Bill· SS. 3271 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1990
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to revise its application. Revises minimum wage and maximum hours provisions (as well as provisions for special industry committees for American Samoa) to apply such requirements specifically to employers of employees who in any workweek are engaged in industrial homework and who are either engaged in commerce or in the production of goods in commerce. Revises the scope of the application of requirements relating to wage rate orders for employers in American Samoa, prohibition of sex discrimination in wage rates, and handicapped workers.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 343 (101st)passed
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1990
Recognizes the important part the Alaska Highway played in the defense of our Nation and the settling of Alaska and the ever-important role it will inevitably play in our future. States that this highway should be maintained in a condition that encourages people throughout the Nation to travel it.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 384 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1990
Designates May 17, 1991, as High School Reserve Officer Training Corps Recognition Day.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 383 (101st)passed
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1990
Designates November 16, 1990, as National Federation of the Blind Day.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 337 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1990
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of the Senate and the Architect of the Capitol shall take necessary action to assure that recycled paper and paper products are used to the greatest extent practicable in the Senate operations, unless they: (1) are not available; (2) are available only at an unreasonable price; or (3) fail to meet end-use performance requirements. Requires the Joint Committee on Printing to examine the role of the Public Printer and to urge, in providing printing and other services to the Senate, the Government Printing Office to use recycled paper and paper products to the greatest extent practicable. Requires the Secretary of the Senate to report on the implementation of this resolution in the Senate.
Bill· SS. 3177 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1990
Amends the Federal criminal code to include among those subject to penalties of up to 15 years' imprisonment, fines, or both, for operation of a common carrier under the influence of alcohol or drugs, individuals who operate or direct the operation of such carriers while having in their system: (1) a blood alcohol content of .02 percent or more; and (2) a quantity of alcohol or a controlled substance sufficient to impair the perception, mental processes, or motor functions of the average individual. Makes the provisions of this Act inapplicable to violations occurring before enactment of this Act.
Law· SJRESS.J.Res. 375 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1990
Designates October 30, 1990, as Refugee Day.
Bill· SS. 3136 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1990
Four Percent Solution Budget Act - Title I: The Four Percent Solution - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to impose a four-percent cap on increases in outlays from the preceding year. Extends certain provisions and the terminating date of such Act through FY 1997 (currently, FY 1993). Excludes receipts and disbursements of the Resolution Trust Corporation from the budget deficit or any other totals of the budget. Amends the Congressional Budget Act to adjust the allowable maximum deficit amounts until there is a zero deficit in FY 1997. Requires the President to issue a midyear sequester on March 15 necessary to meet deficit and outlay targets. Requires the Congressional Budget Office and the Office of Management and Budget to make specified preliminary reports to the President before the issuance of such sequester. Title II: Preparation of the Budget - Amends Federal law to revise required budget contents with respect to estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations for the current fiscal year and the next fiscal year. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the starting point for deliberations in the Committees on the Budget in the House of Representatives and in the Senate on the concurrent resolution on the budget for the next fiscal year to be the estimated level of outlays for the current year in each function and subfunction. Revises content requirements for the report accompanying such resolution. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to include in the report to the Budget Committees the estimated budget outlays in all functions and subfunctions for appropriated accounts for the current fiscal year and estimated budget outlays under current law for all entitlement programs for the next fiscal year. Title III: Pay-As-You-Go Budget - Prohibits the concurrent resolution on the budget from causing: (1) total budget outlays (excluding outlays of the Resolution Trust Corporation) to exceed the outlays target for that fiscal year; and (2) the recommended level of Federal revenues (excluding revenues of the Corporation) to be less than the recommended level of Federal revenues for the preceding fiscal year (excluding revenues of the Corporation). Prohibits a concurrent resolution on the budget from: (1) providing for an outlay excess in a functional category unless it provides for a decrease in budget outlays in another functional category; or (2) providing for a reduction in the recommended level of Federal revenues below that set forth in the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget for the preceding year, unless it provides for a reduction in budget outlays below the appropriate level established for the preceding year. Allows a waiver of such prohibitions by a three-fifths vote of each House of Congress. Makes it out of order in the Senate and in the House to consider a concurrent resolution under which the recommended level of revenues for a fiscal year exceeds the appropriate level of total budget outlays for that fiscal year unless the resolution specifies the purposes for which the excess revenues are to be allocated. Makes conforming amendments to Federal law with respect to the President's budget.
Bill· SS. 3131 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1990
Disability Determination Fairness Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) and title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations which provide for the State Disability Determination Service to conduct personal appearance interviews of applicants with a mental, cardiovascular, or musculoskeletal disability who, on the basis of an initial disability determination by the Service, are subject to potentially unfavorable determinations of benefit eligibility. Grants an applicant who is denied benefits on the basis of such an interview an immediate right to appeal directly to an administrative law judge without going through the reconsideration stage.
Bill· SS. 3122 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1990
Four Percent Solution Budget Act - Title I: The Four Percent Solution - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to impose a four-percent cap on increases in outlays from the preceding year. Extends certain provisions and the terminating date of such Act through FY 1997 (currently, FY 1993). Excludes receipts and disbursements of the Resolution Trust Corporation from the budget deficit or any other totals of the budget. Amends the Congressional Budget Act to adjust the allowable maximum deficit amounts until there is a zero deficit in FY 1997. Requires the President to issue a midyear sequester on March 15 necessary to meet deficit and outlay targets. Requires the Congressional Budget Office and the Office of Management and Budget to make specified preliminary reports to the President before the issuance of such sequester. Title II: Preparation of the Budget - Amends Federal law to revise required budget contents with respect to estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations for the current fiscal year and the next fiscal year. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the starting point for deliberations in the Committees on the Budget in the House of Representatives and in the Senate on the concurrent resolution on the budget for the next fiscal year to be the estimated level of outlays for the current year in each function and subfunction. Revises content requirements for the report accompanying such resolution. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to include in the report to the Budget Committees the estimated budget outlays in all functions and subfunctions for appropriated accounts for the current fiscal year and estimated budget outlays under current law for all entitlement programs for the next fiscal year. Title III: Pay-As-You-Go Budget - Prohibits the concurrent resolution on the budget from causing: (1) total budget outlays (excluding outlays of the Resolution Trust Corporation) to exceed the outlays target for that fiscal year; and (2) the recommended level of Federal revenues (excluding revenues of the Corporation) to be less than the recommended level of Federal revenues for the preceding fiscal year (excluding revenues of the Corporation). Prohibits a concurrent resolution on the budget from: (1) providing for an outlay excess in a functional category unless it provides for a decrease in budget outlays in another functional category; or (2) providing for a reduction in the recommended level of Federal revenues below that set forth in the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget for the preceding year, unless it provides for a reduction in budget outlays below the appropriate level established for the preceding year. Allows a waiver of such prohibitions by a three-fifths vote of each House of Congress. Makes it out of order in the Senate and in the House to consider a concurrent resolution under which the recommended level of revenues for a fiscal year exceeds the appropriate level of total budget outlays for that fiscal year unless the resolution specifies the purposes for which the excess revenues are to be allocated. Makes conforming amendments to Federal law with respect to the President's budget.
Bill· SS. 3102 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1990
SSI Independence Act for Elderly and Disabled Americans - Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to exclude from an SSI recipient's income in SSI eligibility and benefit determinations, contributions of clothing and other contributions, other than cash paid directly to the recipient, which are for the purchase of social services, vocational rehabilitation services, medical care, transportation, educational services, personal assistance or attendant care services, and certain services or equipment related to the quality and livability of his or her shelter. Excludes a trust created for an SSI recipient's benefit from such recipient's resources if such recipient does not have access to the trust's assets. Excludes funds or property placed in a trust for an SSI recipient's benefit from such recipient's income. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide notices and pamphlets to SSI applicants and recipients informing them of the consequences various actions affecting their income and resources will have on their SSI and Medicaid (title XIX of the Social Security Act) eligibility. Deems SSI applicants who lost disability benefits under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act after their trial work period to have received SSI benefits while still eligible for OASDI disability benefits and therefore qualify for participation in the SSI work incentive program (providing Medicaid and special SSI cash benefits to disabled individuals whose earnings otherwise make them ineligible for SSI and Medicaid benefits) if they meet SSI income, resource, and disability tests. Provides that reviews to determine the continuing disability of participants in the SSI work incentive program need to be conducted no more frequently than once every 12 months. Excludes spousal income in determining a disabled and working individual's eligibility for participation in the SSI work incentive program. Precludes the attainment of age 65 from serving as a basis for the termination of Medicaid eligibility under the SSI work incentive program. Requires that State supplementary cash payments to the needy include participants in the SSI work incentive program. Excludes impairment-related work expenses from the income of an individual who is eligible for SSI and OASDI disability benefits but receives only State supplementary payments. Treats royalties from the publication of an individual's work and scholarships which have not been used for education expenses as earned income.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 326 (101st)passed
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1990
Designates October 8 through 12, 1990, as Youth Space Education Week.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 365 (101st)passed
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1990
Designates the month of October 1990 as Country Music Month.
Law· SJRESS.J.Res. 366 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1990
Designates March 30, 1991, as National Doctors Day.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 367 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1990
Designates November 11 through 17, 1990, as Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 363 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1990
Designates October 22 through 28, 1990, as International Parental Child Abduction Awareness Week.
Bill· SS. 3042 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1990
Comprehensive Health Care Act of 1990 - Title I: Medicare Reimbursement for Rural Hospitals - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission to each submit to the Congress a report recommending a methodology for the elimination of the system of determining separate average standardized amounts for hospitals in large urban, other urban, or rural areas. Title II: Joint Use of High Technology Equipment and Services by Hospitals - Declares that, notwithstanding any provision of antitrust laws, it shall not be considered a violation of antitrust laws for hospitals to jointly undertake, in the provision of care, the purchasing, contracting for, or sharing of high technology equipment and services. Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out demonstration projects to assist hospitals in acquiring and sharing high technology equipment and services. Directs the Secretary to make grants for up to three years to States for the Federal share of costs (50 percent). Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Health Care Claims Procedures and Minimum Benefits - Directs the Secretary to request the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to develop: (1) model regulations and laws to provide a uniform, low-cost, minimum health insurance benefit package for purchase by individuals, businesses, and governmental entities; and (2) a plan for standardizing public and private insurance forms, including simplification of terminology and claims procedures to facilitate comparison between policies and to enhance access to quality policies. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to declare that health insurance issued under an employee welfare benefit plan is not excluded from provisions relating to supersedure of State laws. Title IV: Tax Incentives - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction of 100 percent (currently, 25 percent) of the amount paid for health insurance for a self-employed individual and that individual's spouse and dependents. Removes a provision terminating this deduction after FY 1990. Amends provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to refundable credits to allow a credit for a portion of the qualified health insurance expenses paid by an individual who is not covered by a health plan maintained by an employer of the individual or the individual's spouse. Sets forth special rules regarding coordination with advance payments and minimum tax, Medicare-eligible individuals, and subsidized expenses. Requires every employer paying wages to an employee who has certified to the employer that the employee is eligible for the credit to make an additional payment equal to the employee's dependent care advance amount. Requires that the health insurance expenses advance amount be determined on the basis of the employee's wages, the employee's estimated health insurance expenses, and tables provided by the Secretary. Sets forth special rules regarding self-employed individuals. Excludes expenses paid as a credit from treatment as expenses paid for medical care under provisions relating to itemized deductions. Includes expenditures for disease prevention and health promotion in the definition of medical care. Title V: Malpractice Reform - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Assistant Secretary for Health, through the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, to establish treatment practice guidelines specifying appropriate, inappropriate, and permissive methods of evaluation and treatment. Prohibits, except by a provider party to an action and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the standards from being introduced in evidence in any action in a Federal or State court. Provides for review and modifications of the guidelines. Establishes the National Advisory Council on Treatment Practice Guidelines. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Social Security Act to require that determinations made by a peer review organization regarding whether payment shall be made under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Act be made on the basis of guidelines established under specified provisions of the Public Health Service Act. Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Assistant Secretary of Health, through the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, to establish a program of grants to assist States in establishing prelitigation panels to identify meritorious claims of professional negligence, encourage resolution prior to lawsuit, and encourage withdrawal or dismissal of nonmeritorious claims. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: Physician Issues - Subtitle A: Tax Incentives for Rural Practice - Rural Primary Care Incentives Act of 1989 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable income tax credit of up to $12,000 per year (lifetime total of $36,000) for any physician who provides primary health services to residents of a rural health manpower shortage area and who is not receiving assistance under specified National Health Service Corps programs. Permits advance credit payments through income tax withholding. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study and report to the Congress concerning: (1) the need for non-physician primary care providers in targeted rural areas; (2) the effectiveness of the tax credit in increasing the supply of primary care physicians in the targeted areas; and (3) alternative methods of defining rural health manpower shortage areas. Excludes from gross income any payments made on behalf of a taxpayer by the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment program. Subtitle B: Student Loan Deferment - Resident Physician Student Loan Deferment Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow resident physicians to defer repayment of certain student loans while completing a resident training program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or the Accrediting Committee of the American Osteopathic Association. Title VII: Long-Term Care Insurance - Amends provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to definitions and special rules involving life insurance companies to require that references to noncancellable accident or health insurance contracts be treated as including a reference to qualified long-term care insurance. Defines "qualified long-term care insurance" to mean insurance which provides coverage for at least 12 months and which meets other requirements. Requires that benefits received through long-term care insurance be treated as amounts received through accident or health insurance for personal injuries or sickness. Requires that expenses incurred to the extent of benefits paid under long-term care insurance be treated as incurred for medical care. Requires any reference to an accident or health plan to be treated as including a reference to a plan providing long-term care insurance. Provides for the deductibility of employer and taxpayer premiums for long-term care insurance. Excludes from gross income amounts withdrawn from individual retirement plans for long-term care insurance premiums. Requires that any amount paid to an individual under a life insurance contract on the life of an insured who is terminally ill, has a dread disease, or has been permanently confined to a nursing home be treated as an amount paid by reason of the death of the insured. Requires any reference to life insurance to be treated as including a reference to a rider providing for payment upon the insured becoming a terminally ill individual or incurring a dread disease. Includes such riders in the definition of "qualified additional benefits" as a part of the definition of "life insurance contract." Title VIII: State Uninsurable Pool Programs - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to allocate funds to States for the Federal share of establishing State uninsurable pool programs to provide health insurance for medically uninsurable individuals. Makes the amount of an allotment dependent on the population of a State. Sets the Federal share at 75 percent. Authorizes appropriations. Title IX: Medicaid Coverage Demonstration Projects - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into agreements with two States for demonstration projects to study the effect on access to, and costs of, health care of eliminating the categorical eligibility requirement for Medicaid benefits for certain low-income individuals. Specifies the benefits which must be provided under the projects. Limits (in some cases prohibits) premiums and other cost-sharing. Requires the projects to be conducted for three years. Limits the total Federal amount paid in specified fiscal years.
Law· SJRESS.J.Res. 362 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1990
Designates November 18 through 24, 1990, as National Adoption Week.
Bill· SS. 3021 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1990
National Voter Registration Enhancement Act of 1990 - Title I: Voter Registration Enhancement - Authorizes appropriations to the Attorney General for block grants to States to enhance voter registration for elections for Federal office by providing for: (1) registration at State departments of motor vehicles; (2) registration by mail; (3) registration at State-related and Federal and appropriate private-sector locations; and (4) programs to ensure that official voter registration lists are accurate and current. Requires States to match Federal funds dollar for dollar to qualify for block grants. Directs the Attorney General to establish: (1) criteria for allocation of grants among States; and (2) administrative requirements for States to meet to be eligible for block grants. Directs the Attorney General, in promulgating criteria for such an allocation, to give special consideration to State-sponsored programs designed to improve registration in counties with voter registration percentages significantly lower than that for the State as a whole. Outlines provisions regarding State certifications to receive block grants. Makes the chief election official of each State responsible for coordination of State functions under this title. Makes the Attorney General responsible for coordination of Federal functions under this Act. Directs the Attorney General to provide information to States with respect to State responsibilities under this Act and to periodically report to the Congress on the impact of this Act on the administration of elections for Federal office, with recommendations for improvements in Federal and State procedures, forms, and other matters affected by this Act. Title II: Public Corruption - Amends the Federal criminal code to prescribe criminal penalties to be imposed against anyone who uses any facility of, or affects, interstate or foreign commerce to defraud the inhabitants of the United States, a State, a political subdivision of a State, or Indian country of: (1) the honest services of a government official or employee; or (2) a fair and impartially conducted election process through the use of fraudulent ballots or voter registration forms or the filing of fraudulent campaign reports to secure the election of an official who, if elected, would have authority over the administration of funds derived from an Act of Congress totalling $10,000 or more for a year before or after the election or offense. Prescribes criminal penalties to be imposed against anyone who defrauds the inhabitants of the United States of the honest services of a public official. Prescribes criminal penalties to be imposed upon any official who: (1) uses interstate commerce to defraud the inhabitants of the United States, a State, a political subdivision of a State, or Indian country of the right to have government affairs conducted on the basis of complete, true, and accurate information; or (2) in order to carry out or conceal any scheme or artifice to defraud, discriminates against, harrasses, or takes adverse action against any employee or official of the United States, any State or political subdivision, or an Indian tribal government. Amends mail fraud provisions to prohibit the use of any facility of interstate or foreign commerce in the execution of a scheme or artifice to defraud.
Bill· SS. 2988 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990
Employee Educational Assistance Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the income tax exclusion of amounts paid under employee educational assistance programs. (Under current law the exclusion expires for taxable years beginning after September 30, 1990.) Repeals provisions that deny assistance for graduate work.
Bill· SS. 2998 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990
Family Planning Services Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require that voluntary family planning projects receiving grants or contracts offer adoption referral services. Removes provisions allowing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reduce the amount of the grant by the value of supplies or equipment furnished by the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for specified amounts to promote education concerning sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV disease. Repeals existing formula grant provisions. Authorizes grants and contracts for technical assistance and personnel training to carry out family planning service and information and education provisions. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes grants and contracts under existing provisions for contraceptive evaluation as well as contraceptive development. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct, and make grants and contracts for applied research regarding, and evaluations of, contraceptive devices, drugs, and methods. Authorizes appropriations. Defines "contraceptive" to include methods which prevent fertilization or implantation in the uterus. Excludes from the definition any drug, device, or method which terminates the pregnancy after implantation, and prohibits the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development from supporting research on any such drug, device, or method. Directs the Secretary to collect data annually relating to: (1) certain individuals at risk of unintended pregnancies; and (2) sources of funding for and usage of family planning services. Requires all grantees under provisions relating to population research and voluntary family planning programs to provide education concerning self breast examinations. Makes a specified sum available for research on the impact of family planning services in a single State that prohibits by law the use of public funds for family planning services to an unmarried minor without the prior written consent of the parent or guardian of the minor. Authorizes grants and contracts with public agencies in such a State for family planning services, carried out in accordance with such State law. Requires assurances that: (1) the State law will not be applied to private agencies; and (2) private agencies receiving grants or contracts through public agencies under these provisions will meet the same eligibility requirements as prescribed for all private agencies assisted under title X of the Act. Directs the Secretary to make grants and contracts for the development and operation of up to four centers for improving methods of contraception. Mandates establishment of a loan repayment program in which health professionals agree to conduct contraceptive research. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, in making grants and contracts, to give priority to entities that provide health services related to pregnancy to women and preventive health services for infants and children. Authorizes appropriations to carry out title XX (Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects) of the Act.
Bill· SS. 2993 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend for five years, through 1995, the investment tax credit in connection with depreciable: (1) solar energy property; (2) geothermal property; and (3) ocean thermal property.
Bill· SS. 2967 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990
Access to Health Insurance Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to change the tax deduction for health insurance costs incurred by the self-employed from 25 percent to 100 percent. Phases in such percentage by taxable year 1994. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to preempt State health care mandated benefits for certain employer plans, including an employer who has never provided health insurance coverage for employees. Sets forth minimum requirements for such employers. Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations to make allotments to States to develop and operate qualified uninsurable pools to provide health insurance for medically uninsurable individuals. Sets forth application and reporting requirements for States.
Bill· SS. 2997 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990
Family Planning Amendments of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require that voluntary family planning projects receiving grants or contracts under provisions of that Act offer adoption referral services. Requires the services to be nondiscriminatory as to race, color, religion, and national origin. Removes provisions allowing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reduce the amount of the grant by the value of supplies or equipment furnished by the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations. Repeals existing formula grant provisions. Authorizes appropriations for technical assistance and personnel training, including clinical training for obstetric-gynecologic nurse practitioners and training for educators and counselors. States that research grants and contracts may be made for evaluation as well as for development of contraceptives, and to improve clinical management and direct delivery of family planning services. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct, make grants, and enter into contracts for applied research into the development, evaluation, and bringing to the marketplace of contraceptive devices, drugs, and methods. Authorizes appropriations. Defines "contraceptive" to include methods which prevent fertilization or implantation in the uterus. Excludes from the definition any drug, device, or method which terminates the pregnancy after implantation, and prohibits the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development from supporting research on any such drug, device, or method. Directs the Secretary to collect data annually on: (1) the number of low-income and marginal-income individuals and adolescents at risk of unintended pregnancies; (2) the sources of funding available for family planning services in the United States; (3) the numbers and age, gender, race, and family income of persons who receive family planning services; and (4) the types of services chosen by individuals receiving services. Amends provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to population research and voluntary family planning programs to require that all grantees receiving assistance under those provisions provide education to patients concerning self breast examinations. Directs the Secretary to make available a specified sum during FY 1991 through 1993 for the selection of a single State in which to establish a research project to determine the impact of family planning services in a State that has in effect a law prohibiting the use of public funds for family planning services to an unmarried minor without the prior written consent of the parent or guardian of the minor. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with public agencies in such a State for the provision of family planning services, carried out in accordance with such State law. Requires a public agency applicant for a grant or contract to include in the application assurances that: (1) for the fiscal year for which the application is submitted, such State law will not be applied to family planning services provided by private agencies; and (2) if a public agency of the State makes a grant to, or enters into a contract with, a private agency for family planning services, and the grant or contract is funded in whole or in part under these provisions, the State shall ensure that the private agency meets the same requirements for eligibility for assistance under title X (Population Research and Voluntary Family Planning Programs) of the Public Health Service Act as the Secretary may prescribe for all private agencies assisted under such title. Authorizes appropriations to carry out title XX (Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects) of the Public Health Service Act.
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