United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1990
Market Opening Act of 1990 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to take specified action against countries that: (1) have trade acts, policies, or practices burdensome and restrictive to U.S. commerce; and (2) have not reached an agreement with the United States for their elimination. Requires the USTR, if certain current negotiations are not successfully concluded by June 17, 1990, to submit an action plan to the Congress by July 2, 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1990
Rural Air Service Preservation Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation, for any period before September 30, 1998, to enter into contracts with air carriers to assure air service to certain small communities for which a determination of essential air transportation has been made under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1990
Rural Business Revitalization Act of 1990 - Title I: Designation of Rural Enterprise Zones - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to designate rural enterprise zones for purposes of providing tax and regulatory relief and improving local services. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on an evaluation of this Act every three years. Title II: Federal Income Tax Incentives - Allows a general business credit for rural enterprise zone employment and allows an investment tax credit for rural enterprise zone property. Increases the research tax credit for research conducted in rural enterprise zones.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 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. Directs the USTR, in the event of an affirmative determination, to evaluate the overall trade performance of such country. Requires the USTR to develop, during the course of a determination or evaluation, a list of possible sanctions against a country which is noncompliant or which denies U.S. firms market opportunities.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1990
Target Price Adjustment Act of 1990 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide for annual target price adjustments for each of the 1991 through 1995 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, extra long staple cotton, and rice to reflect changed production costs.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1990
Drug Emergency Areas Act of 1990 - Amends the National Narcotics Leadership Act of 1988 to replace language with respect to the designation of high intensity drug trafficking areas with provisions authorizing the President to declare a State or part of a State to be a drug emergency area. Requires requests for such a declaration to be made, in writing, by the Governor or chief executive officer of any affected State or local government and forwarded to the President through the Director of National Drug Control Policy. Allows cities, counties, or States to submit a joint request. Requires requests to be based on a written finding that the emergency is of such severity and magnitude that Federal assistance is necessary to ensure an effective response. Prohibits the President from limiting declarations made under this Act to highly-populated centers of drug trafficking, drug use, or drug-related violence. Requires the President to consider applications from governments of less populated areas where the magnitude and severity of such activities are beyond the capability of the State or local government to respond. Requires Governors or chief executive officers, as part of such requests and as a prerequisite to such assistance, to: (1) take appropriate action under State or local law to respond to the crisis and furnish information on the nature and amount of State and local resources which have been or will be committed to alleviating the emergency; (2) certify that State and local government obligations and expenditures will comply with all applicable cost-sharing requirements; and (3) submit a detailed plan outlining the State or local government's short- and long-term plans to respond to the emergency. Requires the Director to review requests submitted and forward the application to the President, along with a recommendation. Authorizes the President to make grants to State or local governments of up to $50,000,000 for any single emergency. Limits the Federal share to 75 percent of the costs necessary to implement the short- and long-term plan. Limits the duration of assistance to a drug disaster area to one year, after which the Governors or chief executive officers may apply for an extension of up to 180 days. Requires any State or local government receiving Federal assistance to balance the allocation of such assistance evenly between drug supply and demand reduction efforts, unless State or local conditions dictate otherwise. Authorizes the President to: (1) direct any Federal agency to utilize its authorities and resources to support State and local efforts; and (2) provide technical and advisory assistance. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Acknowledges that Jerusalem is and should remain the capital of the State of Israel. Declares that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic religious group are protected. Calls upon all parties involved in the search for peace to maintain their efforts to bring about negotiations between Israel and Palestinian representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990
Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Prevention Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, to make grants to States, with regard to breast and cervical cancer, for screening, referrals and follow-up services, public information and education programs, education and training for health professionals, quality monitoring of screening, and evaluations of such activities. Sets forth preferences in making the grants and requires equitable geographical distribution. Requires matching non-Federal funds in a specified ratio. Requires that States agree to: (1) provide all of certain services by a specified date; (2) switch to any improved screening procedures which become available; and (3) assure the quality of any screening procedures used. Directs the Secretary to establish guidelines for assuring the quality of mammography and cytological screening conducted under these provisions. Requires that low-income women be given priority in the provision of services. Requires that a charge for services, if any: (1) be made according to a public schedule; (2) be adjusted for income of the woman involved; and (3) not be imposed on any woman with incomes below the poverty line. Requires services to be provided throughout a State, including to members of any Indian tribe or tribal organization. Authorizes the Secretary to provide training and technical assistance. Directs the Secretary to provide for annual evaluations of programs carried out under this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Limits the number of grants made to seven in FY 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990
Federal Noxious Weed Act Amendments of 1990 - Amends the Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to publish an annual list of noxious weeds. Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service a Center for Noxious Weed Management and Data Collection; (2) establish a coordinated management plan for noxious weed control in the United States; and (3) report annually to the appropriate congressional committees regarding such plan and Federal, State, and local agency compliance. Authorizes private landowner cost sharing incentives. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1994 appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1990
Fair Treatment Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise, with regard to alcohol and drug abuse and mental health services block grants, the formulas for determination of allotments and minimum allotments to States.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that payment under a life insurance contract on the life of an insured who is terminally ill be treated as a death benefit, making such payment eligible for tax exclusion from gross income. Provides that any reference to life insurance shall be treated as referring to a qualified terminal illness rider. Provides for the tax treatment of such riders. Describes such a rider as one which provides for payments to an individual upon the insured's becoming terminally ill. Provides that applicants for or recipients of assistance under the Social Security Act may not be required to elect to receive accelerated death benefits under life insurance policies.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Repeals the provision of the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1989 which requires the withholding of income tax from wages paid for agricultural labor. Requires the Internal Revenue Code to be applied as though such provision had not been enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Small Community Environmental Infrastructure Assistance Act of 1990 -Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to States for the establishment of small community pollution control revolving funds. Makes such funds available to small communities for the construction of wastewater treatment works, public water systems, and solid waste management facilities and for assuring that underground storage tanks are in compliance with the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Sets forth provisions concerning grant payment schedules and allotment and reallotment requirements. Requires States to establish revolving funds to receive such grants. Sets forth specific requirements for the use of such funds and for the loans and grants to be provided to small communities. Permits States to provide assistance only to community wastewater treatment and solid waste management facilities and public water systems that are in compliance with plans under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as appropriate. Requires States to submit plans to the Administrator that identify the intended use of the revolving funds. Directs States to reserve the greater of one percent of fund sums or $100,000 to carry out planning. Provides for the withholding of grant payments if a State is not in compliance with this Act's requirements. Requires the Administrator to establish an Office of Small Community Environmental Infrastructure Assistance to: (1) oversee and manage the grants and funds made under this title; and (2) provide specified environmental and financial information to small communities. Authorizes the Office to provide grants to States and not-for-profit organizations to assist small communities in assessing issues related to the financing of environmental facilities compliance with environmental laws, and the construction, operation, and rehabilitation of environmental infrastructure facilities. Requires such grants to be matched by non-Federal funds Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Health Insurance Counseling, and Assistance Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) make grants to States for the establishment or improvement of a program providing information, counseling, and assistance regarding the procurement of adequate and appropriate health insurance coverage to individuals who are eligible to receive benefits under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act; (2) annually convene a conference to provide training and information to State health insurance information, counseling, and assistance program staff members; and (3) establish a national resource center for the purposes of creating a health insurance information clearinghouse, distributing such information to States, and providing States with technical assistance and training in disseminating such information. Authorizes appropriations for such grant programs and the national resource center.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1990
Underground Storage Tank Pollution Prevention and Assistance Act - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to guarantee principal and interest on loans made to qualified small businesses for the closure and replacement of underground storage tanks. Sets forth amounts and conditions of such guarantees. Permits the Administrator to make principal and interest payments on behalf of the borrower if: (1) the borrower is unable to make such payment and it is in the public interest to continue the project; and (2) the probable net cost to the Government in making such payments would be less than that resulting from the borrower's default. Authorizes the Administrator, in the event of a default by a borrower, to make payments in accordance with the guarantee. Requires the Attorney General to recover payments from the defaulting borrower. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to small businesses, in conjunction with such loans, for up to 50 percent of the cost of tank closure and replacement if: (1) the business is an essential community service and assistance is in the public interest; and (2) at least three private lending institutions have declined to provide a loan for such purposes. Terminates the authority to make loan guarantees or payment contracts five years after this Act's enactment. Permits the Administrator or a State to undertake corrective action with respect to threatened releases of petroleum from underground storage tanks. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make funds from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund available to carry out this Act. Sets forth deadlines for compliance with tank and financial disclosure requirements for owners of specified petroleum underground storage tanks.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1990
Establishes the Department of Energy's test facility at Butte, Montana, as the National Water, Air, Soil Technologies Evaluation Center. Requires the Center to: (1) assist in the analysis of hazardous waste and other contaminants generated by, or situated on the property of, Federal agencies; (2) conduct research, development, and evaluations of waste disposal technologies; (3) certify and provide training in the use of technology in the removal of contaminants from water, air, and soil; and (4) promote the transfer of such technologies between and among Government agencies and private industry. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1990
National Recreational Trails Fund Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish the National Recreational Trails Trust Fund (Fund). Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to pay into the Fund an amount equivalent to the off-highway recreational trail fuel taxes from the Highway Trust Fund. Requires the Secretary to use such amounts in the Fund to make grants to States for constructing and maintaining recreational trails. Establishes the National Recreational Trails Act Advisory Committee.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1990
Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to make disaster assistance loans to small business concerns within drought disaster areas, without regard to whether such a concern's economic loss is directly related to agricultural production losses. Imposes a civil penalty for wrongful misapplication of loan proceeds.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1990
Super Savings Bond Act - Provides for the issuance of 12-year super savings bonds, through payroll deduction for regular monthly purchase plans, to increase national savings and reduce the Federal debt owed to foreign creditors.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1990
Amends the National Labor Relations Act to make it an unfair labor practice for an employer to offer or grant: (1) permanent replacement employee status during a labor dispute; or (2) any employment preference to an individual who worked or indicated a willingness to work during a labor dispute over an employee who exercised specified rights during such dispute.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1990
Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 - Title I: National Standards Governing the Organic Production of Agricultural Products - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish: (1) a national organic production certification program; (2) a label for organically produced and handled agricultural products; (3) a national list of approved and prohibited substances to be included in the organic production standards; and (4) a certifying agent accreditation program. Authorizes State organic certification programs. Sets forth: (1) prohibited crop production practices and materials; (2) animal production practices and materials; (3) processing and marketing requirements; and (4) violations of this Act and related penalties. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: National Boards - Directs the Secretary to establish a National Organic Promotion, Research, and Consumer Education Program. Directs the Secretary to issue organic production and handling orders which shall: (1) establish the Initial Organic Delegate Body which shall elect the Initial National Organic Board and the Initial Organic Standards Board; and (2) provide for the election of the National Organic Assembly. Establishes: (1) an Initial National Organic Board; and (2) an Initial Organic Standards Board. Directs the National Organic Assembly to elect members to serve on the National Organic Board and the Organic Standards Board. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Low Input Label Demonstration Program - Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a National Low Input Label Demonstration Program; and (2) two experimental agricultural product labels for Program use. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: National Laboratory Accreditation - Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a National Laboratory Accreditation Program for laboratories that test for residues in agricultural products; and (2) establish minimum standards with regard to quality assurance, equipment, methodologies, and personnel. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1990
National Infrastructure Council Act of 1990 - Establishes the National Infrastructure Council to: (1) develop and coordinate Federal infrastructure policy; (2) prepare an assessment of national infrastructure needs and policies on an annual basis; (3) establish guidelines and procedures for the coordination and provision of Federal assistance to States and local governments on all infrastructure matters; (4) develop priorities and recommendations for Federal infrastructure investments; and (5) transmit its priorities and recommendations to the President and the Congress. Directs the Council to implement the Infrastructure Assistance Program for the purpose of furnishing technical assistance to State and local governments with respect to construction, improvement, rehabilitation, operation, or maintenance of infrastructure. Outlines the non-Federal share of the costs of such Program. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Council to provide a clearinghouse of requests from public and private entities and persons for technology programs and research and development programs relating to infrastructure. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Council to carry out a five-year program to promote the use of innovative technology in the design, construction, improvement, rehabilitation, use, operation, and management of infrastructure. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Council to conduct a study of, and develop recommendations concerning, the feasibility and viability of Federal infrastructure projects. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1990
Provides for all Federal civilian and military retirees to receive the full cost-of-living adjustment in annuities payable under Federal retirement systems for FY 1991. (Includes benefits payable under the Civil Service Retirement and Disability System, military retirement and survivor benefit programs, the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System, the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and railroad retirement programs.)
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to expend specified amounts of the Highway Trust Fund for Federal-aid highway projects. Repeals the ceilings on the obligation of funds for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs under the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize FY 1991 through 1995 appropriations for the targeted export assistance program. Requires the Foreign Agricultural Service to document program funding allocation and assistance eligibility decisions. Requires the General Accounting Office to provide specified congressional committees with a program oversight report.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1989
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to settle and pay claims for loss of, or damage to, property resulting from certain forest fires which were originally classified as prescribed fires but which subsequently became wildfires. Sets forth procedures for making claims.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1989
Freedom of Choice Act of 1989 - Provides that a State may not restrict the right of a woman to choose to terminate a pregnancy: (1) before fetal viability; or (2) at any time, if such termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the woman. Allows a State to impose requirements medically necessary to protect the life or health of such women.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1989
Anaconda Mines Drainage Treatment Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to construct and maintain a water treatment plant to ensure that water flowing from Anaconda Mine sites near Butte, Montana, meet water quality standards. Provides that such plant shall be designed to treat the quantity and quality of effluent historically discharged from the Anaconda Mines. Authorizes the Secretary to operate and maintain the plant and perform sludge disposal directly or through contract with public or private entities. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1989
Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Reauthorization Act of 1989 - Amends the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act of 1984 to require State Governors to maintain records on asbestos in school buildings. Deletes a requirement for the submission of asbestos abatement application materials by State Governors to the Secretary of Education. Requires State Governors, in determining the adequacy of financial resources available to a local educational agency for asbestos abatement, to consider the additional costs to such agency of meeting the needs of disadvantaged students. Removes a reporting requirement concerning actions taken by State Governors in accordance with State plans. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to approve applications for financial assistance no later than April 30 of each year. Prohibits the provision of such assistance to applicants who are not in compliance with title II of the Toxic Substances Control Act. Requires the proceeds from the repayment of Federal asbestos abatement loans and assistance recovery lawsuits to be deposited into the Asbestos Trust Fund. Removes a condition on the provision of financial assistance which requires the submission of an application within five years of the enactment of the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act of 1984. Prohibits the approval of assistance applications unless the local educational agency certifies that it is implementing an asbestos management plan and all abatement activities will be conducted by trained and accredited individuals in conformance with the Toxic Substances Control Act. Removes certain requirements for the promulgation by the Administrator of standards for asbestos removal contractors and the protection of school employees trained to carry out abatement activities. Requires the Administrator to report annually (until 1999) to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on the loan and grant program under the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act of 1984. Authorizes appropriations for the asbestos abatement program for FY 1991 through 1995. Revises provisions concerning the allocation of appropriations. Permits up to five percent of appropriations to be reserved each fiscal year for the administration of asbestos abatement activities. Authorizes the Administrator to use up to five percent of such appropriations for grants to States for: (1) assisting local educational agencies in performing periodic reinspections and training activities; and (2) maintaining programs to accredit personnel performing asbestos inspections and response actions. Makes conforming amendments to provisions of the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act of 1986 concerning the Asbestos Trust Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1989
Eliminates post-1968 service in the National Guard as a prerequisite to civil service retirement credit for former National Guard technicians. Amends the National Guard Technicians Act of 1968 to eliminate post-1968 service as a prerequisite for National Guard technicians for receipt of credit in the determination of length of Federal civil service for purposes of leave, Federal employees' death and disability compensation, group life and health insurance, severance pay, tenure, and status. Sets forth rules for applying provisions of this Act to affected individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1989
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal to Laurance Spelman Rockefeller in recognition of his leadership on behalf of natural resource conservation and historic preservation. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1989
Amends the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to local education agencies, in consortia with entities which meet specified requirements, to provide drug abuse resistance education to students in kindergarten through grade six. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1989
Tourism Policy and Export Promotion Act of 1989 - Declares it to be the national goal to increase U.S. export earnings from U.S. tourism and transportation services with an eye toward: (1) the elimination of the travel and tourism export deficit of the United States and the U.S trade deficit; and (2) the achievement of a travel and tourism export surplus. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to identify foreign trade barriers to U.S. travel and tourism. Requires the USTR to submit the National Trade Estimate to the President and the Senate Committees on Finance and Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Amends the International Travel Act of 1961 to require each annual tourism trade development plan to focus on those countries in which tourism trade development has the greatest potential for increasing travel and tourism export revenues. Declares that the Congress finds that increased efforts directed at the promotion of rural tourism will contribute to the economic development of rural America. Establishes the Rural Tourism Foundation. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1989
Indian Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to impose a fine on: (1) any health care practitioner, teacher, day care worker, counselor, or law enforcement officer who knows of or suspects child abuse or neglect in Indian country and fails to report it immediately to the local child protective services or law enforcement agency; or (2) any person who supervises, or has authority over, such an individual and inhibits or prevents that report. Makes anyone reporting such abuse, neglect, or actions immune from civil and criminal liability provided such report is based upon their reasonable belief and is made in good faith. Prohibits any provision protecting or requiring confidentiality between doctors and patients or husbands and wives from applying or serving as a defense with respect to child abuse. Requires the local law enforcement or child protective services agency which initially receives a report of child abuse: (1) to immediately notify, and report to the other agency; (2) within 36 hours, to investigate and prepare a report on the allegations of abuse or neglect; and (3) to prepare a final written report on such allegations after completing the investigation. Prohibits disclosure of the identity of any person reporting child abuse or neglect, without the consent of that individual, to any person other than a court of competent jurisdiction or an employee of an Indian tribe, a State, or the Federal Government, who needs to know the information in performance of his or her duties. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish within the Department of the Interior a central registry of reports of abuse and neglect of children in Indian country. Requires such registry to contain: (1) local law enforcement and child protective services agency written reports on child abuse and neglect; (2) the status of investigations or prosecutions of such allegations; (3) any credible evidence to support such allegations; and (4) any determination that such allegations are unfounded. Provides that any report that is determined to be unfounded shall be expunged by the Secretary from the registry three years after such determination is made. Permits the Secretary to amend information in the registry to correct any error or false statement in such report upon receiving the application of any person alleged in a report to have committed abuse or neglect. Declares that the decision of the Secretary regarding such an application shall be final and not subject to judicial review. Limits access to such reports to the reporting medical practioner, the child's custodian or guardian, the courts, appropriate departments of social services and law enforcement, and the alleged offender. Allows employers seeking information about potential or current employees to access those reports which do not identify or provide assistance in identifying the child. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on the number and status of such reports. Allows Federal, State, and Indian agencies to share information regarding incidents of child abuse and neglect. Allows local law enforcement and child protective services agency officials to interview the child and obtain photographs and x-rays, of the child without parental consent if they have reason to believe the child has been abused or neglected. Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) conduct an investigation of the moral character of each individual considered for appointment to a position that involves regular contact with, or control over Indian children; and (2) prescribe minimum standards of moral character for individuals appointed to those positions which shall ensure that none of such individuals are guilty of specified criminal offenses. Requires each Indian tribe or tribal organization that receives funds under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to: (1) conduct an investigation of the moral character of each individual employed by the Indian tribe or tribal organization in a position that involves regular contact with or control over Indian children; and (2) employ in those positions only individuals who meet minimum standards of moral character. Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to: (1) increase the ceilings of the Crime Victims Fund from $125,000,000 to $135,000,000 through FY 1991 and from $150,000,000 to $160,000,000 thereafter through FY 1994; (2) limit deposits in the Fund for crime victim compensation and assistance grants to amounts between $110,000,000 and $125,000,000; and (3) make available additional amounts in the Fund for Indian child abuse prevention and treatment grants. Directs the Secretary of HHS, through the Indian Health Service, to establish an Indian Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Grant Program to provide grants of up to $500,000 to any Indian tribe or inter-tribal consortium for the establishment on Indian reservations of treatment programs for Indians who have been victims of child sexual abuse. Sets forth guidelines for applications for such grants. Requires grants recipients to: (1) provide such information as the Secretary may require to evaluate their program and ensure that grant funds were expended properly; and (2) submit a final report to the Secretary at the close of the grant term.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1989
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to reimburse Montana, individual cattle-owners in Montana, or both, for the costs of testing cattle for brucellosis if there is a demonstrated risk of infection from Yellowstone National Park elk and bison herds. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1992 appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 October 1989
Repeals specified provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 that eliminated income averaging. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the use of income averaging by any person: (1) actively engaged in the trade or business of farming; and (2) whose gross receipts for each of the three preceding taxable years does not exceed $5,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1989
Declares that if a draft bill implementing a certain agricultural agreement under the Uruguay round of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is not submitted by the President to the Congress before February 15, 1991: (1) the United States Trade Representative shall submit, by May 31, 1991, an additional report required under the Trade Act of 1974 that identifies those countries that have major trade barriers to, and practices that distort, the export of U.S. agricultural products; and (2) the President shall instruct the Secretary of Agriculture to implement a marketing loan program or an export enhancement program in accordance with the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988. Amends the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 with respect to implementation of such marketing loan and export enhancement programs.
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1989
Futures Trading Practices Act of 1989 - Title I: Authorization of Appropriations - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act (the Act) to authorize appropriations through FY 1994 for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Title II: Floor Surveillance and Dual Trading - Requires every contract market to maintain a system to monitor trading to detect and deter violations of the Act relating to the making of trades and the execution of customer orders. Requires any audit trail system that is part of such a monitoring system to capture transaction times independently, promptly, precisely, and completely. Requires biennial Commission assessments of each market's trade monitoring system. Directs the Commission to issue deficiency orders requiring timely correction of any such system failing to meet standards. Requires suspension of dual trading, except under specified circumstances, on any market subject to such an order. Bars the placing of oral orders except according to certain Commission rules. Title III: Broker Associations - Prohibits trading between floor traders or brokers and affiliated customers. Requires disclosure of formal or informal business affiliations between floor brokers and traders. Title IV: Governing Structure - Prescribes meaningful representation on exchange boards of brokerage firms, commodity producers and consumers, and floor traders and brokers. Specifies diversity of membership that must prevail on major disciplinary panels. Title V: Floor Trader Registration - Revises registration requirements for floor traders or brokers. Title VI: Penalties - Revises penalties for violations of the Act. Makes Commission merchants liable to customers for any losses caused by the malfeasance of their chosen floor brokers. Allows customers to sue floor brokers for punitive damages of up to double actual losses. Title VII: Assistance to Foreign Futures Authorities - Provides for cooperation with foreign futures authorities (as defined by this Act) with regard to: (1) subpoena authority; (2) investigative assistance; (3) information disclosure and receipt; and (4) payment for necessary investigative expenses. Title VIII: General Provisions - Grants the Commission authority to conduct limited undercover investigations where it has reason to believe that violations of the Act may be taking place and the Department of Justice has declined to do so. Revises registration requirements for floor traders or brokers, including fitness checks, fingerprinting, and FBI background investigations. Directs the Commission to issue a schedule of service fees to cover the costs of monitoring trading floors and insuring compliance by exchanges with self-regulatory standards. Prohibits a person who has solicited a new account by telephone from entering any orders for such account for three days after the customer has signed any contract and a risk disclosure statement. Provides for nationwide service of process and venue in U.S. district courts. Directs the Comptroller General to study delivery points for agricultural commodity contracts. Title IX: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1989
Designates the week of October 22 through October 29, 1989, as National Red Ribbon Week for a Drug-Free America. Recognizes and commends the hard work and dedication of certain individuals and organizations and urges activities that support community and alcohol education during such week. Encourages Americans to wear or display red ribbons during such Week to present and symbolize their commitment to a healthy, drug-free lifestyle, and to develop an attitude of intolerance to the use of drugs.
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