United States · United States Congress · 12 January 1991
Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution - Authorizes the President to use U.S. armed forces against Iraq pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 to implement Resolutions 660, 661, 662, 664, 665, 666, 667, 669, 670, 674, and 677 (summarized below) after making available to the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate his determination that: (1) the United States has used all appropriate diplomatic and other peaceful means to obtain compliance by Iraq with such resolutions; and (2) those means have not been and would not be successful. Declares that this Act constitutes specific statutory authorization for the use of U.S. armed forces required under the War Powers Resolution. Requires the President to report to the Congress every 60 days on the status of efforts to obtain compliance by Iraq with the U.N. resolutions. RESOLUTION 660-AUGUST 2, 1990: Condemns Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and demands immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Iraqi forces. RESOLUTION 661-AUGUST 6, 1990: Imposes trade embargo and financial sanctions against Iraq and Iraqi-occupied Kuwait. (Medical supplies and humanitarian foodstuffs are exempt from the trade embargo.) RESOLUTION 662-AUGUST 9, 1990: Declares Iraq's annexation of Kuwait null and void and demands that Iraq rescind the annexation. RESOLUTION 664-AUGUST 18, 1990: Demands that Iraq permit immediate safe departure of foreign nationals from Iraq and Kuwait. Demands rescindment of Iraq's orders to withdraw diplomatic immunity and close diplomatic missions in Kuwait. RESOLUTION 665-AUGUST 25, 1990: Calls upon states to enforce the trade embargo against Iraq and Iraqi-occupied Kuwait. RESOLUTION 666-SEPTEMBER 14, 1990: Provides for humanitarian provision of any necessary food and medical supplies to Iraq and Kuwait. RESOLUTION 667-SEPTEMBER 16, 1990: Demands that Iraq protect diplomatic personnel and premises and take no action that hinders the performance of their duties. RESOLUTION 669-SEPTEMBER 24, 1990: Authorizes Sanctions Committee to examine requests for assistance from states confronted with special economic problems related to the sanctions. RESOLUTION 670-SEPTEMBER 25, 1990: Requires states to cooperate with air embargo and to detain any ships that are being used to violate the sanctions. (Food and medical supplies being shipped for humanitarian reasons are exempt, but subject to authorization.) RESOLUTION 674-OCTOBER 29, 1990: Reminds Iraq that it is liable under international law for any loss, damage, or injury arising in regard to Kuwait and third states and their nationals as a result of Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait. RESOLUTION 677-NOVEMBER 28, 1990: Condemns Iraqi attempts to alter Kuwait's demographic composition and destroy Kuwaiti civil records. Mandates steps to be taken by the U.N. to safeguard the demographic composition of Kuwait. RESOLUTION 678-NOVEMBER 29, 1990: Authorizes member states to use all means necessary to uphold the above resolutions and restore international peace and security in the region, unless Iraq fully complies with the above resolutions on or before January 15, 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1990
Recognizes the important part the Alaska Highway played in the defense of our Nation and the settling of Alaska and the ever-important role it will inevitably play in our future. States that this highway should be maintained in a condition that encourages people throughout the Nation to travel it.
United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1990
Greer Spring Acquisition and Protection Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire, under certain conditions, fee title to Greer Spring, Missouri, for addition to the Mark Twain National Forest.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should declare November 2, 1990, a national day of prayer for: (1) members of American military forces and American citizens stationed or held hostage in the Middle East, and for their families; and (2) American and Iraqi authorities to bring about a just resolution of the Persian Gulf crisis.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1990
Provides direct Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) payments to hospitals for hospital-supported nursing or allied health education costs. Prohibits any reduction in Medicare payments to recoup such costs claimed for FY 1984 through 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1990
Title I: Short Title - Airport Capacity Act of 1990 - Sets forth congressional findings with respect to: (1) airport noise policy; (2) passenger facility charges; and (3) airport slots. Title II: Authorization of Appropriations - Amends the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 to authorize appropriations for FY 1991 and 1992 for: (1) air navigation facilities; (2) specified research, engineering and development, and demonstration projects; and (3) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) operations. Increases the authorization of appropriations for FY 1992 for airport development and airport planning programs. Extends such programs through September 30, 1992. Title III: National Aviation Noise Policy - Requires the Secretary of Transportation to develop a National Aviation Noise Policy that establishes: (1) a date for the phasing out of stage two technology aircraft as a part of a national noise management scheme; and (2) a program for the mandatory review and approval of existing or proposed local airport noise or access restrictions by the FAA. Requires the Federal Government, in the event of a disapproval of a restriction, to assume liability for noise damages to the extent that a taking has occurred as a result of such disapproval. Prohibits any airport from receiving airport development funds under the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 or imposing a passenger facility charge, unless the Administrator of the FAA has approved a noise or access restriction at such airport. Prohibits the approval of a passenger facility charge if the airport has not conducted an airport noise compatibility program pursuant to the Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement Act of 1979. Title IV: Passenger Facility Charges - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to establish by regulation a program for the imposition of approved passenger facility charges by airports to finance eligible projects. Sets forth requirements with respect to the use and imposition of such fees. Amends the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 to require, as a condition to approval of a passenger facility charge project, that there will be no unjust discrimination at such facility. Subjects such projects to: (1) the approval of construction work by the Secretary of Transportation; (2) minimum wage rates; and (3) veterans preference requirements. Title V: Purchase, Sale, Lease, and Other Transfer of Slots Definitions - Prohibits the transfer of airport slots, with specified exceptions. Directs the Administrator of the FAA to establish by rule a pool of air carrier slots for new entrant carriers at high density traffic airports. Declares that specified high density traffic airport rules shall cease to have effect 18 months after enactment of this Act. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to study and report to the Congress on the extent to which shuttle service operating between LaGuardia National Airport and Boston and Washington National Airport is of significant public interest to the northeastern United States. Title VI: University Air Transportation Centers - Authorizes the Administrator of the FAA to make grants to nonprofit educational institutions to establish one university air transportation center in each of the ten Federal regions of the Standard Federal Regional Boundary System. Sets forth the responsibilities of such centers, among them: (1) research in airspace and airport planning and design; (2) airport capacity enhancement techniques; (3) human performance in the air transportation environment; (4) aviation safety and security; and (5) the supply of trained air transportation personnel including pilots and mechanics. Requires the research advisory committee of the FAA to coordinate the research and training conducted by such centers. Requires the Administrator of the FAA to undertake or supervise research programs for developing and maintaining a safe air transportation system. Title VII: Miscellaneous - Requires the Secretary of Transportation to develop a system of manned auxiliary flight service stations. Declares that the Congress finds that special emphasis should be placed on the conversion of former military air bases to civil use and on the identification and improvement of additional joint-use facilities. Requires a set-aside of not less than one half of one percent of airport development and airport planning funds for FY 1991 and 1992 to be distributed to sponsors of current or former military airports to develop them to improve the capacity of the national air transportation system. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to designate not more than five current or former military airports for participation in the set-aside program. Directs the Administrator of the FAA to: (1) issue an environmental impact statement on the effects of changes in aircraft flight patterns over the States of New York and New Jersey as a result of the expanded East Coast Plan; (2) investigate the effects on air safety over such States as a result of the Plan; (3) report to the Congress on the results of the environmental impact statement and of the investigation; and (4) implement any appropriate plan modifications. Declares that the Congress finds that airport and airway programs should be administered in a manner that prevents unjust and discriminatory practices as they may be applied between category and class of aircraft. Declares that the Congress finds that artificial restrictions on airport capacity should not unjustly discriminate between categories and classes of aircraft. Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to require that carrier flight deck crew-members whose seniority rights have been affected by the purchase or acquisition of an air carrier by another air carrier be afforded the protections provided by the Civil Aeronautics Board in the Tiger International-Seaboard Acquisition Case to ensure that seniority lists are integrated in an equitable manner. Transfers specified aviation safety functions of the Secretary of Transportation to the Administrator of the FAA.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990
Employee Educational Assistance Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the income tax exclusion of amounts paid under employee educational assistance programs. (Under current law the exclusion expires for taxable years beginning after September 30, 1990.) Repeals provisions that deny assistance for graduate work.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1990
Amends the Railroad Retirement Solvency Act of 1983 to extend for two years provisions for the transfer of tier two railroad retirement benefit taxation revenues from the general fund of the Treasury to the Railroad Retirement Account.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990
Employee Benefits Simplification Act - Title I: Nondiscrimination Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to employee benefit plans. Redefines the term "highly compensated employee" for pension, profit sharing, and stock bonus plans, etc., purposes. Makes such employee one who is a five-percent owner or who has compensation from the employer in excess of $50,000. Provides a special rule where no employees are treated as highly compensated. Redefines "compensation" to mean, in general, the amount of wages shown on the W-2 form for the calendar year. Allows self-employed individuals to use their earned income amount. Includes the following deferrals as those which an employer may elect to take into account when determining salary reduction contributions: (1) deferred compensation plans of State and local government and tax-exempt organizations; (2) contributions to an employee trust; and (3) trusts for benefit payments funded by employer contributions. Permits an employer to elect to use base pay for all purposes, other than indentifying highly compensated employees, in lieu of W-2 compensation. Provides that the cost of living adjustment with respect to any calendar year is based on the increase in the applicable index as of the close of the calendar quarter ending September 30 of the preceding calendar year. Requires the rounding of such amounts to the nearest $1,000, except that elective deferrals and elective contributions to simplified employee pensions are to be rounded to the nearest $100. Provides that the minimum participation rule applies only to defined benefit pension plans. Requires such plans to benefit not less than 25 employees, or the greater of 40 percent of all employees or two employees (or if there is only one employee, such employee). Sets forth alternative methods of meeting nondiscrimination requirements for cash or deferred arrangements, including specified contribution and notice requirements. Sets forth alternative methods of satisfying the nondiscrimination test for matching contributions. Revises the method for distributing excess contributions to highly compensated employees. Title II: Distributions - Allows distributions from qualified pension plans to be rolled over tax-free to an individual retirement account or another qualified plan or annuity. Eliminates five-year forward averaging for lump-sum distributions from qualified plans. Requires certain tax-free distributions to be made in the form of a direct trustee-to-trustee transfer to an eligible individual retirement plan. Sets forth administrative requirements in making such distributions. Requires distributions to be made from qualified plans by April 1 of the calendar year following the later of: (1) the calendar year in which the employee attains age 70; or (2) the calendar year in which the employee retires. (Present law requires such distributions no later than April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the employee attains age 70 1/2.) Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Revises the definition of a leased employee to include one whose services are performed under the control of a service recipient, instead of one whose services are historically performed by employees. Replaces the 59 1/2- and 70 1/2-year age requirement with 59- and 70-year age requirements for specified pension plans. Eliminates the special aggregation rules that apply to plans maintained by owner-employees that do not apply to other qualified plans. Makes the 150 percent current liability limitation on the deduction allowed for employer contributions to qualified pension plans inapplicable to multi-employer plans. Repeals the present law annual valuation requirement for such plans and applies the prior law requirement that valuations be performed at least every three years. Sets forth affiliation requirements for employers jointly maintaining a voluntary employees' beneficiary association. Makes the following limitations inapplicable to plans maintained by State and local governments and certain tax-exempt organizations: (1) excess benefit limitations; (2) compensation limitation on benefits; (3) limitations on disability and survivor benefits; and (4) the limitation on benefits exceeding 100 percent of the participant's average compensation. Modifies provisions relating to simplified employee pensions. Increases the number of allowable participants for salary reduction arrangements from 25 to 100. Allows participation after one year of service (currently, three years of service is required). Repeals the requirement that at least 50 percent of eligible employees participate in a salary reduction arrangement. Eliminates certain requirements regarding contributions on behalf of disabled employees. Allows rural cooperative plans which include cash or deferred arrangements to make distributions to participants after attainment of age 59. Includes reports of pension and annuity payments in information returns and payee statements. Eliminates reports of designated distributions from the scope of the $25 per day penalty. Provides a $10 reporting threshold for designated distributions.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990
Establishes a National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement to investigate and identify the causes of the savings and loan crisis on both the State and Federal levels. Requires a report to the President and the Congress, and terminates the Commission within 30 days after its submission. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1990
Airline Competition Equity Act of 1990 - Prohibits the purchase, sale, lease, or transfer of slots at airports on or after July 12, 1990, except that one slot may be exchanged for another if there is no other consideration associated with the exchange. Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to establish by rulemaking a pool of slots for new entrant air carriers at high density traffic airports. Terminates such rule (as well as the existing "buy-sell rule") 18 months after enactment of this Act. Requires the Administrator to provide a specified certification to the Congress if after such rule ceases to be effective the Secretary of Transportation or the Administrator decides to issue a new rule for the allocation of such slots.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1990
Communications Competitiveness and Infrastructure Modernization Act of 1990 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit a telephone company from providing video programming in its telephone exchange service area unless such video programming is provided through a subsidiary that is separate from such carrier and that: (1) maintains separate books and accounts; (2) carries out directly its own marketing and sales; and (3) does not own real or personal property in common with the parent telephone company. Requires any contract between a telephone company and its video programming subsidiary to be regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and be without cost to ratepayers of the telephone company involved. Allows such requirement to be waived by the FCC in the public interest. Prohibits a carrier which provides telephone exchange service from subsidizing directly or indirectly its separate video program subsidiary, subject to divestiture by the FCC. Prohibits a video program packager from providing affiliated video programming services in excess of one-fourth of the total number of video program services simultaneously available for customer selection. Requires the FCC to evaluate and, if necessary, modify such prohibition. Requires any carrier which provides telephone exchange service and video program service of a subsidiary over an integrated broadband distribution system in its telephone service exchange area to establish a video gateway (a service which enables a subscriber to select from multiple video programming services simultaneously available). Requires the FCC to establish terms and conditions for access to such gateway. Prohibits a carrier which provides telephone exchange service, or an entity owned by or controlled by such carrier, from purchasing or obtaining control over any cable system which is located within its exchange area and owned by an unaffiliated person, except for a noncontrolling interest purchase through a joint venture or other means. Authorizes the FCC to waive such prohibition upon a showing by the carrier that the cable facilities will be upgraded and the services will be expanded, the acquisition is in the public interest, and the local franchising authority approves. Requires a carrier attempting to provide both telephone exchange service and video program service to provide to unaffiliated cable operators attachment rights to poles, ducts, conduits, and other rights-of-way within the carrier's telephone exchange service area. Prohibits the employee of a telephone exchange service provider from marketing or selling video program services to such carrier's telephone exchange service customers. Requires the FCC to convene a Federal-State Board to establish practices, classifications, and regulations to ensure proper jurisdictional separation and allocation of the costs of providing broadband services, including video transport services. Prohibits a video programming subsidiary of a telephone exchange service carrier from charging a local broadcast station for making its signal available to subscribers. Prohibits a Federal agency or State from regulating the rates for basic cable service charged by a carrier providing both telephone exchange and video program service in a rural area unless the rates are increased by more than five percent per year or more than ten percent of such customers have filed a formal complaint. Prohibits any cable operator which is owned or controlled by a carrier that provides telephone exchange service and seeks to provide cable service over a cable system from providing cable service without a franchise. Sets forth franchising awarding and second refusal procedures.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1990
Phases-in, by FY 1992, an update to the area wage index used in determining Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) payments to hospitals for wage-related costs in different areas. Requires the next survey of hospital wage-related costs to be conducted by FY 1993.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1990
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act - Amends the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 to replace provisions setting forth the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program. Gives the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) the primary responsibility for planning and coordinating the Program. Sets forth the administrative and program duties of the Director of FEMA in carrying out Program responsibilities. Prohibits grants to States under the Program from requiring cost sharing at a level greater than 50 percent (in certain circumstances, not greater than 25 percent). Requires the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to conduct research necessary to characterize and identify earthquake hazards, assess earthquake risks, monitor seismic activity, and improve earthquake predictions. Sets forth duties of the Director of the USGS with regard to earthquakes, including: (1) issuing earthquake predictions or other earthquake advisories; (2) establishing, using existing facilities, a Center for the International Exchange of Earthquake Information; and (3) operating a National Seismic Network. Makes the National Science Foundation responsible for funding research on earth sciences to improve the understanding of the causes and behavior of earthquakes, on earthquake engineering, and on human response to earthquakes. Makes the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) responsible for carrying out research and development to improve building codes and standards and practices for structures and lifelines. Defines lifelines to mean public works and utilities, including those relating to transportation, power, communications, water,and sewage. Replaces provisions directing the President to make an annual report to congressional committees with provisions requiring the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to report to specified congressional committees regarding the role of the Office in interagency coordination, planning, and operation of the Program. Establishes the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Advisory Committee. Directs the President to adopt standards for assessing and enhancing the seismic safety of existing buildings constructed for or leased by the Federal Government which were constructed without adequate seismic standards. Requires that the standards be developed by the Interagency Committee on Seismic Safety in Construction. Requires the Director of NIST to submit to the Congress a plan for developing and adopting design and construction standards for lifelines. Authorizes the FEMA Director to accept gifts in furtherance of this Act. Prohibits a grant under the Act from FEMA that is made with funds appropriated under a specified continuing appropriations Joint Resolution from requiring cost sharing greater than 25 percent. Establishes within the USGS an earthquake investigations program, as an activity of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, to investigate major earthquakes to learn lessons to reduce the loss of lives and property in future earthquakes. Increases and extends the authorization of appropriations to carry out the Act, including the authorizations to specified agencies to enable them to carry out their responsibilities under the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on the sale or exchange of any international airline route certificate. Imposes such tax on the transferor of such certificate. Makes such tax nondeductible for income tax purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1990
Expresses the highest esteem of the Senate for the Washington National Cathedral and sincere appreciation for the efforts of the National Cathedral Association, other organizations, and individuals, whose vision and labor have resulted in its construction.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990
Higher Education Savings Plan Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt distributions from a higher education expenses annuity contract from the ten-percent penalty on premature distributions from annuity contracts. Excludes the premium to purchase such a contract from gift tax liability.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1990
Amtrak Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 1990 - Amends the Rail Passenger Service Act to authorize appropriations through FY 1992 for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak). Limits the liability for certain rail accidents occurring in the District of Columbia to no more than the limits of coverage maintained by a publicly funded commuter transportation authority established under Virginia law to indemnify Amtrak or any railroad over which the authority conducts its operations. Authorizes the use of proceeds from the sale of railroad lines that were acquired and rehabilitated with funds under the Rail Safety and Service Improvement Act of 1982 for similar purposes with respect to railroad lines connected with such a line for the purpose of continued rail service on them. Requires Amtrak to cooperate with the efforts of the Washington State Department of Transportation in designing a study of the feasibility of reestablishing rail service between Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Directs Amtrak to study and report to the Congress on the revenue and cost implications of separating the California Zephyr-Desert Wind-Pioneer train into two service routes serving a southern and a control route through Iowa. Prohibits the compensation of any rail or motor carrier employee who works in more than one State from being subject to State income taxes in any State but the State in which the employee resides. Amends the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to treat Amtrak as a publicly funded rail carrier with respect to its contribution toward employees' unemployment compensation benefits. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to study and report to the Congress on the potential need among Class II and Class III railroads for Federal guarantees of obligations for funding rehabilitation and improvement of facilities and equipment, acquisition of new railroad facilities, or refinancing of existing debt.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1990
Arts, Humanities, and Museums Amendments of 1990 - Title I: National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities - Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (NFAHA) to include all those traditional arts practiced by the diverse peoples of this country under the definition of "the arts." Includes among supportable projects those that: (1) develop and enhance the widest public knowledge and understanding of the arts; (2) encourage public education in the arts; (3) enhance managerial and organizational skills and capacities; or (4) are international projects or productions. Authorizes contracts or grants to stimulate artistic activity and awareness which are in keeping with the varied cultural traditions of this Nation. Directs the Chairpersons of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to employ practical national information systems on the arts and on the humanities to prepare quadrennial (currently, biennial) state of the arts reports for the President and the Congress. Authorizes NEH financial assistance to foster programs and projects that provide access to and preserve materials important to research, education, and public understanding of the humanities. Authorizes the following NEH annual awards: (1) the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities; and (2) the Charles Frankel Prize, to up to five persons each year for outstanding contributions to the public's understanding of the humanities. Repeals authorization for a study of Federal support to museums by the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 for the NEA and the NEH. Title II: Museum Services - Amends the Museum Services Act (MSA) to revise membership and meetings of the National Museum Service Board and certain provisions concerning the Director of the Institute of Museum Services. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) grants to museums to increase and improve museum services; and (2) the Institute of Museum Services. Amends the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act to increase the maximum limits, for indemnity agreements under such Act, on: (1) aggregate loss or damage covered by all such agreements at any one time; (2) loss or damage covered for a single exhibition; and (3) the deductible for a single exhibition, according to the amount covered. Title III: Miscellaneous - Amends the Arts, Humanities, and Museums Amendments of 1985 to repeal the mandate for a study by the Comptroller General, which was due one year after the enactment of such Act, on alternative Federal funding of the arts and humanities. Amends Federal law relating to Federal officials to add the Director of the Institute of Museum Services to the list of positions at level IV of the Executive Schedule.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1990
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the accession of Taiwan to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is in the best interest of the United States and of the world trading system and should be achieved prior to the end of the Uruguay Round; and (2) the United States should take the necessary steps to assure such country's membership in the GATT.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1990
Mississippi River Corridor Study Commission Act of 1990- Establishes the Mississippi River Corridor Study Commission to study and make recommendations regarding: (1) the creation of a Mississippi River National Heritage Corridor through the States of Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and Wisconsin; and (2) preservation of the Corridor.
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 · 1 May 1990
Drunk Driving Child Protection Act of 1990 - Amends the Assimilative Crimes Statute to require the imposition of a Federal penalty (if not already imposed by a State) of one year imprisonment and a $1,000 fine in addition to any term of imprisonment under State law for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol if a non-driving minor was present in the vehicle at the time of the offense. Amends the common carrier provisions of the Federal criminal code to increase the penalty for operating a common carrier under the influence of drugs or alcohol if a non-driving minor is present in the vehicle by up to one year's imprisonment and an additional $1,000 fine.
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 · 3 April 1990
Authorizes the United States National Senior Sports Organization of Chesterfield, Missouri, to use the words "Olympic" and "Olympics" when promoting national amateur athletic competition among senior citizens.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the treatment of rental and nonrental real estate activities under the limitations on losses from passive activities.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Parents as Teachers: the Family Involvement in Education Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make grants to States for parents as teachers programs. Makes eligible for such a grant any State which operates a parents as teachers program associated with the Parents as Teachers National Center in Missouri. Sets forth program requirements, limiting services to families during the period from the last three months of a mother's pregnancy to the child's attaining age three. Prohibits requiring any person to participate in any program of parent education or developmental screening, or any program for developmentally delayed children. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a Parents as Teachers National Center for information dissemination and technical and training assistance for States with such programs; and (2) evaluate such programs within four years. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 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.
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