United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1990
Amends the United States Institute of Peace Act (the Act) to authorize the U.S. Institute of Peace, through its Board of Directors, to award an annual Spark M. Matsunaga Medal of Peace and a cash award to a person or persons who have contributed in extraordinary ways to peace among the nations and peoples of the world, giving special attention to contributions advancing society's knowledge and skill in peacemaking and conflict management. Directs the Board to establish an advisory panel to advise in selection of award recipients. Requires the Institute to report to specified congressional committees on selection procedures. Authorizes the Institute, acting through the Board, to establish the Spark M. Matsunaga Scholars Program, which shall include the provision of scholarships and educational programs in international peace and conflict management and related fields for outstanding high school students, as well as scholarships to outstanding undergraduate students. Revises provisions relating to private gifts and contributions. Increases the amount authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year. Directs the Secretary of Education to make a grant to the Spark M. Matsunaga Peace Foundation for scholarships, grants, and endowed professorships to individuals and organizations pursuing peace studies and the application of conflict resolution techniques. Authorizes appropriations. Allows such Foundation to retain interest on such grant.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1990
Employer Sanctions Repeal Act of 1990 - Repeals specified provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), and the United States Code relating to the unlawful employment of aliens. Repeals specified provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA relating to unfair immigration-related employment practices. Continues the duties of the Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices regarding unfair immigration-related employment practices for one year after enactment of this Act, such duties thereafter to be assumed by the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Increases FY 1991 Border Patrol funding and personnel levels. Provides Border Patrol personnel training with respect to the rights and varied cultural backgrounds of aliens and citizens. Authorizes appropriations. Increases FY 1991 personnel levels for: (1) the Wage and Hour Division within the Employment Standards Administration of the Department of Labor; and (2) the Assistant United States Attorneys employed by the Department of Justice. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase penalties for bringing in or harboring certain aliens. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Attorney General should initiate discussions with Mexico and Canada with regard to the smuggling of aliens into the United States. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1990
Federal Laboratory Education Partnerships Act of 1990 - Requires each Federal "mission agency" to identify each area of scientific academic study critical to its mission and establish or designate: (1) an education office within the agency; and (2) certain programs to assist graduate, undergraduate, secondary, and elementary education in critical academic areas and train agency employees in such areas. Defines Federal "mission agency" as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, or any of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, Labor, or Transportation. Requires each Federal laboratory director to enter into education partnership agreements with public schools, colleges, and universities to promote and enhance scientific academic study at all educational levels. Requires mission agency education officials to review such agreements and provide model agreements. Requires each Federal laboratory director to make every effort to reach education partnership agreements with historically black colleges and universities and other public colleges and universities that serve Hispanic and other minority populations. Allows agency or contractor personnel to participate in programs under such agreements. Authorizes each mission agency and Federal laboratory, in carrying out this Act, to conduct or fund educational activities at an agency site, contractor site, or any other appropriate location. Requires each mission agency to report within one year to the Congress and the President on its actions to carry out this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1990
Designates August 1, 1990, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Authorizes and requests the President to: (1) reassert American commitment to the Helsinki Accords; (2) raise the issue of noncompliance with such Accords with any signatory nation which may be in violation; (3)convey to all signatories of such Accords that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is vital to progress in the ongoing Helsinki process; and (4) develop new proposals to advance the human rights objectives of the Helsinki process, including the self-determination of peoples.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1990
Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 1990 - Amends the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (the Act) to require that the Federal share, under provisions concerning planning priority area activities for persons with developmental disabilities (PWDDs) and provisions concerning university affiliated programs, of projects targeting people who live in (currently, projects located in) urban or rural poverty areas not exceed 90 percent. Allows the non-Federal share of any project under such planning provisions (currently, any project under the Act) to be provided in kind. Modifies requirements regarding the contents of an annual report by each State Planning Council to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Changes from April 1 to July 1 the due date for an annual report by the Secretary to the President, the Congress, and the National Council on Disability (currently, the President, the Congress, and the National Council on the Handicapped) and modifies requirements regarding the report's contents. Requires that representatives of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, the Administration on Aging, and the Health Resources and Services Administration be included on an interagency committee established under existing provisions. Imposes reporting requirements on the committee. Requires that the designated State agency: (1) receive, account for, and disburse funds under the planning provisions; and (2) provide administrative support services to the State Planning Council. Modifies requirements regarding State plan contents and accompanying assurances. Requires a limited portion of a State allotment to be available to pay up to one-half of the expenditures for the administration of the State plan (currently, for the exercise of the functions of the State designated agency). Allows State contributions under these provisions to be counted as part of that State's non-Federal share of allotments. Allows the Planning Council, after October 1, 1990, to request review by the Governor of the designation of the designated State agency. Removes certain reporting requirements applicable to each State Planning Council and each Governor. Requires each State Planning Council to use information developed under specified provisions in developing the State plan. Requires that each State Planning Council serve as an advocate for all PWDDs by carrying out priority area activities. Requires (currently, allows) each State Planning Council to prepare and approve a budget using amounts paid to the State under the provisions relating to planning priority area activities to fund activities under such provisions and to hire staff and obtain the services of such personnel as necessary. Requires each State Planning Council to hire a director. Requires each Council to develop and submit the State plan after consultation with (currently, develop the State plan jointly with) the State designated agency. Authorizes appropriations for allotments under provisions relating to planning priority area activities for PWDDs. Requires that a State system for protection and advocacy of individual rights of PWDDs (the system) annually: (1) develop a statement of objectives and priorities (currently, a statement of objectives); and (2) provide for comment by the public and specified others (currently, by the public). Modifies requirements regarding the right of the system to access to all records of certain PWDDs. Changes the notice and appeal requirements which must be met before a State may redesignate the agency implementing the system. Provides for the composition of a multimember governing board of a State system. Declares that: (1) the Act does not preclude a system from bringing a suit on behalf of PWDDs against a State or its agencies or instrumentalities; and (2) amounts received pursuant to such suits and used by the system are limited to furthering the purposes of provisions relating to protection and advocacy of individual rights for PWDDs and shall not be used to augment payments to legal contractors or to award personal bonuses. Directs the Secretary, notwithstanding any other provision of law, to pay allotments directly to any system which complies with such provisions relating to protection and advocacy. Authorizes appropriations for allotments under such provisions. Adds to the list of purposes of grants to university affiliated programs (UAPs) that of training personnel to address the needs of PWDDs in the areas of positive behavior management, assistive technology, and programs in other areas of national significance. Requires grants to UAPs to be: (1) in a specified amount, subject to waiver and exception; (2) awarded on a competitive basis; and (3) awarded for a period of three years. Directs the Secretary to require technical and qualitative review of grant applications by peer review groups as established under existing provisions and using specified criteria. Prohibits using the grants for administrative expenses or to carry out provisions relating to grants to UAPs to assist in the administration and operation of UAPs. Specifies the mandatory and permissive uses for grants for positive behavior management, assistive technology, and programs in other areas of national significance. Requires that recipient UAPs establish consumer advisory committees. Requires UAPs, in order to be eligible for funding, to have: (1) been operated for at least one year; and (2) demonstrated the capacity to develop an effective training program during the first year the program is operated. Extends through FY 1993 the requirement that the Secretary consider four applications for grants for UAPs or satellite centers for each fiscal year in addition to those receiving grants for the preceding fiscal year. Requires such UAPs and centers to be geographically distributed so as to serve States that are underserved as of October 29, 1990. Allows the Secretary, in certain circumstances, to consider applications from States already served by a UAP or center. Directs the Secretary to solicit and allows the Secretary to approve applications that encompass multiple universities. Adds references to on-site visits and inspections to provisions requiring technical and qualitative peer review. Requires such peer review to be coordinated with the peer review under specified provisions. Authorizes appropriations for UAPs. Adds references to improving supportive living and quality of life opportunities which enhance recreation, leisure, and fitness to the list of projects of national significance. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for technical assistance (currently, technical assistance and demonstration) projects which expand or improve the functions (currently, the advocacy functions) of the State Planning Councils and for other purposes similar to existing provisions. Authorizes appropriations to carry out provisions relating to projects of national significance.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1990
Designates July 1, 1990, as Imported Oil Dependence Day. Requires the Secretary of Energy to report to the Congress, annually, on July 1, of the extent of the reliance of the United States on imported oil during the previous year, and the extent of its projected reliance for the coming year.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990
Korean War Veterans Memorial Thirty-Eighth Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should recognize the 38th anniversary of the Korean War by minting and issuing a silver dollar coin. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue one-dollar silver coins to commemorate the 38th anniversary of the ending of the Korean War. Terminates such authority after December 31, 1991. Mandates that surcharges from the sale of such coins be used for the Korean War Veterans Memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990
Trade Agreement Compliance Act of 1990 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the United States Trade Representative (USTR), at the request of an interested person, to determine whether a foreign country is complying with any agreement it has with the United States. Requires the USTR to take specified action under the Act if he or she determines that such country is in material noncompliance with any agreement or is denying mutually advantageous market opportunities to U.S. firms. Requires the amendments made by this Act to be consistent with U.S. international obligations, including the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1990
Inter-American Scientific Cooperation Act of 1990 - Requires the National Science Foundation to establish the Inter-American Scientific Cooperation Program to increase the level of science and technology cooperation between the United States and Latin America. Requires the Program to identify and cooperate with private and governmental funding bodies, both in Latin America and in the United States, and to encourage cost-sharing and innovative financing of cooperative projects. Sets forth required Program elements, including establishment of an Inter-American Scientific Educational Development Exchange. Sets forth required Exchange activities, including graduate and post-doctoral fellowships in science and technology. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1993.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1990
Arts, Humanities, and Museums Amendments of 1990 - Title I: National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities - Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (NFAHA) to include all those traditional arts practiced by the diverse peoples of this country under the definition of "the arts." Includes among supportable projects those that: (1) develop and enhance the widest public knowledge and understanding of the arts; (2) encourage public education in the arts; (3) enhance managerial and organizational skills and capacities; or (4) are international projects or productions. Authorizes contracts or grants to stimulate artistic activity and awareness which are in keeping with the varied cultural traditions of this Nation. Directs the Chairpersons of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to employ practical national information systems on the arts and on the humanities to prepare quadrennial (currently, biennial) state of the arts reports for the President and the Congress. Authorizes NEH financial assistance to foster programs and projects that provide access to and preserve materials important to research, education, and public understanding of the humanities. Authorizes the following NEH annual awards: (1) the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities; and (2) the Charles Frankel Prize, to up to five persons each year for outstanding contributions to the public's understanding of the humanities. Repeals authorization for a study of Federal support to museums by the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 for the NEA and the NEH. Title II: Museum Services - Amends the Museum Services Act (MSA) to revise membership and meetings of the National Museum Service Board and certain provisions concerning the Director of the Institute of Museum Services. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) grants to museums to increase and improve museum services; and (2) the Institute of Museum Services. Amends the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act to increase the maximum limits, for indemnity agreements under such Act, on: (1) aggregate loss or damage covered by all such agreements at any one time; (2) loss or damage covered for a single exhibition; and (3) the deductible for a single exhibition, according to the amount covered. Title III: Miscellaneous - Amends the Arts, Humanities, and Museums Amendments of 1985 to repeal the mandate for a study by the Comptroller General, which was due one year after the enactment of such Act, on alternative Federal funding of the arts and humanities. Amends Federal law relating to Federal officials to add the Director of the Institute of Museum Services to the list of positions at level IV of the Executive Schedule.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Prehistoric Trackways Study Act of 1990 - Withdraws approximately 40 acres in the Robledo Mountains in New Mexico from the operation of public land laws, except for mineral leasing, for up to two years after conclusion of the study mandated by this Act. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the alternatives for the protection and interpretation of the fossil resources of the Robledo Mountains. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Designates September 21, 1990, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Recognizes the National League of Families POW/MIA flag as the official symbol of the United States' commitment to resolving the fates of Americans still prisoner or missing in action in Southeast Asia.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1990
Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 to extend through FY 1992: (1) special refugee categories for certain Soviet and Indochinese nationals; and (2) status adjustment for certain Soviet and Indochinese parolees.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1990
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to limit Medicare coverage of chiropractic services to diagnostic x-rays, appropriate physical examinations, and spinal adjustments conducted by State-licensed chiropractors who are legally authorized by the State to provide such services.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1990
Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to grant Inspectors General the authority to determine: (1) the persons subject to, and the nature, scope, and purposes of, the audits and investigations they conduct relating to the programs administered by their agency, including programs under regulatory statutes; and (2) their authority to conduct those audits and investigations. Prohibits the conduct of such audits or investigations from being construed as carrying out a program operating responsibility.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990
Amends the New Mexico Enabling Act to authorize the State commissioner of public lands to exchange any land granted or confirmed by such Act for other Federal and public lands under certain specified conditions. Grants congressional consent to certain amendments to the New Mexico Constitution, effective June 20, 1910.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990
Homelessness Prevention and Community Revitalization Act of 1990 - Title I: Family Support Centers - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to eligible agencies (as defined in this Act) for comprehensive supportive services for low-income families, especially very low-income families living in subsidized housing who were previously homeless or who are at risk of becoming homeless. Requires a participating agency to: (1) establish at least one primary location family support center; and (2) employ family case managers. Authorizes planning grants. Title II: Provision of Services to Elderly Individuals and Individuals With Chronic and Debilitating Illnesses and Conditions - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary to make grants to eligible agencies for health and related services for low-income elderly or low-income seriously ill persons, especially very low-income elderly or seriously ill persons who were homeless or who are at risk of becoming homeless or institutionalized. Requires a participating agency to establish at least one primary location home health service program. Authorizes planning grants. Title III: Mental Health Services Grants for Group Homes for Homeless Individuals - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary to make grants to eligible agencies for housing based services to previously homeless low-income mentally ill persons who will reside in a group home. Requires a participating agency to establish a primary location mental health services program. Authorizes planning grants. Provides with regard to grants under titles I, II, and III of this Act for: (1) 80 percent Federal funding; (2) maximum grants of $50,000 per agency; (3) obligated amounts for staff training; and (4) FY 1991 through 1995 appropriations. Title IV: Community Development Corporation Improvement Grants - Amends the Community Economic Development Act of 1981 to direct the Secretary to make grants for community development corporation: (1) business management enhancement; (2) operations; and (3) equity accounts for low-income housing development. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Plan for Cooperation - Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to prepare and submit to the appropriate congressional committees a specified cooperation plan.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Greyhound Lines, Inc., and the Amalgamated Transit Union should negotiate to resolve their dispute promptly, under the auspices of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the Secretary of Labor.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1990
Radiation-Exposed Veterans Compensation Amendments of 1990 - Amends Federal provisions relating to the payment of disability compensation due to certain diseases and disabilities presumed to be service-connected to remove the current limitation on the required manifestation period (either 40 or 30 years from the date on which a veteran last participated in a radiation-risk activity). Adds cancer of the salivary gland and cancer of the urinary tract to the list of diseases that will be presumed to be service-connected for purposes of such disability compensation. Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to compile a list of military activities that are likely to have resulted in exposure to ionizing radiation above background levels. Requires the Secretary, immediately after including an activity on such list, to direct the Veterans' Advisory Committee on Environmental Hazards to determine whether an association exists between the maximum level of exposure experienced by an individual and one or more of the diseases listed as presumptively service-connected for purposes of veterans' disability compensation. Requires the Secretary, after receiving a report from the Committee on such activities, to: (1) establish a presumption of service-connection between such activity and any of the diseases listed; or (2) determine that available scientific evidence clearly establishes that there is no reasonable possibility of an association between that disease and participation in that activity.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1990
Comprehensive Assistance to Substance Abusing Families Act of 1990 - Title I: Provisions Relating to the Public Health Service Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish: (1) a program to gather information concerning existing impediments in Federal laws, regulations, and practices that interfere with the provision of comprehensive, coherent local treatment services to parents with drug or alcohol problems, especially pregnant and post-partum women, and with the provision of comprehensive, coherent preventive services to children, youth, and families at risk; and (2) an Interagency Committee on Parental Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish challenge grant programs for State and local entities through the establishment of interagency demonstration projects to assist: (1) parents with alcohol and drug problems, including pregnant and post-partum women, and their children; and (2) youth at risk of alcohol and drug problems. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a program to inform the public of any dangers to maternal and child health resulting from drug and alcohol use during the pregnancy and post-partum period. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance and make grants to States to assist in the development and distribution of educational programs and materials and public service announcements. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the Office for Treatment Improvement and the Director of the Office of Maternal and Child Health, to make grants to eligible entities for the establishment of pilot programs at not fewer than 20 State and local jails or prisons to provide comprehensive drug and alcohol abuse treatment services for women and, in the event of pregnancy, prenatal and post-partum care. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to make grants to States to assist in developing statewide, comprehensive, coordinated, multidisciplinary, interagency systems to provide early intervention and family preservation services for families at risk of drug and alcohol abuse and their children. Allows States, notwithstanding any other provision of law and in addition to amounts made available under this Act, to use amounts made available under specified provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to family preservation services. Requires matching State funds in a specified percentage. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to make grants to between ten and 15 States to establish model coordinated education, health, and social service programs for children, especially children living in areas of concentrated poverty and social dislocation, including services relating to health or mental health, education, early education and child care, welfare, juvenile justice, alcohol and drug prevention and treatment, or other social services that can be shown to be effective in preventing long-term damage. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Provisions Relating to the Social Security Act - Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to presume that any child is disabled or blind if the child is under the age of four years and has a genetic, congenital, or alcohol or drug related impairment, the medical severity of which cannot be accurately determined because the child is too young, and with respect to whom the Secretary has determined that it is probable that, when the child is older, a test will demonstrate that the child suffers from an impairment of sufficient severity to qualify the child for benefits under such title. Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow a State, under its Medicaid plan, to furnish free-standing alcohol and drug treatment services and related case management services to alcoholic and drug dependent women of child-bearing age eligible for assistance under the title who desire to rid themselves of drug and alcohol problems. Title III: Provisions Relating to Education - Amends the Head Start Act to require that special consideration for enrollment opportunities under the Head Start Program be provided to children who were born exposed to alcohol or drugs. Directs the Secretary of Education to prepare a report concerning the preparedness of the school system of the United States to meet the special needs of children born affected by alcohol or drugs. Title IV: Provisions Relating to Other Acts - Amends provisions of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act setting forth certain definitions to add references to children who are affected by the alcohol or drug abuse of their mother. Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to authorize appropriations to carry out specified provisions of that Act. Amends provisions of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 relating to the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to allow State program agencies to include residential alcohol and drug treatment programs serving pregnant women and juveniles in their special supplemental food program. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to increase the budget authority available under specified provisions, to be used only in connection with certain existing housing programs for occupancy by families where the provision of housing is a significant factor in avoiding initial or continued placement of a child in foster care. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 and the United States Housing Act of 1949 to prohibit considering the temporary absence of a child from the home due to placement in foster care in considering family composition and family size. Requires the Indian Health Service to make grants to entities to provide assistance to drug and alcohol abuse treatment programs, relating to Native American pregnant and post-partum women and their infants, that meet certain requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Replaces Public Health Service Act provisions authorizing grants for drug and alcohol abuse prevention, education, and treatment for pregnant and post-partum women and their infants with provisions directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Director of the Office for Substance Abuse Prevention, to make grants to provide assistance to outpatient and residential drug and alcohol abuse treatment programs relating to pregnant and post-partum females and their infants. Requires the grants to be reasonably distributed among outpatient and residential programs. (Current law requires grants to be distributed among inpatient, outpatient, and residential programs.) Requires grant recipients to provide, arrange for, or refer individuals to specified services. Requires non-Federal matching funds in a specified percentage. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Enchanted National Forests Information and Education Study Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, to study the opportunities for establishing a center providing information on the national forests in New Mexico and for expanding the environmental education program for such forests. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into a self-determination contract with the Navajo Academy Inc., in New Mexico, to construct facilities for a high school for gifted Native Americans on the Navajo Reservation. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990
Cochiti Land Exchange Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to exercise a land exchange option regarding lands offered by Dunigan Enterprises (Baca Location No. 1, New Mexico) in return for National Forest lands in Sandoval County, New Mexico. Mandates the payment of additional compensation to Dunigan Enterprises after the conveyances have been completed. Provides that the lands conveyed to the United States shall become part of the Santa Fe National Forest. Directs the Secretary to study the Baca Location No. 1 and report the results to certain congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990
Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize the U.S. Marshals Service to designate districts that need additional support from private detention entities based on the number of detainees in the district and the availability of Federal, State, and local government detention facilities. Requires, in order to be eligible for a contract for the housing, care, and security of persons held in custody of the U.S. Marshal and for funding, that such an entity: (1) be located in a district designated as needing additional Federal detention facilities; (2) meet the standards of the American Correctional Association; (3) comply with all applicable State and local laws and regulations; (4) have approved fire, security, escape, and riot plans; and (5) comply with any other regulations that the Marshals Service deems appropriate.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990
Congressional Recycling Act of 1990 - Requires the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate to purchase recycled paper and paper products for use to the greatest extent practicable in the operations of the House and the Senate. Directs the Public Printer to assure that the Government Printing Office uses recycled paper in providing services to the House.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990
National Forest Recycled Paper Act of 1990 - Requires the Director of the General Services Administration (GSA), for a one-year period, to make available to the Secretary of Agriculture recycled paper for all standard uses. Authorizes other Federal agencies to use recycled paper and to purchase such paper through GSA. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, to use recycled paper for paperwork and printing during this one-year period. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1990
Prohibits the obligation of funds appropriated after this Act's enactment for procurement or military construction for the MX rail garrison missile system. Reduces current procurement and construction funds requested for such system.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990
National Tree Trust Act of 1990 - Title I: National Tree Trust - Authorizes the President to designate a private nonprofit organization meeting certain criteria the National Tree Trust Foundation, which shall promote tree planting. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make a grant to the Foundation in FY 1991. Title II: Assistance for Tree Planting and Forest Improvement - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish rural and community tree planting and forest improvement programs as special components of the Rural and Urban Forestry Assistance Programs under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act. Provides for financial, technical, and related assistance to State foresters in order to assist nonindustrial private landowners, local governments, civic organizations, and individuals to plant, maintain, and improve trees and forests. Authorizes the Secretary to develop a cost-sharing program (with a Federal share of up to 75 percent) to encourage tree planting and management on nonindustrial private lands. Title III: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990
Amends the Zuni-Cibola National Historical Park Establishment Act of 1988 to extend the deadline for the establishment of the Zuni-Cibola National Historical Park.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990
Mimbres Culture National Monument Establishment Act of 1990 - Establishes the Mimbres Culture National Monument in New Mexico as a unit of the National Park System. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a visitor center and administrative headquarters for the Monument in Silver City, New Mexico. Requires the Secretary to develop and transmit to specified congressional committees a general management plan for such monument. Establishes the Mimbres Archeological Site Protection System for protecting, researching, and integrating information about the Mimbres Culture. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990
Declares that a specified sector of the McGregor Range (New Mexico), which is co-managed by the Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau of Land Management under an agreement with the Secretary of the Army, shall be deemed to be land that the Secretary of the Interior administers through the Bureau of Land Management (thus making such land eligible for payments in lieu of taxes to local governments).
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1990
Yosemite National Park Centennial Medal Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and sell medals in commemoration of the centennial of Yosemite National Park, California, in 1990. Requires that all sales of such medals include a surcharge of $2 each. Requires that all surcharges be paid to an endowment fund for the benefit of the Park to be administered by the National Park Foundation. Requires that the net income from the fund be paid to the Secretary of the Interior to fund special supplemental projects relating to back country trail development and rehabilitation and the preservation of Sequoia groves within the boundaries of the Park. Requires the Secretaries to enter into a memorandum of agreement to allow: (1) the Secretary of the Treasury to deliver medals to the Secretary of the Interior; and (2) the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the sale of the medals in National Park facilities. Grants the Comptroller General the right to examine all records of the National Park Foundation which are related to such medals.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1990
Summer Science Academy Act of 1990 - Directs the National Science Foundation to make grants, contracts, or agreements for at least 20 Summer Science Academies for talented, economically disadvantaged minority students in grades seven through 12 to study mathematics, science, engineering design, and communications. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1990
National Forest Foundation Act - Establishes the National Forest Foundation to promote and support activities of the Forest Service. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1990
Urges the President to: (1) continue efforts to encourage Pakistan, India, and other non-nuclear-weapon states that are not parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to agree to full-scope nuclear safeguards; (2) urge current adherents to such Treaty to join the United States in seeking these objectives; and (3) continue and expand efforts to encourage all nuclear supplier nations to require such safeguards as a condition for future nuclear commerce and cooperation with all non-nuclear-weapon nations.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Parents as Teachers: the Family Involvement in Education Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make grants to States for parents as teachers programs. Makes eligible for such a grant any State which operates a parents as teachers program associated with the Parents as Teachers National Center in Missouri. Sets forth program requirements, limiting services to families during the period from the last three months of a mother's pregnancy to the child's attaining age three. Prohibits requiring any person to participate in any program of parent education or developmental screening, or any program for developmentally delayed children. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a Parents as Teachers National Center for information dissemination and technical and training assistance for States with such programs; and (2) evaluate such programs within four years. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1990
Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to establish, within the Technology Administration at the Department of Commerce, the Office of International Technology Monitoring to: (1) establish a clearinghouse on world-wide science and technology developments and analysis; (2) maintain a data base on such matters; (3) work with other Federal agencies to track emerging areas of technology; (4) identify public and private sector scientific and technological information requirements; and (5) assure regular reviews by industry sector advisory committees and experts at Federal laboratories.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1990
Rural Air Service Preservation Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation, for any period before September 30, 1998, to enter into contracts with air carriers to assure air service to certain small communities for which a determination of essential air transportation has been made under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1990
Trade Agreement Compliance Act of 1990 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the United States Trade Representative (USTR), at the request of an interested person, to determine whether a foreign country is complying with any agreement it has with the United States. Requires the USTR to take specified action under the Act if he or she determines that such country is in material noncompliance with any agreement or is denying mutually advantageous market opportunities to U.S. firms. Directs the USTR, in the event of an affirmative determination, to evaluate the overall trade performance of such country. Requires the USTR to develop, during the course of a determination or evaluation, a list of possible sanctions against a country which is noncompliant or which denies U.S. firms market opportunities.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Acknowledges that Jerusalem is and should remain the capital of the State of Israel. Declares that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic religious group are protected. Calls upon all parties involved in the search for peace to maintain their efforts to bring about negotiations between Israel and Palestinian representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990
Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Prevention Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, to make grants to States, with regard to breast and cervical cancer, for screening, referrals and follow-up services, public information and education programs, education and training for health professionals, quality monitoring of screening, and evaluations of such activities. Sets forth preferences in making the grants and requires equitable geographical distribution. Requires matching non-Federal funds in a specified ratio. Requires that States agree to: (1) provide all of certain services by a specified date; (2) switch to any improved screening procedures which become available; and (3) assure the quality of any screening procedures used. Directs the Secretary to establish guidelines for assuring the quality of mammography and cytological screening conducted under these provisions. Requires that low-income women be given priority in the provision of services. Requires that a charge for services, if any: (1) be made according to a public schedule; (2) be adjusted for income of the woman involved; and (3) not be imposed on any woman with incomes below the poverty line. Requires services to be provided throughout a State, including to members of any Indian tribe or tribal organization. Authorizes the Secretary to provide training and technical assistance. Directs the Secretary to provide for annual evaluations of programs carried out under this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Limits the number of grants made to seven in FY 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990
Medicare Supplemental Policy Consumer Warning Act - Prohibits any advertisement, direct mail solicitation, or proffer of a contract for a Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) supplemental health insurance policy without the prominent broadcast or display of a specified warning that such policies cover only a small portion of the costs not covered by Medicare. Imposes a $100,000 fine for each violation of such warning requirement.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990
Nonconventional Fuels Production Incentives Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend for two years the credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source. Provides for the treatment of gas produced from a tight formation in the same manner as other types of nonconventional fuel.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1990
Pecos National Historical Park Act - Establishes the Pecos National Historical Park in New Mexico. Repeals a provision of Federal law establishing the Pecos National Monument and makes funds that were available for such Monument available for the Park. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1990
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Federal Government should be responsible for establishing a national interstate transportation system; and (2) the President, in coordination with Federal transportation, environmental, trade, and commerce officials, should work to develop a national policy on transportation.
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