United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1990
Counter-Narcotics Technology Act of 1990 - Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to establish within the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) the Counter-Narcotics Technology Assessment Center, to operate under the general authority of the Deputy Director for Supply, ONDCP, to serve as the central counter-narcotics enforcement research and development organization of the U.S. Government. Requires that there be at the head of the Center the Chief Scientist of Counter-Narcotics Technology. Requires, beginning with the FY 1992 budget, that the Director of National Drug Control Policy submit a separate appropriations request for expenses relating to all Federal agencies for counter-narcotics enforcement research and development programs. Establishes a national counter-narcotics technology account. Requires such appropriations to be made to the account for the Director to make reimbursements to the involved agencies. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990
Precursor Chemical Regulation Act of 1990 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to revise and expand the list of precursor chemicals, including transferring to such list hydriodic acid from the list of essential chemicals. Revises the definition of "regulated transaction" to include transfers of any amount of an essential listed precursor chemical, with exceptions. Requires each regulated person to report to the Attorney General on any regulated transaction involving any quantity of a listed essential chemical. Directs the Attorney General to cooperate with State authorities by providing information regarding regulated transaction in such chemicals that might be useful in the administration of State laws relating to precursor chemicals, controlled substances, and other illegal drugs. Makes it unlawful for any person to engage in a regulated transaction involving a listed precursor chemical or to manufacture, distribute, import, or export such a chemical without a license required under such Act. Requires the Attorney General to establish a program requiring licenses for regulated persons and regulated transactions involving listed precursor chemicals where such requirement will contribute to achievement of the purposes of such Act and to criminal drug law enforcement. Provides for fines and imprisonment of not more than four years for violations of the licensing requirement. Requires the Attorney General to provide for the audit and control of listed precursor chemical inventories of persons possessing a license under this Act. Prohibits a person possessing a listed chemical with the intent that it be used in the illegal manufacture of a controlled substance to manage the listed chemical or waste from such manufacture other than as required by regulations issued under the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Provides for assessment of costs (of initial cleanup and disposal of the listed chemical and contaminated property and of restoring property damaged by exposure to a listed chemical) and imprisonment for violation of this requirement, in addition to a penalty imposed for the illegal manufacture, possession, or distribution of a listed chemical or waste of an illegal laboratory. Authorizes the Court to order that all or a portion of the earnings from work performed by a defendant in prison be withheld for payment of such costs. Amends the Federal bankruptcy code to provide that a discharge in bankruptcy does not discharge the debtor from any debt for such costs. Authorizes the Attorney General to direct that assets forfeited in connection with a prosecution under such Act be shared with State agencies that participated in the seizure or cleanup of a contaminated site.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Declares that the domestic production of fruits and vegetables is a keystone of U.S. farm policy. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to study and report to the Congress on the domestic fruit and vegetable industry.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the conflicting interests of the Soviet Union and Lithuania should be resolved peacefully through negotiations; and (2) the United States should not continue "business as usual" with the Soviet Union as long as it maintains economic sanctions against Lithuania and refuses to enter into good-faith negotiations. Declares that until the Soviet Government ends its policy of economic coercion against Lithuania the U.S. Government should not: (1) proceed with planned U.S.-Soviet negotiations on trade, civil aviation, maritime transportation, and investment and tax treaties; (2) consider granting the Soviet Union most-favored-nation trade treatment; or (3) support granting the Soviet Union observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Urges the U.S. Government to encourage coordinated allied responses to Soviet actions in Lithuania and to any expansion of coercive practices to Estonia and Latvia.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Expresses concern about human rights abuses by the Governments of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia. Welcomes the decision of the Presidency of Yugoslavia to lift the state of emergency in the Province of Kosovo and the decision of the Yugoslav courts to acquit Azam Vlasi and 13 other ethnic Albanian defendants. Urges the Yugoslav and Serbian Governments to: (1) cease the use of force in Kosovo; (2) ensure that the lifting of the state of emergency results in the full restoration of freedoms curtailed under the state of emergency; and (3) restore full autonomous status to Kosovo. Urges the Yugoslav Government to: (1) investigate the indiscriminate killing of civilians by police forces; and (2) observe its obligations under the Helsinki Final Act. Urges Serbia to begin a dialogue with the Democratic Alliance Movement and other democratic forces in Kosovo. Requests: (1) the Department of State to monitor more closely human rights in Yugoslavia; and (2) the President to express congressional concerns about the situation in Kosovo and human rights violations in other parts of Yugoslavia to the Yugoslav Government and to prohibit Export-Import Bank loans or credit guarantees to Yugoslavia which are intended to finance projects within Serbia until there is a substantial improvement in the human rights situation.
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
Provides for grants to establish at least five projects in which addicted mothers in residential drug abuse treatment facilities are allowed to have their children reside with them during treatment. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Housing Grant Action Program Act of 1990 - States that the purpose of this Act is to further the development of a national housing policy through the consolidation of a number of housing assistance programs into a consistent system of Federal aid. Authorizes appropriations for grants under this Act. Sets forth eligible grant activities, including: (1) acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of rental and ownership units; (2) provision of loans, interest subsidies, and other financial assistance; (3) rental rehabilitation grants; (4) assistance to nonprofit organizations for homeownership loans; (5) assistance for elderly and handicapped families; and (6) assistance for Indian housing. Requires a grantee to: (1) prepare a statement of housing objectives and fund use which shall provide for public participation; (2) provide the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development with a certification of compliance; (3) develop a residential antidisplacement and relocation plan; and (4) provide the Secretary with a performance and evaluation report. Authorizes the Secretary to release funds to recipients of assistance under this Act who assume the responsibilities for environmental actions pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and other provisions of law specified by the Secretary. Allocates 70 percent of program funds to cities and urban counties and 30 percent to States. Sets forth an allocation formula. Obligates specified funds for Indian housing grants. Administers such grants through the Department's Office of Indian and Alaska Native Programs. Sets forth grantee "hold-harmless" provisions. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) nondiscrimination; (2) labor standards; (3) noncompliance remedies; (4) reports to the Congress; and (5) program transitions.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1990
Prohibits U.S. assistance to Iraq unless the President certifies to the Congress that such country has opened suspected chemical weapon sites to international inspection and ratified the Convention on Biological Weapons. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the International Development Association to vote against multilateral assistance to Iraq. Requires the President, unless he makes such certification, to direct the Secretary of Transportation to revoke air travel service between the two countries. Declares that unless the President makes such certification: (1) he shall terminate, withdraw, or suspend any trade agreement that extends nondiscriminatory (most-favored-nation) trade treatment to Iraq; (2) Iraq shall be denied such trade treatment and Iraqi products shall be subject to column two duty rates under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States; (3) Iraqi products shall not receive trade benefits under the Generalized System of Preferences under the Trade Act of 1974; and (4) Iraqi products that do not receive duty-free treatment shall be subject to an additional 50 percent duty.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1990
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the Supreme Court or any inferior court of the United States from ordering a State or political subdivision, or an official of such State or subdivision, from laying or increasing taxes.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Designates the week of July 22 to 28, 1990, as National Week of Recognition and Remembrance for Those Who Served in the Korean War. Authorizes and requests the President to urge that the American flag be flown at half staff on July 27, 1990, in honor of those Americans who died as a result of their service in Korea.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990
National Tree Trust Act of 1990 - Title I: National Tree Trust - Authorizes the President to designate a private nonprofit organization meeting certain criteria the National Tree Trust Foundation, which shall promote tree planting. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make a grant to the Foundation in FY 1991. Title II: Assistance for Tree Planting and Forest Improvement - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish rural and community tree planting and forest improvement programs as special components of the Rural and Urban Forestry Assistance Programs under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act. Provides for financial, technical, and related assistance to State foresters in order to assist nonindustrial private landowners, local governments, civic organizations, and individuals to plant, maintain, and improve trees and forests. Authorizes the Secretary to develop a cost-sharing program (with a Federal share of up to 75 percent) to encourage tree planting and management on nonindustrial private lands. Title III: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990
Prohibits the issuance of a license to U.S.-owned firms to carry on certain trade activities with Cuba. Subjects U.S. vessels which enter a Cuban port to engage in trade to seizure, forfeiture, and sale by the United States. Authorizes the President, beginning October 1, 1991, to withhold economic support fund assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 from any country equal to the value of sales of sugar from Cuba imported by such country in the preceding fiscal year. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should urge countries that import sugar from Cuba and do not receive such U.S. assistance to import it from other Central American or Caribbean countries with democratic governments. Amends the Trading With the Enemy Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to impose civil penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Textile, Apparel, and Footwear Trade Act of 1990 - Limits the 1990 imports of textiles and textile products classified under a category to an amount equal to 101 percent of the total 1989 imports classified under such category. Limits the 1990 imports of nonrubber footwear classified under a nonrubber footwear category to an amount equal to: (1) the total 1989 imports of nonrubber footwear classified under such category; and (2) in the case of high priced nonrubber footwear, the total 1989 imports of high priced nonrubber footwear classified under such category. Provides for a one-percent annual growth in the amount of permitted imports of textiles and textile products after 1990. Exempts from the limitations imposed under this Act imports of textiles and textile products from U.S. possessions if such articles are exempt from duty under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States and are manufactured by U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents of such a possession. Limits the imports of certain sweaters made in Guam to a specified amount during FY 1990 and to such amount increased by one percent per year in subsequent years. Declares that such limitations shall not apply to Canada or Israel. Sets forth limitations on the amount of textile and textile products classified under certain import categories which may be imported from beneficiary countries under the Caribbean Basin Initiative. Authorizes the President to: (1) enter into trade agreements to grant new concessions as compensation to the extent required under U.S. trade agreements for the import limits imposed by this Act; and (2) proclaim such modification or continuance of any existing duty on textiles and textile products and on nonrubber footwear as necessary to carry out such agreements. Prohibits the President from reducing any rate of duty by more than ten percent. Requires the President, before entering into such trade agreements, to consider whether a country has violated trade concessions of benefit to the United States and the violation has not been adequately offset. Sets forth requirements governing staged rate reductions in the tariffs of articles affected by this Act. Prohibits the President, except as authorized by this Act, from entering into trade negotiations with any country with respect to duties on textiles, textile products, and nonrubber footwear. Prohibits the President, except as provided in this Act, from decreasing or proposing a decrease in any such duty by any means, including an implementing bill or a proclamation. Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on the administration of this Act. Requires the Secretary of Commerce, ten years after enactment of this Act, to study and report to the Congress on its operation. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a pilot program for the issuance and sale to U.S. companies at public auction of import licenses applicable to categories of textiles. Terminates such licensing program on December 31, 1991, and requires a report to the Congress on its administration.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1990
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to require plastic containers manufactured or offered for sale in the United States to have labels identifying the plastic resin used in such containers. Establishes a symbol and numbers identifying specific types of resins, including degradable resins, for such labels. Prohibits States or political subdivisions from: (1) enforcing any law applicable to plastic labeling that is less stringent than requirements under this Act; and (2) any ban on plastic containers labeled in compliance with this Act. Prescribes civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) Amtrak should be funded at a level that will enable it to continue to operate a national railway system, to acquire new passenger equipment and modernize its maintenance facilities, and to improve its financial performance and service levels; and (2) the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration should work with Amtrak management to lower Amtrak's dependence on public funding, to assign the highest priority possible to safety, and to ensure the adequacy of the national rail passenger infrastructure as a key element in a balanced national transportation system.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1990
Commends Poland and Prime Minister Mazowiecki for their courageous and resolute stand in permitting charter flights to carry Soviet Jews to Israel in the face of terrorist intimidation.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1990
Yosemite National Park Centennial Medal Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and sell medals in commemoration of the centennial of Yosemite National Park, California, in 1990. Requires that all sales of such medals include a surcharge of $2 each. Requires that all surcharges be paid to an endowment fund for the benefit of the Park to be administered by the National Park Foundation. Requires that the net income from the fund be paid to the Secretary of the Interior to fund special supplemental projects relating to back country trail development and rehabilitation and the preservation of Sequoia groves within the boundaries of the Park. Requires the Secretaries to enter into a memorandum of agreement to allow: (1) the Secretary of the Treasury to deliver medals to the Secretary of the Interior; and (2) the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the sale of the medals in National Park facilities. Grants the Comptroller General the right to examine all records of the National Park Foundation which are related to such medals.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1990
Urges the President to: (1) continue efforts to encourage Pakistan, India, and other non-nuclear-weapon states that are not parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to agree to full-scope nuclear safeguards; (2) urge current adherents to such Treaty to join the United States in seeking these objectives; and (3) continue and expand efforts to encourage all nuclear supplier nations to require such safeguards as a condition for future nuclear commerce and cooperation with all non-nuclear-weapon nations.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to prohibit published advertisements intended to promote or facilitate the distribution or transfer of a Schedule I controlled substance.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Designates September 16 through 22, 1990, as National Rehabilitation Week. Urges each State Governor and local government chief executive to issue proclamations calling upon their citizens to observe such week with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1990
Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to make between ten and 50 (currently, between three and five) grants to States or individuals (currently, to States) for demonstration projects involving health care services in the home. Requires five of such grants to go to the current grantees, with 50 percent of the remainder going to States and 50 percent to individuals. Requires grant applications to be submitted to the Governor of the State in which the applicant resides. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1990
Directs the Joint Committee on Printing to prepare a volume entitled "Columbus in the Capitol," describing works of art honoring Christopher Columbus which are displayed in the Capitol, in observance of the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America. Directs the Architect of the Capitol to carry out special exhibit programs of art honoring Christopher Columbus during FY 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
Depository Institution Money Laundering Amendments of 1990 - Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act, the Federal Credit Union Act and other law to prescribe guidelines under which specified Federal officers shall be authorized or required to terminate all rights, privileges, and franchises of depository institutions convicted of money laundering or cash transaction reporting offenses. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to prescribe guidelines for: (1) the termination of the insured status of State depository institutions and credit unions convicted of such offenses; and (2) the removal of personnel affiliated with such institutions who were involved in the offenses.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to cite conditions under which depository institutions, mortgage lenders, and insured credit unions are not liable under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund) with respect to property acquired either through foreclosure or in a fiduciary capacity. Confers immunity from Superfund liability upon certain banking regulatory agencies and the National Credit Union Administration Board for properties acquired in connection with: (1) the exercise of receivership or conservatorship authority; and (2) the provision of loans and other financial assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
Eastern European Economic Recovery Act of 1990 - Amends the Bretton Woods Agreement Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to work for the development of a facility to provide loans and economic and technical assistance to the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe. Requires the majority of such lending to be for the private sector. Prohibits the provision of credit to parastatal organizations except for infrastructure projects for roads and bridges. Requires public sector loans to be used primarily to cover transition costs from socialist to free market economies. Conditions the provision of such assistance on progress in guaranteeing specified aspects of market economies.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
Commends the Lithuanian people for holding free and fair elections, declaring an independent Republic of Lithuania, and asserting their right to self-determination peacefully and through the democratic process. Urges the Soviet Union to cease efforts to intimidate the Lithuanian Parliament and people. Declares that the use of force against the Lithuanian people would have severe repercussions for U.S.-Soviet relations. Urges the Soviet Union to begin discussions with the Lithuanian authorities to satisfy peacefully the expressed desire of the Lithuanian people for independence. Supports the President's commitment to the doctrine of non-recognition of the forced incorporation of territory. Urges the President to: (1) reaffirm and seek ways to actively demonstrate his commitment to an independent and democratic Lithuania; and (2) consider recognizing the elected Lithuanian Government.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1990
Drug Emergency Areas Act of 1990 - Amends the National Narcotics Leadership Act of 1988 to replace language with respect to the designation of high intensity drug trafficking areas with provisions authorizing the President to declare a State or part of a State to be a drug emergency area. Requires requests for such a declaration to be made, in writing, by the Governor or chief executive officer of any affected State or local government and forwarded to the President through the Director of National Drug Control Policy. Allows cities, counties, or States to submit a joint request. Requires requests to be based on a written finding that the emergency is of such severity and magnitude that Federal assistance is necessary to ensure an effective response. Prohibits the President from limiting declarations made under this Act to highly-populated centers of drug trafficking, drug use, or drug-related violence. Requires the President to consider applications from governments of less populated areas where the magnitude and severity of such activities are beyond the capability of the State or local government to respond. Requires Governors or chief executive officers, as part of such requests and as a prerequisite to such assistance, to: (1) take appropriate action under State or local law to respond to the crisis and furnish information on the nature and amount of State and local resources which have been or will be committed to alleviating the emergency; (2) certify that State and local government obligations and expenditures will comply with all applicable cost-sharing requirements; and (3) submit a detailed plan outlining the State or local government's short- and long-term plans to respond to the emergency. Requires the Director to review requests submitted and forward the application to the President, along with a recommendation. Authorizes the President to make grants to State or local governments of up to $50,000,000 for any single emergency. Limits the Federal share to 75 percent of the costs necessary to implement the short- and long-term plan. Limits the duration of assistance to a drug disaster area to one year, after which the Governors or chief executive officers may apply for an extension of up to 180 days. Requires any State or local government receiving Federal assistance to balance the allocation of such assistance evenly between drug supply and demand reduction efforts, unless State or local conditions dictate otherwise. Authorizes the President to: (1) direct any Federal agency to utilize its authorities and resources to support State and local efforts; and (2) provide technical and advisory assistance. Authorizes appropriations.
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