter statute, the Director, to apply to specified courts to recover from a depository institution administrative costs arising out of actions taken to recover a civil penalty. Title IV: Taxpayer Recovery Act - Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990 - Makes an exception to a discharge in bankruptcy for: (1) restitution that the debtor has been ordered to pay by a State or Federal court in any criminal proceeding arising from an act that caused a loss to any bank, savings association, or credit union (bank); or (2) damages provided in any judgment, order, or consent decree entered in any State or Federal court, or in any settlement agreement entered into by the debtor, arising from any act involving fraud or reckless disregard for the law committed with respect to any such institution. Requires that any individual acting as a director, officer, or institution-affiliated party of a bank be considered to be acting in a fiduciary capacity with respect to such institution for purposes of a provision making an exception to a discharge from bankruptcy involving fraud or defalcation while acting in such capacity. Specifies that reliance by a creditor will not be required to establish an exception to discharge if the creditor is a financial regulatory agency that is a successor to a bank. Sets forth time limits for the filing of a complaint objecting to the discharge of a debt owed to: (1) a bank that is closed, is in receivership or conservatorship, or is sold to another bank in a transaction assisted by a financial regulatory agency; or (2) such an agency. Specifies that an individual debtor who has committed an act involving fraud or reckless disregard for the law or is subsequently adjudicated to have committed such an act during the pendency of his bankruptcy proceeding with respect to any bank that is in receivership or conservatorship or that is sold to another bank assisted by a financial regulatory agency shall not be exempt from: (1) more than $7,500 in value of the debtor's aggregate interest in any real property that the debtor uses as a residence: and (2) the debtor's interest in any insurance policy or annuity.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990
Trade Agreement Compliance Act of 1990 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the United States Trade Representative (USTR), at the request of an interested person, to determine whether a foreign country is complying with any agreement it has with the United States. Requires the USTR to take specified action under the Act if he or she determines that such country is in material noncompliance with any agreement or is denying mutually advantageous market opportunities to U.S. firms. Requires the amendments made by this Act to be consistent with U.S. international obligations, including the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1990
Coastal Barrier Resources Act Amendments of 1990 - Amends the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (the Act) to replace provisions describing the properties included in the Coastal Barrier Resources System and providing for boundary modifications and maps with provisions including in the System undeveloped coastal barriers: (1) depicted on specified maps; (2) owned by the United States and meeting certain requirements; and (3) incorporated into the System under provisions of this Act. Requires the Administrator of General Services, prior to transfer or disposal of excess property that may be an undeveloped coastal barrier, to obtain from the Secretary of the Interior a determination of whether the property constitutes such a barrier. Sets forth procedures for adding such a property to the System. Directs the Secretary to provide to the Governor of each State on the Atlantic, Gulf, or Great Lakes coasts copies of maps of the undeveloped coastal barriers owned by that State or a local government. Directs the Secretary, if a Governor elects to have any portion added to the System, to follow certain procedures for adding such portions. Sets forth procedures regarding filing, public inspection, and changing of maps. Requires review of maps: (1) on request of certain officers of States, political subdivisions, and coastal zone management agencies; and (2) at least once every seven years. Amends provisions setting forth permissible Federal expenditures affecting the System to: (1) require that expenditures for the disposal of dredge materials be consistent with the purposes of the Act; (2) require that emergency actions essential to saving lives and protecting property be subject to specified provisions of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act regulating the amount of assistance; and (3) allow expenditures for the maintenance of existing channel improvements and related structures only if all, or a portion, of the moneys for the improvement or structure were appropriated before that System unit was included within the System (currently, before October 18, 1982). Requires the head of each Federal agency concerned (currently, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget) to certify compliance with the Act annually to specified congressional committees and the Secretary (currently, to the House of Representatives and the Senate). Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1990
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the Congress and the States shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the U.S. flag.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1990
Declares that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Army Corps of Engineers will take all reasonable action necessary to maintain adequate water levels on the Missouri River so as to protect irrigation, power, and recreational activity.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1990
Ozone Protection Funding Act of 1990 - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of State to assist developing nations in complying with the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1990
Authorizes the States to waive application of the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 to vehicles used either for transporting farm supplies from retail dealers to or from a farm, or for custom harvesting, regardless of whether or not they are controlled or operated by a farmer.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1990
Designates the week of October 14 through October 20, 1990, as National Radon Action Week.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1990
National Health Service Corps Revitalization Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to inform all applicants for the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program of all factors considered in the selection of applicants and the assignment of Corps members. Sets forth additional priorities in approving Scholarship Program and National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program applications. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of incentives to improve Corps recruitment and retention. Directs the Secretary to ensure that the administrative staff of the Corps is adequate and appropriate to administer the Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs, increasing staff if necessary. Requires the scholarships and the loan repayments to include a dependent allowance. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) tailor a package of financial assistance that includes both scholarship and loan repayment components; (2) award a partial scholarship to an individual with circumstances that warrant less assistance than provided under specified provisions; (3) permit a third year resident to begin fulfilling a service obligation on a part-time basis; (4) permit an individual who defaults on an obligation or contract under the Scholarship or Loan Programs to partially fulfill the obligation through service, but prohibits such service from substantially supplanting certain penalties; and (5) transfer funds between the Scholarship and Loan Programs as needed due to the availability of applicants. Requires the General Accounting Office to complete an administrative review of the Corps including the administration of the Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs. Authorizes appropriations for the Corps and for the Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs. Earmarks a percentage for certain fields. Replaces provisions authorizing appropriations for State loan repayment programs with a requirement that the Secretary use amounts from this authorization to carry out such State programs. Directs the Secretary to make grants to States to establish, or to assist existing, State Offices of Rural Health. Requires matching State funds. Sets forth the required duties of a State Office, including providing leadership and advocacy for rural residents, coordinating activities, making recommendations on quality and cost effectiveness, and cooperating with rural health research centers established under specified provisions. Provides for optional duties of the Offices. Prohibits using grant funds for certain health planning purposes such as certificate of need programs. Authorizes appropriations. Adds references to both M.D. and D.O. degrees to provisions relating to the provision of health services by Corps members. Directs (currently, authorizes) the Secretary to reimburse an individual for all (currently, all or part) of any increased Federal, State, or local income tax liability which results from payments under the Loan Program.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1990
Pharmaceutical Access and Prudent Purchasing Act of 1990 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require States which provide Medicaid coverage of prescribed drugs to pay pharmacists the lesser of the actual charge for the drug or the 90th percentile of actual charges for the drug in the State. Permits a State, either individually or in cooperation with other States, to establish a program for negotiating Medicaid prescription drug price reductions with drug manufacturers which may include the creation of a list of drugs preferred for their cost-effectiveness over other therapeutically equivalent drugs and sold at a reduced price as a result of such negotiations. Limits Medicaid coverage of prescribed drugs that have one or more therapeutic alternates to preferred drugs and non-preferred drugs which the prescriber determines to be medically necessary. Directs States to establish a drug utilization review program addressing the safety and proper use of prescription drugs. Provides Federal funding for 75 percent of drug utilization review program costs from 1991 through 1993. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and distribute: (1) a standard claim form and a standard electronic claim format to be used in requesting Medicaid payment for outpatient drugs; and (2) a standard reporting format for States to use in reporting expenditures, results of drug utilization review activities, and other information concerning activities under this Act deemed necessary by the Secretary. Provides Federal funding for 75 percent of State costs in adopting, and converting to the use of, such forms during 1991 and 1992. Directs the Secretary to evaluate: (1) the potential for uniting drug price negotiations carried out by the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs with negotiations by the Federal prescription drug negotiating group to be established pursuant to this Act; (2) the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of point-of-service electronic claim management and prospective drug utilization review systems involving pharmacists; and (3) the impact on quality of care and cost-effectiveness of paying pharmacists for drug utilization review services. Requires the Secretary to negotiate with drug manufacturers who require purchasers to pay for their associated services for waiver of the application of such requirement to nursing homes, federally funded hospitals and appropriately selected outpatient pharmacies which purchase their drugs. Directs the Comptroller General to evaluate States' drug price negotiating and drug utilization review programs. Requires the Secretary to establish a National Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee composed of medical and scientific professionals who shall continuously review and evaluate the relative safety, efficacy, and comparability of Medicaid outpatient drugs so as to determine those drugs which have therapeutic alternates and may be designated as preferred drugs via the drug price negotiating process. Requires States which provide Medicaid coverage of prescribed drugs but have not achieved substantial drug price reductions through a negotiating program by 1993 to participate in a State or Federal prescription drug negotiating group by June 30, 1993. Directs the Secretary to establish such Federal group within one year after this Act's enactment. Excludes drugs for which there are no therapeutic alternates from drug price negotiations. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress by 1995 on the performance of drug price negotiating groups.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1990
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to grant two named individuals the right to use and occupy certain described property in Glacier National Park, Montana.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 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 · 8 May 1990
Designates the month of October 1990 as Crime Prevention Month.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that, for purposes of computing the limitation on the foreign tax credit, any deduction for State or local income or franchise tax shall not be allocated or apportioned to gross income from sources outside the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Greyhound Lines, Inc., and the Amalgamated Transit Union should negotiate to resolve their dispute promptly, under the auspices of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the Secretary of Labor.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1990
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the milk production termination program should not be extended.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Tongue River Dam Authorization Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to plan, design, and construct improvements to the Tongue River Dam in Montana and to provide for the operation and maintenance of the project. Requires Montana to provide a portion of the project's costs. Requires a portion of any increased capacity of the Tongue River Dam to be provided to the Northern Cheyenne Tribe as part of any water rights settlement reached between the Tribe and Montana. Authorizes the Secretary to assist the Tribe in developing acreage for agricultural purposes in accordance with the Missouri River Basin Program of the Flood Control Act of 1944. Requires land developed for such purposes to be located within the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, the Montana Department of Natural Resources, and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to identify project features for the enhancement of fish and wildlife habitats for development by the Secretary. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to develop the mitigation and enhancement features provided under this Act and to provide for their operation and maintenance, notwithstanding provisions of the Federal Water Project Recreation Act. Authorizes appropriations for the Tongue River project.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Designates October 1990 as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Designates October 1, 1990, to October 1, 1991, as Year of the Wetlands.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1990
Requires that each State receive a specified minimum amount of assistance from certain Department of Housing and Urban Development housing programs.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1990
Mickey Leland Memorial Domestic Hunger Relief Act - Title I: Reducing Childhood Hunger - Subtitle A: Eliminating the Excess Shelter Deduction Cap - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to revise and increase the excess shelter expense deduction for FY 1991 and 1992. Subtitle B: Adequacy of Food Stamp Benefits - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to adjust the basic benefit level upwards by specified increments at the beginning of each fiscal year from FY 1991 through 1995 until it reaches 105 percent of the cost of the thrifty food plan. Subtitle C: Protecting Households in Special Circumstances - Directs the Secretary to provide for emergency allotments to eligible households to replace food lost in a disaster. Excludes from the computation of household income any State allowance (provided at least annually) for obtaining school clothes for children in school or child care. Provides for allotment increases to cover State or local sales taxes for participants in demonstration projects. Authorizes a State, on or after April 1, 1992, and with the Secretary's approval, to implement an electronic food stamp benefit transfer system. Redefines "food" with regard to the homeless for purposes of such Act. Permits State agencies to develop standard estimates of the shelter and related expenses which homeless households may reasonably be expected to incur in order to certify such households based on reported expenses not exceeding such an estimate. Title II: Promoting Self-Sufficiency - Excludes the first $50 a month received as child support from consideration as income in determining the food stamp allotments of households also receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) benefits. Increases from $4,500 to $5,500 from January 1 through September 30, 1991, with annual cost-of-living adjustments to follow, the limit on the fair market value of vehicles that food stamp recipients may own. Directs the Secretary to conduct a sufficient number of demonstration projects to evaluate the effects of excluding from such vehicle calculation the value of: (1) any licensed vehicle used for certain income-producing, transportation, or shelter purposes; and (2) one licensed vehicle used for job-related or job-seeking purposes (including commuting), for pursuing education or training, or for securing food or food stamp benefits. Allows States to use their own agency-designed forms instead of forms approved by the Secretary. Allows four States to give priority in the provision of services to voluntary participants (including both exempt and nonexempt), so long as performance standards are maintained. Authorizes an employment and training program to contain programs designed to increase the self-sufficiency of recipients through self-employment. Excludes from the computation of household financial resources any nonliquid resources necessary to allow the household to carry out an approved plan for self-sufficiency. Increases the dependent care deduction for purposes of eligibility and benefit levels. Increases the limit for reimbursements to recipients for costs incurred in employment and training activities. Revises: (1) low-income student eligibility provisions; and (2) educational expense exclusions. Excludes from income computation housing assistance payments made to a third party on behalf of a household member residing in transitional housing for the homeless. Title III: Simplifying Program Administration - Requires parents and minor children who live together to apply for food stamps as a single household. Requires the Secretary to issue rules under which State agencies must develop standards for identifying (for exclusion as inaccessible resources) those kinds of resources the household is unlikely to sell for any significant return because its interest is so slight or the cost of selling would be so great. Provides that a food stamp office need not consider any resources that the AFDC or supplemental security income benefit programs have already determined to be exempt. Directs State agencies to require only one adult representative of a household to sign all declarations required in the application process on behalf of the household. Makes recipients of State or local general assistance programs categorically eligible for food stamps. Changes from mandatory to discretionary aggregate allotments for households applying for benefits after the 15th day of the month. Title IV: Hunger in Rural America - Requires State agencies to designate rural project areas where low-income persons face substantial difficulties in getting transportation. Requires issuance of coupons by mail in such areas, except where households experience mail losses exceeding certain levels. Title V: Promoting Access for the Elderly and Disabled - Declares that State agencies, with respect to the excess medical deduction for the elderly and the disabled, shall not require further verification of a change in medical expenses if the change has been anticipated for the verification period. Requires annual adjustments to the value of the minimum food stamp benefit. Permits State agencies to establish a procedure allowing households whose regular food stamp benefits do not exceed $20 per month to receive up to $60 worth for intervals of up to three months. Requires that any applicant for or recipient of supplemental security income benefits be informed of the availability of food stamp benefits. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) make grants in FY 1991 through 1993 for demonstration projects to improve food stamp participation among homeless persons and families, low-income working families with children, and elderly and disabled persons; and (2) conduct pilot projects in FY 1994 and 1995 to test new food stamp procedures aimed at increasing rural participation. Title VI: Program Administration by State Agencies - Prohibits the application of disallowances for erroneous issuances or similar actions to any State for a fiscal year before FY 1991. Title VII: Program Integrity - Prohibits a wholesale-retail food concern from redeeming food stamps as a retail store unless: (1) it does a substantial level of retail food business; or (2) the Secretary determines that failure to so authorize the store would cause hardship to food stamp households. Requires applicant wholesale or retail food stores or concerns to provide the social security numbers of their owners, officers, and on-site managers. Increases fines for food stamp trafficking. Disqualifies a food store or concern permanently for selling guns, explosives, or controlled substances for food stamps, except that a fine may be imposed in lieu of disqualification under specified circumstances. Authorizes fines for: (1) food stores or concerns that accept loose coupons; and (2) unauthorized third-party food stamp acceptance. Reduces the election period during which a household required to repay a food stamp overissuance must decide whether to make such repayment through cash refund or allotment reduction. Title VIII: Reauthorization of Programs - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to make food stamp program authorization of appropriations permanent. Repeals allotment reduction and limitation on value provisions. Authorizes fund allocations through FY 1995 for food stamp job training. Extends through FY 1995 food stamp pilot program authority. Reauthorizes through FY 1995: (1) the nutrition assistance program for Puerto Rico; (2) the temporary emergency food assistance program under the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983; (3) the soup kitchen and food bank programs under the Hunger Prevention Act of 1988; (4) the commodity distribution and supplemental food programs under the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973; (5) the distribution of surplus commodities to special nutrition projects under the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981; and (6) the nutrition education program under the Food Security Act of 1985. Title IX: Miscellaneous - Amends the Commodity Distribution Reform Act and WIC Amendments of 1987 to: (1) make the food bank demonstration project permanent; and (2) authorize State option contracts (with reimbursement by a State distribution agency) for commodity distribution programs. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the appropriate congressional committees on the feasibility of providing food stamp allotments to elderly and disabled residents of board and care homes. Increases the amount and variety of food available under the Indian reservation food distribution program. Authorizes nutrition education grants. Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 with regard to the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC) to: (1) establish a specified FY 1991 authorization of appropriations; and (2) make WIC authorizations permanent. Title X: Indian Nutrition Gardening Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an Indian (including Native Alaskan) gardening grant program to establish gardening operations on Indian reservations. Directs the Extension Service to provide training and technical assistance. Authorizes FY 1991 through 1994 appropriations. Title XI: Effective Dates - Sets forth effective dates for provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1990
Expresses the condolences of the Senate on the death of the Honorable Spark M. Matsunaga of Hawaii.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990
Establishes within the Department of the Interior a Trust Counsel for Indian Assets to: (1) assist Federal departments and agencies in developing and implementing standards to administer their trust responsibilities with respect to Indian trust assets; (2) review proposed legislation and regulations that relate to, or that may have an adverse impact on, Indian trust assets and the responsibility of the United States to protect, maintain, and manage such assets; (3) investigate allegations of Federal violations of such responsibility; and (4) report violations to the Congress and to the head of the department or agency involved.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990
Forest Stewardship Act of 1990 - Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to direct the Secretary to expand forestry educational and technical assistance programs. Directs the Secretary to establish a Forest Stewardship Management Program to encourage the voluntary long-term management of private forest lands. Provides cost-sharing assistance for approved forest management activities, including: (1) timber management; (2) shelterbelts and windbreaks; (3) wildlife habitats; (4) forest wetlands; and (5) recreation. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a Forest Reserve Program to acquire lands, water, or easements to preserve environmentally sensitive land from conversion to nonforest uses. Requires the Secretary to establish four pilot projects. Provides cost-sharing assistance. Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a Forest Resource Coordinating Committee to coordinate intra-departmental forestry activities; and (2) State Forest Stewardship Advisory Committees.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990
Fairness in Rural Health Care Act of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit rural hospitals with 50 or fewer beds to elect to be paid on a reasonable cost basis. Exempts hospitals which make such election from reductions in payments for capital-related costs of inpatient hospital services. Pays such hospitals on a periodic interim basis.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code (relating to environmental taxes) to impose a tax on the owner or operator of any source with respect to which a permit is required for air quality nonattainment areas. Imposes a tax on persons required to pay fees under an implementation plan or operating permit program, if the Secretary of the Treasury determines that: (1) such fees do not meet the requirements applicable to such plan or program; or (2) a State is not adequately collecting such fees. Imposes a tax on products emitting ozone and products presenting health or environmental threats upon incineration. Establishes the Clean Air Trust Fund to carry out the responsibilities of the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1990
Montana Interim Roadless Lands Release and Conservation Act of 1990 - Designates certain lands in Montana as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Incorporates the Great Bear Wilderness and the Scapegoat Wilderness into the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Provides that the RARE II (second roadless area review and evaluation) final environmental statement (dated January 1979) with respect to national forest system lands in Montana shall not be subject to judicial review. Releases national forest system lands in Montana which were reviewed in the RARE II program from further review by the Department of Agriculture, pending the revision of initial national forest management plans. Releases lands in Montana reviewed in the RARE II program and lands of less than 5,000 acres (regardless of whether they have been reviewed) from management as wilderness areas. Prohibits the Department of Agriculture from conducting any further statewide roadless area review and evaluation of national forest system lands in Nevada without express congressional authorization. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to preserve the natural roadless qualities of certain Montana lands. Designates certain Montana lands as special management areas of the National Forest System. Designates parts of the Helena and Deerlodge National Forests as the Elkhorns National Recreation and Wildlife Area. Withdraws the Badger Two-Medicine Area from disposal under the mining and public lands laws and from disposition under the geothermal and mineral leasing laws. Requires the Forest Service to draw up a joint land management plan with the Blackfeet Tribe for such Area. Provides for Blackfeet timber rights and for oil and gas leases on Federal lands within such Area. Directs the Secretary to exchange certain lands in the Porcupine and Gallatin Areas with the Plum Creek Timber, L.P. Company. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire mineral interests owned by Burlington Resources, Inc., that underlay Federal lands within the Clearwater-Monture and Gallatin Areas. Declares that: (1) the Congress has sufficiently reviewed the suitability of the Bitter Creek Wilderness Study Area and the Axolotl Lakes Wilderness Study Area for wilderness designation and finds them adequately studied for wilderness designation; and (2) such lands shall no longer be subject to a certain requirement pertaining to the management of wilderness areas. Authorizes appropriations for the development of a wilderness education and ranger training complex at the Ninemile Ranger Station, Lolo National Forest, Montana.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1990
Conservation Promotion Act of 1990 - Title I: Conservation Reserve Program - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to make eligible for the conservation reserve program (CRP): (1) environmentally sensitive lands, including sinkholes, filter strips, wetland, and other areas that involve groundwater protection; and (2) uncropped marginal lands that will be planted to trees after CRP enrollment. Extends CRP authority and CRP tree planting authority through 1995. Authorizes 1991 through 1995 enrollment at between 40,000,000 and 50,000,000 acres. Authorizes three to ten-year CRP contract extensions. Provides for farmwide CRP eligibility under specified conditions. Subjects land whose CRP contract has expired to provisions for loss of assistance for cropping on highly erodible land. Permits CRP participation of land whose ownership change during the preceding three-year period was due to a foreclosure on bankruptcy. Provides for CRP contract extension or optional 15-year contracts for land devoted to hardwood trees, shelterbelts, or windbreaks. Authorizes up to 75 percent cost sharing assistance for hardwood plantings. Waives ownership requirements as necessary for such plantings. States that: (1) no tenant shall lose agricultural benefits eligibility because of another tenants' crop production on the same farm or any other farm; and (2) no person shall lose such eligibility as to any crop on a farm other than on which such production is on highly erodible land. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to offer three-year cost-sharing soil restoration contracts under a Soil Restoration Program. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to count each acre devoted to surface water storage as an acre removed from production for purposes of calculating the acreage base under any acreage limitation or land diversion program. Title II: Wetlands - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary to establish a cost-sharing program of long-term and permanent easements to protect and restore wetlands. Limits fiscal year payments to any owner or operator to $50,000. Authorizes appropriations., Directs the Secretary to establish a cost sharing program to restore drained wetlands to their natural state and to enroll such land in the wetlands reserve. Exempts a producer from agricultural assistance ineligibility for crop production on wetland if the producer: (1) has a specified 1975-1985 cropping history on such land; or (2) agrees to acre-for-acre mitigation of previously converted wetland. Provides for flexible penalties for certain inadvertent violations of the highly erodible land and wetland conservation programs. Title III: Water Quality Protection - Directs the Secretary to establish an Agricultural Water Quality Board to coordinate related Federal activities and ensure consistency with State water quality programs. Authorizes the Secretary to provide land managers with accelerated technical assistance in the development of water quality best management practices. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish the water management practices cost share program; (2) establish the water quality education and outreach program; (3) accelerate Federal water quality research; and (4) utilize data base information to evaluate water quality best management practices. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Integrated Crop Management - Directs the Secretary to establish the integrated crop management research program to conduct research related to economically and environmentally sound farming practices. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to develop integrated crop management technical guides. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a voluntary integrated crop management program option to assist eligible producers in adopting integrated crop management plans. Sets forth related provisions with regard to: (1) base and payment protection; (2) acreage reduction; (3) cross-compliance waiver; and (4) haying restrictions. Title V: Certified Organic Food - Directs the Secretary to establish an Organic Food Commission to: (1) determine the advisability of establishing a national program for organic food certification; and (2) review and approve State programs. Sets forth certification criteria. Title VI: Extension Service - Provides for Extension Service agent training in all aspects of integrated crop management, including specialist training and information dissemination. Title VII: Data Collection - Directs the Secretary to develop and disseminate information concerning the agricultural uses of pesticide and fertilizers. Title VIII: Great Plains Conservation Program - Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to: (1) extend the Great Plains conservation program through FY 2001; and (2) increase the program cost ceiling.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) Amtrak should be funded at a level that will enable it to continue to operate a national railway system, to acquire new passenger equipment and modernize its maintenance facilities, and to improve its financial performance and service levels; and (2) the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration should work with Amtrak management to lower Amtrak's dependence on public funding, to assign the highest priority possible to safety, and to ensure the adequacy of the national rail passenger infrastructure as a key element in a balanced national transportation system.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1990
Agricultural Development and Trade Act of 1990 - Title I: The Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 - Revises title I of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 with regard to food and development assistance. Provides agricultural commodity grants to least developed countries and concessional credit sales to developing countries. Prohibits assistance to countries that violate human rights. Provides for: (1) direct uses or sales of donated commodities within recipient countries; (2) creation of local currency accounts; (3) multiyear development agreements; (4) use of payments for trade development, agribusiness and facilities loans, and research; and (5) value-added food assistance, including the partial waiver of repayment for such assistance. Revises title II of such Act with regard to emergency and private assistance programs. Authorizes the President, through the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, to provide commodities to foreign countries for reasons of famine, malnutrition, and economic and environmental development. Authorizes multiyear agreements for nonemergency assistance. Authorizes participating private voluntary organizations to barter or sell the commodities in the recipient country. Sets forth specified minimum assistance levels and requires specified assistance amounts to be in the form of value-added commodities. Establishes a Food Aid Consultative Group. Sets forth maximum expenditure levels. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a farmer-to-farmer assistance program. Obligates specified minimum funding for developing countries. Revises title III of such Act to establish the Food for Freedom Program in order to support governmental democratization and individual and economic freedoms. Makes commodity assistance available on grant or credit basis. Authorizes multiyear agreements. Authorizes a private market enhancement program. Revises title IV of such Act to authorize debt forgiveness of an eligible developing country. Prohibits agreements to finance sales or to provide other assistance under such Act after December 31, 1995. Provides for General Accounting Office audits of grant, concessional credit sale, and title II programs. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 with respect to the disposition of commodities to prevent waste, limiting the authority involved to carrying out programs under titles II and III of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954. Title II: The Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 - Revises title I of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to set forth U.S. agricultural trade policy and long-term trade strategies and goals. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a list of foreign country priority growth markets and individualized market plans; and (2) review U.S. trade performance against such long-term agricultural goals. Revises title II of such Act to authorize a direct credit short-term (less than three years) export assistance program. Prohibits the resale or transshipment of intermediate-term program commodities. Authorizes short-term and intermediate-term credit guarantees. Prohibits commodity resale or transshipment. Requires at least 90 percent domestic content for commodity eligibility. Sets forth financial institution requirements. Authorizes: (1) deferred payment sales; (2) marketing assistance; and (3) barter of agricultural commodities or exchanges for strategic or critical materials (including a specified amount of commodities to acquire petroleum for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve). Terminates the Agricultural Credit Revolving Fund effective October 1, 1995. Sets forth funding levels for: (1) direct credit programs; (2) export credit guarantee programs; and (3) marketing assistance programs. Authorizes appropriations for activities under this title. Revises title III of such Act to authorize an export enhancement program to combat unfair trade practices. Sets forth program funding levels. Authorizes appropriations. Revises title IV of such Act to provide for agricultural embargo protection, including the development of contingency plans to alleviate an embargo's adverse effects. Authorizes contracting authority for services abroad to expand export markets. Requires specified agency consultations before removing or relaxing any agricultural import restrictions. Revises title V of such Act to establish in the Department of Agriculture the position of Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service. Establishes a specified minimum number of Foreign Agricultural Service (Service) personnel. Grants the diplomatic title of Minister-Counselor to the senior Service officer in a foreign mission. Authorizes appropriations to permit the Service to carry out this Act. Revises title VI of such Act to require the Secretary to prepare (every three years) a Long-Term Agricultural Trade Strategy Report. Sets forth other reporting requirements under such Act and under the Agricultural Act of 1954. Establishes a Service attache educational program. Title III: General Provisions - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1980 to extend the food security wheat reserve. Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 to extend certain cottonseed and sunflower seed oil export assistance. Directs the Secretary to establish an agricultural fellowship program for middle income countries and emerging democracies (Cochran Fellowship Program). Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Conforming Provisions and Technical Changes - Makes specified conforming and technical amendments.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Requires the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to submit a report (initiating an enforcement investigation under the Trade Act of 1974) which limits to Japan the identification of trade barriers and trade distorting practices under the Structural Impediments Initiative of the USTR, and the identification of priority foreign countries under the Trade Act of 1974, if the President has not certified to the Congress by September 1, 1990, that Japan has agreed with the United States to eliminate such unfair trade practices. Requires the USTR to submit a similar report if the President: (1) certifies that an agreement has been entered into; but (2) has not certified within another 18 months that it has been implemented and U.S. exports to Japan have increased.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Designates September 13, 1990, as National DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Day.