The world's political record
Person
![Official portrait of Sen. Cranston, Alan [D-CA]](https://www.congress.gov/img/member/c000877_200.jpg)
United States · Official source
4,407 records where Sen. Cranston, Alan [D-CA] is listed as a sponsor, author, or other actor. Search with topics and years
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Designates October 1990 as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Designates September 23 through September 29, 1990, as Religious Freedom Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Authorizes and requests the President to call on the people to observe May 26, 1990, as the bicentennial of "An Act for the government of the territory of the United States, south of the river Ohio" (from which Tennessee was formed).
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1990
Designates December 21, 1990, as Day of Observance for the Victims of Terrorism.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should immediately call for a 1991 White House Conference on Aging and begin planning and implementing such a conference without delay.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1990
Declares a named individual to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1990
Ozone Protection Funding Act of 1990 - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of State to assist developing nations in complying with the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1990
Designates June 3 through June 9, 1990, as National World War II Observance Week.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1990
Designates the week of November 11 through November 17, 1990, as Geography Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1990
Designates the week of August 19 through August 25, 1990, as National Agricultural Research Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1990
Designates July 2, 1990, as National Literacy Day.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1990
Drug Abuse Treatment and Prevention Improvement Act of 1990 - Title I: Improvement and Expansion of Grant Programs - Establishes in the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA) the Office for Treatment Improvement (Treatment Office) to: (1) collaborate with the Director of the Office for Substance Abuse Prevention and the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); (2) evaluate State plans and carry out programs under existing provisions; (3) train providers of prehospital emergency medical services; (4) conduct or support described programs; and (5) take other actions with regard to treatment. Authorizes appropriations. Transfers authority from the Administrator of ADAMHA to the Director of the Treatment Office for an existing grant program for reduction of the waiting period for drug abuse treatment. Removes provisions prohibiting more than one grant for any treatment program. Allows a grantee to spend not more than 50 percent of the grant for follow-up services. Increases the authorization of appropriations. Sets forth reporting requirements. Revises requirements and other matters relating to an existing program regarding drug and alcohol abuse model projects for pregnant and postpartum women and their infants. Authorizes appropriations. Transfers authority from the Administrator of ADAMHA to the Director of NIDA to make grants for drug abuse demonstration projects of national significance. Requires the Director of the Treatment Office to establish programs to provide grants to: (1) eligible institutions to provide training services to increase the supply of drug treatment professionals; (2) public and nonprofit private entities that provide drug treatment services to individuals under criminal justice supervision; and (3) hospitals, community health centers, and other appropriate entities that serve nonmetropolitan areas to assist in developing and implementing projects that provide, or expand the availability of, substance abuse treatment services. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants: (1) for the establishment of model residential projects for alcohol and drug abusing women and their children; (2) for the establishment, within the national capital area, of a model program for comprehensive treatment services for drug abuse; and (3) to community coalitions for substance abuse services. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Substance Abuse Prevention Training Program. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Revision of the ADAMHA Block Grant Program - Authorizes appropriations for the Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Mental Health Services Block Grant program. Revises the Block Grant formula. Provides for the use of allotments by States for: (1) inpatient hospital drug treatment services pursuant to a contractual arrangement with a hospital if certain conditions are met; (2) counseling to family members of drug abusers; and (3) treatment programs for substance abusers in State and local criminal and juvenile justice systems. Requires States to develop and submit to the Secretary annually for review and approval a statewide Substance Abuse Treatment Plan. Requires the Director of the Treatment Office to establish a model State treatment plan. Directs the Secretary to issue guidelines for plans. Title III: Pharmacotherapy Development - Pharmacotherapy Development Act of 1990 - Part A: Federal Medication Development Program - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish in NIDA a Medications Development Division (MDD) to: (1) work with the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to set new guidelines for the safety and efficacy trials of medications to treat drug addiction and to discuss other measures to facilitate the approval process of drug addiction treatments; (2) promote expanded research programs and studies into the development of medications to treat drug addiction; (3) track the activities of the National Institutes of Health relating to the development and use of pharmacotherapeutic treatments for drug addiction; and (4) take other specified measures to improve pharmacotherapeutic treatment of drug addiction. Establishes reporting requirements by the Director of MDD. Requires the Director of National Drug Control Policy to incorporate reports submitted under this Act into the National Drug Control Strategy. Requires the Director of MDD to provide for proper scientific review of all research grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts over which the Director has authority. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: Private Sector Development of Pharmacotherapeutics - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish procedures for the investigation and designation of drugs for the treatment of addictions to illegal drugs. Authorizes appropriations. Part C: Medications Review Process Reform - Authorizes the Secretary to permit: (1) an entity submitting an investigational new drug application or protocol for medications to treat drug addiction to provide information required by the Secretary as it becomes available; and (2) parallel track trials to be used for medications to treat drug addiction. Part D: High Priority Research Areas - Expresses the sense of the Congress that MDD shall devote special attention and resources to achieving the development of a methadone alternative, a long-acting narcotic antagonist, a cocaine blocking treatment, a cocaine-blocker/narcotic antagonist treatment, medications to treat addictions to methamphetamine, and medications to treat pregnant addicts and their fetuses. Part E: Report by the Surgeon General - Requires: (1) the Director of MDD to establish a panel of independent experts in the field of pharmacotherapeutic treatment of drug addiction to assess the national strategy for developing such treatments and make appropriate recommendations; and (2) the Surgeon General of the United States to submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report setting forth recommendations of such panel and assessing the progress of the Nation toward development of safe, efficacious pharmacological treatments for drug addiction. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study concerning the relationship between an individual's receptivity to use or consume legal drugs and that individual's use or consumption of illegal drugs, including the effect of advertising and marketing campaigns that promote the use of legal drugs on the public; and (2) submit a report to specified congressional committees on the results of the study. Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1986 to require at least 20 percent of amounts appropriated for Justice System Improvement grants to be used for drug treatment programs in the criminal justice system, giving priority to programs that provide referrals to community treatment programs for individuals soon to be released from incarceration and treatment services for juvenile and female offenders. Amends the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 to authorize appropriations of $1,200,000,000 (currently, such sums as necessary) for FY 1990 through 1993 for drug abuse education and prevention programs.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1990
New Columbia Admission Act - Declares the State of New Columbia (presently the District of Columbia) to be a State of the United States of America. Admits New Columbia into the Union on an equal footing with the other States in all respects. Reserves Federal title to certain lands and property. Directs the Governor to submit the Governor's request regarding the amount of an annual Federal payment to the Congress not less than seven months before the beginning of a fiscal year for which a request is made. Requires the request to contain a report on services rendered to the Federal Government, potential revenues lost because of the presence of the Federal Government, and potential revenues gained because of the presence of the Federal Government. Sets forth election protocol for popular ratification of statehood. Provides for election of one member of the House of Representatives as well as two Senators. Maintains the laws that were territorially in effect. Continues any law suits already pending in District of Columbia courts. Establishes a Statehood Transition Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1990
Substance Abuse Treatment Corps Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish within the Public Health Service the Substance Abuse Treatment Corps to increase the availability of treatment for alcohol and drug abuse in geographic areas with a significant incidence of abuse and an inadequate availability of services. Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out such purpose only through assigning Corps members to provide services for such areas. Allows the Secretary to assign a Corps member to an entity only if the entity, among other requirements, enters into an agreement with the Secretary regarding the allocation, between the Secretary and the entity, of costs relating to the assignment. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of entering into contracts with students in specified fields under which the students agree to serve in the Corps upon obtaining their degree in consideration of the Federal Government agreeing to pay tuition, other expenses, and a stipend. Applies, except as inconsistent, provisions relating to the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program to this program. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of entering into contracts with individuals who have been licensed or certified in certain fields, or who are students in such fields, under which the individuals agree to serve in the Corps in consideration of the Federal Government agreeing to repay up to a specified sum of educational loans of the individuals. Applies, except as inconsistent, provisions relating to the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program to this program. Authorizes appropriations for the scholarship and loan repayment programs established by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1990
Designates the week of October 14 through October 20, 1990, as National Radon Action Week.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1990
Designates the second Sunday in October 1990 as National Children's Day.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1990
Designates October 3, 1990, as National Teacher Appreciation Day.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1990
States that the prohibition on the payment of attorneys' fees in connection with Department of Veterans Affairs benefits proceedings applies only where the individual is applying for such benefits, and not when the Government is proceeding against a person to collect an indebtedness or in cases in which other attorneys' fees statutes apply.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1990
Amends the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949 to provide for the vesting in such officer or agency as the President may designate of a portion of Vietnamese property (other than property of private persons) in which transactions were prohibited as of April 30, 1975, under specified regulations. Requires the property vested to be a portion of property which, when liquidated, will render: (1) an amount necessary to pay all certified awards made by the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States for claims against Vietnam; and (2) an amount equal to five percent of the total of such certified awards to pay the costs of the Commission and the Department of the Treasury. Directs the designee of the President to liquidate the vested property as expeditiously as possible. Requires the proceeds from such liquidation to be covered into the Claims Fund established for Vietnamese claims. Requires the United States, upon full payment of such certified awards, to succeed to all of the rights against Vietnam which form the basis of such awards. Prohibits rights from being asserted against Vietnam unless the U.S. Government accords Vietnam full credit for the property vested under this Act. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to require the recipients of such awards to release to the U.S. Government all claims against the U.S. Government or Vietnam arising from the expropriations that are the basis of such awards. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State, in developing the U.S. position for balancing of claims in future negotiations with Vietnam, should give full credit to Vietnam upon the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between Vietnam and the United States for the property vested under the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990
Comprehensive Alzheimer's Assistance, Research, and Education Act of 1990 (CARE) - Title I: Amendments to the Public Health Service Act - Replaces provisions of the Public Health Service Act authorizing the establishment and operation of Alzheimer's Disease centers with provisions requiring the Director of the National Institute on Aging to make grants and enter into cooperative agreements for planning, establishing, or strengthening at least 15 Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers to support any part of the full range of research and development from very basic to clinical. Requires the Director to award Center Core grants or enter into cooperative agreements to support shared resources for categorical research. Requires the Director to award grants or enter into cooperative agreements with entities receiving assistance under the Research Centers and Center Core provisions of this Act to assist in providing high-quality research and services at locations other than the Research Centers. Requires the Director to make grants or enter into cooperative agreements to: (1) attract new or young investigators to careers involving research on biomedical, behavioral, and social aspects of Alzheimer's disease; and (2) develop institutional training programs emphasizing postdoctoral training and training of women and groups underrepresented in such research. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) the grants and cooperative agreements above in this Act; and (2) under existing provisions, awards for leadership and excellence, research on services to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and their families, preparation and revision of a plan for certain research related to Alzheimer's disease, and dissemination of research results. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Commissioner on Aging, to make grants and enter into contracts for family support demonstration projects. Authorizes the Director to make grants and enter into contracts for long-term care research with regard to Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. Authorizes the Secretary, through the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, the Administration on Aging, and the National Center for Nursing Research, to make grants and enter into contracts for research on methods for improving the delivery of supportive services to individuals with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders. Authorizes appropriations for family support demonstration projects, long-term care research, and supportive services delivery research. Directs the Secretary to make competitive grants to States for State Alzheimer's disease programs, including medical, legal, educational, health care financing, and other aspects. Requires that 25 to 50 percent of a grant be used in any fiscal year for respite care. Limits grants to: (1) a minimum dollar amount; and (2) one-half of the costs of the research for which the grant is made. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary, through the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), to make grants and enter into contracts for basic and clinical research with respect to Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Amendments to the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Services Research Act of 1986 - Amends the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Services Research Act of 1986 to require the Council on Alzheimer's Disease to make certain annual reports to the Congress and the public regarding matters related to Alzheimer's disease. Authorizes appropriations for the establishment and operation, under existing provisions, of the Advisory Panel on Alzheimer's Disease. Requires grants under specified existing provisions for Alzheimer's research to focus on specialized care as well as on services. Requires the Director of the NIMH to submit a research plan to the Council annually. Modifies the research to be provided for in the plan. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the responsibilities of the NIMH relating to Alzheimer's disease under the Act. Requires the Administrator of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research to submit a research plan to the Chairman of the Council annually. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the responsibilities of the Agency under the Act. Replaces provisions requiring education programs for providers of care for individuals with Alzheimer's disease with provisions authorizing the Director of the National Institute on Aging to make grants: (1) on the basis of merit, for training programs and continuing education programs with respect to health care for individuals with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders; and (2) for the development of curricula for the training programs and continuing education programs. Requires the Director to establish the National Alzheimer's Education Program to: (1) provide coordination and leadership in the Federal education and promotion effort; (2) develop and distribute education materials; (3) encourage and work with the media to provide information; (4) encourage and work with public and private efforts to develop models for education, training, and assistance programs; and (5) provide technical assistance. Authorizes the Director to make grants for programs to educate health care providers and the families of individuals with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders on caring for such individuals, and on the availability of public and private sources of assistance. Authorizes appropriations to carry out educational activities provisions of the Act.
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 · 9 May 1990
Designates the month of November 1990 as National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1990
Homeless Youth Demonstration Project Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish up to three demonstration projects to provide a network of comprehensive services for homeless youth. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1990
Designates the month of June 1990 as National Huntington's Disease Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1990
Designates June 25, 1990, as Korean War Remembrance Day. Authorizes and requests the President to urge that the American flag be flown at half staff on such day in honor of the Americans who died as a result of their service in the Korean War.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1990
Designates the week of November 11 through 17, 1990, as National Women Veterans Recognition Week.
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 · 3 May 1990
Designates October 17, 1990, as National Drug-Free Schools and Communities Education and Awareness Day.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1990
Designates the period of October 21 through 27, 1990, as National Humanities Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1990
Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) promote maximum conservation and protection of the world's whales; (2) work to continue the International Whaling Commission moratorium on the commercial killing of whales and maintain zero catch limits for all whale stocks for at least another decade; (3) work to strengthen the Commission and encourage it to carry out long-term, nonlethal research for all whale stocks on a global basis; and (4) in promoting protection, make use of diplomatic channels, domestic and international law, and all other means.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1990
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of the Merced River, California, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Withdraws certain segments of such river and the South Fork Merced River from entry under the public land laws, including the mining laws. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to permit the construction and operation of pumping facilities at the Saxon Creek Project.
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
Child Labor Act of 1990 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to establish certain criminal penalties for willful violations of child labor provisions or regulations if such violations cause serious bodily injury or death to the employee. Increases civil penalties for child labor violations. Raises the amount of the fine for such violations. Makes willful violators who are repeat offenders ineligible: (1) for any direct or indirect Federal grant or Federal guaranteed loan, for five years after determination; and (2) to pay a special training wage below the minimum wage rate. Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to post in affected school districts the name of each employer who violates child labor provisions or regulations, together with the location and nature of the violation. Requires certification of school attendance for purposes of child labor certification. Directs the Secretary to find and declare as particularly hazardous for employment of children between the ages of 16 and 18 the following occupations (among others): (1) poultry processing; (2) paper bailing; (3) fish and seafood processing; (4) school bus driving; and (5) handling power-driven meat slicing machines in restaurants.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1990
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to approve the pursuit of flight training for an individual entitled to post-Vietnam era veterans' educational assistance if: (1) such training is necessary for the attainment of the individual's vocational objective; (2) the individual possesses a valid pilot's license and meets all medical requirements necessary for a commercial pilot's license; and (3) the flight school courses are approved by the Federal Aviation Administration and the State. Sets forth the amount of assistance and other conditions for such flight training, including receipt by the Secretary of a certificate from the individual and institution involved of the flight training completed and the tuition and other fees.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Act for the Use and Disposition of Designated VA Facilities - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into enhanced-use agreements (a written agreement for the use of a Department of Veterans Affairs facility consistent with the Department's mission in return for the payment of consideration to the Department) with respect to designated facilities and to direct the disposal of such facilities. Requires cash received as such consideration to be deposited into the Enhanced-Use Fund. Requires notice of designation to be provided by the Secretary to the Veterans' Affairs Committees 30 days prior to entering into such agreements. Authorizes the Secretary to direct the disposal of such a facility by requesting the Administrator of General Services to perform a special disposition. Terminates the authority to enter into enhanced-use agreements on September 30, 1993.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Designates October 1990 as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990
Drug Rehabilitation and Recovery Program for Prisons Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to create a new part, to be cited as the Drug Rehabilitation and Recovery Program for Prisons Act, directing the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, to establish a comprehensive drug treatment program in Federal prisons. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, through the Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, to: (1) award grants to States to establish drug treatment programs in State prisons; and (2) award grants to States to establish drug treatment programs for juvenile criminal offenders. Requires a State, as part of its application for such grant, to submit plans for establishing such programs. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to enable plan preparation. Allows the Director to award a grant under these provisions to a State without an application and plan if the State has begun implementing a plan for demonstration prison or juvenile criminal offenders drug treatment programs under specified provisions of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth criteria for treatment programs supported by grants under this Act. Prohibits the Attorney General and the appropriate State law enforcement official from permitting the early release of inmates convicted of drug offenses unless the inmates have successfully completed a program of treatment or after care under this Act. Sets forth early release requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Veterans' Nondependent Heirs Inheritance Limitation Act of 1990 - Provides that, in any case in which a veteran having neither spouse, child, nor dependent parent is receiving disability compensation, is rated by the Department of Veterans Affairs as incompetent, and has an estate of $25,000 or more, further payments of compensation shall not be made until the estate is reduced to $10,000. Provides for lump-sum payment to a veteran six months after a finding of competency of amounts held back due to the provisions of this Act, unless death or returned incompetency occurs before the required date of such payment.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Designates October 1, 1990, to October 1, 1991, as Year of the Wetlands.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Designates September 1990 as Jewish Community Center Month.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Encourages State and local governments and local education agencies to adopt a comprehensive curriculum for each of grades kindergarten through 12 which: (1) provides elementary and secondary students with a thorough knowledge of the history and principles of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and (2) fosters civic competence and responsibility.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1990
Veterans Educational Assistance Improvements Act of 1990 - Title I: Educational Assistance and Vocational Rehabilitation Program Improvements - Eliminates the reference to a high school equivalency certificate (as a requirement for eligibility for educational benefits under the Montgomery GI Bill), instead requiring that an individual have certain alternate school credentials accepted by the armed forces, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Defense, which are equivalent to a secondary school diploma. Makes persons receiving outpatient medical care or services pending discharge from active military service eligible for veterans' vocational rehabilitation if such persons are being treated at a hospital under contract or agreement with the Secretary of Defense. Extends by one year the period of automatic disenrollment for veterans' educational assistance benefits to allow for the filing of a claim for such benefits. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into an agreement with an individual whereby the individual agrees to perform work-study service and the Secretary deducts the allowance otherwise payable to such individual from indebtedness resulting from any overpayment received by such individual under Department of Veterans Affairs-administered education, rehabilitation, or training benefits. Authorizes the Secretary, in order to reduce or eliminate such individual's indebtedness, to waive certain work-study program eligibility requirements and limitations, as well as certain debt collection requirements. Prohibits such an agreement from continuing in force after the individual's debt has been liquidated. Requires the Secretary to compensate such an individual for work-study services performed after such debt had been liquidated. Title II: Administrative and Miscellaneous Provisions - Requires an honorable discharge from active duty as an eligibility condition for veterans' basic educational assistance for individuals placed on the retired list, transferred to the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, or placed on the temporary disability retired list. Eliminates the authority of the Secretary to make advance payment of the rehabilitation subsistence allowance. Eliminates the required advance payment of the portion of the work-study allowance payable to an individual participating in the veteran-student services program. Eliminates educational assistance for persons enlisting for active duty in the armed forces as an education program for which expenses incurred by a State approving agency will be reimbursed by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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 · 20 April 1990
Defines a "minor child" for purposes of eligibility for burial in national cemeteries as any child under 21 years old or under 23 years old if pursuing instruction at an approved educational institution. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide flat grave markers in the portion of the Florida National Cemetery which had installed pre-placed grave liners as of July 28, 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1990
Veterans' Housing Amendments Act of 1990 - Revises the loan fee to be paid by veterans for housing loans guaranteed, insured, or made by the Department of Veterans Affairs to make such fee: (1) 1.75 percent of the total loan amount; or (2) one percent of the total loan amount in the case of loans for veterans for housing in rural areas, loans made to acquire housing by default, or loans made to refinance a housing loan. Deletes provisions allowing the sale of notes evidencing such loans with or without recourse and limiting the amount of a loan made to finance the purchase of real property from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Requires a service-connected disability rated at 30 percent or more before the loan fees required to be collected from veterans for housing loans will be waived. Requires loan fees collected for any housing loan closed between January 1, 1990, and September 30, 1990, to be credited to the Guaranty and Indemnity Fund. Terminates a reporting requirement with respect to loans made to purchase manufactured homes and lots. Prohibits the Secretary from guaranteeing such a loan unless it was closed before October 1, 1990, or made pursuant to a guaranty commitment issued by the Secretary before such date. States that such restriction shall not apply to a loan to refinance an existing loan guaranteed, insured, or made by the Department. Deletes a provision prohibiting payment of a claim under a loan guaranty for the purchase of manufactured homes and lots before liquidation of the security for the loan and the filing of an accounting with the Secretary. Provides, in lieu, that the holder of such a loan may submit a claim to the Secretary based upon: (1) the value of the property securing the loan as determined by the Secretary; or (2) the actual proceeds from the liquidation sale of the property securing the loan. Extends to October 1, 1991, the time period authorized for lenders to review appraisal reports in connection with homes for which the Department is guaranteeing loans. Repeals provisions which prohibit the Department from guaranteeing loans for newly constructed residences in areas not served by public or community water and sewage systems. Requires any veteran desiring a housing debt waiver to make such request within 180 days after the notification of such indebtedness, or by September 30, 1992, if notice was provided before October 1, 1990. Makes permanent the foreclosure information and counseling requirements currently provided for veterans foreclosing on a housing loan guaranteed by the Department (currently expires on March 1, 1991). Makes permanent the claim payment and property acquisition upon default provisions currently set to expire on October 1, 1991. Requires the Department, in determining the "net value" of a property, to take into account losses sustained on resale of properties in determining whether or not to acquire a foreclosed property. Makes permanent the vendee loan and property management provisions currently set to expire on December 31, 1990. Repeals the authority for a Direct Loan Revolving Fund (DLRF). Provides that the Loan Guaranty Revolving Fund (LGRF) shall pay for direct loan operations. Transfers present and future payments of the DLRF to the LGRF. Provides that the Secretary shall have no obligation to repay amounts advanced by the Treasury to the DLRF. Permits the Department to collect all debts arising out of the housing loan program by offsetting the debtor's Federal tax refund or Federal salary. Directs the Secretary, at the request of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to issue certificates of veteran status to persons seeking benefits under the National Housing Act or other programs administered by such Agency. Provides that persons applying for Department guaranteed, made, or insured housing loans will not become subject to provisions requiring persons seeking loans exceeding $150,000, which are guaranteed, made, or insured by a Federal agency to disclose their lobbying activities. Requires veterans (other than those exempted due to disability or other hardship) who obtain loans guaranteed by the Department for the purchase, construction, alteration, or repair of a property to make a downpayment equal to four percent of the amount by which the actual costs for such purchase, construction, repair, or alteration exceed $25,000.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1990
Designates August 7, 1990, as National Neighborhood Crime Watch Day.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Medical Care Cost Recovery Amendments of 1990 - Provides for third-party reimbursement of the United States for the cost of health care and services furnished to a service-connected disabled veteran by the Department of Veterans Affairs for treatment of nonservice-connected disability. (Present law applies to a nonservice-connected disability incurred by a veteran entitled to care under a health plan and who does not have a service-connected disability.) Deletes language allowing a third-party insurer to reimburse the United States in accordance with the prevailing rates at which the third party makes payments under comparable health-plan contracts with non-Federal facilities in the same geographical area. Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Veterans Affairs Third Party Medical Recoveries Fund to be used for identification, billing, and collection of the cost of care and services furnished by the Department on a reimbursable basis. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transfer to such Fund in FY 1991 certain full-time employees who had previously been devoted to third party medical cost recovery activities as part of veterans' medical care appropriations. Requires necessary deposits into the Fund by January 1 of each year. Revises the definition of "health-plan contract" to provide that Medicare supplemental insurance plans shall be required to reimburse the Department for services provided to veterans by the Department under such a plan.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Veterans' Medical Care Amendments of 1990 - Allows the Secretary of Veterans Affairs discretion in determining the circumstances under which the Department of Veterans Affairs will pay the travel expenses of a veteran to obtain health care or vocational rehabilitation services at a Department medical facility. (Current law requires the Secretary to do so if the Secretary determines that any eligible veteran should receive such travel benefits.) Extends the provision of outpatient dental care to all former prisoners of war (currently, limited to former prisoners of war who were incarcerated for 90 days or more and those whose dental problems are service-connected). Extends the provision of outpatient dental care: (1) when medically necessary in preparation for hospital admission or for veterans otherwise receiving veterans' medical care or services; and (2) to veterans of World War I. Requires the Department to obtain a second opinion in cases where the cost of proposed dental care for a veteran by a fee-based practitioner would exceed $1,000 (currently $500). Authorizes periodic review and adjustment of such ceiling amount by the Secretary. Repeals: (1) the September 30, 1991, termination date for the provision of treatment and rehabilitation to veterans for alcohol or drug dependence or abuse disabilities; and (2) the requirement for a current ongoing evaluation of the results of such treatment and rehabilitation program. Extends through FY 1995 the authority to provide contract care to U.S. veterans in the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in the Philippines. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the upgrading and replacement of equipment and facilities for such Center through FY 1995. Decreases such annual authorization amount from $1,000,000 to $500,000. Earmarks the first $50,000 of grants appropriated to the Center for educating and training hospital personnel. Authorizes Department medical centers to convert space at their facility for child care purposes, without reimbursement to the Veterans Canteen Service for the cost of such conversion.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Veterans' Programs Improvement Act of 1990 - Provides that in order to continue to receive payments of pension, compensation, or emergency officers' retirement pay after being rated incompetent, a veteran receiving Government hospital treatment or domiciliary care may not have an estate the value of which exceeds $4,500 (currently, $1,500). Increases from 30 to 40 years the period in which leukemia must become manifest in a veteran who engaged in a radiation-risk activity during active service in order to be considered service-connected for purposes of veterans' disability compensation provisions. Increases from three to 12 months the period during which a veteran having neither spouse nor child and being furnished domiciliary care by the Department of Veterans Affairs will be paid a monthly pension by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Requires that any amount of pension being withheld from a veteran due to the provision of domiciliary or nursing home care by the Department shall be paid in a lump sum after the veteran's discharge or release. Limits such payment to $10,000. Allows such payment to be made prior to discharge in order to facilitate placement of such veterans outside the institution.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Requires nonservice-connected disabled veterans of certain income categories to pay a copayment for each day of inpatient hospital, nursing home, or domiciliary care they receive from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Requires a nonservice-connected disabled veteran of the lowest income category to pay nine dollars for each day the veteran receives such care. Requires a veteran of the next-higher income category to pay the lesser of: (1) the nine dollar copayment for every day the veteran receives hospital or nursing home care after that number of days considered in determining the amount for which the veteran is liable; and (2) the cost of furnishing such care as determined by the Secretary. Requires such amount to be increased on January 1 of each year by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index. Requires certain disabled veterans eligible for medical treatment on an ambulatory or outpatient basis to pay a copayment of five dollars for each outpatient visit. Requires such veterans in the next-higher income category (those who agree to pay a copayment amount in order to receive such outpatient care) to pay an amount equal to 20 percent of the estimated cost of an outpatient visit or ten dollars for each visit. Prohibits the Secretary from furnishing a prescription drug to a veteran eligible for hospital or nursing home care for a nonservice-connected disability unless such veteran agrees to pay either three or five dollars for each prescription drug received (depending on the income-level category of such veteran). Requires such amount to be increased on January 1 of each year by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index.