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United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1992
Designates February 6, 1992, as National Women and Girls in Sports Day.
United States · United States Congress · 27 November 1991
Suspends specified provisions of Rule IV of the Rules for the Regulation of the Senate Wing of the U.S. Capitol to permit the U.S. Capitol Preservation Commission and its designated agents to conduct certain activities.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1991
Nuclear Testing Moratorium Act - Prohibits any funds made available under any law from being used to conduct any explosive nuclear weapons test during the one-year period following the enactment of this Act unless the President certifies to the Congress that the Soviet Union or a successor state has conducted such a test during such period.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1991
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should closely examine the proposed sale of 40 percent of McDonnell Douglas' commercial aircraft division to the Taiwan Aerospace Corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 25 November 1991
Establishes a Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States' Democratic Party to coordinate ceremonial events and related activities during 1992. Requires the Commission to submit periodic reports and a final one to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro tempore of the Senate on its activities. Terminates the Commission on February 13, 1993, unless otherwise provided by law.
United States · United States Congress · 22 November 1991
Urges the President to renew the Voluntary Restraint Agreement with Japan and Taiwan for an additional five years in order to continue to protect national security and ensure industrial competitiveness.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1991
Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish the Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Corporation to administer a program for the provision of retiree health benefits in the coal industry. Establishes the Coal Industry Retiree Benefit Fund for the deposit of all amounts received by the Corporation. Requires the following payments to the Corporation: (1) an hourly premium on each hour worked in coal production by employees by each person that produces coal for use or for sale; (2) a per-ton premium obligation on the importer of coal; and (3) an annual per beneficiary premium by each last signatory operator and each other employer. Sets forth the eligibility requirements for benefits for orphan miners, and spouses and dependents or orphan miners or deceased coal miners. Requires the Corporation to provide medical and death benefits to such persons. Directs the Corporation to develop managed care rules applicable to the payment of benefits. Establishes the United Mine Workers of America 1991 Benefit Fund as an employee welfare benefit plan consisting of the merger of excess assets from certain closed plans. Sets forth eligibility requirements for benefits from such Fund. Requires the last signatory operator of any individual receiving retiree health care benefits as of February 1, 1993 from an individual employer plan maintained pursuant to a coal wage agreement to provide retiree health care benefits to such individual. Provides for the determination and disposition of excess pension assets to the Corporation or the 1991 Benefit Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1991
Designates the week beginning April 12, 1992, as National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week.
United States · United States Congress · 14 November 1991
Designates the month of May 1992 as National Foster Care Month.
United States · United States Congress · 12 November 1991
Designates May 1992 as National Trauma Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1991
Designates 1993 as the Year of American Craft: A Celebration of the Creative Work of the Hand.
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1991
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should continue to support the full protection of the African elephant through an unqualified listing of all populations of the African elephant on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna.
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1991
White House Commemorative Coin Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) issue up to 500,000 silver one-dollar coins to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of the White House; and (2) obtain silver for such coins from stockpiles established under the Strategic and Critical Mineral Stock Piling Act. Specifies that: (1) all amounts received from the sale of coins issued under this Act shall be deposited in the coinage profit fund; and (2) the Secretary shall pay amounts from a ten-dollar surcharge per coin into the White House Endowment Fund. Directs the Secretary to take such actions as necessary to ensure that the minting and issuance of such coins do not result in any net cost to the Government. Bars the issuance of such coins unless the Secretary has received full payment or adequate security for payment. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1991
Designates March 12, 1992, as Girl Scouts of the United States of America 80th Anniversary Day.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1991
Designates October 1991 as Crime Prevention Month.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1991
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991 - Establishes an emergency unemployment compensation program. Allows any State to enter into and participate in an agreement with the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) under which the State agency which administers the State unemployment compensation law will make payments of emergency unemployment compensation: (1) to individuals who have exhausted all rights to regular compensation under State law, have no rights to such regular compensation or any additional State or Federal compensation, and are not receiving Canadian compensation; and (2) for any week of unemployment beginning in the individual's eligibility period. Sets forth provisions relating to exhaustion of regular benefits and weekly amount of emergency benefits equal to regular benefits. Authorizes a State Governor, in a period of a seven or eight percent total unemployment rate in that State (as defined under this Act), to elect to trigger off an extended compensation period to provide emergency unemployment compensation to individuals who have exhausted their rights to regular compensation under State law. Requires a State, under such an agreement, to establish an emergency unemployment compensation account with respect to the benefit year of each eligible individual who files an application. Limits benefit payments to not more than the amount in the individual's account. Sets forth formulas for determining the amount in such account. Provides that the applicable limit in such account shall be equal to: (1) 20 for an eight-percent period, i.e. one triggered by a total unemployment rate (TUR) of eight percent or more in the State, seasonally adjusted, for the most recent six calendar months with available data; (2) 13 for a seven-percent period; (3) seven for a six-percent period; and (4) four for any other period. Sets forth special rules relating to such applicable limits. Requires reduction in such account by the amount of extended benefits received by the individual relating to the same benefit year under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970. Sets the weekly benefit amount at the amount of regular compensation (including dependents' allowances) payable under the State law to the individual for such week for total unemployment. Provides for determination of periods and applicable triggers. Provides for a minimum period of at least 13 weeks. Provides, in general, that no emergency unemployment compensation shall be payable to any individual under this Act for any week beginning: (1) before the later of October 6, 1991, or the first week following the week in which an agreement under this Act is entered into; or (2) after July 4, 1992. Sets forth transition and reachback provisions for the eligibility of certain individuals for such benefits, as exceptions to such general rule. Provides for payments to States having such agreements for emergency unemployment compensation. Sets forth financing provisions. Requires that funds in the extended unemployment compensation account of the Unemployment Trust Fund be used to make payments to States having agreements under this Act. Sets forth provisions relating to fraud and overpayments. Defines the eligible period under this Act. Provides that in no event shall an individual's period of eligibility include any weeks after the 39th week after the end of the benefit year for which the individual exhausted rights to regular compensation or extended compensation. Amends specified Federal law to repeal certain limitations on payment of unemployment compensation to former members of the armed forces. Reduces the length of required active duty by reserves for purposes of such payment. Amends the Social Security Act to establish an Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation. Directs the Secretary to establish such a council by February 1, 1992, and every fourth year thereafter. Requires each such council to evaluate the unemployment compensation program. Sets forth membership and staff provisions. Requires each council to report to the President and the Congress by Feburuary 1 of the second year following the year in which it is required to be established. Requires the first Council report to include findings and recommendations on determining eligibility for extended unemployment benefits on the basis of unemployment statistics for regions, States, or subdivisions of States. Designates as emergency requirements, pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), all direct spending amounts provided, and all appropriations authorized by this Act (for all fiscal years). Provides that this Act shall not take effect unless, by its enactment date, the President submits to the Congress a written designation of all such direct spending amounts and authorized appropriations as such emergency requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1991
James Madison - Bill of Rights Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue: (1) five-dollar and half-dollar coins emblematic of the Bill of Rights; and (2) one-dollar silver coins emblematic of James Madison. Sets forth guidelines for their sale and issuance, and for financial assurances. Mandates that the surcharges received by the Secretary be transmitted to the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Trust Fund. Authorizes audits by the Comptroller General. Provides a general waiver of procurement regulations when implementing this Act. Requires the Secretary to submit monthly financial status reports to certain congressional committees.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1991
Extends nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation treatment) to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania upon conclusion of the Agreement on Trade Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union granting it most-favored-nation status.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1991
Prohibits the proposed export to the Republic of Korea of technical data and equipment described in the certification transmitted to the Congress pursuant to a specified Section of the Arms Export Control Act on July 8, 1991 (transmittal number MC-42-91).
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1991
Prohibits the proposed sale to the Republic of Korea of F-16 C/D aircraft and other defense articles and defense services described in the certification transmitted to the Congress pursuant to a specified section of the Arms Export Control Act on July 8, 1991 (transmittal number 91-37).
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1991
Condemns the use of force to resolve political differences within Yugoslavia. Calls on: (1) the Yugoslav Central Government to cease using the Yugoslav Army to address the current crisis (and instead respond positively and immediately to calls for negotiations leading to a peaceful settlement); and (2) the Government of the Republic of Serbia to stop blocking the rotation of the Yugoslav presidency.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1991
Designates November as National American Indian Heritage Month, beginning in 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1991
Designates September 20, 1991, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Authorizes the POW/MIA flag to be flown on a flagstaff of the White House, the Departments of State, Defense, and Veterans Affairs, the Selective Service Commission, each national cemetery, and the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial on such day. Provides that the flag may be flown on a flagstaff of each national cemetery and the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial on May 30, 1991 (Memorial Day), and on September 2, 1991 (Labor Day). States that it is the sense of the Congress that the POW/MIA flag be displayed under this Act as an expression and symbol of the concern and commitment of the people and the U.S. Government to resolving the uncertainty relating to members of the U.S. armed forces who are missing in action or whose locations are unknown as result of United States foreign wars (including those members who may still be prisoners of war).
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1991
Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for the export, or the licensing for export, to South Korea of technology for coproduction of F-16 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 · 26 June 1991
Amends the Arms Export Control Act to declare that certain Presidential certifications made with respect to a sale, export, or agreement required by a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the United States and a foreign government for the coproduction or codevelopment of major defense equipment shall not be deemed to have been received by the Congress, unless the President, before such MOU enters into force, transmitted its text to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1991
Defense Manufacturing Engineering Education Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of Defense (the Secretary) to establish a program of grants to institutions of higher education to support enhancement of existing and establishment of new programs in manufacturing engineering education. Requires consultation with the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Requires the Secretary and the NSF Director to enter into an agreement to coordinate such grant program with similar NSF programs, and for NSF assistance in administering and managing such grant program. Sets forth requirements for programs of engineering supported by such grant awards. Requires such programs to be conducted at the undergraduate and/or graduate level. Sets forth components for such consolidated and integrated multidisciplinary programs. Requires significant involement of industry in such programs. Sets forth requirements for grant proposals. Bases grant awards on merit competition. Sets forth minimum criteria for selection. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Defense to carry out such grant program for FY 1992 and 1993.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1991
Designates the week of October 27 through November 2, 1991, and October 11 through 17, 1992, as National Job Skills Week.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1991
Unemployment Insurance Reform Act of 1991 - Title I: Optional Supplemental Unemployment Benefits Program - Allows States to enter into and participate in an agreement with the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to provide optional supplemental unemployment compensation under this Act in lieu of extended unemployment compensation under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Act of 1970 (if the State has a State unemployment compensation law approved by the Secretary under which such extended compensation is payable). Allows a State to terminate such agreement upon 30 days written notice to the Secretary. States that supplemental benefits are for unemployed workers who have exhausted their basic 26 weeks of regular benefits in States experiencing specified elevated levels of employment. Provides for up to 26 weeks of such supplemental benefits for an eligible individual. Requires that the supplemental benefit period in a State last at least 26 weeks, but that no other such period shall begin until five weeks after the close of a prior such period. Bases the State "on" indicator or trigger for a week of such supplemental benefits on whether, for the most recent three calendar month period for which data are available, the seasonaly adjusted average rate of total unemployment (TUR) in the State equals or exceeds: (1) seven percent; and (2) 120 percent of the average of such rates for the corresponding three-month period ending in each of the preceding two calendar years. Establishes a special rule to declare there is a State "on" indicator if: (1) the State TUR for such period is at least six percent but less than seven percent; and (2) the national TUR for such period is seven percent or more. Declares there is a State "off" indicator for a week when the most recent three-month period does not satisfy such requirements. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of any optional supplemental benefits account, with a variable limit based on the State's average unemployment rate. Provides for payments to States having agreements for the payment of optional supplemental compensation benefits. Authorizes appropriations to the extended unemployment compensation account in amounts necessary to carry out this Act. Sets forth sanctions for fraud and overpayments. Makes conforming amendments to the Social Security Act. Title II: Extended Unemployment Compensation Reform - Amends the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to revise the State "on" and "off" indicators or triggers for a week. Declares that there is State "on" indicator for a week if there is: (1) a State TUR, for the most recent three-month period for which data are available, which is seven percent or more and which is 120 percent or more of average of certain earlier rates; or (2) a national TUR for the most recent such period of eight percent or more. Declares there is on "off" indicator for a week when such "on" requirements are met. Amends the Social Security Act to establish a contingency fund for costs of unemployment compensation administration during periods of high unemployment. Provides for an additional specified amount to be appropriated for every increase of 100,000 persons (with pro rata amounts for smaller increases above the first 100,000 increase) in the insured unemployment level above that assured in the President's budget proposal for that fiscal year. Designates such appropriations emergency direct spending and an emergency requirement in reports required under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Reduction Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. Repeals specified provisions of Federal law which limit ex-military service personnel's eligibility for regular unemployment benefits to the 13 weeks after a four-week waiting period (thus making such individuals eligible for such benefits on the same basis as other unemployed workers, that is, for 26 weeks after a one-week waiting period). Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to approval of State unemployment compensation laws to: (1) allow States (by making benefit denial discretionary rather than mandatory) to pay unemployment benefits to nonprofessional employees (i.e. support staff) of educational institutions between academic years or terms if they are otherwise eligible; and (2) require States to determine eligibility for compensation on an individual's work history, which includes such history for the most recent calendar quarter (setting specified deadlines for a State to meet such requirement).
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for a three-year credit period for a percentage of the investment in acid rain control property installed to comply with sulfur dioxide emission limitations under the Clean Air Act. Allows the use of tax-exempt facility bonds to finance acid rain control property. Allows a business credit for a percentage of the expenditures paid or incurred for coal cleaning minerals used to remove or reduce the sulfur content of coal. Excludes from gross income the value of clean air allowances allocated to the taxpayer under the Clean Air Act. Allows a 60-month amortization of acid rain control property.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1991
Designates the week of November 10, 1991, as Hire a Veteran Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1991
Designates June 15, 1991, as Magna Carta Day.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1991
Condemns the murder of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and others in the bomb explosion on May 21, 1991. Expresses regret over the deaths of Gandhi and other victims of election violence in India. Offers condolences to Gandhi's widow and children and to the people of India. Stands in solidarity with the Indian people in their effort to sustain the most successful democratic tradition in the developing world.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1991
Provides for the printing of the book entitled "The Dome of the United States Capitol: An Architectural History" as a Senate document. Requires additional printing of such document for the use of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1991
Pledge of Allegiance Commemorative Coin Act - Establishes the Pledge of Allegiance Commemorative Coin Advisory Board to: (1) consult with the Secretary of the Treasury (the Secretary) regarding coin design; (2) oversee the expenditure of funds provided to the U.S. Capitol Historical Society for assisting its educational programs and providing non-operating improvements to the Capitol; and (3) establish rules and operating procedures to implement this Act. Directs the Secretary to issue five-dollar gold coins, one-dollar silver coins, and half dollar clad coins emblematic of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Declares a general waiver of public contract procurement regulations governing coin mintage under this Act. Mandates that surcharges be distributed equally between the Treasury and the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. Provides for audits by the Comptroller General. Requires that: (1) all amounts received from the sale of coins be deposited in the coinage profit fund; and (2) the Secretary take actions to ensure that coin mintage and issuance under this Act will not result in any net cost to the Federal Government.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1991
Arms Suppliers Regime Act of 1991 - Declares that the Secretary of State should undertake to convene a conference of appropriate nations to establish an arms suppliers regime. States that the purpose of such regime should be to: (1) halt the flow of unconventional arms and technologies necessary to produce such arms to nations in the Middle East; (2) limit and control the proliferation of advanced conventional arms to such nations; and (3) provide incentives for regional arms control agreements in the Middle East. Lists actions to be taken to carry out such purposes. Requires the President to report annually to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on: (1) all transfers of arms to the Middle East over the previous five years; (2) the current military balance in the region; (3) the operation and effect of the arms suppliers regime; (4) the supplier nations that have refused to participate in such regime; and (5) specific actions of supplier nations that have engaged in conduct that violates or undermines the regime. Prohibits the sale of defense articles or services, or the issuance of export licenses for such articles or services, to any nation in the Middle East unless the President: (1) certifies that the Secretary has undertaken to convene the conference for the establishment of an arms suppliers regime; and (2) submits a specified report on such regime.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1991
Amends the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 to direct the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint specified officials to serve within the Central Intelligence Agency. Outlines appointment qualifications and states that officials so appointed may be removed from office only by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1991
Designates October 1991 as National Lock-In-Safety Month.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1991
Designates July 27 through August 2, 1991, as National Invent America! Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1991
Designates August 6, 1991, as National Neighborhood Crime Watch Day.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Designates October 1991 as National Down Syndrome Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1991
Declares that U.S. policy toward Yugoslavia should be based on support for democracy and human rights for all of the people of Yugoslavia. Calls on: (1) Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to cease all repressive policies against the Albanian population of Kosovo; (2) Yugoslav President Jovic and the Yugoslav army to refrain from the use of coercion and force against the democratically-elected governments of the republics of Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, and Slovenia; and (3) the President of the United States, in the event of a military crackdown or the imposition of martial law in Yugoslavia, to immediately suspend all economic and technical benefits provided to Yugoslavia.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1991
Declares that the Senate expresses its: (1) regret that Senator Pryor's illness will require his absence from the Senate Chamber; and (2) heartfelt wishes to him for a speedy and complete recovery, and that he return to his duties, serving the people of Arkansas, in the near future.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1991
Designates June 10 through 16, 1991, as Pediatric AIDS Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1991
Expresses the sorrow of the Senate at the death of John Heinz, the late Senator from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1991
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States and the Soviet Union should lead an effort to promptly repeal United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 (equating Zionism with racism.)
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1991
Declares that the Senate: (1) extends a warm welcome to His Excellency Lech Walesa, President of the Republic of Poland, upon the occasion of his State Visit to the United States; (2) recalls the historic ties between the people of both countries; (3) applauds his commitment to economic and political reform; (4) reaffirms the Senate's and U.S. people's support for the independence and security of Poland; (5) looks forward to cooperation with Poland on issues relating to security and stability in Europe; and (6) commends the Bush Administration's decision to reduce Poland's debt to the United States, applauds the Paris Club's decision to reduce Poland's foreign debt, and urges Poland's private creditors to do the same.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1991
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to revise a specified subheading relating to nonalloy iron and steel pipes and tubes to include non-galvanized forms of such products. Increases the duty on certain other iron and steel pipes and tubes. Imposes a duty on galvanized nonalloy iron and steel pipes and tubes having a specified thickness. Increases the duty on certain stainless steel pipes and tubes. Authorizes the U.S. Trade Representative to negotiate compensation for claims made pursuant to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or any other trade agreement to which the United States is a party, as a result of the amendments made by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1991
Recognizes the role of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) in preserving a national rail passenger system and providing Americans with an energy efficient, environmentally preferable transportation alternative. Declares that the need for a balanced national transportation system dictates that transportation planners consider the many advantages of improved rail passenger services as they look to addressing national and regional transportation concerns.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1991
Designates November 19, 1991, as National Philanthropy Day.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1991
Designates October 1991 as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.