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United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit tax-exempt organizations to establish qualified cash or deferred arrangements for their employees.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
Designates the week beginning July 22, 1990, as Lyme Disease Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Homeownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere Act of 1990 - Title I: HOPE Grants - Subtitle A: HOPE for Public and Indian Housing Homeownership - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize planning and implementation matching grants for public and Indian housing homeownership. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: HOPE for HUD Multifamily Homeownership - Authorizes technical assistance, planning, and implementation matching grants for multifamily housing. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: HOPE for Homeownership through Nonprofit Organizations - Authorizes implementation matching grants to private nonprofit organizations to carry out homeownership programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Preservation of Low-Income Housing and Resident Homeownership - Retitles title II of the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 as the "Low-Income Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990." Revises mortgage prepayment provisions. Authorizes approval of resident homeownership plans. Sets forth related conditions. Title III: Other HOPE Programs - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to establish the shelter plus care program to provide specified rental assistance in connection with related support services to homeless persons who are seriously mentally ill or who have chronic alcohol or drug problems. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a demonstration program to test the effectiveness of combining housing vouchers and support services to assist frail elderly persons to continue to live independently. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to establish the Operation Bootstrap program to promote the development of local strategies to coordinate certificate and voucher program assistance with public and private resources to enable eligible families to achieve economic independence. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Housing Opportunity Zones - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to designate Housing Opportunity Zones and approve Barrier-Removal Plans for cities and urban counties in order to remove legislative and administrative barriers to new and rehabilitated housing production.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Avenue of the Saints Authorization Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a highway project to demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of improved highway access between major metropolitan areas by providing an improved four-lane facility between Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, and St. Louis, Missouri. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund. Directs the Secretary to delegate responsibility for construction of the project to the State in which such project is located upon request of such State.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Designates the week of October 7 through 13, 1990, as National Health Care Food Service Week.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Acknowledges that Jerusalem is and should remain the capital of the State of Israel. Declares that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic religious group are protected. Calls upon all parties involved in the search for peace to maintain their efforts to bring about negotiations between Israel and Palestinian representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990
Designates March 30, 1990, as National Doctor's Day.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1990
Designates February 17 through 23, 1991, as National Visiting Nurse Associations Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1990
Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act of 1990 - Title I: HIV Emergency Relief Grant Program - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award emergency relief grants to any metropolitan statistical area (eligible area) as specified by the Secretary that has reported more than 2000 AIDS cases and that meets other requirements. Requires that the grants be directed to the chief elected official of the city or county that administers the public health agency serving the greatest proportion of individuals with AIDS in the eligible area. Requires the administering local political subdivision (ALPS) to establish a mechanism to allocate funds based on the proportion of AIDS cases and the severity of need of the local political subdivisions. Provides for the establishment of an HIV health services planning council, by each ALPS and its chief elected official, to establish fund allocation priorities and assess fund allocation efficiency. Provides, at specified times, that one-half of funds appropriated for the grants be used for regular grants and one-half be used for supplemental grants. Allows the grants to be used by the grantee to provide assistance to any public or nonprofit hospital, clinic, nursing home, sub-acute care facility, or health center that is providing services to a disproportionate share of low-income individuals and families with HIV disease and is expending resources that exceed reimbursement. Allows a recipient institution to use the amounts to: (1) enhance the quality of services to low income individuals and families with HIV disease; and (2) deliver outpatient and ambulatory care services, including case management, to such individuals and families, including comprehensive treatment and support services. Allows grant amounts to be used to provide direct financial assistance to any public or nonprofit agency, clinic, community based organization, or community health center that has the capacity to provide case managed outpatient health and support services to individuals and families with HIV disease that are critical to prevent unnecessary inpatient hospitalization and to expedite the discharge of the individual to the most medically appropriate level of service. Allows grant amounts to be used to renovate or rehabilitate congregate care housing units, long-term care facilities, and sub-acute care facilities, provided certain conditions, including a requirement of matching local or State funds, are met. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: HIV Care Grants - Directs the Secretary to make grants to States to improve the quality, availability, and organization of care, treatment, and support services for individuals and families with HIV disease. Allows grant funds to be used, with regard to HIV disease, to: (1) establish and operate care consortia; (2) provide home- and community-based care; (3) assist mechanisms that assure the continuity of health insurance; (4) provide therapeutic treatments to low income individuals; and (5) integrate early intervention services with care and support services provided in existing public health and medical care settings. Requires a State, subject to waiver in certain circumstances, to use at least 15 percent of the funds allocated to provide health and support services to infants, children, women, and families with HIV disease. Requires that, to the extent practicable, services under these provisions be provided without regard to the ability of the individual to pay, and that: (1) any charges be pursuant to a public schedule; (2) no charges be imposed on an individual with an income of 200 percent of the poverty line or less; and (3) charges imposed on individuals above such income level be adjusted to reflect their income. Requires the Secretary to use ten percent of the funds appropriated under this title to: (1) provide technical assistance to States; and (2) establish and administer a Special Projects of National Significance Program to make direct grants to States, localities, or community-based organizations to fund special programs for the care and treatment of individuals with HIV disease. Sets forth: (1) award criteria; and (2) permitted goals of recipient programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: HIV Disease Health Services Research, Evaluation, and Assessment - Directs the Secretary, through the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, to establish a program to enable independent research to be conducted by individuals and organizations to develop: (1) a comparative assessment of the impact and cost-effectiveness of major models for organizing treatment and support services; (2) a review of major health services financing mechanisms; (3) an assessment of how point-of-entry procedures for obtaining treatment and services impact cost, quality, and outcome, and the extent to which quality, cost, and outcome can be related to the source of payment; (4) a comprehensive report of financial, regulatory, organizational, and social barriers that serve to limit the delivery of services; (5) a summary concerning major and continuing unmet needs in health care, treatment, early intervention, and support service delivery; and (6) a review and assessment of models for the delivery of services to infants, children, women, and families.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1990
Designates March 1990 as United States Naval Reserve Month in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the United States Naval Reserve.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that payment under a life insurance contract on the life of an insured who is terminally ill be treated as a death benefit, making such payment eligible for tax exclusion from gross income. Provides that any reference to life insurance shall be treated as referring to a qualified terminal illness rider. Provides for the tax treatment of such riders. Describes such a rider as one which provides for payments to an individual upon the insured's becoming terminally ill. Provides that applicants for or recipients of assistance under the Social Security Act may not be required to elect to receive accelerated death benefits under life insurance policies.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Commends the people of Nicaragua for their recent successfully held election. Calls for a spiritual reconciliation by all parties and a peaceful transition of power.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Health Insurance Counseling, and Assistance Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) make grants to States for the establishment or improvement of a program providing information, counseling, and assistance regarding the procurement of adequate and appropriate health insurance coverage to individuals who are eligible to receive benefits under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act; (2) annually convene a conference to provide training and information to State health insurance information, counseling, and assistance program staff members; and (3) establish a national resource center for the purposes of creating a health insurance information clearinghouse, distributing such information to States, and providing States with technical assistance and training in disseminating such information. Authorizes appropriations for such grant programs and the national resource center.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1990
National Space Council Authorization Act of 1990 - Authorizes appropriations to carry out the activities of the National Space Council. Requires the Council to reimburse other agencies for at least one-half of the personnel compensation costs of individuals detailed to it. Provides for the hiring of experts and consultants at certain rates of pay. Requests the Council to review U.S. launch policy and submit its findings to specified congressional committees.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1990
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend, through December 31, 1992, the suspension of duty on nicotine resin complex.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1990
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend, through December 31, 1992, the suspension of duty on terfenadone.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Civil Rights Act of 1990 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to provide that: (1) once a complainant has demonstrated that an employment practice results in a disparate impact on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, the respondent has the burden of proving that the practice is justified by business necessity; (2) a complainant need not demonstrate which of a group of practices results in the demonstrated disparate impact; and (3) a respondent need not show business necessity for a specific practice within a group of practices if the respondent shows that that practice does not contribute to the disparate impact. Declares that an unlawful employment practice is established on a demonstration that race, color, religion, sex, or national origin was a motivating factor for any employment practice, even though such practice was also motivated by other factors, but bars certain types of relief if the respondent establishes that it would have taken the same action in the absence of any discrimination. Prohibits, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a challenge to an employment practice that implements a litigated or consent judgment or order resolving a claim of employment discrimination: (1) by a person who had certain types of notice and opportunity; (2) by a person whose interests were adequately represented by another person who challenged the judgment or order; or (3) if reasonable efforts were made to provide notice to interested persons. Increases to two years the time limit within which a charge of an unlawful employment practice must be filed. Removes provisions setting a separate time limit for charges initially filed with a State or local agency. Declares that a seniority system or practice which is part of a collective bargaining agreement is an unlawful employment practice if it was included in the agreement with the intent to discriminate. Allows, except for disparate impact cases, for compensatory damages (but not back pay) and, where there is malice or reckless or callous indifference, for punitive damages. Allows any party, where compensatory or punitive damages are sought, to demand a jury trial. Includes expert fees and other litigation expenses in any attorney's fees awarded. Prohibits a consent order or judgment settling a claim unless the parties and their counsel attest that a waiver of attorneys' fees was not compelled as a condition of the settlement. Allows to the prevailing party in the original action an award of attorneys' fees and costs in defending a challenged judgment or order. Increases to 90 days after final action by a Federal agency the time limit for a Federal employee to bring a civil action. Allows to Federal employees the same interest to compensate for delay in payment as in cases involving non-public parties. Requires all Federal civil rights laws to be broadly construed to effect their purpose to eliminate discrimination and provide effective remedies. Prohibits, except as expressly provided, any Federal civil rights law from being construed to restrict or limit the rights, procedures, or remedies available under any other Federal civil rights law. Declares that, for purposes of provisions relating to equal rights under the law, the right to make and enforce contracts includes the making, performance, modification, and termination of contracts, and the enjoyment of all benefits, privileges, terms, and conditions of the contractual relationship.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Designates the week of April 15 through April 21, 1990, as National Minority Cancer Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1990
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend, through December 31, 1992, the suspension of duty on certain toy jewelry valued not over five cents.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1990
Designates April 1990 as National Recycling Month.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1990
Directs the President to: (1) establish and periodically revise the maximum number of Government scientific or professional positions for carrying out research and development functions requiring the services of specially qualified personnel which may be established outside the General Schedule; (2) fix the annual basic pay rate for such positions; and (3) report to the Congress on the employment requirements for such personnel who are most difficult to recruit or retain in Federal service, on the number of such positions established, and on each such position and its annual pay rate. Removes ceilings limiting the number of, and the pay rate for, such positions. Repeals provisions that: (1) prohibit employment of such personnel in Senior Executive Service positions; and (2) allow the Librarian of Congress to establish a certain number of such positions requiring the services of such personnel to carry out Library research and development functions.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Title I: National Writing Program - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to enter into a contract with the National Writing Project (a nonprofit educational organization) to support costs of programs of teacher training and classroom research to improve the teaching of writing and the quality of student writing and learning. Directs the Project to establish a National Advisory Board. Title II: Research and Development - Directs the Secretary, through the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, to make grants to individuals and higher education institutions for research on the teaching of writing. Title III: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1996.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the following provisions permanent law: (1) the exclusion from gross income of employer-provided educational assistance; (2) the exclusion from gross income of amounts received under group legal services plans; (3) the targeted jobs tax credit; (4) mortgage revenue bonds; (5) small issue bonds issued to finance manufacturing facilities and farm property; (6) the investment tax credit for solar, geothermal, and ocean thermal property; (7) the special rules for health insurance costs of self-employed individuals; (8) the low-income housing credit; (9) the credit for increasing research activities; (10) the allocation of research and experimental expenditures; (11) the credit for clinical testing expenses for certain drugs for rare diseases or conditions; and (12) the credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source. Amends the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 to make permanent the authorization of appropriations in connection with the credit.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1990
Designates the week of June 10 through June 16, 1990, as Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Week.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1990
Designates April 22 through April 28, 1990, as National Crime Victims' Rights Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Designates October 14, 1990, as Dwight D. Eisenhower Day commemorating the 100th anniversary of Eisenhower's birth. Requests Members of Congress who are members of the Dwight David Eisenhower Centennial Commission to make arrangements for a joint meeting of the Congress in commemoration of the centennial of the birth of Dwight David Eisenhower.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to require the Secretary of Commerce to compile annual reports assessing the relative competitiveness of U.S. industry. Requires the reports to identify: (1) industries likely to be critical to U.S. economic security and global competitiveness (including industries involving advanced technology, high value-added, and high research and development costs); and (2) industries in other countries which are beneficiaries of government programs (such as tax policies, export promotions, antitrust exemptions, patent policies, technology assistance, or other forms of financial assistance). Requires the annual report to be submitted to the Congress and to include what other countries and the United States are doing to remain or become globally competitive.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1989
Drunk Driving Victims' Protection Act - Amends the Federal bankruptcy code to prohibit the bankruptcy court from granting the discharge of any debt arising from a judgment against the debtor for driving while intoxicated.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1989
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to require the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations requiring the use of child safety restraint systems on commercial aircraft.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1989
Eliminates post-1968 service in the National Guard as a prerequisite to civil service retirement credit for former National Guard technicians. Amends the National Guard Technicians Act of 1968 to eliminate post-1968 service as a prerequisite for National Guard technicians for receipt of credit in the determination of length of Federal civil service for purposes of leave, Federal employees' death and disability compensation, group life and health insurance, severance pay, tenure, and status. Sets forth rules for applying provisions of this Act to affected individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1989
Cable Television Consumer Protection Act of 1989 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize a franchising authority to regulate rates of a cable system for the provision of basic cable services and for installing or renting equipment necessary for the receipt of such services if the franchise authority determines that the cable system is not subject to effective competition. Presumes effective competition if: (1) fewer than 30 percent of the households in the cable community subscribe to the cable service of such cable system; or (2) the cable community is served by more than one multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD). Outlines the circumstances under which a cable community shall be considered to be served by more than one MVPD. Requires a franchising authority authorized to regulate rates to establish a fair and efficient method for such regulation, in consultation with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the operator of any affected cable system. Requires each cable operator that relies upon compulsory licensing for secondary transmissions by its cable system (known hereafter as a participating operator) to carry the signals of qualified local broadcast stations (local non-cable stations) in accordance with this Act. Requires each participating operator to carry a specified number of qualified local broadcast stations, such number increasing with the amount of usable activated channels of such participating operator. Requires, among the signals of qualified local broadcast stations to be carried by each participating operator, the carriage of signals of at least: (1) one qualified noncommercial educational television station for an operator with fewer than 54 usable activated channels; and (2) two such stations for an operator with 54 or more usable active channels. Allows a participating operator discretion in selecting which local broadcast signals shall be carried on its cable system once the minimum number of qualified local broadcast stations presented on its system exceeds the minimum number required under this Act, with specified conditions. Makes the carriage of the minimum required number of noncommercial educational television stations nondiscretionary. Requires, when feasible, the signal of the qualified local broadcast station on the cable system to be carried on the same channel on which the local broadcast station is normally carried over the air or upon a channel mutually agreed upon by the broadcaster and the principal operator. Outlines other required standards for the retransmission by a principal operator of the qualified local broadcast stations required under this Act. Requires local signals carried in fulfillment of this Act to be carried on the lowest-priced tier of basic cable service offered by the participating operator. Requires a participating operator to: (1) identify, upon request, those local broadcast signals carried on its system in fulfillment of requirements of this Act; and (2) provide written notice to a qualified local broadcast station, the franchising authority of such cable system, and subscribers of such system at least 30 days prior to either deleting or repositioning such signal on its cable system. Prohibits a participating operator from accepting money or other consideration for the carriage of local broadcast signals as required under this Act. Authorizes a qualified local broadcast station to file a complaint with the FCC when it believes that a participating operator is not complying with signal carriage requirements enumerated under this Act. Outlines administrative procedures for FCC review and rulings on such complaints. Amends provisions concerning renewal of cable television franchises to direct the franchising authority to issue written requests for: (1) a renewal proposal from the incumbent cable operator; and (2) proposals for a new franchise from any other person who notifies the franchising authority of its interest in providing cable service in the relevant area. Directs the franchising authority to provide prompt public notice of all cable franchise proposals received and to commence an administrative proceeding to determine the disposition of each such proposal. Outlines factors to be considered by the franchising authority in determining the disposition of such proposals, including the quality, reasonableness, and compliance of such proposals with community standards as well as standards of existing franchise law and regulations. Requires the franchising authority to issue a written decision to parties submitting proposals. Requires a franchising authority to grant an incumbent cable operator's renewal proposal if the franchising authority finds that the operator's performance and proposal satisfy all applicable standards. Repeals current provisions under the Communications Act of 1934 concerning the proper bases for denial of a proposal for renewal of a cable franchise. Provides that, in any First Amendment claim against a franchising authority or governmental entity arising from the regulation of cable communications or a decision to grant or deny a franchise or otherwise regulate a cable operator, any relief shall be limited to injunctive relief, declaratory relief, and attorneys' fees, except to the extent that such a claim involves activities of such authority or entity as an owner of a cable system. Requires a franchising authority, in establishing cable franchise requirements, to specifically identify those broad categories of programming and other services that are essential to the operation of a cable system in the public interest in that community, including broadcasting in a foreign language or towards a particular minority group. Authorizes any person aggrieved by the failure of a cable operator to meet the required technical standards of a franchise to petition the FCC for an order compelling compliance with such standards. Prohibits any entity engaged in the production, creation, or distribution of video programming that is owned or controlled by, or affiliated with, one or more cable systems from discriminating in the price, terms, or availability of its programming among cable systems, cable operators, or other MVPDs who purchase such programming for delivery to consumers. Allows such person to impose reasonable, nondiscriminatory requirements for creditworthiness, service, and financial stability, and allows price differentials which are attributable to cost differentials in the creation, sale, delivery, or transmission of such programming or which are made in good faith to meet the low price of a competitor. Prohibits, after October 31, 1989, any cable operator from controlling cable systems that individually or collectively provide service to more than 15 percent of all cable subscribers in the United States. Provides an exception for a cable operator who already controls 15 percent or more of such service on such date if that operator: (1) does not acquire additional interests in cable systems; and (2) reduces its interest so that, within one year after the enactment of this Act, such percentage is within that permitted. Authorizes the FCC to waive such prohibition in individual cases for up to six months. Provides that any civil action challenging the provision of this Act relating to the carriage of local broadcast signals by cable operators shall be heard by a district court. Provides that any action holding such a provision unconstitutional shall be reviewable as a matter of right by direct appeal to the Supreme Court if such appeal is filed within 20 days after such holding.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1989
Designates 1990 as the Bicentennial Anniversary of the Legacy of Benjamin Franklin.
United States · United States Congress · 9 November 1989
Directs the General Accounting Office to review and evaluate the effectiveness and fairness of Federal agency policies and procedures for distributing Federal research funds every two years. Requires reports to the Congress on such reviews and evaluations at the beginning of each Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 9 November 1989
Specifies that during the consideration of legislation by the Senate: (1) the Presiding Officer shall sustain a point of order made by any Senator against material that designates a particular college, university, institution, or consortium as the recipient of research funds or otherwise interferes with award or allocation of research moneys in accordance with requirements contained in the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (in the case of a contract) and the use of procedures other than competitive or other merit-based procedures (in the case of a grant); (2) any part of the measure that contains such material shall be stricken from the bill; and (3) it shall not be in order to offer such material as an amendment from the floor. Sets forth the circumstances under which the provisions of this Act may be waived or suspended.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1989
Airline Bankruptcy Passenger Protection Act of 1989 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue an order authorizing a covered air carrier to develop an air transportation plan which protects airline ticket holders in the event it becomes a debtor in bankruptcy proceedings after the ticket purchase date. Provides that if satisfactory plans have not been submitted by a specified deadline, the Secretary must promulgate regulations requiring all covered air carriers to provide air transportation for such ticket holders.
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1989
Designates May 1990 as National Trauma Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1989
Authorizes the President to designate May 1990 as Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1989
Grants a Federal charter to the Supreme Court Historical Society, Incorporated, a nonprofit Corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia. Requires the Corporation to report annually to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1989
Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 1989 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for the gradual transition, from 1992 through 1995, to the determination of Medicare payments for physician services pursuant to a fee schedule which takes into account the relative value of the work, overhead, and malpractice risks associated with each physician service. Allows for geographic variations in resource values. Sets Medicare payments for nonparticipating physicians' services at 95 percent of the fee schedule amount. Prohibits payments for the same physician service from varying on the basis of whether or not the physician is a specialist. Sets forth sumptuary provisions. Limits nonparticipating physicians' actual charges for unassigned claims. Requires that payments for physician services to Medicaid (title XIX of the Social Security Act)-eligible Medicare beneficiaries be made on an assignment-related basis. Increases the incentive payment for physicians' services furnished in manpower shortage areas from five to ten percent of the payment for such services. Sets forth miscellaneous study and reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish: (1) a patient outcomes assessment research and education program focusing primarily on the study of the management of health conditions; and (2) a practice parameters development program providing health care professionals with information regarding the health care practices found to be most effective. Directs the Secretary to establish the Independent Advisory Committee on Managing Patient Outcomes and enter into a contract with the National Academy of Sciences for assistance in conducting such programs and reviewing outcomes research. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations for such programs through FY 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1989
Nuclear Decommissioning Reserve Fund Act of 1989 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) decrease from 34 percent to 15 percent the rate of the tax imposed on the income of any Nuclear Decommissioning Reserve Fund; and (2) remove restrictions on permitted investments of Fund monies.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1989
Expresses the sense of the Congress that conference committee action on the reform of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 shall not exceed the limits set by the legislative language previously agreed upon by the Senate and the House of Representatives or establish benefits and premiums not included by such language.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1989
Tourism Policy and Export Promotion Act of 1989 - Declares it to be the national goal to increase U.S. export earnings from U.S. tourism and transportation services with an eye toward: (1) the elimination of the travel and tourism export deficit of the United States and the U.S trade deficit; and (2) the achievement of a travel and tourism export surplus. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to identify foreign trade barriers to U.S. travel and tourism. Requires the USTR to submit the National Trade Estimate to the President and the Senate Committees on Finance and Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Amends the International Travel Act of 1961 to require each annual tourism trade development plan to focus on those countries in which tourism trade development has the greatest potential for increasing travel and tourism export revenues. Declares that the Congress finds that increased efforts directed at the promotion of rural tourism will contribute to the economic development of rural America. Establishes the Rural Tourism Foundation. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1989
Designates February 4 through February 10, 1990, as National Burn Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1989
Title I: Capital Gains Provisions - Subtitle A: Reduction in Capital Gains Tax - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the capital gains tax for noncorporate taxpayers. Establishes a scale for determining such deduction up to a maximum of 35 percent after owning assets for seven years. Provides for not taking into account net capital gain under the phaseout of the 15-percent rate and personal exemptions. Provides for recapturing the gain from disposition of certain depreciable property. Subtitle B: Alternative Capital Gains Rate for Corporations - Reduces the alternative capital gains tax for corporations by establishing a scale for determining such tax rate based on ownership of assets for three to 15 years. Subtitle C: Indexing of Certain Assets for Purposes of Determining Gain - Provides for indexing assets held for more than two years as an option for individuals who elect not to take advantage of the lower capital gains rate. Title II: Individual Retirement Plus Accounts - Allows individuals to establish individual retirement plus accounts with tax treatment similar to that for individual retirement plans. Makes contributions to such accounts nondeductible. Provides for qualified distributions from such accounts, other than for general retirement purposes, including special purposes distributions made for the purchase of a first home and for medical or educational purposes. Prohibits special purpose distributions from being made during the first five years of the account.
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1989
Patient Self Determination Act of 1989 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require health care providers to: (1) inform patients of their right to make decisions involving their medical care; (2) inquire as to whether a patient prepared a living will or written power of attorney; (3) document patient treatment wishes and periodically review such wishes with the patient; (4) ensure that legally valid living wills or written durable powers of attorney are implemented to the maximum extent permitted by State law; (5) arrange for the prompt and orderly transfer of a patient to the care of others when unable as a matter of conscience to implement the patient's wishes; and (6) implement an institutional ethics committee. Requires States to enact legislation recognizing the validity of living wills and written durable powers of attorney. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study and report to the Congress within four years after this Act's enactment assessing this Act's initiatives and further steps which may be taken to advance patient self-determination. Requires the Secretary to develop and implement a national campaign within six months after this Act's enactment informing the public of their options in participating in and directing their medical care.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1989
Airline Competition Enhancement Act of 1989 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to require the Secretary of Transportation to ensure that computer reservation systems are available to all air carriers, ticket agents, and other persons on a nondiscriminatory basis. Prohibits air carriers (or affiliates) from operating such a system after January 20, 1991. Prohibits such a carrier from: (1) sharing its designator code with another air carrier for computer reservation purposes; and (2) using the designator code of another to identify a flight. Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to provide that domestic and foreign air carriers shall not be under the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission with respect to enforcement against the use of unfair methods of competition or deceptive practices by such carriers in the industry. Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to declare that an air carrier operating aircraft at a concentrated hub airport shall be presumed to have been engaged in unfair or deceptive practices or unfair methods of competition in air transportation (or the sale thereof) if such carrier is a dominant air carrier at such airport. Authorizes the Secretary to seek injunctive relief in district court against domestic and foreign air carriers, or ticket agents, who have been or are engaged in unfair or deceptive practices or unfair methods of competition in air transportation. Authorizes the operator of a concentrated hub airport to assess a charge on passengers enplaning at such airport. Directs the Secretary to implement a rule that provides for the withdrawal and transfer, by auction, of slots held by domestic and foreign air carriers at high density traffic airports. Requires deposit of the proceeds from any auction in the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for use in projects to enhance airport capacity.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1989
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend, through December 31, 1993, the duty-free treatment of triphenyl phosphate.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1989
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through September 30, 1990, the duty on N-(2-hydroxyethyl)-2,4,6-triiodo-5-(2(2,4,6-triiodo-3 (N-methylacetamido)-5-(methylcarbamoyl) benzamido acetamido)-isophthalamic acid (ioxaglate).
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1989
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend, through December 31, 1993, the suspension of the duty on triallate.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1989
Steel Trade Liberalization Program Implementation Act - Amends the Steel Import Stabilization Act to declare that the Congress supports the implementation of the steel trade liberalization program. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States Trade Representative should conduct negotiations, through the Uruguay Round of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade through complementary bilateral arrangements, to seek an international consensus regarding steel trade that provides for: (1) disciplines over trade-distorting government subsidies; (2) the lowering of trade barriers to ensure market access; and (3) enforcement measures to deal with violations of consensus obligations. Requires the President to provide the Congress an annual assessment of progress of such negotiations. Extends the Steel Import Stabilization Act for a three-year period. Authorizes the President, between October 1, 1989, and the concluding of any bilateral steel arrangement, to take necessary actions to ensure an orderly transition to such arrangement. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to permit the importation of additional quantities of steel products without regard to any aggregate quantitative import limitation arrangement in effect if: (1) such bilateral arrangement includes a short supply provision; and (2) the Secretary determines that a short supply situation exists in the United States with respect to any steel product subject to such arrangement. Authorizes the filing of petitions requesting the Secretary to determine whether a short supply situation exists. Requires the Secretary to provide an opportunity for comment by interested persons regarding issues raised in such petitions. Directs the Secretary to publish such determinations in the Federal Register. Requires the International Trade Commission to seek information: (1) from purchasers, as well as domestic producers, of steel products regarding improvements in domestic quality and service that result from industry modernization; and (2) on worker retraining efforts of the steel industry.