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United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1991
Designates the months of April 1991 and 1992 as National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1991
Comprehensive Counter-Terrorism Act of 1991 - Title I: Punishing Domestic and International Terrorist Acts - Subtitle A: Terrorist Death Penalty Act of 1991 - Terrorist Death Penalty Act of 1991 - Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) make it a Federal offense, punishable by up to life imprisonment, to commit terrorist acts against U.S. nationals abroad; and (2) authorize the imposition of the death penalty where terrorist acts against U.S. nationals result in first degree murder. Sets forth procedures for the imposition of the death penalty, including provisions with respect to notice by the Government that it intends to seek the death penalty if the defendant is convicted, the conduct of the sentencing hearing, a list of mitigating and aggravating factors to be considered, proof of such factors, the return of findings, and procedures for appeal and review of a sentence of death. Prohibits sentencing to death individuals who were under age 18 at the time of the offense, or carrying out a death sentence upon: (1) a woman while she is pregnant; (2) a person who is mentally retarded; or (3) a person who, as a result of mental disability, cannot understand the nature of the pending proceedings, what such person was tried for, or the reason for or nature of the punishment or who lacks the capacity to recognize or understand facts which would make the punishment unjust or unlawful or the ability to convey such information to counsel or to the court. Sets forth provisions: (1) authorizing a U.S. marshal charged with supervising the implementation of a death sentence to use appropriate State or local facilities and employees to carry out such sentence and to pay costs in an amount approved by the Attorney General; and (2) prohibiting requiring any employee of a State department of corrections or the Federal Bureau of Prisons, or an employee providing services to such department or bureau under contract, as a condition of such employment or contractual obligation, to be in attendance at, or to participate in, any execution carried out under this Act. Subtitle B: Terrorist Acts Committed in the United States - Authorizes the imposition of the death penalty for domestic terrorist acts that involve an individual acting as an agent of a foreign power and that result in first degree murder, and up to life imprisonment for acts that result in death that does not constitute first degree murder. Sets forth penalties for attempts or conspiracy to kill (up to life imprisonment) and for engaging in physical violence that results in serious bodily injury (up to ten years imprisonment, a fine, or both.) Specifies that, for purposes of this Act, a person possesses an intent to commit a terrorist act if such person intends to: (1) intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (2) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (3) affect the conduct of a government by assassination, kidnapping, or other violent act. Subtitle C: Increasing Penalties for International Terrorist Acts - Increases the penalties for terrorist acts committed against U.S. nationals abroad. Title II: Preventing Domestic and International Terrorist Acts - Subtitle A: Attacking the Infrastructure of Terrorist Organizations - Makes it a Federal criminal offense for an individual, acting as an agent of a foreign power, to provide material support or resources (including currency, securities, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, personnel, and other physical assets), or to conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, or ownership of such support or resources, knowing that such resources or support are intended to be used to commit a terrorist act. Provides for the civil and criminal seizure and forfeiture of any real or personal property used to commit, or facilitate the commission of, terrorist acts. Subtitle B: Electronic Communications - Expresses the sense of the Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment should ensure that communications systems permit the Government to obtain the plain text contents of voice, data, and other communications when appropriately authorized by law. Subtitle C: Cooperation of Witnesses in Terrorist Investigations - Alien Witness Cooperation Act of 1991 - Authorizes the Attorney General to waive immigration admission, and other legal requirements and grant permanent resident status for alien witnesses who cooperate with the Government in Federal or State prosecutions. Bars the granting of such status to an alien who would be excluded because of felony convictions unless the Attorney General determines that the granting of such status to such alien is necessary in the interests of justice and comports with the safety of the community. Limits the number of aliens and members of their immediate families entering the United States under such authority to 100 persons in any single fiscal year. Provides that the decision to grant or deny permanent resident status under this Act shall be at the discretion of the Attorney General and shall not be subject to judicial review. Title III: Preventing Aviation Terrorism - Makes the willful violation of certain Federal Aviation Administration regulations relating to airport and airline security punishable by a fine, imprisonment for up to one year, or both. Title IV: Preventing Economic Terrorism - Makes it a Federal criminal offense to counterfeit, or to make, deal, or possess any plate or other item used in the counterfeiting of, U.S. securities abroad. Establishes an Economic Terrorism Task Force to: (1) assess the threat of terrorist actions directed against the U.S. economy and the adequacy of existing policies and procedures designed to prevent such actions; and (2) recommend administrative and legislative responses to prevent such actions. Sets forth provisions: (1) regarding the makeup of such Task Force; (2) making provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act inapplicable to such Task Force; and (3) establishing reporting requirements. Specifies that if the report of the Task Force is classified, an unclassified version shall be prepared for public distribution. Title V: Authorizations to Expand Counter-Terrorist Operations - Authorizes appropriations for counter-terrorist operations and programs.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1991
National Voter Registration Act of 1991 - Requires each State to establish procedures with respect to presidential and congressional elections to permit voter registration by: (1) application in person simultaneously with application for a motor vehicle driver's license; (2) mail application; or (3) application in person at designated Federal, State, or nongovernmental office locations. Declares that this Act does not apply to any State that has no voter registration requirement with respect to elections for Federal office, or in which voters may register at the polling place at the time of a general election for Federal office. Requires each State to: (1) assure that any eligible applicant who submits an application by a certain deadline before the election is registered to vote in the election; (2) require the appropriate State election official to notify each applicant of the disposition of the application; (3) provide that the name of a voter may not be removed from the official list of eligible voters except by reason of death, criminal conviction, mental incapacity, change in residence, or voter request; (4) inform applicants under this Act of voter eligibility requirements and penalties provided by law for submission of a false voter registration application; (5) incorporate in application forms and other forms used at locations specified in this Act some means by which the person completing the form may decline to register to vote in elections for Federal office; and (6) provide a registration form to any individual who does not decline to register. Provides that any State program or activity to protect the integrity of the electoral process by assuring an accurate and current voter registration roll for elections for Federal office: (1) shall be uniform and nondiscriminatory; and (2) shall not result in the removal of the name of any person from the official list of registered voters for failing to vote. Prohibits a general or comprehensive program which is designed to systematically remove ineligible voters from the rolls from taking place less than 60 days prior to a primary or general election for Federal office. Prohibits a State from removing the name of a voter from the official list of eligible voters for Federal elections on the grounds that the registrant has moved, unless such registrant: (1) confirms in writing that he or she has changed residence to a place outside the jurisdiction of the registrar; or (2) has failed to respond to a notice from the registrar and has not appeared to vote and, if necessary, correct the address in an election during a certain period. States that in the event of a change of address, for voting purposes, of a voter to another address within the same jurisdiction, the registrar shall correct the voting registration list accordingly. Prohibits such voter's name from being removed from the registry of eligible voters by reason of such change of address, except as provided in this Act. Requires the United States attorney to give the chief State election official written notice of an offender's felony conviction in Federal district court. Amends Federal postal rate law to require the Postal Service to make certain lower postal rates available to State or local election officials who certify that a mailing is in furtherance of this Act. Directs the Federal Election Commission to: (1) develop a mail voter registration application form for Federal elections; (2) submit, not later than June 30 of each odd-numbered year, to the Congress a report assessing the impact of this Act on the administration of Federal elections during the preceding two-year period; and (3) provide information to the States with respect to their responsibilities. Requires each State to designate a chief State election official to coordinate State functions under this Act. Provides a private right of action for an individual aggrieved by a violation of this Act. Provides for the awarding of attorney fees to the prevailing party, other than the United States. Imposes criminal penalties upon any person who: (1) intimidates, threatens, or coerces any person for registering or voting or exercising any right under this Act; or (2) deprives or defrauds the inhabitants of a State of a fair and impartially conducted election process.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1991
Provides for an appropriate POW/MIA flag to be displayed on Federal buildings until there is a satisfactory accounting of POW/MIAs in Southeast Asia and Iraq. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1991
Authorizes the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity to establish a memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr., in the District of Columbia and its environs. Prohibits the United States from paying any expense of establishing the memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1991
Increases the rate of special pay authorized for military personnel performing duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger, effective August 1, 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1991
Agent Orange Act of 1991 - Presumes the following diseases to be service-connected and resulting from exposure to dioxins and other herbicide agents during service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era unless there is affirmative evidence to the contrary: (1) non-Hodgkins lymphoma, each soft-tissue sarcoma (with certain exceptions), and chloracne or other consistent acneform diseases becoming manifest to a degree of disability of ten percent or more; and (2) those additional diseases that the Secretary determines warrant such a presumption by reason of having a positive association with a herbicide agent, if they become manifest within the appropriate period. Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to prescribe regulations providing that a presumption of service connection is warranted whenever it is determined by the Secretary that a positive association exists between the exposure of humans to a herbicide agent and the occurrence of a disease in humans. Requires the Secretary to take into account reports received from the National Academy of Sciences, as well as other sound medical and scientific information. Outlines procedures to be followed by the Secretary in weighing evidence, reporting information, and making conclusions for or against the positive association and, therefore, the service-connection presumption. Provides for the issuance of final regulations listing the diseases for which positive associations have been found or removing the presumption for a disease. Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) under which NAS shall review and summarize the scientific evidence (and its strength) concerning the association between exposure to a herbicide agent during service in Vietnam and each disease suspected to be associated with such exposure. Provides for NAS: (1) scientific determinations concerning diseases; (2) recommendations for additional studies to resolve areas of uncertainty relating to herbicide exposure; (3) subsequent reviews; and (4) reports, at least biennially, to the Secretary and the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees (the veterans' committees). Terminates the agreement ten years after the fiscal year of the first report from NAS. Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with another body if the Secretary cannot reach an agreement with NAS within two months after enactment of this Act. Amends the Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1988 to direct the Secretary to annually furnish updated information on health risks associated with exposure to herbicide agents during service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. Extends through 1993 the eligibility for hospital, nursing home, or domiciliary care and medical treatment of individuals who served in Vietnam and who have been determined to have been exposed to dioxin or a toxic substance in a herbicide as the result of such service and of veterans exposed to ionizing radiation while serving between September 11, 1945 and July 1, 1946. Directs the Secretary to compile and analyze, on a continuing basis, all clinical data obtained by the Department of Veterans Affairs in connection with examinations and treatment furnished to veterans by the Department after November 3, 1981, for exposure to herbicide agents in Vietnam and which is likely to be useful in determining the exposure to such agents and the disabilities suffered. Requires an annual report on such compilations and provides funding. Directs the Secretary, for facilitating research on the effects of exposure to herbicides used in Vietnam, to establish and maintain a system for the collection and storage of voluntarily contributed blood and tissue samples of veterans who served there. Provides for: (1) specimen security; (2) authorized uses; (3) limitations on acceptance of samples; and (4) authority based on specific funding. Directs the Secretary to establish a scientific research feasibility studies program for conducting research on health hazards resulting from: (1) exposure to dioxin; (2) exposure to other toxic agents in herbicides used in Vietnam; and (3) active military service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. Outlines program and report requirements. Directs the Secretary to consult with NAS. Directs the Secretary, upon the request of a Vietnam veteran who has applied for Department medical care and filed a claim for, or is in receipt of, disability compensation, to obtain a blood sample to conduct a test for the presence of a specified dioxin. Provides for notification to the veteran of test results and significance and requires such blood sample to be maintained as part of the collection of blood and tissue samples required under this Act. Makes conforming amendments and provides for alternative effective dates.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1991
Domestic Violence Prevention Act of 1991 - Title I: Amendment of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act - Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) to add increasing public awareness as a purpose of State demonstration grants. Authorizes grants for public information campaigns regarding domestic violence. Requires a State grant recipient to establish a Commission on Domestic Violence. Limits law enforcement training grants to private nonprofit organizations that have certain experience. Mandates grants or contracts for the establishment of one national and five regional resource centers to provide training and other assistance concerning domestic violence. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Act. Requires grants to States to assist in becoming model demonstration States and in improving State leadership regarding certain domestic violence matters. Sets forth requirements for being designated as a model State. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Law Enforcement, Prosecution Grants, and Interstate Enforcement - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize competitive grants to States for use by States and local governments to assist in developing effective law enforcement and prosecution strategies to combat domestic violence and to reduce the rate of domestic violence. Authorizes appropriations. Amends Federal law to establish criminal penalties for interstate travel to commit spousal abuse or to violate protection orders. Allows temporary protection orders pending final adjudication of charges under these provisions. Mandates victim restitution. Requires a protection order by a court of one State to be accorded full faith and credit by the court of another State. Amends the FVPSA to prohibit a State or locality from being awarded a grant under the Act if, as a matter of law, policy, or practice, it discriminated against victims of family violence. Requires certification that this condition has been met. Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to require a similar certification. Amends the FVPSA to authorize grants to State and local government entities to encourage them, and Indian tribes, to take specified actions in order to treat spousal violence as a serious violation of criminal law. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to transfer a specified sum each fiscal year to the Attorney General for such grants.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1991
Designates September 8 through 14, 1991, as National Historically Black Colleges Week.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1991
Designates September 1991 as National Awareness Month for Children with Cancer.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
United States Marshals Association Establishment Act - Establishes the United States Marshals Association as a charitable, nonprofit corporation to strengthen public knowledge of law enforcement and of the U.S. Marshals Service, to promote the exchange of information among private and public institutions and individuals about, and research of, law enforcement and justice systems issues, and to promote an effective justice system and the general welfare of law enforcement. Authorizes the Director of the U.S. Marshals Service to provide personnel, facilities, and other administrative services to the Association and to accept the services of its officers and employees as volunteers.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Amends the Federal criminal code to allow the court, in determining the sentence to be imposed in the case of a violation of probation or supervised release, to consider guidelines or policy statements issued by the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Authorizes the court to resentence a defendant who violates a condition of probation at any time prior to the expiration or termination of the term of probation. Directs the court to revoke supervised release and require the defendant to serve a term of imprisonment up to the maximum authorized if the defendant is found by the court to be in unlawful possession of a controlled substance. Authorizes the court to include a requirement that the defendant be placed on supervised release after imprisonment when a term of supervised release is revoked and the defendant is required to serve a term of imprisonment less than the maximum authorized. Specifies that the length of such a term of supervised release shall not exceed that authorized by statute for the offense of which the defendant was convicted, minus any term of imprisonment that was imposed upon revocation of supervised release.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Drunk Driving Child Protection Act of 1990 - Amends the Assimilative Crimes Statute to require the imposition of a Federal penalty (if not already imposed by a State) of one year imprisonment and a $1,000 fine in addition to any term of imprisonment under State law for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol if a non-driving minor was present in the vehicle at the time of the offense. Amends the common carrier provisions of the Federal criminal code to increase the penalty for operating a common carrier under the influence of drugs or alcohol if a non-driving minor is present in the vehicle by up to one year's imprisonment and/or an additional $1,000 fine.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Amends the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to direct the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, when any general or special appropriation bill or any bill or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations passes both Houses of the Congress in the same form, to cause the enrolling clerk of the appropriate House to enroll each item of the bill or joint resolution as a separate bill or joint resolution. Applies this Act to bills and joint resolutions agreed to by the Congress during the two-year period beginning on this Act's enactment date.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Amends the Federal criminal code to set penalties for causing, attempting, or threatening serious bodily harm to certain officers and employees of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permanently extend the period during which qualified mortgage bonds and mortgage credit certificates may be issued.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Strengthening Education for American Families Act - Title I: National Goals - Sets forth national goals for education, to be achieved by the year 2000, in the following categories: (1) family literacy and lifelong learning; (2) disadvantaged children's readiness for school; (3) school completion; (4) student achievement; (5) mathematics and science; (6) safe, disciplined, and drug-free schools; (7) teacher recruitment and retention; and (8) equal opportunity for postsecondary education. Title II: National Council on Educational Goals - National Academic Report Card Act of 1991 - Establishes a National Council on Educational Goals (the Council). Directs the Council, after the conclusion of its first meeting, to submit: (1) an interim report within one year; and (2) a National Report Card, within two years and annually thereafter for the duration of its existence. Requires the interim report to: (1) establish a timetable for reporting progress toward achieving the national educational goals by the year 2000; and (2) include a series of reasonable steps for measuring implementation and success of each recommendation of the Council. Requires the National Report Card to set forth an analysis of U.S. progress toward achieving the national education goals, presented in a form understandable to parents and the general public. Provides that the National Report Card may, if the Council deems necessary, also: (1) describe modifications to existing goals; (2) identify continuing gaps in existing educational data; and (3) make recommendations to improve methods and procedures of assessing educational attainment and to strengthen the national educational assessment and information system. Directs the Secretary of Education to make matching grants to the States to: (1) conduct State summits on education; (2) evaluate progress toward implementing national goals; and (3) evaluate the implementation process. Requires States receiving such grants to report on State goals and plans. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 through 2001 for: (1) the Council and its National Report Card; and (2) State summits on education. Title III: Literacy - National Literacy Act of 1991 - Provides for comprehensive activities to ensure that all Americans can become literate by the year 2000. Part A: Literacy: Strategic Planning, Research, and Coordination -Establishes an Interagency Task Force on Literacy. Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to direct the Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education to coordinate literacy-related programs. Establishes the National Institute for Literacy and the National Institute Board. Authorizes the Institute to award Literacy Leader Fellowships. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Adult Education Act (AEA) to authorize the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make grants to establish a network of State or regional adult literacy resource centers. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: Workforce Literacy - Establishes in the Department of Labor a National Workforce Literacy Assistance Collaborative. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Adult Education Act (AEA) to revise provisions for national workforce literacy strategies grants business, industry, labor, and education partnerships for workplace literacy. Requires the Secretary of Education (the Secretary), in awarding grants for exemplary demonstration partnerships for workplace literacy, to: (1) give priority to partnerships which include small businesses; and (2) limit such grant awards to not more than three years. Directs the Secretary to reserve a specified amount, whenever appropriations for workforce literacy partnership grants exceed a certain level, to establish a program of grants for large-scale national workforce literacy strategies. Authorizes appropriations for AEA workforce literacy programs. Part C: Investment in Literacy - Extends through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for programs under the Adult Education Act (AEA). Revises the use of funds under the AEA basic State grants program. Requires that basic grants to States also be used for competitive two-year Gateway Grants to public housing authorities for literacy programs and related activities. Requires biennial evaluations and reports on such Gateway Grants. Revises AEA to give State advisory councils, plans, and evaluations literacy-related responsibilities. Requires States to report biennially to the Interagency Task Force on meeting literacy goals, coordinating workplace literacy services, and building a high quality delivery system for adult literacy programs. Provides for training educators to recognize and serve illiterate individuals more effectively. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise targeted assistance programs under ESEA to include training programs to enhance the ability of teachers and school counselors to identify, particularly in the early grades, students with reading and related problems which place them at risk for adult illiteracy. Renames the Even Start program under ESEA the Even Start Family Literacy Program. Revises the program to expand eligibility to include community-based organizations or other nonprofit organizations of demonstrated quality applying in collaboration with a local educational agency (LEA) (as well as LEAs and LEA consortia). Sets minimum grant amounts. Makes individual children eligible from birth through age seven (currently from age one through age seven). Provides for continuation of eligibility for certain participants until the parents become ineligible due to educational achievement, or until all children in the family attain age eight. Gives priority to applicants demonstrating that the area to be served has a high percentage or a large number of children and adults in need of program services. Authorizes appropriations for the Even Start Family Literacy Program. Establishes a Family Literacy Public Broadcasting Program. Authorizes the Secretary of Education, subject to availability of appropriations, to contract with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) for production and dissemination of family literacy programming and accompanying materials to assist parents in improving family literacy skills and languages development. Requires CPB to: (1) cooperate with local public broadcasting stations; (2) arrange for distribution of audio and video instructional media materials for use, and distribution on loan, to families at sites chosen from among State and local libraries with literacy programs and nonprofit entities serving hard-to-serve populations; and (3) report to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations for the Family Literacy Public Broadcasting Program. Part D: Business Leadership for Employment Skills - Amends the Adult Education Act (AEA) to provide for education programs for commercial drivers. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make competitive matching grants for adult education programs which increase the literacy skills of eligible commercial drivers so that they may successfully complete the knowledge test requirements under the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986. Requires grantees to refer individuals identified as having literacy skill problems to appropriate adult education programs. Authorizes appropriations. Part E: Books for Families - Revises the ESEA inexpensive book distribution program to require that priority be given in selection of additional local programs to those which serve children and students with special needs. Requires the program contractor (Reading is Fundamental) to report to the Secretary of Education annually on such additional programs. Amends the Library Services and Construction Act to direct the Secretary of Education, in awarding grants for library literacy programs and services, to give priority to those that: (1) will be delivered in areas of greatest need with highest concentrations of adults without secondary education or its equivalent, and which either have few community or financial resources or have low per capita income, unemployment, or underemployment; and (2) coordinate with literacy organizations and community-based organizations providing literacy services. Part F: Volunteers for Literacy - Amends the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to establish a Literacy Challenge Grants program. Authorizes the Director of the ACTION Agency to award such grants to eligible public and private entities to pay the Federal share of costs of establishing, operating, or expanding community or employee literacy programs that include the use of full- or part-time volunteers. Authorizes appropriations for Literacy Challenge Grants, but only if there are specified levels of funding for the VISTA Program and the VISTA Literacy Corps. Part G: Literacy for Incarcerated Individuals - Amends the Adult Education Act (AEA) to establish requirements for mandatory functional literacy programs for incarcerated adults in State correctional systems and local jails or detention centers. Requires such a program to be in effect in at least one major correctional facility, for each State correctional system and each local jail or detention center with an inmate population, within two years after enactment of this Act. Requires, if adequate funds are available, each State correctional system and each local jail or detention center with over 150 inmates to have such a program in effect within five years after enactment of this Act. Sets forth required components of such programs, including inmate mandatory participation (except for any individual who is serving a life sentence without parole, or terminally ill, or under a sentence of death). Requires annual reports. Encourages: (1) parole agencies to make educational recommendations for those being released who do not have a marketable job skill or a high school diploma; and (2) jails with less than 150 inmates to develop such mandatory functional literacy programs.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1991 - Title I: General Requirements for Leave - Establishes certain requirements for family and medical leave for permanent employees. (Excludes from such coverage: (1) employees at worksites at which the employer employs less than 50 persons, if the total number of employees of that employer within 75 miles of that worksite is less than 50; and (2) Federal officers and employees covered under title II of this Act.) Entitles employees to 12 workweeks of leave during any 12-month period because of: (1) the birth of their child; (2) the placement of a child for their adoption or foster care; (3) their care of a child, spouse, or parent who has a serious health condition; or (4) their own serious health condition which makes them unable to perform the functions of their position. Conditions such leave for the birth or placement of a child as follows: (1) the entitlement ends 12 months after the birth or placement; (2) both parents may not take such leave at the same time; and (3) such leave may not be taken intermittently unless employee and employer agree otherwise. Allows all leave to which an employee is entitled under this title: (1) to be taken on a reduced leave schedule, upon agreement with the employer; and (2) to consist of unpaid leave, except under specified conditions when substitution of certain types of paid leave may be elected or required. Declares that nothing in this Act shall require an employer to provide paid sick or medical leave in any situation in which the employer would not normally provide any such paid leave. Requires employees to: (1) give reasonable notice of the need for leave to which they are entitled under this Act, when foreseeable; and (2) make a reasonable effort to schedule medical treatment or supervision so as not to disrupt unduly the employer's operations, subject to approval of the health care provider. Allows limitation of the dual aggregate leave entitlement to 12 weeks in any 12-month period, in the case of spouses employed by the same employer, if such leave is for the birth or placement of a child or for the care of a sick parent. Sets forth conditions of certification for leave entitlements under this Act, including provisions relating to: (1) sufficient certification; (2) explanation of inability to perform job functions; (3) second opinion; (4) resolution of conflicting opinions; and (5) subsequent recertification. Sets forth employment and benefits protections relating to leave entitlements under this Act, including provisions relating to: (1) restoration to position; and (2) maintenance of health benefits. Prohibits employers or other persons from interfering with employee rights under this Act or from discriminating against any individual because of participation in proceedings or inquiries under this Act. Provides for administrative enforcement of this title by the Secretary of Labor, as well as enforcement by civil action. Sets forth provisions for investigative authority, injunctive and monetary relief, attorneys' fees, and limitation of actions. Sets forth special rules concerning employees of local educational agencies, including provisions relating to intermittent leave for instructional employees, periods near the completion of an academic term, and reduction of liability. Requires employers to post notice of the pertinent provisions of this title. Requires fines for willful violations of such requirement. Directs the Secretary of Labor to prescribe regulations to carry out this title. Title II: Leave for Civil Service Employees - Amends specified Federal law to entitle civil service employees to family and temporary medical leave for specified periods. Allows such employees up to: (1) 12 workweeks in any 12-month period for family leave (i.e., leave because of the birth or placement of a child or care of a sick child or parent), but such leave may not be used at a time more than 12 months after such birth or placement; and (2) 12 workweeks during any 12-month period for temporary medical leave. Provides that such leave will be without pay. Allows employees to substitute other types of paid leave for part of such leave. Provides for protection for job position and health insurance benefits of employees using such leave. Sets forth certification provisions and prohibitions against coercion. Directs the Office of Personnel Management to prescribe regulations for administration of this title which are consistent with the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Labor under title I of this Act. Title III: Commission on Leave - Establishes the Commission on Leave. Requires the Commission to report on its study of family and medical leave (which may include legislative recommendations concerning coverage of small businesses and alternative and equivalent State enforcement of this Act with respect to employees of local educational agencies) to the Congress within two years after the Commission first meets. Terminates the Commission within 30 days after its report to the Congress. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Sets forth the effect of this Act on existing laws and existing employment benefits. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed to discourage employers from adopting more generous leave policies. Directs the Secretary of Labor to prescribe regulations to carry out this title within 60 days.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Freedom of Choice Act of 1991 - 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 · 14 January 1991
Amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to make it an unfair labor practice for an employer to offer or grant: (1) permanent replacement employee status during a labor dispute; or (2) any employment preference to an individual who worked or indicated a willingness to work during a labor dispute over an employee who exercised specified rights during such dispute and who is working for, or has unconditionally offered to return to work for, the employer.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Child Welfare and Preventive Services Act - Title I: Provisions Relating to Child Welfare and Family Support - Amends part B (Child-Welfare Services) of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide Federal funds to enable States to plan, develop, or expand innovative programs of child welfare services and family support services in order to preserve and strengthen families and prevent the need for placement in foster care. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to authorize demonstration projects to improve the coordination of welfare services for families and children. Directs the Secretaries of HHS, Agriculture, and Education, and the Attorney General to: (1) review department policies to determine whether changes can be made without statutory changes to improve the funding and delivery of such services; and (2) issue a report to the Congress that includes recommendations for both legislative and nonlegislative changes to improve the coordination of the funding and delivery of such services. Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to set forth provisions to facilitate adoption, including provisions allowing States to disregard adoption assistance payments in determining a family's eligibility for the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program under part A. Directs the Secretary of HHS to establish an Advisory Committee on Foster Care Placement to study and make recommendations regarding the current requirement that States make reasonable efforts to prevent the need for removal of a child from home, and to make it possible for the child to return home, under State plans for foster care and adoption assistance. Requires that a child who is placed in foster care be placed in a setting that is most appropriate for that child. Authorizes demonstration projects to facilitate the reunification of children eligible for AFDC services with their families. Allows States to claim 90 percent Federal matching for the costs of planning, designing, developing, or installing a statewide data collection and information retrieval system for purposes of administering the Child-Welfare Services program and the Foster Care and Adoption Assistance program. Allows States to claim 50 percent Federal matching for the costs of operating a data collection and information system for purposes of administering the Foster Care and Adoption Assistance program. Allows youths in independent living programs to accumulate assets sufficient to enable them to establish their own households. Requires States to submit all claims for Federal reimbursement under the Foster Care and Adoption Assistance program within one year after the calendar quarter in which the expenditure is made (currently, within two years). Outlines the criteria for the Secretary of HHS to use for approving applications by colleges for grants to provide child welfare traineeships. Permits the Secretary of HHS to authorize up to ten States to establish and evaluate specified types of child welfare demonstration projects. Grants such States more flexible spending authority for such purposes. Directs the Secretary, in order to improve the capacity of State and local child welfare agencies to administer Child-Welfare Services and Foster Care and Adoption Assistance programs and to provide services to families and children, to develop and publish a model staff training program for use by such agencies. Requires the health and education records of foster children to include: (1) the telephone numbers of their health and education providers; and (2) a record indicating that their foster care provider was advised of their eligibility for services under the Medicaid program (title XIX of the Social Security Act). Title II: Provisions Relating to Comprehensive Substance Abuse Programs for Pregnant Women and Caretaker Parents with Children - Amends the Child-Welfare Services program to provide Federal funds to enable States to establish comprehensive substance abuse programs for certain low-income pregnant women and caretaker parents with children. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Provisions Relating to Child Health - Amends the Medicaid program to allow States to provide federally reimbursed Medicaid coverage for children of families with income below 185 percent of the Federal poverty level. Allows States to extend Medicaid coverage to children born before October 1, 1983, who have attained six years of age but have not attained 19 years of age or a lesser age as selected by the State. Provides for optional State Medicaid coverage for foster children. Provides for optional State Medicaid coverage of: (1) home visitor services for medically fragile infants; and (2) home or community-based services to children with acquired immune deficiency syndrome or children who are ventilator-dependent. Removes restrictions on the ownership of certain assets, such as automobiles and household goods, by pregnant women for purposes of determining Medicaid eligibility. Provides for greater continuous Medicaid eligibility for certain children. Requires States to provide medical assistance under the Medicaid program to any individual who is eligible for and receiving benefits under the Supplemental Security Income program (title XVI of the Social Security Act). Revises the requirement that States with prospective payment systems must provide for outlier payment adjustments for certain expensive services provided to children under age six during their stay in disproportionate share hospitals to make such requirement applicable to children under age 19. Requires the Federal Government to use the most recent data in calculating its matching share for Medicaid. Provides for the extension of certain waivers for services related to pregnancy. Increases the limit on the number of individuals allowed to participate in home and community-based programs under waivers. Outlines various congressional reporting requirements imposed by this Act on the Secretary of HHS, including requirements with respect to the Maternal and Child Health Services program (title V of the Social Security Act). Directs the Secretary of HHS to appoint a Commission on the Evaluation of Disability in Children. Directs the Commission to conduct a study and report to the Congress on the meaning of the term "disability" under the SSI program as it applies to determining whether a child under the age of 18 is eligible to receive benefits under such program. Terminates the Commission on September 30, 1993. Title IV: Provisions Relating to Adoption Expense Deduction - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for the expenses incurred to adopt a child with special needs, up to an annual limit of $3,000.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Designates the Arctic Coastal Plain Wilderness within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Violence Against Women Act of 1991 - Title I: Safe Streets for Women - Safe Streets for Women Act of 1991 - Subtitle A: Federal Penalties for Sex Crimes - Amends Federal law to require the U.S. Sentencing Commission to create or amend guidelines to provide for: (1) up to twice the term of imprisonment or fine for violation, after the first conviction, of Federal laws relating to sexual abuse or similar laws of any State or foreign country; and (2) minimum or increased maximum sentences for rape, aggravated rape, or statutory rape. Requires that a court order restitution for violations of such Federal sexual abuse laws. Subtitle B: Law Enforcement and Prosecution Grants to Reduce Violent Crime Against Women - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to areas of high intensity crime against women. Requires that the grants be used for personnel, training, technical assistance, data collection, and other equipment for the more widespread apprehension, prosecution, and adjudication of persons committing violent crimes against women. Authorizes the Director to make grants to States, for use by States and their subdivisions, to be used for the same purposes as the high intensity area grants and to reduce the the rate of violent crimes against women. Authorizes the Director to make general grants to: (1) States to reduce violent crimes against women; and (2) Indian tribes to reduce violent crimes against women in Indian country. Authorizes the Director, in addition to the grants under this subtitle, to direct any Federal agency, with or without reimbursement, to use its authorities and resources in support of State and local assistance efforts. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Safety for Women in Public Transit and Public Parks - Directs the Secretary of Transportation, from funds authorized under existing provisions, to make capital grants for the prevention of crime and to increase security in existing and future public transportation systems. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and loans to States and local public bodies to increase the safety of public transportation through lighting, camera surveillance, security phones, or other projects. Sets the Federal share of each project at 90 percent of the net cost. Directs the Secretary to provide grants and loans to study ways to reduce violent crimes against women in public transit through better design or operation of public transit systems. Amends the National Park System Improvements in Administration Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance to reduce violent crime in the National Park System (NPS). Provides for compilation of a list of areas within the NPS with the highest rates of violent crime. Allows funds to be used, around public parks and recreation areas, for increasing lighting, providing emergency phone lines, increasing security or law enforcement personnel, and any other project to increase security and safety. Amends the Land and Water Conservation Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of the Interior to provide grants for capital improvements and other measures to increase safety in public parks and recreation areas. Subtitle D: National Commission on Violent Crime Against Women - Establishes the National Commission on Violent Crime Against Women to promote a national policy on violent crime against women and to make recommendations on reducing such crime. Authorizes appropriations. Terminates the Commission after submission of its final report, subject to extension by the President for up to one more year. Subtitle E: New Evidentiary Rules - Amends the Federal Rules of Evidence to exclude, notwithstanding any other provision of law and in criminal cases other than a sex offense case, reputation or opinion evidence of the past sexual behavior of a victim from admission into evidence. Allows other types of evidence of a victim's past sexual behavior in accordance with specified procedures if its probative value outweighs the danger of unfair prejudice. Makes reputation or opinion evidence of the plaintiff's past sexual behavior, notwithstanding any other provisions of law, inadmissable in a civil action involving allegations of actionable sexual misconduct. Makes other types of evidence of a plaintiff's past sexual behavior admissible in accordance with specified procedures if its probative value outweighs the danger of unfair prejudice. Defines actionable sexual misconduct to include sex harassment or discrimination claims under title VII (Equal Employment Opportunity) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and gender bias claims under title III of this Act. Makes evidentiary rulings made under specified Federal Rules of Evidence relating to sex offense cases and the relevance of a victim's past behavior subject to interlocutory appeal by the Government or by the alleged victim. Allows the alleged victim to waive those rules if the prosecution seeks to offer evidence of prior sexual history. Makes evidence of an alleged victim's clothing, notwithstanding any other provision of law and in a criminal case under Federal laws relating to sexual abuse, inadmissable to show the victim incited or invited the offense. Subtitle F: Assistance to Victims of Sexual Assault - Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to allow States to use amounts transferred by the State under block grant provisions for rape prevention and education programs conducted by rape crisis centers or similar nongovernmental nonprofit entities. Authorizes appropriations. Removes a requirement that a minimum amount from the block grants under the PHSA be allotted to States on the basis of population. Removes provisions allowing a State to use amounts paid to the State under block grant provisions and amounts transferred by the State to provide services to rape victims and for rape prevention. Requires grant recipients under this title to incur the full cost of forensic medical exams for victims of sexual assault. Title II: Safe Homes for Women - Safe Homes for Women Act of 1990 - Subtitle A: Interstate Enforcement - Provides for a Federal term of imprisonment or fine, in addition to any State penalties, for any person who travels or causes another (including the intended victim) to travel across State lines or in interstate commerce with intent to injure a spouse or intimate partner and who, during the travel or thereafter, injures his or her spouse or intimate partner in violation of a criminal law of the State where the injury occurs, or in violation of a State protection order. Provides for temporary protection orders while a case under these provisions is pending. Mandates that a court order restitution to the victim of an offense under this Act. Requires, provided certain conditions are met, that a protection order issued by the court of one State be accorded full faith and credit by the court of another State. Makes a protection order issued against a person who filed a written pleading for protection not entitled to full faith and credit if no cross or counter petition, complaint, or other written pleading was filed seeking such a protection order or, if a cross or counter petition was filed, the court did not specifically find each party entitled to such an order. Subtitle B: Arrest in Spousal Abuse Cases - Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants, with regard to spousal abuse, to: (1) implement pro-arrest programs and policies in police departments and improve case tracking; (2) centralize and coordinate police enforcement, prosecution, or judicial responsibility for cases in one group of officers, prosecutors, or judges; and (3) educate judges to improve judicial handling of cases. Directs the Secretary to delegate to the Attorney General responsibility to carry out these provisions. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Funding for Shelters - Amends the FVPSA to authorize appropriations to carry out that Act, earmarking at least 85 percent of funds appropriated for State demonstration grants to prevent family violence and provide immediate shelter and related assistance. Limits the percentage which may be used to carry out public information campaigns under provisions of subtitle D of this title. Subtitle D: Family Violence Prevention and Services Act Amendments - Allows demonstration grants to be used to increase public awareness about, as well as to prevent, family violence. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for public information campaigns regarding domestic violence. Requires each State, in order to be eligible for the grants, to establish a Commission on Domestic Violence to examine matters such as arrest, prosecution, sentencing, restitution, and reporting. Directs (currently, authorizes) the Secretary to make a specified percentage (currently, no specified percentage) available for demonstration grants to Indian tribes. Removes the limit on the aggregate amount of grants to any single entity. Revises requirements regarding the local share of program costs for grants to entities other than States or Indian tribes. Increases the percentage of funds required to be used for shelter and related assistance for victims of family violence and their dependents. Allows law enforcement training grants to be made under existing provisions only to private nonprofit organizations with experience in providing training and technical assistance to law enforcement personnel on a national or regional basis. Directs the Secretary to make grants to at least ten States to assist in becoming model demonstration States and in improving State leadership concerning: (1) increasing prosecutions for domestic crimes; (2) encouraging reporting of domestic violence; and (3) facilitating arrests and aggressive prosecution policies. Sets forth requirements for being designated a model State. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to delegate responsibilities under these provisions to the Attorney General. Directs the Secretary to make grants or contracts for the establishment and maintenance of six national resource centers to provide training and technical assistance to State, Indian tribal, and local domestic violence programs and to other professionals who provide services to domestic violence victims. Subtitle E: Youth Education and Domestic Violence - Directs the Secretary of Education to develop three separate model programs for education of young people about domestic violence and violence among intimate partners, with one program for each of primary and middle schools, secondary schools, and institutions of higher education. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle F: Confidentiality for Abused Persons - Requires the Postmaster General to promulgate regulations to secure the confidentiality of abused persons' addresses. Title III: Civil Rights - Declares that all persons within the United States shall have the same rights, privileges, and immunities in every State as are enjoyed by all other persons to be free from crimes of violence motivated by the victim's gender (defined as any crime of violence, including rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse, abusive sexual contact, or any other crime of violence committed because of or on the basis of gender). Makes any person, including a person who acts under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of any State, who deprives another of the rights, privileges, and immunities secured by the Constitution and laws as enumerated by this Act liable to the injured party in an action for compensatory and punitive damages, injunctive and declaratory relief, or other relief as the court deems appropriate. Amends the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976 to allow the awarding of attorney's fees in actions to enforce this title. Title IV: Safe Campuses for Women - Safe Campuses for Women Act of 1990 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to make, on a competitive basis, grants to and contracts with institutions of higher education for rape education and prevention programs. Requires that the grants be used to educate and provide support services to student victims of rape or sexual assault, with 25 percent of the funds available for model demonstration programs for rape prevention and education curricula and for local programs to provide services to student rape victims. Authorizes appropriations to carry out title X (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education) of the Act. Amends the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 to add sexual assault to the list of criminal offenses about which statistics must be disclosed by institutions participating in certain programs. Title V: Equal Justice for Women in the Courts Act of 1990 - Equal Justice for Women in the Courts Act of 1991 - Subtitle A: Education and Training for Judges and Court Personnel in State Courts - Authorizes the State Justice Institute to make grants for model programs to be used by States in training judges and court personnel in State laws on rape, sexual assault, domestic violence, and other crimes of violence motivated by the victim's gender. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the State Justice Institute to expend at least: (1) 40 percent of appropriated funds on programs regarding domestic violence; and (2) 40 percent on programs regarding rape and assault. Subtitle B: Education and Training for Judges and Court Personnel in Federal Courts - Directs the Federal Judicial Center to study and report on the nature and extent of gender bias in the Federal courts. Requires the Center to develop and disseminate model programs to be used in training Federal judges and court personnel in the laws on rape, sexual assault, domestic violence, and other crimes of violence motivated by the victim's gender. Authorizes appropriations. Requires between 25 and 40 percent of such funds to be used for the study required by this subtitle.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Central American Democracy and Development Act - Declares that it is U.S. policy to: (1) encourage and support the Central American countries in efforts to build democracy, restore peace, establish respect for human rights, expand economic opportunities, and improve living conditions; (2) support and encourage dialogue as the proper means of resolving armed conflicts in Central America; (3) assist in, and secure greater international support for, the recommendations of the International Commission on Central American Recovery and Development; (4) participate in, and contribute to, the United Nations Development Programme for its Special Plan of Economic Cooperation for Central America; (5) help organize a partnership among donor countries and the Central American countries to provide a means of mobilizing resources and promoting a forum for dialogue about issues of development, democracy, social justice, and human rights; and (6) support and promote the President's proposed Enterprise for the Americas Initiative to assist Central American countries in opening their economies and managing their foreign debt. Requires the United States, if requested by the governments of Central America, to provide assistance for the development of the Central American Development Coordination Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Senate Election Campaign Ethics Act of 1991 - Sets forth congressional declarations relating to the necessity for: (1) Senate campaign spending limits; (2) limits on political action committees (PACs); and (3) attributing cooperative expenditures to candidates. Title I: Senate Election Campaign Spending Limits and Benefits - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) to provide for spending limits and to establish eligibility requirements for benefits for Senate primary, general, and runoff elections. Requires an individual who files as a candidate for the primary election, in order to be eligible to receive the benefits for that election, to file a declaration with the Secretary of the Senate indicating that the candidate and his or her authorized committees will comply with such limits. Requires a candidate for the general election, in order to be eligible to receive the benefits for that election, to file a certification with the Secretary of the Senate that: (1) the candidate and his or her authorized committees comply with the primary and runoff election expenditure limits and the threshold contribution requirement; (2) they will abide by additional spending and contribution limits and other requirements set forth by this Act; (3) at least one other candidate has qualified for the same general election ballot under the law of the State involved; and (4) the candidate intends to make use of the benefits to which an eligible candidate is entitled under FECA, as amended by this Act (i.e. specified broadcast media rates and mailing rates, payments from the Senate Election Campaign Fund, and voter communication vouchers). Limits a candidate's or a candidate's authorized committees' expenditures for the primary election and any runoff election to, respectively: (1) the lesser of 67 percent of the general election expenditure limits or $2,750,000; and (2) 20 percent of such limit. Sets forth a threshold contribution requirement for general election candidates according to specified criteria. Disallows, for purposes of satisfying such requirement, contributions by: (1) an individual, if it is not pursuant to a written instrument identifying such individual as the contributor; (2) an intermediary or conduit; or (3) an individual during the applicable period to the extent such contributions exceed $250; and (4) an individual residing outside the candidate's State which contributions exceed 50 percent of the aggregate allowable contributions received by the candidate during the applicable period. Provides for increasing threshold amounts under this Act in accordance with increases in the price index. Increases such primary and runoff election spending limits by the aggregate amount of independent expenditures in excess of $10,000 made against, or on behalf of any opponent of, such candidate during the applicable period. Limits personal expenditures during an election cycle to $250,000 and aggregate expenditures for a general election to the lesser of: (1) $5,550,000; or (2) the greater of: (a) $950,000; or (b) $400,000 plus 30 cents for each voter up to 4,000,000 and 25 cents for each voter above that number. Establishes spending limitations for a candidate in a State with no more than one transmitter for a commercial VHF television station. Allows a candidate or Federal officeholder to establish a fund with amounts subject to the requirements of this Act up to a certain amount to defray the costs of legal and accounting services provided to ensure compliance with this Act or in connection with the activities as a Federal officeholder other than costs for the purpose of influencing the election of such candidate to Federal office. Permits the candidate to petition the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for a waiver of such limitation if such costs exceed the limitation. Requires, upon termination of the fund, that remaining amounts be transferred to: (1) another fund to be used for such purposes during the next general election; (2) an authorized committee of the candidate as contributions allocable to the next such election; or (3) the Senate Election Campaign Fund. Exempts any expenditure by the candidate or the candidate's authorized committees for Federal, State, or local taxes on earnings allocable to contributions from the general expenditure limit. Establishes formulae for determining entitlements of candidates of a major party and for those not of a major party. Entitles candidates to certain broadcast media rates and mailing rates and to voter communication vouchers to purchase broadcast time during the general election period. Provides for additional payments and suspension of spending limits in cases where non-participating candidates exceed spending limitations. Permits candidates to use such payments to defray expenditures in the general election. Prohibits the use of such payments to: (1) make any payments directly or indirectly to the candidate or the candidate's immediate family, except to repay any loan used to further the general election of such candidate; (2) make any expenditure other than expenditures to further the general election; (3) make any expenditures in violation of State or Federal law; or (4) repay any loan except to the extent the proceeds of such loan were used to further the general election. Requires the FEC to certify the eligibility of candidates to the Secretary of the Treasury in order for such candidates to receive benefits. Establishes in the Treasury the Senate Election Campaign Fund for the deposit of funds for payments to eligible candidates and for voter communication vouchers. Directs the Secretary to maintain such accounts in the Fund as appropriate. Provides for prorating payments when monies in such Fund are insufficient. Provides for increasing the amount of the eligible candidate's contribution limit under this title by the pro rata reduction in payments. Directs the FEC, after each general election, to audit the campaign expenses of publicly financed candidates. Makes candidates liable for repayment to the Secretary for excess payments and vouchers. Establishes criminal penalties for knowing and willful violations of this title. Subjects FEC actions under this Act to judicial review by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Authorizes appropriations to the FEC as necessary. Declares that if any of such provisions are held to be invalid all other provisions shall be treated as valid. Bans contributions to Senate candidates by political action committees (PACs). Provides that no contributions may be made to a Senate candidate or such candidate's authorized committees other than contributions made by: (1) individuals; or (2) a political committee of the political party with which the candidate is affiliated. Allows a candidate to receive other PAC contributions after the effective date of this candidate only to make up for the candidate's receiving a lesser amount from PACs on or before such effective date, thereby making equal their total contributions from PACs. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to: (1) prohibit the charges made for the use of any broadcasting station by a candidate for Federal office during specified periods from exceeding the lowest unit charge of the station for the same amount of time for the same period and, in the case of any eligible candidate for the Senate, to provide that such reduced rates shall apply to any broadcast during the general election period rather than the 60-day period preceding such election; (2) provide that if the broadcast time of a candidate for Federal office exceeds 30 seconds, the lowest unit cost for such time shall not be greater than the rates for broadcasts of 30 seconds; (3) prohibit any broadcast licensee from preempting, during any such specified period when the lowest rate charged for any time in such a period is in effect, the use of a broadcasting station by such candidate who has purchased such use during such period unless the program during which the candidate's broadcast was to air is unavoidably preempted. Outlines the responsibilities of broadcast licensees in providing broadcast time to eligible candidates pursuant to voter communications vouchers. Provides for reduced postal rates for eligible Senate candidates. Requires communications paid for or authorized by a candidate in a Senate general election who is not an eligible candidate under this Act to contain a specified message indicating that the candidate has not agreed to abide by the spending limits set forth in this Act. Sets forth reporting requirements for Senate candidates relating to spending limitations, candidate eligibility, and independent expenditures. Requires any candidate for the Senate who, during the election cycle, expends more than $250,000 from personal funds, the funds of the candidate's immediate family, and personal loans incurred by the candidate and the candidate's immediate family, to report to the Secretary of the Senate within 24 hours after such expenditures have been made or loans incurred. Requires the FEC to notify eligible candidates of such reports. Provides that when two or more persons make independent expenditures in excess of $10,000 in concert during any general, primary, or runoff election period for the office of Senator, each person shall report to the Secretary of the Senate on such expenditures. Title II: Expenditures and Contributions - Subtitle A: Independent Expenditures - Defines "cooperative expenditure" as any expenditure which is made: (1) with the cooperation of, or in consultation with, any candidate or any authorized committee or agent of such candidate; or (2) in concert with, or at the request or suggestion of, any candidate or any authorized committee or agent of such candidate. Specifies the conditions under which an expenditure will be included within such definition. Provides that a cooperative expenditure shall be treated as: (1) an expenditure made by the candidate on whose behalf it was made; and (2) a contribution from the person making the expenditure to the candidate on whose behalf it was made. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require a person who reserves broadcast time the payment for which would constitute an independent expenditure to inform the licensee of the nature of the payment and the names of all candidates for the office to which the proposed broadcast relates and to provide the licensee with a statement that identifies the candidate whom such independent expenditure is intended to affect. Outlines the responsibilities of a broadcast licensee who is informed and who endorses a candidate for Federal office in an editorial. Amends FECA to set forth disclosure requirements for independent expenditures through television and audio broadcasts or other types of general public political advertising. Subtitle B: Expenditures - Part I: Personal Loans; Credit - Provides that if a candidate or a member of the candidate's immediate family made any loans to the candidate or to the candidate's authorized committees during any election cycle no contributions after the date of the general election for such election cycle may be used to repay such loans. Provides that no contribution by a candidate or member of the candidate's immediate family may be returned to the candidate or member other than as part of a pro rata distribution of excess contributions to all contributors. Includes within the definition of "contribution" any extension of credit for goods or services relating to advertising if such extension of credit exceeds $1,000 and is for a certain period with respect to a candidate for the Senate. Part II: Provisions Relating to Soft Money of Political Parties - Establishes limitations of $20,000 and $15,000, respectively, on individuals and multicandidate committee contributions to State committees of a political party with respect to any calendar year. Provides for increasing the current $25,000 annual limitation on individual contributions by the amount of contributions made by an individual during a calendar year to such a committee. Limits such increase to $5,000. Prohibits a State committee of a political party from making expenditures which, in the aggregate, exceed an amount equal to four cents multiplied by the voting age population of the State for such activities with respect to the general election campaign of a candidate for President who is affiliated with such party. Revises provisions regarding certain payments to State and local committees of a political party to cover the costs incurred with respect to printed slate cards or sample ballots to provide that such provisions shall not apply to the costs incurred by such committees with respect to the mass mailing of such a printed listing. Repeals provisions excluding certain payments to State or local committees of a political party from the definitions of "contribution" and "expenditure" to subject such payments to the limitations and reporting requirements of the Federal Campaign Act of 1971. Subjects to Federal limitations, prohibitions, and reporting requirements any amount solicited, received, or expended directly or indirectly by a national, State, or local committee of a political party with respect to an activity to influence a Federal election (soft money). Specifies the activities during a Federal election period to be treated as influencing a Federal election for purposes of such provisions. Applies the limitations on contributions under FECA to transfers between and among the political committees described in the provisions setting forth such limitations except that a national committee may not solicit or accept contributions not subject to the limitations, prohibitions, and reporting requirements of that Act. Prohibits such provisions from applying to contributions that are to be: (1) transferred to a State committee for activities which are not for influencing an election for Federal office; or (2) used by the committee primarily to support such activities. Prohibits the national committee of a political party, the congressional campaign committees of a political party, and a State or local committee of a political party from making expenditures during any calendar year for the activities specified under this part with respect to such State which, in the aggregate, exceed an amount equal to 30 cents multiplied by the voting age population of the State. Defines "generic campaign activity" as a campaign activity the preponderant purpose or effect of which is to promote a political party rather than any particular Federal or non-Federal candidate. Subjects fundraising by a candidate for Federal office and by an individual holding Federal office for Federal or non-Federal elections to the limitations, prohibitions, and requirements of the FECA. Prohibits Federal officeholders and candidates from raising contributions from any person of more than $5,000 on behalf of any tax-exempt organization which they have established or which they maintain or control. Prohibits Federal officeholders and candidates from raising any contributions on behalf of tax-exempt organizations if a significant portion of the activities of such organization include voter registration or get-out-the-vote campaigns. Sets forth additional reporting requirements for national, State, district, or local committees of a political party with respect to receipts and disbursements for activities to influence a Federal election (soft money). Requires national committees of a political party and any congressional campaign committee and any subordinate committee of either to report all receipts and disbursements during the reporting period whether or not they are used to influence a Federal election. Requires other types of political committees covered by specified provisions to report all receipts and disbursements in connection with a Federal election. Requires such reports to include the amounts and reasons for specified types of transfers of funds. Requires any political committee to which the specified provisions do not apply to report any receipts or disbursements which are used in connection with a Federal election (as determined by the FEC). Requires identification of the person from whom, or to whom, any such reported receipt or disbursement which exceeds $200 was made. Requires certain exempt expenditures that are in excess of $200 to be reported (applies to payments by State or local committees of a political party for distributing certain printed listings of three or more candidates for any public office, such as sample ballots). Provides, for purposes of the definition of "political committee," that the FEC shall determine the receipt of contributions or the making or obligating to make expenditures on the basis of facts and circumstances, in whatever combination, demonstrating a purpose of influencing any election for Federal office. Includes among such facts and circumstances: (1) representations made by any person soliciting funds about their intended uses; (2) the identification by name of individuals who are candidates for Federal office or of any political party, in general public political advertising; and (3) the proximity to any primary, runoff, or general election of general public political advertising designed or reasonably calculated to influence voter choice in that election. Provides that, in lieu of any report required to be filed under FECA the FEC may allow a State committee of a political party to file a report required under State law if such report contains substantially the same information. Requires any individual who makes contributions in excess of $10,000 to any candidate for Federal office or to any political committee that are subject to the limitations of the FECA to report to the FEC within seven days after making such contributions and thereafter each time such individual makes contributions in excess of $5,000. Requires any candidate for Federal office, any authorized committee of a candidate, or any political committee soliciting contributions subject to such limitation to include with such solicitation notice of such requirement to report and the annual individual limitation on such contributions to them. Subtitle C: Contributions - Prohibits a congressional campaign committee of a political party, during an election cycle, from accepting, from multicandidate political committees and separate segregated funds, contributions which exceed 30 percent of the total expenditures which such committee may make during that election cycle. Prohibits a national committee of a political party during an election cycle from accepting, from multicandidate political committees and separate segregated funds, contributions which, in the aggregate, exceed an amount equal to two cents multiplied by the voting age population of the United States. Subjects any expenditure made by a national or State committee of a political party or a congressional campaign committee or their subordinate committees for general public political advertising which clearly identifies a candidate for Federal office by name to the limitations on expenditures by national and State committees of a political party under FECA. Prohibits such provisions from applying to expenditures for mass mailings designed primarily for fundraising purposes which make only incidental references to any one or more Federal candidates. Defines "congressional campaign committee" as the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the National Republican Congressional Committee. Provides for the accountability of contributions made by intermediaries or conduits. Prohibits excess campaign contributions from being used to defray the expenditures of Senators with respect to ordinary and necessary expenses incurred in connection with their duties as Federal officeholders. Provides that ordinary and necessary expenses for the travel of the spouse or children of a Senator between Washington, D.C., and the State from which the Senator is elected shall be treated as expenses incurred in connection with the Senator's duties as a Federal officeholder. Prohibits a political committee (other than the principal campaign committee of a Federal officeholder) from making any contribution, expenditure, or disbursement or transferring any amount for the purpose of defraying expenses incurred by the Federal officeholder in connection with his or her duties. Provides that any contribution by an individual who is not of voting age and who is a dependent of another individual shall be treated as having been made by such other individual. Subtitle D: Reporting Requirements - Revises reporting requirements under FECA. Title III: Federal Election Commission - Revises provisions regarding the organization of political committees to prohibit a political committee that is not an authorized committee from including the name of any candidate in its name in such a context as to suggest that it is an authorized committee of the candidate or that the use of the candidate's name has been authorized by the candidate. Revises reporting requirements to give a political committee which is the principal campaign committee of a House or Senate candidate the option of filing monthly reports in all calendar years in lieu of the reports currently required to be filed with the FEC, except with respect to the general election reports. Revises provisions relating to the general counsel of the FEC. Repeals the requirement that all FEC decisions with respect to the exercise of its duties and powers under FECA be made by a majority vote of its members. Subjects such decisions to an affirmative vote of four FEC members, except with respect to certain questions including the above mentioned determination in which case the general counsel is required to make a recommendation for action. Requires such action to be taken upon an affirmative vote of three FEC members. Provides that in the event of a vacancy in the office of general counsel, the next highest ranking enforcement official in that office shall serve as acting general counsel with full powers of the general counsel until a successor is appointed. Increases the rate of basic pay of the general counsel to the rate for the FEC staff director. Provides that fees collected by the FEC for copying and certification of records and for the provision of other materials to the public shall not be covered into the general fund of the Treasury, but shall be kept in a separate account and shall be available to the FEC to carry out FECA. Revises enforcement provisions. Changes the determination the FEC must make upon receiving a complaint and before notifying a person of an alleged violation. Grants the FEC the authority to seek an injunction under specified circumstances. Revises provisions regarding penalties prescribed in conciliation agreements and penalties for violations which are adjudicated in court. Authorizes the FEC to conduct random audits and investigations to ensure voluntary compliance with this Act. Sets forth disclosure requirements for expenditures and independent expenditures through television and radio broadcasts or other types of general public political advertising. Declares that no person shall: (1) make a fraudulent misrepresentation that the person is authorized to solicit or accept a contribution to a candidate or political committee; or (2) solicit or accept a contribution to a candidate or political committee unless the person intends to, and does, pay over to the candidate or political committee any contribution received and informs the candidate or political committee of the name of the contributor. Title IV: Provisions Relating to Congressional Mass Mailings - Prohibits franked mass mailings for a Member whose postage expenses have exhausted appropriated funds. Prohibits congressional franked mass mailings within one year before an election (currently, 60 days before an election). Provides for the reporting and publication of congressional mass mailings. Prohibits the transfer of funds by a Senate or House office to the office of a Member of the Senate or House who is a candidate for Federal office during any fiscal year in which appropriations for official mail costs for the Senate or House are allocated among individual Senate or House offices. Provides for the reporting and publication of official mail cost allocation transfers. Repeals provisions authorizing payment from the Senate contingent funds for postage on franked mail in excess of amounts provided from funds for official mail costs. Defines "mass mailing" as newsletters and similar mailings of more than 100 pieces in which the content of the matter mailed is substantially identical, excluding: (1) mailings made in direct response to communications from persons to whom the matter is mailed; (2) mailings to Federal, State, or local government officials; and (3) news releases to the communications media. Title V: Miscellaneous - Prohibits an incumbent in, or candidate for, Federal office from establishing, maintaining, or controlling a political committee other than an authorized committee of the candidate or a committee of a political party. Requires a contribution of polling data to a candidate for the Senate to be valued at the fair market value of the data on the date the poll was completed, depreciated at a rate not more than one per day from such date to the date on which the contribution was made.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to declare that any individual who performed Desert Shield services (and the individual's spouse) shall be entitled to an extension of time for performing certain tax-related acts by reason of service in a combat zone. Allows the payment of interest on any overpayments due such individuals starting April 15. (Generally, interest will be paid only on refunds made more than 45 days after a return is filed.) Applies the time extension granted by this Act to individuals during any period of continuous hospitalization.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Veterans Compensation Rates Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 1991 - Increases the rates of compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, and the clothing allowance payable to veterans with service-connected disabilities and their survivors. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to adjust administratively the rates of disability compensation payable to persons who are not in receipt of compensation for service-connected disability or death.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the deduction for health insurance costs of self-employed individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Increase and Agent Orange Act of 1991 - Title I: Compensation Rate Increases - Increases the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children. Title II: Agent Orange Exposure and Vietnam Service - States that the following diseases will be presumed to be service-connected for purposes of eligibility for veterans' disability compensation, if they become manifest to a degree of disability of ten-percent or more in a veteran who served on active duty in Vietnam during the Vietnam era: (1) non-Hodgkins lymphoma; (2) each soft-tissue sarcoma, with specified exceptions; and (3) chloracne, if it becomes manifest to such degree within one year after the last date the veteran performed active duty in Vietnam. Provides that, in the case of a Vietnam veteran exposed to certain dioxins or other herbicide agents during service in Vietnam, specified diseases listed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and identified as having a positive association with the biological effects of exposure to such herbicide agent shall be considered to have been incurred in or aggravated by such service, even though there is no record of such disease having occurred during such service. Presumes that Vietnam veterans having such disease were exposed to such dioxin or herbicide during their Vietnam service, unless there is affirmative evidence to the contrary. Authorizes the Secretary to extend the applicability of this section to those exposed to the same type of dioxins or herbicides outside of Vietnam while on active duty. Provides a presumption of service-connection in the case of a Vietnam veteran suffering from a disease associated with effects of exposure to certain dioxins or other herbicide agents during such service in Vietnam. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations listing a positive association between any disease and the biological effects of exposure to an herbicide agent in Vietnam. Requires the Secretary, in prescribing and revising such list, to obtain by contract the determinations and estimates of a contract scientific organization. Requires such organization to: (1) determine which diseases have any degree of association with the biological effects of exposure to a herbicide agent; and (2) estimate the extent of association between each such disease and each such biological effect. Requires the organization to determine such association specifically with respect to lung cancer and each other cancer. Outlines contract provisions required in such agreements between the Secretary and the scientific organization, including surveys, evaluations, and periodic determinations. Requires such scientific organizations to provide reports to the Secretary and the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees regarding their determinations and evaluations. Requires such organization to determine, in the event of a positive association, whether there is a reasonable basis for concluding that a Vietnam veteran with the highest level of exposure to that herbicide agent in Vietnam was exposed to such agent under the circumstances necessary for such biological effects. Requires a report from the organization to the Secretary and the veterans' committees when there is no such reasonable basis found. Requires the Secretary to make certain determinations and follow-up reports after receiving such reports from the contract scientific organization, including the issuance of a report to the veterans' committees and the promulgation of positive association regulations, if necessary. Requires benefits to be continued even though a disease is removed from the regulations listing diseases having positive associations. Terminates such contracting authority ten years after the first day of the fiscal year in which a scientific organization transmits its first report to the Secretary. Provides interim regulations and special effective dates. Directs the Secretary to compile and analyze all clinical data that: (1) are obtained by the Department in connection with examinations and treatment of veterans for disabilities related to exposure to certain herbicides or to service in Vietnam; and (2) are likely to be scientifically useful in determining the association, if any, between the disabilities of such veterans and their exposure to such herbicides and other toxic substances. Requires the Secretary to submit an annual report to the veterans' committees concerning such analysis and its results. Directs the Secretary to consult with the Director of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) before compiling and analyzing such information. Requires the Director of OTA to review each annual report submitted by the Secretary and transmit to the Secretary an evaluation of the contents of each report. Directs the Secretary to establish and maintain a system for the collection and storage of voluntarily contributed samples of blood and tissue of veterans who performed active service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. Outlines provisions concerning the security and authorized uses of such specimens, as well as limitations on the acceptance of such samples. Requires the Secretary to consult with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to the extent that an agreement has been reached with the NAS serving as the contract scientific organization for the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to consult with the Director of OTA in the event of no agreement with NAS. Directs the Secretary to establish a program to provide for the conduct of studies of the feasibility of conducting additional scientific research on health hazards resulting from: (1) exposure to dioxin; (2) exposure to other toxic agents in herbicides used in support of U.S. and allied military operations in Vietnam during the Vietnam era; and (3) active military, naval, or air service there. Requires the Secretary to report to the veterans' committees on the results of such studies. Requires the Secretary to consult with the NAS before undertaking such studies and requires the NAS to review such studies and report recommendations to the Secretary and the veterans' committees, to the extent provided under any agreement between the Secretary and the NAS. Amends the Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1988 to require the Secretary to annually furnish updated information listed in the Department of Veterans Affairs Agent Orange Registry on health risks resulting from exposure to dioxin or other toxic agents in herbicides as a result of service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to the veterans' committees on the research being conducted to develop treatments for physiological absorption of dioxin and other toxic agents used in herbicides by the United States in Vietnam, including research relating to exposure to dioxin and other toxic agents outside Vietnam. Extends through December 31, 1993, the eligibility for hospital and nursing home care for veterans exposed to toxic substances in Vietnam.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the income tax exclusion of amounts paid under employee educational assistance programs.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
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 · 14 January 1991
Designates the months of November 1991 and November 1992 as National Alzheimer's Disease Month.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Designates April 21 through April 27, 1991, as National Crime Victims' Rights Week.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Designates the year 1992 as Year of the Wetlands.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 12 January 1991
Calls on President Gorbachev to refrain from further use of coercive tactics against the democratically-elected Governments of Lithuania, Latvia, or Estonia and declares that such tactics are unacceptable among the community of democratic nations.
United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1990
Crime Control Act of 1990 - Title I: International Money Laundering - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the Congress periodically with respect to certain reporting requirements involving currency transactions, the manner in which U.S. agencies collect and use such reports to support investigations and prosecutions, and a summary of: (1) sanctions imposed for failure to comply with reporting requirements; (2) criminal indictments which resulted from investigations initiated by analysis of such reports; and (3) information regarding suspicious financial transactions provided voluntarily by financial institutions. Directs the Secretary to appoint an Electronic Scanning Task Force to: (1) study methods of printing on U.S. currency notes in denominations of $10 or more a serial number that may be read by electronic scanning; (2) make an assessment of the cost of implementing such scanning; and (3) make recommendations about the amount of time needed for implementation. Requires the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) authorize the Attorney General or the Secretary to transfer forfeited personal property (or the proceeds of the sale) to any foreign country which participated in the seizure or forfeiture of the property, if certain conditions are met; (2) include within the definition of "specified unlawful activity" with respect to money laundering, offenses under provisions relating to false statements by an employee of a financial institution and false statements in connection with loan and credit applications and to exclude offenses relating to bank fraud; and (3) modify the knowledge requirement with respect to international money laundering. Amends the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 to allow Government investigators access to financial institution records without customer notification in connection with a criminal money laundering investigation. Revises the Federal money laundering statute to include laundering proceeds of activities unlawful under laws of a foreign nation. Title II: Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 - Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 - Subtitle A: Improving Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse Cases - Requires the Director of the Office of Victims of Crime to make grants to develop multidisciplinary child abuse investigation and prosecution programs. Enumerates program criteria, including requirements identifying an appropriate site for counseling child victims of sexual and serious physical abuse and neglect, referring cases to such counseling center within 24 hours, minimizing the number of interviews the child victim must attend, requiring that all interviews and meetings with a child victim occur at the counseling center, designating a director for the multidisciplinary program, and assigning volunteers or staff advocates to each child's family. Requires the Director to make grants to provide technical assistance and training to attorneys and others instrumental to the criminal prosecution of child abuse cases in State or Federal courts. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Court-Appointed Special Advocate Program - Requires the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to: (1) make grants to expand the court-appointed special advocate program; and (2) establish criteria to be used in evaluating grant applications, which shall include a program providing screening, training, and supervision of court-appointed special advocates. Authorizes appropriations, subject to specified limitations. Subtitle C: Child Abuse Training Programs for Judicial Personnel and Practitioners - Requires the Administrator to provide technical assistance and training to judicial personnel and attorneys to improve the judicial system's handling of child abuse and neglect cases and provide administrative reform in juvenile and family courts. Directs the Administrator to make grants to: (1) national organizations to develop model technical programs to improve the judicial system's handling of such cases; and (2) State courts or judicial administrators for programs that provide for training or technical assistance to judicial personnel and attorneys in juvenile and family courts, and for administrative reform in such courts. Directs that the grant criteria give priority to programs which improve procedures for preventing placement of children in foster care, make reasonable efforts to reunite the family, and coordinate information and services. Authorizes appropriations, subject to specified limitations. Requires that at least 80 percent of such funds be used for juvenile and family court and State judicial programs. Subtitle D: Federal Victims' Protections and Rights - Amends the Federal criminal code to allow in a proceeding involving an alleged offense against a child or involving a child witness, the attorney for the Government, the child's attorney, or the guardian ad litem to apply (at least five days before trial date) for a court order that the child's testimony be taken in a room outside the courtroom and be televised by two-way closed-circuit television (TV). Authorizes the court to order that such testimony be taken by closed-circuit TV if it finds that the child is unable to testify in open court because: (1) of the child's fear; (2) there is substantial likelihood that the child will suffer emotional trauma, supported by expert testimony; (3) the child suffers a mental or other infirmity; or (4) conduct by the defendant or defense counsel causes the child to be unable to continue testifying. Requires the court to support on the record any findings on the child's inability to testify in open court. Permits the court, in determining whether the impact on an individual child of one or more of such factors is so substantial as to justify such an order, to question the minor in chambers or at some other comfortable place other than the courtroom, on the record for a reasonable period of time with the child's attendant, the prosecutor, the child's attorney, the guardian ad litem, and the defense counsel present. Specifies that: (1) if the court orders the taking of testimony by television, the attorney for the Government and the defense attorney shall be present in the room with the child and the child shall be subject to direct cross-examination; and (2) the only other persons allowed to be present are the child's attorney or guardian ad litem, those persons necessary to operate the closed-circuit equipment, and other persons whose presence is determined by the court to be necessary to the welfare and well-being of the child. Requires that: (1) the child's testimony be transmitted by closed-circuit TV into the courtroom for the defendant, jury, judge, and public view; (2) the defendant be provided with the means of private, contemporaneous communication with his attorney during the testimony; and (3) the closed-circuit TV transmission relay the defendant's image into the room in which the child is testifying. Sets forth requirements with respect to competency examinations for child witnesses. Sets forth provisions with respect to confidentiality of information involving a child in connection with a criminal proceeding. Authorizes the court: (1) on motion by any person, to issue an order protecting a child's name or other information concerning the child in the course of the proceedings if the court determines that disclosure would be detrimental to the child; and (2) to allow disclosure to anyone to whom disclosure is necessary for the welfare and well-being of the child. Grants the child victim or witness the same right to submit victim impact statements prior to sentencing as prescribed for an adult. Directs that child victims or witnesses be assisted by their court appointed guardian ad litem in preparing victim impact statements. Encourages the use of multidisciplinary teams designed to assist child victims or child witnesses. Delineates the role of such teams. Authorizes the court to appoint a guardian ad litem or a witness to a crime involving abuse or exploitation to protect the best interests of the child. Sets forth guidelines with respect to criteria in choosing, and the duties of, such guardian. Grants a child testifying in or attending a judicial proceeding the right to be accompanied by an adult attendant to provide emotional support to the child, subject to certain restrictions. Directs that the image of the child attendant, for the time the child is testifying or being deposed, be recorded on videotape. Authorizes the court, in any proceeding where a child is called to give testimony, to designate the case as being of special public importance and to expedite the action. Requires the court to ensure a speedy trial and, in deciding whether or not to grant a continuance, to take into account the child's age and the potential adverse impact the delay may have on the child's well-being. Declares that no statute of limitations that would otherwise preclude prosecution for an offense involving the sexual or physical abuse of a child under age 18 shall preclude such prosecution before the child reaches age 25. Provides for extension of the period of limitations with respect to civil actions arising out of the same occurrence and in which the child is the victim. Authorizes the court to permit the child to use anatomical dolls, puppets, drawings, or any other demonstrative device to assist in testifying. Sets penalties for knowing or intentional violation of the privacy of child victims and child witnesses. Requires a person who, while engaged on Federal land or in a federally operated or contracted facility in one of specified professional capacities or activities (including health care provider, social worker, teacher, child care worker, law enforcement officer, foster parent, and commercial film processor) learns of facts that give reason to suspect an incident of child abuse, to report the suspected abuse as soon as possible to a designated agency. Makes the failure to report a misdemeanor. Provides immunity for good faith reporting and associated actions. Requires that such professionals receive periodic training in the obligations to report, as well as in the identification of abused and neglected children. Subtitle E: Child Care Worker Employee Background Checks - Requires Federal agencies involved with the provision of services to children under age 18 to assure that all existing and newly-hired employees undergo a criminal history background check. Sets forth procedures with respect to the conduct of such background checks. Specifies that: (1) any conviction for a sex crime, an offense involving a child victim, or a drug offense shall be grounds for denying employment or for dismissal of an employee engaged in specified child care services; (2) an incident in which an individual has been charged, but where the charge has not yet been disposed of, shall permit the employee's suspension from any contact with children until the case is resolved; and (3) convictions of other crimes may be considered if they bear on an individual's fitness to have responsibility for the safety and well-being of children. Sets forth requirements with respect to questions to be asked in employment applications, criminal history records checks, and access to (and the right to challenge the accuracy of) the criminal history report. Encourages voluntary criminal history checks for others who may have contact with children. Subtitle F: Grants for Televised Testimony - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Omnibus Act) to authorize the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to States for equipment, personnel training, and videotaping for closed-circuit televising of the testimony of children who are victims of abuse. Sets forth requirements with respect to: (1) grant applications; (2) review of applications; (3) allocation and distribution of funds; and (4) reporting and recordkeeping requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle G: Treatment for Juvenile Offenders Who Are Victims of Child Abuse or Neglect - Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to public and nonprofit private organizations to develop, establish, and support projects which: (1) provide treatment to juvenile offenders who are victims of child abuse or neglect and to their families; (2) provide transitional services (including individual, group, and family counseling) to such offenders to strengthen family relationships and encourage the resolution of intrafamily problems related to the abuse or neglect, to facilitate their alternative placement, or to prepare juveniles aged 16 and older to live independently; and (3) carry out research and evaluation of treatment and transitional services provided with grants made under this Act. Sets forth priorities for awarding grants. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Child Protection Restoration and Penalties Enhancement Act of 1990 - Child Protection Restoration and Penalties Enhancement Act of 1990 - Subtitle A: Restoration of Recordkeeping Requirement - Amends the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1988 to prohibit: (1) knowingly selling or otherwise transferring, or offering for sale or transfer, any book, magazine, periodical, film, videotape, or other matter produced with materials which have been mailed or shipped in interstate or foreign commerce or intended for such shipment which contains one or more visual depictions of actual sexually explicit conduct and which does not have affixed to it a statement of the location of records with respect to the performance depicted on every copy of such matter; or (2) any person to whom such Act applies from failing to create or maintain records required by, or from knowingly failing to comply with provisions of, such Act or from knowingly making a false entry or failing to make an appropriate entry in such records. Deletes provisions providing that proof that a person fails to comply with recordkeeping requirements raises a rebuttable presumption that a performer (i.e., a person depicted engaging in, or assisting another to engage in, sexually explicit conduct) was a minor. Establishes criminal penalties for violations of such act. Removes "lascivious exhibitions of genitals or public areas" from the definition of "sexually explicit conduct" for purposes of sexual exploitation provisions. Subtitle B: Sexual Abuse Penalties - Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend existing guidelines for sentences involving sexual crimes against children so that more substantial penalties may be imposed if the Commission determines current penalties are inadequate. Increases the maximum penalty for sexual abuse of a minor from five to 15 years' imprisonment. Establishes penalties for knowingly possessing with intent to sell visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct involving minors, or possession of three or more books, magazines, periodicals, films, videotapes, or other matter containing such depictions. (Excludes depictions by words alone.) Eliminates limits on the amount of fines for such possession and for other specified activities relating to material involving the sexual exploitation of minors. Title IV: Offenses Involving Children - Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend existing sentencing guidelines for the kidnapping, abduction, or unlawful restraint of a victim where the offender is age 18 or over and is not a specified relative or individual having legal custody of the victim to take into consideration whether the victim was: (1) intentionally maltreated to a life-threatening degree (i.e., denied food or medical care); (2) sexually exploited; or (3) placed in the care or custody of, and subjected to such treatment or exploitation by, another person who does not have a legal right to such care or custody for money or other consideration. Title V: Protection of Crime Victims - Victims' Rights and Restitution Act of 1990 - Requires all Federal law enforcement agencies to make their best efforts to accord victims of crime with the right to: (1) be treated with fairness and respect for the victim's dignity and privacy; (2) be protected against their accused offenders; (3) be notified of court proceedings; (4) attend public court proceedings related to the offense under certain conditions; (5) confer with the Government attorney assigned to the case; (6) receive restitution; and (7) receive information about the conviction, sentencing, imprisonment, and release of the offender. Directs Federal law enforcement agency heads to designate the persons required by this Act to identify and provide certain services to the victims of a crime such as informing victims about where to receive medical care, counseling, and police protection and about developments during the investigation and prosecution of the crime and after the trial (such as the arrest of a suspected offender or an escape of a convicted offender). Directs the Attorney General or the head of another department or agency that conducts an investigation of a sexual assault to pay, either directly or by reimbursement, the cost of a physical examination of the victim which an investigating officer determines was necessary or useful for evidentiary purposes. Directs that a responsible official provide the victim with general information regarding the corrections process, including information about work release, furlough, and probation. Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to extend the deadline for operation of a State victim compensation program under the Victims of Crime Act. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the States should make every effort to adopt specified goals of a Victims of Crime Bill of Rights, including the right of crime victims to be treated with respect and dignity, to be reasonably protected from the accused, to have a statutorily designated advisory role in decisions involving prosecutorial discretion (such as plea bargaining), to be present at all proceedings, with exceptions, and to be compensated for the damage resulting from the crime. Title VI: Law Enforcement Agencies - Subtitle A: Maintaining Funding for State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies - Amends the Omnibus Act and the Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 1990 to maintain funding for State and local law enforcement agencies for FY 1991. Amends the Omnibus Act to include expansion of prosecutorial, defender, and judicial resources within authorized actions under the Bureau of Justice Assistance's drug control and system improvement grant program. Subtitle B: National Crime Information Center Project 2000 - National Law Enforcement Cooperation Act of 1990 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 to implement the NCIC 2000 project, a project developed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at upgrading the technological capabilities of the National Crime Information Center in order to meet the needs of U.S. law enforcement agencies into the next century. Requires a congressional report by the Director of the FBI concerning project implementation and fund uses. Title VII: Federal Law Enforcement and Judicial Assistance - Authorizes appropriations for the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), U.S. courts, U.S. attorneys, defender services, U.S. marshals, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) U.S. Border Patrol. Title VIII: Rural Drug Enforcement - Amends the Omnibus Act to set aside specified sums for rural drug enforcement assistance. Sets forth additional requirements, including requiring within each assistance application a statement specifying how grants will be coordinated with other grants received under such Act for the same fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations. Title IX: Mandatory Detention - Mandatory Detention for Offenders Convicted of Serious Crimes Act - Amends the Bail Reform Act to require the detention, pending sentence or appeal, of any person found guilty of a crime of violence, an offense for which the maximum sentence is life imprisonment or death, or a drug offense for which a maximum term of imprisonment of ten years or more is prescribed, unless there is a substantial likelihood of acquittal or a new trial or the Government is not recommending imprisonment and the person is not likely to flee or pose a danger to the community. Makes exceptions to mandatory detention upon appeal of the Government in exceptional cases. Title X: Juvenile Justice - Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Federal criminal code, the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, the Food Security Act of 1985, and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. Title XI: Short-Barreled Shotguns - Provides for enhanced penalties for the use of short-barreled rifles or shotguns or destructive devices during and in relation to a crime of violence or a drug trafficking crime. Title XII: Miscellaneous Criminal Law Improvements - Increases penalties for crack possession from a fine or a term of imprisonment to a term of imprisonment and a fine of not less than $1,000. Makes technical and conforming amendments with respect to the quantity of methamphetamines necessary to trigger a mandatory penalty under the CSA, the conspiracy and attempt penalty under the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, and methamphetamines under the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act. Extends the application of various offenses under the Federal criminal code to U.S. possessions and territories. Repeals provisions regarding crimes against U.S. carrier pigeons, prohibitions on liquor and opium exports to Pacific Island aborigines, and other obsolete laws. Extends penalties for engaging in fraudulent schemes in interstate travel to cover such schemes involving foreign travel. Deletes the requirement that the Attorney General personally approve prosecutions under the Atomic Energy Act. Amends the CSA to increase penalties for the distribution or manufacturing of illicit drugs in or near schools or colleges. Title XIII: Public Safety Officers' Disability Benefits - Amends the Omnibus Act to require the Bureau of Justice Assistance to pay a disability benefit to a public safety officer permanently and totally disabled as a result of an injury sustained in the line of duty. Prohibits the payment of: (1) death benefits to officers who receive disability benefits; and (2) disability benefits to officers who receive death benefits. Applies specified limitations on death benefits to disability benefits. Defines "catastrophic injury" for purposes of such Act to mean the consequences of an injury that permanently prevent an individual from performing any gainful work. Adds "ambulance crew" to the definition of firefighter. Title XIV: Money Laundering - Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) provide for criminal forfeiture of property in cases involving the export and import of certain monetary instruments; and (2) add felony violations of specified environmental laws, such as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as predicate offenses under money laundering provisions. Title XV: Drug-Free School Zones - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) develop a model program of strategies and tactics for establishing and maintaining drug-free school zones; and (2) design such program to provide State and local law enforcement agencies with materials, training, and other assistance to establish, enforce, and evaluate the effectiveness of drug-free school zone enforcement efforts. Sets forth: (1) program criteria, including development of a framework for law enforcement collaboration with the school system and community resource networks and provision of materials and technical assistance for demarcating and establishing such zones; and (2) requirements for reports by the Attorney General to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the CSA to include within the scope of penalties for controlled substances distribution the manufacture or distribution of illegal drugs within 1,000 feet (current law specifies 100 feet) of a playground. Amends the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 (DFSCA) to authorize the use of funds for grants and contracts for programs and activities including: (1) the determination of geographical boundaries of schools within the State and the posting of signs identifying school properties as drug-free school zones; (2) drug-abuse education and prevention programs and enforcement policies designed to eliminate the illicit use of alcohol and drugs in such zones; (3) assisting school personnel in cooperating with law enforcement officials to punish legal violations relating to illegal drugs; (4) informing the community of the law and the perimeters of such zones; (5) employing the services of the local or substate regional advisory council on drug abuse education and prevention as a resource for advice and support; and (6) communicating by administrators to students and school personnel that activities that are illicit and harmful to students will not be tolerated. Decreases (from 50 to 42.5) the percentage of funds available to the chief executive officer of a State for grants and contracts for such programs and activities. Requires that not less than ten percent of the funds available be used for grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) in consortium with entities which have experience in assisting school districts to provide instruction to students in grade kindergarten through six to recognize and resist pressures to use controlled substances. Sets forth eligibility requirements for grants by LEAs in consortium with such entities, including agreement to use such grants to provide services including: (1) drug abuse resistance education instruction for students in grades kindergarten through six; (2) provision for parental involvement; (3) classroom instruction by uniformed law enforcement officials; (4) the use of positive student leaders to influence younger students not to use drugs; (5) an emphasis on activity-oriented techniques designed to encourage student-generated responses to problem-solving situations; and (6) the awarding of a certificate of achievement to each student who participates in such a program. Directs that not less than five percent of available funds be used for grants to LEAs or consortia of LEAs and private nonprofit entities to provide drug abuse education, prevention, or counseling services to students in kindergarten through grade 12. Sets forth additional eligibility requirements for LEAs or consortia, including agreement: (1) to use grant assistance to provide for specified programs offering drug abuse education, prevention, or counseling to students of compulsory school age; (2) that programs will be designed to prevent or eliminate student abuse of drugs or alcohol; (3) to use grant assistance to expand or replicate programs that have demonstrated records of success; and (4) to ensure that programs to be expanded or replicated are appropriate for the students to be served. Sets forth application requirements. Includes after-school programs that provide drug and alcohol abuse education for school-aged children among authorized local drug abuse education and prevention programs in the case of an LEA that provides sufficient drug and alcohol abuse education during regular school hours. Deletes a provision requiring that programs for the training of teachers, counselors, and school personnel be coordinated through a State agency or regional center. Directs the Secretary of Education to give priority to making a substantial number of grants to qualified State educational agencies, LEAs, and institutions of higher education for programs to train counselors, social workers, psychologists, or nurses. Authorizes the Secretary to make a grant to any private nonprofit agency that has an agreement with an LEA to provide training in drug abuse counseling for individuals who will provide such counseling in the schools of such LEA. Makes amounts available under DFSCA grants to establish, expand, or enhance programs and activities for the training of counselors, social workers, psychologists, or nurses who are providing or will provide drug abuse prevention, counseling, or referral services in elementary and secondary schools. Requires State or LEAs, institutions of higher education, or consortia desiring to receive grants for the training of counselors to include in the application a discussion of how such training will assist the applicant to: (1) increase the number of school personnel who are trained to provide drug abuse counseling services; and (2) improve the quality of drug abuse counseling services offered by the applicant or the LEA concerned. Increases appropriations for the training of teachers, counselors, and school personnel and for emergency grants. Sets forth additional requirements for local applications. Requires every local recipient of funds to clearly identify any program assisted under this title as a Federal program funded under DFSCA. Title XVI: Miscellaneous - Amends the Federal judicial code to authorize the payment from the Department of Justice (DOJ) Assets Forfeiture Fund of awards for information or assistance leading to a civil or criminal forfeiture under any law enforced or administered by DOJ. (Current law authorizes only payments for such information or assistance under the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 or the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute.) Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize the issuance of an arrest warrant for a fugitive where there is reason to believe that such fugitive is about to enter the United States. Title XVII: General Provisions - Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize the U.S. Marshals Service to designate districts that need additional support from certain private detention entities based on: (1) the number of Federal detainees in the district; and (2) the availability of Federal, State, and local government detention facilities. Sets forth requirements which private entities must meet to be eligible for a contract for the housing, care, and security of persons held in U.S. custody and for Federal funding. Requires the Marshals Service to provide an opportunity for public comment on such contracts. Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal criminal code to impose criminal penalties for the possession or discharge of a firearm in a school zone, with specified exceptions including the possession or discharge by an individual as part of a school program or by a law enforcement officer acting in an official capacity. Encourages Federal, State, and local authorities to post signs around school zones warning of a prohibition of the possession of firearms in a school zone. Requires the U.S. Sentencing Commission to transmit to the Senate and House Judiciary Committees a report on mandatory minimum sentencing provisions in Federal law. Authorizes railroad police officers to enforce the laws of any jurisdiction in which the rail carrier owns property, subject to specified limitations. Title XVIII: Correctional Options Incentives Amendments - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to public agencies for correctional options (including construction costs) that provide alternatives to traditional modes of incarceration to: (1) provide more appropriate intervention for youthful offenders who are not, but who are likely to become, career criminals; (2) provide a degree of security and discipline appropriate for the offender involved; (3) provide diagnosis, treatment, and services (including counseling, job training, and placement assistance) to increase the success rate of offenders pursuing lawful conduct following release; (4) reduce criminal recidivism; (5) reduce the cost of correctional services by reducing recidivism; and (6) provide work that promotes development of industrial and service skills in connection with a correctional option. Authorizes grants to private nonprofit organizations for such purposes, to undertake educational and training programs for criminal justice personnel, to provide technical assistance to States and local units of government, or to carry out demonstration projects which, in view of previous research or experience, are likely to be a success in more than one jurisdiction, in connection with a correctional option (excluding the cost of construction). Authorizes grants to public agencies to establish, operate, and support boot camp prisons. Bases the selection of grant applicants on their potential for developing or testing innovative alternatives to traditional modes of incarceration and offender release programs. Requires the Director, in selecting the public agency applicants to receive grants for boot camp prisons, to: (1) consider the overall quality of an applicant's shock incarceration program; and (2) give priority to States that clearly demonstrate that the capacity of their correctional facilities is inadequate to accommodate the number of individuals who are convicted of offenses punishable by a term of imprisonment exceeding one year. Requires the Director to consult with the Commission on Alternative Utilization of Military Facilities in order to identify facilities that may be used as sites for correctional programs receiving assistance under this title. Specifies the allocation of grant funds under this title. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth requirements with respect to the conveyance of Department of Defense property and to facilities to public agencies for use under the correctional options program. Amends the Omnibus Act to require each State to allocate not less than five percent of funds received under the Edward Byrne Memorial program to the improvement of criminal justice records, including: (1) the completion of criminal histories to include the final dispositions of all arrests for felony offenses; (2) the full automation of all criminal justice histories and fingerprint records; and (3) the frequency and quality of FBI criminal history reports. Authorizes the Director, upon the request of a State, to waive compliance with the five percent requirement and reduce the minimum amount required to be allocated by such State if the Division finds that the quality of the State's criminal justice records does not warrant expending such amount. Amends the Omnibus Act to withhold a portion of funds from States that do not have in effect, and do not enforce, a law that requires the State, at the request of the victim of a sexual act, to: (1) test the defendant convicted under State law of such act, for presence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); (2) disclose test results to such defendant and to the victim; and (3) provide the victim counseling regarding HIV disease, testing, and referral. Title XIX: Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990 - Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990 - Amends the CSA to add anabolic steroids to Schedule III (thus making it illegal for anyone other than a registrant under the Act to prescribe, dispense, or distribute such substances, and requiring that prescription, dispensing, distribution, and possession be for a recognized therapeutic purpose.) Excludes from Schedule III anabolic steroids those expressly intended for administration through implants to cattle or nonhuman species and approved for such administration, with exceptions. Authorizes the refill without registration of any prescription for anabolic steroids subject to refill on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. Requires the Attorney General to exempt: (1) any compound, mixture, or preparation containing an anabolic steroid from application of all or part of such Act if, because of its concentration, preparation, mixture, or delivery system, it has no significant potential for abuse; and (2) at a minimum, estrogens, progestins, and corticosteroids. Authorizes the Attorney General to exempt an anabolic steroid from any production regulation if it is approved by the Food and Drug Administration as an accepted treatment for a rare disease or condition under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and it does not have a significant potential for abuse. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to increase the criminal fine and imprisonment and penalties for knowing distribution of, or possession with intent to distribute, human growth hormone for any use in humans other than treatment of a recognized disease or other medical condition (currently, a recognized disease) pursuant to the order of a physician. Increases penalties if the offense involves an individual under the age of 18 years. Declares a violation to be a felony violation of the CSA for purposes of forfeiture. Authorizes the DEA to investigate such offenses. Repeals provisions of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 relating to forfeiture and illegal trafficking in steroids or a human growth hormone. Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide for demonstration programs to identify and deter the improper use or abuse of anabolic steroids by students. Title XX: Asset Forfeiture - Amends the Federal judicial code to authorize the Attorney General to: (1) transfer funds from the Assets Forfeiture Fund (the Fund) to the Special Forfeiture Fund in FY 1993. Requires that transfers from the Fund to the Special Forfeiture Fund be made at the end of each quarter of the fiscal year, on a quarterly pro rata basis, only from excess unobligated amounts, and only to the extent that such transfers will not impair the future availability of amounts for the purposes of the Fund. Authorizes the Attorney General to warrant clear title to any subsequent purchaser or transferee of forfeited property. Amends the CSA and the Federal criminal code to authorize the Attorney General to sell forfeited property. Amends the CSA to provide for the forfeiture and destruction of dangerous, toxic, and hazardous materials used to facilitate the production of illegal drugs. Authorizes the payment of awards for information or assistance leading to a civil or criminal forfeiture under the Federal criminal code, the CSA, or the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act, or for a criminal forfeiture under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute. (Under current law, such payments are authorized only with respect to civil or criminal forfeitures under the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 and criminal forfeitures under RICO.) Requires the Attorney General to submit to the Congress a report for each fiscal year containing audited financial statements with respect to forfeited property. Amends the CSA to make subject to forfeiture to the United States: (1) drug paraphernalia; and (2) firearms used to facilitate the transportation, sale, receipt, possession, or concealment of illegal drugs and any proceeds traceable to them. Title XXI: Perkins Grant Expansion - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for the cancellation of a percentage of a student loan under such Act for each complete year of service by the borrower as a full-time law enforcement or corrections officer. Title XXII: Firearms Provisions - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit the transfer of firearms to non-residents of the State in which the transferor resides. Extends the commerce nexus, in connection with existing offenses related to trafficking in stolen firearms, to include firearms which have ever moved in commerce. Prohibits the assembly from imported parts of semiautomatic rifles or shotguns which are prohibited from being imported into the United States, with exceptions. Increases penalties for the possession of firearms in Federal court facilities. Title XXIII: Chemical Diversion and Trafficking - Amends the CSA to add specified substances to the list of precursor chemicals subject to controls imposed by that Act. Title XXIV: Drug Paraphernalia - Amends the CSA to make it unlawful to sell or offer for sale, use the mails or any other facility of interstate commerce to transport, or import or export, drug paraphernalia. Title XXV: Banking Law Enforcement - Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990 - Subtitle A: Enhanced Criminal Penalties - Amends Federal criminal law to establish criminal penalties (including imprisonment) for the concealment of assets from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) (acting as conservator or receiver, or in the Corporation's corporate capacity with respect to certain assets acquired or liability assumed by the Corporation under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act), the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), any conservator appointed by the Comptroller of the Currency or the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, or the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Board (acting as conservator of liquidating agent). Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Insurance Act to prohibit certain felons convicted of dishonesty or breach of trust from controlling or participating in the affairs of a depository institution for a minimum ten-year period, with exceptions. Amends Federal criminal law to establish criminal penalties (including imprisonment) for obstructing any Government examination of a financial institution. Increases to 30 years (currently, 20 years) the maximum prison term for bank fraud and embezzlement. Establishes a ten-year statute of limitations for the prosecution of racketeering offenses involving financial institutions. Applies money laundering prohibitions to funds from specified bank fraud crimes. Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to promulgate guidelines for increased penalties for certain bank crime convictions in which the defendant derived more than $1,000,000 in gross receipts from the offense. Provides for restoration of forfeited property and for restitution to bank crime victims. Sets forth maximum criminal fines and minimum imprisonment terms for organizing, managing, or supervising a continuing financial crime enterprise. Subtitle B: Protecting Assets from Wrongful Disposition - Authorizes the Attorney General to obtain a court order enjoining or restraining the alienation or disposition of property obtained as a result of a banking law violation. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to set forth asset attachment procedures. Amends Federal bankruptcy law to: (1) preclude the discharge of debts in Federal bankruptcy involving obligations arising from any act of fraud while acting in a fiduciary capacity committed with respect to any depository institution or insured credit union; or (2) maintain the capital of an insured depository institution in cases of malicious or reckless failure to fulfull commitments by the debtor to a Federal depository institutions regulatory agency, with exceptions. Provides that the trustee shall be deemed to have a debtor's commitment to a Federal depository institution regulatory agency to maintain the capital of an insured depository institution (thus precluding the trustee from rejecting such commitment as an executory contract which can be avoided as a discharge in bankruptcy). Prohibits a discharge in bankruptcy for debts resulting from the debtor's failure to fulfill a commitment to a Federal financial institution regulatory agency to maintain the capital of an insured depository institution. Authorizes the FDIC to prohibit or limit golden parachute or indemnification payments. Sets forth factors to be taken into account in prescribing such regulations, such as whether there is a reasonable basis to believe that the institution-affiliated party has materially violated an applicable Federal or State banking law or regulation that has had a material effect on the financial condition of the institution. Prohibits insured depository institutions or depository institution holding companies from prepaying the salary or any liability or legal expense of any institution-affiliated party if such payment is made: (1) in contemplation of the insolvency of such institution or holding company, or after the commission of an act of insolvency; and (2) with a view to, or where such payment has the result of, preventing the proper application of the assets of the institution to creditors or preferring one creditor over another. Defines "golden parachute" to mean any payment (or agreement to make a payment) in the nature of compensation by any insured depository institution or depository institution holding company for the benefit of any institution-affiliated party pursuant to an obligation of such institution or holding company that: (1) is contingent on the termination of such party's affiliation with the institution or holding company; and (2) is received on or after the date on which the depository institution, depository institution holding company, or insured depository institution subsidiary of such holding company is insolvent, the date any conservator or receiver is appointed, or specified other dates. Amends the Federal Credit Union Act to set forth analogous provisions with respect to the regulation of benefits to institution-affiliated parties. Amends the Federal criminal code to revise the civil and criminal forfeiture guidelines for: (1) property affecting a financial institution; and (2) fraudulent offenses involving the sale of assets held by Federal banking regulatory agencies. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to prohibit acquisitions from conservators and receivers of depository institutions by certain convicted felon debtors whose default to an insured financial institution in receivership will cause substantial loss to the institution, the FDIC, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation Resolution Fund, or the RTC. Makes such prohibitions inapplicable under specified conditions where claims have been settled. Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to require the RTC to prescribe regulations prohibiting the sale of assets of a failed institution to persons who have caused specified damage to such institution or have been prohibited from participating in its affairs pursuant to a Federal enforcement action, except under specified conditions where claims have been settled. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to provide for expedited procedures for certain claims. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to empower the FDIC and the NCUA (acting as conservators) to avoid fraudulent conveyances by a debtor institution-affiliated party. Subtitle C: Improved Procedures for Handling Banking-Related Cases - Amends Federal criminal law to authorize wire taps for bank fraud and related offenses. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to set forth reciprocal assistance guidelines for foreign investigations by Federal banking agencies and investigations on behalf of foreign banking authorities. Amends the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 to establish a ten-year statute of limitations for commencing a civil action for Federal bank law violations. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the National Credit Union Act to grant the FDIC, the RTC, and the NCUA subpoena authority. Subtitle D: Structural Reforms to Improve the Federal Response to Crimes Affecting Financial Institutions - Establishes within the Office of the Deputy Attorney General in the Department of Justice a Financial Institutions Fraud Unit, headed by a Special Counsel who shall report directly to the Deputy Attorney General. Terminates such Office five years after enactment of this Act. Empowers the Special Counsel to investigate and prosecute criminal activity involving the financial services industry. Directs the Attorney General to establish: (1) financial institutions fraud task forces; and (2) a senior interagency group to assist in identifying the most significant financial institution fraud cases, to allocate investigative and prosecutorial resources, and to expedite interagency coordination and prosecution of financial institutions fraud. Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to direct the RTC to maintain an executive-level position and staff to assist and advise the RTC and other agencies with respect to claims and enforcement actions against institution-affiliated parties of insured depository institutions under its jurisdiction. Requires such personnel to report to the Congress within a specified deadline and to present semiannual updates of such report. Subtitle E: Reporting Requirements - Requires the Attorney General to: (1) compile and collect data concerning the nature and number of civil and criminal investigations, prosecutions, and related proceedings in progress with respect to specified banking law offenses; and (2) analyze and report to the Congress on such data, its coordination, and related activities, including a breakdown for each Federal judicial district and the activities of the Financial Institutions Fraud Unit. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to mandate: (1) the public disclosure of certain civil enforcement actions taken by Federal banking regulatory agencies with respect to depository institutions and credit unions; (2) reports to the Congress with respect to non-public hearing transcripts and the decision not to hold a public hearing; and (3) that each Federal banking agency maintain for a minimum six-year period all documentation regarding such civil enforcement actions and make it available to the Congress or congressional committees. Requires the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to present annual statistical tables to the Congress on the business imposed on the Federal courts by the savings and loan crisis. Subtitle F: National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement - Establishes the National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement to examine and identify the origin and causes of the problems in the savings and loan industry that led to the enactment of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA), and to submit a final report to the President and the Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle G: Authorizations - Amends FIRREA to authorize increased appropriations for FY 1991 through 1993 to the Attorney General, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Federal Court System for investigation, prosecution, and adjudication of bank crime cases. Subtitle H: Actions Against Persons Committing Bank Fraud Crimes - Financial Institutions Anti-Fraud Enforcement Act of 1990 - Permits any person to file a declaration of specified banking law violations under FIRREA affecting a federally insured depository institution. Prescribes procedural guidelines for such declarations. Prohibits judicial review of any actions by the Attorney General with respect to such declarations. Establishes the Financial Institution Information Award Fund to pay awards to declarants whose information provides the basis for criminal convictions and special rewards to informants with respect to banking law violations. Requires the Attorney General to compile a public report on the processing of such declarations. Sets forth procedural guidelines under which any person may file a declaration identifying specific assets which might be recovered by the United States in satisfaction of a final judgment in any civil or criminal action regarding banking law violations. Entitles a declarant to a specified percentage of the amount recovered based on his declaration. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to remove the $50,000 threshold for rewards for information leading to recoveries, civil penalties or prosecutions. Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize the Attorney General to use his sole discretion to make payments to persons furnishing new information to the Government relating to possible prosecution of banking law violations. Insulates such authority from judicial review. Prescribes guidelines under which the Attorney General is authorized to enter into contracts retaining private counsel for legal services relating to banking law violations. Subtitle I: Technical and Miscellaneous Amendments - Makes technical amendments to the Federal criminal code, the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978, and the FIRREA. Amends various Federal criminal statutes to include foreign banking organizations within definitions for enforcement purposes. Title XXVI: Licit Opium Imports - Directs the President to: (1) conduct a review of U.S. narcotics raw material policy to determine the advisability of continued reliance on the rule by which at least 80 percent of U.S. imports of narcotics raw material must come from India and Turkey; and (2) report the results of such review to the Congress by April 1, 1991. Specifies the agencies to be involved and the nature and contents of such review, including a report on the extent of diversion from the licit to illicit market in India from the farm gate through the stockpile. Title XXVII: Sentencing for Methamphetamine Offenses - Instructs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend the existing guidelines for offenses involving smoking crystal methamphetamine under the CSA so that convictions for such offenses will be assigned an offense level which is two levels above that which would have been assigned to the same offense involving other forms of methamphetamine. Title XXVIII: Drug Enforcement Grants - Amends the Omnibus Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1991 and 1992 for grants under the drug control and system improvement grant program (Edward Byrne Memorial Programs). Title XXIX: Prisons - Amends the Federal criminal code to require that: (1) Federal departments and agencies separately report to the General Services Administration their acquisitions of products and services from Federal Prison Industries (FPI); (2) reported information be entered in the Federal Procurement Data System; (3) each report published and containing information collected by the System include a statement that sales by FPI are considered intragovernmental transfers and that the purpose of reporting such sales is to provide a complete overview of Federal acquisitions during the reporting period; and (4) FPI publish and update a catalog of all products and services which it offers for sale. Authorizes placing a prisoner whose sentence includes a term of supervised release after imprisonment in home confinement, subject to specified conditions. Directs the Bureau of Prisons to make available appropriate substance abuse treatment for each prisoner the Bureau determines has a treatable condition of substance addiction or abuse. Requires the Attorney General to direct the Bureau of Prisons to have in effect within six months a mandatory functional literacy program for all mentally capable inmates who are not functionally literate in each Federal correctional institution. Specifies that non-English speaking inmates shall be required to participate in an English-as-a-Second-Language program until they function at the equivalent of the eighth grade level on a nationally recognized educational achievement test. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) waivers; and (2) reporting requirements. Declares that it is Federal policy that convicted inmates in Federal prisons, jails, and other detention facilities shall work, with the type of work dictated by appropriate security considerations and by the health of the prisoner involved. Makes exceptions only as necessitated by: (1) security considerations; (2) disciplinary action; (3) medical certification of disability; and (4) a need for the prisoner to work less than a full work schedule to participate in literacy training, drug rehabilitation, or similar programs. Modifies a provision making exceptions to a ban on the transport of prison-made goods to exempt goods made by prisoners who are participating in one of not more than 50 non-Federal prison work pilot projects designated by the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance. Specifies that reasonable charges for room and board, for purposes of qualifying for such exemption, shall be determined by regulations issued by the chief State correctional officer, in the case of a State prisoner. Requires the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to take appropriate measures to cut costs of construction (for example, by reducing expenditures for amenities such as color television or pool tables). Directs the Secretary of Labor to submit to the Congress specified reports detailing the extent and manner of compliance by State Prison Industry Enhancement Certification programs with the requirements restricting the transport of prison-made goods. Title XXX: Shock Incarceration - Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize the Bureau of Prisons to place in a shock incarceration program any person who is sentenced to a term of 12 to 30 months' imprisonment, if such person consents. Requires an inmate in the shock incarceration program for up to six months of the initial term of imprisonment as the Bureau may determine to: (1) adhere to a highly regimented schedule that provides the strict discipline, physical training, hard labor, drill, and ceremony characteristic of military basic training; and (2) participate in appropriate job training, educational, and drug, alcohol, and other counseling programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title XXXI: Bankruptcy and Restitution - Criminal Victims Protection Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal bankruptcy code to make nondischargeable in bankruptcy liability: (1) arising from the debtor's unlawful driving while intoxicated from alcohol, a drug, or another substance which causes death or personal injury; and (2) for restitution included in a sentence on the debtor's conviction of a crime. Title XXXII: Miscellaneous - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the FBI and the DEA for humanitarian expenses incurred by employees of such agencies or members of the employees' immediate families as a result of serious illness, injury, or death occurring while on official business. Bans volatile alkyl nitrite as a hazardous product under the Consumer Product Safety Act, except for the manufacture, sale, distribution, or importation for commercial or other purposes approved under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Title XXXIII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to extend for two years the programs for undercover operations of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and for disclosure of the returns of certain cash transactions exceeding $10,000. Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study and evaluation of such programs and to report to specified congressional committees. Makes failure to file a return on certain cash transactions (currently, a misdemeanor) a felony. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study and evaluation of the criminal penalties for violations of provisions with respect to returns relating to cash received in trade or business and to report to specified congressional committees. Specifies that no commission established by this Act shall have access to any return or return information, except to the extent authorized by the Internal Revenue Code. Title XXXIV: National Commission to Support Law Enforcement - Establishes the National Commission to Support Law Enforcement to study and report to the Congress on recommended changes regarding law enforcement agencies and law enforcement issues at the Federal, State, and local levels on the following issues: funding; employment; information; research and training; equipment and resources; cooperation; responsibility; and impact. Title XXXV: Technical and Minor Substantive Amendments - Makes technical amendments to the Federal criminal code, the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988, the CSA, and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act. Permits the Solicitor General to delegate approval authority for appeals of final sentences. Increases the maximum term of imprisonment for accessory after the fact offenses punishable by life imprisonment or death, from ten to 15 years. Delegates the requirement of Solicitor General approval for appeal to a district court of magistrate sentences. Title XXXVI: Federal Debt Collection - Federal Debt Collection Procedures Act of 1990 - Subtitle A: Debt Collection Procedures - Establishes a uniform, nationwide system of civil procedures to facilitate the collection of debts owed to the United States. Allows U.S. Attorneys to reach all pending claims for debts owed to the United States, as well as any judgment on a debt going back ten years. Establishes special rules with respect to the sale of perishable personal property during the pendency of any action or proceeding to recover debts owed to the United States. Allows U.S. district courts to assign their duties in proceedings under this Act to U.S. magistrates. Grants the court power to modify the use of any enforcement procedure. Authorizes: (1) an individual debtor to elect to exempt specified property from the enforcement procedures of this Act, including property that is exempt under Federal, State, or local law on the date of the filing of the application for a remedy, subject to certain restrictions, and any interest in property in which the debtor had an interest as a tenant or in a community estate, to the extent that such interest is exempt from process under applicable nonbankruptcy law; (2) a court to order the debtor to file a statement with respect to any claimed exemption; and (3) the United States or the debtor to request a hearing on the applicability of any exemption claimed by the debtor. Specifies that the assertion of an exemption shall prevent the United States from selling or otherwise disposing of the property for which such exemption is claimed until the court determines whether the debtor has a substantial nonexempt interest in such property. Bars the United States from taking possession of, disposing of, selling, or otherwise interfering with the debtor's normal use and enjoyment of an interest in property the United States knows or has reason to know is exempt. Authorizes the United States to have discovery regarding the financial condition of the debtor in the manner in which discovery is authorized by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in an action on a claim for a debt, except with respect to an action or proceeding under provisions regarding prejudgment remedies where there is a reasonable likelihood that the debt involved exceeds $50,000. Permits the United States to seek any prejudgment remedy. Sets forth procedures to be followed by the United States under such circumstances. Establishes additional procedural requirements with respect to the attachment of property. Prohibits a U.S. marshal from selling property unless ordered by the court. Allows a court to appoint a receiver for property in which the debtor has a substantial nonexempt interest only if the United States shows reasonable cause to believe that there is a substantial danger that the property will be removed from the jurisdiction of the court, lost, materially injured or damaged, or mismanaged. Sets forth the powers of the receiver. Authorizes a court to issue a writ of garnishment against property (excluding earnings) in which the debtor has a substantial nonexempt interest and which is in the possession, custody, or control of a person other than the debtor in order to satisfy a claim for a debt, if specified conditions are met and subject to specified limitations. Sets forth similar provisions with respect to a writ of sequestration. States that a judgment in a civil action creates a lien upon all the real property of a judgment debtor. Makes a debtor who is the subject of such a lien ineligible for Federal grants and loans. Allows the district court to order the United States to sell any real property subject to such a lien. States that such liens are effective for a period of 20 years and renewable for a longer period. Sets forth procedures with respect to: (1) the issuance of notices; (2) the sale of real and personal property subject to a levy pursuant to a writ of execution; (3) installment payments; and (4) garnishment. Provides remedies for the fraudulent transfer of an asset by a debtor. Subtitle B: Amendments to Other Provisions of Law - Makes technical and conforming amendments to various provisions of Federal law. Allows the court to order that criminal appearance bail bonds be applied to the payment of any assessment, fine, restitution, or penalty imposed upon the defendant. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous - Sets forth the effective date of this Act. Title XXXVII - National Child Search Assistance Act of 1990 - Requires each Federal, State, and local law enforcement agency to report each case of a missing child under age 18 to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) of the Department of Justice. Directs the Attorney General to publish an annual summary of such reports. Requires States reporting under this Act to: (1) ensure that no State law enforcement agency establishes a policy which requires a waiting period before accepting a missing child or unidentified person report; (2) provide that each such report and all necessary and available information is entered into the State law enforcement system and the NCIC computer networks and made available to the Missing Children Information Clearinghouse of other designated agency within the State; and (3) require the law enforcement agency that entered the report into the NCIC to verify and update such record with any additional information (including, where available, medical and dental records), institute or assist with appropriate search and investigative procedures, and maintain close liaison with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for the exchange of information and technical assistance in the missing children cases.
United States · United States Congress · 26 October 1990
Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1990 - Prohibits Federal, State, and local governments, and any person acting under color of law, from restricting any person's free exercise of religion unless: (1) the restriction is in the form of a rule of general applicability that does not intentionally discriminate against religion or among religions; and (2) the government demonstrates that application of the restriction to a person is essential to furthering a compelling governmental interest and the least restrictive means of doing so. Authorizes a party aggrieved by a violation of such prohibition to obtain relief, including attorney fees, in a civil action.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should declare November 2, 1990, a national day of prayer for: (1) members of American military forces and American citizens stationed or held hostage in the Middle East, and for their families; and (2) American and Iraqi authorities to bring about a just resolution of the Persian Gulf crisis.
United States · United States Congress · 15 October 1990
Expresses the sense of the Senate that any proposal to increase the Federal-aid highway program's minimum allocation percentage from 85 to 95 percent should be addressed as part of the legislative process to reauthorize surface transportation programs in 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 12 October 1990
Title I: Bank Fraud and Embezzlement Penalties - Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990 - Amends Federal criminal law to establish criminal penalties (including imprisonment) for the concealment of assets from an appropriate Federal banking agency or the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) (acting as conservator or receiver). Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Insurance Act to prohibit certain felons convicted of dishonesty or breach of trust from controlling or participating in the affairs of a depository institution. Amends Federal criminal law to establish criminal penalties (including imprisonment) for obstructing any examination of a financial institution. Increases to 30 years (currently 20 years) the maximum prison term for bank fraud and embezzlement. Establishes a ten-year statute of limitations for the prosecution of racketeering offenses involving financial institutions. Extends money laundering prohibitions to include funds from specified bank crimes. Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to promulgate guidelines for increased penalties for convictions of certain bank crimes in which the defendant derived more than $1,000,000 in gross receipts from the offense. Provides for restoration of forfeited property and for restitution to bank crime victims. Sets forth maximum criminal fines and minimum imprisonment terms (which may be up to life imprisonment) for certain continuing financial crime enterprises (i.e., certain violations committed by at least four persons acting in concert). Authorizes U.S. magistrates to accept guilty pleas for certain felonies affecting an insured depository institution. Authorizes the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the chairman of the RTC to institute civil remedies proceedings for certain criminal violations affecting insured depository institutions. Title II: Protecting Assets from Wrongful Disposition - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, the National Credit Union Act and the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to set forth circumstances under which injunctive relief (including prejudgment attachment) may be granted in an action brought by the FDIC, the RTC, or the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) acting as conservator or receiver of an insured depository institution. Authorizes the Attorney General to obtain a court order enjoining of restraining the alienation or disposition of property obtained as a result of a banking law violation. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to set forth asset attachment procedures. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to provide that the liability arising from a breach of trust by an institution-related party towards the financial institution constitutes a debt that is not dischargeable in bankruptcy. Makes it a prerequisite of a bankruptcy reorganization plan that the debtor will: (1) maintain any commitment to a Federal banking regulatory agency to maintain the capital of an insured depository institution; and (2) continue to be obligated for any debt to such agency for failure to fulfill such commitment. Amends Federal bankruptcy law to except from general discharges in bankruptcy: (1) any commitment entered into by the debtor and specified Federal banking regulatory agencies to maintain the capital of an insured depository institution; (2) court-ordered restitution in any criminal proceeding arising from an act that caused a loss to a federally insured financial institution; and (3) certain obligations and liabilities (including those ordered by a court, issued by a Federal regulatory agency, or contained in a settlement agreement) arising from malfeasance while acting in a fiduciary capacity with respect to a financial institution. States that a Federal financial institution regulatory agency that is a successor and creditor to a depository institution or insured credit union need not demonstrate reasonable reliance upon a written statement in order to establish an exception to a discharge in bankruptcy. Prohibits an individual debtor from discharging in bankruptcy debts and title to property that is owed to a Federal financial institutions regulatory agency acting as conservator or receiver. Provides that the trustee shall be deemed to have assumed a debtor's commitment to a Federal depository institution regulatory agency to maintain the capital of an insured depository institution (thus precluding the trustee from rejecting such commitment as an executory contract which can be avoided as a discharge in bankruptcy). Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to empower the FDIC and the NCUA (acting as conservators) to avoid fraudulent conveyances by a debtor institution-affiliated party. Prohibits certain insured depository institutions, depository institution holding companies, or credit unions from making golden parachute payments, covered benefit payments, or certain payments in anticipation of insolvency to an institution-affiliated party without prior written Federal agency approval. Cites conditions under which insured depository institutions and credit unions may make golden parachute payments and covered benefits payments with FDIC or NCUA approval. Amends the Federal criminal code to revise the civil and criminal forfeiture guidelines for: (1) property affecting a financial institution; and (2) fraudulent offenses involving the sale of assets held by Federal banking regulatory agencies. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to prohibit certain convicted felony debtors whose default to an insured financial institution in receivership will cause substantial loss from acquiring any asset of the institution (except with respect to repayment). Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to direct the Resolution Trust Corporation to prescribe regulations prohibiting itself from selling the assets of a failed institution to persons who have caused specified damage to such institution or have been prohibited from participating in its affairs pursuant to a Federal enforcement action. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to provide that actions brought by the FDIC shall have priority over all other actions except Federal actions unless the FDIC is notified in writing of the commencement of another suit or claim. Sets forth expedited procedures for certain claims. Title III: Improved Procedures for Handling Banking-Related Cases - Amends Federal criminal law to authorize wire taps for bank fraud and related offenses. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to set forth reciprocal assistance guidelines for foreign investigations by Federal banking agencies and investigations on behalf of foreign banking authorities. Amends the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) and the Internal Revenue Code to establish a ten-year statute of limitations for commencing a civil action for Federal bank law violations. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the National Credit Union Act to grant the FDIC, the RTC, and the NCUA subpoena authority. Title IV: Structural Reforms to Improve the Federal Response to Crimes Affecting Financial Institutions - Establishes within the Office of the Deputy Attorney General in the Department of Justice a Financial Institutions Fraud Unit, headed by a Special Counsel who shall report directly to the Deputy Attorney General. Terminates such Office five years after enactment of this Act. Empowers the Special Counsel to investigate and prosecute criminal activity involving the financial services industry. Directs the Attorney General to establish: (1) financial institutions fraud task forces; and (2) a senior interagency group to assist in identifying the most significant financial institution fraud cases, to allocate investigative and prosecutorial resources, and to expedite interagency coordination and prosecution of financial institutions fraud. Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to direct the RTC to maintain a Fraud and Enforcement Review Division to assist and advise it with respect to claims and enforcement actions against institution-affiliated parties of insured depository institutions under its jurisdiction. Requires such Division to report semiannually to certain congressional committees. Title V: Reporting Requirements - Requires the Financial Institutions Fraud Unit to present semiannual status reports to certain congressional committees with respect to certain legal actions and results achieved against financial institutions. Amends the Federal judicial code to: (1) direct the Attorney General to include in his annual report to the Congress a statistical breakdown of actions and defendants relating to financial institutions and insured depository institutions; and (2) require the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to present annual statistical tables to the Congress on the business imposed on the Federal courts by the savings and loan crisis. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to mandate: (1) the public disclosure of certain civil enforcement actions taken by Federal banking regulatory agencies with respect to depository institutions and credit unions; (2) reports to the Congress with respect to the decision not to hold a public hearing or publish certain documents; and (3) that each Federal banking agency shall maintain for a minimum ten-year period all documentation regarding such civil enforcement actions and make it available to certain congressional committees. Title VI: National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement - Establishes the National Commission on the Savings and Loan Industry to examine and identify the origin and causes of the problems in the savings and loan industry that led to the enactment of the FIRREA of 1989, and to submit a final report to the Congress by a specified deadline. Terminates the Commission after submittal of such report. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII: Authorizations - Amends the FIRREA to authorize increased appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993 to the Attorney General and the Federal Court System for bank crime cases and the personnel to deal with an increased financial institutions crime case load. Authorizes appropriations to the Internal Revenue Service for violations involving insured depository institutions. Title VIII: Private Actions Against Persons Committing Bank Fraud Crimes - Financial Institutions Anti-Fraud Enforcement Act of 1990 - Permits any person to file a declaration of specified banking law violations affecting a federally insured depository institution. Extends the statutes of limitations for such violations for five years. Prescribes procedural guidelines for such declarations. Prohibits judicial review of any actions by the Attorney General with respect to such declarations. Establishes the Financial Institution Information Award Fund to pay awards and special rewards to informants with respect to banking law violations. Requires the Attorney General to compile a public report on the processing of such declarations. Sets forth procedural guidelines under which any person after entry of a final judgment, may file a declaration identifying specific assets which might be recovered by the United States in satisfaction of that judgment in any civil or criminal action regarding banking law violations. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, with respect to rewards for information leading to recoveries and civil penalties, to repeal the stipulation that such recoveries or penalties must exceed $50,000. Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize the Attorney General to use his or her sole discretion to make payments to persons furnishing new information unknown to the Government relating to possible prosecution of banking law violations. Insulates such authority from judicial review. Prescribes guidelines under which the Attorney General may enter into contracts retaining private counsel for legal services relating to banking law violations. Title IX: Technical Amendments - Makes technical amendments to selected statutes affected by this Act. Title X: Office of Thrift Supervision Amendments - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to make technical amendments. Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act and the Bank Conservation Act to provide that the standard for judicial review of a bank regulatory official's decision to appoint a conservator or receiver shall be decided by the court only on the administrative record and shall be sustained unless the court finds such decision was arbitrary and capricious. Title XI: Clarifying Application of U.S. Banking Offenses to Foreign Banks Operating in the United States - Amends the Federal criminal code to make applicable to foreign banks operating in the United States current Federal laws with respect to: (1) specified banking law violations; (2) acts of fraud with respect to bank credit applications and computer access to financial files; and (3) unauthorized information from a bank examination report.
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1990
Amends the Federal criminal code to allow the court, in determining the sentence to be imposed in the case of a violation of probation or supervised release, to consider guidelines or policy statements issued by the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Authorizes the court to resentence a defendant who violates a condition of probation at any time prior to the expiration or termination of the term of probation. Directs the court to revoke supervised release and require the defendant to serve a term of imprisonment up to the maximum authorized if the defendant is found by the court to be in unlawful possession of a controlled substance. Authorizes the court to include a requirement that the defendant be placed on supervised release after imprisonment when a term of supervised release is revoked and the defendant is required to serve a term of imprisonment less than the maximum authorized. Specifies that the length of such a term of supervised release shall not exceed that authorized by statute for the offense of which the defendant was convicted, minus any term of imprisonment that was imposed upon revocation of supervised release.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1990
Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for the export, or the licensing for export, to South Korea of technology for the coproduction of F/A-18 aircraft until at least 30 days after the Congress has received a specified memorandum of understanding. Provides for an extension of the congressional review period until the President transmits such memorandum to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1990
Interstate Compact - Grants congressional approval to amendments to the Delaware-New Jersey Compact.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1990
Domestic Violence Prevention Act of 1990 - Title I: Amendment of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act - Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) to add increasing public awareness as a purpose of State demonstration grants. Authorizes grants for public information campaigns regarding domestic violence. Requires a State grant recipient to establish a Commission on Domestic Violence. Limits law enforcement training grants to private nonprofit organizations that have certain experience. Mandates grants or contracts for the establishment of one national and five regional resource centers to provide training and other assistance concerning domestic violence. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Act. Requires grants to States to assist in becoming model demonstration States and in improving State leadership regarding certain domestic violence matters. Sets forth requirements for being designated as a model State. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Law Enforcement, Prosecution Grants, and Interstate Enforcement - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize competitive grants to States for use by States and local governments to assist in developing effective law enforcement and prosecution strategies to combat domestic violence and to reduce the rate of domestic violence. Authorizes appropriations. Amends Federal law to establish criminal penalties for interstate travel to commit spousal abuse or to violate protection orders. Allows temporary protection orders pending final adjudication of charges under these provisions. Mandates victim restitution. Requires a protection order by a court of one State to be accorded full faith and credit by the court of another State. Amends the FVPSA to prohibit a State or locality from being awarded a grant under the Act if, as a matter of law, policy, or practice, it discriminated against victims of family violence. Requires certification that this condition has been met. Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to require a similar certification. Amends the FVPSA to authorize grants to State and local government entities to encourage them to take specified actions in order to treat spousal violence as a serious violation of criminal law. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to transfer a specified sum each fiscal year to the Attorney General for such grants.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1990
Amends Federal law to redefine eligibility for membership in the American Legion.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1990
Designates the third week of February 1991 as National Parents and Teachers Association Week.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1990
Central American Democracy and Development Act - Declares that it is U.S. policy to: (1) encourage and support the Central American countries in efforts to build democracy, restore peace, establish respect for human rights, expand economic opportunities, and improve living conditions; (2) support and encourage dialogue as the proper means of resolving armed conflicts in Central America; (3) assist in, and secure greater international support for, the recommendations of the International Commission on Central American Recovery and Development; (4) participate in, and contribute to, the United Nations Development Programme for its Special Plan of Economic Cooperation for Central America; (5) help organize a partnership among donor countries and the Central American countries to provide a means of mobilizing resources and promoting a forum for dialogue about issues of development, democracy, social justice, and human rights; and (6) support and promote the President's proposed Enterprise for the Americas Initiative to assist Central American countries in opening their economies and managing their foreign debt. Requires the United States, if requested by the governments of Central America, to provide assistance for the development of the Central American Development Coordination Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1990
Designates November 18 through 24, 1990, as National Adoption Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1990
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the administration's policy revisions toward Cambodia must be accompanied by the following actions if a peaceful settlement to the Cambodian crisis is to be reached: (1) initiating a direct dialogue with the government in Phnom Penh to facilitate a negotiated settlement; (2) pressing China to cease weapons and financial support to the Khmer Rouge; (3) concentrating diplomatic efforts on achieving free and fair elections; and (4) lifting the trade embargo against Cambodia.