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United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Designates the period commencing on June 21, 1989, and ending on June 28, 1989, as Food Science and Technology Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1989
Job Training Partnership Act Youth Employment Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to authorize appropriations for FY 1990 for specified programs under title II (Training Services for the Disadvantaged) and title IV (Federally Administered Programs). Provides for increased funding for the title II part A (renamed Adult Programs) and part B (renamed Youth Employment and Training Programs) (IIA and IIB programs). Revises provisions for the composition of private industry councils (PICs) to require that specified minimum percentages of PIC membership be composed of representatives of organized labor, community-based organizations, public service agencies, and all educational agencies in the service delivery area (SDA). Adds to allowable performance standards for adult training programs the acquisition of basic skills and workplace competencies, as well as of a high school or general equivalency diploma. Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to develop separate performance standards for: (1) hard-to-serve individuals, including the handicapped; and (2) in-school and out-of-school youth programs. Prohibits performance standards which penalize SDAs for using funds for support services. Allows an additional ten percent of the funds available to an SDA for title II (Training Services for the Disadvantaged) part A (Adult and Youth Programs) to be expended for long-term support services under specified conditions. Allows SDAs to enter contracts with one another to share education, training, placement, and support services costs. Adds provisions for carryover of funds, SDA reallocations, and State reallotments. Revises the formulas for allotments to States and within-State SDA allocations under title II (Training Services for the Disadvantaged) part A (Adult Programs) (the IIA program). Prohibits States or SDAs from receiving more than 110 percent of their previous year allotment unless the Secretary or the Governor, as appropriate, waives such limitation. Allows the PIC in each SDA to reserve up to ten percent of IIA funds for experimental programming for groups with special needs to serve hard-to-serve eligible individuals (such as long-term recipients under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program). Exempts such funds from performance standards. Directs the Comptroller General to evaluate experimental programs, and to report to the appropriate congressional committees within two years. Changes the set-aside for State-level education from eight to five percent of the State allotment, but provides that the three percent difference be forwarded to SDAs for long-term training, basic skills, and educational services. Requires matching funds from other Federal, State, local,or private sources before the State set-aside may be expended. Increases from six to eight percent the portion of the State allotment which the Governor may award in incentive grants to SDAs, and adds criteria for such awards. Directs SDAs to give special emphasis to providing services to hard-to-serve populations or individuals most-in-need of basic skills and employment training services. Requires SDAs to review an applicant's employment history and test a participant's reading and math skills. Allows an increased percentage of individuals who are not economically disadvantaged but who are included in two or more specified categories to be eligible for IIA program services if specified conditions are met. Defines adult as an individual 25 years or older, for purposes of IIA programs. Directs the Comptroller General to study how many and what percentage of adults assisted under IIA programs remain for at least nine months in a job in which they were placed through such programs, and to report to the appropriate congressional committees within two years. Renames title II part A as Adult Programs (IIA programs) and title II part B as Youth Employment and Training Programs (IIB programs). Revises IIB program formulas for State allotments and within-State SDA allocations. Prohibits States or SDAs from receiving more than 110 percent of their previous year allotment unless the Secretary or the Governor, as appropriate, waives such limitation. Adds to authorized uses of IIB program funds: (1) needs-based payments necessary for program participation; and (2) compensation in the form of work experience wages. Allows IIB funds to also be used to provide specified services to: (1) in-school, dropout prone youth; and (2) school dropouts and out-of-school youth. Allows IIB programs to be conducted during the summer months or on a year-round full-time basis. Requires IIB programs to give special consideration to those economically disadvantaged youth who experience severe disadvantages. Allows an increased percentage of individuals who are not economically disadvantaged but who are included in two or more specified categories to be eligible for IIB program services if specified conditions are met. Gives priority in IIB summer programs to those who do not meet established levels of academic achievement and who plan to enter the full-time labor market upon leaving school. Sets forth individual eligibility requirements for IIB year-round programs. Sets forth program requirements for IIB year-round programs. Requires SDAs with year-round IIB programs to establish linkages with local educational agencies. Authorizes PICs with year-round IIB programs to establish linkages with various groups, including IIA programs. Sets forth provisions under IIB for exemplary youth programs, including programs for: (1) basic skills for employment; (2) preemployment skills training; (3) entry employment experience; and (4) school-to-work transition assistance. Sets forth provisions for replication of successful IIB programs. Directs the Secretary to make grants for development and operation of model programs. Establishes, as a new part H of title IV of JTPA, the Fair Chance Youth Opportunity Challenge Grant program. Requires States, in awarding matching challenge grants, to give priority to consortia serving demonstration target areas with high proportions of economically disadvantaged youth, school dropouts, students with limited English proficiency, juvenile offenders, and specified others. Directs the Secretary to provide for participation by the Secretary of Education in promulgating regulations for such program. Prohibits challenge grant funds from being used: (1) by local education agencies to provide educational services for secondary school students during regular school hours; or (2) for student financial assistance, except in certain circumstances. Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent evaluation of such program, and to report to the President and the Congress by December 31, 1994. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994 for the challenge grant program. Eliminates the National Commission for Employment Policy.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1989
Repeals on the enactment date of financial institution reform legislation the following special rules of the Internal Revenue Code and the Tax Reform Act of 1986 relating to troubled financial institutions: (1) the exclusion from gross income of payments by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; (2) rules permitting tax-free reorganizations of troubled institutions; and (3) special rules governing loss carryovers. (The repeal will be effected on December 31, 1989, if no such reform legislation is enacted.)
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1989
Designates the week beginning October 29, 1989, as Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1989
Designates May 1989 as National Digestive Disease Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1989
Grants a Federal charter to the National Academies of Practice, honoring persons of the health care professions.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1989
Designates the week of April 16 through April 22, 1989, as National Ceramic Tile Industry Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1989
Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Expansion Act of 1989 - Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (the Act) to repeal the termination date for duty-free treatment of beneficiary countries. Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to grant duty-free treatment to articles (not over $600 in value) acquired in a beneficiary country. Increases from $800 to $1200 the personal exemption from customs duties of articles acquired in the U.S. insular possessions and from other countries. Amends the Act to require the United States Trade Representative (USTR), upon request of a beneficiary country, to enter into a bilateral agreement with that country establishing guaranteed access levels for textile products assembled in such country from qualifying fabrics (fabrics formed and cut in the United States and certain fabrics of foreign manufacture which are cut in the United States). Makes such products eligible for duty-free treatment. Provides that textile products that are assembled in a beneficiary country from qualifying fabric and incorporate findings and trimmings of foreign origin are eligible for guaranteed access and duty-free treatment if such findings and trimmings do not exceed 25 percent of the cost of the components of the assembled product. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish an advisory committee to provide to the Secretary descriptions of those fabrics that the committee recommends to be included on the list of fabrics likely to be utilized in the manufacture of textile products in beneficiary countries which: (1) are not formed in the United States; or (2) are formed in the United States but are in critical shortage. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the USTR, when negotiating bilateral textile agreements, should seek to obtain greater fairness, transparency, and stability in the administration by foreign countries of their obligations under such agreements, especially in the allocation of export certifications between U.S. and foreign firms. Sets forth provisions concerning "general duty-free quotas" and "national duty-free quotas" with respect to specified articles imported from beneficiary countries. Provides that duty-free treatment provided under the Act shall not apply to: (1) textile and apparel articles; (2) certain leather articles; (3) canned tuna; (4) petroleum and petroleum products; and (5) watches and watch parts. Requires the President to submit a specified report to the Congress every three years. Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States with respect to the allocation of quotas on sugars imported from beneficiary countries. Prohibits the USTR, in allocating any limitation on such imports, from: (1) reducing the percentage allocation made to the Philippines; (2) making an allocation to the Republic of South Africa; and (3) allowing the aggregate of the amounts of the base quota allocations to Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) countries for any quota year beginning after December 31, 1988, to be less than 371,449 metric tons, raw value. Requires any allocation for any quota of imported sugar from specified foreign countries for any year to be reallocated on a pro-rata basis among the CBI countries receiving allocations for that year if such allocation is suspended or terminated due to a threat to U.S. national security or foreign policy. Authorizes the President to enter into trade agreements with foreign governments for the purpose of granting compensation if the United States takes specified action inconsistent with its international obligations (including the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade). Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to require the International Trade Commission, when making determinations as to material injury with respect to antidumping and countervailing duty cases, to assess cumulatively the volume and effect of imports from a country designated as a beneficiary country under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act with respect to imports of like products from beneficiary countries. Directs the Commissioner of Customs to implement a pilot preclearance program during FY 1990 and 1991 to assess the extent to which the availability of preclearance operations can assist in the development of tourism in the Caribbean Basin. Prohibits the commencement of such operations unless the Commissioner of Customs and the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization make a specified joint certification. Requires the Commissioner to submit to the Congress a report regarding such program.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1989
Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the income tax deduction for the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals to: (1) extend the deduction through 1994 (under current law it will expire after tax year 1989); and (2) increase the allowable deduction from 25 percent to 100 percent.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1989
New School Childcare Demonstration Projects Act of 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to make grants to States to pay the Federal share of the cost of childcare demonstration projects conducted in existing public elementary and secondary school buildings. Reserves specified portions of funds for evaluation and for special demonstration projects. Allots the remainder of funds to States on the basis of population of children under 16. Directs the Secretary to provide, through grants and contracts, for continuing evaluation of State and Federal demonstration projects under this Act. Directs the Secretary to publish summaries and results of evaluative research, and to submit to the appropriate congressional committees copies of all such studies and evaluation summaries. Sets forth application requirements for demonstration grants and rules for membership of advisory committees to monitor and evaluate such projects. Requires that specified reserved funds be used for grants to public and nonprofit private entities for special demonstration projects to be awarded at the discretion of the Secretary. Sets forth problem areas for the focus of such grants. Sets the Federal share of the demonstration grants to States at 90 percent of the cost of project activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1989
Title I: General Accounting Office Investigation and Report Investigation - Requires the Comptroller General to begin an investigation, within 60 days after enactment of this Act, concerning displaced nationals of El Salvador and Nicaragua. Requires a report to the Congress within one year after initiation of such study. Title II: Congressional Review - Provides for the referral of such report to the appropriate congressional committees for committee hearings and committee reports. Title III: Temporary Stay of Deportation - Provides for a temporary stay of detention and deportation for certain nationals of El Salvador and Nicaragua. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - States that during such temporary stay of deportation period an alien: (1) shall not be considered to be permanently residing in the United States; (2) shall not be eligible for Federal public assistance; and (3) may be deemed ineligible for State assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1989
Designates September 3 through September 9, 1989, as National Wilderness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1989
Designates the period beginning the second Saturday and ending the third Saturday of June 1989 as National Dairy Goat Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1989
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the corporate income tax exclusion of contributions to the capital of the taxpayer. Includes as a qualifying contribution any amount of money or property received by a regulated public utility (a utility required to provide electric energy, gas, water, or sewage disposal services) that: (1) is a contribution in aid of construction (as defined by regulations to be promulgated by the Secretary of the Treasury); (2) meets certain expenditure requirements; and (3) is not included in the taxpayer's rate base. Excludes amounts paid as customer connection fees.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1989
Hate Crime Statistics Act - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) acquire data, for 1990 through 1994, about crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity, including murder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape, assault, arson, and vandalism; and (2) establish guidelines for the collection of such data, including the necessary evidence and criteria for a finding of manifest prejudice. Prohibits: (1) the use of data acquired under this Act other than for research or statistical purposes; and (2) such data from containing any information that may reveal the identity of an individual victim of a crime. Directs the Attorney General to publish an annual summary of such data. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1989
Requires U.S. coins to be redesigned, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, over the next six years. Requires the reverse side of the first coin redesigned to commemorate the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution for a two-year period. Provides that the design on the obverse side of U.S. coins shall contain the likenesses of those displayed on current coins and shall be considered for redesign. Requires any such obverse redesigns to conform to the inscription requirements of current law. Requires the Secretary, in selecting new designs, to consider specified constitutional concepts. Requires the designs to be selected by the Secretary upon consultation with the United States Commission of Fine Arts. Requires that any profits from the sale of uncirculated and proof sets of U.S. coins be deposited in the Treasury and used solely to reduce the national debt.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1989
Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday Commission Extension Act - Extends the termination date of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday Commission to April 20, 1994. Makes the term of Commission members one year, except for Coretta Scott King (life term) and members of the family surviving Martin Luther King, Jr. (at the discretion of the family). Replaces provisions requiring all expenditures of the Commission to be from donated funds with provisions authorizing appropriations for FY 1989 through 1993. Makes payment of expenses for Commission members and staff salary subject to the availability of funds.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1989
Petroleum Marketing Practices Act Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act to provide that, with respect to certain motor fuel transactions, the term "franchise" includes any contract between specified parties which is economically necessary to the operation of the franchise. Provides that the termination or non-renewal of a franchise relationship, upon expiration of an underlying lease for marketing premises, is reasonable if specified conditions exist.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1989
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to cover outreach activities designed to identify Medicaid-eligible pregnant women and children and encourage and assist them in securing Medicaid benefits. Sets the Federal share of the costs of such activities at 75 percent.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1989
COLA Equity Act of 1989 - Provides for all Federal civilian and military retirees to receive the full cost-of-living adjustments in annuities payable under Federal retirement systems for FY 1990 and 1991. (Includes benefits payable under the Civil Service Retirement and Disability System, military retirement and survivor benefit programs, the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System, the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and railroad retirement programs.) Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to exempt railroad retirement supplemental annuities from sequestration.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1989
Expresses disapproval of the refusal of the U.S.S.R. to recognize the sovereignty of the Baltic Republics. Designates June 14, 1989, as Baltic Freedom Day. Authorizes and requests the President to call upon the Soviet Union, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Democratic Republic of Germany to renounce the acquisition or absorption of the Baltic Republics by the Soviet Union as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1989
Designates the month of May 1989 as National Stroke Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1989
Designates March 25, 1989, as Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1989
Designates the period commencing on May 1, 1989, as National Drinking Water Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1989
Designates the month of April 1989 as National Recycling Month.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1989
Steel Import Stabilization Extension Act - Amends the Steel Import Stabilization Act to extend such Act for a five-year period.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1989
Designates May 17, 1989, as High School Reserve Officer Training Corps Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1989
Designates the week of April 23 through April 29, 1989, and the last full week of April of each subsequent year as National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1989
Designates January 19, 1990, as National Skiing Day.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1989
Acknowledges the distinguished public service of Michael J. Mansfield.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1989
American Heritage Trust Act of 1989 - Title I: American Heritage Trust - Establishes the American Heritage Trust, comprised of the Land and Water Conservation Fund and the Historic Preservation Fund, to provide funding for the preservation of America's natural, historical, cultural, and outdoor recreational areas. Title II: Land and Water Conservation Fund - Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to invest a portion of the Land and Water Conservation Fund in public debt securities. Requires that the interest from such investments be used for the preservation of the Nation's recreational areas. Requires any excess interest to be credited to the Treasury. Sets forth a formula for the allocation of such interest income to the Federal Government and the States. Sets forth specified requirements with respect to the apportionment of such income to local and State governments, Indian tribes, and Alaska Native Village Corporations. Title III: Historic Preservation Fund - Amends the National Historic Preservation Act to extend the Historic Preservation Fund through 2015. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to invest a portion of such Fund in public debt securities. Requires that the interest from such investments be used for the preservation of historic sites. Provides for allocation of a percentage of annual appropriations for State historic preservation trust funds. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Requires the owner of any site that benefits from moneys derived from the American Heritage Trust to install a sign indicating that fact. Requires the Secretary of the Interior, within 18 months after enactment of this Act, to provide for a contest for elementary or secondary school children for the design of a symbol to represent such Trust and for use in such signs.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1989
Global Poverty Reduction Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to direct the President to develop a plan to ensure that U.S. development assistance contributes measurably toward eradicating the worst aspects of absolute poverty by the year 2000. Requires that such plan include target dates for reaching specific measurable goals whose attainment would contribute to direct improvements in the living standards of the poorest 40 percent of the population. Specifies that such goals shall include reducing the mortality rate of infants under age five, increasing the female literacy rate, and reducing the percentages of populations below the absolute poverty level by specified amounts by the year 2000. Directs that development activities carried out under this Act shall be consistent with maintaining and restoring the renewable natural resource base. Requires the President to submit the plan to the Congress by July 1, 1990. Requires all U.S. development assistance to be directed at attaining plan goals between October 1, 1990, and December 31, 2000. Requires the President to submit annual reports to the Congress detailing progress toward achieving plan goals. Directs the Comptroller General to review and comment on each report issued. Directs the President to host an international development conference for heads of governments of development assistance donor and recipient countries by October 16, 1990, to conclude an international agreement on eliminating the worst aspects of absolute poverty by the year 2000.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1989
Prohibits the Secretary of Transportation from issuing regulations under the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act that characterize anhydrous ammonia as a poisonous gas.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1989
Amends the Federal criminal code to increase the maximum penalties for bank fraud to a $1,000,000 fine and/or ten years' imprisonment.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1989
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 1992 the period during which qualified mortgage bonds and mortgage credit certificates may be issued. (Under current law, authority for these programs is due to expire as of 1990).
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1989
Designates May 25, 1989, as National Tap Dance Day.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1989
Designates the week beginning on October 1, 1989, and ending October 7, 1989, as Mental Illness Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1989
Designates the week beginning April 2, 1989, as National Child Care Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1989
Designates the month of April 1989 as National Cancer Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1989
Designates the month of April in 1989 and 1990 as National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1989
Air Travel Rights for Blind Individuals Act - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to preclude an air carrier from establishing aircraft seating restrictions based upon a passenger's visual acuity or use of a white cane or dog guide or other such means of assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1989
Tongass Timber Reform Act - Title I: Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act Amendments - Repeals specified provisions of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (the Act) relating to: (1) the authorization of appropriations for the maintenance of the timber supply from the Tongass National Forest in Alaska to dependent industry; (2) the identification of Forest lands unsuitable for timber production; and (3) a specified report to the Congress by the Secretary of Agriculture on the timber supply and demand in southeastern Alaska. Amends the Act to include in a specified report to the Congress on the Forest: (1) the impact of timber harvest on wildlife and fisheries resources and recreation resources and tourism, biological diversity, and the old growth rain forest ecosystem; (2) timber supply and demand in southeastern Alaska; and (3) costs and revenues of the timber sale program. Requires the Secretary to terminate, not later than 90 days after enactment of this Act, specified timber sale contracts between the United States and the Alaska Pulp Corporation and the Ketchikan Pulp Company. Title II: Management of the Tongass National Forest - Directs the Secretary to revise the Tongass National Forest Land Management Plan of 1979, in conformance with this Act and other applicable laws, to increase protection of the Forest's resources critical to the interests of the commercial fishing, recreation, and tourism industries, and the subsistence users in southeast Alaska. Requires specified reports to certain congressional committees. Title III: Moratorium on Timber Sales and Harvest - Prohibits the sale or harvest of timber (including timber sale preparation or road construction) upon forest lands during the revision of the management plan.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1989
Infant Mortality and Childrens Health Act of 1989 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require States to cover children born after September 30, 1983, whose family income is below the Federal poverty level. Authorizes States to continue such coverage for one year after the family's income rises above the Federal poverty level. Phases in mandatory State coverage of pregnant women and infants whose family income is below 185 percent of the Federal poverty level. Deducts child and medical care costs from the income eligibility test. Requires the continuation of such coverage for women through the month in which the 60-day post-partum period expires, and for infants throughout their first year of life. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to the Congress by July 1, 1990, on State error rates in determining the Medicaid eligibility of pregnant women and infants. Suspends error rate penalties attributable to such eligibility determinations made from July 1, 1989, until one year after the Secretary's report. Permits States to provide Medicaid coverage to all children whose family income is below the Federal poverty level. Requires that States make ambulatory prenatal care available to a pregnant woman during a presumptive eligibility period which ends when she is determined to be ineligible for Medicaid benefits or 14 days after she is determined to be eligible, but fails to apply. Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Act to require States to provide outreach services for Medicaid-eligible pregnant women and infants under such title. Amends the Medicaid program to reimburse States, at the Federal Medicaid assistance percentage, for outreach services identifying Medicaid-eligible pregnant women and infants and assisting them in applying for Medicaid coverage. Requires that States submit information to the Secretary, by April 1 of each year, pertaining to the supply of and demand for obstetrical and pediatric services and proposed Medicaid payment rates for such services so that the Secretary may determine whether such rates are sufficient to ensure that obstetrical and pediatric services will be at least as available to Medicaid beneficiaries as they are to the general population. Requires States to immediately revise rates determined to be insufficient. Increases, by 25 percent, the Federal share of Medicaid costs attributable to State demonstration projects to reduce infant mortality and childhood morbidity by improving the access of Medicaid-eligible pregnant women, infants, and children to obstetricians and pediatricians. Limits FY 1990 expenditures for such projects. Directs States to adjust Medicaid payments to disproportionate share hospitals to take into account exceptionally costly and lengthy inpatient hospital services for children. Requires States to: (1) coordinate Medicaid services with the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC) under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966; and (2) notify Medicaid-eligible pregnant, breastfeeding, or postpartum women and children under age five of WIC program benefits. Directs the Secretary to develop, for use by January 1, 1990, a national toll-free phone number providing basic health information and health care referrals to pregnant women, new mothers, and other interested persons.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1989
Community Revitalization Tax Act of 1989 - Amends Internal Revenue Code income tax accounting rules to treat rehabilitation investment credits and low-income housing credits as credits not derived from passive activities. Revises the limitation on the general business credit to allow a maximum annual credit equal to the first $20,000 of an individual taxpayer's income tax liability plus 80 percent of any excess liability.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1989
Calls for: (1) continued support for the Cooperative Extension System; and (2) commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the enactment of the Smith-Lever Act of 1914 on May 8, 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1989
Equity for Rural Hospitals Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to design a legislative proposal for eliminating the differences in average standardized Medicare payments (under title XVIII of the Social Security Act) to large urban, other urban, and rural hospitals by FY 1995, while recognizing appropriate cost differences among hospitals. Amends the Medicare program to provide additional payments to Medicare-dependent, small rural hospitals up to FY 1992 (when the transition to a single average standardized Medicare payment rate is required to begin), ensuring the coverage of such hospitals' reasonable operating costs for Medicare inpatient hospital services. Requires the recomputation of Medicare sole community hospital payment rates using the most recent information on hospital-specific costs per case and, if greater, national rather than regional prospective payment rates. Includes, in the Secretary's determination as to whether a hospital is a sole community hospital, consideration of the travel time to the nearest alternative source of inpatient care and the number of patients who seek health services which are unavailable in the hospital's area. Establishes the Medicare Geographical Classification Review Board to decide on a rural hospital's application for classification as an urban hospital for Medicare payment purposes. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 to alter the Rural Health Care Transition Grant Program to extend and increase authorized appropriations for such program through FY 1992, and permit the Secretary to waive the hospital grant limit. Expands, from four to ten hospitals, a Medicare demonstration program covering additional costs incurred by teaching hospitals in sending their residents to rural hospitals for training. Requires the Secretary to establish five-year Medicare demonstration programs covering costs incurred by five hospitals in providing clinical training to undergraduate nurses.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1989
Disabled Americans Work Incentive Act of 1989 - Amends part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to continue the part A eligibility of physically or mentally impaired individuals who were eligible for such benefits by reason of their entitlement to disability benefits under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Act, but whose title II benefits have been terminated because they engaged in substantial gainful activity. Sets forth enrollment, special enrollment, and coverage periods as well as the contingencies terminating one's enrollment. Conditions such continued part A eligibility upon the payment of a monthly premium. Requires individuals who are entitled to part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) Medicare benefits only by reason of their continued part A eligibility provided by this Act to pay a monthly premium set at four times the amount otherwise required under part B. Prohibits such part A and B premiums from exceeding a specified percentage of the individual's adjusted gross income, unless the premium thereby sinks below 25 percent of the premium determined without income restraints. Prohibits the benefits provided by this Act from supplanting employer group health plan benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1989
Postal Service Budgetary Treatment Act of 1989 - Declares that the receipts and disbursements of the Postal Service Fund: (1) shall not be included in the totals of the Federal budget or the congressional budget; (2) shall be exempt from Federal budget limitations on expenditures and net lending; and (3) shall not be counted for purposes of calculating the Federal deficit. Makes the U.S. Postal Service an off-budget Federal entity.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1989
Designates March 16, 1989, as Freedom of Information Day.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1989
Designates the week beginning May 14, 1989, as National Osteoporosis Prevention Week of 1989.